If you're very fair and cool, you may prefer to break up bright white with accessories that compliment your undertone. If you're cool toned, blue based accent colors will compliment you beautifully. Now that you know your undertone, you can select your neutral and accent colors accordingly. SOME EXAMPLE COLOR PALETTES FOR EACH UNDERTONE COOL NEUTRALS & ACCENT COLORS Some of my favorite true olive foundations are by Giorgio Armani, Makeup Forever, Koh Gen Do & Alima Pure but I've also had great luck with BareMinerals (because it's so sheer), Chanel (their now discontinued Perfection Lumiere in shade 30 was perfect for me!) & some Lancome, Dior & YSL in the past. My ideal shades are usually a mix of both and I tend to have better luck with neutral undertones that are sheered out and warmed up with blush and bronzer (Tarte Amazonian Clay in Exposed is a great one for this), than I do with warm undertones. Foundations that are too yellow turn bright orange on me and foundations that are too neutral can appear too washed out and just not right. My undertone can appear warm depending on what I'm wearing and I'm often mischaracterized as being warm. *Also, in case it helps you to better understand your own undertone I'm a medium olive with high contrast (my hair and eyes are much darker than my skin). If your skin is somewhere in the middle or looks grey or ashen, you're likely neutral or potentially olive. If your skin looks blueish or flushed, you're likely cool toned. If your skin appears yellow you have warm skin. TOWEL TESTįor this last test, wrap your body and hair in pure white towels and examine your bare face, neck and shoulders in natural daylight. If both suit you, you're likely neutral toned or potentially olive. If silver jewelry makes your eyes sparkle, your smile bright and your features dance, you're cool toned. If the gold jewelry makes your eyes shine, your teeth pop and your features soft, then you're warm toned. Next, hold a piece of gold jewelry and a piece of silver jewelry up to your skin. If your veins are a little of both, you’re neutral or even olive. If your veins appear green, you’re warm toned or olive. If your veins appear blue, you’re cool toned. Look at the veins on your wrist in natural daylight. Also, if you're ever unsure, don't hesitate to ask a friend or family member for help because sometimes it's easier to see undertone on someone else. Each of these methods is easy to do on yourself and for best results, you should try them in natural day light without makeup on. If you're unsure what your undertone is, I've outlined some common ways to figure it out here. This can sometimes come across as almost gray or ashen and it can be very difficult to find makeup that works with your complexion. This one is tricky because it's often mistaken for warm skin but olive skin actually leans slightly more neutral than warm, and has a natural green pigment that is visible on the surface of the skin.
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