HOW TO TELL YOUR SKINTONE

How to Figure Out Your Undertones?

Undertones are the subtle hue of color underneath your skin. There are three main undertones present in the skin: cool, warm and neutral.

If you have cool undertones, your complexion may have subtle hues of pink, red or blue. Typically, people with cool undertones have blue, green-ish blue, gray or deep brown eyes. You can also tell if you have cool undertones by looking at your natural hair color. Redheads are a prime example. “Redheads tend to have less pigment in the skin than those with darker hair color,” Less pigment often equates to cooler tones.

If you’re someone with warm undertones, your skin will lean yellow, peachy or golden. Those with these tones tend to have green, hazel, amber or warm brown eyes with hair that has gold, red, orange or yellow undertones. “People with darker hair and darker eyes usually have warmer skin tones,”

Finally, there are neutral undertones, which is when you have a balance of both warm and cool tones.

If you’re unsure of your undertone, there are a few quick and easy tests that you can do to help you determine what you are. First is the white versus cream test. You’re going to need two articles of clothing (or towels) — one white and the other cream. Hold the articles of clothing against your skin. If the white complements your skin tone better, you are probably warm-toned. If the white washes you out and the cream is more flattering, you most likely have cool undertones.

You can also try the jewelry test. If gold jewelry enhances your complexion, then you likely have warm undertones. If silver is more complementary, then you are probably cool-toned.

If both cream and white and both silver and gold look great on you, then you’re probably neutral.

Another option is to look to your veins on your wrist for some help. If your veins are green, you have warm undertones. If they are blue, you have cool undertones. If they appear a mix of a blue-green shade, then, you guessed it — you have neutral undertones.

As a general rule of thumb, however, “The lighter the skin type, the cooler the tone tends to be.” Therefore, skin types that fall under type one through type three on the Skin Types may identify with having cooler undertones whereas someone who is between type three and type six might be warmer.