How To Pick the Most Amazing Lipstick to Suit Your Skin Tone?
To celebrate the beauty of lipsticks, we’ve put together the ultimate guide to finding the perfect lipstick shade for your skin tone. We always need the most amazing shade for our skin tone. There are thousands of lipstick shades, we know it can sometimes seem like a difficult task.
You should always know your skin undertone – it makes finding a lipstick shade that illuminates your complexion completely full proof. The three categories are warm, cool, and neutral. There are easy ways to figure it out.
Warm Undertones:
Also referred to as golden, peachy, and yellow
People with warm undertones typically have
- Tan easily
- Look better in gold jewelry
- Hair is red, brown, black or strawberry blonde
- Eyes are brown, hazel or amber
Cool Undertones
Your undertone looks blue, red, or pink
People with cool undertones typically…
- Burn easily or tan very slowly
- Look better in silver jewelry
- Hair is brown, black or blond
- Eyes are blue, grey, or green
- The veins on your wrist look blue
Neutral Undertones:
You have both warm and cool undertones
People with neutral undertones typically…
- Tan slowly and don’t often burn
- Both gold and silver jewelry looks great on neutral ones
- The veins on your wrist look green and blue
How to choose a lipstick shade for warm skin tones
So the rule is, if you have warm undertones, then go for a lipstick that also has warm undertone.
Warmer lipsticks have reddish, peach, orange or even yellowish undertones and tend to lean towards orangey hues, like coral, gold, copper, and all the way to siennas and browns. Peachy pink shades, orange-toned reds, and rosy pink shades will complement your skin tone.
How to choose a lipstick shade for cool skin tones
If your undertone is cool, then choose for lipsticks that also have cool undertones.
Cool-toned lipsticks will have blue and purple undertones. Search for blue hues like plum, cherry, mauve, crimson and purples.
How to choose a lipstick shade for neutral skin tones
Neutral skin tones have both cool and warm tones, so there’s so there's nothing that don't suit you. Seriously, stop rubbing it in already!
Every shade suits you.