Staying up to date with fashion is very important these days, whether it’s a friend get together, a business dinner, girls night out, a business meeting, a date or any social event. It is important to look at our best, but this is not something that is very easy. It is important to choose the right dress, in the right color that goes well with your personality and skin tone. Just staying in fashion is not the key to looking good and mod squad. Of course, if you wear something that is in fashion with some colors that make you look bulky, dark, so white, or thin, then all your effort goes in vain. So it is important to wear colors that complement your skin tone, but how can you do that?
Read this article and learn to dress up like a pro
1. Find out what is your skin tone:
Before knowing which colors to wear and which to stay away from, it is important to find out what exactly your skin tone is, people have different skin tones that range from a warm skin tone that is yellow green to cool skin tone that is pink blue to base or some people have neutral skin tone that works well with both warm or cool colors.
You can find out what skin tone you have by:
1. Go to any makeup store, and look for the foundation that best matches your complexion, try from warm to cool to neutral and make sure you are not wearing any makeup before doing this test.
2. Try a gold ring, bracelet or wrist watch on your left wrist and silver jewelry on your right wrist. The person with warm skin tone will complement the gold jewelry while silver or white metal jewelry will look best for the person with a cool skin tone.
3. Take a white paper and place your hand and palm on it, if you see any blue lines or pink shade on your skin with paper, then you are cool skin toned, while if you see orange or yellow cast with white paper then you have a warm skin tone.
2. Seasonal skin color theory:
1. Spring:
The people with spring complexion are those who have a tan, ivory white, peach, or warm beige skin color and have usually strawberry blonde, light brown, auburn, golden brown natural hair colors. Colors that will look best on spring complexion are Rust, Camel brown, ivory, green, lime, blue, periwinkle, yellow and color.
Lindsey Lohan, Nicole Kidman, and Clay Aiken are the famous TV stars with spring complexion.
3. Summer:
The skin color of the person with summer complexion is cool Mocha, Rose beige, porcelain, or pink. They have light to dark ash brown with strawberry highlights, or ash brown hair color. The colors that will go with summer skin toned people are Rose beige, jade green, winter white, powder pink, blue, gray, pale yellow, soft blue, etc.
Celebrities with summer skin tone are Mat Damon, Jodie Foster, and Leona Lewis.
3. Autumn:
Autumn skin toned people have warm brown or warm beige skin color and have a natural hair color of golden brown, warm black or red, golden blonde, auburn, or red. Such colored people should wear off white, olive green, mustard, pumpkin, green, brown, warm charcoal.
Hillary Swank, Julia Roberts, and Cindy Crawford are some well Known Stars with autumn complexion.
4. Winter:
The complexion of a winter skinned person is porcelain, olive, rose, cool brown or beige. They have a natural hair color of black, blue, medium or light ash brown, white blonde. Colors that look good with winter complexion are white, black, emerald green, red, cobalt blue, purple, and blue.
Actors that can be listed under this category are Elizabeth Tailor, Kim Kardashian, and John Travol.
3. All Rounders:
There are some colors that look good on every skin tone and complexion. These are like all rounder. These colors are:
White:
White is a color that looks good on each skin tone, no matter how white or dark you are, what hair color you got, white is the color for you.
Blush pink:
Blush pink looks wonderful with every skin tone.
Emerald green:
No matter what skin color you got, emerald green looks stunning on both cool and warm complexions. Go for it.
Red:
Red makes everyone beautiful. The effect might be different on both skin tones like it might bring out the color and skin tone different but it looks amazing on everyone.
Eggplant:
This color, like other all rounders doesn’t make anyone look bad or bring out the bad effect on any skin tone. It makes everyone, pretty and mouth watering.
4. Few Tips:
Here are a few tips that will help you choose the right color according to your complexion and personality:
1. Choose your dress color using your eye color, if you have blue eyes then go for dark blue, navy blue, or orange, but check with your skin color first before going by eye color.
2. If you have brown eyes, then wear brown, golden shades. Hazel or green color eyed people should wear emerald green, dark green or plum colors.
3. Choosing a dress color with your eye color should be your second priority, always make sure to check first if the decided color goes well with your skin tone. If you have pale colored skin, have fair complexion then you should avoid wearing colors that match too closely with your skin color like pale yellow, beige or orange. Wear dark colors like navy blue, warm charcoal, brown and black.
4. If you are medium skin colored, then you should wear colors like white, pale pink, and light colors. Dark colors also look good on medium skin colored people. Avoid colors that look identical to your skin tone like mustard, brown, orange and light brown.
5. If you are dark colored, then mute and pastel colors are the best for you. Stick to black, navy blue, charcoal. Add little bright colors to your wardrobe as well, making dark colors the base of it. Avoid colors like dark brown or any colors that match with your skin color.
Experiment with different colors, but stick to the basics of choosing colors according to your complexion, hair color and eye color.
There is nothing that will make you more confident than anyone complements and praises for being dressed well. Eat what you like for yourself, and dress up what others like on you!
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