Colour you'd love to wear, but just can't carry off?

[KathDayKnight50]

For me, it's yellow. I am drawn towards it, especially in summer. So cheery. Just cannot wear it with my colouring.

Also yellow – I'm extremely pale and it makes my face look sort of...greenish. Not good. My sister has olive skin and looks incredible in yellow, orange, scarlet. Not fair!

I hear you Cherry - paleness is my issue too. Oh, for olive skin! I wanted that colouring so much, especially as a teen.

For me it’s coral, I’d love to wear this especially in spring and summer but it looks awful with my complexion

Yellow for me as well. I am way too pale (and round) to wear it. It looks gorgeous on people with darker skins...I'm very jealous!

bright autumnal colours
orange, red, rust, browns.

I just can't do any of them.

I need dark red, burgundy, purple etc

Red. Would love to find a shade that didn't make me look peculiar.

I'm a 'soft summer' if anyone has any recommendations please.

Yellow too. And pure white.

White. Most people look beautifully fresh and serene in white: I look large. And very very pink.

I love the colour ochre which is around a lot now (mustardy yellow) but it just drains me

Yellow and peach both make me look like I've got the plague.

Tan, ochre and mustard don’t suit me. Im much more suited to bright clear colours

Yes! All those fab autumn colours like mustardy yellow, rich orange, rust, deep red. All hideous on me. Yellow in summer too, but I'm grey and navy all the way (which is fine but you really just fancy a change sometimes, don't you?).

White. I'm pale, blue eyes, white-grey hair. I look like a ghost in white - as a skirt, fine, as a tshirt definitely not. All the talk of a 'crisp white blouse' being a staple of your wardrobe, yeah... no!

I can't wear pale colours up near my face, lilac, baby pink etc, but i don't like them so i'm not too put out. I do have a pale yellow tshirt with butterflies on that really suits me, weirdly.

I look awesome in black. Alas, i have to sticky-roller myself many times before leaving the house as we have a blonde sheddy dog

Also yellow. I’m not particularly pale-skinned but it never looks right on me, and I’ve tried!

Another one who can't make yellow work, even mustard (which is the only yellow I really like). It's strange as other 'autumn' colours suit me, I have slightly olive skin, I have a tan jumper that's the most flattering (colour-wise) item I own and I look great in burgundy and dark green, and peach works for me too. But wearing mustard just makes me look really red-faced, its awful

blush pinks/ eau de nil/ nude - I love these colours but I look like a bloated zombie in them

Without a doubt deep Bordeaux plum colours

I love them but they don’t go with my fair complexion at all

Mustard, I look jaundiced if it’s near my face. I can get away with tights though.

Blue - I can't wear it on my top half at all. And I don't actually like it. But I wish I did because it would roughly double my options! So many items come in mainly blues or just blue and it really annoys me.

On the plus side, I'm the person that wears all the yellow :o love it!

Mustard or beige. It's just not happening, I look like I've just vomited 🤮

Pearl grey.

I gaze with sad longing at gorgeous pearl grey knitwear in shops. So beautiful, so classic, so chic.

It can never be mine it makes me look like I’m about to faint.

I can’t wear most shades of green either but it doesn’t make me as wistful as the lack of pearl grey cashmere in my life. I can get away with charcoal but it’s not the same.

Red, I could get away with it because of my colouring, I just feel really like I stand out a lot, so don't wear it. And white. It simply doesn't work with my skin tone.

I'd love to wear black sometimes. I used to a lot in my youth but now it turns my skin grey. I look ten years older if I wear it, and five years younger if I wear white.

Yup. Yellow. Love that seventies mustard that's around everywhere at the moment. Sadly it makes me look like a corpse.

Mustard. Despite being an autumn I look awful in it.
Pale blue - I love it but it does nothing for me