Tags
accessories, Amy, autumn skin tone, Autumn/Winter, beauty, Bec, beige, bold, bright yellows, camel colour, Cat, charlie and the chocolate factory, color, colours for skin tone, colours to match skin tone, compliment skin tone, coral, dark skin tone, denim, Emma Stone, Fashion, fashion dos and donts, Fashion General, golden brown eyes, green, lanvin handbags, leighton meester, medium skin tone, mustards, natural blondes, oranges, pale skin tone, peach spring, purple, Skin tone, skin tone accessories, style, tan colour, What to Wear, white
Continuing on from yesterday’s post on skin tones and how to choose colours to compliment you! Skin Tones are also categorised using the seasons. Spring, Autumn, Winter & Summer.
To sum it up quickly here is a quote from eHow.
“Winter”: complexions have blue or pink undertones. Skin can be pale white, yellowish-olive, or dark. Winter people are generally brunettes, with deeply colored eyes. Many Asians and African Americans fall into this category.
“Summer”: complexions, like winter complexions, have blue or pink undertones. Skin is pale and pink. Summers are often natural blondes or brunettes with pale eyes.
“Autumn”: Autumn complexions have golden undertones. Many redheads and brunettes with golden brown eyes fall into this category.
“Spring”: Spring complexions have golden undertones and are usually creamy white or peach. Spring people generally have straw-colored or strawberry red hair, freckles, rosy cheeks, and blue or green eyes.
I’m going to be discussing medium skin tones which I’m going to take that on board as an Autumn classification.
Being an Autumn means you will have the warmer skin tones like gold, peach or golden beige.
I would like to think Jessica Alba & Leighton Meester are these Autumn beauties. They seem to always look radiant in rich, warm colours which have golden undertones.
These are some suggested colours to compliment the Autumn skin tone:
It is recommend to avoid colours which will make you look tired and faded, be sure to avoid bright colours, pure whites and black.
It’s also suggested to avoid colours like true pastels which can give you a sickly and pale appearance.
NO!
YES!
Some sets to give you ideas!
Sorry for the amount of pictures but I wanted to cover a decent amount of the colours for the Autumn skin tone.
I hope this helps someone out there and gives you a better idea of how to compliment your AMAZING skin tone.
Warm, rich, Autumn colours are your best friend!
Caitlyn xo
ABCs of Style. 
Test comment – my comments don’t seem to be coming through!
Bah! Now that they are working, I can ask my real question….
What is a surfire way to find out what my skin tone is – do I need to try the different colour pallettes you are suggesting for different skin tones and see what works, or is there somewhere I can go and get someone to do an analysis type of thing and give me the answers I need?
I want to update my wardrobe so that the existing blacks and browns aren’t the main feature colours of my wardrobe (both work and play), but want to make sure I get it right!
There are two basic options I would use to detect if you were warm/ cold skin tone:
Look at the underside of your wrist. Do your veins look blue-purple, or blue-green? If they look blue-purple, you probably have a cool skin tone. If they look greenish, your skin tone is probably warm.
Stand in front of the mirror and try on a silver necklace or a pair of silver earrings.
Take them off and replace them with gold ones. Which suits you better? If the silver, you probably have a cool skin tone. If the gold, you’re probably warm.
And here is a bit of a sneaky tip if you don’t want to pay to get your colours done, do one of the following:
1. Go to a store with a huge range of clothes with mirrors on the walls (not just in the dressing rooms) and put every shade you can find up against your skin. Don’t worry about size just drape the fabric over the shirt you are wearing. Make two piles; a Yes! and a Hell No! pile. As you hold each one up you will start to get a feel for what works best. If in doubt hold a clear “yes” up to your skin straight after a colour you are not sure about, if your skins pops as soon as the “yes” colour is near your face the other one is actually a no. Don’t be afraid to pick up colours you normally don’t favour, this is about working out the subtle colours differences that work for you. I would say this highlights that there is almost no colour that you can’t wear, you’ll just have shades of it that are going to work a lot better than others. Depending on your local fabric store is you can even do the colour matching thing there as long as they have a mirror.
2. Go to a super swanky shop and ask the assistant to help you find something that works for your skin tone. Really good assistants are worth their weight in gold so you might need to do this a couple of times to really get someone who knows their stuff. The reason I say a swanky place is that usually they have the time to devote to a customer to help but less expensive boutiques often are staffed by the owner and she usually puts more effort into making you feel like you need to buy something. Of course you’ll have to be strong enough to say no thanks at the end of the fitting/ try on session and put all the lovely things back.
Take a pic of the colours that work best and use this as the beginning of your palette.
Apologies for the commenting issue Maz. We have to approve most comments as we want to reduce spam, so your comment will usually appear within 5mins!
I just did a little post up about Determining Your Skin Tone, which includes Becs answer.
https://abcsofstyle.wordpress.com/2012/03/22/determining-your-skin-tone/
Thanks ladies – I think there was an issue at my end, as it wouldn’t let my comment go through for approval.
And thanks for the tip – I think I am going to hit the shops with my bestie when we land in Brisbane in a couple of weeks so I can get my eye-in colourwise!