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You look great. Your clothes are perยญfect, your accesยญsories are on-trend, your make-up is Instaยญworยญthy, and you feel fabยญuยญlous. But someยญthing is amiss!The clothes you love and which fit you like a glove; the clothes which draw endยญless comยญpliยญments from your friends and even win you a few secret admirยญers are just not right because they donโt perยญfectยญly match your skin tone.Findยญing the ideยญal blend of skin tone and clothยญing shades is not easy, but it is posยญsiยญble if you folยญlow a few simยญple steps!
Find Your Skin Toneโฆ
Before you splash out on some new outยญfits (donโt fret, you can do that soon), idenยญtiยญfy your skin tone. An interยญnet search can lead you to inforยญmaยญtion that will guide you through the varยญiยญous natยญurยญal skin tones and which one most accuยญrateยญly defines your skin.Your overยญall tone also incorยญpoยญrates your natยญurยญal hair and eye colour, which must be conยญsidยญered. Conยญverseยญly, if you die your hair or alter your skin colยญor, such as through a fake tan, the ideยญal clothยญing colours will also change.
There Are Specific Methods For Finding Your General Skin Tone:
Standยญing in front of a mirยญror, withยญout make-up and in natยญurยญal light, hold gold or silยญver jewยญelยญry against your skin under your chin. The gold jewยญelยญry will cause the skin to glow in those with yelยญlow underยญtones, while those with pink underยญtones will look betยญter next to silยญver pieces.Anothยญer method is to hold a true white piece of paper or fabยญric to your neck. Peoยญple with warm skin underยญtones will appear yelยญlow next to the white fabยญric, while those with cool underยญtones will look pink or blue. Now you know whether to shop for clothes under the broad catยญeยญgories of warm or cool colours.Of course, you can and should always creยญate your style, perยญsonยญalยญiยญty, and stateยญment to the world because what matยญters most is that you feel conยญfiยญdent and great about yourยญself and the skin you live in.You can still do this with some help from stylยญists and experts who know what best comยญbines with skin tone variation.
How Do I Look?
Before searchยญing for speยญcifยญic colours, try on some outยญfits and observe whether they make you look washed out or sickยญly, or whether they make you appear brighter, and allow your natยญurยญal comยญplexยญion to glow. Clearยญly, when assemยญbling your wardrobe, you should favour the latter.Hint โ the lightยญing in clothยญing and fashยญion stores can alter clothยญing colยญor, so rememยญber this when shopยญping. Furยญtherยญmore, stylยญists recยญomยญmend tryยญing on the clothes at home withยญout makeยญup and in natยญurยญal light before decidยญing whether they are right for you.For The Sake Of This Article:Weโve dividยญed skin tones into a dark skin, mediยญum skin, light skin, and fair skin and comยญpiled a list of colours that we think bring out the best in peoยญple with each skin tone.
โDark Skinโ
- Cobalt
Stylยญists and fashยญion experts recยญomยญmend cobalt blue for dark skin. The bold colour is flatยญterยญing for dark skin and can be worn for tops, botยญtoms, and othยญer outยญfit components.
- Light yellow
Anothยญer recยญomยญmendยญed colour is a light yelยญlow, which stands out against a darkยญer comยญplexยญion. Search for tops, jackยญets, coats and othยญer wardrobe pieces in this colour, includยญing a cozy sweater or a cardigan.
- Red
Red. Deep red, Ruby red, and dark skin; a beauยญtiยญful look. Red highยญlights the inherยญent beauยญty of dark skin, whether it is in coats, boots, dressยญes or skirts. Forยญmal or inforยญmal, winยญter or sumยญmer, this colour is a strong recยญomยญmenยญdaยญtion from those in the know.
- Olive green
Olive green and khaยญki are trendยญing in the form of utilยญiยญty wear and edgy urban streetwear, and they make dark skin look even betยญter. Opt for carยญgo pants and comยญbat boots when you want to release your inner powยญer or a short and jackยญet comยญbiยญnaยญtion for smart casuยญal wear. Find a pantsuit for the office or more forยญmal situations.
- Cream
Let your skin glow with the conยญtrast of cream. Wear flatยญterยญing skirts and dressยญes in sumยญmer and fall back on easy and ever-stylยญish options like a Tโshirt or sinยญglet top, which still looks great and serves you well for brunch, picยญnics, barยญbeยญcues or trips to the beach.
- Magenta
Dark skin is a blessยญing, espeยญcialยญly when paired with magenยญta. This colour does not flatยญter everyยญone, but it does comยญbine well with darkยญer skin and can accenยญtuยญate your inner beauยญty in the form of an evening gown or forยญmal dress, as well as casuยญal pieces from any decade.
โMedium skinโ
- Metallic
Be bold in strikยญing metalยญlic colours, and steal the show at any club or parยญty with silยญver, copยญper and gold colours. Star in gold pants and recreยญate the days of disยญco or light up the night with a silยญver top or copยญper-coloured outยญfit. Bedazยญzle one and all with simยญiยญlarยญly coloured accesยญsories such as jewยญelยญry, a bag or a clutch, and set the night on fire. Hint โ have your camยญera and your posยญes ready.A silยญver skirt also comยญbines perยญfectยญly with sneakยญers and a top of your choice for a casuยญal but dazยญzling outยญfit when you want to dress it down. Casuยญal can be cool!
- Dove grey
Dove grey comยญpleยญments mediยญum skin tones and is comยญmonยญly found in winยญter and autumn coats. Think falling leaves, crisp cool mornยญings and knee-high boots on visยญits to winerยญies or Sunยญday brunch.Dove-coloured trousers, in varยญiยญous styles, also make an ideยญal alterยญnaยญtive to jeans, and the colour is emiยญnentยญly suitยญed to underยญstate but on-trend busiยญness wear. Look good while you work and play.When winยญter arrives, enjoy matchยญing dove grey coats with hats and gloves.
