The Deep Winter color palette, also known as the Dark Winter color palette, is the darkest palette in the winter family. It sits on the color wheal between True Winter and Deep Autumn, also known as Dark Autumn.
Winters have cool undertones and Autumns have warm undertones, and since Deep Winter sits between the two, it has cool leaning neutral undertones.
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 with Dark Skin
You can be Dark Winter while still having dark skin as long as your skin tone has neutral or warm-neutral undertones is strongly contrasted with my hair and eyes.
Its worth keeping in mind that the darker your complexion, the more likely you’ll look better in the darker colors of the palette than the lighter ones.
Dark Winter Color Palette
Dark Winter colors are generally depth and cool since it is in the Winter family, but often carries hints of warmth since it sits near the Autumn family.
In addition to your own color palette, because your color palette sits between True Winter and Dark or Deep Autumn, you can borrow colors from both palettes.
I would love to put up a rainbow of colors, but the truth is that deep winter mostly looks good in different shades of pinks and reds with cool undertones. As well as some dark emerald, dark forest green, eggplant, dark royal purple, dark royal blue, navy blue with warm undertones.
As a deep winter myself, almost every purple, blue, green, yellow, and brown I’ve ever bought didn’t suit me and just collected dust until I gave it away.
And there are the occasional colors that do look nice that don’t look right in a palette here, like very light oatmeal colored sweater I have. Likewise, these colors look like different against a white background than they would on you, and even look like the same color when they aren’t.
I recommend copying them and painting them over a picture of yourself to see what they actually look like.
Clothing
Generally white, black, and gray look best when used for skirts and pants, since they tend to be less flattering to Dark Winter faces which are already highly contrasted.
Ideally, reds, pinks, dark greens, dark purples, and the occasional dark blues or browns should be used for tops to accentuate the facial features.
The colors ideal for dresses would depend on the look you are going for, so that is more trial and error.
Makeup Palette
Eye shadows in the brown family look beautiful on you, but if you want colors, then use the same colors that are in the Dark Winter color pallet.
Black and dark brown mascara really flatter your eyes.
Eyeliner are ideally black and dark brown. However, you may also look good in dark eggplant, deep pine, or Prussian blue. The most flattering eyeliner will be one similar to your eyelash color.
You can wear deeply intense colors and generally look best in deep red, deep berries, and purple shades. The color that looks best on you will depend largely on how dark your skin is.
Bronzer should generally be avoided for winters. However, if you are really interested in bronzer, choose one with brown, red, or purple pigments instead of orange or rust.
Highlights should be from the icy shades in your pallet including icy pink, or a light neutral champagne beige.
Jewelry for Deep Winter
Since Dark Winter colors are neutral-cool, gold may also work for you, especially if you lean closer to the Dark Autumn end of the spectrum than True Winter.
However, your best metals are cool, like silver and pewter, and if you do want to wear gold, darker gold may look better on you than a yellow one.
Diamonds, rubies, lapiz lazuli (in both blue and violet), dark amethyst, emerald, sapphire, garnets, and pearls all look nice on you.
Denim for the Dark Winter
Dark blue wash and black jeans look best on you. Ideally, with topstitching matches the denim tone and isn’t in a contrasting color like orange or yellow.
However, you could get away with most washes, they just won’t be as flattering as the darker ones. And orange or yellow topstitching is fine, even if darker ones are more flattering.
Sister Palettes
Dark Winter sits between Dark Autumn and True Winter seasonal color wheal.
True Winter has completely cool undertones, whereas Dark Autumn has warm leaning neutral undertones, and Deep Winter has cool leaning neutral undertones.
As a result, the colors are softer, darker and warmer than those of True Winter and are cooler, deeper, and brighter than Dark Autumn.
As sister palettes, Dark Autumn and True Winter both, you can borrow some colors from your sister palettes since they are close to the Dark Winter color palette.
If you lean more towards Dark Autumn, go for the cooler colors on the Dark Autumn palette. And if you lean more towards True Winter, choose the darker colors on the True Winter palette.
Dark Winter vs Dark Autumn
Both Deep Winter and Deep Autumn (Dark Autumn) are a blend of Autumn and Winter, with Dark Autumn leaning more towards the Autumn palette and Dark Winter leaning more towards the Winter palette.
Deep autumn is neutral-leaning warm, and Deep Winter is neutral-leaning cool.
Dark Winter has cooler undertones and higher contrast between skin, hair, and eyes while Dark Autumn on the other hand is warmer with little contrast.
As a result, Dark Autumn’s colors are more muted and warmer, while Dark Winter’s colors are brighter, more saturation, and there are more extremely light and extremely dark colors on the palette.
Deep Winter vs True Winter
Both Deep Winter and True Winter have cool undertones, but True Winter has no warm influence from the Autumn Color Family.
Dark Winter on the other hand has a slight influence of warmth in their undertone.
As a result, True Winters are very cool toned, while Dark Winter are cool-neutral and neutral toned, and Dark Winters are slightly deeper, darker, and warmer than True Winters.
