How can I determine of I have a warm complexion or a cool one?

Answer 1

Warm Color Group


Your hair is naturally black or brown (brown with reddish or copper flecks). Your eyes are brown, and your complexion is olive or golden and tans easily

Your natural hair ranges from light, golden to dark blonde, your eyes are dark brown and your skin is golden or olive and tans easily

Your hair is naturally red or light auburn with dark blonde flecks. Your eyes are either green or brown, and your skin tone is beige, tanning easily

Your hair is naturally a reddish to golden brown, your eye color is blue and your complexion is light beige, tanning easily


Cool Color Group


Your natural hair color is light to medium brown, you have either greenish, hazel, or blue eyes and you burn easily (but have naturally rosy cheeks)

Your hair is naturally a darkened ash blonde, your eyes are either hazel or blue and your complexion is very fair to pale

Your hair color is dark brown, your eyes are blue and you have a pink tone to your fair or pale skin

You're a naturally light to medium brunette, your eyes are a blue-gray to light-green color, your face is fair to pale with a hint of rose in your cheeks

Your hair is naturally red or dark brunette, your eyes are a very dark brown, and your skin is pale to fair with very rosy cheeks

Answer 2

It's so tricky, really! My favourite book is Color Me Beautiful bu Carole Jackson. She makes it really clear as to how you check whether you are cool or warm complextioned.

But in short: if your complexion is more "peach" undertoned than "pink," you are warm. Here's the contradictory part: if you tend to look "ruddy," you're more likely to be warm, and if you are "sallow," you're more likely to be cool.

If you tan, your tanned colour also can help you- if you come out looking "golden," you probably have a warm undertone. Do you look sortof "orangeish"? You're more likely to have a cool undertone.

With regards to hair (natural hair colours): ashen colours are usually cool, copper colours are warm. Ms Jackson refers to the reddish/gold of warmer complexions as being "metallic red," while cooler complexions can sometimes have "auburn" (but this usually only happens if your skin is quite pink; but not ruddy).

Eyes are complicated: you need to really understand cool colours VS warm colours. If you can, find some pigment (eg paints, coloured pencils, etc) that have names like "cool blue" and "warm blue." They're the two confusing ones. Then you can apply what you've learnt to your iris colour analysis.

I hope this helps! It's all very tricky as people can have the same "basic" colouring and yet have different undertones!

Answer 3

What colors look best on you? That's the easiest way to figure it out without determining skin color undertones and the specs in your eyes. Warmer colors look better then you may have a warm complexion... cool tones then you may have a cool complexion.

Answer 4

You're defiantly hot. It's convenient to inform if you happen to placed on a white blouse, take a well seem at your self then placed on a tan blouse. If you seem higher within the white blouse, then you are cool. But seem higher within the tan and you are hot.

Answer 5

The easiest method I know of is to look at the veins on your wrist/inner elbow.

If the the veins are green - you are warm.

If the veins are blue - you are cool.

It's as simple as that!

Answer 6

ahmm...I can consult a doctor or either use a thermometer to measure my complexion.........