Light Summer Makeup Word Cloud

Many of you will be very happy to see me continue my series of posts about the word clouds I've made from products in the seasonal makeup lists.  :-)  I apologize for the delay!

To orient those just joining us, there are 12 color seasons, each with its own palette of colors that exist at precise points on each of these three spectra:

light  ............................... dark
saturated..........................faded
cool...................................warm

Light Summer is a color season. Its colors are  mostly cool-toned, a bit faded, and very light. 

​The Light Summer seasonal makeup list has hundreds of products that have been precisely matched to the Light Summer color palette. (Because a Light Summer's perfect makeup is makeup that matches those colors.) 

​Since the products on the list all occupy a small, defined area in color space, one tends to see the same color names over and over.

Here's what happens when I feed all of the color names from the Light Summer makeup list into a word cloud generator.  The size of the word represents how freqently the word appears in the list. ​

Pink! Wow. Pink is important for Light Summer.

​That makes sense if you think about it; pink is technically just light, cool red, and Light Summer is a light, cool palette. Light Summer's "oranges" are peachy pinks, and Light Summer's "reds" are deep pinks. 

"Rose" is basically a synonym for pink, so it makes sense to see it feature so prominently in Light Summer's makeup word cloud. 

The importance of "brown" in Light Summer makeup reflects the fact that, for deep neutrals (like we typically use in eyeshadow and eyeliner), Light Summer will never get black or charcoal. It's just too light a season.  Brown and grey are the neutrals that lighter seasons rely on in makeup. 

Light Summer's browns will always be cool browns: pinkish browns or purplish browns or greyish browns or silvery browns.  You'll see words like "cocoa," "mink," "taupe," and "stone" use to describe these cool browns. 

In the background of the word cloud, we have many more forms of pink: fuchsia, watermelon, cherry, berry, and raspberry.  We also see coral, which is a peachy pink; Light Summer borders light and warm Light Spring, and has a hint of warmth. (Light Summers, but not True Summers, look gorgeous in a buttery yellow.) 

If you have cool undertones, and you see the makeup that flatters you reflected in this word cloud, you may be a Light Summer.

If you're not sure which of the 12 color seasons is your perfect fit, consider trying the home draping cards. They're precisely matched to original Sci/Art colors, the gold standard of seasonal color palettes.