Diwali is knocking! Who doesn’t want to make an impression with the perfect look. Do you know that the color of clothing and makeup that suits you more, depends on your skin undertone?! When it comes to finding a new lipstick or foundation, we’re usually drawn to color first.
In countries like Korea, China, Japan where huge amount of importance are given on beauty and makeup products , there is a very effective discussion about this undertone and the role of different color that will make a divine impression on different people. Many celebrities of India also choose their makeup and dressup with suitable color palettes . what exactly is skin undertone? What color clothes will suit your undertone? Let’s know the details.
What is skin undertone?
Undertone is the natural color below your skin’s surface. skin tone refers to skin color from outside, undertone refers to the shade within that color.
Difference between skintone and skin undertone :
Whether your skin color is dark ,fair, tanned or pale (basic four tones) this is called , your skintone.
And whether your skin shade is warm, cool, or neutral, this is skin undertone. Now the question may come to your mind that by looking at this shade hidden behind the skin, how can we understand that I belong to which undertone?
How to understand the type of your skin undertone from the outside?
You can tell what your skintone is from the outside and even people around you can guess about your skintone. Although you can’t tell the undertones inside the skin from the outside, there are actually several ways to know about the undertones. As mentioned earlier, there are usually three types of undertones in our skin. Every person has a different type of skin undertone. Those who belong to warm undertone should use warm color palette. And in case of cool undertone, cool color palette is needed. And neutral undertone then what color clothes to use? Not only that, Knowing your skin’s undertone may help you choose foundation that best suits your hue! Three basic undertones of skin is :
Warm • cool • neutral
You can find out which undertone you belong to with some simple tests at home. You can make this determination using any one of the tests given below.
Test-1 :
Checking veins
•First you have to look at your veins. If your veins look close to green color, or greenish you are under warm undertone.
• If your veins look close to blue or purplish
Then you have cool undertone.
• If your veins look colorless or match the color of your skin, or if you can’t see purplish and greenish veins, then have neutral undertone!
Test-2:
Test by wearing jewellery
Have you ever felt that gold jewellery doesn’t suit me rather silver jewellery suits me best and vice- versa . the only reason behind this is your skin undertone.
• If gold jewellery suits you best then your undertone is warm.
• If silver jewellery suits you more then your undertone is cool.
• And if you belong to neutral undertones then you are most lucky as both types of jewellery will suit you perfectly.
Test-3
checking the effect after sun-tan
Yes trust the process! that’s one of the great ways to decide. If your skin burns quickly then tans to rosy or reddish shades then you likely have a cool undertone.
• If your skin tans to peach, golden or olive undertones you likely have a warm undertone.
• if your skin doesn’t seem to have a burns or tans often, then you may have a neutral undertone.
Test- 4
Holding up a white paper in the Mirror
• Look at the mirror beside a piece of paper and look at how your skin reacts to it.
If your skin looks pinkish against the paper, you probably have cooler undertone if your skin looks yellowish against the paper, you’re probably a warm tone. If you don’t see any of the colors without your natural skintone, then you likely have neutral undertone.
Here some MAKEUP TIPS that can help .
•FOUNDATION
•If you have warm undertone , according to specialists , you look better with a foundation which contains slightly yellow tint .
• if you have cool undertone , avoid using yellowish foundation , the use of foundation with pinkish tone would look better on you .
•People with neutral undertones tend to look better in foundations that are neither overly yellow nor pink. You can use a foundation with a combination of yellowish and pinkish tint .
LIPSTICKS
• specialists suggest that pink , Peach or coral shades with warm undertones and mauve or mocha shades with cool undertones are made for you.
•For those with cool undertones, choose purple , ruby red or wine red and matte shades of copper, bronze will also suit you.
•For neutral undertones , soft Purple , peach, red-based browns, and plum colors offer work well.
COLOUR PALETTE
•The most important to select beautiful colour pallets that can create a great impression to your skin tone .
• The best colors for warm skin tones often include colors like green, brown, mustard yellow , peach, coral, amber and gold , orange , royal blue , pink , red , white , light purple etc .
•The best colors for cool skin tones are emeralds, lavender, pink,bright blues and ice blue , dark purple . You cal also choose extremely pale yellows, rose reds and rubies , navy and red .
•If you have nutral tone. both warm and cool skin tones will work great for you. Pulling from both sides of the color spectrum, you’ll have the widest variety in color choices that will make you shine. such as beige ,jade green ,light pink or peach is top pick for them . go with a bold color like cobalt blue, choose complementary colors to balance the outfit.
colors that you might avoid include black and navy.
Let’s explore in more practical way !
Here you can see bollywood star Deepika Padukon has warmer undertone .so While she wears warmer colour like yellow , orange , crimson, it enhances her beauty.
Next notice now katrina kaif’s beauty is enhancing with silver jewellery .Kareena Kapoor is glowing more with silver jewellery .so they’re under cool tones .
You can see the style icon and one of the well -known singers Selena Gomez often appears with beige and light pink coloured clothes to look more iconic.
