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What is your undertone?
Curious which make-up colours suit you best? The undertone of the skin is important for this. There is a difference between skin colour and undertone. Discover on this page which undertone your skin has.
Are the veins on the inside of your wrist blue? Then your skin has a cool undertone. Do they lean more towards green? Then your skin has a warm undertone. Is the color not clearly visible? Then your skin has a neutral undertone.
Does gold or silver look better? Hold both a silver and gold piece of jewelry near your face. Does gold look better? Then your skin has a warm undertone. Silver will look better with a cool undertone.
A skin with a warm undertone will tan quickly during a sunny day. With a cool undertone, the skin is prone to burning quickly. In addition, with a cool undertone, you will blush faster.
Wrap a white scarf around your neck. Stand in front of a mirror in daylight. If your skin appears yellow, it has a warm undertone. If there is more pink in your skin, it indicates a cool undertone.
With a cool undertone, the skin has a pinkish tint. There is a lot less melanin present in the skin, which means that tanning hardly occurs. Signs of the cold undertone are traces of redness, easy blushing and freckles.
Colors like silver and ice blue in particular will look beautiful.
With a neutral undertone, it is not clear whether the skin has a cool or warm undertone.
With this undertone you are the lucky one: both warm and cool colors make you shine!
With a warm undertone, the skin has a yellow tint.
People with a warm undertone have a lot of melanin in their skin. Often these are also people with brown or blue/green eyes in combination with warm blond, chestnut brown or black hair.
Earth tones or golden tones in particular will suit you well.