Who remembers being sixteen and finding the
makeup aisle full to bursting point with so many different foundations you
ended up with a patchwork on your
hands of testers. Normally leaving with a shade far too dark for your skin tone and spending
the day at school with the dreaded tide mark! …..Oh the horror…. I know I do. Still, I can’t
be too hard on myself as the Foundation Game is a tricky one to master. Unless
you have the flawless skin of a Victoria Secrets model were a BB cream is
enough, without the knowledge of finding your perfect match, it could all get a
little messy.
So today is going to be a quick post on how
to find the undertone of your skin and what would be the best base for you.
First off, lets figure out the best place
to test your foundation. If you are brave enough to go it alone and match
yourself, stay away from applying it on your hand! Pop a match stick line
of foundation down your jaw line, this is the area that matches up best with
the rest of your neck and decalletage. Some make the mistake of matching up
to their cheeks, but that area has a lot of colour to it, seeing as we flush up
rosy whenever we are hot, embarrassed or had one too many vinos!
Once you’ve applied your foundation, take a
step back and take a look in the mirror, if the colour of your forehead, chin
and chest all have uniformity you’re on to a winner! Right, now we have that
sorted let me explain something that 12 years ago I originally thought was
nonsense…. Undertones…
Pink Undertones
Pink undertones are usually found in light and fair
skins, your hair or eye colour doesn’t really make a difference, but usually
blondes with blue eyes will no doubt have pink undertones. One way you can tell
if you have pink undertone is whether you are able to tan easily, if you find
that you burn quickly and don’t hold a deep colour for long then you my friend,
are a pink! One little tip I’ve learnt to find out quickly is to look on the
inside of your wrist at your veins, blue visible veins mean pink undertone.
For me, matching people with pink
undertones can be a little more tricky than someone who has a yellow undertone. Pink doesn’t take any prisoners, you have to get it 100%
right or you end up looking like you’re wearing an orange mask. Pink undertone
foundations are lighter in colour and normally have names like “ivory” or
“porcelain”
I’ll be honest, fair skinned people are my
second favourite skin to work on (black skin is my first for all you nosey
bunch out there) Fair skin, a lot of the time, means freckles and I personally
think freckles are so beautiful, they are like little dots of youth you will
have on your face forever. So to all you freckled wonders out there, don’t cake
on that foundation to such a degree they disappear!
Yellow Undertones
Yellow undertones are found in medium or
olive skins, basically, the easiest way to think of it is if you have some hint
of Mediterranean in your family history you will have a yellow undertone.
Yellow undertone skins tan quickly and with ease, another little trick is to
place some gold jewellery round your neck, if it sits there looking quite
striking on your bare skin it’s because the warm, yellow tones compliment it
well. Of course don’t forget the wrist test, for all you yellows you will
notice green visible veins.
The tricky part of having a yellow
undertone is making the mistake of using foundation too light and with a pink
tone. It has the ability to wash you out and strip away all the natural
warmth in your skin. So next time you have someone say “oh, you look tired”
when in fact you had a good 8 hours sleep the night before, have a little peek
in the mirror, remember, uniformity is key so if your forehead, chin and chest
don’t match, and you’re looking a little pale, means you’ve gone over to the
pink side!
Never panic, grab that bronzer and dust it
over the high points of your face, where the sun naturally hits you. This will
add the warmth back and you’ll be a match again!
Neutral Undertones
Neutral undertones can be found in any skin
type, doesn’t even matter about your ethnic background, this means you are a mix of
pink and yellow undertones. To find out if you are a neutral you would have a
mixture of blue and green veins on your inner wrist. Be wary though you
neutrals, although you will have the easiest time finding foundations to match,
it can go terribly wrong. I’m speaking from experience here, yes I have the
dark hair, the olive skin, the Mediterranean background, all signs that point
to a yellow undertone, but no in the winter months I am literally a ghost with
a thick pair of black eyebrows…. Slap on some foundation with a yellow
undertone, and I am literally a ghost with a thick pair of black eyebrows and
an tangoed face. Now that’s not even a look found in TOWIE anymore… My advice for
you fellow neutrals is have a winter foundation shade and summer shade. You
will find the more you tan, the more yellow your undertone becomes. It may feel
like you’ve drawn the short, rather expensive, straw but really you have the
best of both worlds… you have the ability to keep hold of a tan and possibly
have a set of gorgeous freckles! Plus, if you are anything like me, you can use
the excuse of being neutral to have makeup spending sprees!
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