Colour is the best weapon when it comes to fashion.
A flattering shade can give your skin and appearance a healthy glow.
Your complexion and colouring determines which colours work best on you.
Take careful note of your skin tone, natural hair colour and eye colour.
To help you find the undertone colour of your skin, look at the inside of your arm in natural daylight.
Decide which season most accurately describes your complexion. Once you know your season, you will have a personalised guideline of colours and shades that work best for you.
Knowing what you are looking for is half the battle, you can branch out and create a great new wardrobe where everything looks fabulous on!
Winter: (also known as deep complexions) have blue or pink undertones. Skin can be pale and porcelain white, yellowish-olive, or dark. Winter people are generally brunettes, with deeply coloured eyes.
Those with the winter colour profile have a lot of depth to their colouring and a lot of contrast between their hair colour, eye colour and skin tone. Winters should wear colours that are sharp, stark and clear. White, black, navy blue, red and shocking pink all go well with winter complexions. For lighter colours, wear icy tones rather than pastels. Avoid earthy tones and subdued colours like beige, orange and gold.
Summer: (also known as cool complexions) like winter have blue or pink undertones. Skin is pale and pink. Summers are often natural blondes or brunettes with pale eyes.
Summers have a low level contrast between their hair, eye colour and skin tone. Summers should choose pastels and soft neutrals with rose and blue undertones. Lavender, plum, rose-brown and soft blue suit summers well while black and orange do not. Avoid intense, vivid hues because they will look harsh and drown you out.
If you are trying to discriminate between winter and summer, winters are usually brunette and summer are mostly natural blondes.
Autumn: (also known as warm complexions) have golden undertones. Many redheads and brunettes with golden brown eyes fall into this category.
Autumns you have a lot of depth to your colouring and skin tone. You should select colours with golden undertones, like camel, beige, organge, gold and dark brown which will accentuate your complexion. Stay clear from bright colours and black and white, which will make your look tired and faded. Also avoid colours with blue tones, like navy which will look cold against your complexion and give you a pale appearance.
Spring: (also known as light complexions) have golden undertones and are usually creamy white or peach. Spring people generally have strawberry red hair, freckle, rosy cheeks and blue or green eyes.
Spring can wear pale soft colours like camel, peach, golden yellow and golden brown. Your colours may be particularly hard to find because they can never be too muted or too dark. Avoid black or white which are too contrasting for you. Also avoid dark, dull colours
Wearing Black – even through black is often slimming and flattering, not everyone can pull if off. Black can be overwhelming for some skin tones especially when it’s worn close to the face. Winter/deep and Autumn/warm toned individuals can carry if off very well but Spring/light and Summer/cool types should try to avoid wearing too much black, especially near the face.
Wearing red – reds tend to suit Autumn and winter tones more than sprind and summer tones, but that doesn’t mean that the paler skin tones cannot wear red at all. It’s all down to the tone of red. Try testing a few shades of red against your skin to see if it’s right for you. You will know the moment you put it against your skin. A wrong shade will clash immediately and the right one will look like you were born to wear it.
If you can’t decide if you are an autumn or a spring, springs tend to have pale eyes while autumns have dark eyes.
