Coloring Guide: The Most Important Aspects of Optimizing your Coloring
By
Bond
Bond Table of Contents
- Skin (Brightness & Undertone)
- Hair (Contrast Anchor)
- Eyes (Controlled Brightness)
- Clothing & Jewelry (Color Harmony)
- Teeth, Sclera & White Balance
- Finding Your Undertone
- What You Can Do To Improve Your Coloring
Introduction
With the time I've been on this forum I've made one previous guide and that was looking into the cognitive effects of Cerebrolysin. Today I wanted to make a new guide that has a broader appeal to people that actually would benefit from reading. So today I bring up my 2nd high iq guide, a comprehensive dive into coloring. Feel free to check out my Cerebrolysin thread as well below. I also yearn for he contributor badge.
True color optimization comes down to relative brightness, contrast, and undertone harmony across your skin, hair, and eyes. When these elements are correctly balanced, your face looks healthier, sharper, and more intentional without needing extreme interventions. By fixing your coloring, you are able to enhance your attractiveness considerably. Take a look at the picture below on how perfect coloring compares to shitty bland coloring.
At the end I will go into many ways to fix any coloring issues you may have
1. Skin — The Visual Center
Skin should be the brightest element in your overall coloring (skin, hair, eyes).Your skin should appear clear, luminous, and balanced, not washed out or overly dark. Aim for a neutral-warm to warm undertone. Extreme pallor or excessive tanning both reduce harmony. Ideally you do not want to be within the category of 1 or 6, 2.5-3 are near perfect imo.
- Avoid looking:
- Burnt (too much melanin → dulls contrast)
- Ghostly pale (too little pigment → drains vitality)
- Olive undertones aren’t inherently absolutely terrible, but when overemphasized they can mute contrast and make skin look flat if not balanced correctly with hair and clothing. Ideally you don’t want cool or olive undertones.
Adjustment rule
- If skin is too dark → slightly lighten to restore brightness contrast.
- If skin is too pale → a mild tan often improves perceived health and structure.
I’m going to leave it at NOBODY should have dark or pigmented lips, it looks gross and unhygienic. Wear an spf lip balm, yes, you need spf on your lips. HA serum can also help to lock in moisture and brushing them with a soft brush to increase blood flow.
Goal: Skin should read as clean, bright, and healthy—the anchor your other features orbit around.
2. Hair — The Contrast Anchor
Hair should be the darkest feature in the trio. Hair must be noticeably darker than both skin and eyes. If hair is similar in brightness to skin—or lighter—it collapses facial contrast and looks off. Dark brown to near-black hair provides the strongest structural definition for most people.Here is a virtual hair color try-on by Garnier, check out which hair color suits you the best and follow the steps below:
Why this matters
- Hair frames the face. When it’s dark enough, it sharpens bone structure and increases perceived masculinity and symmetry
- In the second image, his hair is the same/brighter than his skin color, this throws off any contrast you had and it turn makes it complete garbage. If he were to dye his hair to a darker chestnut brown, reincarnation.
- In the third image, you can see the hair is much brighter than the skin, and in turn can make you look strange and weird.
- In the first image, you have an example of near perfect coloring being displayed, with the warm undertones contrasting with the soft brown hair, and then finally the blue eyes which lock in the look.
- In the second image you can see the highlights are slightly too dark, although it still fits him well, if they were slightly lighter this would look much better.
- In the third image you can see the highlights are bleached and far far too lights, throwing off his coloring harmony. Highlights that are too light are highlights that aren’t light enough, so keep that in mind if you plan on getting highlights.
- The first image shows a great example of the highlights matching the skin tone and putting together the contrast.
Goal: Hair provides depth and contrast, grounding the entire look.
3. Eyes — Controlled Brightness
Eyes should fall between skin brightness and hair darkness.- Brighter than hair → adds life and focus.
- Slightly darker than skin → avoids an unnatural or “glowing” look.
- Eyes that are:
- Too bright vs skin → can look uncanny or artificial.
- Darker than hair → flatten the face and reduce expressiveness.
- In the first image you can see that the eyes are far too light compared to the color of the skin, this leads to making you look possessed.
- The second image shows an example of eyes that are extremely dark compared to the skin, almost so dark you cant even see them. Unattractive and frankly scary.
- Third image displaying ideal eye coloring once again, between the darkness of the hair and the paleness of the skin.
Goal: Eyes add energy and dimension without overpowering the skin.
4. Clothing — Supporting, Not Competing
Clothing should enhance your natural coloring, not fight it.Rules
- Three-color max per outfit (neutrals count).
- Include at least one neutral (black, white, gray, cream, navy, silver).
- Stick to:
- Analogous colors (close on the color wheel), or
- Clean complementary pairs (controlled contrast).
- Random, excessive colors destroy harmony and pull attention away from your face.
Now you might not think clothing coloring is all that important when it comes down to total coloring, and you may be right in some cases but it can 100% enhance your contrast. Take a look at this picture above, I bet your eyes drifted to the picture in the olive green shirt, this is because that shade fits his overall coloring harmony.
Chain Thickness & Contrast
- Higher contrast face (dark hair, lighter skin) → thicker chains work
- Lower contrast face → thin, minimal jewelry looks cleaner
Goal: Clothes should frame you, not become the focal point.
