Color is everywhere around us, is part of us, and impacts our moods. To wear essential colors and reach people with ease, you gift others with good energy. And you make it easier on yourself to make your message clear. Our brains internalize colors and they turn the meanings of colors into feelings. To enhance effective visual communication, wear colors that others associate with your messages.
Sounds reasonable enough, doesn't it? The thing is, the human eye can see up to 10,000 colors. So, to find the best ones, it requires an honest visual evaluation of your face. Also, it might help to identify your favorite colors as well as freeing yourself from color bias. With those steps in place, it becomes easier to use color to help others see the real you.
Seeing Your Color DNA
Color DNA is a simple, yet sophisticated concept. When people look at your head, they see your unique essential colors. By repeating most of those colors on your body, you reach others from across the room with ease. People visually sense your vibe in two ways because of your Color DNA and the colors you wear. Mainly, your appearance becomes an appealing environment. Wearing a DNA Color, like your eye color, in your clothes expands its energy beyond the facial feature. This causes a vibration and an onlooker gets a subliminal sense of who you are.
Think of it as a way of amplifying your truth with color. You've got a lot of good energy in the way the universe created you. Let everyone see you and experience your energy!
When people look at your head, they see your unique essential colors. Start with the base tone of your skin. This isn't a color you should repeat in clothes you wear. Yet, it helps you to see your color contrast level between your base skin tone and other DNA colors. Then, contrast your base skin tone to your eye, hair, brow, and hemoglobin colors. Now you can identify whether your color contrast level is either low, medium, or high.
Your Color DNA is a small selection of all the colors that you could wear. But, I can assure you of one thing, for sure. Wear these essential colors and reach people with ease. It works. And it's so easy to do. If you want to know the precise colors that help to tell your visual story, consider a color profile.
Your Preferred Favorite Colors
Of similar importance to your Color DNA colors are your preferred favorite colors. It's possible that any of your preferred favorite colors are also your Color DNA colors. But, they don't have to be. These colors are special in that when you look at them, they make you feel good. The key is to test your preferred favorite colors to see if they flatter your appearance.
Here's a good test to help you get a sense of whether any of these colors support your appearance. Pick up a garment that you own or see in a store. Either hold it in front of you or try it on. Then make an honest evaluation about whether you show up first or the color does. If you experiment with a multicolored garment, allow your eye to focus on the most dominant color.
So, what to do when any of your preferred favorite colors don't compliment you? The best way to use those colors is to incorporate them into your home or work environments. Be selective where you use the colors so their energies support you in the right ways and places. If you're unsure about how to use your preferred favorite colors at home, consider this resource. If that information is too general, a color profile can lead to an effective strategic plan for your home.
Color Bias
Color bias can work against your ability to wear essential colors and reach people with ease. Here's an example of how that could happen. A person has beautiful golden-brown eyes. As a youngster, this person received a stuffed animal of roughly the same color. A childhood trauma happened. As a result, this person avoids this color because of the trauma's association with the stuffed animal. So, because of this aversion, this person refuses to honor their eye color as a symbol of strength. No one from across the room can see this person's true strength.
It is important to reconcile issues that cause color bias to heal blind zones. When you do, you free yourself to wear colors intrinsic to your physicality. But, even more pertinent, it helps you to become open to other people and their energy.
Use Color to Help Others See the Real You
Given these ideas, can you think of how to use color to help others see the real you? Color is one of the most essential ways to show others who you are. For instance, colors can match your leadership competencies, last month's blog topic. Color can also support your strengths, values, and intrinsic qualities. You can use color to create visual signals with what you wear that match your words.
Clients have used color to amplify messages ranging from apology to defiance. They have used color as part of a strategy to launch products, become CEO's, and to win eight figure lawsuits. Color alone does not make things happen like magic. When you wear essential colors and reach people with ease, your message is more compelling and you are more successful.
In Conclusion
Your personal image is worth developing because it helps tell your story and be in your full power. Color is half the equation of your personal image and it does help you to reach others with ease. To be straightforward, do you want people to "yuck" you or "yum" you? Yum always makes business and life better and easier.
One of my consulting specialties is studying your personal coloring and style. We do this together so you leverage your qualities and own the room. To read more about how I can help, go here. Or, schedule a gratis 30-minutes call with me and we can talk it over.
