Color season
Cool Summer
Cool Summer sits inside the Summer family and explains the palette direction.
Cool Summer undertone analysis
Kate Middleton's undertone analysis points to Cool Summer. Kate's skin has a cool olive-pink base that reads as neutral-cool in most lighting. Her complexion is enhanced by cool-toned metals and blue-based colors, while warm earth tones can make her appear slightly sallow. The cool quality of her olive skin distinguishes her from warm olive complexions.
Color season
Cool Summer sits inside the Summer family and explains the palette direction.
Eye color
Eye clarity, softness, warmth, or depth helps refine Kate Middleton's season placement.
Hair color
Hair color affects the contrast level that makes Cool Summer colors feel balanced.
Skin read
Kate's skin has a cool olive-pink base that reads as neutral-cool in most lighting. Her complexion is enhanced by cool-toned metals and blue-based colors, while warm earth tones can make her appear slightly sallow. The cool quality of her olive skin distinguishes her from warm olive complexions.
Kate's skin has a cool olive-pink base that reads as neutral-cool in most lighting. Her complexion is enhanced by cool-toned metals and blue-based colors, while warm earth tones can make her appear slightly sallow. The cool quality of her olive skin distinguishes her from warm olive complexions.
Undertone explains why some colors make the complexion look clearer while others make it look heavy, flat, or disconnected.
Kate Middleton's undertone is not read in isolation. It becomes more useful when compared with green with cool grey tones eyes, dark brown with cool ash undertones hair, and fair to light with cool olive-pink undertones and a refined clarity skin.
The final palette recommendation is Cool Summer, a Summer sub-season. That palette gives the most coherent match to Kate Middleton's temperature, contrast, and chroma.
Kate's skin has a cool olive-pink base that reads as neutral-cool in most lighting. Her complexion is enhanced by cool-toned metals and blue-based colors, while warm earth tones can make her appear slightly sallow. The cool quality of her olive skin distinguishes her from warm olive complexions.
Kate Middleton's complete analysis places them in Cool Summer, within the Summer season family.