Colour makes or breaks you
Saturday, April 11, 2009 1:45 AM
I realise that colour really does have an important role in dressing or choosing hair\eye colours.
Honestly, knowing what looks good on you really adds to your self-esteem and also helps you look brighter and healthier. It's not plainly being vain, it's finding out what really looks good on you. You don't want to look like dull and sick, or have your skin clash the colour of your clothes because you look REALLY horrid, and trust me, there are some really bad examples.
Clothing\Accessories
I'm sure all of us have seen that obiang HDB auntie who dresses like a tai-tai with extraordinary colours and lots of jewellery. Often, they look really really pale, sallow, or washed out.
Have you thought of what makes her look so sickly and pale?
Mostly it comes down to bad make-up choices or bad colour choices.
Singaporean Chinese make up most of the HDB aunties and taitais. Their skin colours are usually yellowish and medium beige (not like pinkish angmohs - well they look pink, that's how we differentiate Chinese from Caucasians aside from hair colour if you think about it)
After doing extensive reading, I have gathered that:
1. They look sickly because they wear outrageously bright colours
On most (I would say all but I haven't seen all Chinese in the world) Chinese, yellow shades wash their skintones out and make us look pale because of the bright, yellow colour. Almost as if your skin colour is competing with the bright yellow, and ultimately the bright yellow draws more attention, making your skin look sallow and ill.
2. Gold jewellery? Pfft. Not too much, please.
Yes, golden adds shine and sparkle. However, similar to the yellow issue, gold may wash face and skintones out. Additionally, since the gold is yellow-based, it blends in more with the skin. However, contrasting silvers would stand out against yellow-beige skin. If you must wear gold jewellry, don't overdo it!
3. They need to look for their best colours instead of their favourite
Colour analysis is important in determining which colour looks best on us - colours that complement our skintone, eyes and hair.
We've learnt that bright yellow on yellow-beige washes beige out, making skin look pale. Gold doesn't stand out. Similarly, if you look at Caucasians, pale pink shades probably look a little dull and blend in too much because of their pink skintones.
However, everyone can actually wear any hue. And this is why: every hue has its own shade of warm and cool tones - just pick the right one!
There are many websites online offering colour guides\analysis, very in-depth too, and if you don't want people to think you're sick, or if you want nicely harmonised colours and no harsh hue clashes, google helps.
Hair colour
1. People dye their hair and go running back to the salon the next day.
Either that, or they live with their bad mistake for a long, long time. Most of our best colour tones can be separated into "Cool" and "Warm" tones (Just like Art, eh).
Many people think they are both but unfortunately, that isn't the case. Asians are mostly "Cool" people. Guess why those lians look horrid and so artificially "barbie" in bronzey, copper hair tones? That's because these are "Warm" colours and they absolutely do not go with"Cool" colour profiles. They wash you out, make you look like some doll - really artificial and unnatural.
Check out these two examples of Angelina Jolie. (Taken from: See copyright)
(Not that in both pictures, she has eyebags)
The photo in the left is when AJ made a short (thankfully) excursion into a coppery-blonde, and the second is a more cooled-down, subdued, ashy natural brown. Which one suits her skintone more, ignoring makeup?
As you can see the lighting in the first picture is warmer, yet compared to her hair, AJ looks pale and washed out - even sick. However, even with cooler lighting, she looks really healthy and bubbly in the second picture. All accounting for makeup and lighting differences.
Sticking with your natural hair colour is probably the safest way to go. You're born with hair that complements your eye colour and skin colour. If at all, get highlights that suit your colour profile (that means NO intensely warm blondes, coppers and bronzes). You don't want to mess with nature - you want to enhance it.
So if you absolutely have to dye your hair, choose something that suits you - no harsh yellow, blonde, copper, bronze or reds for us "Cool" Asians - Chinese, Indians, Malays, Olive-skinned Asians, also African Americans.
Sometimes going with the flow is just not the way to go.
