https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/share-your-tricks-for-wearing-the-wrong-colours Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:23:21 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/share-your-tricks-for-wearing-the-wrong-colours/page/2#post-2017161 Mon, 01 Apr 2019 13:50:09 +0000 Angie 2017161@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Here's what I think:</p> <p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://youlookfab.com/2013/09/05/how-to-wear-colours-that-dont-love-you-back/">https://youlookfab.com/2013/09.....-you-back/</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/share-your-tricks-for-wearing-the-wrong-colours/page/2#post-2016985 Mon, 01 Apr 2019 00:43:22 +0000 Becky 2016985@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Unflattering colors generally don't appeal to me, but occasionally I will do as many others have mentioned and wear them on the bottom (beige trousers), as a bag (yellow), or as shoes (brown leopard print). </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/share-your-tricks-for-wearing-the-wrong-colours/page/2#post-2016965 Sun, 31 Mar 2019 22:14:17 +0000 nuancedream 2016965@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>With unflattering colors, like black, grey, navy, and fuschia/pink for me, I make sure that those colors comprise no more than 20% of my outfit.&nbsp; Pairing less suitable colors with more flattering colors or neutrals helps too. Sometimes, I add a scarf or necklace in more flattering colors.&nbsp; I definittely keep the unflattering colors away from my face (shoes are OK) but I don't wear them near a body part I don't want draw attention to.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/share-your-tricks-for-wearing-the-wrong-colours/page/2#post-2016599 Sat, 30 Mar 2019 02:04:14 +0000 Belladogga 2016599@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>If I like a colour and looking at it makes me smile, I wear it - I don't think about whether it flatters me or not. I don't wear beige/light khaki and light grey... though I suspect light grey might work better now that my hair has so much white in it. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/share-your-tricks-for-wearing-the-wrong-colours/page/2#post-2016573 Fri, 29 Mar 2019 23:38:27 +0000 unfrumped 2016573@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What Liesbeth and shevia said.<br /> All the usual— it still has to be a color I actually like. Such as warm fall colors warmer khaki or olive or rust— or optic white for its great summer appeal but that doesn’t look that great on me.<br /> So will wear as pants or skirts, or a T with different jacket, or prints with combo of warm &amp; cool colors work well. Shoes can be almost any color but some neutrals are still better skewing cool.<br /> However, I’m trying to be very careful about what I would buy in such colors.<br /> I love trench coats but think it would be a bad idea for me to invest in most of the tan- beige ones. Too much of the color and too much $$.<br /> So I’m actually trying to use “ right/ best color as an easier way to focus shopping and walk away.<br /> I have the opposite problem of sometimes buying something because I can’t resist the flattering color, and yet it’s not great in other important ways. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/share-your-tricks-for-wearing-the-wrong-colours/page/2#post-2016563 Fri, 29 Mar 2019 21:45:51 +0000 rachylou 2016563@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have a tee in mustard, mustard is not my colour, that I put an orange-red blazer over. So I get my mustard but people see a larger dose of a colour that looks better on me... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/share-your-tricks-for-wearing-the-wrong-colours/page/2#post-2016351 Fri, 29 Mar 2019 11:16:38 +0000 April 2016351@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Echoing the suggestion of wearing the non-you color on your bottom half (a skirt, shoes), and/or in an item that you will eventually take off (a coat) or put down (a handbag). </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/share-your-tricks-for-wearing-the-wrong-colours#post-2016337 Fri, 29 Mar 2019 10:00:47 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 2016337@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I wear what I like, which means avoiding those colors—they don’t appeal to me. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/share-your-tricks-for-wearing-the-wrong-colours#post-2016327 Fri, 29 Mar 2019 06:42:57 +0000 jussie 2016327@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The only colour that I really, really can’t wear is bright white. It just. Looks. Bad. Black and white print? Fine! Great! But white on its own makes me look sick. No amount of make up or tweaking seems to help. A jacket or cardi over top in a colour is the only real way to minimize the problem, plus make up, plus a scarf..... