Makeup Theory: skin colors
1:20 AMThere are many skin colors in the world and sometimes you cannot define the right color for your skin or might be you just cannot find products which are best for your skin color.
This wheel shows how many actual skin colors might be in nature and if there is no your skin color doesn't mean you cannot mix two shades to get your color.
Many things depend on your undertone or the base of your skin color:
1.The pink base might exist in any skin color as you can see. It contains red and pink tones especially around your eyes and nose.
2. Neutral base doesn't contain any distinguishable pink or yellow undertones.
3. Yellow base contains very little redness and more olive tones.
Yeah, this thing might be a little confusing cause there are always mixes of colors and undertones and you may have not the only one undertone.
It's also hard to define the undertone and skin color when you have a natural or fake tan.
- Fair Skin–Light Ivory, Porcelain, Sand, Pale Peach Pink or slightly reddish (rosy) undertones
- Medium Skin–Yellow, Gold, Beige, Natural, Red-Olive, Yellow-Green
- Medium-Dark Skin–Honey, Cameo, Copper, Olive, Tan, Golden-Olive, Caramel
- Dark Skin–Orange-Brown, Red-Brown, Walnut, Almond, Blue-Black, Ebony, Dark Chocolate
There are also three types of skintones
- Cool Skintone – the skin has a little pink (rosiness) in their skin. They tend to burn easily under the sun. People who look good in silver jewelry & accessories. When they wearing a cool undertone red lipstick, they look brightened up. Most of the time, their veins are in blue color (take a look at the wrist under natural light).
- Warm Skinton – the skin has a yellow undertone or golden-olive undertone. They tend to tan easily under the sun. People who look awesome in gold jewelry & accessories than silver. When they wearing a warm (orange) undertone red lipstick, they look brightened up. Most of the time, their veins are in green color (take a look at your wrist under natural light).
- Neutral Skintone–the skin has both pink and golden undertone. They look good in both gold or silver jewelry. Most of the time, their vain is in both blue-green color.
Many makeup companies use the same color scheme for their products and here's the scheme of common colors you may find for your skin color. You can also buy a couple of foundations and mix them to get the thing you need. Don't be afraid mixing, its normal just like mixing colors on artists palette.
Hope this post was helpful and now you're able to find out your skin color properly and get the foundation you need for your skin.
Remember, the foundation shouldn't bring some other color or tan to your skin but it should make your face smooth and one color everywhere except under eye area, which I'll explain later.
Tomorrow:
Makeup theory: concealers and color correctors
- your Dragon V
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