Undertone

Today I learned that humans have a thing known as skin undertones. When picking anything to accentuate their appearance it is vital for them to first understand their own skin undertone.

This is not directly connected with skin tone. For example; someone with a dark skin tone can most certainly have a cold or warm skin undertone.

We're going to just be referring to the popular and simple way of categorizing skin undertones by using the categories cold, neutral, and warm.

Knowing which category you belong to will help you pick clothes that suit you more. It will also be the main issue you'll need to consider when picking a color to dye your hair into or when picking out makeup.

Even when it comes to jewelry, skin undertone have huge impacts. For example; people with warm undertones will generally look better with gold accessories (than silver) and vice versa for people with cold undertones.

Although determining your undertone is extremely rewarding, it might also be very challenging. The most popular method involves checking your veins to see if they appear more green or blue. People with green veins generally have a warm skin undertone whilst people with blue ones have a cold one. If you have both, you're more neutral. Of course, you might need to spend a lot of time cross examining your results (or lack thereof) with other factors such as eye color.