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Category Archives: Wearing Colour

6 Online Shopping Tips to Help You Get the Right Colour

Colour, shopping, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportMarch 17, 20186 Comments

Inside Out Style Reader Question Online shopping tips, please!  How to get a good enough match with the colour in the palette from Imogen as each of the colours in the swatch has their own names; can I use it for online shopping?  This is a tricky one – sadly there is not a fabulous answer…

8 tips on adapting your style as your rules change

8 Tips on Adapting Your Style as Your Rules Change

Colour, Personal Style, videos, Wardrobe, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportMarch 14, 20183 Comments

What is your process for morphing your style rules change – such as body shape, colouring or lifestyle changes that happen to us all over time? Change happens to us all and how we deal with it is something can be tricky for many of us. In this video with Jill Chivers of Shop Your…

Your ultimate colour personality dressing style guide - understanding why you choose to wear the colours you do and what they express about your personality

Your Ultimate Colour Personality Dressing Style Guide

Colour, Discover Your Colours, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportMarch 9, 20186 Comments

Have you thought about the colours you prefer to wear?  Whether or not you’ve had a personal colour analysis and have a palette of colours or not, you are likely to find that you are drawn more to some colours than others, even within your palette if you know which is the one that flatters…

How to Choose Flattering Lipstick Colours

Beauty, Colour, makeup, videos, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportMarch 1, 20184 Comments

Why is it so hard to find a flattering lipstick colour? There are a couple of reasons why which I discuss in this video.   How to Choose a Flattering Lipstick Colour Test it on your lips – testing it on your hand will never tell you if it’s right – your lip chemistry may…

How to Choose Colours to Wear to Suit Your Mood

Colour, Colour Psychology, outfits, videos, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportFebruary 20, 201812 Comments

Jill Chivers of Shop Your Wardrobe and I were asked a question about how we chose our outfits  – what our processes are – and the first one that came up for us was about basing an outfit around a colour.  In this video we share our thought processes – and they are quite different…

What to look for in colours when shopping with friends - the 7 words that you want to know so that you know exactly when to put the garment back!

The 7 Words That You Must Know That Tell You the Colour of the Garment That You’re Trying On is Completely Wrong For You

Colour, shopping, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportFebruary 7, 20186 Comments

The 7 Words to Listen For That Tell You To Definitely Not Buy a Garment Beware, next time you’re in the store changing room, trying on some clothes and want to know if the colour is right or wrong … How often have you been trying on something in a store and the ever ‘helpful’…

How to choose and wear the Spring 2018 Pantone Colours

Tips on Choosing the Right Pantone Spring 2018 Colours for You

Colour, fashion trends, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportFebruary 2, 20185 Comments

What are the colours you can expect to start popping up this year in fashion?  According to Pantone’s Spring 2018 colour forecast, they include some colours we’ve been seeing for a while that will hang around, and a bunch of new colours may start to also filter through (though honestly, I don’t always think that…

Imogen's Favourite Blog Posts from 2017 that will help you become more stylish - understand more about colour, and build a fabulous wardrobe that you love

21 Outstanding Blog Posts to Help You Become More Stylish – Imogen’s 2017 Favourites

blogging, Colour, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportDecember 29, 20171 Comment

I’ve shared the most popular and most commented on posts this year here, and now I thought I’d share the posts that I like the best and ones that can make a significant difference to your style.  I’ve discovered that many of my favourite posts of the years are chats I had with Jill Chivers…

Most Read Blog Posts on Inside Out Style in 2017

blogging, Colour, More, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportDecember 28, 20172 Comments

2017 is at a close so I thought I’d look back over the past year and see which blog posts were the most read and most commented upon and share them again – just in case you missed them. Most Read Blog Posts of 2017 How Many Clothes Do You Really Need in Your Wardrobe?…

Become more memorable by adding colour to your outfits

Why You Should Always Add Colour To Your Outfit

Accessories, Colour, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportNovember 9, 20179 Comments

We live in a coloured world. We wear colour, we choose colours to live with in our houses, we are surrounded by colour. It plays a vital role in our lives. It determines colour palettes for fashions, interior design, moods and emotional states. We can use colour to create illusion and as a symbol for…

How to use accessories to create your ideal contrast levels

5 Ways to Use Accessories to Create Your Ideal Contrast

Accessories, Colour, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportOctober 16, 20172 Comments

