Facing color positions are turnbacks, collar, cuffs, and cuff-flaps.  Where the regiment's facing color position was to be dark blue according to the charts below, that position was piped in the facing color.  For example, where a regiment with a yellow facing color has a dark blue collar, the collar is piped  yellow.  If, on the other hand, a regiment with a yellow facing color has a yellow collar, the collar is piped dark blue.  Cuirassier regiments wore a single-breasted habit-veste underneath the cuirass usually with heavy gauntlet gloves so that only the collar and turnbacks were visible.  The lace color of all cuirassier regiments was white (silver for officers).  Button color of all cuirassier regiments was white metal tin (silver for officers).  Jackets for all regiments was dark blue and breeches were a pale yellow/beige.

In general, trumpeters wore the reverse colors of their regiment.  For example, a trumpeter of the 11th Cuirassiers in the 1810-1812 period would have a pink habit-veste, pink collar piped dark blue, cuffs dark blue piped pink.  However, trumpeter uniforms varied widely at any one time.  Trumpeters typically rode white or gray horses.