[Angie]

OK, from the MAC website, I decided I had a cool skin tone and went with the NC35 foundation, which works nicely...BUT according to http://www.womenshealthcaretopics.co...or_Neutral.htm I'm a warm tone...I think....because I am split between the two groups
I have blue-grey eyes, hair is naturally light brown, turns blond in the summer and has a lot of red in it and I tan very easily, get really dark, never burn. So what am I and what colors should I go for with lips, eyes, etc. I've been wanting to try some eyeshadows and was thinking about the Sundressing line CRAP

PS...I hope you people are happy...I'm becoming obsessed with makeup

[michal_cohen]

great tips

[Anyah_Green]

wow! that's cool..I'm cool! lol! Thanks for the info!

[SexxyKitten]

Originally Posted by fire69

PS...I hope you people are happy...I'm becoming obsessed with makeup

bwahahahaa....come join us on the dark side (we have cookies....and LE collections) lol

thanks for the tips though
i sort of vary between NC and NW of the same shade between seasons ...crazy!

[Angie]

The problem with the info is that it differs from site to site...how the heck do I know which to go by...also...it seems I'm in between

[SexxyKitten]

i always thought it was the "do you look better in a white shirt or a beige shirt" and white means you have cool undertones and beige warm ones.

[4getmeNot]

i think most women are warm. your features sound a lot like mine, and i'm warm. i find that greens, purples, and pinks look best on me. i've heard good things about the sundressing line.

[Angie]

most of the say the cool tones tan easily...which I do but found some that said warm tans easier...I don't know what the heck. I look better in white shirt. Some sites said look at the veins on your arm...mine are blue, not green, which supposedly means I'm cool tone.

[Sophia]

I'm warm and I don't tan easily, that doesn't make me cool though, I believe depends on what colors look best on you, your skintone, this is how I learn mine.

[SamanthaBNYC]

You may want to look for that book by Carole Jackson "Color me beautiful". I still keep the "season of colors" in mind when I go shopping for cosmetics and clothing. That's where you figure out which "season" you are and buy colors that work for your "season". Your season is determined first by the undertone in your skin and then by your hair and eye color. You will have either a yellow (warm) undertone or a blue (cool) undertone to your skin (in some rare cases, I think it's possible to have both--those are the people who look good in every color). I work in the apparel industry, and that book is a Holy Grail. I read that this is the favorite book of SIMON DOONAN! He's the visual merchandiser for Barney's and is consistently considered the most stylish man in America.
To determine which skin undertone someone has, you will need two pieces of colored fabric and you will drape the fabric around the person's neckline and see which color looks better. The determining colors are tangerine which indicates yellow (warm) undertone, and hot pink which indicates blue (cool) undertone. If you can't find fabric in those two colors you can go to a fabric store and request unbleached muslin (a yellow-tan color that will look best on yellow undertones) and bleached muslin (solid white color that will look best on blue undertones). Yellow undertones will either be season "Spring" or "Autumn". Blue undertones will either be season "Summer" or "Fall". Once you determine that, then you will proceed onto hair and eye color. Natural redheads, strawberry blonds, and honey blonds will almost certainly be warm undertones. Natural black hair, ash blonds, and platinum blonds will generally be cool undertones. The lighter shades of hair will usually be "Spring" (for yellow undertones) or "Summer" (for blue undertones).
The colors that look best on the person will be in their "season" range and will generally have that undertone. I am a "winter" and look good in blues, teals, purples, silvers, whites, and blacks. My mom is an "autumn" and looks good in copper, rust, camel, golds, and browns. If you look better in tangerine, you have warm undertones, and if you look better in hot pink, you have cool undertones. Just try the fabric color test and drape each piece around your neck and have some people look at you (in natural light) and give their thoughts and that should let you know.
The book "Color me beautiful" by Carole Jackson goes into more detail on the subject. It is so useful, and I don't have any clothes hanging in my closet that I don't wear because the color looks bad on me (and neither does my mom).
If I can remember correctly, there is some statistic that 80% of people have cool undertones and only about 20% have warm undertones.
If you have naturally reddish hair, you're a warm season (yellow undertone).
Another trick is this-- your favorite color is also your most flattering color to wear.
The ability to tan does not indicate your undertone. Also, the MAC undertone chart does not follow the spectrum science (or whatever the name that determines the science of colors), so it's pretty inaccurate. A lot of times, people will wear their opposite undertone group to tone down their undertone (i.e. if I wake up pinker than usual, I wear lots of warm undertones so that I don't look like Pepto Bismol, conversely if you feel you look too yellow you may want to try wearing some cool colors to balance it out). I guess that's why Bobbi Brown pushes so much yellow makeup, so that it counters out the cool undertones in most people.
Here's a website that I found that has swatches. There are a couple colors that I disagree with the season classification, but overall, it's a good starting point:
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art36502.asp

