Your skin’s undertone:
Finding your skins undertone is so important in choosing the right tones for your foundation, contour, blush, lip and eye colours; and even your clothes!!
Your skin tone can be fair, medium or dark but your skins undertone is determined by the colours underneath the surface of your skin which can be cool, warm, neutral or olive. That’s why you often see a C, W or N symbol on foundations along with the shade number.
You can have the same skin tone as someone but a different undertone and your undertone won’t change even if you tan.
How to find your skins undertone:
Try the following methods:
- Put on a white dress, there are four possibilities, first, if it makes your skin look more rosy, your undertone is cool.
- Second, your face may look more yellow/golden, therefore your undertone is warm.
- Third, If you don’t see a change, then you have neutral undertones.
- Finally, if your skin looks ashen or grey, you may have olive skin.
- Look at the skin on the inner part of your wrist and see what the underlying colour is.
- Check your veins on the inside of your wrist, blue is cool, green is warm and both blue and green means neutral undertone.
- Jewellery test: Place a piece of jewellery next to your skin, if gold is more flattering, you have a warm undertone and if silver looks better on you then you have more cool undertones.
Conclusion:
Cool:
Your skin has more pink, blue or red in it and more likely to burn in the sun. You usually have more bluish/purplish veins and silver jewellery suits you best.
Your eyes are blue, grey or green with blond, brown, or black hair with silver, violet and ash undertones.
Celebs with Cool Undertones:
Kate Winslet, Anne Hathaway, Lucy Liu, Liz Hurley, Meg Ryan, Oprah Winfrey and Lupita Nyong’o.
Warm:
You may have more of a peachy, yellow, sallow or golden undertone to your skin and you generally tans well in the sun. Your veins are usually more green than blue and gold jewellery suits you best.
Your hair has gold, red, orange or yellow undertones to it possibly strawberry blond, red brown or black hair. Often you’ll find that people in this category have eyes that are brown, amber, or hazel.
Celebrities with warm undertones:
Jennifer Lopez, Nicole Kidman, Jessica Alba, Blake Lively, Jennifer Aniston, Beyoncé, Kim Kardashian, Halle Berry and Rihanna.
Neutral:
This means that there are no obvious undertones to your skin but the skins natural colour is more evident or you may have a mix of cool and warm colours/undertones. Usually you may have both blue and green veins and gold and silver jewellery will suit you.
Celebrities with neutral undertones:
Drew Barrymore, Julia Roberts, Angelina Jolie, Jessica Biel and Kerry Washington.
Olive:
Your skin is more neutral but you also have a greenish-yellow undertone to your skin so look for a neutral foundation with more golden undertone rather than pink or yellow.
Celebrities with olive undertones:
Penelope Cruz, Lily Allen, Adriana Lima, Salma Hayek, Eva Mendes, Padma Lakshmi and Mariacarla Boscono.
I hope that helps, please leave your comments below and let us know if you have any further tips on how to find your skins undertone that I haven’t mentioned.
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