[lotusindigo]

Do you ladies stick to warm or cool palettes based on your skin tone/hair/eye color? I'm a definite warm and I tend not to pay attention to rules about which colors warm people can wear. Why? Because warm colors are basically restricted to browns. I think the most interesting color that is supposedly warm is gold. As for cool colors, well... I think those are actually COLOR colors, like the kind you would find in a rainbow. Just look at the warm color vs. cool color kit on theshespace:

Warm:


Cool:



See what I mean? I don't really like being restricted to browns, I like to use a lot of color. So I break the cool vs. warm makeup rules pretty often. What about you ladies?

[Gavriela]

Warm also has some luscious greens and golds, as well as the reddish, orange, peach and peachy/pink colours in it. Plus there are lots of neutrals that'll go either way - pretty much anything lavender, purple, plum if it's done right, and lots more.

But nope - I'm primarily cool-toned, and I like to play with both warm and cool for eye colours. If you look at Heather's regular pigments or the 16-colour 'basic' sets, you'll see some stunning warms as well as cools.

[farris2]

It just depends on what it looks like on my skin.

[simisimi100]

me too. it just depents on what its looks like on my skin..

[Sirvinya]

I'm apparently cool toned but I've got quite a lot of warm toned makeup. I'll give pretty much any colour a try, I've not got anything in my collection that doesn't work for me.

[jandi]

Well, I can't pull off very warm colors: gold, yellow, orange, peach, yellow-based green. I can't wear intense blue either. Either of these colors makes me look dead, heh. It took me a lot of experimentation to get to this conclusion, so now I stick to colors that actually suit me, which are neutrals and mild cools and warms. Every time I look at a pretty peach color I have to remind my self I look like an orange wearing it to avoid falling for the temptation.

[Ricci]

I look horrible in just browns.. really horible so I must be a cool person lol

[PhantomGoddess]

I have neutral toned skin, so I can wear both with no problem. I do tend to favor cools more than warms though.

[newyorlatin]

I'm genuinely attracted to Warm palletes. I love the Golds, Coppers, Browns, Bronzes, Peaches, and I would include many Greens into the Warm pallet.
Cools simply don't strike my eye as strongly and favorably as Warms do. Since I personally don't look so great in Blues and Violets I seldom see one that really catches my eye and calls my name.
You do have a beautiful selection of colors there.

[KimGranger]

What I know about color is that warm means colors with a predominantly yellow base and cool means colors with a predoninantly blue base. So by looking at your picture you look to have skin that would be cool. I know that you may look sallow if you wear yellow next to your face and the yellow will bring out sallow tones. Not what we want. So you need a shade that is complimentary to your skin tone and that would be a cool based color/s like a cool or a beige foundation. I make my mineral foundations in Cool and Warm. So my lightest shade of warm is warm .5 and that is what I wear. I have a red head's complexion. Sort of peachy and I have freckles and my eyes are a blue green and lean towards the yellow side of blue green. You would probably be on teh opposite side of the spectrum so Cool 1.o is probably your shade. If you are darker than that then you may be a Cool 1.5 or up to a Cool 2.5 or somewhere in between. Hey...I would love to send to you a free sample of my mineral makeup foundation. Just email me if you want a sample. I am sure you are a cool. So a cool can wear lots of true reds and stay away from orangey reds. Look to lots of blue greens, silvers, burgundy, oh the shades are inumerable! You have such a beautiful pallete of shades to choose from!! Ethereal Minerals is my company so contact me if you want some freebies or more information.

[Maysie]

I wear whatever color I like that looks okay with my skin. The only colors I really can't wear are some golds and oranges...but if I saw a color I loved enough that fell into that color range I'd probably still wear it

[KimGranger]

Most importantly I believe is getting your skin tone correct. Once you have the correct tone for your foundation then really you can go to town on eyeshadows. As long as you are not too far out of your color scheme. YOu know what I mean? Like if you know that bright happy face yellow looks real bad then stay away from it like the plague. But there are both cool yellows and warm yellows. For instance lemon yellow is cool but butter yellow is warm. So just try to figure out your undertone and you can wear almost any color in that tone. I have probably caused more confusion than clarity. LOL.

[magosienne]

i am a cool tone and looking at your pics i realise i tend to use more cool pigments, but i also have a few warm that work just as good with me.

[cynpat2000]

Its kinda odd for me, I have strawberry blonde hair and supposed to be warm. But I have been colortyped at MAC to be cool. also I cant wear browns, and warm colors too well. Browns make me look dead and tired. I can wear taupes though. I think theyre cool though.

[Gavriela]

I can wear plummy browns - if you're into MAC, try Satin Taupe, or for a dupe, SN's Mink. She's got a Chanel dupe that works really well as a brown eyeliner for me too - Chocolate Twinkle - can't remember the name of the Chanel palette it came from, though.

But when I tried SN's Truffle - disaster. That's a plain dark matte brown, and it made me look ten years older.