DISCOVER YOUR

UNDERTONE COLOR 2
SKIN TONE VS UNDERTONE
UNDERTONE
 Color underneath the surface of skin
Skin undertone doesn’t correlate with skin tone, and so even two persons with the
same skin tone can have different skin undertones
MISCONCEPT

fair-skinned girls can’t have warm

undertones or dark-skinned women of
color can’t have cool tones.
FINDING YOUR COLOR
PROFILE
COOL
WARM
YOUR COLOR PALETTE
Look at the color of the veins on the inside of your wrist. This is a quick way to
determine your undertones if your veins are visible. Hold up your arm in the natural
light and determine the predominant color.[2
If you can't tell if your veins are green or blue, you may have a neutral skin tone. If
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you have an olive complexion, you likely fall into this category.[3]
If your veins appear green, you have a warm skin tone.[4]
If your veins appear blue or purple, you have a cool skin tone
Consider how your skin normally reacts to the sun. Do you tan easily? Do you
burn or get freckles? The amount of melanin in your skin determines how it reacts to
sun exposure and can help you determine your skin tone.[6]If you tan easily and
rarely burn, you have more melanin and you likely have a warm or neutral skin tone.
[7]

If your skin burns and doesn't tan, you have less melanin and therefore a cooler skin
tone.[8]
Some women with very dark, ebony skin may not burn easily but still have a cool
skin tone. Try a few more tests to figure out your undertone
Hold a white piece of paper up to your face. Looking in a mirror, try to see how your
skin looks in contrast to the white paper. It may appear to have a yellow cast, a blue-red or
rosy cast, or it may not appear to be either, but a gray color instead.If your skin appears
yellowish or sallow beside the white paper, you have a warm skin tone.
If your skin appears pink, rosy, or blueish-red, then you have a cool skin tone.
If your skin appears gray, your skin probably has an olive complexion with a neutral
undertone. The green from your complexion and the yellowish undertone combines to
create this effect.[10] You can experiment with neutral and warm tones, since you fall
somewhere in between.[11]
If you can't determine any cast of yellow, olive, or pink, you have a neutral skin tone.
Neutral tones can look good in foundations and colors on both ends of the cool/warm
spectrum
Use gold and silver foil or jewelry to find your skin tone. Hold a sheet of gold foil
in front of your face so that it reflects light back on your skin. Note whether it makes
your face look grayish or washed out, or if it enhances your skin. Then try with a
sheet of silver foil.If the gold foil looks best, you have a warm skin tone.
If the reflection from the silver foil makes your skin glow, you have a cool skin tone.
If you don't notice a difference (both silver and gold are flattering), then you likely
have a neutral skin tone.[13]
If you don't have gold or silver foil, try laying gold and silver jewelry on your wrist,
and notice which one is more flattering
Warm: If the base tone of your skin is yellow or gold, you have warm undertones.
Cool: If you see hints of blue, pink or red, then you have cool undertones.
Neutral: If there’s a mixture of both warm and cool hues, or your undertone is the
same color as your actual skin color, then you fall into the neutral category.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SKIN
TONE
HOW TO IDENTIFY YOUR SKIN
TONE

Vein test Jewelry test

Plain paper Effect on sun

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