Choosing Makeup Colors

Find choosing makeup colors difficult? Forget fashion, it's all about YOU! Your face is the first place that people look and makeup is just like an outfit for your face!

Nature designed your eyes, hair and skin to work together - so you're working from the INSIDE OUT! Identify your natural undertone and you'll discover your color palette; these are the colors that allow you to always look your BEST! 

Do your own research rather than relying on advice from sales assistants who are trained in sales rather than color. 

Shop with purpose

Even if we shop carefully, it's easy to be swayed by advertising or a special promotion. Sadly we're often disappointed and yet another product is cast aside! 

Your personality plays a part too! Just as we choose different styles to wear, we feel differently about makeup. But whether you're a natural girl or like a bit of drama, find your color palette and you can choose how intense you'd like it to be!

Everything starts with Warm and Cool

I know I say this continually but knowing whether you have a Warm or Cool skin is really the basis of everything COLOR!

You can see from the two ladies pictured above that the skin tones are very different. A golden skin has a Warm undertone and is influenced by yellow. A pink skin has a Cool undertone and is influenced by Blue. Although the color of your complexion may change if you get a tan, the undertone of Warm or Cool will never change. 

It's inevitable, therefore, that different makeup colors need to be used on the two faces. 

Let me give me a little run-through of the most likely signals as to whether you have a WARM or COOL undertone. 

Foundation

Foundation should blend seamlessly into your skin for a natural look and will generally come with a yellow or pink toned base. If you wear the wrong tone it can completely throw your complexion color and make you appear ashen or ill!

As foundation can be an expensive item it's important to get it right. If you're in a store either ask to try it on your skin or, even better, ask for a sample that you can take home to try. 

COOL SKINS: A Cool foundation has pink tones and is suitable for those with a Cool undertone. Particularly good are No. 7 in Cool Ivory and Cool Beige.

WARM SKINS: A Warm foundation has yellow tones and is suitable for those with a Warm undertone. Particularly good are No. 7 in Warm Ivory and Warm Beige. 

NOTE: If you fall between colors choose the slightly darker tone. A foundation that is too light can be ageing as it will ephasize 'texture' while a darker tone will minimize texture! 

Choosing color for Lipstick and blush

Once you find a foundation base that suits your skin tone then the next step is to enhance it with a little color. If you're a novice with choosing makeup colors then use a light hand.

If you're a fan of these warm colors it probably means you have a WARM skin. 

They and you have a golden tone and these luscious yellow based colors can all be easily adapted into makeup tones. 

Just look into the color palette - lipsticks in peach, coral or apricot if your skin is fair or you'll enjoy the stronger shades of copper, bronze or terracotta if your skin is a deeper color. 

Warm makeup Look Fabulous Forever

Cool toned makeup Look Fabulous Forever

If you have a COOL skin, then it's the blue based shades that will attract you and bring your natural coloring to life.

This classicly beautiful color palette can be adapted into makeup colors too.

If you're coloring is fair choose the lighter shades of pink, soft rose and raspberry; with deeper toned skin you will enjoy the more definite shades of plum, damson and the berry tones. 

Makeup Colors just reflect who you are!

Color for eyes

If you feel confident you can pick out colors for eye shadow from your color palette whether you're Warm or Cool.

Warm tones are golds and browns, soft teal and purples. Whereas Cool tones are dusky blues and grays, soft sea green, pinks and burgundy. 

Much easier is to stick to neutral tones. There are subtle differences in taupes and natural tones, an eye shadow palette like the ones below make it easy.  

All a bit much? Take the neutral/natural route!

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