Light Spring vs True Spring

How to tell which one you actually are.

The short answer. Warm but deeper and clearer than you. A True Spring can wear a full coral, a grass green or a golden yellow as a whole piece and look finished; a Light Spring looks slightly overwhelmed by the same colors. If the full-strength versions look like you and the pale ones look faint, look here.

Light Spring

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True Spring

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What separates them, from each side

Each guide describes the other from its own point of view, and the two tests are different. This is the only page that carries both.

Read from Light Spring

Warm but deeper and clearer than you. A True Spring can wear a full coral, a grass green or a golden yellow as a whole piece and look finished; a Light Spring looks slightly overwhelmed by the same colors. If the full-strength versions look like you and the pale ones look faint, look here.

Read from True Spring

Warm but lighter and softer than you. A Light Spring looks best in peach and apricot and finds a full coral or a grass green slightly overwhelming. If the pale versions of your colors look more like you than the full-strength ones, look here.

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 True Spring guide

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

Wear a clear coral as a whole top. If it looks like you, you are a True Spring. If it looks too much, try Light Spring; if you want it louder, try Bright Spring.
Hold ivory and optic white against your jaw. If ivory is clean and optic white looks blue, you are on the warm side.
Hold camel and black. If camel looks complete and black looks harsh, stay in the spring family.

Still not sure?

The Style-LORE quiz works it out from a photo taken in daylight and shows you the reasoning rather than just the label — then checks anything in your closet, or anything you are about to buy, against the answer. Free, and no account needed to start.

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The full guides

Light Spring — the complete guide
True Spring — the complete guide

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