Mix and Match Earrings: Step Up Your Earring Game
Mixin' and Matchin' Earring has started getting attention and a hot trend right now. It isn’t just for red carpet events, it’s a great way to express your style.
Earrings are a great way to bring life to your look, and make you feel fab in no time! When chosen wisely, earrings can enhance your best features, as well as add colour and personality to an outfit.
Here are some tips to look more creative and daring when mixing and matching your earrings based on your SKIN TONE and OUTFIT COORDINATION, FACE SHAPE, AND OUTFIT COLOR.
1. SKIN COLOR AND OUTFIT COORDINATION
Jewellery is an accessory that’s worn right next to the skin, and often it’s the first thing people notice about your outfit. It's important to consider how your earring's color compliment your skin tone.
- Cool skin tone matches best with white metals. Examples of this would be silver.
- Warm skin tone matches best with yellow metals. Examples of this would be yellow gold or copper.
Silver's reflective qualities make it a good choice for people of both light and dark skin tones. However, a cooler skin tone will highlight blues, reds, and purples, while a warmer skin tone will require more colour, such as orange, yellow, and red.
SELECT EARRINGS FOR THE OCCASION
Business. For work-life, studs are discreet, elegant, and go well with blazers and hair updos. You can pick gemstone studs of all colors or tiny hoop earrings for special events in the office to contrast with a work dress or suit.
Night out. Exquisite earrings will add the pop of sparkle you need for a dinner or date: we suggest hoops, dangle or drop style earrings, and anything with diamonds to really pull an outfit together.
Casual day. This is a great chance to wear something comfortable and minimal, or play with a pop of color! Enjoy rich colors like bluish opals or turquoise earrings for an unplanned lunch or outing. Organic shapes look amazing with linen and floral dresses and are great for warm days.
2. Choosing Earrings For Your Face Shape
The best way to choose your earrings is to learn which styles are most suited to your face shape.
LONG FACE
Avoid earrings that sit high on the lobe, as this will only accentuate the length of your face. Instead, go for earrings that sit right at the bottom of your lobe. This way, they will not make your face look any longer than it already is. Another great option is big statement earrings. This can help to add some width to your face, and make it look a little bit more balanced. So if you're looking for the perfect earrings to complement your long face, keep these tips in mind and you'll be sure to find the perfect pair!
Earrings with lots of volume work well. Round, exaggerated large earrings are very suitable, and can also make up for the shortcomings of too straight face lines.
For a different look, short dangles and pearls are also flattering as they help to draw the eye across your face horizontally.
These earrings would be a great style for you.
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ROUND FACE
Just as they sound, round faces are wider at the cheekbones, and narrow at the forehead, and jawline. Your face takes an overall circular form. Dangly, or teardrop long earrings best compliment your face shape. They help elongate the face.
These earrings would be a great style for you.
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SQUARE FACE
Square-shaped faces do not narrow much from the cheekbone to the forehead, or to the jawline. The width of your forehead, cheeks and jawline will be similar. Round styles of earrings are your best choice if you have a square face. Oversized hoop earrings, small hearts, or earrings with rounded edges are great choices as they bring attention to your earrings and help soften your face’s natural angles.
These earrings would be a great style for you.
HEART FACE
Heart-shaped faces feature a forehead wider than your cheekbones, and your face narrows down towards your chin. Such face shapes are complemented by earrings that are wider at the bottom than at the top. Teardrop-shaped dangle earrings with elongated curves balance out the face and draw attention to the eyes, cheekbone and jawline.
It is not suitable to wear small earrings such as ear studs, which will visually make the whole face more slender.
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DIAMOND FACE
Excellent cheekbones are a sign of a diamond-shaped face. The forehead and chin of your face are narrower than your cheekbones. Balance your natural features with earrings that have a wider point, before tapering off at the bottom. A combination of straight lines is also flattering, as are earrings with delicate drops, pendant type and leaf shape.
These earrings would be a great style for you.
3. MATCH EARRINGS TO YOUR OUTFIT COLOR
Color is one of the most important aspects of your entire wardrobe. Poor choice of color can draw attention to flaws, whereas good coordination of your earrings and wardrobe can help you look sensational.
Use color wheel
When it comes to matching jewellery with your clothes, the color wheel can work in two ways:
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Choose complementary colors:
- Find the color of your clothing, then look directly across from this on the colour wheel to find its complement. For example, if you’re wearing a red dress, you could choose to wear jewellery with green or blue gemstones.This method creates an exciting and eye-catching contrast with colors that always flatter each other.
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Choose analogous colors:
- In this case, your clothes and jewellery all use colors from the same family (those which are directly next to each other on the colour wheel). As an example, you could create an outfit of warm autumnal tones by combining your red dress with gorgeous fire opal jewellery.
These are the basic rules to coordinating your wardrobe and earrings:
- Black outfits: Go with Gold , Silver, Cubic Zirconias, and Pearl Earrings!
- White Outfits: Go with Gold , Silver, Cubic Zirconias, and Rose Gold Earrings.
- Red outfits: Go with Gold , Silver, Cubic Zirconias, and Pearl Earrings!
- Blue and Green Outfits: Go with White Pearl Earrings!
- Purple Outfits: Go with Citrine, Gold & even Green emeralds Earrings.
- Neutral Outfits: Go with Gold and Black Earrings.