Rules?
There are no rules (or there shouldn’t be any) when it comes to wearing
your favourite colours. It’s all about
getting the right shade for your skin tone which will then affect one’s choice
of foundation, hair colour, make-up, clothes and accessories – all with the
objective of enhancing our natural beauty.
Say for instance, you love hot pink but it makes you look peaky, then
you need to find the right shade, i.e.
a warm or a cool pink depending on your skin tone.
The skin has three undertones: warm,
cool and neutral. There are few ways to
determine your skin tone:-
- Do you tan easily and don’t burn? The skin’s natural protecting pigment, melanin, is high giving you a yellow to olive WARM undertone.
- Do you burn, blush or prone to redness? Melanin is lower which results in pink or blue-ish COOL undertones.
- Check your wrist veins. If your veins are blue/purple, you are COOL. If your veins are blue/green then you are WARM.
- When it comes to jewellery, which looks better on you, silver (COOL) or gold (WARM)?
- Hold up a white scarf to your face and then a cream one – which one brightens your face? White (COOL), cream (WARM).
- If you don’t have any pink or yellow undertones then you are a NEUTRAL and luckily can wear any colour and any shade.
I am quick to burn in the sun, I am
freckly, my veins are purple-blue, silver jewellery and white look great on me
so I am Cool (as if we didn’t know that already….tee hee). I am very sallow and my skin is beige so if I
wear beiges, golds and creams, these colours tend to blend into my skin and I
look colourless. I remember with Clarins
one summer, we had to wear some golden yellow polo shirts to promote the suncream….well,
let’s say some customers asked me if I was ‘feeling alright?’ and I have stayed
clear of all yellows eversince and any colours that literally blend into my skin
colour. I need a contrast (see the colour
wheel below) and so anything with a blue undertone is better for me and will
make me pop. That reminds me, I must
donate my tan biker jacket to charity – it does nothing for me.
I have brown eyes and
find that darker blues, purples, greens and greys suit me. Put golds and beiges on me and you can’t tell
I am wearing anything. If I do go for
the warmer tones then I have to make sure that they have blue-ish
undertones. A good example of this is my
Collection Nude Eye Palette (€4.49), which made my Product of the Week a few
months back. I chose the Nude Grey palette
rather than the Nude and the Nude Bronze (as the warmer tones would totally
disappear into my skin). There is
however, one shade I don’t wear (second one in from the left) as it doesn’t
show up on me.
My all-time favourite colour is a
silvery, grey, mink and I’ve noticed that I seem to have a few shadows in this shade. My favourite is Chanel’s Illusion D’Ombre in
Illusoire #3 (€30.50). To be honest, I
don’t actually wear this often – it’s very glitzy – but I do love to get it out
of the box and admire it frequently.
I’ve always been a fan of H&M’s
eyeshadows; love their textures and colours (and I can’t wait for their new,
revamped make-up due out in a few months).
My favourite colour ever is in their trio palette and it’s the middle shade
– a cool, dark taupe. I’ve had it years
and it’s still going strong (it has not gone off). I use this on my lids and then the darker
colour in my crease and outer corners (I don’t use the orange for obvious
reasons). I think I paid under a tenner
for this at the time.
On a night out, I will reach for my
Give Me Nightmares Palette by Makeup Revolution (£6) – full of greens, purples,
blues and blacks (shimmer and matte) – I have great fun with these. The colours don’t lose their intensity and
last the night.
Another palette I use a lot is Makeup
Revolution’s Romantic Smoked palette (£4) and this is another example of the
minky shades I am drawn to. Good for a
day at work and then glam up at night.
So here’s a guide to colours that will
make your eyes pop:-
Brown eyes look great in greys, teals,
purples. Hazel eyes are WARM so contrast
them with cool blues, plums and mauves.
Brown/Black eyes benefit from illuminating shades such as ivory.
Green eyes. As green is a secondary colour (it warms up
as it gets closer to yellow and cooler as it gets closer to blue) but to
contrast; purples, cranberries and rusty colours are good.
Blue eyes are COOL so contrasting shades
that look great are golds, browns and oranges.
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