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Can a Color that Matches My Eyes not Work for My Face?

8/28/2017

Oh yes. Millions of brown-eyed Winters look bad in brown.

Part of the explanation is that our actual eye color is rarely what we call it. If you take a picture of yourself and use a color picker (like in MS Paint) to pick out your eye color, you'll discover this.

(For example, most people would say my eyes are green. But when I use a color picker, the color I get is always some variant of grey. My eyes just read as green in the context of my skin and my Soft Autumn colors.)

The other part of the explanation is that eyes aren't the key factor that determines our beauty; the key factor is the apparent health of our skin.

There's no use in wearing a color that makes your eyes pop if those eyes are "popping" out of an otherwise unlovely look. Case in point: here, too-dark hair and black jacket make True Spring Cameron Diaz's eyes stand out, but at the expense of her overall impression. The rest of her seems a little lost.

Don't match your eyes; match your skin. The right colors for your skin will always make your eyes look amazing -- and might reveal in them colors you never saw before. :-)

Try at-home draping!

9 Comments

Mary Ellen

8/28/2017 03:05:15 pm

I wish I had a nickel for each time a sales person either in clothing or at the makeup counter has told me that I should wear something just because it brought out my eye color. Even friends do this to me. I then tell them that I am much more concerned about what a color is doing to my skin and not just my eyes. I have blue eyes that always catch people's attention, so I am always told "That color looks great! It brings out the color of your eyes." My eyes can take any color. I want my skin to glow!!! This is why I think color analysis is so important.

Liz

8/28/2017 04:36:48 pm

Thank you for this post! I'm a bright winter who has long been less-than-thrilled with my dark brown eye color, because I really don't look very good in brown. But I just used the color picker tool and discovered that in certain lighting, my eyes actually have a good deal of purple in them! This is a rather crazy discovery to me, but there you have it! Very thankful to you and your site for helping me discover things like this!

Beth

8/28/2017 05:19:42 pm

Again, you bring light to an interesting subject and make me think. According to my driver's license; I have green eyes. According to many color theorists, I should have lots of green in my wardrobe. It is supposed to make me look good; or be energetic, give me stamina or tranquility. But, yet, I continue to purchase blue, pink, black, white or ivory, peach or coral, and sometimes, if it's green, it might be mint or an olive jacket or jeans. No real green. I am a nature and animal lover and I feel very uncomfortable in it. I avoid it like the "plague." I guess, it must be somewhere in my brain, I am intuitive about my skin color; maybe . . .

Kristy

8/28/2017 07:36:47 pm

As a brown eyed True Winter who looks horrible in brown, I've given this a lot of thought myself. My eyes look straight deep chocolate brown from a distance, but if I look at them in the mirror very closely, I see a blend of red and green tints with a charcoal-navy ring around the rim. Nature is wonderfully weird!

8/28/2017 09:39:16 pm

Oh my goodness, yes. I think my path to finding my color season was unnecessarily complicated by trying to match my eyes. I kept assuming that because some colors could make my eyes turn unbelievable colors (grey, blue, turquoise or green), I had to be that season. But my actual season (LSu) doesn't change the color of my eyes that much. My skin looks much clearer in those colors though.

I enjoy reading these blog posts each week. Just one more piece of info for the style files. :)

Rosetta

8/29/2017 04:25:12 am

This is interesting; I have soft/light green eyes with some brown, and my eyes connect with most greens, though some of them are very bad for my skin (especially the cool ones)... Then again, golden olive / moss could probably be called my best eye colour enhancer (as well as skin) :)

Anna

9/4/2017 07:12:33 pm

Thanks for the colour picker tip. My green eyes are actually mostly grey too. That explains why I wear so much grey.

Actually, I don't know if anyone's read David Zyla's book where he recommends you wear colours that match certain parts of your skin, eyes, hair, etc, but I've just redone his tests using a colour picker app instead of relying on my own perception and the colours are actually the ones I wear the most anyway now, not some weird results I had to convince myself about like before.

Thanks for the tip anyway, it was so useful.

Rachel

9/8/2017 11:39:14 am

I love Zyla's book. Great insights there.

Trisha

9/6/2017 06:10:21 am

Yes, I have experienced the green eye "problem" too. When I was younger (thirties and forties) I was diagnosed as a Deep Autumn and the very dark olive of my eyes was actually a colour I could wear well. One of the very first indications that my colouring was changing, was that these greens no longer looked good (my dark brown hair was then having to be dyed slightly lighter as well). This is when I got "redone", starting with Truth is Beauty colou cards (excellant) which came out as Bright Spring, I then went to a local colour adviser to get draped properly and the results, yes I had changed to Bright Spring. So those dark, deep greens are gradually being phased out and a lighter, brighter palette coming in, which lights up the skin. By the way, if you get the right shade of green for your season, you should be able to still wear green and have your skin and eyes both look good - same if you have blue eyes etc.

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