How to Find Out Your Undertone and Skin Tone

Undertones and Skin tones are natural stuffs present in all human, each and everyone is born with one type of skin tone or another.

Although it’s up to someone to determine and find out his or her undertone and skin tone, this can be rarely achieved all by yourself.

If you put on face makeup of any kind (foundation to lipsticks), then it’s very needful for you to understand the concept of skin tone, so as you can make a good choice when using shades of your concealer and foundation.

Knowledge of skin would also do you a great job when selecting out shades of coloration for your Hair, Clothing and Lipstick.

Right now, skin tones have gradually graduated out from the classification of just Light, Medium and Dark, to much more matching skin tone colors.

A lot of Skin and Face products and foundation lines with much more increased shade ranges gives the right of we getting a good and clear comprehension of our skin shades.

We hope that after this brief surface understanding, determining your specific skin tone would be a tough or hard encounter.

Introduction and Understanding of Skin Tones

Lets get the basic concept of skin tones by having a clear knowledge on Surface Color and Undertone.

Now when referring to skin tone in relation to the surface color, then you can head out to describe your skin as “light” “brown“, and “dark“…

Overtone/Surface Color Categorized

For clarifications and easy identification, you can use these FOUR primary categories of surface color present and know which hue you fall under

• FAIR:- This is the Lightest shade in regards to skin tones. People with this are considered as “Fair in Complexion”, and they are prone to skin burns.
• LIGHT:- Anyone holding this skin termed as “light” is known to have a presence of warmer skin tones in a higher concentration than Fair skin. You can freely go for a tan during the summer period.
• MEDIUM:- You have a “Tanned Light Skin” the presence of olive golden undertones is way high alongside warm golden tones.
• DARK:- Generally this is the thickest skin tone on the scale.

Now that you clearly have a basic understanding of surface color, let’s help you perfect the understanding among them.

So you can differentiate them easily, for example: stating the difference between fair and light skin and some other few things…

We know by now that undertones and skin tones are natural from childbirth, although they may altered by several factors, both external and internal.

The most common factor affecting skin tone is the external factors, most commonly tanning, we also have some other external factors like; acne, hyperpigmentation, and dark spots.

All these listed above can have a notable effect on your the surface color of your skin shades.

How to Know your Skin Surface Color & Overtone

Finding Out Your Skin Undertone

Since we have done a good and brief introduction to skin surface color, you may call it skin overtone.

Let us then dive into the sea of knowing the concept of undertone, this was once not noted as being a primary element when talking about skin tones, but from the 21st century, research showed an opened pathway to a broader knowledge on skin tone.

So, Undertone is just as simple as the name goes; the color tone lying underneath the first tone layer (surface color or overtone) of your skin.

Undertones can’t be affected by external factors like tanning or using skin brightening products, your undertone is fixed and doesn’t change.

Undertone Classifications

undertones are sub-divided into three undertones see below:

• COOL:- It’s Often spotted out by the prominence of bluish undertone to your skin.
• WARM:- Pointed out with a golden, peach-colored, or seldomly a reddish undertone.
• NEUTRAL:- this undertone just goes with its name, it’s not cool neither is it warm, present in darker skin tones as it also has a prominent olive hue.

How to Know your Skin Undertone

Finding out your undertone isn’t as smooth and easy as determining the surface color of your skin, it’s going to be of a little much work. To detect undertone is not as accurate as going for an overtone, but you can use some methods we got up our sleeves. Try them out and balance every result take and make a confirmation of your skin undertone.

1. Have a View at your jawline

Your jawline look also helps in getting a clear idea of your undertone, the color of the jewelry you put on, looking so good and fit on silver jewelry ( i.e necklaces and earrings) then there is a high tendency that your undertone is COOL, and on the other hand, looking fit on gold jewelry, then your undertone is most likely WARM. Are you looking awesome on both? then you are probably having a neutral-undertone.

2. Look at your veins

Raise up your hands and take a look at the veins around from your elbow joint to the wrist joint, if it looks green colored, then your likely to have warm-undertone, blue veins shows that you have a cool undertone. If you see veins looking bluish-green, then you may have a sign of a neutral undertone

3. Perform Eye test

Using the eye test, eye colors don’t really have validation when finding undertones, brown and green eyes show a tendency to be warm undertoned, also having grey or blue eyes shows that of cool or cold undertones.

4. Use the White Paper Test

Get a piece of blank white paper and place it next to the face under the skin(bare face), a skin looking yellow signifies a warm tone, and If your skin looks pink against the sheet, then you’re cool tone. Looking more of green or grey indicates the presence of a neutral undertone.

Well, good thing you all now have a bright understanding of the undertone now, now you’ll use the correct shades of foundation suiting both your skin overtones(surface color) and undertones.

Does Knowing Your Undertone Really Matter?

With a lot of categorizations of skin tones and undertones, knowledge of the undertone would help you vitally in taking care of your skin.

A. Makeup

After figuring out your undertone, it would improve your makeup skills by helping you use the right foundation shades, eyeshadow colors as well as lipsticks. Warm undertones rhyme with warm hues and cool undertones rhyme along with cool colors. It’ll help appreciates the makeup used and enlighten your natural skin complexion.

B. Clothes

You have a clear view of your skin undertone, it’ll help and assist you in choosing the right colored clothes and raise your fashion IQ. cool colors wear a cool tone and warm undertones should wear warm color shades.

C. Hair Color

When purchasing wigs and human hair, warm undertones should go for cool hair colors, while cool skin undertones should go for warm hair colors.

Does Aging Alter Skin Tone?

Oh yes!! they may be the presence of darkening in some areas of the skin as one grows older, also the appearance of skin colors in the face and hands may have an uneven placement of melanin-producing cells.

Skin tones may vary with exposure to sun and also season change, although the skin undertones remain constant.

We got so tricks up our sleeves you should try if you want to get a good bronze skin tone.

NOTE: If you are finding it hard to detect and know your correct skin tone, don’t stress it, it takes some time and a lot of patience, as you may see some failed attempts and trials when trying to find the perfect foundation shade for your makeup, or getting the right and perfect skin products and clothes matching your hue.

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