Warm, neutral or cool skin tone?

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Nov 5, 2013

Lynzie B.

Do you know how to check it yourself?

From your pictures it looks like you have yellow undertones. But neutral will work.

The vein test is an easy way to determine your skin tone. In natural light (during the day, stand by an open window), make a fist and examine your inner wrist. What color are the veins? Veins that are mainly blue are a sign of cool tones, while green veins are a hint that you are warm toned. If your veins are a mix of blue and green, it could be a sign that you are neutral toned!
If you can, find a piece of silver fabric and piece of gold fabric. Stand in front of a mirror in natural light. Hold each piece of fabric next to your face, one at a time and examine. If the silver makes your face light up, you are most likely cool toned. If the gold makes you look fresh and alive, you are probably warm toned. You can also do this with Jewlery
While these rules do have exceptions, for the most part, your hair, skin and eye color can help you determine your skin tone.

Warm toned skin tends to have a golden or apricot undertone. Their hair tends to have hints of orange, yellow, red or gold. Eye color tends to be amber, dark brown, hazel, or green.

Cool toned skin has a pink or rosy undertone. Their hair often contains blue, blue-violet, silver, drab, and ash undertones. Eye color tends to be light blue, gray-green, blue green, turquoise, gray-blue, black or cool brown.

If you still are unable to determine your skin tone, you could be neutral toned. Neutral toned people can wear just about any color and look great. Some neutral skin tones pull towards warm or cool. If you're a neutral pulling warm, you look best in warm but can pull off cools and visa-versa for neutral pulling cool.

Nov 5, 2013

Heather H.

Go into sephora and have them do the color iq thing on you, it's super accurate!

Nov 5, 2013

Mary T.

I'd go with the veins like these ladies say. We learned that in cosmetology school. Brittany said it right!

Nov 5, 2013

Laura O.

I've tried the vein thing loads of times but still can't determine if they are blue or green! I mite hav to do what Heather said :)

Nov 5, 2013

Anna S.

Ha the vein thing never works for me either... I don't know if what I'm seeing is blue or green or somewhere in between... I wanna try the Sephora tool also! Hope it's accurate, I've also had different people tell me different things...

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Cecile V.

Sacramento, Ca