Womens Fashion Colour Match Your Skin Tone

Skin tone comes in three categories, warm, cool and neutral

Jewellery Test

To understand what skin tone you have, there is a little test that you can do. To get a good idea, you must sit in front of a mirror with plenty of daylight around you.

This method is relying on your self judgement, but to get a more realistic answer, you need to compare yourself with jewellery, silver or gold.

If you find upon looking in the mirror that you are suited to silver, then you are likely to fall in the bracket of cool undertone.

If however you look at yourself wearing gold that you are suited, then you will fall into the bracket of a warm undertone.

The Vein Test

The universally method used is the vein test is good way to determine your skin tone. In daylight open and close your fist like a ball, a couple of times, to invoke raising your veins to the service in which you can examine your inner wrist. You should be now being able to visibly see what colour your veins are?

Veins that are mainly blue indicate cool tones, while green veins are a hint that you are warm toned.

If your veins are a mix of blue and green, it could be a sign that you are neutral toned. Very fortunate!

Compare with Celebrities

Below are some visual ideas from the world of Womens fashion that these celebrities surround themselves in, of which you can compare yourself too:
Example of Peach warm, fair to medium complexions - Renee Zwegweller, Tilda Swinton

Example of Pink cool, fair to medium complexion - Keira Knightly, Kate Winslet

Example of Yellow warm, fair to medium complexion - Cameron Diaz, Elle Macpherson

Example of Olive warm, medium to deep complexion - Peneoply Cruz, Halle Berry

Skin Tone Warm

Hair Colour – Brunette, Red and Blonde

Eye Colour – Brown, Green, Hazel

Skin Tone Cool

Hair Colour – Blonde Brunette

Eye Colour – Blue Violet, Grey

Skin Tone Neutral

Hair Colour – All colours

Eye Colour – All Colours

Skin Tone Warm

Colours complimentary to warm skin tone such as gold, beige, sage green or bronze. Softer tones are good like, peach, apricot or yellow.

Other colours that go well with warm tone are earth colours, rich golden browns and golden blond shades as well as auburn. Also you can use olive-green, yellow, brown, red ochre (shade of brown) & raw sienna (yellowish-brown) and raw umber (natural clay earth brown).

You will need to avoid any hair colour that has the word ash in it, also extreme hair colours like jet black, white, blue or violet.

Skin Tone Cool

True colours such as the range in Jewel tones, such as emerald green, amethyst purple, ruby red, topaz yellow, sapphire blue, tourmaline green, turquoise blue, pure black, pink.

In addition to these colours you can wear icy tones colours like light blue, light pink and light green.

Icy is very light, clear and cool, icy is NOT pastel, soft and not warm.

As a cool tone skin you should avoid colours such as beige, orange and gold.

Skin Tone Neutral

Fortunately this is a tone that benefits from being in the middle of all colours will look good whatever as indicated above.

Most neutral skin tones will favour one way or another depending on the individuals overall colour tone.

So while a warm colour may look ok on you, on the other scale if chosen a cool colour may look fantastic.

Selecting the right colours based on your skin tone can add so much to your overall appearance. But this is an overall appearance of eyes, lips, hair and of course a Womens fashion sense. The right colour can add an appealing appearance to your overall being, with a complimentary complexion. Whilst on the other scale, choosing the wrong colour foundation and fashion clothes can leave you looking un-balanced with your skin tone and the clothes you wear.

Womens Fashion Colours

Fashion colours are great to see on the runway by aspiring models, the beautiful tones and shades that differing material styles shimmer and shape by various designers.

The colours listed can be part of your wardrobe, part of your outfit and just as the models strutting their gait down the runway, you too can done the same colours and feel free in knowing that those colours will make your skin glow, will balance your overall ambience of cosmetics, hair and lips to give an overall picture of the new you.

Aubergine

Bright purples can be tricky, but muted aubergine is becoming universally accepted. It’s midway between warm and cool, so it suits warm yellow-toned skin, as well as cool blue-toned skin.

This shade looks corporate enough for work.

Grey

Dark grey is a fashion undertone shade of colour. Accentuating to the body, but still doesn’t make you look arid or pale in contrast.

Dove grey is gorgeous on warmer skin tones, and not as harsh as pure white. Grey tops look great with a red or pink lipstick to brighten up your look.

Red

Scarlet red, wow! Make a statement, red is the colour of passion, aggression and power, to be worn only by a handful of women.

But true red, which sits in the between tomato and cherry, is surprisingly flattering. Your best bet with red is probably a scarf or jumper, as such a strong colour on your bottom half can make you look larger.

Turquoise

Dark aquamarine shades. These colours work because they are the precise opposite to the pink in our cheeks, which, by contrast, they enhance; giving women a healthy glow. Red hair looks great when worn with greens and blues.

Putty Pink

The palest of putty pinks. This tone accentuates the natural glow in our skin, unlike pastel pink which only flatters certain complexions. This shade of pink also mixes easily with darker colours – perfect for a work blouse under a suit

 

Black Womens Fashion Eye For Colour

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.