What to wear when you have green eyes (or Why Snow White should stay away from apple green).

"It's not easy being green." – Kermit the Frog 

When Kelly came to see me for a colour analysis, along with her intrepid boyfriend Josh, she was already growing out the warm blonde highlights in her hair, because she had realised that the yellow tones in the blonde made her lovely clear rosy skin look uncharacteristically pink and blotchy.

Draping her confirmed that her skin has a cool undertone with medium clarity, and that warm yellow-based colours make her look tired and sallow. Together with her dark ash brown hair, this means that she falls in the "Elegant" category of the Absolute Colour System.

Kelly has green eyes, and will, of course, always look amazing in green. You can always wear your eye colours and their complements - these are called "eye enhancers".

OK

Better

Best

However, the warmer (yellower) greens on the left make her skin appear sallow and her eyes a little tired. It also causes unnecessary redness, especially on the forehead and chin.

It's a bit hard to see in the photos, because I'm not a professional photographer and Kelly's eyes were open wider in the first photo, but both Kelly and Josh noticed the difference.

if you look carefully, you will see the sallowness in the first picture, and that her skin looks clearer and her eyes look shinier with the cooler, bue-based greens in the second and third pictures.

The cool greens in the third picture come from Kelly's Elegant swatch, and make her look most alive and healthy.

Btw, she is wearing NO makeup in these photos and I am positively green with envy, like the evil stepmother in Snow White! Apple, anyone?