Wearing colorful, vibrant clothes is certainly an act of courage. You show yourself out there in a way that – let’s be honest – you stand out! Still, I am an ambassador of the colorful style because I know it can spread some joy and make our grey generation more various.
Today I want to simply encourage you to try the colorful style out. I want you to be able to wear your true colors with your head up, no matter how vibrant or unusual they seem.
Have the courage to dress up how you want
Our society became weird these days, would you agree? There are banners and agenda that encourage everybody to be whoever they want to be, yet when you dare to be a modest, elegant Christian lady with a colorful style, then they’ll send you THE look.
You know which kind of look I mean, right? More less this one. Please give bravo for my grandpa’s acting skills 😀
But hey. Even though it might discourage you from expressing yourself through colorful style, I want you to think it through. Just look at these two pictures – me before the colorful glow up… and after.
What can you get?
You are in love with certain colors and you want to wear them boldly I suppose. Unless you are still figuring out which colors you want to implement into your style, then this post might be helpful.
I’ll give you a list of benefits of colorful style and after I’ll lead you through it step by step, ok? 🙂
– more confidence – your confidence will grow day by day by wearing vibrant clothes
– self-expression – you will feel artistically alive by showing the colors of your soul
– joy, joy, joy – gloomy days will not make you grumpy anymore – your colorful style will shine through any weather
– carelessness – I hope this word exists 😀 If you will practice not caring about peer pressure, you will stop caring about what people think about you and that, my sister, is the true freedom
– exposed beauty – once you learn the ancient philosophy of color blocking and adjusting the shades to your skin tone etc., you will glow
– iconicness – okay, now I am sure I just made up this word 😀 The more stable and cohesive you are in your colorful style… the more iconic you become! People look up to you and yup, you can definitely claim the local fashionista title
So, have I convinced you? 🙂 Ready to start your colorful style journey?
Basic rules
There are few rules in the colorful fashion, but in this kind of style these rules can be broken and it will be totally justified. Yet, to make it easier for you to start, I created some checkpoints that will help you elevate your style with colors in your own tempo.
Beginner – shy colorful ray
If you’re scared to go all the way in or simply want to start gently, that’s okay! Adding some colors as accents is still a segment (wow, such a weird word, ain’t it?) of a colorful style.
In the beginner stage accessories are your best friends. Colorful bags, shoes or – yes, you know me too well – French bonnets. They will spark up the most boring outfit, trust me.
You can play around with it, but I recommend choosing the colorful accessories based on contrast. Peachy neutrals outfit? Choose baby blue bag/bonnet. Dark blueish dress? Brighten it up with a taxi yellow accessories. Black? Well, how about staying classy, but still colorful and adding up a bold shade of red?
Experiment, my dear fashionista. Even if you go wrong with accent colors… well, they’re just accent colors!
Medium player – joyful flame of colors
Connecting two or three bold colors is not an easy game, but you can do this. The best strategy is to use either neighbours/family colors for a start of this stage.
Whaaaaaat? Let me explain – neighbour colors are the ones that are next to each other on the palette (professionally called analogous, but we do agree that neighbours makes more sense, don’t we?). Colors that live next to each other will always look good together.
Neighbour colors appear in nature, have you noticed? Lakes (blue + green), sunset (orange + yellow) or even the bruise (red + purple) – okay, the last one was not the prettiest example, sorry! But I hope it is clear that these colors do go together.
And family colors? These are simply different shades of the same color – so for example, The Pinks family contain Barbie Pink mum, Salmon Pink dad, Rose Pink daughter and so on and so on. Shades of the same color blend together fantastically!
Advanced queen – iconic fashionista
This is a serious game, hun! You played around with accent colors and neighborhood color gang to be able to move on and experiment with the enemies to lovers colors.
Ok, Marysia, now it’s too much, what are enemies to lovers colors? Simply, opposite colors. Look at the palette – pick a color and transport your finger to the opposite side. See? You’ve found them!
So as you see these colors put together contrast with each other and, dang it, it looks good!
The fun does not have to end at this stage. Having outfit that contains two big pieces of enemies to lovers, you can spice up their relationship by adding the baby! (am I going to far with this metaphor? 😂) Meaning, you can add an accent color.
So, for example, you’re going to a baby shower and you have a feeling it will be a boy – you’re putting on baby blue dress and adding up orange thighs (remember, enemies to lovers? ;)). But still, there is a small chance of the baby being a girl, so you’re taking a Barbie pink bag. And cute rose pink shoes (accenting and putting family colors in accessories AT ONCE, you are definitely a pro).
Okay, that was a silly example but I hope you understood what I meant.
Now let the color speak for its wearer!
I came up with this quote few articles ago and no matter how cringy it sounds, I stick with it!
Now, knowing the rules of combining colors together so that you do not look like a clown (ok, I sometimes still do, but that’s why I experiment and learn the hard way so you don’t have to ;), but like the proper fashionista.
Wearing colors that really scream (not whisper!) you are exposing your fantastic, joyful soul. And as a result of that people can see the Designer of you Soul. So the glory goes to Him. And some applause goes to you too for the iconic outfit 😉
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