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Complete Guide

Clay on the shelf. Brown by the window.

Deep Autumn, used.

The Deep Autumn Complete Guide turns your season into makeup you can name, outfits that work and the words for a colorist.

$29 once, two books and phone files

Know your season? See how to use it.

Tell me when it is out

Opens with the site. The heads-up also joins The Palette Post.

No subscription. Free swap to any season within 30 days of buying.

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Deep Autumn 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.Deep Autumn guide, book 2 cover: the cover of the lookbook and toolkit, the second of the two books, with the season name.
Deep Autumn Complete Guide, Book 1 and Book 2

01 Softer or bolder

Softer or bolder.

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

Softer

Burnt rose#B0584DSheer

One dab, pressed in with a finger.

Bolder

Burnt rose#B0584DFull coat

A full coat.

02 What you own

Start with your makeup bag.

You do not need to replace anything today. Sort your lipsticks into three piles.

  1. Keep

    Same family as a palette shade, and about the same depth.

    Brick red#8E2D1FDeep terracotta#AD5236Deep red#A01E22

  2. Adapt

    Press it on sheer with a fingertip, then put Brick red on the center of the lip.

  3. Replace later

    Use it up. When it runs out, buy Brick red.

    Brick red#8E2D1F

03 Before you decide

Two lip shades 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

Deep terracotta#AD5236

In the Deep Autumn lip family.

Not quite

Warm red#C8321F

Too strong, from True 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.

04 Inside, page by page

Turn the real pages

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

  • Deep Autumn 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.
    Book 1 · coverYour season, in two books
  • Deep Autumn guide, book 1 palette page: page of color swatches, each with its name, HEX, RGB and CMYK, with colors such as brick red, rust, burnt orange and deep red.
    Book 1 · p. 13Your palette
  • Deep Autumn 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 rust, gold, burnt orange and amber.
    Book 1 · p. 21Two sister palettes
  • Deep Autumn 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 gold, brick red, burnt orange and amber.
    Book 1 · p. 30A page for deep skin
  • Deep Autumn 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 brick red, deep red, warm burgundy and rosewood.
    Book 1 · p. 35Lip on a deeper lip
  • Deep Autumn 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 gold.
    Book 1 · p. 47Why bases go gray or orange
  • Deep Autumn 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 Autumn 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 Autumn 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 brick red, warm black-brown, antiqued gold and gold.
    Book 2 · p. 7Outfits drawn for you
  • Deep Autumn guide, book 2 combination book: page of three color combinations at one contrast level, with colors such as camel, sand, sandstone and rust.
    Book 2 · p. 13The combination book
  • Deep Autumn 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 pastel pink, pure white, powder blue and cool light gray.
    Book 2 · p. 18Is it mine?
  • Deep Autumn 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 Autumn 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 deep teal, deep teal navy, warm cream and amber.
    Phone palette · p. 9One color, one page
  • Deep Autumn 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 Autumn 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 Autumn 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

05 Two ways to wear it

Two ways to wear it.

A color from a sister season does not have to leave your closet. The Deep Autumn guide says where it goes.

Full, near your face

Brick red#8E2D1FBurnt orange#C65B17Copper#B5651D

Tops, scarves and a lip. These are yours, so they go where the light meets your face.

Low, away from your face

Golden brown#8A5A2Btoo strong, True AutumnAmber#E2972Btoo light, True AutumnMustard#D4A017a bit light, True Autumn

Close, but a little off near your face. Trousers, skirts, shoes and bags.

06 Your skin

Your skin picks your page.

Five pages, one for each skin depth. Pick yours.

Olive skin
Deep Autumn guide, book 1 note for olive skin: page of notes for olive skin with a row of best colors, with colors such as forest green, olive green, deep teal and brick red.
Book 1, page 28

What goes wrongVery orange colors pull yellow.

The fixPick brick or rust over a bright orange, and keep burnt orange small.

Tan skin
Deep Autumn guide, note for tan skin: page of notes for tan skin with a row of best colors, what goes wrong and the fix, with colors such as brick red, rust, rosewood and burnt orange.
Book 1, page 29

What goes wrongA bronzer that goes gray or orange.

The fixChoose a golden bronze, about a step deeper than your skin.

If you call yourself morena or trigueña, this page is likely for you.

Deep skin
Deep Autumn 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 gold, brick red, burnt orange and amber.
Book 1, page 30

What goes wrongWhite-base pastels go ashy.

The fixChoose blush and highlighter with a clear or tinted base, in deep, warm shades.

Fair and medium have their own pages too.

07 What is inside

What is inside.

  • Book 1Your Deep Autumn 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, the combinations that go with them and a check for any piece you are not sure of.
  • 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.

Your first five buys

  1. A top in warm cream
  2. A dark neutral in dark brown
  3. Denim: dark rinse indigo with a warm cast
  4. A lip in brick
  5. One accent in forest green

Sold alone, without the swap: Phone Palette, $9 See inside and Makeup Kit, $12 See inside.

Shop these shades: a list picked by color for Deep Autumn lives on this site, with a shade to look for if one is gone. See the Deep Autumn finds

08 Before you buy

Is this for you?

For you

  • You know (or half know) your season and still buy shades that read wrong.
  • You want an everyday routine you can repeat.
  • You want to start with what you own.

Not for you

  • You want someone to tell you your season from a photo. The free test comes first: about 6 minutes, no photo.
  • You already shop your palette with ease.
  • The problem is fit, tailoring or skin care.

09 Asked often

Questions that are hard to ask

A guide that forgets deep skin?

Deep skin has its own page, Book 1 page 30, beside olive, tan, medium and fair.

Between Deep Autumn and Deep Winter?

The free test says so. The guide holds both side by side, and the swap is free for 30 days.

Does it list brands?

No. It teaches you to read the shade by its name and code. A list picked by color for Deep Autumn 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.

Your colors, picked to let your face come first.

Opens with the site at $29, the same here and on Etsy. One email when it is on sale, plus The Palette Post.

Deep Autumn Guide + Manual, $45, against $53 bought separately. Between two seasons? Both guides, $49 against $58 bought separately, with True Autumn or Deep Winter. Compare them side by side

Deep Autumn 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.