Deep Winter Makeup: Dark Lips, Defined Eyes, Raspberry Blush

Because depth is your leading trait, and a lip with weight matches it.

Your lip family is burgundy, cherry, plum and deep red. Pick one and try the others another day. If a dark mouth still feels like a leap, begin with the shade closest to a color you already wear.

Light, powdery colors make you look pale, so a pale nude is the one to test with care. For the finish, try matte or satin with a clean edge, and see if it matches the crisp, saturated feel of your coloring.

Your neighbor Deep Autumn wears warmer lips, brick and warm burgundy. Yours stay cool.

Unsure which side you’re on? The Deep Autumn against Deep Winter comparison walks through the drape test.

Black liner and black mascara are yours, and black is one of your neutrals.

Charcoal, plum, navy and deep cool brown are the shades to try. Hold each one near your eyes in daylight and keep the one that makes them look clearer.

If you reach for another eye shade, keep it in that cool family.

Raspberry pink, applied lightly, is the shade. With a dark lip and defined eyes, the cheeks play a supporting part.

Keep the hand light, as the shade itself asks. Add a little, look in daylight, and stop when the cheek looks lit rather than colored.

If you use a bronzer, keep it neutral to cool, the same temperature as the rest of you. Sweep it along the cheekbone. If it pulls golden, pick another.

Choose a base for the skin you have, not for the palette. Try two or three along the jawline in daylight and keep the one you can’t see.

What’s specific to you is the cast. Your temperature is neutral to cool, so check that the base doesn’t pull strongly golden or peachy against your neck. Here you’re matching your undertone, the tone under the surface of your skin.

Fair skin with black hair, olive skin and deep brown skin all show up in Deep Winter. The base changes from one face to the next. The dark, cool lip stays the same.

Then keep the base even and light-handed. Your color is concentrated in the lips and eyes, and a base that looks like skin lets them lead.

Stay inside the palette. Cool Burgundy, Cherry Red and Plum are a direction if you want your nails to echo your lips. Deep Violet, Midnight Blue and Emerald are there when you don’t want red.

Black is one of your neutrals, so black polish is fair game. Peach and golden beige are on your avoid list, so leave them on the shelf.

Golden Beige, Rust, Mustard and Peach are the ones to leave alone. Next to your coloring they turn the skin yellow and take away your crisp definition.

In makeup, keep warm and light tones away from your face. Powdery pastels belong on the list too, because they make you look pale.

If black feels like too much, don’t run to camel or warm brown to soften it: they dull you. Navy on the eyes or a burgundy on the lips lowers the volume without warming you.

Dressing around your makeup? The Deep Winter outfits page takes it from there, and the full Deep Winter palette shows every shade in one place.