God has created millions and billions of people all around the world with unique features, textures, and skin complexions. Among thousands of people, around 80% are still struggling in determine their correct skin tone. Which highly affects them in choosing the right cosmetic shades for themselves. Like this, they either end up picking the too-dark shade or too-light. For that, in this post, I’m going to highlight some of the highly effective and essential ways to identify your appropriate skin tone.
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We understand that choosing the right tone for yourself is quite an effortful act, especially when there are hundreds of options in front of us, whether while selecting captivating colors for our outfits or cool colors for make-up. Therefore, before discussing the identification ways of your tone. We need to know the types of shades we have.
KINDS OF SKIN SHADES:
Every shade is beautiful and unique in its way. There are five different types of tones that are considered the basic ones. They are: fair, light, medium, tan, and deep
Moreover, the following are a few details of every shade separately that will help you to observe our skin more clearly.
⦁ FAIR: This is the type of skin where you burn quickly and have incredibly pale and transparent skin as well. You may also experience some redness and freckles.
⦁ LIGHT: your complexion is light. When exposed to the sun, you burn and potentially tan afterwards.
⦁ MEDIUM: You have skin that tans readily and rarely gets burned or irritated.
⦁ TAN TONE: Your complexion is olive or tan. Even in the cold, you hardly burn and appear brown.
⦁ DEEP TONE: You have dark skin and are never scorched by the sun. Your hair may be dark brown or black.
After monitoring the pigmentation of your skin through these characteristics of each, keep a note of which category your tone fits in. Then move towards the next step which is clear out your face.
CLEAR OUT YOUR FACE:
We know that the cleaner the canvas is, the cleaner the picture appears on it. For examining the type of your skin is better to wash your face with soap or facewash and rinse it with clean water. Afterward, dry your face and wait for 10-15 minutes then find natural light, grab a handy mirror, and observe your skin. Firstly, check the color tone of your jawline because the jaw is where you need to integrate. Hence, this is the area you need to match the color. This part of the face is rarely affected or changes its pigmentation.
ANALYZE HOW THE SUN AFFECTS YOUR COMPLEXION:
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It is important to keep an eye on how and what changes the sun brings to your skin. Furthermore, you can assess your skin tone and how your face will respond to sun exposure based on the amount of pigmentation in your body. Such as, If you rarely get sunburned and tan effortlessly, you probably have a warm or medium skin tone because you have much melanin.
EXAMINE YOUR VEINS:
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Analyzing the color of the veins around your wrist is one of the most effective and finest ways to determine the correct tone of your skin. This step gives you an accurate result in no time and you will also find yourself satisfied. All you have to do is look at the area of your hand where your veins are visible enough then carefully examine the color of each vein. Such as, you have a warm skin tone if the hue of your veins seems green. However, green veins indicate a warm skin tone. Besides this, if you can’t decide whether your veins are blue or green, your skin tone is probably neutral, allowing you to choose hues from both the warm and cool spectrum. Normal undertones are seen on people with olive skin.
LET’S TRY IT WITH YOUR JEWELRY:
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If you are still confused and still finding difficulty choosing the right color for your tone then this step will surely help you out. We notice that on some people silver jewelry looks mind-blowing but on the other hand, some people prefer gold to silver the reason is they don’t find their skin quite comfortable in a particular color in terms of their tone. The reason is silver and gold jewels tell about your skin tone whether you have light, medium, tan skin, etc. Therefore, if you want to know what suits you the best, wear the jewel and check which looks good on your tone. Such as, warm skin tones complement gold the best. However, on cool-toned skin, silver looks best. Also, both look attractive in complexion tones with more neutral undertones.
PLACE A WHITE PAPER NEAR YOUR FACE:
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Try to compare your skin’s appearance to white paper while looking in a mirror. It might have a yellow tint, a blue-red or rosy hue, or it might not have any apparent color at all and instead be grey. Like, in comparison to the white paper, if your complexion seems yellow or sallow, you have a warm skin tone. Also, a cool skin tone is indicated by your complexion appearing pink, rosy, or blueish-red. But, If your skin seems grey, it probably has an olive undertone and an overall neutral complexion. This result is produced by the interaction of your complexion’s green undertone and the yellow undertone. Given that you are in the middle, you can experiment with neutral and warm tones.
In conclusion, everyone needs to know their accurate skin tone, which helps them in various ways such as in choosing the perfect shades of cosmetics, captivating colors for their outfits, etc. For that, follow the steps mentioned above i.e. analyze your clean face under sunlight, check carefully the color of your veins, try on some jewelry, and lastly hold a piece of white paper near your skin which will assist you effectively in deciding what kind of tone you have.
By Neha
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