Face Shape | Colour Analysis | Fitting | Comfort | Frames | Lenses

Analysing Colours to find the colour of Frames that best suit you

Keys to colour analysis:

• People have either a warm (yellow-based) or cool
  (blue-based) colouring
• Everyone looks best in his or her own colour base
• Eyewear colour should complement personal colouring

The main factors to determine the best colour palette are the colours
of the skin, eyes and hair.

Skin:
Skin tone is the prime element in determining colouring. All complexions fall into one of two colour bases — blue (cool) or yellow (warm). A cool complexion has blue or pink undertones, and a warm complexion has a "peaches and cream" or yellow cast. Olive skin is considered cool because it is a mixture of blue and yellow.

Eyes:
Eye colours are usually a secondary element in determining colouring because of the wide range of eye colours. For example, blue eyes can range from a cool almost violet to a pale blue-grey, which is warm. Brown eyes can vary from a light cider shade (warm) through a medium-brown to a cool almost black.

Hair:
Hair colours are also considered warm or cool. Strawberry blond,
platinum, blue-black, white, salt-and-pepper and "dishwater" brown
are cool. Warm hair colours include golden blond, flat black, brown-gold, "carrot" and "dirty" grey.

Once you have determined if you are "warm" or "cool," then you can find the spectacle frame colours that will suit you the best. Some examples of frame colours best for warm colouring are: camel, khaki, gold, copper, peach, orange, coral, off-white, fire-engine red, warm blue and blond tortoise.

For cool colouring, the best spectacle frame hues are black,
rose-brown, blue-grey, plum, magenta, pink, jade, blue and demi-amber (darker) tortoise.

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