On many occasions when you buy makeup without trying on the skin, we cannot discover how it will merge with the skin tone, and that is where the headache begins when obtaining a product that does not serve us, we lose money and we continue in uncertainty.
The importance of knowing the skin tone not only lies in the makeup, but in our appearance, because from there depends the tonality for use of accessories such as tendrils, bracelets and in the color palette that will stand out in your outfits.
What is skin tone and undertone and how do you know mine?
To begin with, skin tone is the reflection of the intensity of melanin in the skin making the complexion light, medium or dark. While the skin undertone are the pigments that hide in the skin and are reflected according to the weather and other factors in 3 groups: Warm, neutral and cold.
Cool undertones are those that have blue and green pigmentation on the skin, usually white and pink skin tones. Whereas, the warm undertone are skins that have golden or yellowish pigments. And finally, the neutral undertone is one that has both pigmentations in the skin.
Ways to determine if your undertone is cold, warm or neutral
There are different ways in which you can define what your skin undertone is, of course, depending on your skin tone it is easier to define your undertone.
Look at the veins in your wrist
The traditional way to define the undertone of your skin is to place your wrists in the natural light of day and see if the color that stands out in them is blue or green, or both.
In the case that your veins are blue it means that you belong to the cold undertone, on the contrary, if they are green then the undertone will be warm, and, finally, if you observe both pigmentations you will belong to the neutral undertone.
How your skin reacts when exposed to the sun
If after exposing yourself to the sun for a short period of time your skin acquires a tanned tone your undertone is warm, on the contrary, if you get pink or red you are cold undertone, but if you share both conditions you belong to the neutral undertone.
Compare your face to a white sheet
Finally, wash your face very well and dry it, after about 10 minutes place a sheet of traditional white paper next to your neck, if your skin tone compared to the sheet looks yellow, your undertone is warm; If it is pinker your undertone is cold.
How to Choose the Right Colors to Highlight My Makeup
When choosing makeup, it is important to determine the skin undertone, since, from this, many makeup brands have defined their makeup lines with labels C (Cold-cold), W (Warm-Calido), N (neutral-neutral), which makes it much easier to choose for each skin tone.
What foundation tone is best with my skin?
To the cold skin undertone which favors silver colors and failing cold tones in the color palette, makeup bases should be pink or porcelain undertone, since this type of skin is usually white.
For the warm undertone that shares the golden or yellow colors, your foundation tends to be beige or peach undertone. As for the neutral undertone skins that are those that share both characteristics, they can alternate the use of bases with the aforementioned skin subtone.
Since, the skins of cold undertone usually change with the weather, because in winter the skin usually has a duller tone to combine with cold tones, while in summer the warm color makes it a trend.
How to highlight the undertone of my skin with lipstick
- The cold subtone, the use of fuchsia, bluish and purple lipsticks, crimson red, vino into, cherry and terracotta is recommended.
- Warm undertone, the use of nude, orange, bright red and wine tones is recommended.
- Neutral undertone, the use of lipsticks is recommended the aforementioned tones depending on winter or summer.
What color of blush and shadows to choose according to the undertone of my skin?
- The cold undertone, the use of blue, silver and dark shades is recommended, as well as blushes with orange and pink base.
- Warm undertone, the use of cashew, brown and earth-colored shades is recommended, as well as blushes in peach tones.
- Neutral undertone, the use of shadows with shades mentioned above is recommended depending on winter or summer.
