I'm having a conversation with C. about yellow, because I happened to mention that it's bad luck to wear yellow at the theatre, and she pointed out that NO ONE looks good in yellow
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But is that necessarily a bad thing? If I wear something that makes my skin look yellow, I look half-dead - I am very pale and have light reddish-brown hair. On dark-skinned people, I think the yellow tone adds a lovely warmth to their skin.
I guess it's a personal thing - for me, I just get association to oiled-in-and-fried. (Though a deep model tan on white people brings those associations up even more.)
Not so much on the first model, though - she tints towards the greenish.
Honestly, I see it the other way. Plenty of people look good in yellow (Cur for instance), but not me. Well, not yet, anyway, but as my hair continues it's march to white, I'm sure I'll look OK in yellow as well. But *walls*, for instance, always look terrible in yellow. What an awful indoor color! It either looks like a very poor, fake sunlight imitation, or it's chipper and annoying, like the Microsoft clouds. Eeech.
Purple, OTOH, is a great color that I really couldn't wear well until recently. Now that my skin is a bit paler (must stay out of the sun), and my hair is paler, too (just going white a bit prematurely), I can wear the range of purples well. Heck, I just bought a fuscia polo shirt, and it looks great!
I think bright yellow walls are pretty ugly, yes. Light yellow with purple is nice for curtains and such, though. And bright yellow dandelions on a lawn look really nice (until you get stains all over your clothes).
Also, yellow can look really cute on pets, particularly grey and black ones.
Purple, OTOH, is a great color that I really couldn't wear well until recently.
I can wear certain purples, but not all of them. But then, I can't really wear any bright colours; I look completely washed-out. (And unfortunately, as a child I got to inherit a lot of clothes from an older friend, who was biracial and looked great in bright colours.)
No pictures, but people tell me all the time that I look good in yellow (I wear bright colors almost exclusively) and I've got fairly common coloring (fair skin and dark brown hair).
Actually, I think almost anyone with African ancestry looks good in yellow. As do people from India and Pakistan and Afghanistan. Admittedly, the darker you are, the better the yellow looks.
My daughter is going to be attending a school next year that is 90% African-American, and their dress code requires that everyone wear yellow shirts and plaid skirts or gray pants. I'm having a hard time imagining a color scheme that would look uglier on a white person. Now I feel deeply sorry for all the really dark-skinned kids who go to my son's school and have to wear navy blue shirts. But I don't think navy blue on dark brown skin is nearly as ugly as yellow on light tan or pinkish white skin. What were they *thinking?*
Actually, I think almost anyone with African ancestry looks good in yellow. As do people from India and Pakistan and Afghanistan. Admittedly, the darker you are, the better the yellow looks.
I think it may be a matter of taste, because while admittedly white people look worse in yellow than pretty much everyone else, I think Rihanna looks horrible, Beyonce and Oprah only marginally better, and the pictures lilacsigil presented as evidence of good yellow-ness I didn't care much for either. The yellow brings forth the yellow hues of the skin in a not very favourable way.
But I don't think navy blue on dark brown skin is nearly as ugly as yellow on light tan or pinkish white skin. What were they *thinking?*
"That's for sticking Geordi in mustard season after season?" *g*
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But it's been my observation that the lighter purples, like lavender, look good on every skin tone, from the fairest-skinned to the deepest brown.
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Kelis for example, or the gorgeous model about halfway down this page.
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Not so much on the first model, though - she tints towards the greenish.
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Purple, OTOH, is a great color that I really couldn't wear well until recently. Now that my skin is a bit paler (must stay out of the sun), and my hair is paler, too (just going white a bit prematurely), I can wear the range of purples well. Heck, I just bought a fuscia polo shirt, and it looks great!
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Also, yellow can look really cute on pets, particularly grey and black ones.
Purple, OTOH, is a great color that I really couldn't wear well until recently.
I can wear certain purples, but not all of them. But then, I can't really wear any bright colours; I look completely washed-out. (And unfortunately, as a child I got to inherit a lot of clothes from an older friend, who was biracial and looked great in bright colours.)
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My daughter is going to be attending a school next year that is 90% African-American, and their dress code requires that everyone wear yellow shirts and plaid skirts or gray pants. I'm having a hard time imagining a color scheme that would look uglier on a white person. Now I feel deeply sorry for all the really dark-skinned kids who go to my son's school and have to wear navy blue shirts. But I don't think navy blue on dark brown skin is nearly as ugly as yellow on light tan or pinkish white skin. What were they *thinking?*
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I think it may be a matter of taste, because while admittedly white people look worse in yellow than pretty much everyone else, I think Rihanna looks horrible, Beyonce and Oprah only marginally better, and the pictures lilacsigil presented as evidence of good yellow-ness I didn't care much for either. The yellow brings forth the yellow hues of the skin in a not very favourable way.
But I don't think navy blue on dark brown skin is nearly as ugly as yellow on light tan or pinkish white skin. What were they *thinking?*
"That's for sticking Geordi in mustard season after season?" *g*
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