Wear Your Season: The Summer Palette
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Think a morning with soft light — beautiful, but not glaring.
That's your color story.
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Before my very first market…
I made myself a pair of earrings. I didn't overthink it — I just reached for the colors that felt right. Rosy pink. Soft blue. A little blush. I didn't know then what I know now about color analysis. I just knew those colors felt like me.
I wore them that whole day. People asked about them constantly. And it wasn't until much later, after I'd learned about seasonal color analysis and figured out that I'm a True Summer, that I understood why: I had accidentally made myself the most Summer earrings that ever existed. My instincts knew my palette before my brain did.
That's what happens when you find your season. Things start to make sense.
So What Does It Mean to Be a Summer?
Summer is cool, soft, and muted. If you're a Summer, your coloring has cool, blue-based undertones — not warm or golden, but cool and gentle. Think: ash blonde, cool brown, or hair that has no warmth or red in it. Eyes that are soft blue, grey-blue, cool green, soft grey, or muted blue-grey. Skin that is fair to medium with pink, rose, or neutral-cool undertones — the kind that burns before it tans, or stays porcelain through every season.
Summers have a natural softness and elegance to them. There's nothing harsh about their coloring. Everything is blended, gentle, refined. Think a morning with soft light — beautiful, but not glaring.
The Summer Palette
Your colors are cool, soft, and slightly muted — like watercolors rather than acrylics. Rosy pink. Soft mauve. Powder blue. Lavender. Dusty rose. Soft teal. Cool mint. Periwinkle. Soft plum. Blush. Dove grey. Soft white with a cool lean.
What Summer doesn't want: anything warm, orange-based, or overly bright. Mustard, rust, warm coral, bright yellow — these pull against a Summer's natural coloring and can make her look tired or off. Summer needs cool and soft. She fades in warm colors and blooms in cool ones.
What This Means for Your Jewelry
Summers are made for silver. Cool silver, white gold, platinum — anything with a cool, refined finish. Rose gold can work for some Summers (it has enough pink to play nicely), but warm yellow gold tends to clash.
For color, your palette is romantic and soft: rosy pinks, cool blues, lavender, mauve, dusty teal, soft plum. These colors will make your eyes deepen and your skin look luminous. Avoid anything warm, bright, or earthy — your palette lives in the soft and the cool.
Summers can absolutely wear statement earrings, but the magic is often in the color rather than the size. A beautifully colored soft pink or periwinkle piece in your palette will do more for you than a bold warm-toned statement. The color is the statement.
The Anam Cara Connection
This is my season, which means I've made a lot of pieces that live here — sometimes on purpose and sometimes because my hands just reach for rosy pink and soft blue without asking permission first.
Look for pieces in cool, muted tones: blush, dusty rose, soft blue, lavender, mauve, soft teal. My very first market earrings — rosy pink and soft blue, completely one of a kind — are the most Summer piece I've ever made. They weren't planned. They were just honest.
If you're a Summer, reach for anything that feels soft, romantic, and cool-toned. If a piece looks like it belongs in a watercolor painting, it's probably made for you.