The Right Make-up & Clothing Shades For Your Skin Tone

Your skin is the most important fashion parameter. Everything you do needs to complement this one parameter. You cannot wear something fashionable unless you know your skin tone and undertone.

This article will help you with that. We will look closely at your skin and help you find the right tone and undertone. Therefore, if you struggle to find the right hue, this article will be a lifesaver.

Skintone & Undertone Overview

Before examining what well-respected dermatologists say about choosing the right hue, we need to understand the fundamentals. Your skin tone and undertone are crucial when selecting the right hue.

The first thing you must understand is your skin tone, which is the natural colour of your skin. A person’s skin tone is primarily dependent on the amount of melanin present. People with high melanin content tend to be darker, and vice versa for fairer people.

Undertone is the subtle colour present under the base of your skin tone. This hue remains constant regardless of sun exposure. Undertones are generally categorized as war, cool, or neutral.

You must understand these two important factors to choose the right hue for you. Your skin tone and undertone decide your complexion.

Types Of Complexion

Your complexion is the product of your skin tone and undertone coming together. Complexion comes in diverse forms. Every human being’s skin tone is unique, but it can be categorized into some classes. Here are some of the most common skin tone types you can come across:

• Fair Complexion: This type of skin has a light tone and is easily burned in the sun, which is why it is called a fair complexion.
• Light Complexion: This is slightly darker than the fair complexion, but still falls under the light complexion category. Light-complexioned skin is also susceptible to sunburn.
• Medium Complexion: This is a mix of light and olive complexions with a tinge of redness. This skin tone is susceptible to sunburn, but not to the extent that light and fair-complexioned skins are.
• Olive Complexion: This complexion results from the presence of olive and yellow hues under the natural skin tone. People residing in Middle Eastern or Mediterranean countries tend to have this skin tone.
• Deep Complexion: Skin rich in melanin is often categorized as deep complexion. Deep complexion is most prevalent in the African race. The skin tone is most resistant to sunburn.

Choosing The Right Make-up/Clothes

Now that you understand your skin tone, you can finally start choosing the right hues of makeup and clothing. In this section, we will be looking at some of the most prominent and useful tips in choosing the right hues for you

Warm Tones

For warm tones, the best move is to complement the natural warmth of the skin. Hence, the best move is to choose concealers with yellow or golden undertone. As for blush/bronzer, choose shades like golden, coral and warm peach. For eyeshadow, you must gravuitate towards gues luke terracotta, bronze and copper shades. For lips you must choose coral, orange or red.

When it comes to clothing, follow the same principle. Go for shades like orange, olive, warm red, yellow and rich browns. This colors will complement your warm undertone and create a look that is harmonious and does not feel conflicting.

Cool Tones

For cool tones, the best move is to complement the natural redness of your skin. Go for concealer shades like pink, or rosy. Similarly mauve shades, or pink berry or cool pink shaded blush and bronzer works the best. Go for eye-shadows like icy blue, grey or purple. Lastly go for plum, berry or pink hues for the lips.

For people with cool skintone, colors like mint green, cool greys, pink, purple, or blue work magic. All of these tones complement your natural cool tone and make your attire pop. You can also try going a little vibrant as that can enhance your look to another extent.

Neutral Tones

Neutral tones allow individuals to experiment with a range of hues at the same time. In fact, you can choose both warm and cool tones at the same time. This range of flexibility is only there for people with neutral tones. However, do not go against the nbarural redness of your tone in any way.

For makeup, you must follow the same rule. You can play arpoun with cool and warm tones simultaneously. However, the huies must not go against each other. There needs to be a semblance. However, do not be too restricted with color theories and try experimenting from time to time.

End Note: Embracing Your Skin

No skintone is superior to other. However, knowing the right tone for your skin is still one of the most important factors you must know about. When choosing the right attire for your skin, you understand what goes and what does not.

Still, fashion is not a colour coded theory. If you have the guts to pull of something bold then go ahead. Nobody can stop you in any way. Till then, see you and have a great day ahead.