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misconcept

• fair-skinned girls can’t have warm

undertones or dark-skinned women
of color can’t have cool tones.
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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 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
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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.
How to identify your skin tone

Plain paper
Vein test Jewelry test
test

Effect on
sun
exposure
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universal color