I think all too often, the importance of color in our life and our wardrobe, make up & hair choices gets dismissed as unimportant.  And in some respects a bit passe.  But I still stand firm on the fact that color makes a HUGE impact on all of  those things in multiple ways.  Today I want to give some reasons why your color choices can make all of the difference in your look.

Color Sends Messages

Since we humans are so visually oriented, color is one of the first elements of our visual communication.  The colors we wear say volumes about us before we ever have a chance to open our mouths.

• Dark Colors – lend you credibility, authority, assertiveness, masculinity
• Light/Soft Colors – give you approachability, gentleness, femininity
• Bright Colors – generate energy, excitement, animation, and an extroverted quality
• Muted Colors – give a controlled, conservative, introverted quality

 So you may want to consider what kind of messages you want to convey. Dark colors, for example, are good choices for women who frequently work with men.  And very strong personalities may want to consider softer colors to make themselves a bit more approachable.

Color Reflects on Us

You have to admit, looking around this great big wide world, there is much diversity amongst us all. From the milky white skin with white blond hair to the darkest brown with deep black hair, not everyone can wear the same ranges of colors. 

     

One color on one women will give her an attractive, healthy rested appearance and on another woman will make her look sick and aged, and on another will simply wash her out. 

• One woman can walk into a room wearing tomato red and everyone says "Wow! She is stunning!"  Another will walk in the same room wearing the same color everyone will think "Whoa! Red!" 
• One of us could walk into a room wearing a soft pink and everyone would say "She is so pretty," and another walk in that same room in that same color and people will wonder, "Is she here yet?"

This applies to the clothes we wear, the make up we put on our faces, our choice of hair colors, and even the lighting we are standing under.

Color Knowledge Simplifies Wardrobe Planning

When you learn which colors work for you and then "limit" yourself to a certain range of colors you will experience a new freedom in your wardrobe. 

• As you shop, you can pass right by pieces that don’t fit into your color palette before even going through the hassle of trying them on. 
• As you develop your wardrobe you will find that every new piece you bring home will coordinate with multiple pieces you already have in your closet. 
• You will find that you don’t HAVE to buy a new pair of shoes every time you purchase a new outfit.  OK, so maybe you’d LIKE to, but it won’t be necessary.    

This can save you time, stress and BIG bucks from multiple mistakes and pieces you only wear once or twice and then are useless.  As you develop your wardrobe, you will find that you are wearing more like 75% of it on a regular basis instead of only 25% and will not end up donating bags of clothes with the tags still on to the local Salvation Army.

Sound Good?

            

Tune in next time as we go deeper and start to talk about colors more.  Next time I will be discussing some of the ways  we can categorize colors using the seasons as our guide

~Lori