Lipsticks are one of the essentials in every makeup kit. Today there are variety of lipsticks available in the market with different textures like metallic, matte, crème etc. and in many shades. There are bullet lipsticks, liquid lipsticks, and crayon lipsticks available for you which come with the variety of shades from nudes to pinks to reds. But the question is “Are you choosing a perfect lipstick shade for you?”
choosing the right shade for you is must because right shade can enhance your look and can make you skin look healthy on the other hand wrong shade can make you look older and can make your whole look unimpressive, So before buying the lipsticks you need to know which shade is perfect and which is not. Most of the women do not know how to do that. To help this out, here in this article we give you some tips and tricks to choose perfect shade for you based on 3 factors.
Determine your skin tone –
To determine your skin tone you should know your under tone. Generally there are three types of undertones- warmer, cooler and neutral.
pro tip to determine your under tone
check the veins in your hand, if it is green in color then your undertone is warmer, if it is blue then you have blue undertone and if you can’t decide whether its blue or green then you have neutral undertone. For warmer undertone you should go for orange base reds and warm nudes shades like coral, brown, peachy pinks and so on which makes your skin glowing and fresh.
For cooler undertones you need to go with blue based reds and pink nudes. Here are some shades for your reference- rosy pink, deep plum, pale brown etc. Women with darker tones can go for deep reds like blueberry, mauve etc.
For neutral skin tones most of the shades suits you. you can go for both warmer and cooler shades like Nudes, pink, orange, and red shades.
Match your lipstick with your outfit-
The mantra for perfect lipstick for your outfit is to go in contrast specially with bright colors never match your lip shades with your outfits.
If you are wearing bright coral clothes then go with nudes and pinks which will complement the bold outfits.
Pro tip to match your lipstick shade with your outfit
You can match your lip shade with one of your accessories like your shoes or your purse it gives you neat and polished look and also saves time as you can easily find the lip shade which matched to your accessory and avoid overdone.
If you are wearing basics like simple jeans and top you can go for darker shades like berry, dark red it helps you to enhance your look and draw attention.
Match your lip shade according to hair color-
Black haired women look best with the pure red shades or with blue under tone shades they should avoid brown base. They can go for glossy shades also.
Blond hair women can go for apricot, pinks, corals and blue or brown undertones. They should avoid strong colors and can go for gloss over the top.
Brown hair women can go for slightly stronger shades like rust or cinnamon. They can also try deep apricot and pinks.
Red hair women can go for variety of shades from pink tones to peachy-coral tones to poppy reds shades that work wonderfully.
so next time when you go for buying lipsticks for yourself take the notes from above points and remember don’t be too matchy - matchy , make sure that your lip shade matches with your under tone and pre plan your outfit to match the lipstick shade with it and you got your perfect lipstick shade to flaunt.