For women, it is very important to know what your skin undertone is. This helps when buying cosmetics, knowing your undertone makes you select the right shade for your skin.
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For women, it is very important to know what your skin undertone is. This helps when buying cosmetics, knowing your undertone makes you select the right shade for your skin.
Hold up a piece of white paper to your face. What sticks out more in your skin, pink or yellow? Which ever one sticks out more, is your undertone. If you can’t tell, you more then likely have a neutral undertone. Although I do find that even people with neutral undertones tend to lean slightly more to one side than the other. For example I consider myself to have neutral undertones leaning slightly more towards the cool pink side. When I go to a make up counter to get matched for foundation they usually tell me I could pull off both yellow or pink foundation. However I find pink more flattering on me because my chest tends to pull a little red sometimes. This is an old method anyway, hopefully it works for you.
Start by looking at the inside part of your arm. This area is naturally hidden from the sun and, therefore, not sun damaged or discolored, which is why skin in this area best to reveals how warm, cool, or neutral your skin really is.
Answering the following questions is also helpful:
Does your skin tan easily and rarely sunburn? If so, you probably lean toward a warm or neutral undertone. If not, there’s a good chance you fall into the cool-toned category.
Do your veins appear bluish or more deep purple? If the answer is yes, you’re likely in the cool-toned spectrum. If your veins appear greenish, you most likely skew toward the warm-toned. Those with neutral undertones will have difficulty discerning either color—it will just all look neutral.
Do you look better in silver or gold? Personal preferences aside, cool undertones tend to be flattered by silver/platinum; those with warm undertones look better in gold-toned jewelry. Neutral skin tones look equally great in both.
Does your skin look somewhat ashen or gray? You might have the wild card of the bunch—olive skin—which is a combination of the natural neutral, slightly yellow undertone everyone has plus the greenish ashen hue that’s unique to olive skin. Olive skin tone is very specific, but is not neutral, as some tend to call it.