Deep Winter

Dark brown eyes and dark brown hair read as one deep, even tone, which is beautiful and easy to flatten. Espresso is your honest hair echo, but the colors that do the work are the cold ones: magenta ink, cardinal, a pale icy blue.

Deep and cool - blackberry, pine and oxblood richness.

Deep winter is dark and cool, and the neutral it builds on is Ink, which is a near-black with blue in it rather than a flat black. What makes the palette interesting is that Blackberry, Pine and Oxblood are all dark enough to sit beside Ink and still read as color. Frost White does the work a cream does in a warm season, and it is what keeps a dark outfit from reading as one block.

Not this season?

• True Winter
• Deep Autumn
• Bright Winter

More on deep winter

• Deep winter colors to avoid, and what to wear instead
• True winter vs deep winter: what decides it
• Winter color palette: true, deep or bright winter?

Where to go next

• Not sure this is you? Answer five questions.
• Soft Autumn: your colors and where to start
• What is color analysis?
• What is my undertone? A three-question test
• Gold or silver: a two-question test

Your exact colors

Your exact palette depends on your eyes and hair as well as your season.

• Blue eyes, black hair
• Blue eyes, dark brown hair
• Brown eyes, black hair
• Brown eyes, dark brown hair
• Brown eyes, light brown hair
• Brown eyes, medium brown hair
• Brown eyes, red auburn hair
• Dark brown eyes, black hair
• Dark brown eyes, dark brown hair
• Dark brown eyes, light brown hair
• Dark brown eyes, medium brown hair
• Dark brown eyes, red auburn hair
• Green eyes, black hair
• Green eyes, dark brown hair
• Grey eyes, black hair
• Grey eyes, dark brown hair
• Hazel eyes, black hair
• Hazel eyes, dark brown hair
• Hazel eyes, medium brown hair
• Hazel eyes, red auburn hair