Best Makeup Colours : True Spring

May 5, 2010 by  

We each have a map, an inborn GPS that aligns us with our best makeup.

The makeup that looks most believable, youngest, the least severe (synonymous with ‘aging’), and the least fake is dictated by our natural coloring.

Anything else can look as off as a herd of grazing cats. It just feels wrong, you know? Not impossible, just crooked.

Choreograph your appearance to keep repeating.

You begin with a natural colour palette that is specific, not random.

Repeat it with your clothes.

And again in your hair colour.

Again in your makeup.

Once more in accessories.

Level after level after level of building blocks that stack up precisely. Every element is aligned. That looks like strength.

Learn which of the 12 palettes is yours with Seasonal Colour Analysis. The cosmetic colour palette below will be in your personal colour palette swatch book.

We’re going to go through the True Seasons first. They don’t have a cooler and warmer alternative. The True Spring is purely warm, the most important thing about its colors.

This palette is a little different from True Summer’s. Even purely warm Seasons have greys, they’re just warm.

The best lip/blush (because they should be the same) fuse with the basic undertone of your skin.

You adjust the depth of your makeup colors to the darkness of your coloring or complexion. The lip colours should be about the same intensity as the hair colour.

In learning who you are not, the release will flood you with amazing freedom.

In understanding who you are, you will be renewed – and you will look rejuvenated, by 10 years at least.

Related posts:

  1. Spring and Autumn Makeup Colours
  2. Best Makeup Colours : True Summer
  3. Best Makeup Colours : True Autumn
  4. Best Makeup Colours : True Winter
  5. Best Makeup Colours : Bright Winter

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8 Responses to “Best Makeup Colours : True Spring”

  1. Jo on May 7th, 2010 10:09 am

    One wee query:
    You suggest that the intensity of the lips should match the intensity of the hair colour – does that apply to all seasons, or just this one?

    And thanks for this series – I’ll be very interested to see each and every season in this format.

    Could I also request that when you have completed all 12 seasons you show them in a KalraSugar style recap, all together? I think that it will be amazingly informative!

    Thanks!

  2. Jo on May 7th, 2010 10:10 am

    That was KarlaSugar, not KalraSugar!

  3. Jenny on May 9th, 2010 2:58 am

    Great colors for us Springs. But the rose color to the bottom left reads coolish on my monitor. I guess you posted a slightly warmer one IRL? Generally, I find that good rosy colors are hard to find. They often are a bit too cool or muted. My tip is to use a medium orange liner along with the “maybe too cool” rose and blend well with a q-tip This usually does the trick.

    Most makeup sites don’t talk much about how light influences our best makeup colors. I find it extra hard trying to wear roses on overcast and gray days. The slightest coolness in the colors show up then, and even my best pinks might look “a tad too cool”. On those days, the bright peaches are much better. And the warmer, the better! Then, on the other hand, a sunny day allows for roses and pinks as long as they are on the warm side. This applies to evening light as well. My pinks and rosy lipsticks look a tad better than the peaches in evening light since this light tends to be on the very yellow side. I look brighter in the pinks then.

    Beauty By Jeunique’s collection for Springs is great on me. Their foundation X3245 in Rose Beige is excellent, the best I’ve ever had. Nice lipstick shades from other brands: Nivea’s 17 Melon, Lumene’s 12 So Energetic and Max Factor’s 21 Pearl Orange.

  4. Ashley on May 13th, 2010 12:51 pm

    Revlon has a new lipgloss called Firecracker. It’s a sheer gold-toned orange. Hard to tell whether it would be better for True Spring or True Autumn. I will say, however, that it looked very different in the store (I thought it was a nice yellow-red until I got it outside).

  5. Christine Scaman on May 17th, 2010 3:27 am

    Jenny,

    Thanks for those makeup suggestions. It is difficult indeed to find color clarity for Spring but it is there. I find Estee Lauder does some of the clearest colour, though MAC has several.

    When I make those palettes, I match them to the swatch book, but it will look different on other systems, more so than one would expect. For that reason, I don’t overfuss with it. Just trying to give you a collective visual to shop with, rather than belaboring each square of color.

    Agreed about the appearance of makeup in different lighting. I thought about that, but for myself, most days I don’t worry too much. I wonder if the brain of the viewer makes the adjustment, just as we do automatically when looking at white surfaces that are really seldom truly white. Evening light certainly needs an adjustment.

    Ashley,

    I looked at Revlon glosses. Makeup you can’t test has wasted me more $$…I bought it hoping and certain it would be good, just to be disappointed. I wanted to swatch the Colorburst series you mentioned on Fb, but no testers at CVS or Target. They also had no tester for the Bright Winter/Spring color you wondered about. Jeez.
    Testing them myself, and daylight are my new prerequisites for all makeup. It’s another shopping mistake looking for a time to happen otherwise. I looked at a lot of makeup though, and I’ll post it over the next few days at Fb.

  6. Ashley on May 19th, 2010 11:20 am

    I can swatch the colors, since I have them. Agreed so much about losing money on stuff like that. I have so many makeup samples that haven’t worked… At least those have only cost $1-2 each. Not so with drugstore makeup. I’m so thankful for the ones that let you return opened stuff.

  7. eiffel on January 18th, 2011 9:31 pm

    thank you so much for your advices.
    i think i’m a true spring (or maybe clear spring).
    but what is the difference between a warm and a clear spring ? can i be both ?
    which hair color is the best for a warm spring, and for a clear spring please ?
    thank you !
    a french girl reader.

  8. Christine Scaman on January 30th, 2011 4:54 pm

    Hello, eiffel,

    Warm Spring is a designation from another PCA system, Color Me Beautiful. I don’t use that category at all. Warm and Clear Spring are different, as is True Spring, and no, you would not be more than one at at time. Look through Lora’s site at http://www.prettyyourworld.com for photos and good explanations.

    Choosing best hair for the Springs is challenging because of the frequency of red hair, like Nicole Kidman. If your hair is brown, then Scarlet Johanssen or Uma Thurman’s natural hair colours are good (do a Google search of their name and look through the Images for a colour that doesn’t look dyed).

    A Bright Spring could be Audrey Tautou or former US First Lady Laura Bush – there is very wide variability in this group. They can look very Winterish.

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