Your Fashion Formula
HUE: Skin Undertone
Determine your skin undertone
Human skin comes in all kinds of shades ranging from fair to deep and all shades in-between. But whether your skin is light or dark is not relevant here. What is essential is whether it is warm or cool.
And that is because clothing colors in the wrong hue will visually highlight imperfections, emphasise shadows on your face and make your skin tone appear uneven.
Determining your skin undertone is thus a crucial exercise that will positively impact your wardrobe and your appearance. But how do you know whether you have warm or cool undertones?
WARM or COOL?
Let's do the metal test to define your skin undertone
Do you look better in gold or silver? If gold suits you, you have warm undertones. If silver looks good on you, your undertones are cool. And if both metals look fine on you, you have neutral undertones. This is a great way to determine your skin undertone - as long as you know what to look for.
WARM
You have warm skin undertone if:
Skin with very warm undertones does not tolerate silver and will have a strong reaction against the metal. Silver makes warm skin appear pale, ‘muddy’ and greenish (because yellow undertones + blue silver = green). But gold draws out the naturally present yellow undertones and creates a glowing skin tone.
COOL
You have cool skin undertone if:
Skin with cool undertones does not tolerate gold and will have a strong reaction against the metal. Gold makes cool skin appear weirdly yellowish or greenish (because blue undertones + yellow gold = green). But silver draws out the naturally present blue undertones and creates an even skin tone. you navigate daily life tasks.