I know some colors that I look awful in: the wrong tan, beige, or oranges or yellows make my skin look very orange or yellow. Like someone ambushed me with a bad spray-tan. Denim or dusty blues, greens, purples, and heathered anything, all make me look blue- or green-skinned - or bruised, like I just crawled out of a crypt.
On a recent visit to Goodwill, I tried on a peachy-pink/copper tweed jacket and it really shocked me - it made my cheeks glow, and my eyes clear, and my hair blaze. Usually those shades give me 'bad spray-tan'. This was somehow perfect. This palette is on my radar now. But the style was a little fussy and overprecious, so I put it back. But the colors are haunting me - I may go back, take another look, see if I can't Tom Ford/YSL 2005 it up a little - or maybe see if it can't be put with something to look a little edgier and more urban.
Dang it, now I am thinking about that jacket! Guess I will go back this weekend and see if it is still there.
I find my skin looks healthy and my eyes look clear in clear hues: blacks, whites, ivories, blushes and hybrid colors: violet-blue, turquoises, aquas, corals. Things that are more than one color. I don't really even know how to describe 'clear', it's something to do with the color looking like there is sunlight hitting it.