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One guide per season: makeup you can name, outfits that work and the words for a colorist.

$29 a Complete Guide, for any one of 12 seasons

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Deep Winter guide, book 1 cover: the cover of Book 1, the guide, with the season name in dark plum letters and a fan of paint chips, with olive.Deep Winter guide, book 2 cover: the cover of the lookbook and toolkit, the second of the two books, with the season name.
Shown in Deep Winter: Book 1 and Book 2

01 Your season

Pick your season

Twelve guides, one for each season. Eight of its colors on every card.

02 Softer or bolder

Softer or bolder.

Deep raspberry, your everyday lip, two amounts. Pick the amount by the day, and the shade stays yours.

Softer

Deep raspberry#B0215FSheer

One dab, pressed in with a finger.

Bolder

Deep raspberry#B0215FFull coat

A full coat.

Shown in Deep Winter. Every guide has this page, in its own colors.

03 Before and with the guide

The same week, with a guide

Three moments of a week, shown in Deep Winter. Tap the one that sounds like you.

The berry lipstick was wine in the store. At the office window it reads gray.

Deep Winter guide, lip on a deeper lip: page of eight lip shades as flat color blocks at sheer, half and full coverage over a deeper, cooler lip, with colors such as berry, ruby, plum and deep raspberry.
Book 1 · p. 35

See the shade before you buy it.

Dark shades deepen toward near black over a dark lipBook 1, page 35

An app said Deep Winter. A friend said Deep Autumn.

Deep Winter guide, two sister palettes: page that puts the season next to its two neighbors on the wheel, with a strip of colors for each, with colors such as olive, pine, teal and berry.
Book 1 · p. 21

Put your season next to its neighbors.

Some of their colors work for you.Book 1, page 21

On the video call the beige cardigan under your chin dulls your skin.

Deep Winter guide, rescue your closet: page of four fixes, in order, for a piece in a color that is not yours: distance from your face, proportion, texture and pattern, and one of your colors at the neck.
Book 1 · p. 59

Move it, and keep it.

The piece nearest your face sets how your skin reads.Book 1, page 59

04 Before you decide

Two reds that look the same in the store. One is yours.

The guide answers this one shade at a time: which is yours, and what to do with the one that is not.

Yours

Cool red#A5122F

In the Deep Winter lip family.

Not quite

Brick red#8E2D1F

Leans orange, from Deep Autumn. Wear it low, away from your face.

See a 4 page sample (PDF) No email. Softer or bolder, a palette page with codes and the olive skin page.

05 Inside, page by page

Turn the real pages

Drag sideways, or tap a page to see it larger.

  • Deep Winter guide, book 1 cover: the cover of Book 1, the guide, with the season name in dark plum letters and a fan of paint chips, with olive.
    Book 1 · coverYour season, in two books
  • Deep Winter guide, book 1 palette page: page of color swatches, each with its name, HEX, RGB and CMYK, with colors such as ruby, berry, deep raspberry and cool burgundy.
    Book 1 · p. 13Your palette
  • Deep Winter guide, two sister palettes: page that puts the season next to its two neighbors on the wheel, with a strip of colors for each, with colors such as olive, pine, teal and berry.
    Book 1 · p. 21Two sister palettes
  • Deep Winter guide, note for deep skin: page of notes for deep skin with a row of best colors, what goes wrong and the fix, with colors such as berry, ruby, black and plum.
    Book 1 · p. 30A page for deep skin
  • Deep Winter guide, lip on a deeper lip: page of eight lip shades as flat color blocks at sheer, half and full coverage over a deeper, cooler lip, with colors such as berry, ruby, plum and deep raspberry.
    Book 1 · p. 35Lip on a deeper lip
  • Deep Winter guide, why bases go gray or orange: page on why a base goes gray on deep skin or orange on olive skin, with a jawline test to do at home, with colors such as black and olive.
    Book 1 · p. 47Why bases go gray or orange
  • Deep Winter guide, rescue your closet: page of four fixes, in order, for a piece in a color that is not yours: distance from your face, proportion, texture and pattern, and one of your colors at the neck.
    Book 1 · p. 59Rescue your closet
  • Deep Winter guide, book 2 cover: the cover of the lookbook and toolkit, the second of the two books, with the season name.
    Book 2 · coverLookbook and toolkit
  • Deep Winter guide, book 2 outfits drawn for you: page of two outfits drawn flat in the palette, with lip, eyes and metal listed, with colors such as ruby, black, silver and fuchsia.
    Book 2 · p. 7Outfits drawn for you
  • Deep Winter guide, book 2 combination book: page of three color combinations at one contrast level, with colors such as deep cool brown, black, cool burgundy and black plum.
    Book 2 · p. 13The combination book
  • Deep Winter guide, is it mine?: page of three yes or no questions to ask while holding a color under your chin by a window, with colors such as camel, mustard, rust and olive.
    Book 2 · p. 18Is it mine?
  • Deep Winter phone palette, the neutrals family page: phone-sized page with a swatch and a name for each neutral of the season.
    Phone palette · p. 4A family page
  • Deep Winter guide, phone palette, one color page: phone-sized page for one color with its name, HEX, RGB and CMYK and three pairings, with colors such as midnight navy, cool white, sapphire and ruby.
    Phone palette · p. 9One color, one page
  • Deep Winter makeup phone PDF, lip on a deeper lip: phone-sized page of lip shades drawn over a deeper, cooler lip, marked as a screen estimate.
    Makeup phone PDF · p. 18Makeup, over a deeper lip
  • Deep Winter phone wallpaper 1 of 4: a lock screen on cream paper with flat swatches of the season colors and a painted corner, the top left clear for the clock.
    Wallpaper 1 of 4A wallpaper
  • Deep Winter palette check, the gray strip: page with a strip of nine gray steps to print and cut, and the steps to use it at a window.
    Palette Check · p. 1The gray strip

06 What is inside

What is inside.

  • Book 1Your palette with names and codes, makeup shade by shade, a page for your skin depth and the words to take to a colorist.
  • Book 2Outfits drawn in your colors and the combinations that go with them.
  • Phone filesYour colors and your makeup shades, one to a screen, to open in the store.
  • To keepPhone wallpapers, a gray strip to print and a free swap to any season within 30 days.

Phone parts sold alone: Phone Palette, $9 and Makeup Kit, $12.

07 Asked often

Questions that are hard to ask

Is this another guide that forgets deep skin?

Each guide has a page for deep skin, and for olive, tan, medium and fair.

What if I am between two seasons?

The free test says so, and names both. Each guide sets your season beside its neighbors.

Does it list brands?

No. It teaches you to read a shade by its name and code. A list picked by color for each season is free on this site, on the Makeup pages.

Can I return it?

Instant downloads are not refundable. A wrong season swaps free within 30 days of buying.

Pick the season you got, or suspect.

One email when the guides are on sale, and you can leave with one click.

Also: Dressed on Purpose, the style manual, $24. With any Complete Guide it is $45 ($53 apart).

Deep Winter guide, book 1 cover: the cover of Book 1, the guide, with the season name in dark plum letters and a fan of paint chips, with olive.