Determining your skintone. Cool or warm?

Now, this is not known by many people, unless they sit down an actually search for it. But every person has a n undertone in their skin. It can be warm, cold or neutral. It's used to find out what kind of foundation you should have, a pink-toned or a yellow-toned. As well as with the colors for the rest of the make up!! I'm going to try to explain to you, how to find your undertone, with different methods:

Basics:

Warm toned people tend to look alive and healthy, while wearing earthy colors like orange, bronze, gold, peach, brick reds, earthy greens, mocha browns and ivory. They look best in yellow based colors.

Cool toned people tend to look best in colors, that you can compare to the colors in gemstones. Those colors could be vibrant emerald green, royal or icy blues, rosy pinks, silvers, plums, and pure white. Blue based colors look best.

The vein thing

This is the advice that most people know of and is quite easy to do. What you're supposed to do? Make a fist and then you look at the veins on the inside of your wrist. It works best, if you're standing in natural light (stand by a window). What color are they? If they're:

Mainly blue: this is a sign of cool tones,

Mainly green: it's a sign of warm tones (due to the yellow undertone in the skin, the yellow makes the blue veins green, that's how you know it's warm toned)

AND if you can't determine the color because they're both blue and green, that could be a sign of, that you're neutral, which is quite handy, because then you can pull off anything!

Silver vs. gold

Warm and cool and gold and silver go hand in hand. If it's possible, find a piece of silver fabric and a piece of gold fabric. Now, in natural light in front of a mirror, take the silver cloth and put it up to your face. If it makes your face light up, you're probably cool toned.


If not, try and take the gold cloth and put it up to your face. Does the gold make you look fresh, alive and healthy? Then you're probably warm toned.

The genetic stuff

While the above "rules" have exceptions, your hair, eyes and skin can help you to determine your undertone:

Warm toned skin tend to have golden or slightly apricot tone undertone. Makes sense? When you're walking outside and it's a bit chilly, does your nose become pinky-red or peachy-red?
The hair tend to have hints of yellow, orange, red and/or golden colors.
The eyes are oftenly either amber, dark brown, hazel or green.

Cool toned skin has a pink or rosy undertone. Again, the nose-example is a good way to explain it.
The hair contains hints of blue, blue-violet, silver, drab, and ash undertones.
The eyes tend to be light blue, , grey-green, blue-green, turquoise, grey-blue or cool brown (in some rare coincidences black).


Still unable to tell whether you're warm or cool toned? Then you are most likely a neutral. That means you can wear just about anything and not look "off". But neutrals still tend to pull towards one of the skin tones. If you're a neutral pulling warm, you look best in warm but can pull off cools and so on for neutral pulling cool.




I hoped you enjoyed reading this and found it helpful! :-)


I still can't determine my skin undertone... I've got red hair, blue-grey eyes, look great in deep cool purple and bright salmony-orange. I like to wear silver jewellery, but gold still looks okay. I'm probably neutral, but I can't really figure out, if I'm pulling warm or cool... Suppose I'm just neutral then!!