trend: chartreuse

Hook lime green up to a nuclear generator, and you get chartreuse. It's a glorious, glowing, amplified green, but it's not for the faint of heart.

Observe:

Badgely Mischka Fall 2006

Ziyi Zhang in Armani

Elle Macpherson in Calvin Klein

Chartreuse is the dry ice of the color wheel: it's wonderfully, terribly cool, but you'll be wickedly burned if you don't handle it carefully. Don't wear it if you're too pale, lest you look like a science experiment. Don't wear it if you're over-primped and over-processed, lest you look like you've been exposed to serious levels of radiation.

If you dare to mess with chartreuse, be scrubbed, be clean, be slightly golden, and keep the accessories to a minimum. Let the green speak for itself.

xo.