Brooklyn, I'm definitely going to wear more black than before, especially in summer, when I can also bare some skin. And also more contrast.
I've always worn and liked black, although all-black used to feel like too much dark for me. And during our winters, I crave colour because the landscape around me (relentless grey) depresses the heck out of me.
I think all-black will still be (mostly) too heavy for my personal colouring, but black with skin, black with white, black with ink, or black with pops of colour and metallic may turn out to be favourites in the future.
I had my colours "done" before joining YLF. When I walked into the room wearing no makeup and a true red shirt (and my highlighted dark blonde hair), the analyst thought I was probably an autumn. Once we got talking, she thought I might be a spring (probably because I'm quite animated in conversation).
She put some fabrics up to me and quickly discarded any idea of a "warm" toned season. Yellows and oranges make me look dead.
She then assumed I must be some kind of light summer. HA. The pastels made me look even worse than bright orange did.
She futzed and futzed and finally called me a true summer...but on consideration, ripped all the lighter colours in true summer's palette out of the wallet she gave me, replacing them with the "cool" (jewel toned) hues of the "cool" wallet (somewhere between winter and summer). She could not understand it because I did not seem to be high contrast enough to balance the deeper hues, yet there was no question that I looked better in mid-tones to darks as compared to lights.
I have also -- always -- looked good in high contrast. Not high contrast large prints near my face. No way. But all ink with white collars and cuffs -- that type of contrast. It really sets me off.
That is even more obvious now with the silver hair. It's been interesting for sure!