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/share-your-tricks-for-wearing-the-wrong-colours#post-2016324 Fri, 29 Mar 2019 05:48:16 +0000 RainB 2016324@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Fortunately a lot of the colours that don't look good on me, I don't particularly gravitate towards anyway. But there are a couple like yellow and white that I would like to wear. So I:<br /> - counter the effects with lipstick or jewellery<br /> - satisfy a colour craving with shoes :)<br /> - relegate it to lounge wear </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/share-your-tricks-for-wearing-the-wrong-colours#post-2016311 Fri, 29 Mar 2019 02:49:51 +0000 Jaime 2016311@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I put the bad colors on my feet. Certain olive and mustard shades are deadly near my face but work brilliantly as shoes or even bags (if broken up by better colors near my face). Olive in particular makes my face look sallow but actually blends with my legs and makes them look longer.&nbsp;</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/share-your-tricks-for-wearing-the-wrong-colours#post-2016307 Fri, 29 Mar 2019 02:41:14 +0000 Gaylene 2016307@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I recently fell hard for a gorgeous soft yellow cashmere hoodie when I saw it paired with a soft grey pant on a mannequin. In the dressing room, I managed to convince myself the hoodie was a cool, muted shade of yellow which just might work now that my hair is charcoal instead of dark. I wore it twice before reluctantly admitting that all the tweaking in the world wasn’t going to transform that sweater into something I’d feel good wearing in public. Not only did I look ill in that sweater, I felt even worse thinking of the $$$ I had spent on a now non-returnable garment. </p> <p>Strangely, though, I still loved the concept of a soft, buttery yellow sweater and realized that same sweater, turned into loungewear with my grey sweatpants, sparked unreasonable joy in my soul every evening when I cuddled into its softness. By the end of the year, I figure its CPW will be next to nothing. So now I’m thinking maybe this is how I’m meant to wear all those colors which I love, but which don’t love me back? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/share-your-tricks-for-wearing-the-wrong-colours#post-2016303 Fri, 29 Mar 2019 02:16:11 +0000 Leslie 2016303@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>How about a purse? </p> <p>I am a cool-leaning neutral with light blonde hair-- a light summer. These are cool pastels and some soft mid-range colors. With my natural darker hair, I am a soft summer. This is darker cool colors but soft or grayed versions. I wear both.<br /> I have spent the last few years getting rid of my warm tops and replacing with better colors for me. My weakness was ever lime and olivey greens. Limes make me look very yellow and sickly. Olive is okay as long as it is cooler/grayer with no yellow undertones. I once had a yellowy olive purse. It was a compliment magnet.</p> <p>Like Bijou, I can "cheat" and wear cooler oranges and yellows plus turquoise. I have one light yellow tee--pink-sequined flamingos and palm fronds, so irresistible, but it has a scooped neck and is darker/yellower than my hair. And I just don't care for orange. But with time, I have come to love my dusty pastels and dark burgundies and greens. </p> <p>My one cheat: black. Because all it is is really, really dark gray... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/share-your-tricks-for-wearing-the-wrong-colours#post-2016291 Fri, 29 Mar 2019 01:10:09 +0000 taylor 2016291@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>So many colors that I love dont “work” for me:)<br /> I love the idea of wearing colors we love in flattering ways , even if they aren’t magical against our skin !<br /> Thanks so much for this thread .<br /> I love how everyone has their way of bringing in a rainbow to their wardrobe.<br /> My favorite way of wearing my unflattering color... is to wear it on my lower half. Skirts , slacks and bright denim , also shoes and handbags all work in the best way </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/share-your-tricks-for-wearing-the-wrong-colours#post-2016286 Fri, 29 Mar 2019 00:49:48 +0000 Alexandra 2016286@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The real trick to wearing any wrong-for-you color is *just don’t*. Clothes in your best colors cost the same and take the same amount of time to put on and take off as those in colors that don’t flatter you. So why would you ever spend money on clothes that don’t make you look and feel your best? Especially when you know it going in. