- Good afternoon, gentlemen.
I'm Ollie, it's Make Me That Guy,
and today we are hiding in the changing room at H&M.
This is not some strange house made of mirrors.
It's the H&M changing room.
Okay, so we are going to be looking at men's summer fashion
and more importantly how to mix in pastel colors
in your summer outfits.
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So, yes, it is summer.
Right?
Everybody wants to be wearing these lighter colors,
pastel colors, shades of pink, yellows, light greens,
but most people who do them fail miserably.
It makes them look terrible,
and the pastel color makes you look like sort of
some wet, mature, extremely conservative,
boring, middle-class english type.
Alright?
Especially for all you Caucasian men out there.
They're a tough color to mix, but we all desire to wear them
because they are the essence of summer.
So what are pastel colors, alright?
This is a pastel pink.
This is a pastel green.
Another shade of a pastel pink.
Bit of pastel pink in there.
A pastel yellow.
Alright, so that means these washed-out,
very bright rainbow colors.
Right?
Almost luminous, but not luminous.
Think of pastel paint colors: faded, watery, and very light.
The first thing is you need a suntan
if you're going to rock these colors, alright?
Anything white, but especially pale yellow, pale pink,
the lighter, the whiter is going
to make you look extremely pale.
So, if you're even gonna think of very these very feminine
and bright, open colors this summer, get a tan first, okay?
Secondly is how we team them up
with what garments you're wearing already
which is most important.
So, making sure you have the right skin tone for it.
Again, if you've got ginger hair,
avoid pastel colors, especially pinks.
Anything which is too light,
and ginger hair especially which often goes with pale skin,
is gonna be too much of a clash
with the pastel colors you're wearing.
So as I said, make sure you've got that suntan going.
Then the key to pastel colors is to combine them
with other pastel colors and with light colors.
So my sky blue jeans for example are a perfect example
of a color which will mix very nicely with pastels, alright?
As will whites, beiges,
off pinks, salmon, lighter shades of brown,
those kind of colors, light gray.
Let's go for light colors.
What you don't want is a strong navy blue denim
and then chucking on a light pink T-shirt with it.
Too much of a clash.
It's too much.
Again, you don't want like a dark gray mixed in
with a light pastel yellow.
They clash too much.
There's no continuity, no fluidity throughout the look.
So we're gonna show you a couple of looks
which I've just picked up off the shelf in H&M right now
to sort of describe the concept that I'm getting at.
Okay, so here is our first outfit.
I attempted to show you how mixing these lighter shades,
other pastel shades with whites, light blues, et cetera
works really well and sets off these pastel colors.
We don't want that dark clash
with the light colors too much, right?
Remember that.
So let's see what I'm wearing now.
Everything's from H&M.
So we've got these little plain white plimsolls.
20 quid from an H&M.
(bell dings)
Skinny, baby blue jeans.
We're gonna flash the price up now.
(bell dings)
This white sort of knitted pastel T-shirt,
that was 13 pounds.
( bell dings)
And this white denim jacket, all from H&M,
flashing the price up for that now.
(bell dings)
There we have it: a very cool, smart, casual look.
Super summery.
And you see how the faded light pastel blue, the sky blue,
the whites, and the pink works really well.
If I changed this to a black pair of jeans,
it'd be too much for the jacket
and too much for the pink top.
So by blending the lighter colors in together,
not only do we look really summery, it sticks out,
it also shows a bit more daring with your sense of style
'cause a lot of guys won't go for this light look
'cause they don't have the balls to do it, alright.
And it helps to set off the pastel shades
which is what we're talking about in this video.
(bell dings)
This was our smart, casual look.
Now let's go for our slightly more hurrah, yacht owner look.
Okay guys, so here is our second summer look
using these pastel colors you can see.
Let's call this one the graduate, alright?
The trendy graduate.
This the kinda thing which guys who have graduated
from university in the UK wear
if they know how to pull it off.
It's a nice summer day look,
and it also has smart, casual connotations, alright?
So how have we done it?
