hi guys how are you doing all things
considered I hope that you're having a
lovely day
right now it's beautiful weather outside
and I just am very inspired by
springtime and all the blooms right now
we have cherry blossom trees that are
blooming and some little purple flowers
that is what I want to talk about today
is how I plan to add some colors into my
wardrobe for this season in a really
thought out way for anybody who has
followed me for quite some time you
might know that back in 2017 I started
over on my personal style because my
wardrobe before that was mismatched and
a lot of the pieces that I found were
just because they were the absolute
bottom of the barrel clearance rack or
sample sales or anything like that where
I might have just found something kind
of interesting looking and wanted to
bring it home and see how I could mix it
with whatever else I had going on to the
point where things didn't quite fit
right and things weren't really quality
and a lot of times I might have holes in
them even have purchased them with holes
so I just wanted in 2017 to have a clean
break and start over on my wardrobe so I
ended up buying a lot of elevated basics
meaning if there was a good pair of
pants that I knew I needed like a black
pair of pants something that I could
wear for my entire life and it would
never go out of style or break down
hopefully then that's what I would buy
and that's where I started over and I
did that for quite a long time to the
point where I'm still wearing those
pieces today several of them and they
are absolutely vital to my closet so
moving from there now you know now it's
2020 it's built up now to the point
where my wardrobe really works for me
everything fits me properly a slight
exaggeration of this is still true where
I could go into my wardrobe and pick out
two things in the dark and the hope is
that they match didn't you know that I
could wear them together the
exaggeration being that of course not
every piece is going to blend well
together with another piece but color
was not an obstacle for that to happen
so it's kind of like having this Swiss
Army knife closet now I've been feeling
a little bit uninspired by just
having only neutrals and I like to
reinvent myself again meaning that I'm
still gonna stick with what I have built
so far but I want to start to add some
seasonal colors into pieces of clothing
that are elevated basics so I'm not
going to shy away from having a shirt or
a basic pair of pants that might be not
in a neutral color scheme so now moving
into 2020 I am trying to think of how I
can best represent my closet to match me
and the things that I personally am
inspired by I don't want my closet to
ever be dull or uninspiring to me and I
want it to be a reflection of my
self-expression so when it comes to
adding colors into my wardrobe I'm gonna
be doing a lot of very intentional
things but I do want to just take some
of those colors that I have in mind and
start to infuse them into my elevated
basics so in the past for reference
whenever I have added one or two colors
into seasonal items that I might need
for that season like if it's a sweater
for spring it might be a light blue
spring color I would only stick with
light blue and maybe one other seasonal
color and only put that in a seasonal
pieces like a sweater or a raincoat or
something that I might need for the
season now I am going to be taking those
colors and putting them into pieces like
I have today where it's not just
sweaters but into other things as well
I'm not going to shy away from having
pants or anything like that that is a
color that I want to stick to so now I
want to talk about which colors I'm
going to choose these have been very
carefully chosen and I want to be very
specific on even the tone of the colors
so just for reference the colors that
I've kept my closet toward for the past
was that like three years has been black
brown khaki white ivory and blue so
those are very neutral tones there's
something that I will wear forever and
they should be timeless so now I want to
talk about how those colors will now
match the colors behind me first is navy
navy is a color that I ended up going
with for last summer I felt like it was
the perfect color to go from summer into
late fall and would blend very effort
with the other pieces so I do want to
keep that color going in my closet
permanently this is something that will
match a lot of things and then it will
just determine which pieces I need to
buy for that season the new color into
my wardrobe you guys probably saw in my
last video is this royal blue I think
that for my skintone which seems to be a
little bit on the yellow or golden side
of things but very pale is that I want
to add something that's going to
complement that well and royal blue
seems to be a color that works very well
for my skintone I think it's because of
that complementary color that you see on
the color wheel when you see blue the
other side of that is orange and then
the range in there can kind of go toward
yellow too so royal blue seems to be
working well for me I also am going to
be adding some of these light tones of
blue which have been in my closet for
quite some time but I will be adding to
that section I feel like that's gonna be
something that really matches a lot of
different things my power color is going
to be red as you can see I'm coated in
red today but it is something that I'm
finding to be extremely flattering and
honestly red is a universally flattering
color on any skin tone and it is
something that I also feel is quite
timeless there's going to be different
sort of hues of red that are going to
kind of change with different decades
but ultimately I feel like the thread is
going to be able to stand the test of
time in my closet so now I've got a
range of different Pink's there's three
Pink's that I'm aiming for in my color
scheme and they're very particularly
chosen so one is this coral pink color
it is something that again will go
absolutely wonderfully as I move into
summertime and get a bit more of a tan
and get that golden glow a little bit
more with that so that's gonna be great
I also want to go with something that's
a dusty rose so this is really a good
point to bring up the fact that the
Pink's that I'm going with are not like
in the sort of like fuchsia or purple
tones at all I absolutely don't think
that that matches with the colors that
I'm choosing here so I'll talk a little
bit more about that later but I did want
to bring it up now that like the colors
that I'm choosing here are they have a
certain vibe to them so I've got this
dusty pink color
that is almost into the corals but then
it's like muting it and I think that a
lot of times if you can mute some colors
and push the other colors forward that's
gonna really work well as a color scheme
and then next I'm just having this light
pink tone this is something that's
absolutely so perfect for springtime but
it is something I've found that I
incorporate into summer as well and even
into fall I've learnt light pink a lot
which works really well with like browns
so that's another intentional thing that
I'm doing and then that just fades into
more of this cream beige color which I
also am just kind of including
encompassing in this light pink it's
almost like a beige or even moving into
a cream so that's what I'm doing and
then it's just going to carry into the
ivories and the whites and that's gonna
blend so perfectly when it comes to just
mixing and matching these things without
it breaking that beautiful color scheme
of the neutrals now I'm just adding
those colors into it and I do think that
these colors you can mix and match most
of them just so beautifully even
together and they're gonna really work
well so as you can see from this mood
board everything is going to be very
cohesive and every little purchase is
going to be something that is chosen
with a lot of care and thought so that's
gonna be a really good technique too if
you have the software or if you want to
print things out or something the
ability to be able to go in and see does
this blue match this pink is that going
to go well together that has helped so
much in this process of finding which
sort of Pink's that really wouldn't have
worked so it's better to just say
instead of just I'm gonna add pink to my
closet to be really specific about which
tone because you can have a purple pink
or you could have this sort of like red
or yellow muted tones there's different
little colors in each colors and that
can make your whole color scheme go
together very well so that is what this
whole process has been I wanted to bring
it up today too because I plan to post a
lot more videos coming up that include
color which is so out of left field for
me and for you guys that follow along as
neutral fans like I still consider
myself to be but this is how I mean
potentially moving forward with my
closet and I think that I'm really going
to love it when I have my seasonal
clothes that I take out of storage every
year and I'm like wow this is gonna be
just so incredible to wear this season
so keep your eye out this week for some
videos that are coming up including
these pieces this is kind of a sneak
peek I'm not going to try any of them on
today but it is something you will see
me try on in videos coming up but today
I just wanted to kind of get my thoughts
together and talk them over with you
guys I'm super excited and if you have
questions too regarding color schemes I
can try to answer those down in the
comments and I can't wait to talk with
you guys I've missed you so much
and I'm just excited to get in a routine
again in the meantime stay healthy and
I'll see you guys in a few days we grew
up together never thought you'd be next
to me at your mother's house when I
stole your kiss
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