London College of Style: Warm or cool: what skin tone are you?

Probably each of us at least once in his life faced with the fact that a new blouse (or, for example, a lipstick) of one tone makes eye and skin glow, and others - are almost the same, just  slightly different shade - give tired look, emphasizing wrinkles and blemishes?

The reason is that: the first colour is perfect for your skin tone,  and the second - simply does not coincide with its undertone.
Firstly, you should understand that the surface of your skin tone - is its main colour or shade (ivory, light, medium, tan, dark, etc.) But the undertone of your skin - is the colour "under the skin". Regardless of the colour of your skin, it falls into 3 undertones:
Cool (skin undertone is pinkish, reddish or bluish).
Warm (skin undertone is yellow, peach, gold). 
Neutral (has both cool and warm traits). 

Determining the skin undertone is crucial to further define the seasonal colour type of a person and to choose the most advantageous colours of clothes. 
So how to define the skin undertone?

Take this test:

1. Silver or gold?
Take chunky bold silver and gold jewellery hold each against your face, and take notice of which one makes your overall complexion look brighter and stands out more. This is best done under natural lighting and with NO make-up whatsoever.

Cool skin undertone looks better in silver, warm skin undertone in gold, if both looks great on you then you have neutral skin undertone.

2. Your veins
Look at the inside of your wrist, where your veins are visible on a daylight.  Veins are a good point of reference because inside of the body everyones veins are blue.  

If most of your veins look green, your skin in warm toned.  

Yellow-ish skin + Blue Veins = Green

If most of your veins look purplish-blue then you are cool toned.  

Pink-ish skin + Blue Veins = Purple

If you look at the wrist in the picture below you can see that veins are mostly purple, but there are some areas that look slightly more green as well.  So the undertones are cool, leaning toward neutral.

3. All shades of white and black
Think about neutral colours like white and black, do you look better in bright white and pure black or you look better in other shades of white like creamy, ivory and brown instead of pure black? 
Please note with wrong colour:

• your eyes, skin and hair look drained
• highlight or/and even create imperfections (eg. double-chin, dark eye circles, yellow teeth, etc.)
• your face will fade into the background

With right colour on the contrary, 

• your skin, eyes and hair glow
• imperfections are reduced
• your face looks bright and alert

If you look great with option 1 (bright white) then you have cool skin tone, if second option highlights you better then you have warm skin tone. If you look great in both colours then your skin has neutral undertone.

 



















Now when you know your skin undertone, your hair colour and eyes colour you may be able to identify your seasonal colour type.
Generally, people with warm skin undertone belong to Spring or Autumn seasonal colour type.
People with cool skin undertone belong to Winter, Summer seasonal colour type. 
However, it's not always so straight and easy to identify the seasonal colour type as there are also mixed types. 

Celebs with cool undertone

Celebs with warm undertone
 


 







Celebs with neutral undertone

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*Source for pictures: www.nudiskin.com/find-your-shade, www.bms.co.in