Are you a cool or warm skin tone?
Determining whether you are a cool or warm skin tone goes a long way to deciding on matching clothes to your complexion. Generally warm skin tones can go for warmer and bold colors and cooler skin tones the more subtle shades when color matching. For a mental image of what you should be looking for in a warm complexion think of a bright day in autumn with a warm red sunset. For people with a cool complexion think of deep cold oceans, icebergs and crisp cloudy skies. Keep these ideas in mind when putting together outfits and matching colors.
Hair color is a good indication of whether you are warm or cool. People with a warm complexion have a noticeably red hue to their hair. Brown with golden blonde highlights are an example. Is your hair Red? Golden blonde? Copper gold? Deep warm brown? If the answer is yes then you are more than likely a warm colored person.
Cool colored people have a much broader color range. Ash Blonde is an example of the lighter shades of hair. Is your hair White Blonde, Dusty Brown, Salt and Pepper, Black (with no red undertones) or Blue Black? If it is you are a cool toned person.
Eye color is the next determiner. As you may have guessed the trends are similar to hair color. People with a warm complexion have golden or brown eyes generally. If you have blue eyes do they have brown or golden flecks? Are they more green-blue or aqua? If yes then guess what... you are a warm colored person.
A cool person's eyes will have no 'golden' or warm tones. Blue eyes with only shades of blue, or flecks of grey are cool. Deep brown eyes with a slightly dusty appearance are also cool. Black eyes or charcoal eyes come under the cool category swell. If you have green eyes do they have white or greyish flecks? If you see any golden or warm coloring at all you might be a warm after all.
Skin color is the last determiner, but it can be very tricky as the sun and age can change the coloring quite dramatically. Generally speaking though your natural skin tone (i.e. the one you were born with) is your true tone. Take a close look at your skin, especially the inside of your wrists. Is your skin peachy, Ivory, golden or warm brown? If you have freckles this is a sign that you are more than likely a warm person. If your skin is very fair is it creamy? If it is dark does it have golden or latte undertones?
A cool skinned person has pink, red and blue undertones. Look at the inside of your wrists, are the veins very blue? Overall the cool complexion has red or silvery characteristics. If you have very light skin it will have a pinkish quality. The majority of Latin, Asian and African people are cool toned people. Look for yellow, red and blue undertones.
So now you know if you are a cool or a warm hued person you can now determine which season you are (Autumn, Summer, Winter or Spring) and which colors to choose when matching clothes and putting together outfits.
