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What clothing color looks best on you?

March 23, 2021

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?

The answer is color harmony! Specifically, there is a system that categorizes everyone into one of twelve “color seasons.” When you find your season, you find all the colors that harmonize with your skin tone.

Eva Mendes is a true autumn (also known as warm autumn); her best colors are all warm, deep, and rich.

By contrast, here’s a light summer palette, which would look totally awful on a true autumn person:

In case you’re not convinced, here are some more celebrity examples:

Ken Jeong – This purple fits the light summer palette above. He is definitely cool-toned.
Zhang Ziyi – bright spring.
Emily Blunt – true summer.
Brie Larson – spring?
Bianca Balti – soft summer or true summer.
Anne Hathaway – dark winter.
Idris Elba – not sure; maybe dark winter or dark autumn.
Mary-Kate Olsen – soft autumn?

I hope you have now got the point that your clothing color matters. Obviously, you will now want to know how to find your color palette. Unfortunately, this is a massive topic (which is why I avoided writing about it until now), so I hope this suffices as a teaser, and I will come back to this topic later 😛

In the meantime, I highly recommend these resources:

Truth is Beauty by Rachel Schemmel – She is brilliant! You can try taking the quiz here.

12 Blueprints by Christine Scaman – Disclaimer: She believes your color palette is linked to your personality traits, which is ludicrous. Just ignore that part and focus on external appearance.

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