Beauty and the Color Wheel
July 29, 2005 by Christina Jones
Filed under Beauty
Have you ever had a color analysis performed on you? This was such a popular trend once upon a time (see Color Me Beautiful
Very basically, you are either a warm or a cool person, which means that the colors of your skin, eyes and hair (natural hair color ) are such that you look immensely better in warm (see the right half of the color wheel) or cool (left half) colors. Generally you are drawn towards the proper group of colors naturally, and don’t need a professional analysis.
The colors at 12:00 and 6:00 on the wheel are iffy for everyone. The cool people (like me…LOL) should steer away from the more yellow shades of green and the more orangey shades of red, while the warm folks must do just the opposite. I will bet that if you go through your closet, and pick out the things you don’t ever wear because there is “just something about it” that you don’t like, 9 times out of 10 the problem is- it is a color that doesn’t flatter you.
Use the color wheel to make all of your choices in clothing, cosmetics, and even things like car colors and home interior colors and you will look beautiful wherever you are!
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