Soft Summer Makeup Looks And Palette – Lipstick, Blush, Eyes
Are you struggling to find a Soft Summer Makeup Palette?
This article has all the right answers!
Soft Summer is the Adriana Lima, Bianca Balti, and Bella Hadid kind of beauty.
Your makeup often calls for an understated look, but that look isn’t always one of gentleness or innocence— it’s also the quiet, siren-like sultriness.
Soft Summer belongs to the Summer family, flowing into Soft Autumn.
She is a hazy darling, subdued and dreamy. Like your original season (True Summer), you are both muted and cool.
Unlike True Summer, your palette’s mutedness isn’t subtle, but the most visible characteristic of your appearance, and that’s where your makeup choices will also come from.
The combination of neutral cool skin tone and subdued mutedness gives your skin an ashy appearance and low contrast.
This is why contour will be your best pal. Switching your black eyeliner with a gray one would be your second-best choice, and shifting to dusty pastels will complete the look for you.
This is just the tip of the iceberg. Here’s a complete makeover breakdown for Soft Summer.
Soft Summer Appearance
Soft Summer can be hard to track down, but what helps is the coolness of your skin and the overall greyness of your features.
The very first visible characteristic in Soft Summer is the hair, always the hair. It’s on the medium-to-dark end but is always faded.
For example, your hair is never truly brown, but rather faded with hints of a gray hue over it.
We are talking ash brown, dark ash, milk tea hair, dirty ash blonde, ash milk tea, mushroom ash blonde highlights, among many.
Now, mind you, Soft Autumn also has faded hair, but it comes with warmer tones. Your season is about cool and neutral-cool undertones.
The next giveaway is your skin, which is cool and slightly ashy in tone. It’s a myth that your skin appears dull; it’s raw and serves etherealism.
Other features, just like your hair and skin, also have a gray haze over them. For example, the eyes are never solid blue, but rather muted or grayed blue.
It’s a silent blue. Along with blue, you may also have ashy green, brown, or muted gray eyes.
Despite being a summer season, your skin type isn’t warm; rather, it’s characterized by gentle coolness.
The skin tone isn’t extremely cool like True Summer, just cool-leaning or neutral-cool.
Lastly, your overall contrast is low to medium; that is, your skin and features blend rather than standing apart.
Depending on the lightness or darkness of your features, the contrast can be low or medium.
Soft Summer Color Palette
To choose your neutral and accent colors, it’s important that we have a little brief on the hue, value, and chroma of your palette.
These three aspects together create a color palette for you that suits your season.
Soft Summer’s primary aspect is its chroma, i.e., the brightness or mutedness of the color.
Your season is first and foremost distinguished by its mutedness/softness or ashy appearance. All coloring has a gray haze over it.
You want to strictly avoid bright colors and run towards subdued hues.
- Dusty mauve instead of fuchsia pink
- Sage green instead of neon green
- In terms of neutrals, go with cool gray instead of stark white.
Hue: It’s the warmth or coolness of your color palette. And in your case, it’s neutral-cool to cool-leaning.
Meaning, your palette demands colors that are not dominated by warmth.
- Dusty rose for your lips instead of peach
- Misty teal vs moss green for your eye shadow
And so your colors invite more blue, but aren’t opposed to subtle yellow/brown hints. Pastel lilac (cool-toned) works for Soft Summer, but at the same time, so does burnished lilac(neutral).
Value: Value is the lightness or darkness of your palette. For Soft Summer, it’s medium, meaning you can choose both ends of the spectrum. The midpoint mostly suits you.
Now, should your makeup color choices be dark or light? That depends on your saturation/contrast.
Low contrast would entertain lighter shades of the muted palette. However, if your contrast is medium, you do invite darker shades.
Soft Summer Makeup Color Palette
More than adding colors, Soft Summer concentrates on highlighting the already existing beauty on your face with subtlety.
Eyes take all the focus, lips lock the look. You can pull off a classic timeless beauty, a soft darling, a siren hot-head with the right eye and lip combination.
Cool nude colors accentuate the eyes. Grey Charcoal lets you shape them.
After the eyes, it’s important that you never skip the hair. Hair is everything for a Soft Summer palette. Never keep them warm, even if your hair is brown, bring it to ash brown.
Soft Summer Foundation
Your skin often has a mix of blue and pink undertones, sometimes slightly pink+beige, but their effect is blurred and silent.
And so you want a cool or neutral-cool foundation with blue or pink undertones. Don’t go for the warm reds and olives. Warmth is not for you.
Instead of full coverage, sheer foundation would work better for your skin because it wouldn’t hide your naturally low contrast.
Too much pigment or coverage will hide your gorgeous skin.
The formulation is best when it is sheer, medium-coverage, matte, or satin. Dewy makeup will work against your skin type.
If you have freckles, enhance them with a cool-toned taupe freckle highlighter. If you don’t have freckles but wish to have them, go right ahead.
They complement your beauty and low contrast.
Soft Summer Luminizer & Highlighter
Do you need a luminizer as Soft Summer Beauty?
No, but you can use it on your high points, like your forehead, nose bridge, or cheekbones, to achieve that inner glow look.
I would still advise against a full-face luminizer.
Your appeal is in your skin’s raw beauty, and a highlighter can be too glam for you. It can work against your skin type.
However, if you still want to highlight, go with a product that has a sheen but is not overly sparkly or glittery.
