https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/oops-worst-colour-ever Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:11:46 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/oops-worst-colour-ever/page/2#post-1242974 Tue, 06 May 2014 00:52:39 +0000 rachylou 1242974@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm not good in "dusty" colours either. I just look like mud. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/oops-worst-colour-ever#post-1242972 Tue, 06 May 2014 00:49:10 +0000 Suz 1242972@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Shudder. I have had this experience.&nbsp;</p> <p>For me, anything yellow or yellowy-green (citron) is deadly. Equally, I look awful in coral or orange. Anything neon is too strong. I guess I could echo everything rabbit said. &nbsp;Even though our colouring looks different. Skin tones must be similar in some way.&nbsp;</p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/oops-worst-colour-ever#post-1242917 Mon, 05 May 2014 23:51:17 +0000 Alassë 1242917@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yep - Air Force dress uniform top, pale blue.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/oops-worst-colour-ever#post-1242765 Mon, 05 May 2014 21:03:20 +0000 Lavinia 1242765@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I look ill in "muddy" colours - anything that seems to be mixed with some kind of brown, including mustard. I also dislike wearing bright red, bright green, kelly green, apple green - I gues anything that doesn't have any blue in it ...</p> <p>I love purples, plum, raspberry, violet, lavender,&nbsp;pink, dusty pink, blush and all shades of blue, teal, turquoise,&nbsp;anything pastel, and&nbsp;black and white.</p> <p>According to the definition from one of torontogirl's link, I am a "dark winter". </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/oops-worst-colour-ever#post-1242661 Mon, 05 May 2014 19:32:31 +0000 Aziraphale 1242661@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>rabbit -- I'm like that with blue. I look great in light blue, but not pale, icy blue.&nbsp;(I don't know about lavender; this is the first lavender top I've ever owned).&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/oops-worst-colour-ever#post-1242660 Mon, 05 May 2014 19:30:47 +0000 rabbit 1242660@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>For me it's yellow and neon anything, and any earth tones that are more often seen in the landscape of&nbsp;hot climates rather than somewhere cool and rainy like&nbsp;Scotland.</p> <p>I like the seasons (I'm some kind of winter) mainly because they solidified what I'd been noticing for awhile and gave me some new colors to try. &nbsp; But it's not exact, hair dye skews things a lot :). &nbsp; Some lavenders are good on me, some not so much. &nbsp;The same with pale gray, but sometimes I don't mind looking ghostly. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/oops-worst-colour-ever#post-1242656 Mon, 05 May 2014 19:24:16 +0000 Alexandra 1242656@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yes, the tan/beige/camel group has that effect on me. A great color to wear if I ever want to get sent home from work for looking ill </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/oops-worst-colour-ever#post-1242624 Mon, 05 May 2014 18:59:36 +0000 Neel 1242624@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Dusty *any color* makes me look ... Washed out, sick and like I haven't showered in a week. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/oops-worst-colour-ever#post-1242619 Mon, 05 May 2014 18:55:37 +0000 Aziraphale 1242619@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think that's the bottom line. Pick colours that look nice. What "season" you are doesn't matter for anything other than idle curiosity -- sort of like knowing what zodiac sign you are. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/oops-worst-colour-ever#post-1242614 Mon, 05 May 2014 18:53:48 +0000 Helena 1242614@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Echo, I'm like that too - sort of straddling some different seasons (deep soft summer and cool summer). </p> <p>Thanks to the Fabbers' patience with my infinite color questions, I've learned&nbsp;that, at least for me,&nbsp;it doesn't much matter -having got it down to two or so,&nbsp;there is then quite a bit of&nbsp;overlap. You might find&nbsp;you could pick your faves from the two palettes (deep winter/autumn), and they would all look pretty great!&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/oops-worst-colour-ever#post-1242605 Mon, 05 May 2014 18:44:40 +0000 Echo 1242605@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks, torontogirl! I am almost certainly a deep autumn or deep winter, although I still cannot figure out which.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/oops-worst-colour-ever#post-1242600 Mon, 05 May 2014 18:39:33 +0000 Aziraphale 1242600@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Thanks for the links, Torontogirl! I read through them. Still not sure if I'm a deep autumn, but a lot of the colours on the list work for me.