What Colors Should I Wear?
Grab a bunch of your clothes in a range of colors. Go back to the mirror-without wearing any makeup-and put a color next to your face, one piece at a time and see how your skin changes with each color match. A good color match should:
Make your skin and eyes appear bright
Reduce the appearance of the any wrinkles
Diminish the appearance of skin blemishes
A bad color match might:
Make shadows in your skin look more pronounced
Make your skin look dull
Make your skin look washed out
Tips for Working with Personal Colors
Once you get an idea of what personal colors work best for you, you can begin the fine-tuning process. As a start, you can use complementary colors to enhance your eyes or hair color. Complementary colors are the colors that are located opposite of one another on the color wheel. For example: