The world of makeup is pretty vast, the endless number of makeup products and countless brands make it quite confusing and daunting when it comes to making beauty purchases. While finding certain makeup products like blush and eyeshadow is still a lot easier, finding the right foundation and concealer definitely isn’t the easiest purchase to make, considering they come in a myriad of shades. And we know very well how imperative it is to pick foundation in the right shade in order to make the base of your makeup look natural and skin-like and not artificial or made up. Foundations come in a wide range of shades, with each one formulated for different skin tones and undertones. Speaking of which, when it comes to purchasing the foundation for yourself, the easiest and correct way to purchase it is by considering your skin tone as well as your undertone to pick a shade that is closest to your natural skin tone.
If you still haven’t determined what your skin undertone is, we are here to help you with that. Listed below are 5 simple ways to determine your skin tone and undertone.
Check your veins
The easiest way to determine your skin undertone is to check the underside of your wrist. When you stretch your hands a bit, you will see some veins on the underside of your wrist peeping through the skin. If the veins appear bluish-purple to you, you are supposedly working with a cool skin undertone, and if they appear somewhat greenish in color, then you are dealing with a warm skin undertone. As for greenish-blue veins, it suggests that you have a neutral skin undertone.
Blush flush
This is yet another excellent way to determine your skin undertone, and it’s also quite easy to follow. If your cheeks get flushed very easily, and it looks like you have applied some blush on your cheeks, this highly suggests that your skin tone is on the cooler side. And if you don’t blush very easily, you probably have either neutral or warm skin undertone.
Does your skin get tanned or burnt?
To be able to execute this method, you will have to expose your skin to the sun, but only after wearing sun protection aka sunscreen. Depending on if your skin ends up getting tanned or burnt under the sun, you would be able to identify your skin undertone. If the sun exposure result in that beautiful bronze tan, it would mean your skin tone is on the warm side, however, if it ends up getting sunburnt, then you have a cool skin undertone. Redness, blisters, and skin peeling are some of the common signs of sun burn.
What colors suit you?
If you are having a hard time determining your skin undertone, you can use this foolproof method to do the trick for you. In this method, all you will have to do is to check what colors work best for you. If colors like blues, greens, and purples look best on you, then your skin tone is on the cool side, and if colors like red, orange, and yellow suit you more, it means your skin is warm-toned. And if both the color palettes look equally good on you, it suggests that you have neutral-toned skin.
White or off-white, what works best for you?
You can take this test to determine what your skin undertone actually is, and for that, you will need two separate pieces of cloth in two different shades- white and off-white. Take both pieces of cloth and place them against your face one at a time. If white looks better on you, it means you have warm-toned skin, and if off-white looks better on you, then your skin tone is on the cooler side.