Warm/True Autumn: Colours To Avoid — Style Identity (2024)

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Warm/True Autumn: Colours To Avoid — Style Identity? ›

To flatter your True Autumn complexion, it's best to avoid cool and light hues such as mint green, lavender, and bright grey. These colors are the direct opposite of your warm and rich coloring and may make you look dull instead of vibrant.

Styling Black for Autumn Complexions

Autumn individuals can wear black in ways that complement their coloring. Integrating black as an accent or pairing it with warmer hues from their palette can balance its coolness.

The best metals for True Autumn are gold, copper, brass and bronze. Silver, platinum and white gold are completely disharmonious with your absolute warmth, and will clash with your colours. Metals that are slightly less reflective are especially good, like hammered, oxidised and antiqued.

Hair Colors for the Autumn Type: Accentuate your hair color with warm red and copper tones. All warm brown tones like golden brown, coppery gold or chestnut are also flattering. If you really want to color you hair blonde you should go for golden blonde shades. Ash blonde colors do not suit the autumn-type skin.

Colours to Avoid

Since Soft Autumn's main colour aspects are low chroma and warmth, your worst colours are bright and cool. Vibrant colours, such as intense oranges, will overpower you and may even make you look clownish. Dark colours, such as deep purples and blues, will make you disappear.

Avoid all blue-based pinks, fuchsias, blue-pinks, silvery greys, black and pure white. The Autumn palette is warm-toned, which means every colour has a yellow undertone. Your colours also have a certain depth to them - think of your yellow undertone being a rich antique gold undertone rather than bright lemon yellow.

True Autumn Wardrobe Neutral Colours

For many, light neutrals like white and grey and darker neutrals like black are the go-to options when it comes to neutral colours in their wardrobes. However, as a True Autumn, these colours are not the most flattering against your skin tone.

Since True Autumn's main colour aspects are warmth and richness, your worst colours are cool and bright. Apart from white and black, other cool and bright, such as pastel pink or ice blue, will clash with your natural warmth and richness and will make you look off.

When it comes to colour combing, the classic Autumn technique of layering up similar colours is usually your best look - taupes and soft purples, or soft greens and teals, for instance. Brighter shades are usually best worn as a small accent in a tonal look.

Choosing the Right Shade

Autumns should look for navies with a slightly warmer undertone, avoiding those that are too crisp or stark. A navy that leans towards teal or has a touch of green can complement Autumn's warmth.

Can true Autumn wear pink? ›

Well I'm here to tell you it does. At the warmest end of the Autumn palette lives the coral pinks - soft peachy shades that inch ever so close to being in the Spring palette but still carry that slightly more muted feel of Autumn colours. You want a definite orangey undertone to these pinks.

White is one of the palette's worst colours. Replace these basics with clove and warm ivory. Quintessential True Autumn colours are olive, mustard, rust and brown. Lights can be found in jute, sisal, parchment, tatami and other tanned or yellowed natural fibres.

FYI: Blue eyes can be found in ALL seasons, however, even the warmest Spring and Autumn.

Soft Autumn FAQs

So if you're a Soft Autumn, you can look forward to a lifetime of wearing flattering colours - no matter your age, or when you get grey hair! Therefore you can have the confidence to invest in classic pieces for a Soft Autumn wardrobe with longevity.

Your beiges, taupes, khakis and browns are all ideal for this. Brow colours are usually in the khaki to taupe range, but occasionally dark brown for a dark-haired Soft Autumn, or light brown for gingery-haired one. Eye liners are brown, but most brown liners available are too rich, in True and Dark Autumn shades.

Soft autumn hair is usually muted and soft but can develop a warm glow and highlights in the sun. Soft Autumn hair colors are usually golden blonde, strawberry blonde, or medium brown. For those with dark brown hair, it may appear slightly ashy.

True white tends to favor cooler undertones, while warm undertones may look better in off-white. Warm undertones also tend to complement brown hues, while cooler tones often look better in black. Like jewelry, if you have neutral undertones, you can wear all colors without affecting your overall look.

Since black is part of the Winter palette, you can use it as a dark neutral. And if you have light skin with high contrast against your hair and eyes, you can even pull off an all-black look. If your skin is darker, you may notice that an all-black outfit seems to diminish you. In that case, use black more sparingly.

Black, being stark, bold, and absolute, theoretically stands in opposition to the nuanced subtlety of the True Moonlit Summer palette. It can potentially overpower the natural softness that True Moonlit Summers exhibit, leading to a washed-out appearance or a harsh contrast against their skin.

Dark colors become warmer in winter, even if there is no direct sunlight. Black clothes are the warmest at that time. But do be careful at night, because they can make you difficult for other road users to spot.