Colour & Personality

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Colour & Personality

What colour do you prefer? Colour theorists predict personality on color preferences. Here is a simple list of some of their predictions:

If you like blue, you are competent, capable, resourceful, and a good money maker.

If you like yellow, you are intellectual, self assured, sensible, confident, and secure.

If you like red, you are active, impulsive, out-spoken, admired, dynamic, and high-spirited.


If you like green, you are friendly, natural, outgoing, congenial, indulgent, and traditional.

Here are also some fashion tips for a better you:

Slouching adds pounds! Practice holding your chin and stomach in to improve posture and look thinner.

Tight elastic produce bulges.

A little looser (like salwars) is always better.

Keep your problem areas covered.

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Colour code


Colours can make or break an ensemble, whether you are dressing for party, office or wedding it makes a lot of difference. The shade of colour you wear can make all the difference to your attire. Personality is not simply about looking attractive, but it is colour sense and knowing the trick of playing with colours and wearing appropriate colour at the appropriate time and occasion. Proper dress code with proper colur code even boosts up your moral and you feel more comfortable and also make a lot of difference to the image you project.


For office wear in western outfits try out colours like khakis, olives, navy blue, black, beige and off-whites in synthetic fabrics. For Indian wear try wearing cottons linens in fresher tones of peaches, mints, light powder blues and mauves in delicate, soft and classic prints.


Planning proper colour combinations is also something, which should be natural, and it should give a softer and smooth feel and finish to your colour code as well as personality. Thus if you plan to wear a black trouser, then match it withy a sleeveless jacket in another colour. Add two or three options in neutrals, pastels and a dark bright colour to pair with the trousers. Similarly darker bottoms with lighter tone tops work out as a practical choice and look great. Team dark brown colour with rust and see the effect. This combination looks excellent and gives a brighter and warmer look. Similarly grays can be paired with blues to achieve cooler looks.


Planning eveningwear also seems tough but it is not. Only proper dressing sense with a little bit effort of style and colour choice makes your evening enjoyable and lovely. Evening wear no doubt is more design and trend oriented therefore choose it in metallic sheens of dark and bright colours in streamlined clean cuts, offset with colourful scarves, brooches and other accessories. Your evening wear colour scheme must be in blacks, grays, jewel tones of ruby reds, jade greens and mauves, tones of gold and silver convey a feeling of mystery.


Thus colour can be used to shape your personality and image and gives you more confidence. Though it is not easy to choose proper colour to match the occasion every time but it is possible to refine or nurture the senses. Refining or nurturing the senses results from the extent to which you familiarize yourself with colours and colour codes. This type of experience allows you to increase your sense of hues. Thus try to keep the ambience in mind and the occasion for which you have to prepare yourself and then you can opt for various possibilities.

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Look Great With Colours Colours can make you feel good and presentable. Proper colours not only enhance your beauty but it also makes you feel great. Colour is probably the most important element in the design of any product, service, institution and your image. Colour choice reveals personality, distinguishes work from pleasure, marks important events and makes you more confident and focussed in life.

Therefore you should learn to enhance your personality and image by using proper colours.

Here are some tips so that you can wear colour to your advantage:

If you are timid or shy, wear red or strong colours and others will perceive you as more assertive while you are still being you.

When considering colour for business, conservative is best - especially when meeting a new client - don't overwhelm them. Avoid white except in shirts and blouses for work.

Beige and grey elicit a tailored and professional image and are great colours to incorporate into your outfit with prospective clients because you're perceived as approachable.

Choose a muted pastel as opposed to pinks, baby blues and yellow in business apparel since that is appropriate for office wear and looks decent.

Black is best for formal attire as in suits and for evening events.

Navy makes everyone look good and communicates individual authority.
It's great for classic suiting as well as sportswear. The maritime look has always and will continue to always be in fashion.

Red, green and blue in assorted tints and shades are suitable for all occasions; however, straight green is not appropriate for the work place. Try olive, teal, or sage.

If you love yellow, try shades or tints of it such as gold and mustard.

If you want to appear smaller incorporate dark, cool and dull colours and textures. Dull textures absorb the light like wool or cotton. Some very slimming colours include black, navy, olive, violet, charcoal grey, chocolate brown, plum, eggplant and burgundy.

If you want an area to appear larger choose light, bright and/or shiny colours and textures. Shiny fabrics reflect light making an image appear larger.

If you want to appear taller, wear colours from the same colour family such as blue, navy and teal. Otherwise known as a monochromatic colour scheme, colour is wavelength and when wearing two different colours, the eye has to stop briefly to adjust to the different wavelength. When wearing colours from the same colour family the eye doesn't have to adjust.

Finally, when it comes to colour, wear the colour that makes YOU feel good and suit you (yes, when you are feeling blue - wear blue) and ones you receive complements on. It may not be the best one for your complexion but it is the best one for