Skin tone refers to the natural color of your complexion, which shows how light, or deep your shade is. It ranges from fair, light, medium, or deep. Seasons and age may affect skin tone; thus your skin shade may change too. The skin undertone refers to the color under the skin, which makes the skin unique. It can be a warm, cool, or neutral undertone. For more visit Foreo. Skin tone helps in choosing the right makeup.

Makeup For Your Skin Tone

Perform A Skin Tone Test

Your skin tone plays a crucial role when finding makeup for your skin. Whether your undertone is warm, cool, or neutral ensures that your foundation matches your skin. Incorrect makeup will look odd on your skin. The color you chose must stand out to correctly match your underneath skin surface.

To perform the skin tone test, you need to place a plain piece of white paper or a white towel beside your face. Compare it to your skin; if your complexion looks dull or yellowish, your undertone is warm. If it looks bright or pinkish, your undertone is cool. However, if you cannot tell much of the difference or if it appears grayish, then your undertone is neutral. The makeup should strictly match your skin undertone.

Determine Your Skin Color

Your skin color may be fair, medium, or dark. Skin color differs from skin tone. You can be fair skinned but your skin tone is warm, and another person can be fair skinned, but the undertone is cool. The makeup you use must match with your skin color to bring out the best of your looks.

Test Foundation Base

To test the best foundation for your skin tone, use the lower jawbone skin. If your skin undertone is cool, the foundation used should look slightly pinkish or bluish. For warm undertones, the foundation shade should be yellowish or golden in color. The neutral toned skin should apply golden foundation shade.

Choose The Right Blush

Choose the blush that will blend well with your skin tone to highlight the cheeks. Medium-skinned tones should use coral or peach blushes. Cool skin tones should use blush with shades of plum. Warm tones should use burnt orange-bronze blush.

Choosing Eye Shadow and Lipstick

Darker skin types and eye colors call for bolder eye shadows. For the lipsticks, warm skin tones are good with brown or warm red colors. Cool tones can wear purple or pink colors.