What Colors Look Good On You?

February 23, 2010

Interview with David Zyla, author of the book The Color of Style

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Mike Carruthers:
What color really looks good on you? You can start by looking at the veins on your wrist.

David Zyla:
And the color that’s there could be purple, it could be blue, it could be green, and then if you go further, look at which shade of purple, blue or green is that and that is your "dramatic" color.
 

Fashion expert David Zyla, author of the book The Color of Style...

The dramatic color is your "Ka-Boom" color. It’s your guest of honor color it’s the power tie on a man, it’s the dress to make an entrance on a woman – it’s fantastic for a job interview as well.

Your romantic color or your shade of red is the color of your finger after you pinch it and your energy color is the color of the iris of your eye. So if you have blue eyes…

Look at your eye very closely and start to describe which blue, are they cobalt, are they sky, and are they turquoise?

But what about black, can’t everyone wear black?

I can’t wear black; it doesn’t look good on me. So, yeah it doesn’t work on everyone, everyone has their own version of black, though. Some people are a deep burgundy, another person’s could be the deepest violet, and it’s probably a dark color because we’re taking the color from the ring of the iris. Speaking from myself the ring around my iris is dark olive and that’s my version of black.
 

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