Silver, platinum and rose gold jewellery looks especially good against skin with cool undertones, whereas gold jewellery usually flatters warm undertones. Whether it’s blingy or understated, your jewellery collection can give you an indication of your skin undertone. If you’re one of those lucky ladies who can get away with wearing almost any colour, it’s because you’ve got a neutral undertone – it’s the most versatile of them all. Earthy or autumnal colours like yellow, orange, red, olive green and cream or off-white look best on those with warm skin tones.
Do you have a wardrobe full of blue, purple, grey, white or rose-coloured clothes? If these are ‘your’ colours, then it’s likely your skin has a cool undertone. 4: Which colours do you suit?ĭifferent colours work on different people and the main reason for this goes back to their skin undertone. Those with neutral skin undertones typically have hair and eyes that are a mix between warm and cool you might have blue-green eyes with hints of copper, or eyes that can appear slightly cooler or warmer depending on what you’re wearing. If you’ve got brown, amber or hazel eyes and strawberry blonde, auburn, brown or black hair with hints of red, copper or golden tones, it’s likely that you’re warm-toned. People with cool skin undertones tend to have blue, green, pale brown or grey eyes and naturally blonde, brown or black hair with ash tones. If you tan easily or rarely burn, you’re probably warm or neutral-toned. If you burn easily or turn pink, it means you’ve got less melanin in your skin, which usually points towards having a cool undertone. How does your skin fare after being in the sun? Do you easily burn, or do you tend to tan? The answer can help you to determine your skin’s undertone (but remember: you should always apply sunscreen, whether you burn or not). 2: Think about how your skin reacts to the sun If you’re not sure whether they’re green or blue, or if your veins aren’t that clear and seem to match the colour of your skin, then you’ve probably got a neutral undertone. If they appear blue or purple, it’s likely that you have cool undertones, whilst greenish veins indicate a warm undertone.
It’s rarely a case of just knowing whether you have a cool, warm or neutral undertone you’ll probably have to do a few things to work it out: 1: Look at your veinsĪn easy way to determine your skin’s undertone is by checking the colour of the veins on the underside of your wrist (in natural light). It’s not necessarily that easy to decipher your skin undertone.
If you have warm undertones your skin will appear peachy, yellow or golden cool skin undertones have a blue, pink or red tinge, whilst neutral skin undertones are usually balanced between blue and yellow, and are generally closer in appearance to the skin’s surface tone. There are three undertone colours: cool, warm and neutral. Whilst the surface colour of our skin can change, skin undertone never changes (even if you’ve got a tan!), so it’s a much better way to determine which colours you really do suit. Undertone is the subtle hue beneath the surface of your skin this is the key to finding out your ideal colour palette (FYI, it also applies to makeup, clothing and jewellery). There’s tone – the surface colour of the skin – and then there’s undertone.
Now, most people can generally tell whether they have a fair, medium or dark skin tone, but when it comes to the colours that you’ll find are the most flattering, it gets a little more complicated. And the colour? Well this is all about your skin tone.
When it comes to the cut, you need to find out which hairstyles are going to suit your face shape. How a person wears their hair says as much about how they want to present themselves as their fashion choices, but it’s important that a hairstyles suits our natural appearance whilst reflecting our individual tastes. It’s often said that your hairstyle is the one part of your look that you wear every day unlike clothes, our hair doesn’t usually end up in the laundry basket.