Comments on: Sonja is a Light Summer

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:05:52 +0000

This article makes me feel I’ve come home. When I was a child I loved colors such as are shown in the garden landscape here. During my adolescence I developed a preference for dreamy pastels, lavender et al., but now I’m enjoying the clearer, happier colors again–and feeling vindicated by this article, which is the best explanation of Light Summer colors I’ve read.

By: margie

margie — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 22:53:23 +0000

Me again. I think I am a light summer after all, not a soft summer, now that I’ve studied up on it some more, read comments on the FB page, looked at Rachel’s website, etc. The questionnaire and charts on Irene Riter’s website were very helpful. I was thinking I wasn’t “light” enough to be a light summer, but now I understand light summer really means you are on the brighter side of summer, not necessarily lighter in terms of pastel, which is what I had in my head to begin with. I’m much more comfortable and confident now that I have a pretty good idea of where I fall. Summer influenced by spring seems right in every way.

By: Nynd

Nynd — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:01:40 +0000

My sincere apologises for some truly dreadful typos, here as everywhere – English really is my first language, but I over-edit and do it badly, hence the grammatical disjunctions.

By: Nynd

Nynd — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:57:55 +0000

I draped as soft summer, and I think the “velvety” gets at, as in say Lora’s description, is a sort of sueded, muted, nubuck quality, especially to the eye colour – nothing primary or secondary or even tertiary about it, a sense of complexity to the tones. It’s best seen in indirect daylight. When I saw the word velvet I first think of very dense, jewel-toned dark wintery colours, purely by association as this is what you tend to see at the fabric shop or in evening wear, and that’s not what we’re about as soft seasons. Velvet in this contxt is more about that subtle texture, like upholstery that’s been sitting about and weathered gently.

I see it more in the colours of soft autumn palette than in the soft summer one, but I see it in my colouring as a soft summer, if that makes sense? And for what it’s worth, I saw myself as a soft autumn for a long time (suspect I’m in some odd overlap of the curves, with undertones more on the summer side but with a lot of soft autumn in the execution, which probably won’t make much sense to anyone else ).

By: margie

margie — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:19:32 +0000

Thanks for helping me with that “velvety” description that I’m seeing on other sites. The more I read, I’m thinking I’m more soft than light, although my skin tone seems/feels a lot lighter or more delicate than Jennifer Aniston or Angelina Jolie, who I keep seeing shown as prototype soft summers. Their coloring seems more intense than mine, but of course I’m seeing hollywood editions. I think I must be on the light end of the soft summer spectrum, not so close to the soft autumns.

I read in another of your posts that soft summers have pink in the rims of the eyelids that can make the whites of the eyes appear very bloodshot with the wrong makeup. Is that soft summers exclusively or is that all summers? I have always been aware of that for myself but have never had anyone else acknowledge it, so thanks for validating that! I’ve tended to avoid brown and plum eyeliners because they would intensify the pink rims rather than the green eyes. I have finally found a cocoa brown eyeliner from Clinique, though, that does indeed work, and a greyed plum eyeliner from Estee Lauder that works pretty well, too, although it smudges off pretty easily. For years I tried the khaki eye pencil from Clinique, but it did very little for me. Seemed to just fade into transparency.

By: Christine Scaman

Christine Scaman — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:41:47 +0000

Margie,
This is a fairly common confusion. The only way I know to sort it is with the drapes. Velvety is not a term that comes to my mind for Soft Summer, though I can certainly see it in Soft Autumn. Your preferences are towards Light but our preferences can be equally accurate and misleading.

By: margie

margie — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:31:22 +0000

I am trying to decide whether I am a soft summer or a light summer. I don’t feel particularly “velvety,” as I’ve seen soft summers described. I don’t do dark well at all (like a light summer), but I do like the the lighter muted colors of the soft summer. For instance, gray heather is good; charcoal is not. Maybe I’m just on the lighter side of the soft summer? Eyes are muted greenish with a little blue sometimes.

By: Christine Scaman

Christine Scaman — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 13:03:55 +0000

Annie,

Specific product info usually gets posted on the Fb page – and I’ve seen you there, so keep checking in. I’m going to try to put up some clothes and makeup for Light Summer today.

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By: Annie

Annie — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:00:10 +0000

Yes! I am just like Sonja! Would love to know what good colors/makeup are..and I can share my thoughts as well…once I tend to my crying baby, a Soft Summer.

By: Christine Scaman

Christine Scaman — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:40:40 +0000

Thank you, Karen. I will carry that blessing with me. Lovely to see you here.

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