For Men & Women
Knowing the skin undertone is not only exclusive to women wanting to find the right shade of foundation! Men & women alike should equally consider their skin undertones when choosing their outfits and accessories as well.
The Difference Between Skin Tone & Skin Undertone
First, let’s start by defining and differentiating between the two terms in order to understand what each one refers to:
Skin tone is the surface color, and it is determined by the amount of melanin in the uppermost layer of your skin. Skin tones range from light to dark, including shades in between.
Skin undertone is the hue that comes through from underneath your skin surface. Skin undertones are divided into three types: Cool, neutral, and warm undertones.
How to Determine Skin Undertones
Determining your Skin Undertones can be an easy task!
To find out which category your skin undertones fall in, all you need to do is look down at your wrist veins!
If you can see purple or blueish veins, then you have cool undertones.
If you can see blue-green veins, then you have neutral undertones.
If you can see olive or greenish veins, then you have warm undertones.
Why should both Men & Women Pay Attention to their Undertones?
Skin undertones are mostly known and used for determining what shades of makeup must be used by women such as foundation and lipstick colors. Whereas in fact, skin undertones are just as important when it comes to styling and choosing outfits and accessories.
So, let’s dive right into the color palette that will work best for your wardrobe according to your skin undertone
Styling for Cool Undertones:
If you’ve got cool undertones, colors such as grey, brown, burgundy, green, navy will all work well for you!
When it comes to accessories silver and platinum pieces are sure to suit you.
Styling for Neutral Undertones:
If you’ve got neutral undertones, you should go for the softer tones of any color. Those colors are the ones that fall in the midst of the color wheel such as light peach, soft pinks, soft blues, and cameo green.
When it comes to accessories, you’re quite lucky, you can choose any!
Styling for Warm Undertones:
If you’ve got warm undertones, avoid icy shades and go for warmer colors that are sure to compliment your skin. Colors such as brown, olive, deep red, gold, orange, and mustard are recommended for you!
When it comes to accessories, go for gold or bronze jewelry.
Wear What Makes You Happy
You deserve to create looks that make you Glow, and reflect your personality and lifestyle. You should always wear what makes you happy and elevates your confidence, and so the guidelines in this blog are not there to restrict your options, they are there for you to know why sometimes you might not feel like certain shades are right for YOU!