What suits you?

i think blondes can wear more colour than brunettes and redheads and i think the latter look better in blacks and whites and browns this is make up by the way but thats just my opinion

Wow that sounds really interesting AliceJane, I’ll have a look for that book. I’ve never really given colouring much thought… I have dark brown hair that’s almost black when the colour is fresh, brown eyes and light colouring. I wear a lot of mauves and purples on my eyes, but I think it’s a good idea to find out what I’m suited to as far as blushes and eye makeup etc.

Yeah there is that whole cold colours and warm colours i think? Depending on the hue of your skin etc. I always just look at beauty books and see what suits who.

I think its just trial and error. I go from a mousy brown colour to dark chocolate brown and i don’t really alter my coloiuir choices that much. Porbably the only change i would make is my blush colour, peach looks nicer when i have darker hair.

I change colours a lot. I’m a natural redhead, but I wear auburn, brown, blonde and brunette wigs. I use different makeup for different wig colours.

The best explanation I’ve come across for colourings is that there are 4 ‘seasons’ of colouring. Each person’s colouring is in one season. Each season has colours that work and colours that don’t.

I’m an ‘autumn’. Pure black and pure white only suit a person of ‘winter’ colouring. To wear a black wig or a white blonde wig, I have to change every colour in my makeup except my foundation, which happens to be an in-between ‘neutral’ shade, and the powders I use for contouring and highlighting.

I’d highly recommend the book ‘Colour me beautiful’, which is the best book I’ve ever found on this subject.

if you go to the American Covergirl website “Covergirl”:http://www.covergirl.com there’s a link where you can tell them your eye and hair colour, skin colour, colours that you wear which suits you. then if you’re logged in, while you browse around the website, the site matches the colours of products best suited to you. So for example if you go to a lipsticks page, it highlights all the lipsticks that best suit your colouring depending on what you told them.

I still don’t know what colours work best for me! I have really oddly shaped eyes and wearing glasses doesn’t really help so I tend to focus on lips and blush and just put mascara on my eyes. I have dark brown/reddish hair that I’ve had for years. I was thinking of going blonde (a darkish shade though) but I’m not game enough.

I once had a consultation with a “colour expert” when we had a promotion at work for our clients and she did the staff as well.She had several couloured smok things that she would drape around your neck and tell you the colour that you could “Do”.based on your skin/hair colour.Funnily enough many of the colours she said i could no do are colours that when i wear people tell me i look great in and suit.The only one she said was a me colour that anyone i know agreed with was pink tones.
I think it had to do with the lighting in the shop (where she did the consultation) VS outside lighting (where i mostly see my friends and family).I have noticed if you have red tones in your skin reds and blacks enhance the flushed skin tones.My own observations, don’t know what the experts say!

I have read some fantastic books about this, you could take a look at Trinny and Susannah’s books they show you exactly what colous suit different complexions, hair, eyes etc also a number of beauty and makeup books will also show you, like Bobby Brown Beauty for example, check out your local library for a good read 🙂

Does it also depend on the complexion of your skin as well as eye color?

I often go from blonde to brown, I wear the same colours in makeup.