It’s time to discover the most flattering light summer makeup colors once and for all.
Our mission is to make this color journey incredibly simple so you can quickly start to wear the right colors with confidence.
We’ll break down all of your flattering light summer colors for foundation, lipstick, blush, eyeshadow, mascara, eyeliner, and more!
Light Summer Color Season Characteristics
Let’s quickly reflect on the light summer color season characteristics.
This color season is light and cool. However, there may be a complementary medium shade feature in the mix.
Light summers can have all shades of ash blonde hair or light ash brown hair.. These hair colors include: platinum ash blonde, light ash blonde, medium ash blonde, dark ash blonde, and light ash brown.
Eye colors are light and cool and include: light gray blue, light blue, light teal blue, and light gray green.
Lastly, skin tones range from fair to medium with neutral cool and neutral undertones.
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Light Summer Wardrobe Color Palette
Light summer makeup colors can also be found in the wardrobe palette. You’ll also spot a few complementary colours added to the makeup mix.
Plus, if you already have a favorite light summer clothing color, chances are, that color just might be your new favorite makeup color, too!
Note: This wardrobe color palette is pulled from our full light summer color season analysis. It’s broken down into our “power three” system. It includes light, medium, and dark shades to help you spot and shop for your perfect colors, faster.
Light Summer Makeup Colors
Now, to the part you’ve been waiting for! Here’s a quick dive into this beautiful light summer makeup color palette.
Keep in mind, a consistent theme you’ll see for all of these colors is light and cool.
Light Summer Eye Makeup
You can create endless light summer makeup looks. In this case, we’re showcasing our favorite summer color combinations based on the unique features of this color type.
- Light gray blue eyes and platinum ash blonde hair- Both eyes and hair have gray or ash tones. Adding a simple gray shadow and liner can really make the gray blue color combo pop in your eyes.
- Light blue eyes and light ash blonde hair – We continued with the gray theme for liner and shadow but chose a gray that was closer to the light ash blonde hair color with a dominant blue hue.
- Light teal blue eyes and medium ash blonde hair- To show a fashion look instead of a neutral look we chose a cool pink shadow and liner. Red compliments green and pink compliments blue. Since this eye color combo is a mix of green and blue, we chose a very cool shade of pink that could learn toward a red with the right shading technique.
- Light gray green eyes and light ash brown hair– We chose a smokey blue liner and shadow the bring out the cool tones in the eyes and hair. This look could be considered neutral and high fashion depending on the clothes you wear with it.
Eye Shadow
The light summer makeup colors can sure create a gorgeous eye shadow palette. (In fact, you’ll find these tones in almost every summer eye makeup palette.)
You have a wide variety of light and cool options. When it comes to choosing eye shadows look for cool tones like pinks, blues, and grays.
The light summer season is dominantly light and cool and this is the same for the eye shadow colors. Avoid warm tones like golds and coppers.
Eyeliner
Eyeliner colors for light summer range from beautiful light neutrals to medium and darker fashion greens, blues, greens, pinks, and purples.
Again, the consistent trend here is light and cool. Avoid warm and dark tones like a deep copper or deep orange.
Mascara
With light being your dominant feature, you want to avoid stark dark colors. This is especially true with mascara.
Instead do toned down cool brown and charcoal tinted mascara if you are wanting to create a beautiful blend.
However, that doesn’t mean you can’t wear black mascara. It just means your black mascara may draw attention away from your beautiful natural colors instead of adding to them. The attention could shift straight to your lashes as they would stand out against your natural coloring.
Brow Filler Colors
Your eyebrow pencil should match your natural hair color. Unfortunately, this sometimes mean you might need to mix and match a few shades to get that perfect shade.
The color listed on the brow filler should be labeled light or medium and should have cool or neutral undertones.. For example any ash blonde or light ash brown shade.
Light Summer Makeup Colors for Face
Your natural skin tones will be an easy guide to help you find the perfect foundation and blush colors.
Light summers have neutral cool, and neutral skin undertones. This means you’ll want to look for and NC or N on bottles for face makeup.
Foundation
When a makeup artist color tests you for foundation, one thing they look for is undertone. When color testing a light summer, your undertone may be a little more difficult to spot if you are a neutral. (Test a neutral and neutral cool shade to see which one blends the best.)
Foundation bottles almost always have undertones clearly marked on the bottle. If you’re a light summer, you should look for the NC and N on the bottle. (Usually on the bottom.)
Blush
When choosing blush colors, you’ll again want to look for colors you would describe as lighter and cooler. (Don’t let this image scare you. These colors, when applied lightly, appear lighter than shown.)
You’ll also want to gravitate toward cooler shades like cool pinks and rose or plum colors.
Since you are light, you won’t need to use much blush. Apply lightly to start and build to your perfect shade. Avoid rusty orange and copper shades.
Light Summer Lipstick
The best lipstick color for the light summer color season is going to have lighter cool tones.
Colors like nude pinks, cool pinks, and cool reds.
Avoid very dark colors with warm tones like coral oranges and coppers.
Conclusion: Light Summer Makeup Colors
Light summer makeup colors are light and cool. (Light being the most dominant factor.)
These grays, pinks, and blues colors compliment light summer features such as light blue, gray, and teal eyes.
All the makeup palettes also highlight this color seasons light and ash toned hair and neutral cool/neutral skin tones.
Next Steps
Not sure if you’re a light summer? Visit our full color analysis here or take the color season quiz.
