3 Ways to Add Color to Any Outfit
A SINGLE POP
This is the easiest way to add color to your look because you don’t need to worry about how it works with other colors. You just need to think about about it works with other neutrals.
If you choose a light color, pair it with light blue wash or white denim. If you choose a dark color, pair it with a dark blue wash denim.
Finish the light-colored look with a light neutral shoe like bone or tan. Finish the dark blue denim look with a navy or black shoe.
A DOUBLE POP
There are three ways you can add two pops of color to your outfit.
Link the color through its characteristics (which I’ve done below). Identify if the first color you add to the outfit is light or dark, soft or clear, or warm or cool. If you’re not familiar with warm vs. cool or it seems too hard to tell, just focus on determining the two other factors. Once you’ve determined the characteristics of one color, choose another color that has the same characteristics. For example, watermelon, coral, lime, aqua, lilac, lemon, or tangerine could work together because they’re all light, clear, and warm. Jewel tones like emerald, cobalt, royal purple, and ruby can easily pair together because they are all dark, clear, and cool. Rust, mustard, aubergine, navy, terra cotta, and olive can easily mix because they’re all dark, warm, and soft.
Link the color by matching the tone of two colors. A tone is simply one color that has varying degrees of grey added, so to do this, you choose one color: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, or purple. Then add another type of that same color to the outfit. Pair navy with baby blue, kelly green with emerald, mustard with sun, or scarlet with coral.
Create a monochromatic pairing by adding the exact same color in two places. Link a cobalt top to cobalt pants, a watermelon dress to watermelon pumps, or a navy jumpsuit to a navy blazer.
If you finish this color matching and use a black blouse, pant, or jacket to top off the look, you can pair a black shoe as well. If you finish it with other neutrals like a white pant or blue denim, a nude or white shoe will complete the outfit.
A LOT O’ POPS!
You’re going to use the exact same techniques that I talked about in the double pop, just with the addition of one or two more colors. For this look, I created a tonal outfit.
