With foundations check out the shade. Beige, Golden, Tan, Caramel, Chestnut are Warm tones.

Porcelain, Rose, Sable are Cool tones

Ivory, Buff, Nude are Neutral tones.

For lipstick I would research for example red with blue undertones and shop those brands

It sounds like you’re a “clear spring” which is technically warm, but really more neutral. I’m a cool summer (technically cool, blue eyes and light ash hair, but my skin has a slight yellow undertone that pushes me towards a neutral) - it was a huge pain to figure out, but when I did it was so great. Check it out on Pinterest and see if those colors look good on you.

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In the makeup world, pink-leaning foundations = cool-toned and yellow-leaning foundations = warm toned.

If you have a foundation that you like and is a good shade match, then you’re already winning, regardless of whether you’re cool or warm toned.

Meanwhile, here’s me feeling quietly jealous. I have a cool-leaning olive skin tone. On the rare occasion I can find an olive foundation at the right shade depth, the assumption always seems to be that olive = warm-toned, so they still look too yellow or orange on me. Being matched to neutral or cool-toned foundations makes me look too pink and ashy.

a diy easy version to do — go into a target which is super brightly lit, go to their clothes section, find plain t shirts with variety of color options (cool/warm) and drape it and see what looks best on you. make sure to wear no to minimal makeup and pull hair back.

or make two lists of lip tints that is marketed as cool/warm (peripera is affordable and has a wide array / romand too) buy a couple from each section and try it on to see what you looks better on you! accompany it with silver accessories w/ cool lips and gold with warm etc and compare — take pictures, go out and see when you get more compliments.

but also color analysis goes deeper than just warm/cool — there’s bright/clear, soft/mute, dark/deep in terms of tones. you can find out more on youtube and I 2nd recommend the youtuber 유이레 uireh suggested below! she is korean though and deal with mainly East Asian skin tones (using korean celebs as reference)

@carolbrailey on tiktok is a great resource with more non-East Asian references!

There’s quite a few ways, but vein colour can be an indicator.

If the veins visible through your skin look greenish, you may have a warm undertone. If the veins visible through your skin look blueish/purplish, you may have a cool undertone.

The most accurate method is to drape different colored fabrics over you to see which ones complement your skin tone best. I recommend Uireh color on YouTube, who goes into a lot of detail about personal/seasonal color analysis.

You can check whether silver or gold accessories suit you better, silver means you have a cold undertone whereas gold indicates a warm undertone. If both look good on you then you‘re in between

I’d say neutral!

Hi there. You appear to be neutral..which is so rare…but it’s so very hard to tell whether you lean cool or warm. In my opinion, you either appear neutral or a fair olive tone.

The swatches are affected by the lighting and the color of your clothing.

That said, you lean warm and I'm basing that more on the gold nose jewelry blending so nicely. I'd put you in autumn... true autumn or deep autumn.

https://preview.redd.it/n85pun3rll3f1.jpeg?width=1173&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=654b2fb420b30e83277f9f8821381b7c1fca8ae0

A picture of me in different colors/lighting for comparison! The mids/ends of my hair are dyed in this picture but my roots are natural.

Different lighting, but affected by the red you’re wearing?

You are warm

This one pic has you wearing a very bright top and its color is reflecting on your skin making you appear to be redder than you are IRL (per the additional pic below where your skin is very cool wearing a gray blue top). You need to take pics in a variety of drapes to get a more consistent, true-to-life answer.

The color swatching that you did here just pulls pigments from your overtone but doesn't tell us anything about the undertone of your skin and how your skin reacts to various colors.

This is the way only if your skintone features exactly match your season. Some people may have warm skin but be in a cool season because the cool-colored clothes look better. Or vice versa. So good to find your skintone but not your season if you don't do drapes.

It's to explain these complementary people that made for the creation of the nonsense of "overtone" vs undertone.... to force- fit everyone having the same skin characteristics and season characteristics lol. Bc god-forbid anyone be complementary!

It's not like we put fair skin in deep seasons or vice-versa. And if we do it's because those fair skinned folks actually have a light "overcast" but they have a deep "undercast" and that's why they're in a deep season /s.

My friend and I both used to wear L'Oreal True Match foundation. We're both fair skinned blondes who never tan only burn with blue-green eyes. Often people think we're sisters.

One day she stayed overnight and borrowed my foundation, which was C1 (cool). She looked like she'd applied calamine lotion on her face! It was hilarious.

And that's how we realized she is a Spring and I am a Summer! And it started making sense why certain colors look great on her but not on me, and vice versa. And we figured out she's got green veins whereas mine are blue. Gold jewelry looks best on her, silver on me.

She would usually use the neutral N1 or warm version W1. I can also wear the neutral version okay. But in the L'Oreal Infallible Fresh Wear, I positively GLOW in the Rose Pearl.

Lipstick is another give away for us. She can rock neutral shades and warm reds. These shades look odd on me. I need a lipstick with a blue-based undertone. Anything mauve is a safe bet.

It doesn't show if you are a cool or warm season. A person who is in a cool season can fit in a warm foundation and a person from a warm season can fit in a cool foundation.

However, if you look better in warm blush, lipstick and eye shadow, it is a sign that you are a warm season, and if cool versions of those fits then you're a cool season

This might work for some people, but my undertone and overtone are different!

It sounds like a great theory but it is not accurate. The problems… makeup definitions of warm, cool, undertone, etc are different than color analysis. Make up companies pay no attention to what colors are cool or warm when they are creation makeup, they are looking for a specific color and it is typically a color that will match the highest number of people. So you can have pigments that react and it doesn’t seem logical. In addition some make companies label foundation warm because it is too warm up the skin tone not that it is for a warm undertone. Others actually label the opposite what it is. While I appreciate everyone’s efforts to try and find quick and easy ways to get answers without going to see a professional, the problem is they are rarely accurate. Then people think they know their season and go buy makeup and clothing for the wrong season. Everyone is frustrated and money is wasted.

Yes, cool undertone (with yellow/warm overtone)

Neutral af. Lucky you! You can easily wear gold or silver.

neutral! the paperclip made me smile :)

Cool 😎

I would say cool toned !

You could use this, but I always find its easier to just pick neutral, and then decide from there. I have worked in the makeup industry for 3 years, and most people who come in and tell me they have cool or warm tones based on their vein color are usually wrong.

When in doubt, pick neutral, because more people have a neutral undertone than don’t. If the neutral color you chose looks more pink than your natural skin, you know you have a more warm or yellow undertone. If the color you chose looks more yellow, you know you have a cool or red undertone.

Finding my undertone has always confused me bc I have purple AND green veins. Some foundations in cool tones look good and some look real weird. Some neutral foundations look way too warm. It’s confusing!

What if my skin doesn't appear blue, green, or yellow in the sun lmao

For foundation a lot of companies will have like fair, medium, deep - how dark your skin is. But then break those three into neutral fair, cool fair... ECT so that's like 9 product choices. So I think she means choose things like the medium neutral, because how dark your skin is is usually easier to figure out.

I’ve been looking at my veins in different light for 10 minutes now and still don’t know which color jewelry looks good on me, or what my skin tone is! ��

My skin in the sun looks whiter than the background in reddit light mode, what do I make of it?