How To Choose The Colours You Wear
Image: Unsplash
18 March 2025
Picking clothing colours that look good on you comes down to understanding your skin tone, undertones, and personal preferences
Image: Unsplash
Here's a simple guide to help you find the best shades for you:
Image: Pexels
1. Identify Your Skin Undertone: Your undertone is the subtle colour beneath your skin. It usually falls into three categories
Image: Pexels
2. If your skin has hints of pink, red, or blue, you have a cool undertone. Warm undertone: Yellow, gold, or peach. Neutral undertone: A mix of both warm and cool tones
Image: Pexels
3. How to find your undertone: Look at the veins on your wrist. If they appear blue or purple, you have a cool undertone
Image: Unsplash
4. Green veins indicate a warm undertone, and if it's hard to tell, you're likely neutral
Image: Pexels
5. Jewellery test: Gold jewellery tends to complement warm tones, while silver flatters cool tones. If both look good, you're neutral
Image: Pexels
6. Choose colours based on undertones: For cool undertones, opt for colours like jewel tones, cool pastels, icy shades, and true blacks and whites
Image: Pexels
7. For warm undertones, go for earth tones (olive, mustard, rust), warm shades (coral, peach, warm reds), and creamy off-whites or browns
Image: Pexels
8. Most colours suit neutral tones, but soft, balanced shades like taupe, dusty pink, and soft blues are especially flattering
Image: Pexels
9. Consider Contrast: For high contrast (dark hair, light skin) bold, rich colours create a striking look
Image: Pexels
10. For low contrast (light hair, light skin or dark hair, dark skin), softer, more muted tones create harmony
Image: Pexels
Check More Stories
Image: Pexels