Choose the right colors for your headwear to get beautiful results and stunning effect!

Choosing headwear can be challenging at the best of times.  Whether it is that spectacular hat for a special occasion, or just keeping your head and ears warm on a winter’s day, you have to get it just right.  Get it wrong and you get it REALLY wrong!

One-offs, fashion statement or simple practicalities, however you decide to use headwear, it’s a very personal choice.  But because of its inherent prominence, being on the ‘top’ of our heads, it needs to suit us, make us look and feel great, and above all we should feel completely comfortable when wearing it.

So how do you make sure you get it right?

Understanding your face shape is the first step.  The shape of your face is a key factor in selecting the best headwear for you.

However, color is also a huge influence on what works and what doesn’t for each individual.  When you wear colors near your face, light reflects off it and this can cast either flattering tones or dark shadows over your face, depending on your skin tone – this is why it is helpful to work out the best colors for you.

There is a psychological aspect to color too.  Soft and light tones, for example, make us seem approachable and may help us feel calmer, whereas brighter, more vibrant colors may come across as “go getting” and make us feel cheerful.

Historically, color analysis provides a framework to help us understand what colors suit each person, and how individuals can look their best, by combining their ‘personal best’ colors together.

The process of determining your best colors is done by analysing hair and eye color along with skin tone, producing instantly visible results in your style choices.  If you are experiencing hair loss, through chemo treatment, alopecia, lupus, trichotillomania (hair pulling) or the female equivalent of male baldness – androgenetic alopecia, this could be seen as a challenge.

Not so.  The fact it takes away one of the elements of color analysis, doesn’t necessarily make it a harder process.  Without our hair to dominate our features there is a clear choice, the next most prominent aspect of our faces is our eyes.

Many people believe that our eyes are the windows to our souls.  In terms of color analysis, they are also the windows to our personalities and therefore our inner (and resulting outer) style.  Our personalities are fundamental in the way we communicate with people and so choosing the right colors to match our personalities is important to getting it right.

For the large number of women who are now coping with significant hair loss,  a good way to improve self image and confidence is to gain a better understanding of their personal coloring and to experiment with colors they like.

What colors would suit me?

• If you have light colored eyes, pale blue, grey or light green eyes, you will look better in light colored headwear.  Black would simply be too harsh and severe and cast dark shadows over your face.  Choosing a stone or pewter-colored piece of headwear will result in a more flattering look.

• If you have dark colored eyes you will look better in rich colored and darker headwear.

• If you have green, brown or blue eyes with freckles on your skin or a golden glow, you will look great in warm colors such a chocolate brown or coral pink.

• Women with grey, blue, green or clear brown eyes with pink undertones to your skin then you look best in “cool” colors such as grey or sky blue.

• Are your eyes bright and shiny, often remarked upon by others or called jewel-like?  Whether they are blue, green or topaz, they are usually the first thing people notice about you.  You look best in brighter colors such as emerald, turquoise or blush pink to bring out the sparkle in your eyes and more muted colors such as taupe and pewter should be livened up with brighter shades from your pallet.

• Do you have eyes that are a soft and muted color - blue, brown, hazel or green or that often change in color?  You need soft muted colors such as natural beige or cocoa to enhance yourself and avoid being overpowered by colors that are too strong for you.

Color Matching