Big Decision: Your Prom Dress Color

How to Choose Your Perfect Prom Color

From warms and cools to brights and pastels, choosing from an entire spectrum can feel overwhelming to Prom hopefuls. Here is how to help you ease your way out of the color quandry.

First, decide if you want to match your skin tones or pop with a contrasting color. If you aren't sure which is yours, rub your cheeks, then see if the afterglow is coral to tan (warm tones) or red to pink (cool tones.)

Next, choose a color you feel comfortable in and enjoy outside of the fashion world.
Once you have decided your skin type and personal favorite colors, you are ready to shop.
Here is a quick reference of what each color says about the wearer.

Green with Envy

Green has long been a symbol of jealousy, but it also connects to tranquility, wealth and good fortune. A Prom goer in green likes attention and will visually soothe the crowd as she dazzles the dance floor.

Red Hot Prom

Red is often connected to love and warmth as well as heat and intensity. The red dress wearer wants love with a wild streak and a Prom night she will remember forever. Red works well on both warm and cool skin tones and its eye-popping effects is sure to please.

Ball Belle Blues

Blue has a calming effect and it is the color recently polled as the gentlemens' favorite. Its hypnotic quality works well with any eye color and sends a message of confidence. The wearer is self-assured and knows she would have looked just as glamorous in any other shade.

Mellow Yellow

Yellow's cheerful quality separates the wearer from the rest and prom is the perfect place for a yellow dress. The dim dance floor will light up the second she starts twirling. The yellow wearer longs for the impending summer and is not afraid to start with that pallet in the Prom season.

Prom a l'Orange

Tropical and warm, orange is the symbol of excitement and enthusiasm. Much like yellow, orange will set you apart and the wearer will look slightly sun-kissed in dim Prom lighting. Her date will appreciate the seductive undertones orange gives off.

Royal Purple

Regal and elegant is the purple anthem and the Prom dress circuit needs a Queen. The wearer knows she is fantastic and wants to put forth a sensual allure. Pastel orchid sends the same message with a softer comfort.

Popping in Pink

Love and romance is in the air and your pink Prom gown gives the wearer that seductive innocence that will drive her date wild. Think pink is too young? There are many bright pinks that offer a more sophisticated flare.

Black or White

Black is bold and dark while white is pure and innocent. The wearer of either color will get the same result:
envious stares for both the wearer and her date. Naughty or nice, both of these Prom colors are timeless and work with both skin types.

Technicolor Prom

Florals and specially designed multicolored dresses give the wearer a unique place at the Prom. These visually appealing patterns make it difficult to turn the eyes away and the wearer loves to be noticed at any occasion.

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