Light Spring · Colors to avoid
Light Spring colors to avoid, and what to wear instead
By the Skintonic team · SKINTONIC LLC · Updated
"Avoid" is a stronger word than this deserves, and Light Spring is not forbidden from owning anything. What the shades below do is specific and small: worn near a Light Spring face, in daylight, they make the skin do something you would rather it did not — go gray, go ruddy, go flat, or step back.
Light Spring is warm, light and clear, and every shade that fails does so for a reason that follows directly from one of those three. Knowing the Light Spring categories beats carrying a list of Light Spring names, because a category is something you can apply to a garment you have never seen before.
The categories, and why each one fails
Shades that work against your balance
A few Light Spring shades fail for reasons particular to this palette rather than for any of the four usual ones. Because the reason differs from shade to shade, the Light Spring report spells each of them out on its own.
1 of Light Spring's 6 listed shades fall here.
Shades that are too cool
Blue-based color against Light Spring's warm skin leaves a gray cast under it. The shade is not unattractive — it is that it makes a Light Spring face look like it needs more sleep than it has had, and the effect is strongest in daylight.
4 of Light Spring's 6 listed shades fall here.
Shades that are too pale
Very light color disappears against Light Spring's depth, and on its way out it takes the lower half of the face with it. On Light Spring the jaw softens, the edges go, and the whole face loses its shape.
1 of Light Spring's 6 listed shades fall here.
Three of them by name
Black, Icy Gray and Burgundy. Three is enough to calibrate your eye. If you can see why those three fail on Light Spring coloring, you can recognize the fourth and the fifth yourself in a shop, which is more useful than carrying a list.
The complete Light Spring avoid list — every shade, its exact value, and the reason it works against you — is in your report rather than on this page, which is deliberate.
What Light Spring should wear instead
Take the same color and move it toward gold: a warm version of almost any shade works on Light Spring where the cool version does not.
These eight are the safe Light Spring direction, and they are the same eight the free result hands you:
- Poppy Orange
- Warm Turquoise
- Coral Red
- Marigold
- Watermelon Pink
- Coral
- Turquoise
- Warm Pink
Any of them near your face does the opposite of the shades above: they warm Light Spring skin rather than greying it, and they agree with one another, so any two of them pair without thought.
Check a specific color
If you are holding a garment and want an answer about that exact shade rather than about its category, the free color checker takes a hex code or a color picker and says where it falls against Light Spring specifically, in your browser, storing nothing.
Are you Light Spring?
A Light Spring avoid list is worse than no list at all if you are not Light Spring, because it will talk you out of colors that suit you perfectly well. Settling whether you are Light Spring takes one photo and about thirty seconds, and it is free.
Questions
What colors should Light Spring avoid?
As categories: work against your balance, too cool and too pale. By name, Black, Icy Gray and Burgundy are three of the Light Spring ones. The rest of the Light Spring list, with exact values and a reason each, is in the report — which is the part worth paying for and the reason it is not printed here.
Does "avoid" mean never wear it?
No. It means keeping it away from a Light Spring face, and nothing more than that. A shade on the Light Spring avoid list is perfectly fine as trousers, as a bag, as a coat you take off indoors, or anywhere below the waist. What the list is about is the light bouncing off a garment up into a Light Spring face, and that is a much smaller part of a wardrobe than it sounds.
What if I love one of the Light Spring colors to avoid?
Then wear it below the waist, or find the version of it that belongs in the Light Spring palette. Take the same color and move it toward gold: a warm version of almost any shade works on Light Spring where the cool version does not.
Is black on the list?
For Light Spring, yes, and it surprises people more than anything else here. The reason is depth rather than taste: black is the deepest shade there is, and Light Spring does not go deep enough to meet it, so it stops behaving like a neutral and starts being the loudest thing in the wardrobe.
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