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and try to avoid two primaries, again with occasional exception as in a red, white and blue print. Have one basic color and then decide on a monochromatic or a complementary color scheme. Find your sum total of coloring: hair, plus eyes, plus complexion color. Are you a blonde, brunette, brownette or gray-headed. Fair or ruddy?

BLONDES:

Etc.

The blonde should be placed well up in the yellow- orange, yellow area of the wheel. Looking at this you will find that the colors that make her coloring show up most effectively, are the complements of purple, blue-purple or to widen the range, the blue and blue- greens on the cool side and the rosy reds on the warm side.

Suppose the blonde is sallow, with skin tones dull and on the yellow side, She would have to avoid the purple shades, for they would throw more yellow into her skin by contrast.

Suppose on the other hand, that the blonde is pale with a transparent whiteness of skin, then she would look well in the green or lower case, blue-green shades, for they would throw rosy color into her face by contrast.

If the blonde is florid in coloring, too rosy by far; then she would look well in the rosy shades or the orange shades, for they would appear to drain the red tones from her skin.

These rules are important in all color arrangements that are becoming. For convience, the following tables of "Do wear" and "Don't wear" are presented:

MOST EFFECTIVE COLORS GOOD COLORS

FOR BLONDES:

Blue purple

Purple

Blue

COLORS TO AVOID

Blue-green, green bright and dark. Red & rosy shades

Yellow

Olive Green

Nasturtium shades of orangey tones.

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Tan