Colors for You Chapter 10 – Clothing and Your Appearance Objectives:  Define basic color terms  Describe the relationship of colors in the color wheel  Identify the basic color schemes  Choose colors that enhance your skin tone, hair, eye color and body shape  Select colors that reflect your personality, moods and feelings

Understanding Color Terms Hue –the name of a color Value – the lightness or darkness of a color Tint –light value of a color made by adding white to the color Shade –dark value of a color made by adding black to the color Intensity –the brightness or dullness of a color Neutrals –Black, white and grey, white is the absence of color and reflects light, black absorbs all colors, grey is a blend of black and white

Color wheel –Shows relationship among colors and hues The Color Wheel

Primary Colors Pure colors that can not be made by mixing any other colors

Secondary Colors Made by mixing equal amounts of primary colors Evenly centered between the primary colors on the color wheel

Intermediate Colors Made by combining equal amounts of a primary and a secondary color Located between the primary and secondary colors on the color wheel

Complementary Colors Opposite each other on the color wheel Greatest contrast Look brightest when used together When mixed together in equal amount they produce grey

Warm Colors Red, orange and yellow Bright, cheerful and suggest activity

Cool Colors Blue, green and purple Restful, relaxing, refreshing, cool, soothing, and serious

Color Schemes Appealing combinations of colors

Monochromatic Using several tints, shades and intensities of one color

Analogous Adjacent colors – ones that are next to each other on the color wheel

Complementary Colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel

Split-Complementary One color with the two colors on the sides of the color’s compliment

Triad Three colors that form an equal sided triangle on the color wheel

Accented Neutral Neutral color is combined with a bright color accent

Selecting Your Best Colors Skin contains brown, yellow and red pigments May also contain blue and yellow undertones (may be seen by looking at the underside of the wrist) Blue undertones – you look best in cool colors Yellow undertones – you look best in warm colors

Selecting Your Best Colors Hair and eye color also affect your selection of the best colors for you Method 1 – choose tints or shades that match your hair and eyes Method 2 – choose clothing in complimentary colors

Selecting Your Best Colors Sometimes your personal coloring is described as one of the 4 seasons Blue undertones – winter or summer coloring Yellow undertones – spring or fall coloring