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i’ve been trying to determine my skin tone for years… and i’ve come to the conclusion that i’m a neutral skin tone. i’m slightly darker than most asians and my skin has red undertones, my hair is dark brown, but looks light brown/red-orange in the light, my veins are purple and green, i wear silver jewelry, and i look really bad in pastels.

i’m weird. i know. C:

warm

warrrmmm :]

warm

My light brown hair would suggest a warm tone, but my skin itself is usually so pale and colorless that I consider it a cool skin tone.

i think i’m warm,
not 100% sure,

cool.
i have pale skin, and my cheeks & nose always go bright pink in the cold >.<

i’m a mixture of both? so that makes me neutral? but i tend to be more cool…

cool. 

neutral – I can pull off any colors.  But I prefer purples and grays and bluey reds so I guess I lean towards cool.

I don’t know. Naturally my hair is light brown/strawberry blonde, I have blue/grey eyes and my skin is pale with pink undertones. :s

Warm. I went through the entire process when I was choosing foundation from the awesome community that used to live on Everyday Minerals’ forum, but we all got kicked out so I’ve no idea where all those helpful people are now.

well this makes me THINK i’m COOL toned but I’m not 100% convinced still!

I think I’m a cool. Not too sure.

Warm

I think I’m cool, but my veins look blu-ish green. Gahhh.

I would have always considered Kim Kardashian and Megan Fox to have warm tones, and Amy Adams and Nicole Kidman to have cool? 

coool

cool.

I have chocolate brown hair and I am pretty pale. I’ve alwasy thought I was warm toned but based on the colors that I look good in, I guess I’m COOL toned?

cool. 

definitely cool. i’m virtually translucent :\ haha

Cool.. which is really surprising to learn. Thanks for this!

 A mixture of both?
But, more on the warm toned side…

I think I am warm, but I just whatever clothes I want. And being Indian, I do wear Indian clothes from every spectrum. Gaudy, I know. 

warm?

I’m only going off the vein one, so warm.

warm… i think lol

Cool?

I have green eyes, but light ash brown hair. I think my veins look more blue…? I don’t know, sometimes they look more green. Gah.  :/

I think this is the other way around… cool tones means more yellowish undertones while warm tones mean more pink/red undertones. Hmmm.

More on the warm side; but I feel better in some cool colors better than in some warm ones.
For example, I’d feel more comfortable, more “me,” wearing blue/white rather than red/orange.

cool 

haha helpful, im cooool

i`m weird . i thought i was a cool until i realized i have medium skin with a gold undertone i think i`m still a cool though . i think . . . no , maybe it`s warm . i have a bronze skin tone & look best in yellow & blue . ugh , fxck , then i`m a mix ?! idk . . . ): i say cool though . the warm foundations don`t bring that undertone yellow-ish / orange i have in my face .

lol i am cool skintone :] it was so much easier to tell using the colors instead of the vein

I’m very pale, and when i get my  makeup done professionally, they always have to mix different concealers because my color doesnt exist Every time i buy concealer they CLAIM is close enough, it always either way to pink and light, or way to yellow and dark.  I guess i’m neutral. I just wish my skin would be a normal color. i NEED concealer o.O

I’m like a scatter plot when it comes to this.

Thanks for this post, very helpful indeed! Should this post be under “beauty” as well?

Yeah, I am still confused on what I am…

$armin<3

Well.. dilemma!

I’m a mostly Chinese with American hybrid. I’ve got light brown skin with major yellow undertones… kinda like Jessica Alba but a bit darker. I tan extremely easily. My hair is a chocolate brown, with light brown/goldish natural highlights. My eyes are a light brown and in the sun they become so light they appear goldish … my left eye also has green in it. Weird, yeah I know.

I’m warm for some things: gold jewellery, off white colours, but then cool for others: I look terrible in orange ew.. I wouldn’t even consider wearing it outside, and I suit black. What am I??

 ;_;

i have no idea…. ???

My veins are blue, my eyes are dark brown.

My skin is pale with a gold undertone and my natural hair colour is red.

I’m a cross breed =0

x.

@fauxer12@xanga - That’s exactly what I was thinking!

I’m not warm or cool. In the beginning of this article it says “cool, warm, or neutral?” and that’s all I ever read about neutral.

this is just too much to think about…ha

advice on how to tell what color your skin is? that should be obvious.

wow thanks for ur teaching !!!

c00L

I am not sure what I am. I think maybe cool?

I think I’m neutral… 

@tomorrow_may_rain@xanga - Looking at your profile picture, warm colors are definately stunning. But you’re right, wear whatever makes you feel good!

@DorothysGirl@xanga - Redheads are tricky. I am one myself and I know what you’re talking about. My undertones are golden but my veins are blue because of how pale I am. I’m considered to have a warm tone but I honestly think I look better in cool colors just because of my hair. We’re soooo tricky.