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/share-your-tricks-for-wearing-the-wrong-colours#post-2016238 Thu, 28 Mar 2019 21:59:57 +0000 Brooklyn 2016238@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I am a cool coloured person trapped in a warm coloured body, so I have lots of tricks. Plus I really only have about 3 “good” colours (brown, rust and dark red) and my wardrobe would be pretty boring if I stuck to them (not to mention empty given the colour trends over the last 10 years). Here are my tricks:<br /> *wear bad colour as part of a pattern<br /> *wear bad colour on lower half or in a bag<br /> *wear good coloured scarf with bad coloured top<br /> *wear good coloured high neck top with bad coloured jacket or coat<br /> *wear gold jewellery to warm up a bad cool colour (for others - silver jewellery to cool down a warm colour)<br /> *wear lots of blush<br /> *dont wear my bad colours near my face on days when I’m feeling tired or unhappy (it will make me feel worse, a good colour will make me feel better)<br /> *dont wear my bad colours on bad hair days (as above) but, conversely, do pull them out on the (unfortunately occasional) great hair day. Because I can conquer the world when my hair is looking good :)<br /> *a new trick of late - overdye items I like in a tint that’s more flattering to me. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/share-your-tricks-for-wearing-the-wrong-colours#post-2016179 Thu, 28 Mar 2019 19:19:31 +0000 Sal 2016179@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I avoid my worst where I can - icy pastels, muddy colours, optic white, cool taupe, citron and chartreuse. These aren’t my favourites so this is fairly easy. Then there are the ones I do like and can make work but are not my best - black and navy for example. I try not to wear them with some skin showing, makeup and a bit of a sparkle. </p> <p>In your case TG I think camels/ beige and navy or black would work well. I would choose a coat or pants or shoes over a top. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/share-your-tricks-for-wearing-the-wrong-colours#post-2016178 Thu, 28 Mar 2019 19:06:22 +0000 Helena 2016178@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I love how everyone has found their own balance between wear what looks best, and wear what you love - makes sense that the two would often overlap anyhow! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/share-your-tricks-for-wearing-the-wrong-colours#post-2016173 Thu, 28 Mar 2019 18:48:08 +0000 Style Fan 2016173@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I am an Autumn (golden) and I love earth tones.&nbsp; I was born loving earthy colours.&nbsp; I do wear black but keep it away from my face.&nbsp; I wear a strong earth colour like cognac with black.&nbsp; I also wear silver jewellery and gold jewellery.&nbsp; If I am wearing silver I try to put something warm with it like amber or opal. &nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/share-your-tricks-for-wearing-the-wrong-colours#post-2016127 Thu, 28 Mar 2019 16:29:47 +0000 nemosmom 2016127@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My natural coloring isn't neutral enough to wear all the colors that I love, without looking like death, so I also tend to avoid it. I tried adding those colors only on bottom, but end up with orphans because I simply don't know how to style them or pair them with other colors in my wardrobe. I'm experimenting more with <i>contrast</i> v. color and that is helping...</p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/share-your-tricks-for-wearing-the-wrong-colours#post-2016120 Thu, 28 Mar 2019 16:11:15 +0000 anchie 2016120@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I try to avoid it, but I do make mistake from time to time. Then I struggle with it, force my self to wear it few times, try to make it work, but it gets donated eventually. For me it is more important that color makes me happy then to look good on me. And if color does't make me happy it is irrelevant if it is accessory or clothes, close to my face or far away.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/share-your-tricks-for-wearing-the-wrong-colours#post-2016118 Thu, 28 Mar 2019 16:09:12 +0000 The Cat 2016118@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Generally, I avoid them. I have finally realized that I look best in cool (and preferably clear) colours. However, I still have some jewellery in "wrong-for-me" colours (like gold and brown) which I want to keep for personal reasons. My solution is to wear those pieces with one of my best non-neutrals, like deep pink, bluered, saturated purple, bright blue or hot torquoise. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/share-your-tricks-for-wearing-the-wrong-colours#post-2016113 Thu, 28 Mar 2019 16:02:42 +0000 Liesbeth 2016113@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I don't generally wear colors that are very wrong for me (warm yellow, oranges and neon colors) as they also tend to clash with my (limited) color palette. I do like the juxtaposition of warmer and cooler neutrals and think I can get away with it - I've diagnosed myself a soft summer so leaning towards autumn :). I love the look of navy or grey with tan or cream. That being said I wear the colors that are less flattering either on bottoms, in shoes and bags or sometimes in a coat or cardigan that I leave open (or wear a scarf with) so there's a huge block of a more flattering color to balance the other one out.