How To Pick The Right Shade Of Lipstick
Sucharitha V
Updated At 08 Dec 22
If you have spent a lot of time and money on choosing lipstick shades, yet for some reason they don’t flatter you, then keep on reading to know why!
Determining your skin tone or undertone can help you immensely in choosing your makeup, especially lipsticks. Undertones are not so obvious, hence we bring this guide to help you understand how to determine your undertone and how to choose the perfect shade of lipstick according to it.
What is an undertone?
Do not confuse your undertone with your complexion, your complexion is your skin color that is visible such as light, medium or deep colors.
Undertones are subtle colours that lies underneath your skin. There are three types of undertones:
- Cool: Pink, red or blue hue on your skin.
- Warm: yellow, golden, or olive hue to your skin.
- Neutral: Mix of both the hues mentioned above.
How to determine your skin’s undertone?
1. Look at your veins
Under natural sunlight, look at your veins and see if it is blue, green or purple.
- If it is blue or purple, then you have a cool undertone.
- If it is green, then you have a warm undertone.
- If you feel that it’s difficult to make out which colour it is, it is neutral.
2. Figure out which type of jewellery flatters you
Another way is to wear gold and silver jewellery and figure out which one suits you the best.
- If silver looks good on you, it means that you have a cool undertone.
- If gold looks good on you, it means you have a warm undertone.
- If both, silver and gold looks good on you, it means you have a neutral undertone.
Which lipstick shade should you go for?
Now that you know your undertone, you can safely proceed to choose your perfect lipstick shade. Here are some of the shades you can go for, according to your undertone and skin colour.
1. Warm undertones
If you have warm undertones, then choose shades like red, orange, peachy pinks and corals.
- Fair skin: You can choose red colour with orange undertone and sandy nudes.
Our editor pick for warm undertone and fair skin is L'Oreal Paris Color Riche Moist Matte Lipstick.
- Medium skin: You can go for cherry red, and warm pink.
Our editor pick for warm undertone and medium skin is Maybelline colorshow- cherry crush.
- Deep skin: You can go for fiery red, and brown shades with pink undertone.
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Our editor pick for warm undertone and deep skin is Maybelline colorshow- choco latte.
2. Cool undertones
Lipsticks which has blue or purple as its underlying colour will suit you, rosy pinks, berry hues
- Fair skin: You can choose cool toned reds, muted mauve and nudes.
Our editor pick for cool undertone and fair skin is Colorbar Velvet Matte Lipstick- Special Mauve.
- Medium skin: You can choose fuchsia pink and wine coloured shades
Our editor pick for cool undertone and medium skin is Maybelline superstay 14 hour lipstick- Infinitely Fuschia.
- Deep skin: You can go for cool toned reds and deep plum shades
Our editor pick for cool undertone and deep skin is Colorbar Kiss Proof Lip Stain- 006 Mauve Dusk.
3. Neutral undertone
The good news is that you have a huge variety of shades to choose from, as most of them would flatter you! But, if you are curious here are some suggestions for you!
- Fair skin: Dark shades can look good on you.
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Our editor pick for neutral undertone and fair skin is Revlon Super Lustrous Matte- Wine Not.
- Medium skin: Corals would be our suggestion.
Our editor pick for neutral undertone and medium skin is Chambor Powder Matte Lipstick - Coral Rose.
- Dark skin: You can go for Berry colours.
Our editor pick for neutral undertone and dark skin is Lakme 9 to 5 Plum Feather Weightless Matte Mousse Lip and Cheek.
This was everything you needed to know to pick the right shade of lipstick according to your skin tone. Use this guide to choose lipsticks that would look flawless on you!
