MY COLOURING: DEEP

(Dark hair with dark brown eyes, and pale to dark skin)

Your darker neutrals can be worn together, or you can wear a darker colour with ivory, just keep the darker colour nearest to your face. Stay away from wearing pale colours by themselves. When pairing pale colours with a darker neutral, keep the lighter colour away from your face, just be careful where you wear these colours – they generally make things look larger.

Vanessa getting it right by adding a dark purple scarf
around the white shirt, adding dark colour near her face.

These are some great colour combinations that work on you:

Ivory and plum or aubergine

Pewter and red or burgundy

Black-brown and rose or salmon pink

Black and mustard or fern

Dark forest green and turquoise or aqua

Dark navy and true blue

Kim looking stunning in Navy.

For blue, stick to the dark shades from periwinkle to royal blue. No pastels or powder blue shades.

Lira in Blue.

Same goes for the purple shades, plum and dark aubergine is best.

Red is your best friend, choose true red, scarlet, raspberry shades and burgundy.

Eva in True Red.

For pinks, blush pink, salmon and rose is the better choices.

Halle in blush pink.

Eva in salmon pink.

Orange is not so great, but mustard works well – especially if your skin is not too pale. Lime green also works well for you.

For sea green/blue colours, stick to the darker shade once again. Emerald turquoise, aqua and Chinese blue.

For makeup, you look best with darker eyes. Choose dark colours for eye shadow and eyeliner, like dark mocha shades, aubergine, and deep shades of teal and smoky greys. If you prefer something more natural, use mocha shades with apricot on your eyes. Blush can be a peachy rose shade and lips can be anything from tomato to brick brown shades, or use a wine coloured lip gloss for an easy go-to option.

Remember, the darker your skin, the darker your makeup colours need to be – so never purchase makeup in shades like shimmery pastels and too light silvers and white – this will just look odd.

The next blog will be about the COOL colouring group – then we’ll be finished with the MY COLOURING series.

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