How to Know Your Color Palette for a Dress

Find out which dress colors complement your natural ones.

The color of your dress is as important as its style. And just as your dress' style should complement your personality and suit the occasion, the color should enhance your body's natural color and harmonize with the colors of the season. If you'd like to know what colors go well with your natural colors, you can use your hair and eye colors to discover your personal color palette for your dresses.

Instructions

1. Determine which seasonal color palette your hair falls into. According to St. Cloud University's School of Business, spring hair colors are golden blondes, golden browns and reds. Summer colors include ash blonde and light ash brown. Autumn hair colors are golden brown, red auburn and chestnut. Ashes and ash black browns are winter colors.

2. Discover the seasonal palette your eye color belongs to. St. Cloud University's business school says blue, blue-gray, blue-green and light green are spring colors. Summer eye colors are blue-grays, greens and hazels. Autumn colors are dark brown, hazel and greens. Winter colors are blues, browns, hazels and greens.

3. Select a dress that harmonizes with the color of the season. Wear dresses with yellow undertones in the spring, gold undertones in the fall and blue undertones in the summer and winter months. Carl Thompson Cosmetics recommends contrasting black and white or using bright dress colors in the winter. Use deep or neutral colors in the summer and autumn and wear vibrant dress colors in the spring.

References

• St. Cloud University School of Business: Professional Dress Tips for Women
• Carl Thompson Cosmetics: Seasonal Color Analysis ...