When it comes to finest grooming and style, the importance of knowing which colors are most flattering to your skin, hair and eyes cannot be undestimated.
With the correct colors (in cosmetics and clothing):
- Your skin tone will appear radiant and glowing
- Your eyes and face will appear brighter and clearer
- Your hair will reflect highlights
- Diminish undereye circles and discolouration
- You will hear compliments - such as "You look great"!
With the wrong colors (in cosmetics and clothing) :
- Your skin tone will appear tired and drained
- Your eyes may appear shadowed, dark circles
- Your face will look blotchy
- Even your teeth can appear with a slight yellow hue
- You will hear comments - such as "You look tired” "Do you feel OK?"
Everyone looks good in their own color base.
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Each person will have 1 of 6 dominate “characteristics” in their coloring which is the primary determining factor in analyzing them: they are
- Deep...Dark and rich. Think Cher or Kim Kardashian
- Light...Light and delicate. Think Gwenyth Paltrow or Heather Locklear
- Soft...Soft & muted. Think Sarah Jessica Parker or Jennifer Aniston
- Clear...Clear & bright. Think Courteney Cox or a young Liz Taylor
- Warm...No cool undertones. Think Reba McIntyre or Sarah Ferguson
- Cool...No warm undertones. Think Christy Brinkley or Liz Hurley
To illustrate:
If you have deep coloring, then the second determining factor is whether you look better in warm colors or cool colors. If cool colors flatter you best, then you are determined to be a “Deep Winter.” However, the most important factor is that you are “Deep” so wearing what was considered a traditional “winter” color that is light in color won’t work for you. In fact, you can wear some of the deep colors of Autumn as well. Deep Chocolates or Deep Forest Green will look great on you, for example.
You are either a
Deep Winter or Autumn
Light Spring or Summer
Clear Winter or Spring
Soft Summer or Autumn
Warm Autumn or Spring
Cool Winter or Summer
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AM I COOL OR WARM?....
COOL - blue based undertone
WARM - yellow based undertone
Things you require for the swatch test for below (1):
- Swatch of gold lame fabric
- Swatch of silver lame fabric
- Mirror
- Good & natural lighting
(1)USING TWO COLOUR SWATCHES - GOLD & SILVER
1. Remove all jewelleries from your hands.
2. Place one hand on the gold swatch and the other on the silver swatch.
3. One hand will look dull and washed out and the other may look bright and healthy.
4. If the hand on the silver looks good, then you are 'cool' toned. If the hand on golden looks good, then you are 'warm' toned.
(2)Also another way would be by looking closely at the inside of your forearems . Cool skintone will have blue undertones (veins) whereas the warm skintone would see yellow-orange or green undertones (veins).
Blue veins = Cool Green Veins = Warm
(3)If you still have not figured out which works for you, try using the following color comparison chart where you may look best in colors from either category:
Of course this is further classified into color seasons - winter,spring,summer and fall.Summer and winter are 'cool' seasons; spring and autumn are 'warm' seasons. The season is based on the depth of your colouring.