Some people love staying in black and white combination alone. They say they were the safest choices to go on any occasion. However, one cannot live with such monochrome colors for years. There will be time when you need to accentuate certain features, personality, and impression to people by mix and match the perfect dress color combinations.
In order to go beyond the black and white, learn to master any color combinations that will be perfect for you.
Learn Your Color Personality
Have you ever heard color personality? In the recent years, colors that match skin tone and personality rises to trend. There is a specific tool to determine which color combinations fit best with your skin tone, it is called color wheel.
Using color wheel, people will learn which color combinations that make them look best. It is a fact that some colors can make us look fresh and clean while the other make us look like we do not have sleep for days. To avoid the latter, you can find your color combinations by matching your skin tones to some specific colors.
How to Identify Your Skin Tone?
The first thing you need to do is to determine your skin tone. Skin tone is essential in choosing the perfect color tones for your dress. There are mainly two types of skin tone.
a. Cool Tone
A cool undertone on your skin is visible by seeing the color of the veins. When you have cool tone, your veins will look in blue or purple color when it is under the sun. Moreover, the skin also looks pale and grey when unhealthy. Try to see the veins on your wrist under the sunlight and see which color it reflects.
b. Warm Tone
Another tone in skin color is warm tone. Compared to cool tone, the warm one tends to have warmer hue. It is also visible by seeing the color of the veins. It will be seen as green and a hint of yellow under the sun. There is no significant effect whether you have either cool or warm tone, but it does affect how you style yourself.
Match Dress Color Based on Skin Tone
After determining your skin tone, you can go beyond black and white by choosing these color.
Cool undertone: it matches with blue, purple, white and soft pink. Jewelry that suits well with the cool tone is silver, sapphire and amethyst stone. This will highlight your skin, making it more glowing and fresh.
Warm undertone: it matches with earth tone colors like caramel, orange, cream, peach, and olive green. A neutral tone combined with earth tone color will also highlight your skin. For example, match white with cream or soft gold to create elegant color combination.
Conclusion
Do not stuck in black and white while other colors actually can accentuate your look be it on your dress or your whole outfit. Be bold to experience with colors that match with the skin tone. Skin tone affects the color choice, so make sure to know the skin tone and the color theme matches it.