The first thing you notice about people who have Winter complexions is that they have a very high contrast between your hair, skin, and eyes.
The Winter Color Palette is divided into three separate palettes. True Winter, Bright Winter, and Deep (Dark) Winter.
True Winter is the original pure winter color pallet. However, since people are more complex than only four seasons, the other two Winter palettes were created to for those who lean somewhat to the Autumn and Spring palettes.
Because of the warmth added by the Autumn Color Palette and the Spring Color Palette, Deep Winter and Bright Winter have neutral or warm-neutral skin tones.
However, the colors in their palettes are quite different from one another because Spring gives Bright Winter brightness and vibrance, whereas Autumn gives Deep Winter added depths.
True Winter
True Winter is the original Winter season in the four seasons color analysis and it sits between Dark Winter and Bright Winter on the seasonal chart.
Of the three Winter Palettes, True winter is the coolest, because Bright Winter is influenced by the warmth of the Spring Palettes, and Deep Winter is influenced by the warmth of the Autumn Palettes.
True Winter Characteristics
True Winters’ hair can be light brown to black hair with blue or red undertones.
Their eyes can black eyes, dark brown eyes, steely gray eyes, icy blue eyes, and bright blue eyes. At times a yellowness can be seen in the eyes that are blue, green, gray, or brown.
And their skin has clear cool, blue undertones, so silver looks good on it, but gold makes it look off.
True Winter Color Palette
The True Winter Palette is filled with cool grays, icy and peacock blues, and cool pinks, reds, and berry colors. Some shades of cool purples and greens may also look nice on True Winters.
Bright Winter
Bright Winter is one of the three Winter seasons and sits between True Winter and Bright Spring on the seasonal flow chart. Its features are saturated and bright with a crisp and clear appearance and its colors are vibrant.
Bright Winter isn’t as cool as True Winter, and has a neutral or cool-neutral undertone, True Winter has cold undertones.
Likewise, Bright Winter isn’t as warm as Bright Spring. While Bright Spring has neutral or warm-neutral undertones, Bright Winter has neutral and cool-neutral undertones.
Compared to the third Winter season Dark Winter, which has the same neutral-cool undertones, Bright Winters are lighter and brighter.
Bright Winter Characteristics
Bright Winter skin is either neutral or neutral-cool, so both silver and gold look good against it, but silver looks better. Some Bright Winters also have freckles.
Their eye colors are bright blue, green, or dark brown, and black. Their eyes are often strikingly clear and defined, and you may see a border defining iris and possible spokes on the iris.
Bright Winter’s hair can range from medium brown to black and can have either blue or ash undertones or be neutral.
Bright Winter Color Palette
Bright Winter colors are vibrant with cool undertones and are mostly shades of pink and blue with some grays and browns.
Deep Winter (Dark Winter)
The Deep Winter color palette, also known as the Dark Winter color palette, is the darkest palette in the winter family, and sits between True Winter and Deep Autumn (Dark Autumn).
Dark Winter has is a combination between True Winter and Dark Autumn, and takes elements from each. This means that Deep Winter primarily has cool deep colors and icy light colors, but it does have hints of warmth given to it given by Dark Autumn.
The defining characteristics of Deep Winter is that it has dark eyes and hair combined with a neutral-cool skin tone.
Deep Winter Characteristics
Dark Winters eyes are can be black, dark brown, very dark olive, dark hazel and possibly even a very deep, cool blue. And it is possible for the dark eyes to be warm in color.
Dark Winter also has dark hair ranging from medium brown all the way to black. You may find some resources that state that there will be no natural highlights in a Deep Winter. This is actually not the case. Often enough Deep Winter hair contains orange or red tones.
If you are a Dark Winter, then dark deep colors generally suit you better than light ones, although some pastels that suit you well too.
The skin is either cool-neutral or neutral. So, both gold and silver look good against it, but silver usually looks better. However, if you have a neutral skin tone and lean closer to the Dark Autumn end of the Deep Winter spectrum than the True Winter end, you may look equally good in both gold and silver.
Deep Winter Color Palette
The Deep Winter Color Palette is mostly pinks and reds that are saturated and have slight cool undertones. However, it also includes some dark purples and the occasional brown.
Generally greens and blues aren’t ideal however deep blues and greens can be flattering.
