Many people do not know what their skin undertones are, so they make many mistakes regarding hair color, makeup and clothing choices. Knowing and understanding your skin tone can help you find flattering colors that work with your coloring and highlight your natural beauty. There are three major types of skin undertones: warm tones, cool tones and neutral tones. Discovering which type of undertone you have can be done easily by looking at your veins, observing your natural hair and eye color, seeing how gold and silver looks on your skin and using a white piece of material against your face.
One common way of determining skin undertones is looking at the veins on the underside of your forearm in natural sunlight. If the veins are a blue color, then you have a cool skin tone. If the veins are green or yellow, then you have a warm skin tone. When the veins are mix of both blue and green, you might have a neutral skin tone.
Observing natural eye and hair colors can help to identify skin undertones. Typically, cool-toned people have eyes that are shades of blue, gray or green and have blond, brown or black hair. Their hair tends to have blue, silver, violet and ash undertones. Warm-toned people usually have amber, hazel, brown or black eye color, with strawberry blond, red, brown or black hair. Their hair sometimes has gold, red, orange and yellow undertones.
Many people learn their skin undertones by seeing how their face and skin looks with gold or silver jewelry placed against it. Cool-toned people look better in silver, white gold and platinum, and warm-toned people look better in yellow gold. The metal that works with your undertone color will complement your skin to make you look fresh.
Some people can determine their skin undertones by pulling their hair back and placing a white cloth, such as a towel or shirt, around their neck and shoulders. If your face looks bluish, you have a cool skin tone. If your face looks yellowish, you have a warm skin tone. Neutral skin tones typically will look greenish next to the white cloth. Many cool-toned people have pink or rosy undertones, and many warm-toned people have golden or peach undertones.
There are color classes and consultations available with professionals to help determine which shades of foundation and clothing look best with your skin undertones. Usually, cool-toned people are advised to wear jewel tones, pinks, blues and pure white. Warm-toned people typically look better in earthy tones, such as orange, green, yellow and brown.
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lightning88
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Thanks so much for this article! I had taken all these quizzes on how to determine your skin undertone, and I kept coming up with contradictory answers, but this article really cleared it up for me.
I would definitely recommend this article for anyone who wants to know how to tell your skin undertone. |
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closerfan12
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What are some good colors for people with olive undertone skin? I recently took a skin undertone test and that's what I came up with (not surprising, since I am of Greek descent).
So what are the best colors for someone with olive skin to wear? I've heard that people with olive skin must avoid brown, but other than that, I really have no idea -- can anybody give me some tips? |
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yournamehere
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Cool article! I love finding out about stuff like this. Although I had heard of how to tell skin undertones by looking at the skin next to a white cloth, I hadn't heard of a lot of the other methods that you detailed.
I do think it can be kind of hard to tell with the jewelry though, at least on your own, since that can be a very subjective thing. For instance, a person might think they look good in silver jewelry just because they like how it looks, but it might not be the best fit for them.
That's why it's always best to do the whole skin undertone quiz thing with a friend -- they often have a more objective view of your skin tone, and can give you a better response. |
