Complement Your Hair and Skin Colors with Clothing and Makeup

Are you puzzled whether that pink top would flatter your cherry Make Red Hair Hot? Unsure if your tan skin is complemented by your blue hair accessory? Read on to decide what you should keep in your closet and what should be donated to a good cause.

Steps

  1. Decide what the color scheme of your skin is. In other words, figure out whether you are "warm toned" or "cool toned". This is just based on your skin, it has nothing to do with your personality. It is quite simple to do:
    • Find two color swatches of both silver and gold.
    • Stand under an incandescent or natural light source. Do not use fluorescent lights since they distort how your skin color looks. Remove all jewelry.
    • Place a gold swatch next to one hand and a silver one next to the other. The hand that appears to have a healthy, bright glow is the winner. The other color will make your skin appear pastier.
    • If you are still having trouble deciding what color is best on you study the back of your hand. A warm skin-toned person would see an orange-yellow tint or cast to their skin whilst a cool toned person would see a blue hint.
  2. Stand in front of a large mirror. Pull back and cover your hair with a towel if it is dyed, but style it like you normally do if it is your natural color.
  3. Hold a piece of yellow fabric (a favorite top or other) to your face. A warm-toned person should notice that the color brightens your complexion, minimizes shadows, and gives you a healthier look. A cool-toned person would see the exact opposite effect with the same fabric. If you think you may be a cool, attempt a blue fabric next. It should give you the same healthy glow a warm would notice with the yellow.

Tips

  • Don't limit what you wear simply based upon if you are a warm or cool-toned person. If you love a shirt: wear it.
  • Use an artist's color wheel to help identify possible colors that could flatter your skin and hair.
  • Warm skin tones look best in earthier colors and those on the "warm" side of the color wheel. Red, orange, yellow, brown, pink and tones of these colors all fit the warm mold.
  • Cool skin tones look best in richer colors and those on the "cool" side of the color wheel. Blue, purple, green, and gray are just some examples of appropriate colors...
  • The shade of a color affects where it falls on the warm-cool spectrum. An example of this is the color purple, which when has more blue or gray undertones works well with cool colored people. But, if the shirt has a pronounced red or magenta undertone it may be better suited to a warm person.

Things You'll Need

  • Silver and gold swatches, fabric is best
  • Various colors of clothing to test against your skin
  • Bright Use Energy Saving Light Bulbs or bright natural light
  • A mirror

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