Color Blocking – No Matchie-Matchie Here!

This season is all about color blocking. That’s just a fancy way of saying stick with two or three bold colors and stack them. For example, as you see in the picture of me below, I’m wearing a white tank top, burnt orange skirt and aqua earrings. Umm, aqua? That’s right. These three colors don’t seem to go together, but they do. When you ‘color block’, it draws the eye up and down the entire length of the outfit, making you seem slimmer and taller (and I need all the help I can get in the vertically-challenged arena!) It would seem more natural to match the earrings to my skirt, but in actuality it chops those sections of the body and the eye can’t easily glide up and down your frame. So, stay away from matching colors and go for something a little more unexpected. I do have burnt orange earrings I could have easily worn with this outfit, but I think this gives it a more updated look and it gives an old outfit a new twist. If you stop and think about your accessories (that maybe you haven’t worn in a while), I think it will give you a fresh look this fall by mixing some colors that you wouldn’t usually pair. Fall is here and with that means more layers, so you have more of a chance to pair some interesting color palettes together!

Side Note: If you don’t think you would even know where to start, stay within the same color family and wear different shades of the same color together.