Thursday, July 25, 2013

Finding my complimentary colors

Lately, I been wanting to start wearing red lipstick again because why not?

So I forgot what it's like to go out and find the color that looks best without testing them all over your hands which in turns makes your hand red stained all over. Anyways...I wanted to pinpoint what range of colors I should look at.

So I started by figuring out exactly what my undertones are and all the stuff out there can be a little confusing. Eventually, I stumbled upon this website that describes if you're an Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer. I liked it a lot, I think it really explained a lot of things I have always been wondering. I have also been buying some shirts that sometimes look horrible on me because of all the new cool trendy colors (I really hate neon/80s colors, and pastels).
The Chic Fashionista really answered a lot of my questions and even had other articles about face shape, body shape, etc. The Chic Fashionista

My discovery was that I'm a Deep Winter and my sister is a Deep Autumn. It made a lot of sense how she can never wear my colors and make up and vice versa.

Examples:
True bright reds, black clothes, and bright jewel tone colors look good on me. My wedding dress was white, which complimented me better than the ivory ones. But if I wear white too much, I looked really washed out, so I tend to stay away from white. Silver jewelry looks better than gold on me. So I'm a cool undertone but you wouldn't really be able to tell reading up about undertones.

My sister can wear off-white, she tends to pull of shades of brown way better than black (hair, clothes, make-up). She can wear gold, but growing up, gold was "uncool" so she would wear silver anyways.

So thinking about this, I was able to then see what kind of make up I should throw out or give to my sister because now I can match them better for my skin tone type.

The only problem is that as I started getting older, certain things can age me. For example, black eyeliner can really make me look older, so I have to choose softer colored eyeliners...which now brings me to my eyeliner reviews.


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