7 Essential Tips for Hijab Colour Matching
Colour matching can be a pain if you don’t know enough about the colour wheel and its ins and outs. When you learn about complementary and triadic colours, it becomes much easier to put an outfit together.
Here are 7 tips for matching colours according to the colour wheel:
Go Monochromatic
A monochromatic palette is a pairing of light and dark shades of the same colour. So, instead of wearing two or three colours at once, you only wear one colour, but in style.
While doing that, you’ll want to wear darker shades on areas that you don’t want to attract attention to. For example, if you want your legs to appear thinner, wear a dark pair of pants and keep the light shades for your upper body. Generally, it’s better to wear the hijab in a shade lighter than your outfit.
A monochromatic palette looks exceptionally good when you pair different textures together, like a knit sweater with a formal pair of pants.
Choose Complementary Colours
Complementary colours are the colours opposite to each other on the colour wheel. When these colours are combined, they create a contrast, which is why they look good together and are often paired in outfits.
You have green and pink, purple and yellow, and blue and orange as the most popular complementary pairings. When certain shades of these colours are worn together, you get a perfectly balanced outfit.
For the best results, choose one shade for most of your outfit, and include the other shade in only one piece, like the hijab. Try not to include both colours in equal amounts because the outfit may look too symmetrical.
Keep the Colours Limited
Wearing too many colours can cause the outfit to go from stunning to chaotic in a blink. That’s why we recommend keeping your outfit’s colour limited to two or three colours max. Anything more than that, and you’ll find it harder to get matching accessories and wear a matching hijab colour.
Outfits with too many colours are difficult to manage, and they often look unbalanced because there aren’t four colours that go well together, no matter how hard you try.
It’s better to style your outfit with two colours and one neutral shade, or two shades of the same colour and a different colour.
Choose Triadic Colours
Do you know what the colour wheel looks like? Well, triadic colours are the ones evenly spaced out from each other. Meaning, if you draw an equilateral triangle on the wheel, the three colours touching the edges are triadic, and this means that they go well together and look easy on the eye.
An example of triadic colours is the pairing of pink, blue, and amber. When styling an outfit with a triadic palette, it’s better to choose one dominant colour to cover most of the outfit, and the two others can serve as accents.
For example, you can wear a blue dress with a printed scarf that contains both pink and amber colours, and choose your accessories, shoes, and purse, to be either pink or amber. That way, you can have a balanced outfit with one dominant colour.
If you want, you can add white to the palette to add some balance. For example, you may wear a blue skirt with a white blouse, then wear a printed scarf that included blue, pink, and amber, and match the accessories with these colours.
Balance Warm and Cool Shades
It’s essential to take warm and cool shades into account when styling your outfit. Some colours are purely warm or cool, while other colours appear in both ways depending on how you style them.
For example, red is a warm colour, blue is a cool colour, and purple is the meeting point between both. This means that if you style it with blue, it’ll appear cool, and if you style it with red or any warm colour, it’ll give you a warm aura.
Some shades of it are on the warm side, like magenta, and other shades like violet are cool.
To create a coherent outfit with a balanced colour palette, pair cool colours with cool shades, and vice versa.
You can get away with a palette of both colours, but depending on how you style it, it may either look bright and fun or out of harmony. For example, a pairing of tan and navy blue never fails. It looks stylish and trendy, although both colours are from opposite sides of the scale.
Meanwhile, a pairing of bright red and blue shades may look closer to a football jersey.
When In Doubt, Wear Earth Tones
Earth tones are neutral colours that aren’t on the colour wheel with their real shades. These colours are mostly manmade for fashion purposes, and most of them are found in natural elements like sand and rocks. That’s why they’re called earth tones.
Earth colours include beige, off-white, grey, cream, vanilla, brown, tan, and khaki.
The best thing about earth colours is that they go well with any other colour if they’re worn alone. Take off-white for example; you can wear it with any colour on the wheel, and it’ll look stunning and well-balanced.
The same goes for grey, cream, and beige. Some colours are a bit limiting, like brown and tan, but they still go well with most colours on the wheel.
When you’re in doubt about what colour hijab to wear with your outfit, you can always choose an earth one. It’s the safe choice, and it’ll always look good. However, you’ll need to choose wisely and consider cool and warm shades while doing so.
For example, if your outfit is entirely warm, choose warm earth tones, like beige or tan. Meanwhile, if your outfit is on the cold side, you can go for grey as your earth tone.
Match Prints Correctly
Matching different prints together can either look ultra fashionable and elegant or end up looking like a mismatched outfit from the ‘80s. It’s always better to stick to the safe side and wear your prints with solid colours because not a lot of prints look well together.
For example, a subtle striped pattern will look good with a paisley pattern. Meanwhile, a polka-dot print will just look messy if you match it with a paisley pattern.
The best thing to do is to wear a solid colour hijab with a printed blouse/dress, and vice versa. If you’re wearing a printed dress, choose one of the neutral colours on it and wear your hijab in the same colour.
If you’re wearing a dress or two pieces with solid colours, you can match them with a printed scarf that features both colours for the best results.
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