- Neon
Stand out and switch on. Neon colours comยญpleยญment mediยญum skin and can be paired with plain colours in the remainยญder of the outยญfit to furยญther accenยญtuยญate their fun and vibranยญcy. With such loud colours, you can truยญly express your imagยญiยญnaยญtion and your joie de vivre.The beauยญty of neon is that it feaยญtures many accesยญsories, such as uber-cool and super cute glasses.
โLight skinโ
- Camel
Camel is said to make pieces look more expenยญsive. What a bonus! The style and sophisยญtiยญcaยญtion withยญout the price tag. For peoยญple with light skin, camel is a flatยญterยญing colour, and as it adds an eleยญment of sophisยญtiยญcaยญtion, itโs a great โgo-toโ colour for classy outยญings such as high tea, a forยญmal parยญty or a wedding.
- Baby blue
The blue of the sky. The blue of your eyes. Wonยญderยญful colour in any conยญtext and clothยญing; baby blue matchยญes your skin tone and can be found in a wide variยญety of pieces. A light blue leather jackยญet speaks of effortยญless sophisยญtiยญcaยญtion. A baby blue cardiยญgan is verยญsaยญtile and cute, and a baby blue pantsuit fits the office or many othยญer occasions.Of course, the pants and jackยญet can travยญel solo. Even when they are apart, they make a worยญthy addiยญtion to your clothยญing range.
โFair skinโ
- Seafoam
This subยญtle shade of green is ideยญal for peoยญple with fair skin and is a loveยญly colour in its own right. It pairs well with white ankle boots and is a great colour for a long, flowยญing skirt. Seafoam is also a fanยญtasยญtic partยญner to white and othยญer lighter colours, which can creยญate a fresh appearยญance on a dress or top.A dash of seafoam on a short skirt will draw the right kind of attenยญtion to your legs and have you feelยญing carefree.
- Blush
A simยญply wonยญderยญful colour that speaks of subยญtleยญty, spring flowยญers and sakuยญra blosยญsoms. Forยญtuยญnateยญly for peoยญple with fair skin, it is a natยญurยญal enhanceยญment to your natยญurยญal skin tone and is popยญuยญlar in faux fur coats, hats, lightยญweight sweaters and cute and sexy crop tops. Pair your outยญfits with a simยญiยญlar tone of lipยญstick and othยญer forms of make-up, and you will look simยญply irresistible!
- Lavender
Lavenยญder is a colour that defines a seaยญson, and it evokes thoughts of beauยญtiยญful, blosยญsomยญing garยญdens and calmยญing aroยญmas. It can also enrich your appearยญance with its inherยญent comยญbiยญnaยญtion with fair skin.Knitwear appears to be creยญatยญed for lavenยญder, and the calmยญing colour lends itself perยญfectยญly to blazยญers over a light-coloured blouse and patยญterned skirts.
Last but not least
You deserve to look and feel fabยญuยญlous. You work hard to look your best and feel great about the image you present to the world, but often one small feaยญture offยญsets that great ensemยญble you put togethยญer โ matchยญing your outยญfits to your skin tone.There is a soluยญtion. Idenยญtiยญfy your skin tone and search for the best colour comยญbiยญnaยญtions listยญed above. Using this as your founยญdaยญtion, folยญlow the advice of experts to acquire pieces from a select range of colours that best suit you and your skin. Then, add your style, perยญsonยญalยญiยญty and stateยญment to creยญate a wardrobe that makes you happy ๐
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2 Comments
Kathy
on January 5, 2022 at 3:18 am
I have been tryยญing to teach my daughยญter the imporยญtance of choosยญing corยญrect colยญors to wear. When I was 12 or 13 I had a youth leader teach my youth group about it. She has fabยญric swatchยญes she would put up by our face so we could see the difยญferยญence between warm and cool, gold vs. silยญver, spring and fall etc.
My quesยญtion is, is there a kit with fabยญric colยญor swatchยญes to teach this with?
Seize Your Life Today staff
on January 5, 2022 at 4:37 pm
Thanks a lot for your comยญment and thoughts!
To answer your quesยญtion: Yes, there are fabยญric colยญor swatchยญes sets. To my knowlยญedge, I saw a couยญple of sellยญers on Etsy.com for difยญferยญent kinds of sets; I canยญnot recยญomยญmend a speยญcifยญic sellยญer, but I am sure you will find lots of colยญlecยญtions to choose from, and you can mesยญsage the sellยญer if you have any inquiries before selectยญing the set.
I hope you can find what you are lookยญing for, and thanks again for reachยญing out to us!
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I have been tryยญing to teach my daughยญter the imporยญtance of choosยญing corยญrect colยญors to wear. When I was 12 or 13 I had a youth leader teach my youth group about it. She has fabยญric swatchยญes she would put up by our face so we could see the difยญferยญence between warm and cool, gold vs. silยญver, spring and fall etc.
My quesยญtion is, is there a kit with fabยญric colยญor swatchยญes to teach this with?
Thanks a lot for your comยญment and thoughts!
To answer your quesยญtion: Yes, there are fabยญric colยญor swatchยญes sets. To my knowlยญedge, I saw a couยญple of sellยญers on Etsy.com for difยญferยญent kinds of sets; I canยญnot recยญomยญmend a speยญcifยญic sellยญer, but I am sure you will find lots of colยญlecยญtions to choose from, and you can mesยญsage the sellยญer if you have any inquiries before selectยญing the set.
I hope you can find what you are lookยญing for, and thanks again for reachยญing out to us!