Grey on bright, high-contrast skin tones (Bright Winter)

The answer

No. Grey sits well outside the Bright Winter palette. The nearest thing in the palette is #D8DCE0, ΔE 17.6 away, which is one of the four neutrals the season is built on. Under 12 reads as the same colour family; past 25 the two are visibly different colours.

There is a second problem. Grey lands within ΔE 8.7 of #A49A88, which is on the short list of colours that actively work against Bright Winter colouring. That is the failure people can see and cannot name.

How grey scores across all twelve seasons

Grey is an opinionated colour: Light Summer scores it 88 and True Spring scores it 32. A gap that wide means the colour genuinely decides something, and getting it right is worth the effort.

Bright Winter sits 10 of twelve at 38, 50 points behind Light Summer. That gap is the honest size of the compromise, not a verdict on the colour.

• Light Summer: 88 (ΔE 4.7).
• Soft Summer: 87 (ΔE 5.3).
• True Winter: 86 (ΔE 5.8).
• Bright Winter: 38 (ΔE 17.6) <- this season.
• True Spring: 32 (ΔE 19.9).

What to wear instead

Nearest first. These are the colours in the Bright Winter palette that get closest to what you wanted from grey, so the substitution costs the least.

• #D8DCE0: very light, a white (ΔE 7.0).
• #00A8FF: light, a sky blue (ΔE 11.7).
• #FFFFFF: very light, a white (ΔE 1.0).