How to Find Your Most Flattering Colors

Dec 20th, 2010 by Alicia Peters

What's your best colors for your skin tone? Find your natural coloring and your most complementing clothing color choices.

Wearing the right color’s can make you glow, bring attention to your face, bring out your natural beauty, and make look alive and full of energy. If you’re wearing the wrong colors you can look tired and even under the weather.

So, to find the colors you look best in, you have to determine your coloring. Once you understand what colors suit you best you can add in colors of a darker of lighter shade in the same color palette.

Everyone’s skin tone can be categorized into one of the four seasons, which will help you find your best colors. First you need to find out whether you have a warm or cool skin tone.

Warm skin tones have a yellowish undertone and veins appear to be green, and usually have brown, green or hazel eyes. Cool skin tones have a pinkish undertone, veins appear blue, and have an ashy hair color with few gold tones in it.

Once you know whether you are a warm or a cool, you need to figure out if you have clear or a muted skin.

Clear skin tones have a large contrast between eye, hair and skin color, the skin will have a translucent quality to it.  Muted skin will not have as much contrast between the hair, skin and eyes. If you have a muted skin tone you might have some ashy tones, but not nearly as many as a clear skin.  Once you determine you’re whether your skin is warm or cool, and clear or muted you can find your season.
 

“Springs” have warm and clear skin. You have the same coloring as Heidi Klum, Beyonce Knowles, Scarlett Johansson, and Charlize Theron.

Springs look best in softer rich colors like peach, golden yellow, copper, and brown shades. Bright green, true reds and clear blues also look beautiful. You should wear an ivory white rather than a bright stark white.
 

“Winters” have cool and clear skin.  Winters have the same color palette as Anne Hathaway, Lucy Liu, Halle Berry, Cher and Katherine Zeta Jones. Winters best colors are primary colors like blue, red, and yellow. Dark pink, black and other deep darker colors. Royal blue, cool blue, silver, sky blue, bright yellow, most pinks, bright white and any color that is sharp and clear will also look wonderful.
 

“Autumns” have warm and muted skin.  You have the same skin tone as Nicole Kidman, Jessica Alba, Jennifer Lopez, Shirley McLane, and Katherine Hepburn. Autumns look best in dark neutrals, earthy tones such as olive, forest green, orange shades, gold, grays, camel, dark browns, purple, burgundy, and beige colors.
 

“Summers” have clear and muted skin. Summers have the same coloring as Britney Spears, Jessica Biel, Kim Basinger and Farrah Fawcett.  Summers should wear soft shades, pastels and muted colors with cooler under tones like rosy pink, rosy brown, light yellow, lavender, plum, light powdery blue and a soft white will suit you well.

It is so vital to wear clothes that compliment your complexion. Whatever skin tone you have you can always find colors to brighten up your face, look your best and let your natural beauty shine!
 

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Written by Alicia Peters
Freelance Writer

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