Person #4 - An Icy Light Summer

Undertone test

  
 
Person #4 clearly does best in the lower row of cool colors.  The light pink in the lower right corner is a great color on them; It brings out the natural rosy undertones of their skin. Interestingly, mid-range pink is not only too saturated, but also too dark. The warm salmon of the upper left is milder on the skin since it is the right depth and saturation, but it is too yellow for their undertone. We are looking at the lighter spectrum of summer colors.
 
Season test
 
Cool, light and slightly muted, this person is almost certainly a summer. Since lightness seem to be their primary characteristic (with coolness as a strong second), I put them in 16-season True Summer vs. True Spring. 
 
True Summer
 
 
 True Spring 
 
 
There is no doubt that True Summer is a better fit than True Spring, this person is quite cool. Nevertheless there are some interesting things to note: Most of the True Summer colors greys and darkens the skin tone. In both palettes, the lighter and brighter colors suits this person the best, and the butter yellow in the lower left square of the Summer palette is stunning. This person has a flow, within 16 season it would be Light Summer:
 
Light Summer 
 

 
Interestingly, this palette is somehow still too heavy on the skin. If we lighten, brighten and cool the palette a bit, into a custom Icy Summer, we find our match:
 
Icy Summer (custom) 
 


Their worst colors
 
Something that works against light and cool is warm and dark. Person #4 better stay away from colors in the Deep Autumn palette:
 
 Deep Autumn
 
 
In these colors, person #4 looks as if they are lurking in the shade, the contour of their skin undefined and grey.

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