Warm undertones are yellow, cool ones are blue and neutral ones are red.
COLOR ZEN SEASONS LEVEL 8 SKIN
The undertone of your skin sits somewhere on the hue scale. We need to therefore understand how undertones appear when mixed with different overtones. The mixing of the undertone with the overtone can produce confusion. You can imagine your skin tone like this: undertone + overtone = skin tone. It can sit anywhere on the spectrum of cool (blue) through neutral (red) to warm (yellow). Undertone refers to the underlying colour of your skin tone. But with skin, what you see is not always what you get.
You may have thought that you were warm because of the yellowness in your skin only to find out that warm colours make you look even more yellow. What exactly is an overtone? It’s the colouring of your outward appearance: the colour of your skin, hair and eyes are all the result of the unique combination of melanin (black, blue, brown) and carotene (yellow, orange, red) levels. And the reason for that may be that you were paying too much attention to your overtone. You might have been struggling to determine your skin tone in the past. The difference between undertone and overtone But how do you know whether you have warm or cool undertones? What is essential is whether it is warm or cool.Īnd that is because clothing colours in the wrong hue will visually highlight imperfections, emphasise shadows on your face and make your skin tone appear uneven.ĭetermining your skin undertone is thus a crucial exercise that will positively impact your wardrobe and your appearance. But whether your skin is light or dark is not relevant here. Human skin comes in all kinds of shades ranging from fair to deep and all shades in-between. But your skin may be the most difficult feature to analyse because the undertone is not freely visible. Īll of your facial features have the same undertones. Keep this in mind when you are going through the analysis to avoid confusion. So if you are cooler and lighter, you will automatically be more muted. Whereas if you lighten a cool colour, it becomes more muted. Similarly, if your natural colouring is cooler and darker, it will also be brighter. So if you are warmer and darker, you are also automatically more muted. But when you darken a warm colour, it becomes more muted. So if your natural colouring is warmer and lighter, it will also be brighter. Warm colours are inherently light, whereas cool colours are naturally dark. To sum up, what we are going to do is twofold: (1) Identify the colour settings of your natural colouring (2) Match these settings to a colour season with similar settings This colour season will contain those kinds of colours which are most similar to your own colouring and will therefore harmonise with you.īear in mind that although we will analyse each colour dimension separately, in reality, they are interconnected. Your third aspect will be either value or chroma, but it cannot be hue. On this dimension, your colouring will be close to the neutral/medium midpoint of the spectrum. The third aspect doesn’t have much impact on your colouring. Your best colours will be saturated (rather than muted), but they won’t be extremely bright and vibrant. For instance, if your secondary aspect is medium-bright, the most saturated and vibrant colours will swallow you up. On this dimension, you will clearly lean more towards one of the extreme ends of the spectrum, but the most extreme version of a colour will be too much for you. Your secondary aspect can only be one of the following: On this dimension, your colouring will sit between one of the extreme ends and the midpoint of the spectrum. Your secondary colour aspect significantly influences your colouring. Only the warmest colours will flatter your appearance. For example, if your primary aspect is warm, neutral and even neutral-warm colours won’t do anything for you. Even the medium/neutral level won’t look good on you. On this colour dimension, you will need the most extreme version of a colour. Based on three colour dimensions, your primary aspect will be one of the following six: That means your colouring will sit at one of the extreme ends of that colour dimension. One of the three aspects will turn out to be your primary colour aspect - the most important factor of your colouring. We need to find the setting of your natural colouring on each colour dimension - these are your three colour aspects. The question here is: do you suit highly saturated colours or greyed-out ones? The answer will depend on how high the natural grey content of your colouring is. The more grey is added to a pure colour, the more muted it becomes.
The chroma scale depicts how bright/saturated/clear or muted/soft a colour is.
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