If your skin looks blueish or flushed, you're likely cool toned. If your skin appears yellow you have warm skin. TOWEL TESTįor this last test, wrap your body and hair in pure white towels and examine your bare face, neck and shoulders in natural daylight. If both suit you, you're likely neutral toned or potentially olive. If silver jewelry makes your eyes sparkle, your smile bright and your features dance, you're cool toned. If the gold jewelry makes your eyes shine, your teeth pop and your features soft, then you're warm toned. Next, hold a piece of gold jewelry and a piece of silver jewelry up to your skin. If your veins are a little of both, you’re neutral or even olive. If your veins appear green, you’re warm toned or olive. If your veins appear blue, you’re cool toned. Look at the veins on your wrist in natural daylight. Also, if you're ever unsure, don't hesitate to ask a friend or family member for help because sometimes it's easier to see undertone on someone else. Each of these methods is easy to do on yourself and for best results, you should try them in natural day light without makeup on. If you're unsure what your undertone is, I've outlined some common ways to figure it out here. This can sometimes come across as almost gray or ashen and it can be very difficult to find makeup that works with your complexion. This one is tricky because it's often mistaken for warm skin but olive skin actually leans slightly more neutral than warm, and has a natural green pigment that is visible on the surface of the skin. Olive - Your skin has a clear green cast to it.Neutral – Your skin has some mixture of these colors.Warm – Your skin leans peachy, yellow, or golden.Skin tone is generally broken into four major categories - I've left out tan but that is sometimes included as a fifth category between medium and dark. SKIN TONE: This refers to the surface color or level of pigment in your skin and can change depending on any number of things - sun exposure, hormones, self tanner etc.
I'll be delving deeper into this in some upcoming videos. Much like color theory in general, we could spend hours going over the nuances of skin tone and undertone and how they all work together with your hair color and eye color, but today we're going to keep things very top line. To take this route, you need to first identify your skin tone and undertone so let's differentiate between the two, and then go over a few easy ways to determine what you have. The next method is to select either cool or warm accent colors to suit your personal undertones. METHOD 2: COLORS BASED ON UNDERTONE: COOL, WARM, NEUTRAL, OLIVE These colors are a perfect balance of cool (blue) and warm (yellow) so they are largely considered to be ideal colors for everyone, regardless of their personal coloring or undertone.Īccording to many color theory experts, these colors are true black, pure white, blush pink (with some debate), eggplant, teal and true red (you have to ensure that it doesn't lean too red or too orange).
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