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Unlock Your Natural Beauty: Discover Your Skin’s Undertone

Are you tired of mismatched foundation and uneven skin tones? It’s time to learn about your skin’s undertone! Understanding your undertone is key to finding the perfect foundation, makeup, and wardrobe essentials that enhance your natural beauty.

What is an Undertone?

Your undertone is the underlying color tone or hue beneath your skin, which can be warm, cool, or neutral. It’s not the same as your skin tone, which refers to the amount of melanin in your skin. Think of undertone as the subtle voice that tells you when you put on a sweater that just looks wrong on you.

Why Does Undertone Matter?

Knowing your undertone can help you:

• Pick the perfect foundation or concealer shade
• Find makeup shades that best complement your complexion
• Choose clothes and accessories in colors that make you glow

The 3 Main Undertone Types

1. Warm: Golden, yellow, warm reddish, or peachy undertones. People with warm undertones often have hints of gold or red in their skin, hair, or eyes. They tend to not burn easily in the sun.
2. Cool: Pink, blue-reddish, or blueish undertones. Cool undertones often have hints of pink or blue in their skin, and an icier undertone in their hair and eyes. They tend to burn easily in the sun.
3. Neutral: A balanced mix of warm and cool undertones. Neutral skin undertones might have some warm tones in their hair, but cool tones in their eyes (or vice versa).

How to Find Your Undertone

1. The White Tee Test: Compare your skin to a white tee or sheet of paper in natural lighting. If your skin appears pinkish, you’re prob cool. If it looks more golden, you’re likely warm. Can’t really tell? You could be neutral.
2. The Sunburn Test: If you burn easily in the sun and don’t tan easily, you may have cool-pink undertones. If you tan quickly and hold a tan, you may have warm-golden undertones.
3. The Vein Test: Look at the veins under your skin. If they appear more green, you have a warm undertone. If they look more blueish and purple, you have a cool undertone.
4. Jewelry Test: Try on different jewelry pieces. If you feel like gold complements your skin best, you’re probably warm-toned. If you feel like silver really makes your skin shine, you’re likely cool-toned.

Finding the Best Makeup for Your Undertone

1. Determine Your Skin Tone: Narrow down the scale of your color whether it is fair, medium, or deep.
2. Swatch It: Swatching will help you nail down both your skin tone and undertone.
3. Know Your Labels: Look for labels with C, W, or N to indicate the undertone.
4. Don’t Neutralize: Instead of trying to neutralize your skin tone, find a foundation that seamlessly blends into your skin.

Best Makeup for Warm Undertones

• Charlotte Tilbury Beautiful Skin Foundation
• Loreal True Match
• MAC
• Fenty

Best Makeup for Cool Undertones

• Estee Lauder Double Wear
• Fenty
• MAC
• Loreal True Match

Best Makeup for Neutral Undertones

• Dior Forever Skin Glow
• Bobbi Brown
• Laura Mercier
• MAC
• Fenty
• Loreal True Match

Dressing Your Best Based on Your Undertone

• Warm Undertones: Earthy tones like green, brown, mustard yellow, and warm red complement warm skin undertones.
• Cool Undertones: Jewel tones like emeralds, deep purples, and bright or ice blue look great on cool skin undertones.
• Neutral Undertones: Neutral undertones can sample from both warm- and cool-toned friend’s wardrobe, but may find that they lean a little in one direction. Subtle hues like mauve, mint, blush, and champagne look especially good.

Now that you know your undertone, it’s time to unlock your natural beauty and find the perfect foundation, makeup, and wardrobe essentials that make you glow!