How to Look Fabulous in Swimsuit with Color and Details

An all-black swimsuit is slimming and is often a safe bet, but you can do better with colors and details. Cameron Diaz´s bright-hued strapless bikini keeps all eyes on her, Whitney Port´s polka dot swimsuit highlights her tanned skin, while Vanessa Hudgens´ bold print bikini accentuated her curves.

The key in wearing colors and details on swimsuits is simple – use darker colors on areas you´d like to slim and bright or light colors on areas you´d like to showcase. Mix and match, combining different bikini tops and bottoms, is advised especially if you´re looking for the right fit. Other details that quickly call attentions to your assets are belts and beads.

See: 12 Tips to Help You Choose Your Perfect Swimwear

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Swimsuit that Gets Attention

Who needs to disappear to the background while wearing swimsuit? Unless you´re not confident of your figure, there´s no reason not to showcase what you´ve got. Wearing bright and colorful swimsuit. You can either mimic Cameron´s one-colored bandeau top and a bright striped bikini bottom, or you can opt for a floral-print bikini top and rich colored ruffled-string bikini bottom.

Mix and match green and floral bikini swimsuit

Swimsuit that Slims Down

If you have very wide hips and bottom which you want to down play, wear a black high-cut bikini bottom to slim it down and a bright or light-colored top to bring the attention upward. Likewise, if it´s your chests that you´d like to down play, do vice-versa. Sure, a suit in color will make the torso look larger, but it also makes the thigs look smaller.

If you can´t find the right bikini swimsuit that you need, your alternative is to mix and match. Choose a solid string bikini bottom and pair with a bright yellow ruched bandeau bikini top.

solid string and bright bikini swimsuit

Swimsuit that Highlights Your Curves

If you have a gorgeous curvy figure with perfect proportion, you´ll look great in a pair of bold printed swimsuit. The bikini top and bottom will bring you attention head to toe while keeping the eye from settling on any one spot. This animal print swimsuit by Emilio Pucci is a perfect bet.

Emilio Pucci Animal Print Swimsuit

Swimsuit To Appear Bigger

A common sin of women is hiding the bigger part of the body by covering it with more cloth. So wrong! The more cloth you wear the bigger you´d look. Think of women hiding their big busts under a voluminous shirt, the bust actually look bigger. This is especially true when it comes to swimsuit. If you think you´d slim down your big derriere with a skirted suit, you do the reverse.

That said, if you are narrow on the hips and your bottom is less full, you´d appear bigger in a skirted swimsuit. i recommend this Becca Victorian Gem halter bikini top and bottom.

Victorian Floral Skirted Swimsuit

To Accentuate the Waist

Remember that black belted one-piece swimsuit that Katie Holmes made famous? The belt on her swimsuit flattered her tiny waist. So if you´re into looking elegant and stylish in black swimwear, remember to look for details. Lanvin Belted Swimsuit is a very close replica of Katie Holmes´ gorgeous one-piece, but at $648, it´s way too much. This Belted Bandeau from Zappos is a cheaper alternative.

Lanvin belted swimsuit