28/09/2023
FRAME COLOUR
Your skin, hair and eye colour are important in choosing the best and most flattering colour for your frame. Your frames should enhance your skin undertone and shade, either by contrasting your shade with a lighter or darker one or by complementing with a more saturated hue.
· Skin Undertone
This is the natural colour underneath the surface of your skin.
There are three main undertones: warm, cool and neutral. Warm undertones range from peach to yellow and golden. Some people with warm undertones also have sallow skin. Cool undertones include pink and bluish hues.
If you have a neutral undertone, this means that your undertones are roughly the same colour as your actual skin tone.
Cool undertone - stick with pink and green, as well as black, grey, blue. purple and red that have pink tones to them. Tortoiseshell will look good on all skin tones.
Warm undertone - aim for beige, brown, yellow, gold, pink and peach hues look great against your skin. As before, tortoiseshell will look good on all skin tones.
Neutral undertone - most colours will look good so neutral, cool and warm coloured frames.
Olive undertone – this looks great in earthy colours, as well as gold and green but avoid warm colours, as these can make your skin look too yellow.
· Skin Shade
These skin tones can be split according to overall shade - light, medium and dark. This means there are 6 main groups of skin colour.
Which is most like you?
Light Skin with Warm Undertones – if you have paler, peachy complexion and a yellow or green undertone to your skin, then try warm neutral, warm tortoiseshell or brown to complement your skin[ or Darker colours with a touch of purple or red to contrast with your skin.
Just not blues or lighter colours, as they will tend to wash out your delicate colouring
Light Skin with Cool Undertones - if you have lighter skin which is slightly pink with blue undertones, you should choose cool colours such as cool blues, pinks, cool beige.
Avoid yellow, gold and green, as this tend to make your skin look pasty.
Medium skin with warm undertones – if you have light brown skin with yellow or green undertones then you should try earthy colours such as tortoiseshell, warm brown, rich green, green-brown ang old to complement your skin colour.
Don’t try cooler colours as these will clash with your skin tone.
Medium Skin with Cool Undertones – if you have a light brown skin with pink or blue undertones or an olive skin with these undertones then you should try blue, purple and blue – red to contrast or blue= black and dark grey to complement.
Avoid subtle or warm colours which can clash with your skin or can blend in so much they disappear.
Deep Skin with Warm Undertones – if you have dark brown skin with cool blue undertones, you should try warm, deep brown,
rich gold, green-gold and warm tortoiseshell to complement your skin tone.
Deep Skin with Cool Undertones – if you have dark brown skin with blue undertones then try purple, black, blue-green and smoky blue to complement. Consider blue-white to give a striking contrast.
· Hair Colour
Golden Blonde, Honey Blonde, Bronze Blonde – if this is your hair colour, then try lots of colours but especially p*k, brown and tortoiseshell.
Platinum Blond, Ash Blonde, Grey Blonde – you should try black, blue, purple and cool pink frames.
Auburn, Gold Brown, Red Brown – if this is your hair colour then try brown - green, red – brown, gold or tortoiseshell.
Light Brown, Ash brown, Light Auburn - you should try - black, pinks, blue, pale brown, beige and tortoiseshell coloured frames.
Red – if this is you, try tortoiseshell or green frames. If your hair is dark red, try blue, green-blue or black. If you are orange-red, try green or gold.
Brown-Black, Blue-Black - if this is your hair colour, try black, green, blue or brown. For contrast, consider red or purple frames.
Grey, White – try black, bright red or purple for contrast; grey or white frames to complement. Avoid beige or brown as these tend to age your colour.
· Eye Colour
If you have vividly coloured eyes you might want a frame with the same colour to enhance your eye colour. Alternatively. Try these colours for a different effect.
Green Eyes – contrast frame colours would include pink or purple. Complementing colours would be warm brown or golden colours.
Blue Eyes – these are complemented by blue or grey frames, whilst warm brown or tortoiseshell will give contrast.
Hazel Eyes – grey, deep green or gold will accentuate these coloured eyes.
Brown Eyes - try tortoiseshell, gold or green frame colours.
· What impression do you want to give?
Powerful Image - if you want to give a powerful, competent image, you should consider grey, brown, black, gold or silver
Creative Image - if you want to look fashionable, then consider daring colours or more conservatively try bold accent colours on a traditional main colour.
