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The right color combination is part of being stylish
There is this quote of Nicky Hilton saying
Fashion is what you buy. Style is what you do with it. - Nicky Hilton #fashion #quote Click To TweetShe is totally right. Nobody – even a Heiress, celebrity or Princess – just looks stylish because they wear expensive clothes. Lack of styling know-how makes them just look fashionably expensive, but not pin-worthy.
Just wearing expensive clothes is a recipe to secure a place on the worst dressed list. #fashionvictim Click To TweetThere are many elements to being stylish. One aspect is your color choice for your look.
Despite many women prefer to wear neutral color combination, how to look stylish in neutral colors and not look Old Lady is an art. Full on color is tricky too. To avoid to look like a box of crayons from kindergarten, one best follows these expert tips on looking effortlessly stylish in fashion colors. The easiests, read fool proof, way to wear colors is using the help of the color wheel. This post shows an example of how to wear analogous colors.
The color wheel is your best friend for a stylish look
Analogous colors are those that are adjacent on the color wheel. For instance, yellow, yellow-orange, orange; when you go for four colors in your outfit add red-orange. Another example is blue-violet, blue, blue-green. Or like in the OOTD, yellow-green, green, blue-green or how it is more fashionably called lemon, green, and teal. Besides the hue, you can also play with the tint or shade. In other words, use analogous colors in pastel (tint) or with muted colors which include black (shade).
Other cool color wheel pairings
Going with the primary colors (red, yellow, blue) is a bold color and style statement over 40. Read risky. But when your personal style are bold colors, you may be able to pull it off. Key is to put the color(s) that don’t flatter your face away from it. In my case, I would put the red or blue close to the face.
The same applies when you go for secondary colors (orange, green, violet). To be on the safe side it’s always the best to just take two of the three. However, there are tips and tricks to how you can look great with more than 3 colors in an outfit.
Color-block with complimentary
A classic – read fool proof – combination are complimentary colors like yellow with violet, red with green, or blue with orange. You see the complimentary color to a primary color is the combination of the respective two other primary colors. You can also see it that way that the complimentary color of a secondary color is the primary not included in creating the secondary color from the primary colors. LOL.
Let nature inspire your look
Another easy way – besides using the color wheel – to create great, stylish color combination is to repeat the colors of a print that is part of your outfit. You could also use nature for inspiration of the color combination for your outfit.
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You can find further outfit ideas with analogous colors at the link.
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Top of the World Style linkup
Welcome to the 163rd Top of the World Style linkup party.
Top of the World Style awardees
The awardees of this party are Salazar, Paula, and Julie.
Salazar, the style blogger at 14 Shades of Grey was the readers’ favorite at the last party. Her outfit is a classic combination of two primary colors. She is a film school graduate from Vietnam, who went to school in the US. She loves to read, write, cook and take photos. On her blog, she shares her journey in finding her personal style and documents what she wore. She also is one of the bloggers who run the series SIA, Style Inspired by Art.
I fell in love with Julie’s pink simple summer dress. Julie is the everyday style blogger at This Main Line Life. She started blogging as a way to connect with others and to write a little about her life, raising a family, fashion, and shopping on the Main Line, which is in the metropolitan area of Philadelphia. She shares some favorite local spots, mom insights, and plenty of fashion finds.
Paula was drawn to be the Top of the World Style feature. She is the lifestyle and DIY blogger at Virginia Sweet Pea. Paula started her blog in 2009 as a way to share her projects. She loves to be domestic, enjoys DIY, crafting, cooking, decorating, sewing, gardening and most recently, she started furniture makeovers!
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