<br />Also prints with small doses of unflattering colors are nice to shake things up. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/share-your-tricks-for-wearing-the-wrong-colours#post-2016101 Thu, 28 Mar 2019 15:27:16 +0000 UmmLila (Lisa) 2016101@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have summer coloring, if you subscribe to the seasonal approach. I know quite well that cool pinks, purples, teal, blue, and navy are my &nbsp;best colors.</p> <p>Yet, somewhat like Bijou, I can get away with a lot of others. Just bought a bright yellow dress! </p> <p>I find that Nars / Laura Mercier radiance primer under tinted moisturizer really prevents the washed out look that can result from going a little off book. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/share-your-tricks-for-wearing-the-wrong-colours#post-2016097 Thu, 28 Mar 2019 15:09:36 +0000 JAileen 2016097@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Diana, I have those exact shoes! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/share-your-tricks-for-wearing-the-wrong-colours#post-2016095 Thu, 28 Mar 2019 15:08:49 +0000 JAileen 2016095@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I added mustard last year. I have a vintage Coach bag in mustard that was an orphan. So I added some shoes and scarves, and wear them with colors that work for me. So not big swaths of mustard, just accessories. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/share-your-tricks-for-wearing-the-wrong-colours#post-2016094 Thu, 28 Mar 2019 15:08:07 +0000 Diana 2016094@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>My biggest one is just not to wear it near my face. &nbsp;The further away from my face, the better. &nbsp;So shoes and handbags in whatever color, but more flattering colors for tops and scarves. &nbsp;</p> <p>For example, I can't wear mustard near my face but it's fun in shoes! I am tempted to try these. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/share-your-tricks-for-wearing-the-wrong-colours#post-2016093 Thu, 28 Mar 2019 15:02:29 +0000 Janet 2016093@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I mostly wear them in prints that also incorporate my "good" colors -- orange, rust and cognac being my most prevalent examples. There are lots of prints that incorporate those colors along with turquoise, teal and blue, which makes them work better for me. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/share-your-tricks-for-wearing-the-wrong-colours#post-2016077 Thu, 28 Mar 2019 14:13:42 +0000 smittie 2016077@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>So, we have similar colouring, although I think my skin probably runs yellower than yours (I'm quite yellow actually). My tips for beige are:</p> <p>- For me, the beiges that work best are the ones that contrast more with my face, i.e.: the darkest beiges you can find. These include tobacco and brownish beiges. &nbsp;If I wear a beige that is similar to my skin tone, it just is not enough contrast and washes me out, even if the undertone is cool. I have found that cool tones that are too light just don't look that great on me, despite being cool. So for example, a light lilac doesn't look that great on me.</p> <p>I've also discovered that warm colours look ok, as long as they're dark, saturated tones. (I might have more neutral colouring than you, which enables me to wear these colours. I'm not sure.)</p> <p>- Wear heathered beige. For some reason, when it is heathered, it looks better next to my face.</p> <p>- Wear beiges that you like. I love tobacco and rusty beiges. I'm less fond of blushes, and light beiges (though I might be ok with light beige with a massive amount of navy worked in). When I like a colour, it is so much easier to wear.</p> <p>I like a strong orange, and acid yellow, and I think both work well on me because I like the sunniness of them.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/share-your-tricks-for-wearing-the-wrong-colours#post-2016073 Thu, 28 Mar 2019 14:07:48 +0000 Bijou 2016073@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I seem to have very neutral colouring, because there are very few colours that I don't wear. I think I said at one time that I don't wear orange or yellow, but now I do and I like them... </p> <p>I am not sure if I had been conditioned to think that I could only wear cool colours or whether my eye has adjusted and so whilst orange and yellow may not be my best colours I enjoy wearing them anyway.</p> <p>My advice is to wear and enjoy! Make up, handbags, footwear, scarves, belts and toppers always helps to integrate a colour so considering a colour and how it interacts with the other items you are wearing is a good strategy. </p>