Do you find that certain colours make you look more *polished/expensive*?

[MissDD1971]

Tried on a toffee/caramel Whistles (and bought it) sweater today.

the salesgirl said it looked good with my highlighted natural colour dirty blonde hair.

certain tweed checks (the lighter spectrum) make me look naice and posh too. Like I've got money fat chance.

does anyone else find this or am I just being daft??

Royal blue makes almost Caucasian women look cheap, my African flat mate looked amazing in it.

I've got olive skin and always feel really elegant when I wear navy and grey (marl grey?) together.

Toffee and camel look amazing on blondes I think (has anyone watched Blue Jasmine?) but terrible on me....

No, you aren't being daft at all. Wearing the right colour for your skin tone always make you look better. That is why there are so many threads on here about having your colours done.

I am a winter and if I wore autumn/spring colours I would just look drained and ill.

oooh - that's interesting tugamommy.

I am certainly the mouse blonde with natural/obvious mix of blonde highlights and not the Cate Blanchett blonde type (brighter, Californian blonde?) but I tend to shy away from camel and toffee generally and I feel maybe now I'll go for those colours.

Maybe I should get my colours done.

Bunbaker - that's the thing.

years ago I was given a 'Color Me Beautiful' (American) book on colours from what I could gauge from that I'm a spring or winter.

I actually suit pastel colours, most blues and strangely black. Weird. yet I LOVE some jewel colours and feel better and look it with hair highlighted blonde.

I think I may get my colours done!

oh and I hate, detest and don't suit most shades of pink! and certainly don't suit pumpkin/olive green etc shades.

get your colours done - worth every penny. Really makes a difference! :)

I read an article on colours once but none of it seemed to apply to me. Because my hair is almost black it assumes I must have either dark skin or that porcelain white skin. But my skin tone is ruddy and Celtic even though DH is the Scottish one!

So I'm loathe to have it done. Where would you go anyway? Department store?

Bak to the OP, yes, I def think it makes a difference and not just dependent on colouring. I always think those really smart, almost white winter coats, esp the funnel necked ones, look very smart and expensive.

ha - PandaG - I think I will get my colours done!

Patio - white is one colour even almost white that I DO NOT suit LOL and nor do I suit funnel necks. wish I did suit both of those though. I agree - they do look expensive.

PS - there are consultants and websites for colour charts/consultations, you can board search here on S&B.

Patio I have perfectly 'normal' skin and v dark hair and it worked so well for me I trained to be a HoC consultant. It's only online analysis systems that are crap that require you to fall into some neat little box of hair/eye/skin tone. 90% of us aren't that straightforward.

And OP yes I completely agree - I look like some poor cheap tacky person in all light clear bright colours and positively ill in blue tones ones. I look a million dollars in 'my' colours, especially my most wow ones.

Hopefully, you have me sold, i will invest in a colour consultation!

Oh that's interesting. I would definitely pay to have it done. Especially now I'm getting well into my 40s.

I have found exactly the same issue with hundreds of magazine articles about make up colours especially lipstick. There's always the blonde pale girl, the dark haired olive skinned girl, the ginger haired girl and the black girl. Never the very dark haired pale freckly girl unless her hair is a mid brown with slight red tones.

Me too!

Always glad to convert more people!

Interesting. Same as tugamommy, I am (highlighted)dark brunette with olivey skin and navy and grey look great on me, also a kind of bright blue denim, but somehow caramel tones make me look washed out. I wish I knew my 'colour'!

Grey - maybe you are a deep autumn

but you sound like me - I have green/hazel eyes but very dark hair and an olivey tone to my paleish skin

Patio - sounds like a winter?

Well I had my colours done and I'm a deep cool, the equivalent of winter. I had mine done with colour me beautiful so didn't get a 'season'.

Greygardens, you're probably a winter too :)

Before I had it done I bought a lot of browns and camels because in theory I think they're so elegant (nothing more elegant than a camel coat, right?) and I really couldn't understand why it just didn't look right...

Hmm, I definitely suit winter clothes of most colours far better than summer stuff of any colour. I know that's not what a 'winter' means but I hate summer and summer fashion and never seem to get it right. My legs look like milk bottles so exposing them next to any colour is always hideous.

I'm too tight to get my colours done - isn't there a chart someplace I could put my hair / eye / skin colour in to get all the same info?

Ooh maybe I should get it done... winter is interesting - I thought because i tan maybe I would be summer, but I guess it's more complex?

how much did it cost those who have had it done?

It's really absolutely impossible to work it out on hair/skin/eye colour, only a proper draping is enough to figure it out, unless you fall into that teeny weeny percentage of people whose skin, hair and eyes are all very textbook that the online things get it right. As I said, I am fair skinned, very dark haired and bright eyed - I look exactly like a textbook Winter right up until the draping starts. If you don't want a RL analysis you're as well off picking a palette you like and going with it - everything will look better anyway for being co-ordinated, even if it isn't co-ordinated with your skin tone.