Can anyone really wear that pale pink/nude colour?

[scattyspice]

And not look like Saun of the Dead?

Or is it just me? .

make oyu look liek a raw sausage

I think maybe lots of blusher/bronzer is the key.

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Since I had my colours done about 15 years back, I have realised that i have to wear what suits me, not what I "like" and not what I might choose for paint, furnishings, interior decor, and anything else!

I cannot wear peach at all- it makes me look dead. I can wear sugar and baby pinks but at 50+ I think they eitherlook too little-girly or 70+.

I think it looks nice on black skin

i quite like baby pink, but for summer (when my skin is gold, rather than blotchy)

those seem to be very pale pink like that one, i thought you were all talkin about the nude undies colour (which is browner) ....

i think if you are either very pale or dark enough to make it look like a colour that is ery different to your own skin colour then it can work.

otherwise, it will look like the 'right' skin colour, making your skin look like the 'wrong' and less even more marked colour...

You could also try warm creams, warm taupes and muted golds - all of which look fine against my skin and I am usually a navy, chocolate & magenta kind of gal

I also think you need to over-do it on the blusher front too - so you get that lovely spring-time flush on the apples of your cheeks (rather than a bold 80's stripe kinda way )

If you really want to try wearing them, go look at the assistants in Top Shop. I noticed that many of them probably don't have the natural skin tone to carry off those shades but they make it work by mixing them with other clothes and accessories in warmer tones and playing up the "flushed Jane Austen heroine" look with their make up

I think I would get the blusher wrong and end up looking more menopausal hot flush than Jane Austen heroine!