Whether you want to leave a casting agent with a breathtaking recording of your read at an audition or you’re simply trying to up your TikTok game, wearing the right colors can go a long way.
There is no one best color to wear on camera, but there are plenty that can look amazing in certain circumstances as long as they complement your coloring.
If you’re not exactly sure how to match colors with your hair color, eyes, and skin tone, a good rule of thumb is to choose something with high saturation such as jewel colors. Sapphire blue, emerald green, and ruby red, for example, are amazing choices. They’re not too soft and muted or harsh and loud against a multitude of backdrops, and they help to prevent powerful lighting washing out your face.
As pleasant and understated as they are, pastels should almost always stay in your wardrobe. On camera, that understated beauty becomes drab and unremarkable. Furthermore, they can really siphon the color of your skin, leaving you to appear sickly and gray.
Exceedingly bright neon-style colors are another way to detract from your natural pizzazz on camera. They can give you a somewhat anemic tinge, and unless you’re auditioning for a role as a hospital patient, you’ll want to look as healthy and vibrant as humanly possible.
You’d also be forgiven for reaching for your black tees and jeans when you score an audition for your dream role, but avoiding black on camera is one of the best things you can do to enhance your recorded image.
Granted, black is slimming, but what it sheds in pounds it adds in age. That’s right, folks. Black emphasizes shadows and dark spots on the face which, on camera, can make you look more tired and older than you are.
The chances are you’ve had very little sleep due to nerves brought on by the audition and plan on hitting the caffeine pretty hard before crunch time. Well, unless you have a professional makeup artist on hand that can adjust color, accounting for the shadowy symptom of black garb, we’d recommend avoiding it altogether.
If you really do look phenomenal in dark colors, navy is a much safer option as it won’t cause so much of a shadowing issue.
Perhaps you’re preparing your own set for a photo or video shoot. In this instance, your choice of clothing needs to work in harmony with the shade of the backdrop. If the backdrop is quite pale, colors are going to appear louder than they are, whilst the opposite is true if the backdrop has a darker hue. Contrast is key in this situation. Don’t allow yourself to merge with the scenery.