[Aquilah]

I don't even know what I am anymore! I swear it's changed over the years from Warm to Cool to Neutral back to one or the other! Honestly, I just wear was looks good on me without making me look fake or ucky!

LMAO @ your P.S.!!! Yes, we're happy, but only if YOU'RE happy! Which, IMHO, it seems as though you're happy!!!

[junell]

PS...I hope you people are happy...I'm becoming obsessed with makeup

LOL!!! I look at it this way.....we could be obsessed with things that are SO much worse!! I know my skin undertone is warm as an African-American but sometimes I look at some warm colors and say: "I don't think these colors will look right on me" I agree that it really depends on what looks right on your skin especially as the seasons change.

[girl_geek]

Well, for one, Mac is different than most brands in that they call their yellow undertoned foundations "cool" and their pink ones "warm", while most other brands call pink cool and yellow warm...

I think it's pretty obvious that I have cool skin, I have pink undertones, very pale skin (I wore a skirt today and holy cow, I had the whitest legs by far out of the girls in my Sunday School class at church!), blond hair, blue-grey eyes... However, sometimes I think warm colors look better on me! It depends on what the color is and where I'm wearing it -- for example, I think cool eyeshadow colors (blue, grey, green) don't look very good on me, but warm colors (especially bronze and peach) contrast with my blue eyes which make them stand out more, and the warm color seems to warm up my face. However, warm lip and cheek colors just look orange on me, so I stick to cool pinks and peaches.

As for clothes, it depends.. my favorite colors on my skintone are blue/turquoise, bright peach/orange, and pale yellow -- a mix of warm and cool colors! Some cool colors, like pale pink, look awful on me because they are too similar to my skintone and wash me out! Yet I get tons of compliments when I wear pale yellow, people are always surprised that I look good in it! And I look better in white than ivory, because ivory is again too close to my skintone and washes me out... But I do think cool colors look better on the bottom, like, I think my pale legs look better with a blue or green skirt rather than a red or orange skirt!

Honestly, I just say wear whatever colors you feel good in -- if you feel good in the colors, then more than likely other people will think they look good on you too! And you'll never know what colors you look good in until you try them all!

[Amandine]

People get confused with MAC's colors. NC is actually Warm toned, NW is Cool, C is cool, and I'm not sure if their is a plain W.

I think the N stands for Neutralizing but I'd need one of the MAC MA's on the board to clear that up for me.

In any case, you have to go with whatever matches your sking tone best. I have Warm coloring but sometimes I get a better color match from the C and NW shades.

Also, I don't think the warm/cool thing should matter when choosing your make-up colors. I can wear MAC Sophisto (cool toned mauvey-plummy-pink) just as well as "O" (warm toned golden-bronzey-red). I used to think the most important rule was to stick with one tone all over your face. IE: Gold eyeshadow, bronzey cheeks, and peach lipgloss. But now I've learned that you can actually get very interesting looks by mixing warm and cool tones. (For example, aqua eyes with a bronzey, beach face)

I know this doesn't really answer your questions, but what I'm trying to say is that experimentation is often the best way to find what looks best on you rather than going by the colors you "should" wear based on being warm or cool toned.