Style Tips

I prefer to photograph trends & styles rather than predict them. I’ve successfully coordinated many women’s outfits but I don’t consider myself a Stylist. This page is dedicated to sharing the small styling touches to help transform your next outfit into something eye catching.

Table of Contents
Color Basics
Outfits With Color
Hair As An Accessory
Necklaces
Matching Your Accessories
Fingernails
Stockings
One Legging
Unique Pairings

Warm versus Cool – Color Basics 101

The first thing I notice about a woman’s appearance is how well she combines the colors of her outfit.

Have you ever noticed a fashionista wearing a leather jacket, carrying a leather purse and wearing a pair of leather boots and wondered why everything looked slightly odd? Most likely it had to do with the undertone of the fabric’s color.

Everyone knows Yellows, Oranges and Reds colors are warm colors while Greens, Blues and Violets are cool colors. Fabrics have warm and cool undertones. How they are paired will determine if they clash or complement one another.

: Primary Color

: Primary Color

: Primary Color

Warm and Cool Variations – Color Basics 201

In addition to the more obvious warm and cool colors above, most individual colors can have warm and cool undertones. Imagine adding gold to warm up a color or adding silver to cool down a color. In our example leather example this would occur without the metallic qualities showing through. I’ve used the color brown to illustrate my point.

Imagine Warm colors have gold undertones	Imagine Cool colors have silver undertones


Warm Browns	Cool Browns

Outfits With One Color

Wearing an outfit using one color is an art. Yet, all too often it’s done incorrectly. How many times have you seen someone wearing a black jacket, black dress, black stockings and black heels AND each piece appears as a different shade of black?

The easiest way to solve the problem is to buy the jacket and dress from the same designer. However if you’re a bit daring you can use two variations of the same color then contrast and repeat. Contrast the fabric or the undertone then repeat one element within the outfit.

The black outfit works because…	The brown outfit works because…
– The legging and sweater are the same type of fabric. – The legging and the blouse are the same shade of black.	– The dress, stockings and ankle boots are warm browns. – The coat is a cool brown.