What is your best match?
Wearing color is sometimes a difficult concept, which is why many people are allergic to everything outside of themselves comfort zone fall. The extensive color spectrum alone is overwhelming, if not downright intimidating. But if you put your personal preferences and trends aside for a moment, the right color has the power to make you shine instantly.
Skin color
Just like makeup and your hair color, finding which color suits you best starts with your skin tone. It can be grouped into three categories: warm, cool and neutral. Many people have a natural tendency to guess which of those categories they fall into because it seems pretty obvious.
But figuring out whether you qualify as warm, cool or neutral is not easy without the help of a makeup artist. There is no definitive test or certain rules as all of this should be treated as a guideline.
Hot
Hair colour: varies from dark brown to dark blonde hair.
Skin color: Has a greenish or yellowish undertone. Olive complexion also falls into the warm category.
Go-to warm colors: chestnut brown, anthracite, moss green, olive green, dark magenta
Go-to cool colors: steel blue, aquamarine, salmon pink
Neutrals: taupe, dark brown, off-white and beige.
Colors that can be difficult: light shades, jewel-like colors (amethyst, sapphire, ruby).
Cool
Hair colour: It can vary from very dark (blue-black or very dark brown) to light blonde.
Skin color: Has a bluish undertone. It can also vary from very light to very dark.
Go-to warm colors: dark cyan, dark pink, red, dark purple.
Go-to cool colors: bright blue, sea green, lavender, lilac.
Neutrals: gray, navy blue, virgin white.
Colors that can be difficult: orange and yellow.
Neutral
Hair colour: is a combination of blonde with ashy highlights or brown with warmer tones.
Eye color: is hazelnut.
Skin color: hard to tell – you can’t tell if you’re warm or cool.
Go-to colors: neutral colors that fall in the middle of the color spectrum. Such as old pink, gray blue, jade green, cameo green.
Neutrals: taupe, gray, off-white.
Colors that can be difficult: anything too bright or too vibrant. For example, red and yellow (if you want to wear a yellow color, try a soft version, such as a mustard color).
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