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A quick and easy way to determine your skin tone!

Do you know what color skin tone you have? It may be easy to tell if you’re a pale, medium or olive skin tone, but, do you know what undertones make up your skin color. It’s a pretty easy guess to say . . . you don’t know. It’s not the kind of thing your eye is trained to see. But, the undertones of your skin determine what colors work best on you. Seeing that your hair is a frame on your face, the color has an immediate effect on how you look.

“It’s worth your effort”

A good hair color can make you look more vibrant, complimenting your skin tone, or, it can make you look sickly and washed out. It’s worth your effort to try to determine where you fall in the spectrum of warm or cool and what colors work best for you.

Here is a new tip to help decipher your skin tone and it’s a simple one to see.

If the veins on your inside wrists are blue . . . you’re most likely a “cool” skin tone. If the veins on your inside wrists are green . . . you’re most likely a “warm” skin tone.

What do cool skin tones look like?

• True olive complexions, like most Asians. Some Latinos and Afro Americans Brown with pink undertones

• Medium with no color in the cheeks

• Medium with faint pink cheeks

• Medium with golden undertones

• Pale with no color in cheeks

• Pale with pink undertones

• Brown or bronze when tanned Golden brown when tanned

What color should naturally cool people avoid?

• Avoid gold, yellow, red and bronze tones, which can make you sallow and drawn.

What colors will complement a cool skin tone?

• The best shades, depending on the depth of the colors in your skin tone are;

  • Cool reds, as in burgundy or bordeaux

  • Intense browns with a warm base, like red or blonde to the brown.

  • Highlight with cool shades like, wheat, honey or taupe or a cool ash brown.

What do warm skin tones look like?

• Some Latinos and Afro Americans Brown with golden undertones

• Pale with peach or gold undertones

• Golden brown when tanned

What color should naturally warm skin toned people avoid?

• Naturally warm people should avoid blue, violet, white and jet-black hair. These colors next to your skin can make you look washed out.

What colors will most complement warm skin tones?

• The best shades for you, depending on the depth of the colors in your undertones are;

  • Deep rich browns like, chocolate, chestnut or auburns as a base. Highlight with warm golds and reds or copper.

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