Saturday, April 11, 2009 1:45 AM
I realise that colour really does have an important role in dressing or choosing hair\eye colours.
Honestly, knowing what looks good on you really adds to your self-esteem and also helps you look brighter and healthier. It's not plainly being vain, it's finding out what really looks good on you. You don't want to look like dull and sick, or have your skin clash the colour of your clothes because you look REALLY horrid, and trust me, there are some really bad examples.
Clothing\Accessories
I'm sure all of us have seen that obiang HDB auntie who dresses like a tai-tai with extraordinary colours and lots of jewellery. Often, they look really really pale, sallow, or washed out.
Have you thought of what makes her look so sickly and pale?
Mostly it comes down to bad make-up choices or bad colour choices.
Singaporean Chinese make up most of the HDB aunties and taitais. Their skin colours are usually yellowish and medium beige (not like pinkish angmohs - well they look pink, that's how we differentiate Chinese from Caucasians aside from hair colour if you think about it)
After doing extensive reading, I have gathered that:
1. They look sickly because they wear outrageously bright colours
On most (I would say all but I haven't seen all Chinese in the world) Chinese, yellow shades wash their skintones out and make us look pale because of the bright, yellow colour. Almost as if your skin colour is competing with the bright yellow, and ultimately the bright yellow draws more attention, making your skin look sallow and ill.
2. Gold jewellery? Pfft. Not too much, please.
Yes, golden adds shine and sparkle. However, similar to the yellow issue, gold may wash face and skintones out. Additionally, since the gold is yellow-based, it blends in more with the skin. However, contrasting silvers would stand out against yellow-beige skin. If you must wear gold jewellry, don't overdo it!
3. They need to look for their best colours instead of their favourite
Colour analysis is important in determining which colour looks best on us - colours that complement our skintone, eyes and hair.
We've learnt that bright yellow on yellow-beige washes beige out, making skin look pale. Gold doesn't stand out. Similarly, if you look at Caucasians, pale pink shades probably look a little dull and blend in too much because of their pink skintones.
However, everyone can actually wear any hue. And this is why: every hue has its own shade of warm and cool tones - just pick the right one!
There are many websites online offering colour guides\analysis, very in-depth too, and if you don't want people to think you're sick, or if you want nicely harmonised colours and no harsh hue clashes, google helps.
Hair colour
1. People dye their hair and go running back to the salon the next day.
Either that, or they live with their bad mistake for a long, long time. Most of our best colour tones can be separated into "Cool" and "Warm" tones (Just like Art, eh).
Many people think they are both but unfortunately, that isn't the case. Asians are mostly "Cool" people. Guess why those lians look horrid and so artificially "barbie" in bronzey, copper hair tones? That's because these are "Warm" colours and they absolutely do not go with"Cool" colour profiles. They wash you out, make you look like some doll - really artificial and unnatural.
Check out these two examples of Angelina Jolie. (Taken from: See copyright)
(Not that in both pictures, she has eyebags)
The photo in the left is when AJ made a short (thankfully) excursion into a coppery-blonde, and the second is a more cooled-down, subdued, ashy natural brown. Which one suits her skintone more, ignoring makeup?
As you can see the lighting in the first picture is warmer, yet compared to her hair, AJ looks pale and washed out - even sick. However, even with cooler lighting, she looks really healthy and bubbly in the second picture. All accounting for makeup and lighting differences.
Sticking with your natural hair colour is probably the safest way to go. You're born with hair that complements your eye colour and skin colour. If at all, get highlights that suit your colour profile (that means NO intensely warm blondes, coppers and bronzes). You don't want to mess with nature - you want to enhance it.
So if you absolutely have to dye your hair, choose something that suits you - no harsh yellow, blonde, copper, bronze or reds for us "Cool" Asians - Chinese, Indians, Malays, Olive-skinned Asians, also African Americans.
Sometimes going with the flow is just not the way to go.
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