Selection of Frames Depending on the Color Type

In order to choose the right frame, it is important to consider not only your face type, but also your natural color, or, in other words, the color type. We’ll talk about how to determine it today.

What Does “not My Color” Mean?

To begin with, let's figure out why, when tinted with the same color, one person will look bright and rested, and the other will look pale and dull. It turns out that everything is simple! Clothing and accessories worn over us reflect one part of the light incident on the 1 and absorb the other. Light radiation, perceived by our eye as colored in one light or another, can both positively and negatively affect our appearance: if this color is complementary to the natural Branded Sunglasses in Pakistan for our skin, then the face will appear cleaner, fresher and younger, if no, the opposite will happen: the face will appear tired, and wrinkles, dilated vessels and bruises under the eyes - more noticeable.
In this regard, of course, the question arises of how to understand which colors are suitable for whom. We will consider it further.

Summer is Not Winter

Among those who are interested in issues of fashion and style, today it is almost impossible to find a person who would definitely not hear anything about the theory of the so-called seasonal color types, which became widespread in the 1980s. 2 According to this theory, all people, by analogy with the four seasons, can be divided into four color types: “winter”, “spring”, “summer” and “autumn”. Two of them - “spring” and “autumn” - are warm, the other two - “winter” and “summer” - are cold.

Why are color types named after the seasons? The fact is that they have the same color scheme as the corresponding seasons: “winter” - cold, saturated and contrasting colors, “spring” - bright and clean, “fly” - cool and light, as if faded under by the rays of the sun, but the “autumn” is soft, muffled and warm. The practical meaning of the theory is that having determined the color type of a person, pick up his clothes, makeup, accessories of those colors that would be complementary to his appearance.

The color type "winter" is characterized by cold, saturated and contrasting colors.

Summer Glasses

In theory, everything is simple, but practice shows that in the appearance of many people there are signs of different color types and determine the dominant, which would allow a person to be attributed to one of them, and accordingly, choose the right colors for him without professional styling, often very difficult.

Cold or Warm?

Fortunately, as the experience of image consultants dealing with the selection of Branded Glasses in Pakistan shows, in order to choose the color of the frame for the client, it is not so necessary to know for sure whether it refers to “autumn”, “spring”, “summer” or “winter”. It is much more important to understand whether its color is warm or cold. According to the recommendations of the website of the German independent organization KGS (Kuratorium Gutes Sehen), which is engaged in educational work related to vision issues, everyone can try to determine it on their own using a simple test, which we recommend taking notes. 3 So, for the test you will need:

• two pieces of fabric (one is fuchsia, the other is orange)
• mirror
• good lighting.

The procedure is as follows: a person sits in front of a mirror and then puts on his face first fabric of one color, then another. If we are talking about a woman, it is desirable that there is no makeup on her face, and her hair, especially if it is colored, has been removed from the face. If it becomes obvious that the orange color makes you fresher and rested, then your color type is warm, if your face looks more advantageous against the background of fuchsia, then it makes sense to talk about a cold color type.

In order to make sure that your intuition did not disappoint you, as well as to expand our understanding of cold and warm color types, we bring to your attention a description of each of them. The description is based on three main criteria:

• Natural complexion. In fact, complexion 4 is the most important criterion for color analysis. The complexion is given to each of us from birth and remains unchanged throughout life, except that pigmentation intensifies over time.
• Natural hair color. This criterion is of great importance when conducting color analysis, but it should not be overestimated. In some cases, especially when it comes to dyed hair, it can cause errors and errors in determining the color type, so you should focus only on the natural color of the hair.
• Natural eye color. This criterion should be considered together with the first two.

Warm Color

So, we will start with the warm color type, widespread in Scandinavia and the UK, and analyze it “in composition”.

Unlike all other tones, orange does not have cold colored sunglasses in Pakistan, so orange frames are suitable only for representatives of a warm color type

Eye color: color and its intensity can be any.

Complexion and skin type:

• The skin tone can range from ivory to yellowish golden, apricot. In people who belong to a warm color type, the skin undertone is always warm, yellowish, which is perhaps their most important difference from representatives of a cold color type.
• The skin type is different: from very light, sensitive, easily burning in the sun to a darker one, which tans well, resulting in a beautiful warm color sunglasses in Pakistan.
• If freckles are present on the face, then they have a golden, yellowish, sometimes reddish color.
• The color of the lips is usually brownish, but with insufficient pigmentation of the skin, it can be pinkish-bluish, because of which the face takes on a slight Sunglasses in Pakistan.

Hair color:

• Light, copper, reddish-golden, chestnut-red.
• With age in people of this color type, cold gray shade of gray hair is mixed with a natural warm shade of hair, as a result of which the natural color becomes less intense. As a rule, despite the gray hair, a slightly yellowish or golden tint in the hair still remains. It slightly softens the shade of gray hair.

