What Colors to Wear – Lipstick

Have you ever heard statements that says that any woman can wear a bright red lipstick? Don’t believe it, it is pure nonsense! If a person in the wrong category wears a bright red lipstick, you will see the mouth and nothing else! If you want anyone to see the rest of your face, too, the color of your lipstick has to also match your natural coloring, it is as simple as that.

If you are in the pastel category, the only way you can carry off bright red lipstick, is if you really darken your eyebrows, wear black and put a lot of black around the eyes. (Think Madonna) This is a very dramatic look! If you want a lipstick color that works with your natural coloring, a soft pinkish pastel color will look much nicer.

What if you are in the muted category? Your best lip color is a mid-color in a muted or neutral red/browny/pink shade. If you want to wear bright red or coral, you’ll also have to darken your eyebrows quite a bit to be able to pull it off. If your numbers add up to 10 or 11, you can darken your hair color, and/or your eyebrow color, and you’ll find yourself in the bright category. So before you think about dying your hair, decide what kinds of colors you like to wear. If you love pastels, lighten your hair, and if you love bright colors, darken your hair!

Basically, any numbers 12 and higher can wear bright red lipstick if they wish, even though the numbers 19-21 look better in a dark, more muted shade of red. However, whatever color lipstick you choose, make sure you pick clothes from the same color category! For example, bright lipstick – bright clothing, muted lipstick – muted clothing. The lipstick doesn’t have to match the clothing, it just has to be from the same color category.

So, do the number test, (CLICK HERE if you want to learn more about my new system for determining what colors to wear.) Then, find your category and explore the colors within that category. Think both clothing and makeup.
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