What Is Skin tone and How It Determines Your Nail Polish Color?

What influences your choice of nail color? It could be your mood, the color or trend. All of these reasons are not wrong. But first, you need to know your skin tone. I have discovered that most ladies choose their colors based on what they see on others which doesn’t work out most times.

Before you wear that nail color, just be sure it compliments your skin.

Skin tone: simply means whether someone is light/fair, medium or dark in complexion. Colors you can see on the surface of your skin.

Undertone: Colors underneath the surface of your skin. Which are divided into three:

Warm: [yellow, green, golden or olive undertones]

Cool: [pink, red or bluish undertones]

Neutral [a mix of warm and cool undertones]

How to know your undertones your skin has:

Stand in natural light, either outside or by a window and look at your arm skins with pink, blue or red undertones is considered cool

Or look at your wrist, if your veins look blue, you already know what your undertones is.

If green that means warm.

Now, let’s talk about your skin tone and undertones 

Skin tones/Complexion	Undertones	Polish	Avoid
Pale/ light Complexion	Cool	Lighter shades: pinks, blue, red, coral	Dark shades
Fair / light Complexion	Warm and Cool	red	Green, dark orange, very dark blue and gold
fair	warm	Red, peach or golden (most flattering colors are beige, silver and white/ medium toned purple, darker pinks, soft oranges and beery shades)	Dark blue, black, yellow, green, gold and orange
	Cool	Blue-based
Medium /Olive Skin tone	A combination of two undertones	Dark burgundy, pink, blue, orange and yellow. (Flattening colors: peach and gold)	Orange based, red, and blue based
Tan Skin Tone		Pale Brown, light blue, purples and pink (shades that looks great are: tangerine, light brown, copper brown and chocolate)	gold
Dark complexion		Dark plums (burgundy) deep red, vibrant purple, bright orange. Shades that looks great: yellow based reds, dark greens , dark blues,  gold and chocolate -brown	Grey, deep purples and black they dull your complexion. Avoid bright neon, yellows and whites too

You can try different colors just to be sure and you will know when you see the ones that fits you. I hope you enjoyed this.