MY COLOURING: COOL

(Ash coloured or grey hair with pale to medium toned skin)

As you get older, your colouring group may change to cool. This enables you to wear new colours that you might not have worn before or even tried to wear. The cool colouring group has lots of blue in their neutral selection, and these will look especially good if paired with contrasting colours. Black can also be worn, but away from the face. You should also try ‘lifting’ your face by wearing sparkling jewellery near your face. If you now need to wear spectacles, choose them in a colour from your neutral shades – a rosy beige shade is great if you prefer a lighter tone, or dark grey or navy if you prefer a darker shade.

These are some great colour combinations that work on you:

Rose-beige and raspberry

Taupe and fuchsia or bright periwinkle

Charcoal and baby pink

Chinese (bright) blue and sea green / aqua

Dark navy and icy blue or sapphire

Dark teal and icy green

Blue works really well on you – it is probably your best choice, especially if you have blue eyes. The best shades are icy blue (very pale, almost white), powder and sky blue, sapphire, true blue and royal blue. So you see, you can actually wear any shade of blue from very pale to navy (one of your neutral shades).

For purple, you can wear either the berry shades like fuchsia and plum, or the soft shades like lavender and violet.

You shouldn’t really wear red, unless it has blue undertones like raspberry.

For pinks, stick to the true pink shades like baby pink, candy pink, hot pink, rose and orchid.

Rather don’t wear orange or yellow, these will dull you. The best green is a pale icy green.

For sea green/blue colours, you should choose peppermint or the light shades of teal and aqua.

For makeup, think rose and blue-lavender. Your eye shadow can be a blend of soft pink, lavender, heather or plum. Keep you blush to a shade of rose, and you lips should be a natural pink shade like rose or mauve as well. Use an eyebrow pencil if your eyebrows have also become grey, but be careful not to make them too dark – this will look too harsh – so stick to a medium grey shade.

Estee Lauder is best for older skin - actually the better choice for any skin.
Best quality products available, well worth the extra cost.

 

There is nothing stopping you from looking gorgeous, even as you get older.

 

Please email me on info@poshshopping.co.za if you need any help or would like to book a personalised style and wardrobe consultation to match your unique colouring.