Finding Shades that Complement Your Skintone

In this blog post, we are going to discuss how to find your undertone and what shades go best with your undertone.

There are four different main undertones: Warm, cool, neutral, and olive.

A warm undertone has a yellow, peach, or golden skin undertone.

• Lighter warm undertones should go for shades such as warm-pinks and warm neutrals, and rich berries, wine and red.

• Darker warm undertones should go for orangey tones and burgundy, as well as warm bright reds.

A cool undertone has a pink, reddish, or blue undertone.

• Light cool undertones should go for muted colors, such as mauves and soft pink. Red with a blue undertone is very flattering as well.

• Deeper cool undertones should go for deeper purples, fuchsia, and poppy; anything with a blue undertone rather than warm.

A neutral undertone has a mix of warm and cool undertones.

• Neutral undertones have the freedom to wear any color that they want. They can choose to add any pop of colors and can added a golden look to the skin.

An olive undertone has a yellow/greenish undertone, which makes it more unique than the other undertones.

Just like the neutral undertone, olive undertones can also wear any color.

• Royal/rich colors look very nice on olive undertones, such as a true gold, a royal blue, or a deep burgundy.

While there are a bunch of ways to ‘determine’ your undertone such as checking your veins, that most effective way is to try a few different shades close to your skin tone and apply them on the side of your cheek, and see which one disappears into the skin and that’s the one the matches you the best.