Skin Tone

Makeup, hair color, and clothing choices all orbit around one central theme: Skin Tone. If you don't know your skin tone, your makeup could make you look like a pancake face, your hair color can make you look constantly flushed or washed out, and your clothes look drab or too bright. Knowing your skin tone can help you make choices that make your beauty shine! So what are the different skin tones? Keeping it generic, there are two types of skin tones that people fall under.

Cool Tone
There are several ways to differentiate skin tones, though the methods are
not always perfect.

Look at the veins on your wrist. If they appear blue, then your
skin tone is likely cool.

Another way is to watch how you naturally tan. If in the warmer months you
tend to turn a rich brown, you're likely cool toned.

Pull your hair back into a ponytail or keep it away from your face with bobby
pins. Wrap a white towel around your neck. If it makes your face look blue,
you have cool toned skin.

If silver jewelry and deep purples blues and reds look better on you than gold
or earthy tones, your skin is cool toned.

If you have dark skin, your skin will have pink undertones.

Warm Tone
The same methods apply to warm toned people but the results should be different.

Your wrist veins will likely appear green

You tan golden brown

The white towel makes your face appear yellow

Gold jewelry and earthy browns, yellows, and greens look better on you
than silver or jewel tones.

Dark skin will have golden undertones.

The chart below is a great resource for understanding skin tone better, because the women in the pictures have been properly classified.



Understanding your skin tone is the first step to understanding your beauty! It's very important because otherwise you may end up looking ill or tired, even when you're perfectly healthy and energetic.