Women's Skin Complexion | Skin Tone | Undertone | Method to find your skin complexion

Skin Tone:

Skin Tone is an essential factor that can help you find the right colours and variety of clothes that suits and enhance your looks.

While everyone is unique in their own way, certain categories of skin tones can apply to just about anyone.

Skin tones are classified based on the sun’s exposure into 5 basic categories:

§  Type I : Fair skin

§  Type II : Medium skin

§  Type III : Olive skin

§  Type IV : Brown skin

§  Type V : Dark Brown skin

Skin Under-tone:

Skin Tone is the surface skin colour whereas skin undertone is the shade beneath. Under-tone is the one you don’t see at the first sight but plays an important role. It’s the mixture of colours that make your skin colour the way it looks like. There are 3 basic categories of skin under-tone:

§  Type I : Cool

§  Type II : Warm

§  Type III : Neutral

  

  

What’s your Skin Complexion?

The combination of skin tone and under-tone is known as Skin Complexion.

Do you know your skin complexion? No?!

Don’t worry!!

Here are some simple ways to determine your skin complexion at home…

1.      Check your veins

Study the colour of your wrist.

·        If your veins are blue or purple in colour then you have a cool under-tone.

·        If your veins are greenish blue then you have a warm under-tone.

·        And if your veins appear colourless or match the colour of your skin then you have neutral under-tone.

2.     Use a white paper

Take a piece of white paper. Now, hold the paper up to your face and compare your skin with it. You can also use a white cloth. Further,

·        If your skin looks yellowish, greenish or brownish then you are likely to have a warm under-tone.

·        If your skin looks pink, rosy or blue then you have a cool under-tone.

·        And if your skin looks greyish then you have a neutral under-tone.

Moreover, if you think that you are extremely tanned then compare your skin behind your ear with the piece of paper as the area behind the ears is less likely to be affected.

3.     Clothes

Study the colour of your clothes against your skin and analyse…

·        You have cool under-tone if colours like blue or purple suit you.

·        You have warm under-tone if colours like yellow, red or orange suit you.

·        If all the shades of colour suits then you have a neutral under-tone.

 

4.     Eye Colour

Your natural eye colour can be a key to your under-tones.

·        Light coloured eye like blue, grey, green or pale brown means you have cool under-tone.

·        Dark coloured eye like brown, amber, hazel or black means you have warm under-tone.