True Colors is the second studio album by American singer Cyndi Lauper, released on September 15, 1986, by Portrait Records.

[6] "The second album says, 'Have the courage of your convictions and love yourself a little'," Lauper told The New York Times in 1986, adding that she wanted its songs "to say, 'Love yourself', because we really are taught not to.

True Colors was reissued in a Japanese exclusive limited edition box set 11-track digitally remastered CD album.

In the Chicago Tribune, Lynn Van Matre praised it as a "winning effort" with "plenty of fun",[12] while Ian Cranna singled out Lauper's "outstanding, marvellous voice" for praise in Q, stating that "she breathes life into the songs, and slowly but surely the strengths of this LP begin to reveal themselves through the unorthodox structures and treatments.

"[10] Jimmy Guterman from Rolling Stone wrote that Lauper "sounds more comfortable at any given moment on True Colors than she did on all of She's So Unusual", and that the album "seems to indicate her extreme ease in her new surroundings".

Noting that "she's found a new sense of peace—or at least she's heading in that direction", Guterman also opined, however, that "her uneasiness gave her early work much of its spark; what places True Colors a notch below her debut is that Cyndi Lauper just isn't that unusual anymore.

"[13] The Village Voice's Robert Christgau was less impressed, commenting that the first side of the LP consists of "cheap sentiment" and is "disheartening" and that "the second isn't much more than a relief", before concluding, "girls just want to have money—and no fun changes everything.

"[11] In a retrospective assessment for AllMusic, Eugene Chadbourne wrote that while True Colors is "ambitious" and "some of the stretches really pay off", some of its aspects "date badly", like the "highly reverberated and artificial sounding drums and keyboards" which "were really popular at the time".