Your Perfect Lipstick Shade According To Your Skin Tone

 In the market there are millions of lipstick shades to choose from. From pinks to reds and a zillion of nudes, it boggles one’s mind how to pick the exact perfect shade for one’s lips to look stunning and eye-catching; giving a finish just as salon service at home. To pick the right shade for your lips can be tricky but, it’s not as complicated as it seems at the first thought of it.

The first key step in choosing your perfect red or nude is to know about your undertone. Undertones falls in three categories no matter how dark, pale or fair you are. 

1. Cool undertone

2. Neutral undertone

3. Warm undertone

All of the skin colors falls in these three types. It is another necessary step to find out your undertone. If you have a mix of pink and yellow at the base of your skin, you are neutral-toned. In a similar way if one’s skin has a yellow, golden, or olive tone, one’s warm-toned. If your skin has a pink, red, or purplish tint, you are cool-toned.

Even after knowing your undertone to find out the perfect shade you have to try a lot of times, swatch lipsticks on your hands and try putting on multiple shades on your lips. There’s no hard hand fast rule you have you mix and match, hit and trail to give yourself makeup service at home. 

Shades That Compliment Certain Undertones

Try to pick brick red, organism-red or maroon shade if you have a warm undertone, it enhances compliments warmer tones. For neutral tones a huge range of colors can work and compliment the skin tone, either it be pink, mauve or berry it works like magic for neutral tones. Lastly, for cooler tones colors like berry and cherry red works far better than oranges.

Picking Darker Shades

Makeup experts exclaim that for darker shades the only skin tone doesn’t matter the pigment and color of lips plays a huge role. Women with darker lips and tones can wear any dark shades it compliments their look. Cooler toned people can also wear dark shades better. Adding gloss and shimmer to dark lipsticks makes it appropriate for casual wear or night events.

A Perfect Nude

Picking a nude doesn’t depend on your skin tone rather it depends solely on finding the perfect color just as your lips. One tip in this regard is to pick a color darker than you inner lips. Glosses and tinted balms can also give a goo nude look to you.

Colors Like Reds, Pinks, Oranges

It is much easier to pick bright colors by just following one rule, use softer colors for warm skin tone and for cooler tones you can use sheer colors. If a warm toned person want to wear sheerer colors adding glosses, lip oil after applying lipstick and a darker colored lip liner before applying can do wonders. Gives more classic and youthful look.