Soft Summer Color Palette | Muted & Gentle Colors

Description

Soft Summer, also known as Muted Summer, is muted, blended, and harmonious. This palette thrives on understated tones—mauve, dusty rose, cool taupe, sage green, and smoky blue. Skin often appears neutral or neutral-cool with soft undertones, hair has muted ashy tones, and eyes are gentle shades of hazel, blue, or grey. The beauty of Soft Summer is in its quiet elegance—colors that are neither too bright nor too dark, but soft and subtle, bringing natural features into perfect balance. The overall effect is refined, dusky, and harmonious, with an understated charm that feels effortlessly natural.

Skin

The Soft Summer skin palette is muted, blended, and dusky, with undertones that lean neutral, olive, or neutral-cool. Hints of ash or rosy tinge are common, giving a naturally shaded effect. Most often seen in medium beige to cool olive tones, this palette creates a soft harmony where skin, eyes, and hair flow seamlessly together. Silver and pewter jewelry tend to enhance its understated elegance.

Hair

Ash blonde, platinum ash blonde, medium ash brown, cool brown, dark ash brown, mushroom brown, dusty rose brown, and soft slate grey. Keep blends soft and natural, avoiding high contrast. Best to avoid warm, golden or brassy tones.

Ash Blonde

Platinum Ash Blonde

Medium Ash Brown

Cool Brown

Dark Ash Brown

Mushroom Brown

Dusty Rose Brown

Soft Slate Grey

Eyes

Grey-blue, grey-green, cool hazel, or muted brown. Often a blended, misty look with low contrast in the iris.

Grey Blue

Grey Green

Cool Hazel

Muted Brown

Metal

Brushed silver, pewter, antique silver, or white gold. Muted metals suit their soft blending; shiny or high-contrast metals overwhelm.

Brushed Silver

Pewter

Antique Silver

White Gold

Gemstones

Rhodonite, labradorite, rosy spinel, smoky quartz, soft violet blue, or lepidolite. Cool, soft, and delicate stones with blue or pink undertones. Summers glow in calm, misty, and blended gems instead of bright or deep ones.