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Warm tones, neutrals & Leopard prints

Working with warm tones gives a earthy finish, a feel of carefree stylish elegance. Warm tones works well with a neutral palette. Neutral colors help to put the focus on other colors or serve to tone down colors that might otherwise be overpowering on their own. To some extent blacks, browns, tans, golds, and beige colors are considered warm. While white, ivory, silver, and gray are somewhat cooler colors. Yet these warm and cool attributes are flexible and more subtle than that of reds or blues.

Neutral Colours

  • Black
  • White
  • Gray
  • Ivory
  • Brown
  • Beige
Warm Colours
In nature, warm colors represent change as in the changing of the seasons or the eruption of a volcano. Tone down the strong emotions of a warm palette with some soothing cool or neutral colors or by using the lighter side of the warm palette such as pinks, pale yellows, and peach. Warm colors appear larger than cool colors so red can visually overpower blue even if used in equal amounts.
Warm colours
  • Red
  • Pink
  • Yellow
  • Gold
  • Orange
  • Black
  • Brown
  • Green
Colour combinations, using neutrals and warm tones. 
  • Black can be paired with:  Red, Green, Yellow, Gray
  • White can be paired with:  Green, Orange, yellow
  • Beige can be paired with:  Green, Brown, orange
  • Yellow can be paired with:  Orange, gray, black, olive green, brown
  • Brown can be paired with:  Green, yellow, rusty orange
  • Gold can be a paired with:  Orange, green, brown
  • Orange can be a paired with:  green, white
  • Gray can be paired with:  green, yellow
  • Ivory can be paired with:  Brown, orange, green
Working with Leopard print

Leopard print fashion may go in and out of vogue but it is always a staple wardrobe outfit for those of us who want to add a subtle, yet sassy touch of glamour to our outfits.  A leopard print outfit says confidence and that you mean business, releasing your inner feline and primal instincts, you are not afraid to let your inner strength show, you are daring, you are fearless and you are not afraid of anything.  Choose a leopard printed piece that has a strong depth of colour, when a leopard printed item is light is colour it can look washed out, tacky and cheap. When working with leopard choose wisely and invest in good pieces. I love leopard printed silk scarves, accessories, blouses and cardigans.

About the Leopard  

The most secretive and elusive of the large carnivores, the leopard is also the shrewdest. Pound for pound, it is the strongest climber of the large cats and capable of killing prey larger than itself. Leopards come in a wide variety of coat colors, from a light buff or tawny in warmer, dryer areas to a dark shade in deep forests. The spots, or rosettes, are circular in East African leopards but square in southern African leopards.