How to Use Colour To Look Taller and Slimmer

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Colour reflects or absorbs light – and hownotice your protruding belly.
each colour appears on you is dependent on your7. Select patterns with an odd number of colours
personal colour direction. There are ways to use– these are more slimming than those with
colour to enhance your appearance, and ways to fooleven numbers.
people into thinking that you’re taller and8. Colours that are too bright for you will make
slimmer than you really are.people want to look at your body, not your face,
1. The most effective slimming trick is to wear yourand will draw attention to all those parts of you that
designated colours (if you don’t know whatyou’d prefer people don’t notice.
they are, have a colour analysis done to find out).To find out if the colour you’re wearing is
These colours flatter your complexion, make yourto bright, stand in front of a mirror, close your eyes
eyes brighter and more vibrant, and improve thefor a few seconds, then open them and look at your
quality of your skin tone. Dark circles under yourface, if you feel the colour you’re wearing
eyes will all but disappear and you will look healthierinsists on you looking at it, rather than your face,
and more energetic and younger.then the colour is most likely not the right colour for
2. Contrary to popular belief, black is only slimming ifyou.
it’s one of your colours. Black makes your9. Match your shoes to your pants/skirt –
body look larger as it is a heavy colour andwearing a lighter colour than the clothing on your
silhouettes your body against any background.lower half will draw attention down to your feet and
3. Medium value colours make a figure recede intoaway from your face and will make you look shorter
the background producing a slimming silhouette.and bulkier. If you don’t have shoes in the
4. Dress monochromatically from head to toe andsame shade, wear slightly darker shoes rather than
this will visually elongate the body as there are nolighter ones.
horizontal lines created by changes in blocks of colour10. Avoid too many colour details – horizontal
from your shirt to your trousers/skirt. The eye thenstripes, changes in colour from one garment to the
sees a long vertical line which makes you look tallernext and large patterns as this will make you appear
and slimmer.bigger than you are.
5. Divert attention from a figure flaw by using aThere are a myriad of ways to use colour to
brighter or lighter colour well away from the part youenhance your looks, these are just a few. Colour can
don’t want people to notice – forreally make a big difference to how you look and
example, if you think your bottom is too big, wearfeel – have you had one of those days
decoration (jewellery, scarf, tie) that either has awhere people keep telling you you look great and
pattern or some contrasting colour near your face,you don’t know why, and then those other
whilst keeping your bottom in a medium to darkdays when people ask if you’re feeling OK
shade of clothing.and in fact you feel great? This is directly related to
6. Wear your eye colour in your shirt or topthe colours you’re wearing. Colours that
– this will make your eyes appear brightercompliment your skintone, hair and eye colour will
and even bluer/greener – or whateverbring out the compliments in others.
colour your eyes are. People will be so entranced