Accessories can be a great way of adding contrast in your outfit. You can add interest with pops of colour in accessories and create focal points for which to draw attention and encourage the eye to linger. You can raise your colour contrast. You can raise or lower your value contrast. This is why accessories…

How to wear a high colour contrast when you're not high colour contrast

How to Wear a Multi-Coloured Item When You’re Not High Colour Contrast

Accessories, Colour, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportSeptember 29, 20173 Comments

I love colour (as regular readers will be aware) and I don’t have a naturally high colour contrast (ideally I’m physically more in the neutral plus 1 colour camp).  But I like to wear more than one colour in patterns as they are often more versatile than a colour plus neutral print, and have found…

How to Add Colour To Your Neutral Outfits Without Looking Like a Clown

Accessories, Colour, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportSeptember 22, 20175 Comments

So you’re a bit scared of colour and you tend to wear black and grey and then combinations of black and grey as you’re just not sure how to add colour and you really don’t want to look like a clown. Now neutral outfits in black, white and grey abound on our city streets and…

How colours communicate

How You Can Use Colours to Communicate For You

Colour, Colour Psychology, Reader questions, videos, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportSeptember 19, 201712 Comments

Have you ever thought about how colours communicate?  What is their mood and how does your mood influence the colours you choose?  How about the energy of colours and what that expresses to the world? This is the topic of this video discussion with Jill Chivers of Shop Your Wardrobe. The Energy of Colour The…

Why Orange Will Never Be the New Black

Colour, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportSeptember 14, 201711 Comments

Orange, a secondary colour that sits between red and yellow on the colour wheel has both a warm overtone and a warm undertone. No matter which you way you alter it, adding black to shade just makes a deeper orange, white tints it lighter, grey softens it, yellow makes a yellow-orange and red makes a…

how to pick the undertone of violet

How to Pick the Undertone of Purple

Colour, Discover Your Colours, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportSeptember 6, 20179 Comments

Violet (technical name for purple) is a colour like teal that can be worn by both warm and cool undertone colouring.  The difference is that cool undertones can wear all violets, and warm undertones can only successfully wear the warmer end of the violet spectrum. So which is which? Consider the Colour Wheel As violet…

Managing the Transition from One Colour Palette to Another

How to Manage the Transition from One Colour Palette or Season to Another

Colour, videos, Wardrobe, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportSeptember 5, 20179 Comments

How do you manage moving your wardrobe from one colour palette to another? Why Your Colour Palette May Change Directions (or Seasons) You are growing older year by year and your colouring has softened with age (yes it happens to all of us) and Jill and I have discussed where you may go here. You…

What is the Contrast of Your Outfit Telling The World About You?

Colour, videos, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportAugust 22, 20174 Comments

How does the contrast of your clothes communicate? Did you know that wearing different contrast levels (both value contrast and colour contrast) communicate in different ways? In this video Jill Chivers of Shop Your Wardrobe and I talk about the psychology of contrast and how it communicates so you can use this knowledge to your…

How to Distinguish the Undertone of Red and Burgundy or Maroon

How to Distinguish the Undertone of Red and Burgundy

Colour, Discover Your Colours, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportJuly 12, 20176 Comments

All colours (apart from the orange spectrum) have a warm and cool undertone version so a colour that we may call “red”, “burgundy” or “maroon” could be either warm or cool. Red is a colour that has many permutations, from baby pink to coral, magenta and burgundy.  Unlike blue or green, that when we add…

How to pick the temperature or undertone of blues

How to Pick the Undertone of Blue Like an Expert

Colour, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportJuly 7, 20175 Comments

Recently whilst dropping my daughter and her friend to dancing class, her friend said “you really like blue don’t you, as you’re always wearing it?“.  I answered in the affirmative as I do love blue as I have blue eyes and blue is a signature colour for me as it is an eye enhancer. Blue…

How to Combine Colours That Will Express Your Unique Personality

Colour, Personal Style, videos, Wearing ColourBy Imogen LamportJuly 4, 20178 Comments

Some people feel at odds with the colour palette that flatters. For example, a bold or dramatic personality (loving bright colours) whilst the colours that flatter may be softer and smokier and lack that obvious drama. Ideally you want to create balance between the inner you, your personality, and the outer you, your appearance and…

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