I’m half-Indian and I have similar coloring with Padma Lakshmi and Mindy Kaling, and considering they were on the red carpet within minutes of each other, it made me stop and think: would I ever, EVER wear these colors? And that’s a no. It’s not just because I don’t really like bile/chartreuse colors, nor do I care for yellows, mustards, goldenrods, etc. I simply don’t believe that these are the best colors for typically “Indian coloring.”
Padma Lakshmi wore this Romona Keveza in bile/chartreuse. While I can’t stand the color, I have to admit… she’s so beautiful that she sort of pulls it off. I would have loved this same dress in a richer green, a blue, a red, even a pink. Hell, it would have been great in black or white too. I think the construction is great and if you’re going to go for a silk/satin dress, this is probably the way to do it. I just can’t get past the color though.
Mindy Kaling wore this mustard-y Salvador Perez gown. Sigh… I can’t. First of all, the dress looks so different in photos than it did when she was being interviewed by Ryan Seacrest. On TV, the detailing looked richer, more interesting. In photos, it looks cheap. Again, when you have coloring like Mindy and Padma, you can pull off so many colors. You can pull off most jewel tones AND pastels. You can pull off a clean white or a simple black. You just cannot pull off yellows and yellow-greens. Those colors are difficult for nearly every woman.
Photos courtesy of Getty, WENN.
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