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/oops-worst-colour-ever#post-1242599 Mon, 05 May 2014 18:37:55 +0000 JulieJohn 1242599@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Icy pastels. Just ghastly. Never sure what color season I am but I have warm skin and low contrast looks. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/oops-worst-colour-ever#post-1242581 Mon, 05 May 2014 18:16:28 +0000 EveningMood 1242581@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Pastel pink. I have a natural dislike for pastels and I won't go near them normally, but this make-up artist in a French Sephora decided he was going to give me a Parisian pout. It was this super washed out light pink lip pencil that made my face look so newly made vampire. The guy deepened the color when he noticed I was horrified, but I have never forgotten how bad it looked.<br /> I don't know my season either, but from my color preferences, one could say that I want to be a dark winter even if I am not </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/oops-worst-colour-ever#post-1242574 Mon, 05 May 2014 18:12:02 +0000 Helena 1242574@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Aziraphale, I wish I had that eye for color - great when you can identify its effects like that!&nbsp;</p> <p>Based on the fact that your skin is likely warm, a cool pastel makes you feel you look awful, and looking at the photos of yourself, I thought perhaps you were a deep autumn. The I looked at a color analysis site, and it says if dusty lavendar is a bad one, you may be a dark autumn! So that may be a good season to explore if you are interested, or if that's not the one, perhaps a warm autumn&nbsp;:)</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.truth-is-beauty.com/what-season-are-you.html">http://www.truth-is-beauty.com.....e-you.html</a>&nbsp;</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.prettyyourworld.com/deep-autumn.html">http://www.prettyyourworld.com/deep-autumn.html</a>&nbsp;(aha - this one also notes lavendar as a bad one for deep autumns. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/oops-worst-colour-ever#post-1242566 Mon, 05 May 2014 17:59:27 +0000 catgirl 1242566@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Pale lavender is on my worst list, along with any shade of beige/tan and most pastels. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/oops-worst-colour-ever#post-1242556 Mon, 05 May 2014 17:32:32 +0000 Lavinia 1242556@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I found that a little make-up can help colours that are "not your best" to look slightly better :)&nbsp;<br />For instance, I have a tomato red (so, a true red)&nbsp;winter coat that I look dreadful in. It completely washes me out. However, after putting on some simple eye make up, blush and perhaps a light lipstick, it's not so bad anymore.&nbsp;</p> <p>I was also thinking that you might try a lightweight scarf over the tee in colours that are more suitable for your skin tone. Or perhaps wear the tee as a layering piece.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/oops-worst-colour-ever#post-1242547 Mon, 05 May 2014 17:20:00 +0000 Echo 1242547@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Well that completely blows what little I thought I understood about colour, too! I used to work with colour theory in printing, but never as to how it related to people, so I am completely out of my element when it comes to understanding how a colour looks good or awful on two seemingly similar skin tones.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/oops-worst-colour-ever#post-1242544 Mon, 05 May 2014 17:08:55 +0000 Aziraphale 1242544@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Echo, that's weird, because I think I look better in yellow gold too (although I prefer white gold), and I know I suit a lot of colours that warmer skin tones look good in,&nbsp;like mustard yellow, olive green&nbsp;and teal. However,&nbsp;pale blue is one of my very best colours. There must be more than one kind of "warm" skin tone, I guess? </p> <p>&nbsp; I don't understand this colour thing!</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/oops-worst-colour-ever#post-1242541 Mon, 05 May 2014 17:04:23 +0000 Echo 1242541@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I know exactly what you mean. Baby blue/ice blue is that colour for me, and regardless of how many times I've tried it, everytime I look in a fitting room mirror I almost literally recoil at how awful it makes me look.&nbsp;</p> <p>I've never done colours or had my colours done, but I would imagine I am a warm of some sort, simply because I overwhelmingly look better in yellow gold. I am very pale, so I think my face looks like it could be cool or at least neutral, but I do tan so I think I have to actually have some yellow undertones. Whatever the reason, I can never wear pale blue. They say there's a red for everyone, which may be true, but I can tell you from experience that there is NOT a pale blue for everyone! