“Good” characters typically wear red, blue, and yellow.
The role of color in costume design
Style
True summer: Lady of the lake
My best colors in gowns
As a true summer, my best colors are pink, purple, blue, green, and pale lemon yellow, plus grey, taupe, and silver-white.
Note: The women below are not true summers, but they’re wearing colors that are (or close enough to illustrate the idea).
Sky blue
My best colors
What makes a color cool vs. warm?
We’re often taught that cool colors are blue, green, and purple.
Whereas warm colors are red, orange, and yellow.
Seems simple.
But then why do we call some whites “cool” and others “warm”?
And how can a lipstick be “blue-red”?
It’s enough to make you feel like the hapless Cinderella, unable to choose between cream and ecru dinner napkins.
The answer is:
My worst colors
As a true summer, here are my rules.
(This post is illustrated with looks I love—on other people! I think every celebrity pictured below looks awesome, even if some of them aren’t necessarily wearing their best colors.)
No orange
Five decor trends I hate
1. Exposed lightbulbs
People think they look trendy and industrial.
They look like you can’t afford lampshades.
What clothing color looks best on you?
The color of your clothes (and hair, and makeup) affects your attractiveness. Consider the beautiful Eva Mendes:
Most of us will agree that she looks better on the right, where she is wearing her best clothing and makeup colors. But why?
Horizontal stripes don’t (necessarily) make you look wide
Many people think horizontal stripes make them look short, fat, and wide.
Perhaps the whole horizontal = wide idea started because of visuals like this one. Which rectangle looks wider?
Ugly clothes with funny captions
Somehow I don’t think the “sombrero around the neck” trend is going to catch on.