How to Choose Colors to Flatter Your Skin Tone
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The lipstick you just bought looked so divine on the celebrity walking the red carpet, but it makes you look like you’re from another planet. Get the most flattering hues for you with these tips.
Step 1: Assess skin tone
Assess your skin tone as either cool or warm. Hold a white sheet of paper up to your face to identify the main color you see in your skin. If you’re still confused, put on a white blouse and then a cream-colored blouse. If you look better in the white, you’re likely cool-skinned and if the cream one is more flattering, you have a warm skin tone.
Tip
See which jewelry tone is most flattering. Silver jewelry will look best against cool-toned skin, while gold jewelry will make warm tones glow.
Step 2: Choose foundation
Choose a foundation and powder with blue or pink undertones if you have cool skin. Warmer skin tones should wear a yellow-based powder and foundation.
Step 3: Choose blush
Go for a pink, beige, or tawny-hued blush if you have cool skin. Warm tones look best in plums, auburn, copper, or bronze. If you have tan skin, try peaches, corals, apricots, and oranges.
Tip
Cool tones should generally avoid earth tones, which work best on warm skin tones.
Step 4: Choose lipstick
Select lipsticks and lip liners based on their dominant color. If they’re primarily warm red, brown, magenta, or purple, they’ll look great against warm skin. Cool skin will come alive with orangey red, light purple, and pink.
Step 5: Choose eyeshadow
Choose white, silver, gray, pale blue, purple, or dark green eye shadow if you have cool skin. Warm skin will look great in bronze, coral, red, pink, cream, light brown, and soft green.
Step 6: Choose clothing
Wear clothing colors that flatter everyone, regardless of skin tone or even hair color, due to the fact that they fall in the middle of the color spectrum — not too cool or too warm. They are eggplant, Indian Teal, true red, and soft rose — which is between light pink and peach.
Did You Know?
A study by the University of Durham, England, found that athletes in sports competitions who wore red were more likely to win than contestants wearing other colors.
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Comments (35)
Hey, can one of you gorgeous beauties help me? My wife is tan skinned, and I am about to buy a rather expensive watch for her. It comes in 2 colors, either gold or silver. Which one goes better with tan skin?
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I'm more cool than more but I lean a bit toward neutral? like some of the lipsticks you said are fro warm tones look good on me so…?
Wearing red increases your aggression by 5%
this girl is gorgeous
yawย my vein are green and my face go rose so what s that ?
Look at the vains in your wrist…. if their blue than your cool and if their green your warm
This is so wrong. MAC teaches this completely different.
I'm cool
i love howcast
@UtubeCreature Yapsolutely.
she said arranges..
Cool and warm? My skins not blue or red.
if u want to make yourself pale white follow the steps:
step one: play world of warcraft
Go 2 michellephan to help find ur skin tone
@elphaba1300 lmao ikr
@elphaba1300 freakyyy
Just paint yourself green, it's unique.
@elphaba1300
LOL WTF
This.. was surprisingly really helpful for my dumb pale ass -_-
OR yo could be neutral skinned.
This is confusing
@elphaba1300 XDDDDDDD
@musicaladdiction14 use a Hershey's candy bar as concealer
@Hector947 Because I have no. idea.
@xXTheMooDogXx Hmm, maybe, but that's quite the dramatic sniff. XD
@Katantunoro noooo but i want strawberries
@elphaba1300 trying to sniff out the one that she has already soiled.
@Katantunoro yay i want the one with strawberry on top
@Katantunoro cuz it was in ur subscription
@Katantunoro hhehe
@musicaladdiction14 that's a warm tone
I didnt get any of that because I couldn't stop staring at her HUGE eyebrows through the whole video.
WOW this video covered all the skintones in the world- pale and tan!!! They are such great experts at these things
@Katantunoro ?!!!