5. Sclera & Teeth — White Balance Matters
The whites of your eyes (sclera) and teeth should match in tone.Teeth much whiter than sclera → artificial, uncanny look, makes them look weirdly fake lol.
Teeth darker than sclera → unclean or unhealthy appearance, no one wants to touch someone with gross teeth.
Past 5 on any letter is going to make you look unhygienic and gross.
Goal: Maintain a natural, clean white that matches across both.
Finding your undertone can either be very easy or somewhat tricky. Here is one simple test to help point you in the right direction. By simply taking a look at your wrist under proper lighting, you can make an assessment on your undertone.
- Green veins → warm or olive undertone
- Blue/purple veins → cool undertone
- Both / hard to tell → neutral undertone
Below are various color types and how to find what coloring fits you, as seen in the seasonal image earlier in the skin section, you are mostly divided into 4 seasons, and then 3 sub sections within each.
Why coloring matters:
Color harmony affects how sharp, healthy, and balanced you look.
https://theconceptwardrobe.com/colour-analysis-comprehensive-guides/color-analysis
Color theory basics:
Learn hue, value, saturation, and contrast.
https://theconceptwardrobe.com/colour-analysis-comprehensive-guides/what-is-color-analysis
https://www.sketch.com/blog/introduction-to-color-theory/
Find your season:
Identify your best colors using seasonal color analysis.
https://theconceptwardrobe.com/colo...des/color-analysis-which-color-season-are-you
(Or search “Seasonal Color Analysis” on the App Store / Play Store.)
12-season system:
Complete breakdown of all coloring types.
https://theconceptwardrobe.com/colour-analysis-comprehensive-guides/complete-seasonal-guides
Color psychology:
Colors affect perception and presence.
www.colorpsychology.org
Here are some more images to determine and analyze your color.
Summary
- Skin = Brightest
- Hair = Darkest
- Eyes = Between skin and hair
- Outfits = Max 3 colors, 1 neutral
- Teeth & eyes = Matching white tones
How To Improve Your Coloring
- Skin
- Skin Lightening
- Glutathione Megadosing
- S-Acetyl Glutathione (Absorption Optimized) You must take at least 500mg a day to see any results.
- Liposomal Glutathione (Absorption Optimized, slightly worse than the one above) ($35 USD x 60 Capsules, 700mg/capsule)
- 2x per day (1,400mg/day). The more you take, the faster the results. You must take at least 500mg a day to see any results.
- Intramuscular Glutathione
- Most optimal metric of glutathione intake
- 600-1200mg per injection, 1-3x a week to be safe. You can push higher but you will reach diminishing returns quite quick.
- DIY IV Glutathione
- 100% bioavailability so the most optimal, 600-2400mg per IV, 1-2x per week.
- Vitamin C Megadosing
- Liposomal Vitamin C ($18 USD x 180 capsules)
- 2x per day (3,300mg/day). The more you take, the faster the results.
- Liposomal Vitamin C ($18 USD x 180 capsules)
- Kojic Acid is a naturally made acid that is good at killing melanocyte cells.
- Kojic Acid + Vitamin C Soap ($15 USD x 2 Bars)
- Use every day.
- Kojic Acid Lotion ($15 USD x 250mL)
- Use every day.
- Melanostatin is a peptide that does the opposite of Melanotan, it inhibits melanin.
- Dosage: ~2.5-10mg/day
- Kojic Acid + Vitamin C Soap ($15 USD x 2 Bars)
- Tips:
- Adjust your Vitamin C and Glutathione intake up or down until you find the lowest dose that maintains your results.
- You must continually use it to maintain results. It isn't permanent.
- Glutathione Megadosing
- Skin Undertone Modification
- Warm your undertones
- Lycopene + Beta Carotene Megadosing (Stack)
- Can throw in astaxathin as well if you want, I personally use 25-50000IU Beta-carotene, 30mg Lycopene, and 12mg Astaxanthin.
- Cool down your undertones
- Hydroquinone 4%
- Kojic acid
- Remove your olive undertones
- Astaxanthin, Kojic Acid, and Glutathione (Stack)
- Do not use any Kojic Acid serum if you are on isotretinoin.
- Warm your undertones
- Skin Tanning
- Melanotan is a peptide that increases melanin production.
- There's Melanotan 1 (which only increases melanotan production), and Melanotan 2 (which increases melanin and stimulates sexual desire.)
- Melanotan is the most convenient way to tan your skin, everything else is suboptimal or tedious in my opinion. You can get nasal sprays or injections of Melanotan. Figure out your dosage needed for you.
- Tips
- You must continually use it to maintain results. It isn't permanent.
- Be very careful with melanotan. If your are a Fitzpatrick 5+ I don't see why you should ever use this, if you are on the 4, I would recommend micro dosing and going very slow as it's easy to overdue it and look Indian. I am a victim of this, trust me it's not fun.
- Tips
- Lips
- If you have dark lips, buy a lip balm that lightens your lips, as well as protects it from the sun. Aquaphor has a good lip balm with 30 spf which will not only hydrate your lips but prevent them from tanning.
- Using a tinted lip balm especially in the morning will serve beneficial towards reddening/pinkening your lips depending on your desired shade.
- Skin Lightening
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