How to Choose What Color to Wear

Once you understand color, it is comparatively simple to generate a wardrobe where every item makes you look your best and ties in well with each other. It can be rewarding and, three times you understand which colors suit you, you can start to add in others and still look great!

Steps

1. Understand that color is based on seasons and every person's coloring can be described as a season. There's three characteristics that decide which season's palette that you can best wear: warm or icy and clear or muted. If your coloring is warm and clear you are a "spring", in case you are icy and clear you are a "winter", warm and muted is "autumn" and icy and muted is "summer."

2. Recognize that warm skin tones tend to have yellow undertones, while icy ones have blue. These undertones are subtle and often difficult to see but in case you have golden skin or appear sallow then you are warm. Blue undertones can often be seen as red cheeks or slight ruddiness.

3. Learn that if your coloring is clear then it will probably be one of your most noticeable features. You will have a large contrast between your hair, skin and eyes and your skin will have a slight translucent quality. In case you are muted, however, there will be a less noticeable contrast and you may have some ash tones in your coloring. Your coloring will probably be softer than that of a clear person.

4. Find out which colors belong to your season's particular palette. You will probably be able to finding out whether a color suits you if it's the same characteristics as are present in your coloring. In case you are a spring, you will suit warm, clear colors, such as salmon or lime. Winters can wear icy, clear colors such as black, white and navy blue. Autumns can best wear warm, muted colors like olive green or terracotta and summers look best in icy, muted colors such as burgundy or pastels. Most people are naturally drawn to their best colors so this may even be an indication.

5. Recognize that plenty of people can wear colors from another palette that shares characteristics with their own season's palette. You can work out which of these colors you can wear by deciding whether you are (in case you are a spring) most noticeably warm or clear. In case you are predominantly clear, for example, you will even be able to wear plenty of winter colors. Someone who was warm and clear, predominantly clear, would be a spring-winter.