Wear it with pride
Go rainbow to celebrate love and equality
For the past two weeks, you’ve probably had a very colourful experience on your Facebook newsfeed, if not on your own profile picture. But let’s be honest — at some point you’ve probably asked yourself how you can go back to your normal profile without looking like you don’t support the cause.
We hear you. And we’re here with a solution to your image problems: wear your pride — stylishly, even when your Facebook profile picture isn’t all rainbowed up.
Although the idea of top-to-toe rainbow is charming, style-wise, it’s a look most of us can’t pull off. Only one in every 7 billion people is Nicki Minaj.
So, here are some tips on how to channel the rainbow spirit without looking like you’re wearing one of those giant rainbow bags you spot at the market, or one of those holy trees tied with seven colours of fabrics.
1. Represent each of the colours over the course of a week. There are six colours in the rainbow flag and seven days in a week — close enough! Each day, just focus on one colour. Don’t be tempted to do more than three colours. Repeat after me: Pick one and stick to it. Tip #4 will teach you how to do this with ease. (Don’t skip the next two! That’s cheating!)
2. Depending on your personality, select the right tone of each colour. In case you haven’t heard, colours have multiple tones and shades. Just pick up a 120-piece colour pencil set from B2S and you’ll get what I mean. Some of us just happen to be attracted to darker shades of everything. Some of us are the opposite and feel more drawn to pastels. Hey, we can’t choose what we love, and it’s more beautiful when we just embrace who we are! What I mean is red doesn’t have to be the same red as a Kit Kat wrapper. It can be a deep maroon or something closer to pink.
3. If you are still determined to do the six-colours-at-once look, we admire your confidence. Our style tip, though, is to display them on smaller surface areas. You could try a rainbow-themed manicure, get creative with eyeshadows, find a multicoloured replacement for your default shoelaces, take a break from classic Clubmasters and find some funky sunglasses, or just push the colour boundaries of your accessories a little bit more.
4. We’ve told you this tip time and time again in our style section, but it’s still relevant: black and white are your best friends when it comes to wearing colours. Hey, don’t discriminate — they’re colours, too. If you want to sport a bright shirt, bright bag, shoes or pants, don’t even waste precious time and energy figuring out what to match it with, just go black or white. There is a science to this, but simply put, people’s eyes will always zone into your bright piece and notice how stylish and, of course, thoughtful you are.
5. Last but not least, wear it with pride. If colour is already your thing, you don’t really need to hear this. But if it’s not, then listen up: Just go for it. Even for a day. And be cool about it.
And for those of you overachievers who have the capacity to, you could always purchase all fifty variations of Pharell William’s Supercolor shoes, and wear them for the next month and a half.