What’s Your Color?
by Deryn Susman, age 14, from MA
Girls love to shine in the summer. But sometimes they are unintentionally harming themselves through methods such as tanning. It may seem like an ordinary thing to do in the summer, but by doing so, girls expose themselves to harmful UV rays. This radiation can often be the cause of skin cancer and premature aging. Do not fret: there are other ways to have your skin looks its finest! It is all a matter of what colors are right for you.
The first step is to establish what “season” your are. Note your complexion, skin tone, eye and hair color and find which season best suits you:
Summer
You may have a pale face with pink undertones, or a light olive skin tone. Your lips are light pink, your hair is brown or dark blond, and your eyes are a dazzling gray, blue, dark brown, gray-green, or hazel? Purples, blues, and greens are your best bet. Try to avoid oranges and blacks.
Autumn
If your skin is a coppery bronze, light or golden beige, ivory, or ruddy (red and pink undertones; usually with freckles), your hair honey blond, red, copper, golden or dark brown or black with some natural red highlights, your eyes a brown (darker shades with a hint of red), hazel (with brown near the pupil), pale-green, or teal… congratulations! You are an “autumn”! You look amazing in dark, earthy shades of oranges, browns, yellows, greens, and purples.
Winter
Do your skin and hair create a light-dark contrast? Do you have olive, dark, or very pale skin with dark brown or black hair? Are your eyes a striking ice-blue, turquoise blue, violet-blue, green, gray or black-brown? If so, you are a “winter”! You rock reds, blues, browns, purples, blacks, and dark yellows.
Spring
Do you have a peachy, milky, or beige skin color, hair shaded golden blond, strawberry blond, red, auburn or golden brown? You may also have deep blue, aqua, green, light brown, or light hazel eyes. Enjoy clothes in light shades of pinks, blues, purple, yellow and light green.
Hey great one! My colors are usually blue, green, and purple. My eyes are hazel. ;)
i have a peachy skin color, my hair is golden brown, i think my color is spring. i also think so because i was born the first day of spring
My hair is golden brown to medium brown and I have blue-gray eyes. My skin color is a medium olive. What am I and what are good colors for me?
you are a summer. purples blues and greens look good on you. orange and black is not your type :)