Make up for African American skin tones
Decades ago, cosmetics were mostly aimed at a fair-skinned market, leaving African American women with few resources. The foundations and powders that were available at the time often left women with darker skin with an unattractive, ashy undertone. However, in recent years, the cosmetics market has exploded with products geared toward women of all shades, no matter how dark or light the skin
African American women have a wide range of skin colours, from very fair to very dark. Makeup that looks good on light skin may not complement dark skin well, and vice versa. Plus, for the most flattering looks, women should take note of their skin's undertones, whether they're warm or cool. A lot of makeup mistakes can be avoided if you know whether blue, silver and lavender are your colours, or if you should stick to peach, gold and bronze.
Depending on your particular complexion, you might look great in Beyonce's makeup colours or you might look better emulating Gabrielle Union.
Whether your skin is shaded like Pam Grier or Whoopi Goldberg, you'll look radiant and beautiful if you first identify the undertones in your skin.
Black Women ranges of skin tone complexion
Rich ebony complexions usually have cool, almost blue undertones
Brown and caramel complexions have warm golden undertones
African American women who fall on the warm end of the spectrum will look fantastic in these colours:
Peach
Gold
Bronze
Orange red
Brown
If you're more of a cool complexion, stick to:
Blue
Purple
Silver
Pink
Blue red
If your skin is very dark and you've always shielded away from deep lipstick colours, you don't have to.
You can try a neutral look with a lip colour that closely matches your skin and top it with a light coat of clear gloss.
With such natural lips, you can put the makeup focus on your eyes.
Women with cool complexions can wear silver or charcoal eye shadow, while warm women can sport bronze eye colour and a couple of coats of deep black mascara for maximum impact.
Lipstick colour range for Black women
Choosing lipstick colours can be arduous at the best of times; to simplify this process requires you to be knowledgeable of your skin tone and complexion. The black skin tones range from light to dark and with this is a spectrum of colours running from light to dark. So with this in mind applying what your complexion is compared to the colour scale will help in identifying the colours that will suit your colour tone. You will be better armoured with what colour ranges with enhance your lips to the fullest.
Light – this is the lighter complexion of black skin tone, the following lipstick colour range will look good on you:-
Pale pink
Peach
Taupe
Red
Medium - medium skin toned women will look good in the following lipstick range:-
Red
Medium to deep pink
Bronze
Magenta
Medium to dark brown
Dark – This for dark and lovely rich skin tone
Deep red
Fuchsia
Magenta
Chocolate Brown
Bronze
Now that you have an idea of the colour ranges you now need to experiment at your Cosmetic Boutique store where there are testers. The colours are not tied down to lighter skin or dark skin, it’s just a guide. You may be pleasantly surprised how a colour range that belongs to a light tone or dark tone skin can actually embellish a look of beauty.
Black Womens Fashion
Black or brown tone skin with yellow or golden undertones
Choose bold primary colours
Black
True white
Blue reds
Royal blues
Fuchsia
Lemon yellow
Hot pink
Blue greens
Icy or cool-toned pastels
Emerald
Yellow
In general lighter skin tone women should avoid faded colours such as faded red or faded orange, it will look ok on you but , but you should venture a better range of colour spectrums.
Olive medium tone skin with yellow undertones
Choose bold primary colours
Black
True gray
Navy
Icy cool pastels will bring out the best of your features
Avoid shades of soft yellow, rose, mauves and soft pastels; they'll make you appear of a sickly yellowish hue or complexion.
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