Light Spring vs Light Summer

How to tell which one you actually are.

The short answer. Both are light and soft, so the depth is no help. The undertone is. Hold peach against soft pink: Light Spring warms up next to the peach, Light Summer goes sallow and needs the pink.

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Light Summer

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What separates them, from each side

Both guides describe this pair the same way from opposite directions, which is itself the useful part — the rule reads true whichever side you start from.

Read from Light Spring

Just as light, but cool. A Light Summer glows in powder blue and rose pink and looks sallow in peach; a Light Spring is the reverse. If gold looks warm and clean on you and silver looks slightly grey, you are a spring.

Read from Light Summer

Just as light, but warm. A Light Spring glows in peach, apricot and cream and looks sallow in cool pink; a Light Summer is the reverse. If gold looks slightly dirty on you and silver looks clean, you are a summer.

Check it on yourself

The self-check from the Light Spring guide

Do these in daylight, with a bare face if you can.

Hold peach and rose pink against your face. If peach wins, you are on the warm side.
Hold ivory and soft cool white. If ivory looks fresh and the cool white looks stark, you are a spring.
Wear a full-strength coral as a whole top. If it looks too loud, stay here; if it looks like you, try True Spring.

The self-check from the Light Summer guide

Do these in daylight, with a bare face if you can.

Hold peach and rose pink against your face. If rose wins, you are on the cool side.
Hold soft white and cream. If soft white looks fresh and cream looks yellow, you are a summer.
Wear a mid-depth plum as a whole top. If it looks heavy, stay here; if it looks like you, try True Summer.

Still not sure?

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The full guides

Light Spring — the complete guide
Light Summer — the complete guide

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