If your hair is bright orange or strawberry blonde, you’re probably warm. Note: Red hair is tricky! You’d think that orange being a warm color that redheads would have warm undertones, but that’s not always the case. (Jet black and platinum blonde are usually cool.) To determine whether your hair is more cool or more warm, ask yourself: “Does my hair have any "golden" tones? Or would I describe it as "ashy"?” If it has warmth, your undertones are likely warm, but if it’s more ashy, then you’re probably cool. If that's you, look at just your roots and brows, or try to find photos of yourself with natural hair around the age of 20 (our hair changes a lot in our early childhood and teens, usually darkening as we get older on the other hand, hair can start to go gray as we age, so looking back we want to find a good example of our hair at it’s “peak” color.) This can be tricky for those of us who haven't seen our natural hair color in awhile (this was me for years). This graphic shows you that people of any overtone (white, yellow, pink, brown, black) can have either cool or warm undertones.
Yellow and pink tones on face skin#
Another is that black or very fair skin is always cool. One is that Asians have warm undertones because their skin is often described as "yellow.” However, you can see that Asian people can sit anywhere on the spectrum, from Mindy Kaling to Olivia Munn to Lucy Liu. Common MisconceptionsĪside from olive skin thought to have either green or warm undertones, there are several other common misconceptions about skin tones.
Take a deeper brown skin tone: on top of warm undertones, you get a caramel or honey color, like Mindy Kaling or Naomi Cambell, and over cool skin tones you get more of a chocolate, like Lupito Nyong'o, or taupe, like Zoe Saldana. Similarly, if you take a more yellow skin overtone and overlay it on a warm undertone, you get a very tawny skin tone, like Gwyneth Paltrow, whereas if you overlay a yellowy overtone over a cool undertone, you get what we call an "olive skin tone,” like Sarah Jessica Parker (because yellow + blue = green, like an olive.) Yellow overtone over a neutral undertone gives you an orangey tan, like Eva Mendes. Over a neutral undertone, you get a more pure pink, like Madelaine Petsch. You can see that someone with more pinky overtones and warm undertones results in a peachy skin tone, like Blake Lively, whereas someone with pink overtones and cool undertones results in a more porcelain skin tone, like Emma Stone or Lucy Liu. Now, below the color gradient, you'll see 4 bars of common skin overtones overlaid on top of the undertone gradient. (If right now you’re thinking that olive skin has a green undertone, just wait. The reason we use red and not green here is because no one has a green undertone. You’ll see that red is also directly between blue and yellow it’s just that you have to go the other way around the color wheel (see color wheel above to see what I mean).
Before we go any farther, let’s break down the important difference between undertone and overtone using the graphic below.Īt the top, you can see a gradient from warm (yellow) through neutral (red) to cool (blue.) You might think that neutral should be green because it's in between yellow and blue, but so is red. A lot of this difficulty can be explained by the confusion around overtones. I get it- sometimes it’s obvious, but other times it can be pretty tricky, especially for those with very fair, olive, yellow, or black skin tones. It seems pretty straightforward, yet people often struggle with undertone. Note: True red, green, blue, and yellow are technically universal or "neutral" colors. You can see where all the colors in the spectrum sit on the color wheel in this graphic. So, if you’re warm, you can eliminate all the colors on the cool side, and if you’re cool, eliminate warm colors. Once you know your undertone, you can eliminate any colors that have the opposite undertone. Everyone’s undertone sits somewhere on the spectrum of cool (more blue) to warm (more yellow.) I say it’s a spectrum because it is-some people are obviously richly warm and some are very icy cool, but most are somewhere in the middle, and a few are true neutral, a perfect balance of warm and cool. As the name suggests, your undertone is the color that is under the skin (not to be confused with overtones).
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