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/oops-worst-colour-ever#post-1242523 Mon, 05 May 2014 16:45:09 +0000 Aziraphale 1242523@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Diane, I don't know what "season" I am. I kind of wish I knew, just out of plain curiosity. How did you find out yours?&nbsp;I'm not even positive about my skin tone.&nbsp;I've asked the drag queens at the MAC counter a few times, and they have a hard time answering. They usually say it's neutral or warm-ish, but they never say cool. So I guess that means I'm not a "winter".&nbsp;</p> <p>Interesting to hear other people's worst colours! Janet, I have a feeling I'd look bad in citron too, but I've never tried it on because I don't care for it. It's funny (and unfortunate) that sometimes the colours we like and the colours that look good on us aren't the same. Or how the colours we don't like DO look good on us!&nbsp;</p> <p>Windchime, I read somewhere that everyone looks good in blush pink. Maybe there is a shade you could wear? A slightly darker blush?&nbsp;I know I've read that there is a shade of red for everyone, and when you get down to it, pink is just watered-down red. :-)</p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/oops-worst-colour-ever#post-1242513 Mon, 05 May 2014 16:29:43 +0000 cinnamon fern 1242513@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I sympathize. &nbsp;If I have the right mental image, that's a color I love but look truly awful in. &nbsp;I made up for it by painting my home office that color.</p> <p>And, like LBD, heather grey is pretty awful too. &nbsp;Which is too bad, because I really like it. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/oops-worst-colour-ever#post-1242507 Mon, 05 May 2014 16:24:13 +0000 Elizabeth P 1242507@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have a really nice lavender exercise top.&nbsp; Every time I wear it I don't even want exercise in it, it makes me feel so drab and low energy.&nbsp; Funny thing that! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/oops-worst-colour-ever#post-1242497 Mon, 05 May 2014 16:15:56 +0000 Mary Beth (formerly LBD) 1242497@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Heathered gray. &nbsp; My BF ordered us matching, lounge-around Coca-Cola sweatshirts, with a really cute logo. &nbsp; Very comfy too - until I get a glimpse in the mirror and realize I look feverish and sallow and exhausted, all at the same time.</p> <p>But that sweatshirt does not set foot out the door, not even to take the garbage downstairs. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/oops-worst-colour-ever#post-1242495 Mon, 05 May 2014 16:13:51 +0000 Gigi 1242495@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hmm, pale lavender...I might go for that! I don't generally look good in pastels, but I have a lot of mauve undertones to my skin, so sometimes I can get away with lavender. Baby blue, on the other hand...now that's a different story. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/oops-worst-colour-ever#post-1242476 Mon, 05 May 2014 15:49:17 +0000 Vildy 1242476@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Got a fun vintage cashmiracle faux cashmere topcoat. Hard to tell exact color in thrift shop's yellowish (spaghetti bulbs) light. Dusty mauve. The horror! Passing it along. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/oops-worst-colour-ever#post-1242470 Mon, 05 May 2014 15:39:02 +0000 Windchime 1242470@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Well, that's a bummer! I keep admiring all the beautiful blush pink items which are so prevalent this spring. I've tried on several tops and toppers and they all really wash me out. It doesn't seem fair that we can love a color but not be able to wear it. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/oops-worst-colour-ever#post-1242469 Mon, 05 May 2014 15:37:46 +0000 Janet 1242469@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Citron. Looks lovely on other ladies here but makes me look like death warmed over.</p> <p>Actually, the color you describe sounds like one that doesn't work well for me either. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/oops-worst-colour-ever#post-1242467 Mon, 05 May 2014 15:36:09 +0000 Thistle 1242467@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The color that does that to me is yellow. Some fabbers look so fantastic in that color, but put it on me, and you'd think I was ill.</p> <p>Does go to show the power of color! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/oops-worst-colour-ever#post-1242466 Mon, 05 May 2014 15:31:46 +0000 Anonymous 1242466@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I hear you. That's so not my colour either! Maybe a spring or winter? I'm soft autumn I find that when someone wears a colour that doesn't suit, you notice the colour before the person and the person looks ill! </p>