Calling all Redheads or anyone to help with clothes colours please...

[NuttyGinger]

Have name changed for this one....I desperately need help please. As my name suggests I have ginger hair (straight, shoulder length) and I always find myself wearing brown, black, beige all the time. I would love some advice on what other colours would suit me (I have a fair complexion too). I really can't wear such dull colours all spring and summer again......
Please help me!

Seriously teal? I always eye it up in the shops and then put it back on the rack like a coward and buy the same top in brown.....
By rust, do you mean a reddish rust?
Am definitely up for Emerald, would all sahdes of gree work do you think?

Stop wearing brown! I had very red hair as a child and it's all my mother dressed me in.

Honestly, I think strong colours look good - like the ones ruby suggests - just don't go for pale yellows or pastels, they just wash you out ime.

Mauves, violets and greys look fabulous on red heads.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I will purchase some teal and get some guts! Do you wear teal with black too?

I wear quite a lot of aubergine too, although I'm generally fair skinned I do tan to golden brown and have hazel eyes rather than being very pale with blue eyes so not sure if that makes a difference.

Dark grey and dark blue as well as kind of virgin mary colour blue look good on me.

Also black, white, bottle green, red.

I wouldn't wear teal with black. Better with brown. eg. teal top brown skirt.

Oh, and purple.

I think colours which are more 'greyish' in tone can work - so any colour, as long as it's not a bright version of that colour, such as this?

I'm just looking on Monsoon for myself. I think I would look nice in these colours. Kind of random, but what the heck!

I know this colour would suit me

purple

paler blue

grey green

pale grey

white and colour

red

just because I like this dress - it has a nice pattern

Wow, thank you so much for all the advice. I am obviously alone in being afraid of colour as you all wear fabulous colours! LaTrucha, I adore that grey green top!

I just wanted to thank you lovely mumsnetters for all the help you gave me last week. I have had a very successful shopping trip and my wardrobe now contains teal, olive, green, and aubergine (that colour was a huge surprise - I loved it!). I also have a grey top on order!
Can I ask one more question? Do you continue to wear these colours in the spring/summer as they are quite rich colours?

Yes, I tend to wear rich colours all year round as pale colours make me look washed out.

Well done NuttyGinger. I also wear bright pink tops, look fine with my red not ginger hair.
Obviously, toned down with brown on the lower half.

I have blonde/pale red hair which goes a darker red (still blonde) in winter, green eyes and pale washed out skin that tans very easily. What a mess I really suit all shades of red, the brighter the better, and dark pinks. I tend to wear mostly black though. Strong colours (dark) whatever they be as opposed to pastels (light) suit red-heads better imo. I also think wearing a colour that matches your eyes is good for reds.

I have light red hair, which i sometimes dye blonde and somtimes dye red/copper. Green eyes and v pale skin so always wear fake tan, for light golden look. I like to wear cream, tan, black and green but sometimes pink and red too!

I saw trinny and suzanna harping on about colours and they reckoned that ginger types ought to stick to dirty tones, here

so what fake tan do you reckon looks best on redheads?
I am using Dove the everyday one but if theres a better one out there, I would love to know!

p.s., am a ginger type myself, only saying because didn't want to sound rude in pp

you should try the every day moisturiser. Its the only one that doesn't turn me orange

Hi my friend is a redhed, quite dark red, not bright orange iyswim and she always lookd gorgeous in purple colours, not lilac but deep purple. Hope this helps.