Determining your skin tone can be helpful when choosing makeup and clothing colors that complement your natural features. Skin undertones can range from warm to cool, and there are several ways to determine your skin tone. Here are some tips based on the search results:
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Hold a white piece of paper up to your face: Looking in a mirror, try to see how your skin looks in contrast to the white paper. If your skin appears yellowish or sallow beside the white paper, you have a warm skin tone. If your skin appears pink, rosy, or blueish-red, then you have a cool skin tone. If your skin appears gray, your skin probably has an olive complexion with a neutral undertone.
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Use gold and silver foil or jewelry: Hold a sheet of gold foil in front of your face so that it reflects light back on your skin. Note whether it makes your face look grayish or washed out, or if it enhances your skin. Then try with a sheet of silver foil. If the gold foil looks best, you have a warm skin tone. If the reflection from the silver foil makes your skin glow, you have a cool skin tone.
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Check your veins: Flip your wrist over and take a peek at your veins. If the color of your veins leans toward the blueish-purple end of the spectrum, you have a cool undertone. If your veins look slightly greener, you have warm undertones. If you’re unable to really nail down what color your veins are — or you have a mix of colors — you may have a neutral undertone.
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Look at your jewelry: If you look better in silver jewelry, you may have a cool skin tone. If you look better in gold jewelry, you may have a warm skin tone.
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Consider your natural hair and eye color: People with warm undertones tend to have brown, amber, or hazel eyes with strawberry blonde, red, brown, or black hair. People with cool undertones tend to have blue, gray, or green eyes with blonde, brown, or black hair.
Its important to note that your undertone isnt the same thing as your natural tone, or the color of your naked skin before you put on foundation or any other makeup. Even the fairest skin can have warm undertones, and darker skin can have cool ones.
