What Colors to Wear to Enhance Your Image or Change How You Feel
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What Colors to Wear to Enhance Your Image
If you wish to appear powerful or to feel powerful, wear red and black. Each separately is a powerful color, and together they project ultimate power.
If you wish to be dramatic, wear bold, vivid primary colors with strong contrasts, such as red with a splash of yellow or purple with a touch of light green.
If you wish to be romantic, wear pinks, rose reds, and pastel violet shades, such as mauve. Combine various shades of pink and red with no sharp contrasts.
If you wish to be perceived as trustworthy, wear dark blue. Blue conjures up images of tradition, caring, trust, authority.
If you wish to look like an executive, wear dark shades of blue and gray and accent with a bright tie or scarf. Or you can wear black with a pastel blouse or shirt and that splash of color.
If you wish to appear secured, wear earth tones with accents of gold or ivory.
If you wish to appear intellectual, wear blues, blue-grays, and muted blue-greens. Use stripes or linear designs in scarves or ties of neutral colors.
If you wish to appear sensual, wear warm colors such as red or rose red, but stay away from yellow. Use flashy jewelry for a contrast.
If you wish to appear passive, wear neutral shades of gray and gray-brown. Combine with other grayish colors, and stay away from sharp contrasts.
If you with to appear protective, wear navy blue, dark brown or black. Use dabs of primary colors for accents.
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Colors to Wear to Change the Way You Feel
Orange stimulates the metabolism, physical and emotional energies, and athletic performance. Wear orange if you are lethargic, depressed, want to feel happy.
Yellow stimulates the digestive tract, mental activity, and will power. Wear yellow if you need to concentrate, if you wish to feel optimistic, if you have poor digestion.
Green stimulates the heart and hands. It promotes compassion and positive feelings. Wear green if you are anxious, bitter, or resentful. Or if you work with your hands.
Sky blue stimulates the voice, self-expression, personal responsibility. Wear blue if you want to relax, to cool down emotionally, if you suffer from insomnia.
Dark blue stimulates the central nervous system, imagination, and insights. Use if for lack of imagination and migraines, and if you need to think clearly and with insight.
Purple stimulativs the brain, creativity, inspiration, high ideals. Wear purple if you're depressed or if you're striving for meaning and purpose or spirituality.
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How to Heal with Color (How to (Llewellyn))
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Nine Designs for Inner Peace: The Ultimate Guide to Meditating with Color, Shape, and Sound
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The Diamond Color Meditation: Color Pathway to the Soul
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Color Magic for Beginners (For Beginners (Llewellyn's))
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Learn More About Color
- Color Quiz
- ColorQuiz is a free five minute personality test based on decades of research by color psychologists around the world. There are no complicated questions to answer, you simply choose colors with a click of the mouse!
- Meaning of Colors
- Colors mean more to us than simply pigment. They are forms of energy, and as such speak to us and interact with us on a nonverbal level. In a very real way, life is color.
- What the Color of Your Car Says About You
- The color of your car reveals a lot about you: your personality, your moods, and even how satisfied you are with your life.
- Purple Power
- As they get older, many women begin to favor the color purple. For some, it might be a rebellion against the conformity in dress they had to adhere to during their younger years, for others it represents a move to a more spiritual time in their lives.
Colorful Caps Can Help You Think Better
Wear a different color cap for different kinds of thinking.
Black -- to assess negative feelings, identify risks and disadvantages.
Blue -- for disciplined thinking.
Yellow -- for postive, constructive, and optimistic thinking.
Green -- for creative thinking that generates new concepts and perceptions. Good for writer's block.
Purple -- when trying to find meaning and purpose
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Nautica Yellow and Navy Blue Reversible Bucket Hat #NX0410
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Classic Cotton Bucket Hat by Dorfman Pacific
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Color - Messages & Meanings: A PANTONE Color Resource
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Bob Stark returns to Denver after 18 years in Southeast Asia to discover that the mother he buried before he left is dead again. He attends her new funeral and sees . . . himself. Is his other self a hoaxer, or is something more sinister going on? And why are two men who appear to be government agents hunting for him? With the help of Kerry Casillas, a baffling young woman Bob meets in a coffee shop, he uncovers the unimaginable truth.
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- Mortira Mortira Jul 16, 2008 @ 8:01 pm
- Fabulous lens! I've lensrolled you on my Beading Calendar. Thanks for all the great color insight.
5 stars!
