Light Spring vs Light Summer
Light Spring and Light Summer are the gentlest seasons on the chart: both are fair, both are low contrast, and both look best in colors with white mixed in. Put their palettes side by side and half the swatches seem to blur together. This is the pastel version of the soft-season confusion.
The split, once again, is temperature. Light Spring pastels are sunlit: peach, warm aqua, buttercream. Light Summer pastels are powdery: rose, sky blue, lavender grey. Your skin will pick a side even when your eye cannot.
The fastest tell
Hold peach against one cheek and powder pink against the other in daylight. Peach making you look fresh means Light Spring. Powder pink making you look calm and even means Light Summer; on a Light Spring it goes faintly chalky.
Axis by axis
Undertone
Light Spring
Warm-neutral: golden light under fair coloring.
Light Summer
Cool-neutral: rosy light under fair coloring.
Signature pastels
Light Spring
Peach, warm aqua, buttercream, fresh coral.
Light Summer
Powder pink, sky blue, lavender, soft rose.
Metals
Light Spring
Light yellow gold, champagne.
Light Summer
Silver, white gold, rose gold used carefully.
The effect
Light Spring
Morning sunshine: fresh, warm, awake.
Light Summer
Overcast seaside: soft, cool, serene.
The two palettes, side by side
Tap any swatch to copy its hex code. Full palettes, neutrals, and the colors each season should skip live on the season pages.
Light Spring
Light Summer
Which one are you?
Probably Light Spring if...
- →Coral and peach lipstick shades look natural; blue-pinks look slightly stark.
- →Champagne and light gold jewelry blend into your skin beautifully.
- →Your blonde or light brown hair turns golden, not ashy, in summer.
- →Ivory and cream serve you better than pure white.
Probably Light Summer if...
- →Rose and berry-tinted lipsticks flatter more than corals.
- →Silver looks clean on you where yellow gold looks a touch brassy.
- →Your hair pulls ashy and never really goes golden without dye.
- →Soft white and light grey feel easier than cream or ivory.
The colors you share
Soft aqua, light periwinkle, and the palest denim blues work for both, and both seasons should hold dark, heavy colors at arm’s length: navy softened to dusk, never harsh black. If you sit on the border, buy in the blue-green overlap and let temperature decide only your pinks, yellows, and metals, which is where the two palettes genuinely part ways.
Settle it with your own face
Border cases are exactly where mirror-squinting fails. Lookcard reads undertone, depth, and contrast from one selfie, names your season (and the near-miss neighbor), and renders both palettes on you across a 15-page report. Your selfie is deleted after the report is built.
Questions
I am blonde and fair. Which of these am I?+–
Blonde and fair fits both, so hair color alone cannot answer it. The direction your blonde shifts (golden vs ashy), your jewelry preference under daylight, and the peach-or-powder-pink test are what separate the two.
Can either season wear black?+–
Both pay for it: black overwhelms light coloring and casts shadows upward. Light Summer should reach for dusk navy or soft charcoal, Light Spring for warm taupe or light camel. Save black for below the waist.
What if neither peach nor powder pink looks obviously better?+–
Low-contrast coloring gives subtle results, which is exactly why this pair benefits from measurement instead of mirror-squinting. Lookcard reads the undertone from your selfie photo pixels and settles the border cases with an actual number.
Do Light Spring and Light Summer share makeup and hair rules?+–
The volume rules match: sheer textures, soft definition, nothing heavy. The shades split on temperature: peachy blush and golden highlights for Light Spring, rosy blush and ash-kissed highlights for Light Summer. Warm-toning a Light Summer blonde is the most common mismatch a colorist can make.
More season mix-ups
Keep exploring: how AI color analysis finds your season, or a real sample report page by page.