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Colors Impact
Generally Colors Convey the Following Messages
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Colors Worn
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Message Given
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Light, Soft
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Approachable, Gentle, Feminine
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Muted, Dull
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Controlled, Conservative, Introverted
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Bright
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Energetic, Exciting, Animated, Extroverted
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Dark
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Credible, Authoritative, Assertive
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Warm
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Friendly, Approachable, Down to Earth
Possibly inexpensive or unsophisticated
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Cool Colors
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Conservative, Classic, Businesslike
Possibly Expensive or Sophisticated
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Impact on Your Image
Choosing the proper color for your clothing is of utmost importance. What message do you want to convey?
Perhaps one of credibility and professionalism?
Impact on Figure Proportion
Color Placement on the Body
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Warm and Light Colors
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Red-Orange and Yellow move forward on the figure and may cause it to appear larger if used all over.
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Cool, Dark and Muted Colors
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Minimize figure size. Shades of blue, green, purple and rose fall into this category, as do the dark neutrals like gray, brown and taupe.
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Monochromatic Colors
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Using an unbroken line of color head to toe adds height and slimness to a figure
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Light and Dark Combinations
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Always place the darkest colors on the bottom. The light adds height and the dark bottom will minimize the lower half of your figure.
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Determining Your Best Colors
After reviewing "Colors Impact", we know what role color plays on our image and figure, let's move on to how to determine your best colors.
Your skin, hair, and eyes play the key roles in determining your best colors. Everyone, male and female, is born with either a blue undertone (cool) or a yellow undertone (warm). This is determined is by going to a Certified Color Analyst to learn which palette of colors best complements your skin, hair, and eyes. Determining your undertone (Warm/Cool Analysis) will also help you to choose the right shades for your feature makeup.
Wearing the right colors will ……
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 Make your face come alive |
Enrich your face, eyes, and hair
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Lift your face, bringing the viewer's eyes to the upper face and away from the body
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Visually reduce wrinkles, shadows, blemishes, freckles, and facial hair
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Minimize double chins, facial disproportion, and overweight appearance
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Determining Factors for Warm/Cool Analysis
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Skin Undertones
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Blue (Cool) - Sallow or Olive, Fair to Black
Yellow (Warm) - Milky, Golden Freckles, Fair to Black
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Hair
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Cool - Light to Dk Blonde, Light to Dk Brown and Black
Warm - Light to Dk Golden or Honey Blonde, Light to Dk Warm Brown, Strawberry to Deep Copper Red
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Eyes
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Cool - Light to Dk Blue, Hazel, Green or Brown
Warm - Turquoise to Blue Green, Hazel, Green or Brown
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Note:
 1. Warm people have either a Spring or Autumn Palette depending on the intensity of their skin tone and natural hair color.2. Cool people have either a Summer or Winter Palette depending on the intensity of their skin tone and natural hair color.
3. Some ethnics are usually cool with yellow skin pigmentation and may be able to wear a combination palette of warm and cool tones.
Summer Color Palette
Summer Accessorizing
How to Shop for Your Summer Colors
Choose soft dusty tones. Think in terms of cool, blue-based, muted, and cloudy colors. Solids, soft watercolor prints, busty or complex prints are beautiful in Summer colors. Soft textures best enhance these colors in everything from soft wood, crepes, to cotton knits.
Avoid: Black, stark white, orange and all yellow-based colors.
Summer Accessories Suggestions
Start with the basics to coordinate with your basic wardrobe selections: navy, blue-grays, off white, rose beige, rose taupe, soft rose brown, and burgundy and plum. Pumps or sling backs belong with suits or business looks and strappy shoes or sandals with dresses and some casual looks. Shoes should be the same color value as hemline or darker for dress up.
Basic Summer Hosiery Colors
Basic hosiery colors are taupe, gray tones, rose-beige, and navy. Hosiery color should blend shoes with hemline.
Summer Jewelry
Metals: Pewter, white gold, and rose gold.
Stones: Pearls, garnets, diamonds, rubies, emeralds, cool jade, pale amethyst, lapis, and sapphires.
Glass Frames for Summer
Metal: Pewter and silver
Plastics: Taupe, rose, blue-gray and clear. Choose the color that best blends with the hair and skin tones for a classic look.
Furs for Summer
Pink champagne mink, pale silver fox, beaver, raccoon, muskrat, off-white mink, and wolf;
your hair shade or lighter.
The suggestions for color in accessories are basics. Once you get a feel for your season you may try other colors as long as you stay in the range of your summer palette.
Summer Hair Color
Your natural hair color is often best. However, many times the summer ash tone or mousy hair color is greatly enhanced by frosting, highlighting or weaving with cool-ash tone blonde shades.
Autumn Color Palette
Autumn Accessorizing
How to Shop for Your Autumn Colors
Choose rich earth tones. Think in terms of warm, yellow-based, muted, and muddy colors. Autumns can wear some bright colors such as orange, lime green, chartreuse, and orange-red. Mixture of color is the very key to richness of the Autumn look as is lots of texture in the fabrics.
Avoid: Black, white, grays and pinks as well as any cool and blue-based color.
Autumn Accessories Suggestions
Start with the basics to coordinate with your basic wardrobe selections: brown, tan, warm beige, rust, olive green, and forest green. Pumps or sling backs belong with suits or business looks and strappy shoes or sandals with dresses and some casual looks. Shoes should be the same color value as the hemline or darker for dress up.
Basic Autumn Hosiery Colors
Hosiery colors include, coffee brown, suntan, warm beige, ivory, nude, and sage. Hosiery color should blend shoes with hemline.
Autumn Jewelry
Metals: Yellow gold, bronze, copper, oxidized gold, and silver when hair is gray.
Stones: Turquoise, topaz, canary diamonds, ivory toned pearls, jade-carnelian, garnets, and fiery-opals.
Glass Frames for Autumn
Metal: Yellow gold and oxidized gold
Plastics: Turquoise shell, warm brown tones, camel, bronze, and peach tones. Choose the color that best blends with the hair and skin tones for a classic look.
Furs for Autumn
Warm brown mink, red fox, warm beaver, and muskrat; your hair shade or lighter.
The suggestions for color in accessories are basics. Once you get a feel for your season you may try other colors as long as you stay in the range of your autumn palette.
Autumn Hair Color
Your natural hair color is best unless graying hair is dull. Then choose a color closest to your natural shade for an all-over color. Weaving and highlighting are not recommended for Autumns.
Winter Color Palette
Winter Accessorizing
How to Shop for Your Winter Colors
Choose rich vibrant tones. Think in terms of cool, blue-based, clear, and pure colors as well as dark, bright and icy with contrast. Solids or simple patterns with a few colors are better than complex busy patterns with many colors. Fabrics should have refined finishes rather than textured surfaces. Two examples of good fabrics would be wool gabardine or polished cotton, among the possibilities. Avoid: Orange, golden browns, camel, off-white, and any yellow-based colors.
Winter Accessories Suggestions
Start with the basics to coordinate with your basic wardrobe selections: Black, navy, true-grays, chalk white, gray beige, wine and pine green. Pumps or sling backs belong with suits or business looks and strappy shoes or sandals with dresses and some casual looks. Shoes should be the same color value as hemline or darker for dress up.
Basic Winter Hosiery Colors
Taupe, gray tones, navy, and black are the basics. Hosiery color should blend shoes with hemline.
Winter Jewelry
Metals: Silver, chrome, white gold and sometimes a mixture of silver and gold.
Stones: Colors from your palette such as bright emeralds, rubies, diamonds, sapphires, dark amethyst, blue lapis, black onyx, and malachite.
Glass Frames for Winter
Metal: Bright silver and chrome finish.
Plastics: Smokey gray, soft gray, black and clear. Choose the color that best blends with the hair and skin tones for a classic look.
Furs for Winter
Fox in silver or blue, mink in black or white, and/or beaver, raccoon, chinchilla or sable.
The suggestions for color in accessories are basics. Once you get a feel for your season you may try other colors as long as you stay in the range of your winter l palette.
Winter Hair Color
Your natural hair color is often best. If coloring your hair is desired or preferred then choose one shade that most closely matches your natural shade. Frosting or highlighting is never recommended for the winter person.
Spring Color Palette
Spring Accessorizing
How to Shop for Your Spring Colors
Choose clear delicate tones. Think in terms of warm, yellow-based, clean, and fresh colors. Solids, animated prints, plaids and stripes are all good choices for this palette of colors. Fabrics may have refined finishes to some texture such as gabardine to crisp linen.
Avoid: Black, white, and cool colors with a blue undertone.
Spring Accessories Suggestions
Start with the basics to coordinate with your basic wardrobe selections: light warm brown and tan tones, camel, bright navy, and warm gray. Pumps or sling backs belong with suits or business looks and strappy shoes or sandals with dresses and some casual looks. Shoes should be the same color value as hemline or darker for dress up.
Basic Spring Hosiery Colors
The basics include suntan, warm beige, nude, ivory and peach. Hosiery color should blend shoes with hemline.
Spring Jewelry
Metals: Yellow gold, old gold, and highly polished brass.
Stones: Ivory, peach, tone pearls, royal blue lapis, turquoise, topaz, canary diamonds, peridot, warm amethyst, ivory, sapphires, and pale emeralds.
Glass Frames for Spring
Metal: Yellow Gold
Plastics: Peach, camel, ivory, pale turquoise and soft bronze. Choose the color that best blends with the hair and skin tones for a classic look.
Furs for Spring
Honey mink, pale red fox, camel, warm beige mink, pale warm gray fox - your hair shade or lighter. The suggestions for color in accessories are basics. Once you get a feel for your season you may try other colors as long as you stay in the range of your spring palette.
Spring Hair Color
Your natural hair color is best unless graying hair is dull. Then choose a color closest to your natural shade. Weaving and highlighting is acceptable for blonde or light warm brown hair but not redheads.
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