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Your color palette

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
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