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Cool
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Cool
For a Cool color code, shades of blue, green, purple, and red pair best with gray, white, silver, or salt 'n pepper hair color.
Avoid Autumn
As a Cool, your color palette has a fabulous selection of pinks, blues, and purples with blue undertones. Avoid wearing warm shades of autumn and brown neutrals like beige, camel, or tan as they tend to have a yellowing affect on you.
How to Wear Contrasting Colors
As a Cool color code, wear medium- to high-contrast color combinations. High contrast combinations are created when a dark or bright color is worn with a light hue. Two stunning examples are black with white or hot pink with pale pink.
For a medium color contrast, an example is pairing bright pink with rose.
Your best animal prints are zebra, leopard, cheetah print in cool colors.
Accessories
Silver or white gold jewelry are your most harmonious metals. There are always exceptions to wearing yellow gold, yet too often, the yellow will fade your natural coloring, making you look tired.
White or gray pearls are a beautiful complement to silver. Also look for jewelry with complementary colored stones, especially turquoise.
Bags & Shoes
- For the most balanced look from head to toe, match your handbag and shoes with your hair color.
There are a few differences depending on how silver your hair is. If you're a brunette with streaks of silver, then a dark brown or black shoe and bag combination will be a knock-out every time. If you have totally white hair, then your best color choice is a bone-white shade.
Makeup Colors
- Pretty pinks, plums, and soft mauves should fill your color cosmetic palette.
Accent your eyes with gray, plum, and taupe.
Add a pop to your cheeks with blush in shades of berry, plum, or rose.
Go softer with your blush and stronger with your eye shadow.
The intensity of your lip color should harmonize with your eye color, i.e. the darker your eye color, the deeper the shade of lip color.
A tinted lip gloss in a shade of berry is a great alternative to lipstick.
Cool Color Code
Cheat Sheet
BEST NEUTRALS
Black, Charcoal, Gray, Navy, Zebra Print
BEST WHITE
Pure White, Winter White
BEST METALS
(best to least)
Silver, White Gold
BEST COLOR POPS
Blue, Purple, Pink
PERFECT COLOR COMBOS
Red + Zebra Print + Black + Silver
Hot Pink + Navy + White + Silver
AVOID
Shades of Spices, browns, and muted colors