What am I looking for in my colours

Colours tell stories! The stories they tell are intertwined with who we are.
A garden lover and the colour green. The emotional remembrance of the times spent enjoying the flowers, grass and trees in the garden.

To each colour we will have an emotional response. The response is not normally big enough to see one swaying with eyes closed, or a sprint in the opposite direction.

A while back I took my youngest daughter to the swimming pool and she had on multi-colored bathers. I pointed to blue and she crooned “I love blue.” “What about green?” I said, “Me love green.” “Do you like red?” I prompted “Yes, me love red.” “What about yellow?”, “Yuck” she says “Me hate yellow, just like bananas.” And she really does dislike bananas to the point she wont come for a hug if you’ve been eating a banana.

A colour’s greatness is not in the colour alone but how it stands next to other colours. The complexity of colour can create a constant colour conflict, where everything is jarring.

The opposite is colour harmony.

When two colours are placed next to each other they will impact and change the way both colours look.

Each of us has a certain skin colouring and to this end when we know what colour we have we can use this knowledge to place colours next to our skin that create harmony.

A great outfit is harmonious, it looks good on the wearer. The colours in the outfit and the persons colouring work and lift each other. This brings confidence.
Confidence helps create a youthful, vibrant energetic look.

So knowing your colours is not a matter of dictation of what colours you must wear but a tool to achieve harmony.

The other secret about colour is the variety of shades and tints that colours arrive in.

As humans we really dont have too big a range of skin colour. We are all brown. Just different shades of brown. We might refer to someone as white or black but really it is a shade of brown. There are no purple or orange or any other colour people.
All colours come in this same array of shades, tints and hues. The trick to finding complementary colours and discerning the colour’s correct shade that creates harmony.

At the end of the day any colour can be worn. But a colour in the right shade that lifts another colour is the harmony that we seek for when dressing well.