Once you find out and start wearing your skin’s natural undertone, everything is better. Your clothes, your makeup, your eyes- Everything! However, It can be a little tricky to find out what your skins undertone is. This guide will make it so easy, so you don’t have to go through picking out the wrong shades ever again!
I use to always ignore the undertone rules, and just buy whatever foundation or clothes my eyes told me to buy, but once I started intentionally purchasing things that match my specific undertone, it has been an absolute game changer. Sometimes the colors are not even something I would naturally pick for myself, but end up getting so many compliments on. If you don’t already know your skin’s undertone- Now’s the time find out, and I’m going to tell you exactly how!
The Easiest Ways to Find Your Skin Undertone
How to Determine Your Skin Undertone
Finding your skin undertone is THE most important part in picking the right makeup shades to complement your natural beauty. While it may seem Tricky at first, there are a ways you can find out. You don’t want to confuse your undertone, with your skin’s overtone. Your overtone is going to change throughout the year, you might tanner in the summer time and more fair during the winter. Your undertone is never going to change. The good thing is, once you know what it is, you don’t have to try and figure it out again!
Your Skins Response To Sun
The first way is to ask yourself, how does your skin react to the sun? If your skin tends to burn easily and rarely tans, you likely have a cool undertone. On the other hand, if you tend to tan easily and rarely burn, your undertone is warm. If you burn at first, and it later turns to a tan- you’re neutral.
Vein Check
Another good way to check is by taking a look at your veins. If you look at your wrist and your veins look blue or purple, you have a cool undertone. If they’re green, you have a warm undertone. Bluish-green means neutral.
Metals
The last way to think about how gold and silver jewelry look against your skin. Warm undertones look better in gold, and Silver looks better on cool toned skin.
An important thing to note, is that being fair skinned, or tan isn’t the main determining factor for finding out your true undertone. Once you learn what your undertone is, you can make the right choices when picking out your makeup and clothes. It’s also important to pay close attention to different shades of colors. Just because you might be cool toned, doesn’t mean you can’t wait colors like red, or yellow you just want to look for cooler versions of those colors.
Ear Check
Another way to check for your undertone is by looking behind your ears, this obviously hard to do on yourself- but it is another way to have someone else look at it for you. If the delicate area behind your ears is yellowish, you’re warm. If it looks rosy, pinkish you’re cool toned.
Understanding your skin undertone is crucial for achieving a flawless makeup look that enhances your natural beauty. Once you can identify if you are cool toned, warm or neutral you will be able to make the right choice when it comes to all of your clothes and makeup!
Your skin undertone plays such a big role in figuring out which foundation shade, blush color, and lipsticks will look the most flattering on you. For example, if you have cool undertones you are going to look BREATHTAKING in jewel-tones, and if you have warm undertones you can pull off earthy, warm tones like no one else.
So, next time you’re shopping for makeup products, don’t forget to consider your skin undertone!