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🔥🔥🔥BEGINNERS GUIDE TO CHOOSING FOUNDATION 💯 💯 💯

▪️ STEP 2 : KNOW YOUR UNDERTONE
An undertone is color from underneath the surface of your skin that affects your overall hue. Think of it as your skins personal Instagram or snapchat filter.. except it's always there. An undertone is not how dark or light your skin is, but the underlying shade of your skin. There are three undertones i.e. cool, warm and neutral. You may have seen this in foundation shade labeling that include the letters C, W and N..e.g MAC NW43, these descriptions refer to the skin undertone.

⭕ A cool undertone is generally associated with skin that has hints of blue, pink or a ruddy red. For this undertone choose foundations that have a slight dash of pink. Look for words like tan, shell, fawn, beige. Most companies label cool toned foundation with the letter 'C'.

⭕ A warm undertone is more peachy, golden or yellow. For this undertone foundation should have a pinch of yellow or gold. Look for words like golden, honey, warm beige. Most companies label warm tones foundation with the letter 'W'.

⭕A neutral undertone is a mixture (or neither) of the two undertones i.e warm and cool. For this undertone look for shades that fall in the cool - warm spectrum. Most companies label neutral tone foundation with 'N'.

Here are a few ways to determine your skin's undertone.

⛔Undertone Test 1: Vein colors
A popular method is to look at the colors of one's veins on the wrist. If they appear green, the skin's undertone is golden or yellow, hence warm. If they appear blue, the skin's undertone is pink or blue, hence cool. If you find that your veins are neither or in between the two, you might be neutral.

⛔Undertone Test 2 : Silver or Gold Jewelry
Another method consists of looking at jewelry that looks best on you. Warm undertone people tend to look good in golden jewelry. Cool undertone people will rock silver jewelry. Neutral undertone people look good in both silver and golden jewelry.

⛔Undertone Test 3 : The White Contrast
The third method consists in standing in front of a white background and determining which colors appear most apparent in the skin, using the stark contrast with the white to make that observation. Bluish, Pinkish, Reddish mean you are cool toned. Yellowish, Goldish, Peachish mean you are warm toned. A mixture of these colors indicates a neutral skin undertone.