Correct Colors for Certain Blondes and Brunettes Part 1

Part 1 of a 1927 magazine article on choosing fashion colors to suit your hair color and personality

COLOR is at your disposal. The correct use of it can have an inestimable value in your life. If you do not pay any attention to its possibilities you are overlooking one of the means for acquiring and keeping beauty and an attractive personality.

A knowledge of your own type is based upon the coloring of your hair, eyes and skin. The same physiological reasons that give a person a certain coloring generally give that person a certain personality. You have seldom seen a Madonna brunette—the type with dark eyes and hair and colorless olive skin—who was extremely vivacious. Were she so, it is probable that her very vivacity would deepen the color in her cheeks and lips and make her the vivid brunette type. The way to benefit from these color charts that are being offered to you in three installments is to find the one that comes the closest to your own combination of coloring, then allow for any deviation in yourself from the true type in selecting your colors. These deviations usually come in the way of complexion changes. Remember that there are shades in types as well as in colors, and that a certain combination of hair, eyes and skin just as certainly makes you a certain type as does a darker and more vivid combination of the same coloring make another person the same type. There is simply a difference in the shades of the same colors that should be worn by these two persons; that is all.

The most desirable colors are those that enhance, deepen and bring out the beauty of the eyes, flatter the complexion and are pleasing with the hair. When a color can do all these things, and you can select a shade in that color that is becoming to your personality, you are using color to its utmost advantage in your life. Next in desirability are the colors that do only one or two of these things for you; and of no special desirability are the neutral colors that do not do anything in particular for you one way or the other. Neutral colors have their decided place in a smart woman’s street costume, of course; but they should be neutral colors, not unflattering ones. Shades and colors to be avoided are those that are actively discordant with either your hair, eyes or skin. A too-vivid shade, even in your becoming color, is not desirable for this reason.

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