Bright (Clear) Spring

Also called Clear Spring. Bright Spring is the clearest of the three Springs. Your coloring is warm with high contrast, often bright eyes against darker hair. Saturated, clear colors with a warm lean match your intensity. Dusty, muted and greyed colors make you look tired.

Bright Spring borrows its clarity from Winter and its warmth from Spring. The look is vivid: bright eyes, often clear blue, green or topaz, against darker hair, and skin with a warm or neutral cast. Contrast is high, so the colors around the face need to keep up.

Saturated, clear colors do that best: bright coral, hot pink, emerald, bright turquoise, royal blue and sunflower yellow. Swap black for ink navy or chocolate, and white for bright ivory. Polished gold and shiny finishes suit the clarity better than antique or matte ones. Muted colors such as mushroom, dusty rose and olive drab make the face look tired, because they cannot match its intensity.

Bright Spring is easy to confuse with Bright Winter. Both wear vivid color, but Bright Spring's brights lean warm, toward coral and orange, while Bright Winter's lean cool, toward fuchsia and icy tones.

Undertone

Warm, leaning neutral

Chroma

Bright: clear and saturated

Contrast

High