Have you had your 'colours' done?

[madzone]

Bless yer socks getting your outfit 2 weeks before you get married
Has your spouse to be got their outfit sorted?

 

[Idaho]

I thought I was being super organised

 

[Blagsta]

Your blood is pretty blue

Errrr...no it isn't. Blood is red.

 

[RubyToogood]

IMO most fair-skinned people look best in fairly subtle, mid- to pastel colours. Shops tend to have a lot of black and strong colours but they're not necessarily what makes you look good unless your own colouring is quite strong.

I particularly remember one friend (Welsh) with mousyish hair and greyish eyes who always used to wear black. One day she turned up in a subtle sort of goldy green dress and she suddenly looked radiant - her hair looked golden, her skin looked pink and her eyes looked green. The black had been just killing off all those subtle tones.

 

[pembrokestephen]

I seem to recall it means wearing a lot of chiffon scarves. I can't be arsed with that sort of thing really, if I like it I wear it. Comes from a childhood of gingerness when my mum wouldn't let me wear anything that clashed. Now I wear red all the time

Ah, mine comes from a childhood of colour-blind gingerness where my mum was rather insistent on primary coloured jerseys, etc.

I flailed around for about 10 years after leaving home doing various ill-advised things with colour, before gravitating slowly but surely, by degrees, towards black. A 10 year depression helped - now it feels weird to wear anything else. I do try, but my usual relaxed sociable cool is severely hampered by wearing other colours, unless I can forget I'm wearing them.

It's the main reason I became a counsellor: counsellor/psychotherapist, blues muso, vicar, and undertaker were options, but for various reasons the former was the best one

 

[pembrokestephen]

But it's so ageing dahling

I can live with that! I come pre-aged, anyway

(check out the ugly mugs thread to see what I mean - I've put on about 10 years in the last 10 years )

 

[madzone]

IMO most fair-skinned people look best in fairly subtle, mid- to pastel colours. Shops tend to have a lot of black and strong colours but they're not necessarily what makes you look good unless your own colouring is quite strong.

I particularly remember one friend (Welsh) with mousyish hair and greyish eyes who always used to wear black. One day she turned up in a subtle sort of goldy green dress and she suddenly looked radiant - her hair looked golden, her skin looked pink and her eyes looked green. The black had been just killing off all those subtle tones.

I look like a fat sugared almond in pastels I seem to get most compliments when I'm wearing dark red

 

[madzone]

I can live with that! I come pre-aged, anyway

(check out the ugly mugs thread to see what I mean - I've put on about 10 years in the last 10 years )

You look fine to me.
Unless you're only 19, in which case

 

[wtfftw]

With colours, you are either warm (gold) or cold (silver). So all the cold colours - blues, purples (unless it's a reddy purple), greens go together and the warms -red, pink, orange, yellow go together. No, not all at once. I know I generally suit warm colours - having dyed my hair loads of different colours, I can outright say that blue and black make me look ill, I can just about get away with a lime green and red/ pink look great. I still wear a lot of black and sometimes a bit of blue but the reds/pinks suit me the best.

That sounds absolutely fine in theory.

In my mind it equates to either pastels or neons. Neither of which I can carry (or like). Or autumnal or summer. bleurgh.

I get well confused though because I thought I'd worked out to wear the cooler colours after trying on a red dress which was awful - but I can do red lipstick and I had a wicked darker red dress once and an even darker red jumper - and then I picked up what I thought was a cool blue jumper and that made me look green as well.

I'm trying to move away from just wearing black. I was wearing black due to doing my own washing and not having enough clothes to do more than one wash (haha). I've also in the last year got my hair back to it's natural colour for the first time since I was 11. I'm going back to black hair though and I know I'll throw any colour I like with black. I tend to suit blues and purples and greens but not anywhere across the spectrum. It depends on the day as well. Some days one thing will totally drain me that looked fine the day before.

Doesn't matter anyway, I hate buying clothes so I'll stick to my black wardrobe and one purple jumper. I'd quite like new eyeshadows though.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Wtf?

 

[geminisnake]

No-one can get away with orange though.

Sorry but my son can. He looks fine in his hoody. Look

This(smaller) is his passport photo

Idaho, cream trousers sound fine to me, and I'd go with trashy's advcie about getting advice iykwim I think it'd be good if your shoes matched the jacket btw.

 

[snoogles]

I flailed around ... before gravitating slowly but surely, by degrees, towards black

Me too

All colour problems solved.

Except, of course, when the blacks don't match (usually not something you spot indoors, but it really shows when you get outside!).

I will occasionally wear red, sometimes a little bit of grey or white in with the black, but I haven't worn an outfit that wasn't predominantly black for the last 7 years.

 

[Cloo]

My mate had this done recently and said it was really good. Sounds interesting, but I can't be arsed really.

 

[Ann Tigonie]

Talking of such stuff.. and I am far too manly to start my own thread on such a topic.

I really want to get this suede suit jacket I've seen for my wedding in a couple of weeks time, but can't think what trousers and shirt would go with it.

It's this colour, maybe a tad lighter:

I was thinking of very similar colour trousers and a bright shirt of some sort. Mayhaps even a pink or red dress shirt. Any ideas? I know black trousers would look shit. Howabout cream trousers?

A deep pink might work. Shades of blue, shades of green and even yellow would also work. The jacket is an autumnal colour - think maple trees, think earth tones, think the unthinkable....orange.

 

[butterfly child]

I did a "colour me beautiful" course a few years back as part of work stuff.

Pile of crap, if you ask me. I know what colours look good on me. They'd say "you can wear x colour" and I'd say "Yes, I know!".

Also, my husband had them done before we met and they said he shouldn't wear orange. But I decided he has the colouring that suits orange and bought him a funky orange and brown striped top. He loved it AND it suited him.

 

[butterfly child]

I look like a fat sugared almond in pastels I seem to get most compliments when I'm wearing dark red

Dark red would suit you!

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Ladies, save yourselves some money and simply follow the patent applied for clothesonthewhatnow method of garment selection.

1 - Put something on
2 - look in a mirror
3 - if you like it, buy it

 

[madzone]

Well, I saw my mate for the first time since she's had it done and she looks fucking fantastic!! She looked good before but now she looks taller, more....more...'her' really. I can't describe it but she looks like a different woman.

Apparently they cover you hair and clothes etc so that only your face is showing (no make up or anything) and then do their stuff. She's dyed her hair (exactly the same colour as I dyed mine last week ) because the consultant said to get rid of the red. She just looks totally amazing - she walked in the door and I just went 'Wow' - I was gobsmacked.

I want it done for my birthday now. I didn't know what I wanted this year but I'm going to ask everyone to chip in for a session. She went to House of Colour who have apparently been doing this since the 50's. It used to be used for hollywood starlets etc to make them look fab and stand out from the rest of us.

 

[madzone]

Dark red would suit you!

Thanks

I think it matches my spots