Winter family · cool undertone · medium-deep depth · clear chroma
True Winter color palette
Cool and clear — icy, high-contrast, sharp.
Who is a True Winter?
True Winters are cool, clear, and high-contrast. Black, blue-black, or cool dark brown hair, icy blue, cool grey, or dark eyes, and skin with cool pink or blue undertones that never warms in the sun.
Signs you might be a True Winter
- Icy pastels work on you where soft pastels do not
- Blue-red lipstick looks striking; brick red looks dirty
- Yellow gold looks brassy; silver and platinum look right
- Your best look is sharp contrast, not blended tones
Check with one selfie, free Vienne drapes you in your worst and best colors so you can see it, not guess it.
True Winter best colors
Cool, clear, and crisp: true red, royal blue, emerald, fuchsia, icy pink, black, pure white. Neutrals are black, white, and cool grey. Avoid earth tones, warm browns, and anything muted.
The full 60-color True Winter palette
The palette walks each of the season's twelve hues from light to deep within the True Winter range. Every True Winter on Vienne gets this with their result, plus their own three most striking colors.
Colors a True Winter should avoid
These come from your opposite season, True Autumn. They pull your face in the wrong direction on every axis: warm where you are cool, medium-deep where you are medium-deep.
Neutrals
Metals
Silver, platinum, white gold. Yellow gold warms you in the wrong direction.
Makeup
Blue-red and fuchsia lips, cool pink blush, icy silver and black shadow.
Hair
Black, cool dark brown, platinum. Avoid warm brown and copper.
Not sure between seasons?
The other Winter seasons share your coolness but differ in depth or clarity: Deep Winter and Bright Winter. Your opposite is True Autumn. The fastest way to settle it is to see your own face on both.