Finding the best lipstick or eyeshadow to suit you should be easy – right? After all, you just have to quickly check if it looks good on your skin. But so often we fall in love with a gorgeous eyeshadow palette or the latest lippie only to find when we actually wear it, it looks seriously ‘bleh’. Why’s this?
You already know that you need to consider your skin tone when choosing the right makeup shades to best suit your face, but most of us often forget about another crucial factor: our skin undertones.
Your skin tone is the colour of your skin on the surface, somewhere on the scale of fair to medium to deep. Your undertone, however, is the far less obvious hue that tinges your skin - and can be either warm, cool or neutral. While your skin tone may lighten and darken slightly with the seasons, your undertone will remain the same for your whole life.
When a colour doesn’t suit you, washes you out or makes you look sick it’s because it’s clashing with your skin undertone. This is why it’s so useful to know yours. It takes out all the random guesswork when trying to decide which are the best makeup shades for your skin – whether it be for lips, eyes, foundation or blush – and even the most flattering colour for your nails...
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