Thursday 20 February 2014

Wardrobe Architect week 5 - colour

This was an easy one for me - I love colour!

I have posted in the past about my summer and winter palettes below.

My winter palette tends to be darker jewel tones:


My summer palette is more nautical (but thinking about it is really a brighter version of the winter one!)






Both have navy and blue in common with a red or burgundy to lift it.  I do wear a lot of blue.

I wanted to make something a bit more cohesive across all seasons so I had a play about on Picmonkey:


I would say this probably covers about 95% of my wardrobe.  I really like blues and reds (and a mix of both in the purple!).  You know, I thought I wore all colours, but clearly not!

I had my colours done when I was about 16 (hey, it was the 1980s and a thing!).  I found my little Filofax thing (I told you it was the 80s!) and this tallies pretty strongly with the colours I was told to wear then.  I have dark hair, blue eyes and very pale skin (incidentally a combination catered for very badly by magazine beauty columns - it is normally assumed that brunettes have brown eyes and medium skin and people with blue eyes have light hair!). This makes me a Winter, and I was apparently a True Winter.  Here's the colour chart for that:

Source: Bondbeautyful.com

Pretty close eh?  There's a colour theory I read about a long time ago (no idea where but could possibly have been something like Colour Me Beautiful) that says that we naturally choose to wear the colours that suit us.  Not sure where that leaves me with all that pink - I'm just not really a pink or yellow person, no matter what my colours say!

Looking forward to the next task!

12 comments:

  1. Yeah, it does look like you got pretty close to your "colors"! It does look like a nicely cohesive color set when you combine the two seasons.

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    1. it came out better than i expected when looking at them separately!

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  2. I do like your two palettes and find all this revival of 'colours' fascinating. I've only just discovered Colour me beautiful in the library and it's been liberating to realise I'm a clear winter rather than the autumn I was told I was! I feel much more reassured about my preferences for Black & white and dislike of muted shades! ;)

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    1. that's a big difference! i think being atypical in terms of your complexion - for example i have dark hair, pale skin and blue/grey eyes - can mean to get put into the wrong box in terms of colour!

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    2. So true! - it was my easily tanned skin & red cheeks that apparently was confusing? ;)

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    3. we are obviously just weird!

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  3. I love your palettes. Your winter one is very similar to mine.

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  4. I love that you had your colours done. V Bridget Jones and I love the phrase True Winter :) Gorgeous colours xxx

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    1. haha. it was a long time ago! i was still at school (so a very long time ago!)

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