What are My Best Colors to Wear?

I was in my late twenties when one of my clients had just been certified as a color consultant with Color Me Beautiful. These are the people who try to fit everyone into seasons. If I remember right, Summer is cool pastels and muted darks, Winter is bright cool colors and also icy pastels, Spring is warm bright colors, and Autumn is warm muted colors.

She worked on me for hours, holding up big pieces of fabric and trying to decide what category I fit into. The truth is, I didn’t really fit into any of those categories. She thought I was a Spring, even though lime green looks awful on me and teal blue kills my blue eyes. Olive green from the Autumn category looks great on me, as well as burgundy from the Summer category, and my very favorite color, black, from the Winter category!!! Poor lady, I think I was a difficult case!

Since then, I was trying to stick with warm colors, even though I noticed that I look awesome in dusty grey blue, which is a cool color. My husband also kept telling me that I look aweful in bright red, which is a warm color. So none of this made any sense to me. I had to figure out why!

After mulling over this for ages, I realized that it has to do with intensity. You have to match the intensity of your natural coloring with the intensity of the clothing colors. It is as simple as that.

What this means is that if you have soft coloring, you need to dress in soft colors. If your coloring is strong, you need strong colors. If it is light, you look better in pastels, and if you are very dark, you look best in strong, dark or very bright colors.

Forget about warm or cool colors. Even though I have warm coloring, I also have blue eyes, so I can actually wear both, provided the intensity of the color is just right. So, I developed a numerological system for figuring out what category you belong in.
More about my new super simple system tomorrow.
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