Armocromia, 5 tips to find the perfect colors for your skin

Color analysis: friendly colors, enemy colors. How to determine the color palette that suits your complexion well, suitable for both makeup and clothing. Combine colors in harmony with these 8 tips!

Have you ever worn a color that turned you off, or left the hairdresser unhappy with a color that just doesn’t suit you? It’s not a coincidence, it’s science! From skin to eyes and hair, ideal and harmonious colors are defined for each of us. The nuances we wear correspond (or dystonia) to our skin tone, and the same universal rules apply to make-up, hair color, and clothing. For a professional assessment, an image consultant and beauty expert would be helpful, but we can also start to navigate on our own, knowing those few basic rules that explain how the color wheel works and which ones to approach without fear, and which ones to look at. more suspicion! Knowing which colors work best with your skin, eye, and hair color combinations is a practical and easy way to stay safe when choosing your palette and clothes, lipstick, or a pair of earrings…

When we started talking about it and 5 tips for recognizing friendly colors

We started talking about armochromia and the study of a color palette that matches the complexion of the face when the cinema switched to color from black and white. Color harmony is a fairly complex theory that first of all starts with the rule: choose colors by “reproducing” your natural colors: warm for warm undertones, cool for cool undertones. In addition to the undertone, which can be warm (slightly amber or golden) or cold (milky, olive or pink), the value associated with chiaroscuro is taken into account (if you are a transparent blonde, for example, your chromatic value will be very light and therefore you will be appreciated by light tones, if you have olive skin and dark hair, you will have a dark value and will appreciate these intense and dark colors), the contrast between the eyes, skin and hair, intensity, or rather what indicates that bright colors are better (typical for spring and winter palettes) or dull colors (typical for autumn and summer palettes).

Seasons: the first step to get your bearings

There are 4 macro color groups associated with 4 climate seasons: spring (warm, light and bright colors) and autumn (warm, saturated and opaque colors) for warm undertones, summer (cool, light and soft colors) and winter (cold, bright, dark colors) for cool undertones. For each season, there are three sub-groups that expand the range of possibilities and make the choice of the “friend” palette even more precise. Jessica Alba, for example, refers to the “autumn” season, and Anne Hathaway refers to the winter.

Winter colors

The Winter group includes all those who have a cool skin tone, mostly dark color and high color intensity. Dark hair and complexion of moon or milk color, with an overall high contrast, light eyes like Katy Perry, or brown eyes and hair like Keira Knightley, or olive like Penelope Cruz. Winter nuances are cold, but at the same time intense and brilliant. This is the only season where black (the coolest color of all) holds up well, so it can be the perfect base color for the perfect wardrobe. Green light for blue, navy blue or burgundy, purple, such as indigo, acid yellow, such as lime, and cool green, such as emerald green. Among the red options, it is better to prefer berry ones to warmer and orange ones, and for whites, it is imperative to focus on optical rather than ivory or cream shades.

Spring, warm and clear, high intensity

The “Spring” group includes people with warm skin tone, light value and high intensity. Those with radiant skin and light and very bright color shades fall into this category: honey blond and light eyes, like Cara Delevingne, warm red hair and bright eyes, like Emma Stone, brunettes with jade eyes, like Kate Middleton . Friendly colors are bright, warm, and shiny hues. Perfect bright blue or camel, all warm and rose reds, coral to peach, lots of greens from mint to apple, and bright blues like turquoise.

In autumn, heat and low intensity

The Autumn category includes people with warm undertones, dark values, and low intensity. Although there are many variations and it is not easy to identify, this season we are guided by skin color, gold and amber, regardless of tan. Among the celebrities who belong to the group “Autumn” there are rich brunettes, such as Eva Mendes, or golden-honey blondes with brown eyes, like Nicole Richie, and redheads, such as Julien Moore. The palette consists of warm and intense shades, like undergrowth. Tobacco brown, golden yellow, dark forest green, moss, olive, warm red and orange.
Even all the nuances of spices are especially suitable: from curry to cumin and coffee.

Chills … in the summer!

The “Summer” group includes all those who have a cool skin tone, absolutely pure color value and low intensity. Therefore, in the summer season, we see women with a particularly delicate and airy appearance, such as Elle Fanning, brunettes with light eyes, such as Bella Hadid, blondes with brown eyes, such as Kate Moss. The palette of a friend is cold and tender. Bluish gray and pearl gray are the main colors, but also pastel shades, blush, sherbet. this is the season best suited for pink, watermelon and raspberry, as well as sage green or jade. On the other hand, bright and warm colors are not recommended: these are colors that can accentuate skin discoloration.