Examples of suitable colors:

• from shades of white: milky white or cream, champagne, ivory;
• a wide range of shades of brown from light to dark: beige, honey, hazelnut, mahogany, etc .;
• from shades of green: apple green, May green, turquoise, olive;
• from shades of blue: aquamarine, turquoise;
• from shades of red-yellow gamut: apricot, orange, coral, tomato, salmon;
• from shades of red-brown scale: brick, burgundy;
• from shades of yellow: sunny yellow, mustard, corn yellow. 

A frame of warm shades of brown will help emphasize the natural beauty of a woman whose color type evokes associations with a luxurious autumn palette

Cold Color Type

People of a cold color type, as you might guess (by analogy with people of a warm color type), are united by the fact that cold tones are present in their appearance. A detailed description of the cold color type of appearance looks as follows. 
Eye color: color and its intensity can be any.


Complexion and skin type:

• The skin can be pink with a cool bluish tint, as well as from very light, the so-called porcelain, to dark olive. Attention: sometimes sunglasses in Pakistan may seem yellowish at first glance, however, it will not look warm, but cold. If in doubt, attach a blue cloth to your face and evaluate the effect: if blue improves skin color, then its owner is a representative of a cold color type.
• If freckles are present on the face, then they have a grayish rather than a honey tint.
• Lip color has a cool bluish tone.

Hair color:

• From the sunglasses of “ash blond” too dark blond and blue-black tones.
• In representatives of the cold color type, gray hair can have different sunglasses in Pakistan: from matte light gray to pure white, which is often found in dark-haired people.
• In some men, the color of the beard may not match the color of the hair on the head. Sometimes a beard can have a red tint, but this does not mean that its owner automatically becomes a representative of a warm color type.

Examples of suitable colors:

• from shades of white: boiling white, bluish-white;
• from shades of brown: gray-beige-brown, gray-brown, chocolate;
• various shades of gray, up to black: granite, bluish-gray, anthracite;
• from shades of green: reed (light green), mint, turquoise, bottle green;
• of shades of blue: light blue, gray-blue, aquamarine, royal blue, indigo;
• from a blue-red scale: lilac, pink, purple, fuchsia, lingonberry, burgundy, eggplant.
• from shades of yellow: lemon.

Some practical tips for color matching frames

• It is believed that silver color jewelry is suitable for representatives of a cold color type, while gold is suitable for representatives of a warm color type. And theoretically, this is true. (There is even a test when a person is asked to evaluate what suits him best: gold or silver, and on the basis of the result obtained, a conclusion is made about his color type.) However, it should be understood that depending on the composition of the ligature, metals, or rather their alloys (since in its pure form, metals are not used in the manufacture of frames), can have both a warm and sunglasses in Pakistan. So to consider that the representative of a cold color type, the gold color is not suitable, in principle, very recklessly.
• If you radically change the color of your hair more often than you tend to change the frames, then it makes sense for you to purchase a two-tone frame that combines warm and cold colors at once. Such a frame is quite universal, as it is suitable for both warm and sunglasses in Pakistan.
• The color of the frame should emphasize the color of the eyes. The darker the last, the more color options with which it will be in harmony. The universal option is black, which will add radiance to the eyes of any color.
• The color of the frame should not repeat the color of the eyes, otherwise, there will be a "conflict" of colors. That is, the blue frame should not be recommended to the owner of blue eyes, and green to the owner of green. The only exception is brown eyes, which often benefit from being next to various shades of brown.

White color goes to representatives of both cold and warm colors. It is only important to find the right shade of white

The Natural Level of Contrast

If we talk about the contrast of appearance, then here the first thing that matters to us is the contrast in it off white and black, that is, the contrast in lightness. How to define it? You can try to do it offhand by comparing the skin tone, the color intensity of the hair and eyes of the one whose appearance we are analyzing. With very dark skin, like Africans, the whites of the eyes and teeth are also taken into account - provided they are, of course, as bright and white as the Kenyan actress, winner of the Oscar, Lupita Nihongo. Otherwise, there will be no bright contrast.

Most people with fair hair are known to have low and medium levels of contrast; dark hair color, against which even dark skin looks lighter, usually increases the chances of high contrast. Nevertheless, the owners of a high-contrast appearance can be not only white-skinned brunettes, similar to Disney's Snow White and Italian actress Monica Bellucci. Bright blondes such as Gwen Stefani are also found among them, although less frequently.

Determination of the Contrast of Appearance Empirically

In addition to the eye, you can determine the contrast of the appearance using a special grayscale with 10 divisions, on which achromatic colors are located in a row - from very light to dark. In addition to this scale, a high-quality black and white photograph of a person with a clearly visible face is also required.

The procedure for further actions will be as follows:

• identify the darkest and lightest parts of the face in the photograph,
• then bringing the photo closer to the scale, understand what numbers on it these sections correspond,
• then subtract the smaller from the larger number. If the difference, in the end, is from 0 to 3 units, then the contrast will below, from 4 to 6 units - average, and from 7 to 10, respectively, high.

The whole procedure can be carried out using a graphical editor, such as Photoshop. A step-by-step guide on how to do this, on the Internet, by the way, is available.

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