What is a Cool Skin Tone? Understanding Skin Undertones
What is a Cool Skin Tone? Understanding Skin Undertones
When it comes to finding the best products both to protect your skin and flatter every time, it’s important to know your skin undertone and the role it plays. Different skin undertones will require different products for proper care and protection, but don’t worry. It’s easy to determine your skin undertone and PROVEN Skincare can help.
Not only do we provide the Skin Genome Quiz, which asks more than forty unique questions to help you find great products for all of your skincare needs, but we also offer information and resources for managing chronic conditions, protecting your skin against irritants, and preventing breakouts.
Here’s what you’ll want to keep in mind when creating a skincare routine for your cool skin tone.
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What Are Undertones?
Skin undertones play an important role in both determining your skin tone and in helping you find great products for your specific skincare needs. As the name explains, your skin undertone is the color below the surface of the skin. When combined with your skin tone, it creates the color we see, and the one you’ll match your clothing, accessories, and makeup to.
There are three main skin undertones, cool, warm, and neutral. Warm skin undertones often present as peach, golden, or yellow colors. Neutral skin undertones are a combination of both warm and cool undertones.
What is a Cool Undertone?
A cool skin undertone is an undertone that will present as blues, greens, or pinks. While some skin tones are more likely to have cool undertones than others, like almond, for example, any skin tone can combine with any undertone.
It’s important to remember that our skin tone may change at different times of year, depending on how much sun exposure we get, but the undertone of your skin is going to remain consistent all year long.
How To Tell If You Have a Cool Undertone
Knowing your skin’s undertone is pretty essential if you’re on the search for lipstick, clothing, or jewelry, but it’s easy to determine your undertone at home with the pieces you already own. Here are a few of the simplest tests you can follow to see if you’re cool, warm, or neutral.
Check Your Veins
The most obvious way to find your undertone is by glancing at your veins. The skin around our wrists is thinner than in other places on the body and gives us a good glance at the veins below. If your veins are more blue, that means you have a cool undertone. Veins that are more green indicate a warm undertone, and if you have a combination of the two then you are neutral.
Watch Your Skin’s Reaction
The importance of undertones goes beyond beauty products. Different skin undertones have different reactions to the elements and the environment, specifically sun exposure.
If you’re trying to figure out what your skin’s undertone is, watch how it responds to time spent in the sun. Individuals with a warm undertone are more likely to tan. If you find that you burn easily or that your skin turns pink after just a few minutes outside, that’s a good indication that you have a cool undertone.
Regardless of whether you tan or burn, it’s essential to protect your skin from excess sun exposure with a reliable sunscreen, hats, and protective clothing. Not only will it reduce signs of aging like fine lines and sunspots, but it will also keep you safe from more serious conditions like skin cancer, which can affect any skin type.
See What Flatters
Take a peek into your closet when determining your skin’s undertones. To start, jewelry is a great indicator as to whether you have a warm undertone or a cool one. Individuals with cool undertones are more likely to reach for silver jewelry, whereas warm undertones are more flattered by gold.
The neutrals in your wardrobe can say a lot as well. Cool undertones pair well with true colors, like true blacks and whites. Warm undertones tend to look better with off-whites and shades of brown. If you’re more of a color person, you can use that too! A person with a cool undertone will likely own a lot more clothes in jewel tones, than the person with a warm undertone, who reaches for oranges, yellows, and reds.
Look Into Your Eyes
You’ll likely notice a pattern if you look at your friends and family’s undertones and how they line up with eye and hair color. People with blue and green eyes are more likely to have cool undertones, as with those who have blond or brown hair. Those with hazel, brown, or black eyes, or who have red, black, or strawberry blond hair, more commonly have warm skin undertones.
Common Undertones for Olive Skin Tone
Your undertone plays an important role in determining if you have an olive skin tone. An undertone, as the name indicates, is the color below the surface of your skin. You can figure out if you have a neutral, warm, or cool undertone by looking at the color of your veins and what jewelry or fabric colors might be flattering on you. For instance, blue veins are an indication of a cooler skin tone and green veins indicate a warm skin tone.
The warm undertones that may contribute to an olive skin tone include peach, yellow, or a light orange color. The cooler undertones for olive skin are usually blue or pink. If you notice a combination of blue and green veins for a neutral undertone, that simply means that the color you see is the true color of your skin. If your olive skin tone is light, your undertone will likely be a lighter brown, like a beige. If it is a dark skin tone, that means your undertone will be dark, as well.
In Summary
In Summary
Here at PROVEN Skincare, we believe in developing a comprehensive skincare routine. That’s why our quiz accounts for more than just your skin type, but also includes lifestyle, environment, existing skin conditions, and more. And it’s why we’re dedicated to providing the information you need to find great products for every skin tone and skin type.
Cool skin undertones are one of three undertones, and most often appear in blond or brown-haired individuals with blue or green eyes. It’s easy to determine if you have a cool undertone with a few simple tricks, like checking your veins, looking at the clothes and accessories that flatter you most, and paying close attention to the way your skin reacts in the sun.
Knowing your undertone can make it easier to find products that both flatter and protect so you can continue to have happy, healthy skin for years to come.
It all starts right here at PROVEN Skincare. Take our Skin Genome Quiz today.