What Colours would suit me

[ConfusedAndStressed95]

I'm fairly safe with everything I wear I tend to go for dark colours but I have a couple of things that are different to my usual style and I always get complimented on them.

Apparently I suit, deep purples, red, coral and navy. If I suit those colours what else is likely to look good with my skin tone?

You sound like you're probably cool toned.

There's more to it than cool or warm, there are loads of colour palette theories, BTW, but cool or warm is a good place to start. Try holding colours against your face. In natural light. See if you look good, healthy, or pale & sick.

Ah no, is actually the video I actually meant to link. Same Youtuber, but I think the 2nd video is better, personally.

Awesome thank you

But you can't be cool toned and suit coral... it's a v warm pink. Good luck!

I agree, you won't be cool toned if you suit coral. Use the purple to help decide....cool purples are amethyst, grape, damson, plum, but if it's a Cadbury's purple or royal purple that suits you those are autumn warm shades.

I had my colours done a few years ago and I'm an Autumn. Coral is one of the best colours on me so I doubt you are cool toned (Autumn is warm).

Try deep greens or leafy shades, turquoise, chocolate and rust brown shades. Cream rather than white. I don't suit any pastel colours or grey. Hope that helps.

Seems like you suit deep jewel tones and quite 'clear', unmuted colours.

As for whether you're warm or cold... I guess I would have said neutral or warm based on the colours you listed but Idk.

I personally wouldn't put too much stock in it. I'm warm according to all these colour charts and 'tests' but I look genuinely horrible in really warm colours.

Hate to say it but the only way you can tell is by trying colours (or 'draping'). Don't look at the colour, look at your face and compare the affect of warm and cool shades of the same colour - do you eye shadows look more obvious with coral pink or fuscia pink? Or does your skin look blotchier in one? You can do it with purple as suggested or any colour - leafy spring green and a more icey green - or khaki green vs a bottle green. If you're not sure, look at your face and see whether it looks like you have been drinking lots of water or eating a bit too much junk food. Hard to do it on your own but I think lots of consultants aren't great too - sorry!

But, yes, your skin could well be neutral and you could have a more dominant characteristic - clear or soft colours, light or dark (guessing dark is better?)?

What's your colouring OP? In all honesty it is hard to say as you do have to consider that people will almost always compliment a pop of colour or something 'jazzier' than the norm, especially if the person only usually wears black. I'd not take that to always mean it must really suit me so much as it's nice to see you in colour, or branching out stylewise, or a pop of colour/change of style is a conversation piece.

Otherwise I think it's trial and error, establishing whether your skin tone is warm or cool, factoring in hair colour etc. Hold colours to your fave and see what they do for it, it's surprising how some highlight negatives and some 'brighten' the face a bit.

There are many shades of red, purple and navy so that doesn't indicate anything at all. Pretty much everyone can wear any colour but it's the warm/cool and muted/bright factor that matter specifically. So for greens eg,
Spring = apple green, kelly green (warm, light and bright)
Autumn = khaki (warm, dark and muted)
Winter = deep forest green, emerald green (cool, dark and bright)
Summer = mint green or sage green (cool, light and muted)
You do need to see it yourself in natural light rather than go on compliments from others.

Winter = deep forest green, emerald green (cool, dark and bright)
Summer = mint green or sage green (cool, light and muted)

See, that's why I find this so confusing.

I definitely look good in forest green (especially a needle wood forest). Emerald green is fine. Cool and dark is good. The bright is a bit harder to get right.

I always look good in sage green. But mint green (and pastels/muted colours) are extremely tricky. Unless it's blue.

But according to that stupid vein test I'm definitely warm toned... 😂 And there's definitely more yellow to my skin than to one of my good friend's who had to endure colour matching with me (she has much more pink).

So I personally really feel that trying colours, draping them in natural light, getting 2nd opinions by someone who is good with colours etc is the way to go.

But maybe that's just based on my own inability of dealing with the colour wheel and the 'seasonal' colour analysis...

I can understand going for colour analysis if you can't see what suits you. But if you can tell by looking - and it sounds like you can - then I really don't see the point as all it seems to do is confuse people and lead them to doubt their instincts.

