How To Choose The Right Lipstick For Your Skin Tone?

What comes to your mind when you think of makeup? Lipstick! the first thing that strikes my mind when we think about makeup. Adding colour to the lips can make a huge difference to the features of your face. A poorly chosen shade of lipstick can totally destroy your whole look. That's why it's important to choose the right colour that suits you.

We are really excited to share these quick tips with you to help you choose the right lipstick shade.

Quick fix Tips for Choosing the Right Lipstick for You

Let's determine what's your skin tone

It's very important to know the person's skin tone before we chose the lip colour... There are 5 main types of skin complexion: fair, light, medium, tan, and deep.

FAIR OR LIGHT

The lipstick shades that usually look great with fair or light skin are light pink, coral, peach, nude, and dusty red colours.

Rose, berry, cherry red, and mauve lipstick colours look gorgeous on girls with a medium skin tone.

TAN

Girls with a tan skin tone can totally rock coral, deep pink, bright red, and most other colours except for brown and purple shades.

DEEP

Lipstick shades that suit a deep skin tone best are brown and purple shades like plum, caramel, wine, and blue-based reds.

2. Determine your skin undertone

Knowledge of your skin undertone will definitely help guide you. Basically, there are 3 types of undertones: cool, warm, and neutral.

Cool undertones: fair or light skin — soft mocha or nude; medium skin — pink or cranberry shades; tan or deep skin — ruby or wine shades.

Warm undertones: fair or light skin — pale pink or peachy nudes; medium, tan or deep skin — copper or bronze shades.

Neutral: a wide spectrum of colours, both cool and warm tones.

3. The shape of your lips

Top-heavy lips: bright lipstick on the bottom of the lips and a slightly darker shade of the same colour on the upper lip.

Bottom heavy lips: any colour that suits your undertone + a little bit of light nude colour right in the centre of the upper lip.

Asymmetrical lips: use a lip pencil in a shade similar to the lipstick colour to outline the lips.

4. Size of the lips

Thin lips: avoid dark and flashy lipstick colours, they will only make your lips look even thinner. Try applying glosses and creamy lipsticks.

Plump lips: avoid lipstick shades that are too light and glossy, glittery textures.

5. Hair colour

Dark hair, fair and light skin: bright pink, scarlet, cherry, and plum colours.

Blond hair, fair and light skin: dusty pink, purple-pink, light pink, and scarlet colours.

Dark hair, tan and deep skin: golden beige, ochre, terracotta, and bronze colours.

Blond hair, tan and deep skin: caramel, ochre, warm pinks, and "salmon" pink.

Brown hair, medium skin: beige, "salmon" pink, corals, and deep dusty pinks.

Red hair, fair skin: "salmon" pink, corals, terracotta, and burnt sienna.

6. Eye colour

Brown eyes: bright reds, browns, and light pinks.

Blue eyes: different shades of cherry or scarlet colours.

Green eyes: terracotta, pinks.

Grey eyes: nudes and plum colours.

7. Teeth colour

7 Tips for Choosing the Right Lipstick for You

White teeth: Congratulations! You can choose whatever colour you like.

Yellow teeth: rose, slightly orange, light red colours. Avoid purples, browns, and bright scarlet, red shades.

Tips for Choosing the Right Lipstick for You

If you have trouble determining your skin undertone, just follow these simple steps:

Look at your veins. Blue and purple veins indicate cool-toned skin; green veins — warm-toned skin. If you can't decide for sure if your veins are blue or green, you have a neutral skin undertone.

Try on some silver and gold jewellery. Gold usually suits people with warm undertones, while silver looks better on people with cool undertones.

Now that you know how to choose the perfect lipstick shade for you, share your favourite go-to colours with us. Did you find any of these tips useful?