Soft Summer Contour And Bronzer
I wasn’t lying when I said contour is your best pal. Not only does it sculpt your face, but it also complements your skin tone.
Contours are generally cool-toned and also muted. They act as a shadow, and what’s better than a gray-hued shadow on your face?
You must choose the correct contour for your skin. Warm will never work; you want cool or neutral cool gray/taupe contouring.
Although Soft Summer is not a warm season, a little warm bronzer works because you sit right next to Soft Autumn, practically flowing into it.
That subtle sun-kissed effect is more than welcome.
But don’t go overboard. The best way to use your bronzer is to blend it with your contour.
- Rituel De Fille Contour “Intuition”
- Haus Labs Contour Stick “Profile”
- Sheglam Contour “Soft Tan”
- LA Colors Bronze “Beachy”
- Elf Putty Bronzer “Feelin’ Shady”
- Colourpop Bronzer Stick “Laguna Beach”
Soft Summer Eyes
Eyes are important, very important for a Soft Summer beauty. They hold so much power. You can make them look sweet, challenging, timeless, classic, sultry, or eccentric.
Cool taupe or soft gray-brown make excellent bases to define your eye shape.
They act as silent colors, but the impact is stunning and complements your skin and features, like the final piece of a puzzle.
Cool nudes bring the same justice to your eyes. They define without taking away the attention from your eyes.
You can also pull off smoky eyes, but it cannot be overpowering.
Smoky eye makeup for you starts with a cool nude gray base, followed by a gray muted eyeshadow, and gray eyeliner smudged to create a soft, siren-like crease.
Black is a stark color for you, and will work against you. Always choose soft gray when going for smoky eyes.
For an eccentric look, bring muted pastels to your eyes, such as dusty pink, cool sage, dusk blue, dirty lilac, among many.
Darker pastels can become your eyeliner to tie the look.
Skip black mascara and switch to a soft brown one or gray.
- CLIO Extreme Gelpresso Eyeliner “Gray Brown,” “Muted Brown,” “Soft Brown”
- CoverGirl Perfect Power Plus Eyeliner “Charcoal,” “Toffee”
- Master Mattes By Mario Eyeshadow Palette
- ColourPop Shadow Palette
- Dior Show 5 Couleurs Eyeshadow Palette
- Yves Saint Laurent Couture Mini Clutch Eyeshadow Palette
Soft Summer Blush
Soft Summer can rock a blush and no-blush look on any given day.
For a dangerous glint, you can skip blush altogether to serve the Model face with only contour.
Your blush can pull off a pigmented color and natural skin flush effect, depending on the mood and vibe you want to give.
Don’t skip your nose when applying blush; it enhances your cool undertone.
Formula should feel skin-like, so satin, balm, tint, or cream all work.
- Ulta Beauty lavender blush
- Nyx Blueberry Burst and “Plum Pop”
- Merit Flush Balm “Apres”
- Huda Beauty “Bubblegum”
- Armani Silk Blush “Amore”
- Westman Atelier “Petal”
- Rhode “Piggy”
Soft Summer Lips
Lips tie your look silently and gorgeously. Enhancing your natural color is the best you can do with your look.
For a dramatic night, darker colors are more than welcome, but they must be muted.
You want to pick cool, muted colors— all cool nudes are welcome, dusty rose, soft berry, dusty plums.
You can rock an outline, or no outline lips; the colors must just be in your palette.
Cream is the best formulation for you because it gives a natural appeal, but matte, satin, gloss, and oil all work equally.
- MAC Powder kiss “304 sultriness.”
- Rimmel Lasting Finish Liner Cappuccino + Anastasia Beverly Hills Velvet Lips “Pure Hollywood.”
- Rose Inc Satin “Eloquent”
- Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk Fair Lip liner
- ABH Velvet Lips “Rosy Mauve”
- Pat McGrath Satin Allure Lipstick “Veiled Rose”
- MAC Cosmetics “Mehr”
- Makeup Forever “Endless Cacao”
- Colourpop “Cool BFF”
- Sephora Collection About that shine lacquer “02 soft frequency.”
- Chanel Le Rouge Duo “172 Light Mauve”
- Milani “Mulled Wine”
Soft Summer Makeup Looks
Soft Summer’s understated look combines a clean girl look with an ethereal charm. It’s a no-makeup makeup look that highlights the rawness of natural beauty in its truest sense.
You don’t hide your skin; you enhance it. This is why we suggest a sheer foundation for Soft Summer; the haziness must come through and not be hidden behind an opaque foundation.
While the base may be sheer, the eyes can hold naked rawness or be draped in different aesthetics. The same goes for lips.
They are gorgeous with a simple cream, but they can hold ethereal drama any day.
- Freckle No-Makeup Makeup Look: This is Soft Summer’s one of the best looks because it focuses on the skin without stealing away its essence. Sheer base, soft contour to sculpt the face, freckles to adorn the rawness of the skin, taupe/soft and cool brown subtle eyeshadow, maybe a darker shade of eyeliner, brown mascara, and a cool-toned rose on the lips to finish the look.
- Smoky nude: gray smoky eyes paired with cool nude lips.
- Dramatic makeup: For soft Summer, drama mostly comes from the lips. A subtly darker shade, and you are a walking enigma. There’s something in a cool-toned, muted skin and dark lips combination that grabs all the attention.
Eyes can also hold drama, but when your lips take the stage, let the eyes rest, and vice versa.
