Colors near or around your face have a great impact on how vibrant you look as the light from the color reflects up on your face, making you look your best or undermining your looks.

Wearing the right undertone, shade and value of the color is key. Aside from matching your scarf to your outfit, think of your best color palette and what works near your face.

If you have a cool undertone and deep colorings, you are most suited to the cool colors such as crisp white, black, blue, cherry red, purple, pine green and silver. Stay away from warm colors such as orange, mustard yellow, tomato red, brown, gold, beige, ivory and forest green, which are better suited to warm skin tones. The shades of the colors should match your high contrast level, so experiment with mixing a light and dark color or a medium to deep color on its own. Soft and faded colors will not add any liveliness to your look; on the contrary, they will wash you out and look uninteresting.

If you have light or soft colorings, then make sure the colors you wear don’t overwhelm you or look too harsh against your skin tone. Black and crisp white will wash you out and very bright or strong colors will overpower your delicate colorings and may leave you looking tired or even sick. Go for soft and faded colors instead and balance the intensity with your own.

To know if the color works for you, check for any visible shadows or pronounced pigmentation on your complexion by placing the color under your chin. If they seem to fade, it means the color works. If they are highlighted, the color is wrong for you. The right color will always make you look brighter and the wrong one may cast shadows, yellow tinges and drown your features. Is your eye color popping? Do you see a healthy blush on your cheeks? Are your features more defined and lifted? All these hints confirm that the color is right.

Patterns on scarves should harmonize with your scale and features as well. Study your face, the outside silhouette and the size and spacing of your features (eyes, nose, mouth and chin) and match the pattern accordingly. Delicate features call for soft and small to medium patterns while large and prominent features demand medium patterns, never too small or large.

The texture of the fabric and its surface (shine) is taken into consideration as well. If you have any pimples or imperfections on your skin, do not highlight them by textured fabric and shiny materials.

Repeating a facial element such as eye shape or color in the pattern and color value in a subtle way will look great and enhance your look, experiment with these tips and determine what works for you before making any investment buy!