HOW TO COMBINE YOUR COLORS - HAIR COLOR REPEATS

HOW TO COMBINE YOUR COLORS IN DRESS

1. COMBINATIONS...REPEATING HAIR COLORS

This recipe provides common-sense short-cuts that make dressing easy. The idea is to keep you in the picture by providing a color bridge connecting you with the colors you wear. Once you know the rules, you will have the ability to deliberately create new looks and even wear colors "outside" of your Homebase colors. Your hair and eye colors are your "free colors" and the following guidelines show you exactly how to use them.

We begin with repeating your hair and eye colors, then repeating your contrast to keep you from looking "blurred and out of focus." Then we include colors that substitute or match the natural light and dark values in your coloring, and wind up showing you just how to wear colors OUTSIDE your Homebase color category.

The combining of colors presented here applies to everyone, regardless of Homebase colors. Homebase colors are important and give us a foundation to build upon, but once you learn the concept of repeating hair, eye and contrast colors, you will always have a smooth, fully put together look. These concepts will give you a common sense approach to dress that will serve you like magic all your life.

The best advise for putting together an elegant classic wardrobe is simplicity — learning to keep it simple. The most direct and powerful way to accomplish this is to start by buying your basic wardrobe items in colors that closely match the color of your hair.

Below is an example of how changing the color of the background and clothing brings this lady into balance.

Repeating your hair color gives you a neutral color, or common medium, that will tie you and your wardrobe together. The picture we are trying to achieve is to connect your own neutral coloring with the colors you wear. For the eyes to focus and feel peaceful, they need to see colors or values that match. The Law of Attraction draws colors together and improves the match if the colors at all within range of each other (if the colors are too far out of range, the colors separate and the extreme difference is then emphasized.) Once you recognize the harmony that is created from closely repeating your hair color, it is so obvious that you wonder why you didn't see it before. Think of people you know. Imagine their shoes approximately matching their hair:

         red hair / rust shoes
     brown hair / brown shoes
      auburn hair / wine shoes
      “mousey hair” / taupe shoes
       camel colored hair / camel shoes
         light blonde hair / bone shoes
         dark brown hair / dark brown shoes
         charcoal gray hair / charcoal shoes
         stark white hair / white shoes
      black hair / black shoes

DRAWING OF MAN AND WOMAN SHOWING HOW SHOE COLORS COMPLETE THEIR FRAME

Many people do not understand that their hair color establishes the foundations for their whole wardrobe. They disregard their own coloring and often wear clothes that make them appear "scrambled."

CARIACTURE OF 4 SEASONS HAIR, PURSE AND SHOE COLORS ALL "SCRAMBLED" AND UNREPEATED

To begin, simple match the color of your shoes to your hair the top and bottom of your frame will then look pulled together. Accessories in your hair color will feel so natural that they will be the ones you wear most often. This will keep your look simple and "uncluttered."

Why do we use your hair color as a neutral basic color for your wardrobe? Because when you repeat your hair color in your dress or accessories, you are not adding an additional color, you are merely repeating yourself which keeps your total look simple and uncluttered. This alignment of colors frees you to "showcase" other colors more effectively. Whether you wear one, two or three of more colors together makes a great difference in the picture you project. One extra color is classic, two colors are casual and three colors are playtime.

See Advanced Study On Using One, Two or Three Color Combinations

In building your wardrobe, think in terms of repeating your hair color in at least one pair of slacks/pants, shoes, belt, sweater, wallet or purse. This begins your wardrobe foundation.

You may ask the question, "What color represents the color of may hair." Find a color on the following hair-color-chart that comes closest to your hair color. It should be in your Homebase section.

HAIR COLORS ARRANGED IN HARMONIC SEQUENCE

Maybe you can't imagine your particular hair color used as a basic neutral color. In the beginning, the idea of using a neutral color for your basic wardrobe may sound limiting. But persevere because the concept affords remarkable results. There is a wide variety of colors in your Homebase that can repeat, substitute or mimic your hair color. Your neutral colors include not only the exact color of your hair, but all colors you see in your hair, ranging from the darkest shadow to the lightest sun-tipped end. Learn to look at hair color differently. See the subtle gradations of color that are actually there by looking at them exactly as they flatly project. This is easy to observe in magazine photographs.

PICTURE OF HOW MANY COLORS MATCH OR SUBSTITUTE FOR HAIR COLOR REPEATS

Red hair has so many warm highlights that the whole warm spectrum from red, rust, orange, brown, gold and cream act as approximate hair color repeats.

"Blondes" can have many tones in their hair, from light-colored outer hair and ends, to darker charcoal tones underneath. Even cream, tan, sand, ecru, bone and soft whites act as hair color repeats.

PHOTOS SHOWING HAIR COLOR REPEATS

PHOTOS SHOWING HOW TO REPEAT HAIR COLORS

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