It’s time to discover the most flattering soft 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 soft summer colors for foundation, lipstick, blush, eyeshadow, mascara, eyeliner, and more!
Soft Summer Makeup Colors
Here’s a quick dive into this beautiful soft summer makeup color palette.
Keep in mind, a consistent theme you’ll see for all of these colors is soft and cool. Also “medium shades” is a repeat factor as well.
Soft Summer Eye Makeup
The soft 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 soft, medium, dark and cool options. When it comes to choosing eye shadows look for cool tones like pinks and gray and neutral browns.
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The soft summer season is dominantly muted, or soft, and cool 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.
The Best Soft Summer Eyeshadow Palette
- YOU LOOK BETTER NAKED - Urban Decay Naked3 Eyeshadow Palette features 12 rose-hued neutrals in ultra-smooth mattes, gorgeous pearls, and glimmering metallics that work with every eye color and skin tone.
- HIGH-PIGMENT SHADES - Naked3 palette shades include cruelty-free Strange, Dust, Burnout, Limit, Buzz, Trick, Nooner, Liar, Factory, Mugshot, Darkside, and Darkheart.
- BODY OF WORK - Turn your eyes into a work of art with this versatile eyeshadow palette. Use dusty pink mattes and rose-gold shimmers to create a soft glow, or take your look from day to night with a dramatic smoky eye using deeper bronze and burgundy.
- PIGMENT INFUSION SYSTEM - Every shade in our paraben-free, sulfate-free, and phthalate-free eye shadow palettes features our proprietary ingredient blend that supplies velvety texture, rich color, and extreme blendability.
- PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS - To maximize color payoff, mist your brush with All Nighter Long-Lasting Makeup Setting Spray before applying. Mix shadows with your favorite Eyeshadow Primer Potion to create cream shadows with major staying power.
Eyeliner
Eyeliner colors for soft summer range from beautiful medium neutrals to medium and darker fashion greens, blues, and purples.
Again, the consistent trend here is soft and cool. Avoid warm and bright shades like bright yellow, orange and even overpowering dark colors.
- Apply to lash line and blend into a smudge shadow, if desired, using Brush or your fingers
- Create a fade proof cat eye with the tip of pencil
- Add on to your favorite eye shadows or wear alone
- No sharpener necessary, simply twist and apply the instant color-release formula for fuss-free, fade-proof pigment
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Mascara
With soft 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.
Best Soft Summer Mascara
- MAXIMIZE VOLUME: With just one coat of HUGE mascara, you instantly get major lash volume, length, curl, lift and an intense glossy black color. No need for falsies, fake lashes, mascara primer or fiber mascara. An eyelash mascara for the biggest, boldest, blackest black lashes ever.
- NO CLUMP OR CRUNCH: A custom blend of soft, flexible waxes and lash conditioners builds crunch-free, clump-free volume and length. Our lightweight HUGE Mascara allows you to apply multiple coats without lashes feeling clumpy or crunchy. Your lashes will remain soft and weightless while looking fuller, richer and blacker.
- EVEN COAT: Our curved wand features crimped bristles that wrap around each individual lash to give you a 360˚ application of mascara, which means a fuller, more even coat, and the ability add multiple layers with no clumping or spider-lashes. Layer with your favorite waterproof mascara.
- LONG-LASTING: Our long-wearing, smudge-proof mascara builds color for the most dramatic eye makeup look. Begin at the base of your lashes and sweep the wand upward and outward. Repeat for added drama. Clinically tested and suitable for contact lense wearers.
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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 or neutral undertones.. For example medium brown and dark blonde.
Best Soft Summer Brow Makeup
- For Light Brown hair with warm/cool undertones
- A two-shade compact that gives a naturally textured, ombre finish.
- Formula offers buildable intensity and seamless blending
- Compact features two shades to provide multidimensional color and can be used to create an ombre finish
- Available in 11 shades
Soft Summer Makeup Colors for Face
Your natural skin tones will be an easy guide to help you find the perfect foundation and blush colors.
Soft 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 soft 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 soft summer, you should look for the NC and N on the bottle. (Usually on the bottom.)
Best Foundation for Soft Summer
- Medium, buildable coverage with a natural finish
- Broad spectrum SPF 25 for easy sun protection
- All day hydration for healthy-looking skin
- Smooth coverage with up to 16 hr wear.
Blush
When choosing blush colors, you’ll again want to look for colors you would describe as softer and cooler.
You’ll also want to gravitate toward cooler shades like cool pinks and rose or plum colors.
Since your features are soft, you won’t need to use much blush. Apply lightly at first and build to your perfect shade. (However, we can also argue that adding more color to your overall soft features can create a beautiful contrast.)
In that case, we encourage you to try both.
Best Soft Summer Blush
Jane Iredale is all about helping you find your best blush color based on skin tone. It’s right within the photo options on the product page.
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- 14long-wearshadesforricher,truercolor.
- Highlypigmentedformulabuildslikeapowder.
- Soft,creamytextureblendslikeacream.
- Definesandhighlightscheekbones.
Soft Summer Lipstick
The best lipstick color for the soft summer color season is going to have lighter cool tones.
Colors like nude pinks, cool pinks, and plum reds.
Avoid very dark colors with warm tones like coral oranges and coppers.
Best Soft Summer Lip Stain
If you’re looking for your perfect shade of lip stain that lasts all day. All 6 of these stains look absolutely stunning on soft summers . They are mini lipsticks so you can try on every shade. Once you find your favorites you can order the full sizes.
- Long-wearing
- Highly-Pigmented
- Lightweight, Comfortable Matte Finish
Conclusion: Soft Summer Makeup Colors
Soft summer makeup colors are soft and cool. (Soft being the most dominant factor.)
These grays, pinks, and neutral browns compliment soft summer features such as gray, and grayed out green, hazel, and brown eyes.
All the makeup palettes also highlight this color season’s ash toned blonde and brown hair and neutral cool/neutral skin tones.
Next Steps
Not sure if you’re a soft summer? Visit our full color analysis here or take the color season quiz.