I look horrific in pastels, bright yellows and oranges. I seem suit darker or deeper colours. The only colours that are exceptions to this are corals and bright/blood red and some warm pinks and deeper colours or mustard yellow. I'm very fair skinned and pale and bright colours/pastels and white make me look ill. I generally take the compliments from my sisters to mean I suit those colours as they know a lot about colours and fashion and are dying to go shopping with me and the rare times I agree its always the same sort of style and colouring. But I avoid shopping with them or asking for their advice as they make a massive fuss and it makes me anxious to have their attention focused on me. Especially considering how little I know about clothing and fashion. I just find it all overwhelming and intimidating.

I seem suit darker or deeper colours. The only colours that are exceptions to this are corals and bright/blood red and some warm pinks and deeper colours or mustard yellow.,

That actually sounds like a lot of colours to me. Deep, dark colours (purple, navy, red) plus corals, bright reds and mustard yellow.

I guess you could also try kaki, ochre, fuchsia, dark green and lighter blues?

What I personally feel is key to wearing colour is finding dark and light neutrals that suit you.
Combining neutrale with 'your' colours (colours that make you speficifically look and feel good) is a fairly easy way of ending up with a stylish, versatile and not monotone wardrobe imo.

You already have navy. How do you look in beige, shades of light or dark grey, off white or light brown tones?

Fashion / style really doesn't need to be intimidating. Find cloths that serve you/the occasion you're wearing them for and make you feel good, attractive.
That's basically it.

It sounds like you already know the colours that suit you, which is already leaps ahead of some people...🤷🏻‍♀️

Have a look through the menu called 'Shop By Colour' on Kettlewell www.kettlewellcolours.co.uk/ It may help narrow down which season you are and give you more ideas.

Oh, and if you really like a colour that doesn't suit you:
I personally would suggest wearing it on your bottom half. I have a yellow skirt which I absolutely adore.

I wouldn't wear a warm top but as a skirt (and with a top that doesn't clash)? Works perfectly well....

• a warm yellow top.

What's your colouring OP?

Do you suit gold or silver better?

Do you have blue or green veins (actually I don't know which is different, but one means warm and one means cool colours!).

I'm a winter - suit silver. Have olive skin, dark brown hair and dark brown eyes. No warmth in my colouring. Navy and purple are 2 of my best colours. But No to orange, coral or some reds!

If you can wear purple and navy, you can wear black, grey, white, silver. But also some pinks (ice pink and fuschia), lilac, pale green. Cobalt blue. Emerald greens. Jewel colours.

It's an utter cliche to have your colours done - but such a good thing to do.

I think I find fashion intimidating because I'm not stereotypically feminine. I've always been overweight and too tomboy as a child to want 'girly' clothes and now that's just the image I have and I want to change that. I like looking nice and sensible clothing. I don't care for fashion trends but I want to look nice and feel pretty from time to time.

I mix metals that I wear, which is a fashion no no but I wear sentimental jewelry. It's tradition in my family to receive a silver St Christopher on your 21st Bday but I wear my dads gold ring on the chain, I tend to wear gold rings though. I think it's likely I suit gold better than silver but I don't own enough jewelry to know for sure. Where would you go to get your colours done?

OP House Of Colour are great . Once you have ad your colours done you can join their FB groups on colour and style and share ideas etc with hundreds of others in your same colour range and style personality. Buy and sell clothes , shoes etc too.
It will be the best money you ever spend and will save you a fortune over your lifetime.
Which part of the country are you in ?

Confused I'd recommend House of Colour too. And just to confuse you even more, it is possible to be a 'mixed metals' because I am even though I'm a summer. But in all honesty, no one is going to shoot you if you don't follow all the rules so don't stress over it, it's meant to be fun. Also, within the season you don't suit all colours equally, so there are four sub-seasons depending on which colours in your bit of the spectrum suit you best. You can wear all the colours in the season but only a few are your wow colours that you can pull off head to toe, some will work better as accent colours (for me, as an example, powder blue is an accent so best as a scarf rather than long coat).

@SpeckledyHen, I live in the north and north east at different times of the year.

I went to House of Colour too.

They were very good!

House of Colour were terrible for me - two different people. Both definitely got me 'wrong'.