It’s time to discover the most flattering cool 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 cool summer colors for foundation, lipstick, blush, eyeshadow, mascara, eyeliner, and more!
Cool Summer Color Season Characteristics
Let’s quickly reflect on the cool summer color season characteristics.
This color season is cool and is the darkest of the summers.
Cool summers can have dark ash blonde hair or any shade of ash brown hair. These hair colors include: Dark ash blonde, light ash brown, medium ash brown, and dark ash brown.
Eye colors are cool, muted and almost have an icy vibe to them. These colors include: muted blue, green, hazel and brown.
Lastly, skin tones range from fair to tan with noticeable cool undertones.
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Cool Summer Wardrobe Color Palette
Cool 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 cool 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 cool 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.
Cool Summer Makeup Colors
Now, to the part you’ve been waiting for! Here’s a quick dive into this beautiful Cool summer makeup color palette.
Keep in mind, a consistent theme you’ll see for all of these colors is cool.
Cool Summer Eye Makeup
You can create endless cool summer makeup looks. In this case, we’re showcasing our favorite summer color combinations based on the unique features of this color type.
- Muted blue eyes and dark ash blonde hair- This is the lightest color combination of this season. Therefore, we chose lighter shadow and liner to highlight and blend these features.
- Muted green eyes and light ash brown hair – We love to pair any green shades with it’s complimentary color wheel color – red. This cool red shadow pairs beautiful with a neutral brown liner.
- Muted hazel eyes and light ash brown hair- Hazel eyes look stunning next to smokey grays. We used a smokey gray-blue shadow and a subtle gray liner.
- Muted brown eyes and dark ash brown hair– We chose a liner in the same color as the brow. (*Pro tip: brow pencils also make great eyeliners.) We added a smokey charcoal shadow to compliment the dark features.
Eye Shadow
The cool 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 cool, medium, dark and cool options. When it comes to choosing eye shadows look for cool tones like pinks and gray and neutral browns.
The cool summer season is dominantly cool and icy and this is the same for most of the eye shadow colors. You also notice darker, highly pigmented shades as well. (Not to be confused with bright.)
Avoid warm, bright tones like golds, oranges, and yellows.
Eyeliner
Eyeliner colors for cool summer range from beautiful medium neutrals to medium and darker fashion greens, blues, and purples.
Again, the consistent trend here is darker and cool. Avoid warm and bright shades like bright yellow, orange and even overpowering dark colors.
Mascara
With cool and darker being your dominant features, you can wear darker mascara.
You can also do toned down cool brown and charcoal tinted mascara if you are wanting to create a beautiful blend.
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 medium or dark and should have cool undertones. For example medium brown and dark blonde.
Cool Summer Makeup Colors for Face
Your natural skin tones will be an easy guide to help you find the perfect foundation and blush colors.
Cool summers have cool skin undertones. This means you’ll want to look for a C 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 cool summer, your undertone could be easier to spot since “cool” is your dominate feature.
Foundation bottles almost always have undertones clearly marked on the bottle. If you’re a cool summer, you should look for the C the bottle. (Usually on the bottom.)
Blush
When choosing blush colors, you’ll again want to look for colors you would describe as cooler and darker. (Don’t let this bold image spook you.) The beautiful thing about blush is it is buildable. Choose the right shade, and apply lightly to start.
You’ll also want to gravitate toward cooler shades like cool pinks and plums.
Cool Summer Lipstick
The best lipstick color for the cool summer color season is going to have medium to darker cool tones.
Colors like nude pinks, cool pinks, and berry reds.
Avoid very light colors with warm tones like coral oranges and coppers.
Conclusion: Cool Summer Makeup Colors
Cool summer makeup colors are cool and medium-dark shades. (Cool being the most dominant factor.)
These grays, pinks, and blues compliment cool summer features such as icy and cool blue, green, hazel and brown eyes.
All the makeup palettes also highlight this color season’s ash toned blonde and brown hair and cool skin tones.
