What Colors Should I Wear? - Skin, Hair and Eye Color

What Colors Should I Wear? - Skin, Hair and Eye Color

By Jan Hawken

"What colors should I wear?" This is a basic question asked by style-conscious women. The field of color analysis strives to offer useful and practical answers.

Several philosophies coexist about how best to respond to this question. Should skin, and/or hair, and/or eye color be considered when seeking to determine one's palette of best colors to wear? The majority of analysts believe that skin tone must be the major consideration.

• The first step is to determine the "warmth," "coolness," or "neutrality" of one's skin tone.


• The second step is to then identify the depth of tone on a scale that measures skin tone from lightness to darkness.

Your answers to these steps will determine the correct category of colors that will most flatter your complexion.

Additionally, some color analysts believe that one's hair, and perhaps also eye color, should be considered for the

• purpose of:


• Refining the best group of colors to wear, and


• To consider along with the skin tone to determine a subject's contrast level for the purpose of determining a palette of colors with appropriately similar contrast.

This necessarily opens the door to a new set of questions; "How does a sun tan effect my choice of best colors?" "My hair color has changed over the years. And sometimes I dye my hair. How does that effect my color choices?" Also, "I wear colored contact lenses. Does that make a difference?"

Analyst and author of Color Me a Season, Bernice Kentner, taught that skin color alone is the key to answering your question, "What colors should I wear?" She insisted that the answer should not consider hair and eye color. Most other analysts believe that skin tone is, indeed, the first and major consideration.

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