How To Find The Best Colors For Your Skin Tone

About this video

The Gazette team explains how to choose flattering colors based on skin tone and undertone. They cover how to determine whether you have a light, medium, or dark skin tone, and how to identify if your undertone is warm, cool, or neutral. The team then provides color recommendations for each undertone category and discusses the importance of contrast levels between clothing and skin to avoid a washed-out appearance.

Key takeaways

• The Gazette team argues that skin undertone (warm, cool, or neutral) is as important as skin lightness/darkness when selecting flattering colors, and can be determined by examining veins, using a white paper test in natural daylight, or considering sunburn history
• The Gazette team recommends that warm undertones wear earth tones and gold metals, cool undertones wear blues and purples with silver metals, and neutral undertones can wear all colors; additionally, eggplant, true red, and green are universally flattering for all skin tones
• The Gazette team emphasizes that contrast between clothing and skin tone is key—lighter skin tones should use lower contrast, medium tones should use medium contrast, and darker skin tones can wear high contrast outfits—and that colors closest to the face (shirt, tie, jacket) have the most impact
• The Gazette team suggests incorporating flattering colors into accessories and lower-visibility pieces like socks and pocket squares rather than restricting yourself entirely, and recommends avoiding all-neutral outfits unless you have very fair skin and light hair

Episode details: published October 15, 2018 · 219K views · 16:53 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. The style guidance summarized here is the Gentleman’s Gazette team’s own teaching and opinion, presented for education; product recommendations are theirs, not ours. Summaries are written by Self Growth Videos from each video itself.

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