When you have fair or pale skin, applying eye makeup can be a bit more challenging. For one, darker looks like smoky eyes can be too dark if you use the wrong colors.
Also, while lighter colors tend to look better, they can leave you with veins and dark splotches showing through your makeup. The good news is that it’s possible to apply eye makeup and create all the popular effects when you have fair skin, but the trick is finding the right colors and matching your makeup with your undertones.
Know what an undertone means. An undertone is the basic tone of your skin underneath the surface layer, which isn’t affected by things like tanning, acne, and surface discoloration. Your undertone will help you choose the best shades for makeup, clothes, and jewelry, because undertones are associated with certain colors, which can be better matched with some colors over others.
- People with cool undertones are associated with bluish, reddish, and pinkish skin tones.
- People with warm undertones are associated with golden, yellowish, and peachy skin tones.
- People with neutral undertones can have a combination of cool and warm skin tones.
Figure out what your undertone is. There are a few indicators that will tell you what your undertone is, such as your hair color, how your skin reacts to the sun, the color of your veins, and the color of your hair.
- People with cool undertones: look best in silver jewelry,burn easily in the sun, have blue veins at the wrist, and usually have hair that’s blond (ash or sandy), brown (ash or dark), blue-black, auburn, snowy, or silver-gray.
- People with warm undertones: look best in gold jewelry, will bronze in the sun, have green veins at the wrist, and often have hair that’s blond (golden, strawberry, or honey), brown (golden or caramel), brown-black, red (copper or wine), or creamy white.
- People with neutral undertones: look good in both types of jewelry, have blue-green veins at the wrist, and tend to have hair that’s blond, brown, red, white, or gray.
Choose appropriate colors. Once you know your undertone, you can select colors that will best complement your skin. Most people with pale or fair skin tend to have cool undertones, which means you should look for cosmetics (and clothing) in sea shades, soft purples, taupes and grayish beiges, metallics, pinks, and berry reds. It’s best to avoid oranges, orange-reds, and yellows.
- For pale people with warm undertones, try earthy reds, yellows, greens, browns, peaches, corals, and violet-reds.
- If you are pale but have a neutral undertone, you can wear any color, but you may look best in muted berry colors, such as raspberry, lemon, and lavender.
Know what colors to avoid. When it comes to applying makeup on fair skin, one of the most important things to remember is that darker shades may simply be too dark and that the contrast of dark cosmetics on pale skin can be too stark.
- Try browns and grays instead of black for cosmetics like mascara and eyeliner,and use brown instead of black as your base color when you are creating a smoky eye effect, and blend your eyeshadow more rigorously.
Source: Wikihow.life
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