✨ Color Season Guide
Spring vs Summer: Which One Am I?
Both are light. The difference is warm or cool.
Spring and Summer are both light color seasons, so people mix them up all the time. The trick is simple: Spring is warm and golden, while Summer is cool and ashy. Look at your hair, your wrist veins, and how gold vs silver looks on you. That answers most of it.
The one-sentence difference
Spring is warm + light. Summer is cool + light.
That's it. Once you know if you're warm or cool, you're done.
How to tell warm from cool
Three quick tests:
Hold up gold and silver jewelry
Stand in daylight. Look in a mirror.
- Gold makes your skin glow → you're warm → Spring
- Silver makes your skin glow → you're cool → Summer
- Both look fine → you're neutral, keep testing
Look at your wrist veins
- Green veins → warm → Spring
- Blue or purple veins → cool → Summer
Think about your hair color
Your natural hair color (not dyed):
- Golden blonde, strawberry, warm brown → Spring
- Ash blonde, dishwater blonde, cool brown → Summer
Spring's look
If you're a Spring, your skin looks peachy or golden. Your eyes are bright. Your hair has warm tones, even if it's just a little.
You glow in: peach, coral, warm pink, butter yellow, light camel, aqua.
You look washed out in: black, charcoal, dusty mauve, deep burgundy.
Famous Springs: Taylor Swift, Reese Witherspoon, Blake Lively, Margot Robbie.
Summer's look
If you're a Summer, your skin has a pink or rosy tint. Your features are soft and blended. Nothing on you is super dark.
You glow in: powder pink, soft lavender, dusty blue, sage green, soft mauve.
You look washed out in: orange, mustard, warm chocolate brown, hot tomato red.
Famous Summers: Selena Gomez, Jennifer Aniston, Cameron Diaz, Sarah Jessica Parker.
Still stuck between the two?
You might be a borderline case. Most people are. The 12 sub-seasons help here:
- Light Spring is the lightest, warmest version of Spring
- Light Summer is the lightest, coolest version of Summer
- If you're between them, you're probably neutral-warm or neutral-cool
Read more: Light Spring vs Light Summer →
Or skip the guessing and scan your face on Glowprint. The app reads your skin tone, hair, and eyes from a selfie and tells you the right sub-season in 30 seconds.
A quick test right now
Take the 8-question color season quiz. It walks you through the same tests above and gives you a result.
Still on the fence?
Both seasons are light, so people get stuck here. Two quick checks usually break the tie.
The gold test
Hold gold jewelry, then silver, to your face in daylight. If gold warms and lifts your skin, you're a Spring. If silver looks cleaner and gold goes brassy, you're a Summer.
The clarity test
Springs suit clear, fresh colors; Summers suit soft, hazy ones. If bright coral flatters you, lean Spring. If it feels loud and dusty rose suits you better, lean Summer.
The two palettes side by side
Seeing them next to each other makes the difference obvious. Whichever set leaves your skin clearer and brighter is your side.
Spring colors
Summer colors
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers to what people ask most. Want a definitive read on your own coloring? The free face scan gives you your season, palette, and the colors to skip in 30 seconds.
How do I tell if I'm a Spring or a Summer?
Both are light, so the deciding factor is temperature. Spring is warm (golden, peachy, clear) and Summer is cool (rosy, ashy, soft). Gold jewelry flatters Springs; silver flatters Summers.
Can I be warm but still soft like a Summer?
You might be a Light Spring or a blended type. If warm colors flatter you but bright ones feel like too much, you sit between the two and lean to the softer, warmer corner.
What colors look bad on each?
Springs struggle in cool, dusty, or stark shades. Summers struggle in warm, bright, or earthy ones like orange and mustard. Whichever group drains you points to the other season.
What's the quickest way to settle it?
Hold gold then silver to your face in daylight and see which warms your skin. Or let Glowprint read your undertone from a selfie and call it for you.
Get the precise answer in 30 seconds
This guide gets you close. Glowprint scans your actual face and gives you the verified result: color season, face shape, undertone, celebrity match, makeup picks, and a full glow up plan.
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