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STU

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
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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

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

Jewelry
Vein test
test

Plain Effect on
paper test sun exposure
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