Basically, it's the same thing: combining the pastels,
the bright colors and mixing them in together
to make one overall look
which a lot of guys do here in the UK wrong
is they go for one loud shirt with their normal jeans
and some shitty trainers.
None of it matches, and it's clear they've just put on their
loud summer shirt because they're at a beer garden.
This is how to do that same loud summer look,
make a point of having your summer style on,
but also actually look good, alright?
So, what have we done?
We found this shirt on H&M.
Price flashing up now.
(bell dings)
Love these flowery shirts anyway.
We've got this pastel pink and green
so we've matched that with this pair of slim-fit chinos
in the same kind of salmon-y pastel pink.
We've got the same white little trainers,
plimsolls sneakers on.
(bell dings)
And then underneath just to set off the vibes of the summer,
we've got one more pastel yellow T-shirt
(bell dings)
with the shirt done up but open here just to show that off.
And overall, it's a really bright, popping summery look
so that's gonna work.
What have we done?
Mixed in the same pastel pink and other pastel shades
like the green and the yellow,
topped it off with a crisp pair of white shoes,
and overall we have a really well color coordinated
and cool summer look using pastel colors.
Make sure suntan is key.
Okay, so let's have a look at our third look.
Let's call this our street wear look.
It's a bit more urban.
We're gonna start it off in the rawest form
back to the pink T-shirt, alright.
I've rolled the sleeves up to show off the gym gains.
White skinny jeans
and the same white sneakers, plimsolls again.
The skinny jeans would look great
with some rips in the knees as well
if you really want to push that sort of street wear look.
And this alone is a cool summer look.
The pink and the white works nicely.
Once again, it shows how mixing the pastels with the white
and these lighter color schemes works.
But we can also add more to this.
So now we have this jacket by H&M for 40 pounds.
It is a fake suede bomber.
It's not real suede, but it's a very good fake.
So again, let's see how another light...
Hope my mic is okay there, mister camera man.
- [Camera Man] Yeah.
- Let's show how another light color
works really well with the pastels.
So there we have...
Just move that mic a little bit, gentlemen.
Okay, so there we have another one showing us how this light
fake suede bomber works really well
with the pastel colors again.
(bell dings)
So the light gray, almost beige-y, it's so light
with the white, with the pink.
We could switch up the jeans
to the sky blue ones from the last look.
We could even put the chinos in,
the pink chinos from the last look.
It's mixing up the light colors
with the pastels together, alright,
and making sure you pull it off with stylish garments.
Everything we're showing you in these videos is current.
If you wear baggy arsed old white jeans,
this look's not going to work.
They have to be skinny.
If you wear a non fitted bomber, it's not gonna work.
So your style has to be current.
Bright colors or pastel colors in styles
which aren't current and aren't on the ball look terrible
'cause the color is already a risk
and the style itself hasn't hit home
and thus the whole thing is just a disaster.
So if you're not sure, avoid pastel colors.
Let's just tart this look up one more time.
Okay, gentlemen, so there we have it.
This is the last addition to our urban,
more street wear look which is
to put in this pastel light green hoodie, okay?
Again, this is the other
probably most prominent pastel color.
Pastel yellow, pastel green, pastel pink,
and pastel blue are the main ones.
We've showed you all of them.
And we show you how this also works beautifully
with our white jeans and our gray, beige-y combination.
And this is also a very trendy, urban look.
The hoodie over that, alright?
And we can have a bit of pink T-shirt sticking out here
just to emphasize our pastel vibes.
Very small detail but it'll also look good.
Last point is, these shoes.
These are a cheap H&M shoe.
If you wanna really rock this look, don't get these.
Get a pair of Air Max 90s
or a pair of plain white or gray Vans.
We'll flash them up right now as well.
(bell dings)
And that, gentlemen, is how to wear pastel colors.
Everything we've shown you today is exclusively
from H&M, and it's out now.
Go cop that.
Get pastel-y.
Get fruity.
And look awesome this summer.
Be sure to subscribe, like, and leave us a comment.
Plenty more firing videos coming for you
for this summer very soon.
Peace.
(Techno music)