@fauxer12@xanga - The confusion may be because the cool ones I chose were much more tan and the warm ones I chose were paler. It’s mostly about natural cheek color…and nothing is exact either.

@redfirestarter@xanga - You are probably neutral. It’s hard to go off just your picture because it’s tiny.@reddevilshow@xanga - I’m never 100% convicned, haha.

@blackspiders@xanga - I have green eyes and they threw me off too. I have the same vein issue. (Some are even purple, haha) My hair is strawberry blonde and my skin has pinkish gold tones. You are probably like me. A classic example of a neutral who sways on the cool side. (But has some good warm color choices too) 

@ambiguous - You sound warm for the most part. Orange is a color few can pull off in my opinion. (Hardly a middle ground for that color.) Just because your warm doesn’t mean ALL the warm colors work. But just in case ask a consultant, you may be neutral too!

@MochaSprinkle@xanga - I looked a lot into this and asked a lot of professionals, but I guess there should always be room in my posts where I make sure I claim: I am not an expert.

@nylondare@xanga - The topic is pretty much just plain tricky, really. :/

I think I’m a cool tone, but I’m naturally a strawberry blonde with green/blue/gray eyes! lol

warm skin tone!

I think I have a cool skin tone.

cool.

I’m a neutral.

@fauxer12@xanga - Just because someone has dark skin or looks tan does not mean they have a warm skin tone. Olive skin, despite being green, is considered in the cool family. Also, take a look at what they’re wearing in the above pics. Black, and it makes their skin glow. I bet if they were wearing brown they would look more washed out.

I’m a warm tone (light, but not fair, complexion) with light blue-green-yellow-gray (seriously!) eyes =) Certain blue eyes are considered warm. They would be called a clear blue, not to be confused with ice blue which has more of a violet/lavender hue. I’m surprised this was not mentioned in this article…Btw, for this type of eye color, avoid black and blues, stick to warm shades like gold, olive green-brown and a light aubergine (purple), top it off with brown mascara.

I am not 100% sure. I have bluish-green veins and I have brownish-gold eyes and a peachy-warm complexion. I was born redheaded and nowadays it is a golden color. I look best in brown, blue, greens, teals, golds, but I look worse in pastel colors like lavenders and pale pinks. I may be a bit of both, but I think I lean more on the warm side.

how is kim k cool toned? she has dark hair eyes and tanned skin…i disagree wit sumone above who said megan has warm skin…she has pale skin dark hair and pale blu eyes all cool skin features…and amy adams and renne zellwegger and nic kidman all cool

Im so confused!!  I am very pale with slightly yellow undertones, green/hazel eyes and mousy blonde hair.  I burn then tan to a goldy colour. I look good in black, white, icy blues, pink.  Grey washes me out, as does red. I don’t suit gold jewelry.  Does this mean I am neutral?  Because there are definately colours that make me look rubbish!! 

I find these colour quizes dont apply accurately. I have asian skin, so my skin colour is yellow. I usually look quite sallow so therefore i dont want to emphasise any more yellow in my skin tone. I would be considered a warm skin colour but i always look better in clothes/jewellery that are cool coloured and not warm.

Recently i was matched up to a foundation that was in neutral DW estee lauder range. So perhaps i am more neutral than warm. I also think i proabably look better in foundations that are yellow and orange tones. So to conclude This quizes that try to determine if you cool or warm toned are very confusing.

i have peachy light skin, amber eyes, and  light ash blonde hair, i look best in black, and off white, oranges and blues,,,,, so predominately warm : )

@cornyonacob@xanga - omg mee toooo

I had my colours done once and was one of the weird to place ones. My hair is a dark ash blonde and gets sun streaks, my eyes are very dark brown with maybe a hint of green in them. Skin is quite pale.  Ended up being a warm deep.

The descriptors “warm” and “cool” are rather confusing. Most sites describe people with complexions like Amy Adams or Nicole Kidman as cool complexions which seems counterintuitive. http://www.instyle.com/instyle/package/general/photos/0,,20475181_20591842_21153816,00.html#21153824
Hair color sites similarly consider the paler complexion with some rosiness to be “cool”. Not sure how this happened – perhaps because this complexion originates from colder regions of the world? Hair sites then recommend “cool” complexions to mostly use ash type haircolors to counteract the rosiness (why is rosy “cool”-beats me) but then you see Amy Adams wearing red beautifully.
Most sites describe Kim Kardashian’s complexion as “warm” as well as other olive tones as “warm”. Then the haircolor is suggested to have underlying reddish or golden tones and to avoid ash. It is proposed that ash hair color will cause these “warm” tones to appear washed out. Again counterintuitive terminology.
I like the way you assign cool and warm as it makes more sense but just wanted to put it out there that others use the terms in reverse.

http://www.blog-make-up.com/makeuptips/cool-or-warm-find-your-skin-undertone/

also like this simple little method to help decide one’s color tone. With the color palette shown there, makes it easy to say I am a cool tone.