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Selecting a Wardrobe to Flatter Your Skin Tone
Enhance your beauty by dressing in clothes
that best complement your coloring. Build a wardrobe around colors that
celebrate your features and make getting ready in the morning fun and simple.
Your best colors will be determined by a combination of factors including
your natural hair color,
eye color and
skin tone. Take a look at the undertone of your skin in natural daylight
and this will help you to determine whether you are a "cool" or a "warm" toned
person. Cool toned people tend to have a pink or rosy skin tone. Warm toned
people will have a more golden or apricot undertone. Cool toned persons will
look best in blue-based colors; warm toned persons will look best in
yellow-based colors.
Color can be compelling and daunting, so have some fun and dress up your
wardrobe this season!
Overall skin tone
Bright and contrasting
Color Me Beautiful seasons
Clear Spring, Clear Winter
Goals : To
complement your bright look wear clear colours that are vibrant.
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Helpful hints
Avoid greyed-down shades on their own. Contrast light colours with dark ones and
add bright colours to liven up neutrals
Colours to wear
 Wear
your wonderful wardrobe in combination or solid blocks. Any of these colours can
rescue items in your wardrobe that are not up to scratch colourwise.
Pure or soft whites are preferable to creamy shades. Your neutrals are rich and
inky, from jet black and navy to charcoal and black-brown.
Hot pink should be great, but if you are pushing your colouring warmer (such as
with hair colour), add mango,
coral and clear salmon shades. Your best red is scarlet. Keep blues rich like
sapphire, greens bright like emerald and yellow as sparkling as topaz.
Overall skin tone
Rosy/grey
Color Me Beautiful season
Cool Summer, Cool Winter
Goals : To
compliment your pinky, soft complexion and cool grey hair.
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Helpful hints
Avoid yellow, green and brown undertones. Only pinky browns like cocoa will be
good, unlike beige, khaki or golden brown
 Colours
to wear
Your possibilities for looking terrific are many. No browns in sight aside
from cocoa or a rose brown. Most shades of blue are fine, but stop short of
overpowering royals which are too strong.
All greys are winners, and your best choice for neutral basics over anything
warm like camel. Violets can be the lightest lilacs (great with navy, charcoal
or soft white) or the richest periwinkle.
Reds are wonderful, especially if blue-based or clear. Try red instead of black
for the evening.
Overall skin tone
Strong and rich
Color Me Beautiful season
Deep Autumn or Deep Winter
Goals : To compliment your rich looks with vibrant
shades, bold contrasts or striking solid blocks of colour
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Helpful hints
Make indifferent, neutral shades look more interesting by wearing a deep
contrast (black, deep brown, navy).
Colours to wear
 With
strong colouring you need to go for rich, true colours. Your wardrobe should
have clean, crisp white; primary version of red, blue, green and yellow;
mahogany, pine, mango, teal, turquoise and purple. You probably don't need
telling that you are a stunner in black as well as inky navy, charcoal, deepest
brown and pewter.
You can push your wardrobe palette warmer by adding terracotta, rust, olive,
bronze and other golden deep tones if you know that they flatter you. Or, to
move into a cooler direction, add blue reds, hot pinks and icy pastels. Think
white with just a dash of colour.
Remember, there are no good or bad colors, just ones that are right for you! You
can wear almost any color if you learn to choose the right shade and intensity
that will enhance your skin tone.
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