What Colors to Wear – Muted or Pastels?
By mati. Filed in Fashion, What are My Best Colors to Wear |Tags: Clothing Style, Create Your Own Clothing Style, What are my best colors to wear
I always love watching people and learning from what I see. Yesterday, I went shopping in Walmart, and I saw a lady that looked so dull, it almost blew my mind. Her hair was blond with ashy highlights, her eyebrows were light, her makeup very nude and her clothing color coordinated, but muted. She obviously cared a lot about her looks, since she had highlights in her hair and was wearing makeup and color coordinated clothes, but for some reason, it didn’t work at all. To put it nicely, her beauty was definitely not enhanced. The interesting thing is WHY? Why didn’t it work?
So, I added up her numbers to see which category she belonged to. (If you don’t know what I’m talking about, CLICK HERE to learn more about my new system for determining what colors to wear.) I gave her a 4 for the hair, 2 for the eyebrows and 2 for the skin, a total of 8 – PASTEL CATEGORY!
Just what I suspected! This was a lady in the pastel category wearing dull, muted colors. Personally, I love muted colors, but you should only wear them if it suits your coloring. On everybody else, they look too dull!
Since this lady is at the upper end of the pastel category, she actually has two choices. If she wants to wear pastel colors, she can lighten her hair color to a 3 and darken her eyebrows, also to a 3. It still adds up to an 8, but by lightening the hair and darkening they eyebrows, there will be more contrast in her coloring, and and she would look fabulous in pastels.
If she prefers muted colors, she would be better off going back to her original hair color (darken to a 4). If she stopped the highlights, and darkened her eyebrows at least 2 shades (also to a 4), she would be able to wear all her muted clothes without looking dull at all. But, she would also have to change her blush and lipstick! No more pastel nude lips – In the muted category the lipstick should be a medium colored muted mauve or brownish neutral, very close to her natural lip color.
This is a good example of what happens when your clothing belongs to one category, and your makeup and coloring belongs to another. The result is always unflattering. Unfortunately, this is something we all do. Perhaps it is because my system for determining what colors to wear is completely brand new? However, the system really works, and it works for everything – hair color, brow color, choice of lipstic, blush and clothing because everything has to work together.
So, this is the most important thing when it comes to creating your own clothing style and determining the right colors to wear: Make sure that your coloring, makeup and clothing are all from within the same color category! If it is, you’ll look fantastic – if it isn’t, your style is seriously suffering!
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