Wearing colorful outfits is a great way to show off your personality and mood, but it can often be difficult trying to pick the right color. Many women prefer to wear more modest colors like white, black nude, grey, and navy, but you should embrace the color - whatever the season! To find out how to wear color, and which colors work best with others, carry on reading this helpful fashion guide from NADINE MERABI.
The first step
The first step in building up enough confidence to wear colors is figuring out which ones actually suit you best. You may love pink, so what type of clothes would you wear? Which social occasions would you wear pink? It’s a lovely, bright color that’s great for bright, sunny days. But, if you love it, you can wear it whenever you want, especially if it makes you feel amazing!
To figure out which colors work for you, it helps to work out the undertone of your skin and whether you have a warm, cool or neutral hue. Using a foundation-matching service, you can find out your skin tone hue and work from there to figure out the best colors for you.
The colour wheel
Have you ever heard of the color wheel? It’s a great way of figuring out which colors work best with others. There are many different types of colors you can wear, including analog, complementary, neutral, monotone, triad, and accent colors.
Analog colours
Analog colors are the colors that sit directly next to the color you have picked on the color wheel. Once you have picked your main color, look to the right and left of it and there will you have some matching colors for your next outfit.
So, for example, looking at the color wheel and picking yellow, the immediate colors on either side would be orange and light green.
Complementary colours
Complementary colors are worked out in a similar manner to analog but instead of looking directly next to your main chosen color, you look to the opposite side of the wheel. So if you were looking at yellow again, a complementary color would be a light shade of purple.
Triad colours
When picking triad colors, it can be a little more complicated. While looking at the color wheel, imagine the center of the wheel is the core of a triangle. The colors where the three points of the triangle meet will provide a balanced outfit, whatever way you move around the wheel!
Monotone colours
Monotone is a great way of wearing colors, especially if you favor one color heavily over others. The key to picking a monotone outfit using the color wheel is to choose a color of your liking and then accessorize the outfit with other shades of that same color.
So, if you like pink dresses, consider the EVIE hot pink dress from NADINE MERABI. You then need to pair that with other shades of pink. Adding something like our KIRA blush blazer is a smart way of achieving the look you’re after.
Neutral colours
Neutral colors are always a surefire way to succeed with your outfit. They’re especially great for the autumn and winter months. Neutral colors are black, white, grey, navy, and brown so mix them together and toy with different shades of each.
Accent colours
Finally, we have accent colors. This means adding a bright accessory that stands out from the rest of your outfit andadding some colorful pop to the look. This could be a brightly-colored scarf or a pair of shoes that stand out from your neutral-colored trousers.
One thing to remember with picking colors, whether you’re choosing monotone, complementary, triad, or neutral, it’s completely up to you. Choose the colors that you love and the ones that make you feel happy and confident! Be brave and go all out with the colors you want to wear.
Beautiful coloured clothes at NADINE MERABI
Did you know that you can read more about us as a company and find out the inspiration behind our beautiful clothes?
Once you’ve done that, make sure to browse our wide selection of beautiful clothing, including dresses, pajamas, jumpsuits, skirts, and more.
If you have any questions about our range of clothing or would like to check up on your order, do not hesitate to contact us at hello@nadinemerabi.com.
