How To Tell If You Are A Cool or Warm Skin Tone
You need to know your skin tone to pick your foundation color. Here are some tips to help you. Remember that while these are pretty good guidelines, there are some cases when you can still be a "cool" or "warm" and be able to wear a color on the opposite chart, or you may be neutral. Pick what colors work best on you the majority of the time.
Why do I need to know my skin tone?
You want to let your natural skin tones to come through when you wear mineral makeup. The mineral powders provide correction and coverage but they have to match as they are sheer colors. With the correct colors, your skin will look radient and healthy. Here are some general tips to help you decide. FYI - cool skin coloring is more common than warm.
Cool Skin Tones
You look great in jewel tones and you look better in white than ivory. Black works well on you. Usually you pick foundations that have a pink base. Light skins might freckle or burn before you tan. Cool skin tones can include pale skin with no cheek color, pale skin with pinkish cheeks, ruddy or pinkish skin, medium skin with no color to your cheeks, medium skin with pink cheeks, brown skin with pink undertones, olive skin (most Asians and Latinos) and very dark brown rich espresso skin with reddish undertones.
Warm Skin Tones
You look great in earth tones and you look better in ivory rather than white. You look good in brown. Usually you pick foundations that have a yellow base. You turn a golden brown when you tan. Warm skin tones can include pale skin with peach or gold undertones, medium skin with golden or honey undertones (lighter skinned African Americans, Indians and Hispanics), brown skin with carmel or golden undertones and very dark brown skin with golden or yellow undertones.
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