How To Find Your Skin's Undertone & Type

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 Have you ever applied a new foundation only to realize that it doesn’t quite look right with your natural skin color and undertone? We’ve all been there. Like discovering effectiveskin treatment tips that work for you, finding the right formula and shade of foundation is no easy feat. Three things that can help? Identifying your skin type, skin color and undertones. 

Determine Your Fitzpatrick Skin Type

You may know if your skin is dry, oily, combination or normal, but did you also know that your skin can be classified by its ability to tan? “In dermatology, we typically define skin type according to its ability to tan or burn,” Dr. Zeichner says. “We call these the Fitzpatrick Skin Types, which range from type one skin which always burns and never tans to type six skin which always tans and never burns.”

Knowing your Fitzpatrick Skin Type can help you to get a better understanding of your skin color and undertone.

Type 1: You always burn and never tan in the sun.

Type 2: You almost always burn and rarely tan in the sun.

Type 3: You sometimes burn and sometimes tan in the sun.

Type 4: You tan easily and sometimes burn.

Type 5: You tan easily and rarely burn.

Type 6: You do not burn.

How to Determine Skin Tone

Frequent changes to your skin, like tanning or skin conditions like rosacea, can sometimes make identifying your natural skin color a difficult task. Do you really have a medium skin tone or did you just spend a lot of time in the sun? Luckily, there are a series of different tests that you can do on your own to help you determine your skin color.

One of them is the jawline test. To determine your skin tone, don’t use the center of your face as a point of reference but rather, your jawline. It tends to be a better representation of your skin color because the jaw is typically less impacted by color changes. Examine this area and see if it’s fair, light, medium, dark or deep. Once you have a good idea of what skin color you are, you can move on to your undertones.

Figure Out Your Undertone

There are three main undertones present in the skin: cool, warm and neutral. If you have cool undertones, your complexion may have subtle hues of pink, red or blue. Typically, people with cool undertones have blue, green-ish blue, gray or deep brown eyes. You can also tell if you have cool undertones by looking at your natural hair color. Redheads are a prime example. Redheads tend to have less pigment in the skin than those with darker hair color. Less pigment often equates to cooler tones.

If you’re someone with warm undertones, your skin will lean yellow, peachy or golden. Those with these tones tend to have green, hazel, amber or warm brown eyes with hair that has gold, red, orange or yellow undertones. People with darker hair and darker eyes usually have warmer skin tones.

Finally, there are neutral undertones, which is when you have a balance of both warm and cool tones.

If you are unsure of your undertone, there are a few quick and easy tests that you can do to help you determine what you are. First is the white versus cream test. You’re going to need two articles of clothing (or towels) — one white and the other cream. Hold the articles of clothing against your skin. If the white complements your skin tone better, you are probably warm-toned. If the whitewashes you out and the cream is more flattering, you most likely have cool undertones.

You can also try the jewelry test. If gold jewelry enhances your complexion, then you likely have warm undertones. If silver is more complementary, then you are probably cool-toned. 

If both cream and white and both silver and gold look great on you, then you’re probably neutral.

 

Another option is to look to your veins on your wrist for some help. If your veins are green, you have warm undertones. If they are blue, you have cool undertones. If they appear a mix of a blue-green shade, then, you guessed it — you have neutral undertones.

 The lighter the skin type, the cooler the tone tends to be.Therefore, skin types that fall under type one through type three on the Fitzpatrick Skin Types may identify with having cooler undertones whereas someone who is between type three and type six might be warmer.

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