![]() Again, make sure you’re considering your natural hair color. Hair color also plays a factor, bright blonde, ashier grays, blacks and browns fall under the cool category, and reds, oranges, coppery browns and blondes fall under the warm category. You may also need to check your eye color, warm leaning towards the browns, hazels and golden colors, while cool leans more towards green and blue eyes. How does your chest appear next to the true stark white of the printer paper? Red? Pink? Blue? If so, you have a cool complexion, and if you see green, yellow, or golden, you have a warm complexion. Due to sun exposure, you may get different results. DO NOT complete this test only using your face. Take a piece of paper and hold it up against your chest and neck area. The paper test is best done outside, possibly with a mirror. What actually saved me was the paper test. It threw me off that I had all three colors under the skin. I personally don't find this test as effective, and it’s one of the main reasons I couldn't figure my correct pallet out at first. If you see only green veins, you are in a warmer season. Are you seeing blue veins? Purple? If so, you’re probably in a cool toned season. Look at your veins, most prominent on the inside of your wrist or the tops of your clenched fists. I recommend my method, and going back to your natural hair color until you figure it out. As a neutral, it’s harder to figure out what truly compliments you. If that doesn’t work or you look good in both, you’re probably a neutral. If it’s silver, you’re probably in a cool season. Is it gold? If so, you’re probably in a warm season. To find your complementary colors on a surface level, there are a few tests you can do. Warm color seasons are spring and autumn, spring being light hair (typically redheads, or golden straw colored hair) and autumn being dark hair. Cool color seasons are summer and winter, summer being the light hair cools and the winter being dark. Of course, seasons have deeper layers, but typically they can be narrowed down to four basic categories. Typically, springs have blue or green eyes, but I have light brown, almost dirty golden eyes, so they flow pretty well together. Springs tend to have strawberry red or straw like golden hair and rosy cheeks. My skin undertones are peach, cream, and golden colors. I have an almost neutral skin tone, leaning more towards warm due to my hair and eye color. These tests opened my eyes to pandora's box of secret life hacks to a perfect wardrobe. I had found a color pallet which complimented my skin tone, and don’t worry, I’ll tell you how to find yours. I’ve never looked back, and I’ve never felt more alive or radiant.Īfter grueling hours of deep-layered reddit question streams- I had finally figured it out. I almost couldn’t believe the difference. After I made the jump to red, I went on a deep dive to figure out why I looked so beautiful and happy. I missed my strawberry blonde curls, and I wanted to go back to my natural color. I bleached my hair constantly trying to pull off an awkward blonde which didn’t suit me. ![]() No matter what I tried, I always felt like my skin was dull, drab, and dreary. I found myself googling expensive glow moisturizers and bad-for-the-environment face scrubs. In high school, I had icy blond hair with dirty blonde roots, I recall never really feeling like my skin looked bright and alive. There’s a lovely indoor/outdoor cafe for tea and pastries and water misters to help mitigate the heat.Ī couple of hours here offers a peaceful respite from the world outside.I’ve struggled with my image and complexion my entire life. Over 300 species of plants are tended by a large team of gardeners and range the spectrum from bamboo to succulents to water lilies to desert cacti. Then you notice the colors electric yellows and blues, lush greens and bits of hot red, yet it’s still peaceful inside the walls. It’s suddenly cool and benches beckon you to sit, rest, breathe. Upon entering the front gates you find yourself in a forest of bamboo so tall it all but shades out the searing sun above. Majorelle’s former art deco studio is now a small museum (which we did not visit) filled with Berber arts and crafts collected by Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Berge. The property was purchased in 1980 by designer Yves Saint Laurent who restored and enhanced the gardens. The brilliant cobalt blue used all over the property was so unique it eventually came to be known as Majorelle Blue. The Jardin Majorelle, or Majorelle Garden, was built as the private residence of painter Jacques Majorelle in the early 1920’s in a beautiful mix of Art Deco, Cubist and Moorish Moroccan style. It the middle of Marrakech’s torrid heat and swirling chaos is a place best described as an oasis by those three short words above.
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