Makeup Colors

Find the absolute best makeup colors for you with this simple guide. Learn about your options here.

With a rainbow of color combinations and an endless number of pretty palettes to choose from, it’s easy to get confused as to what makeup colors may be right for you. Most women have many different colors and shades of makeup on hand, but really aren’t sure what looks best on them.

Here’s a simple guide for selecting the right shades based on your skin tone and the color of your hair.

Choose Makeup Colors Based on Your Skin Color

The first step in finding the best colors for you is to simply use your skin tone as a guide.

Caucasian skin with pink undertones or skin that is fair, porcelain, or light to medium: Color families to use for cool skin tones are pink, blue-reds, blue, purple, silver.

Caucasian skin with ivory, yellowish, golden, or peach undertones: This category of warm skin tones should look best in colors such as yellows, corals and peaches, browns, greens, and gold.

African-American skin with a rosy brown undertone: The best color families for this skin tone are blues, deep shades of magenta, purples, black, silver, and white.

African-American skin with a golden brown undertone: These warm skin tones are complemented with shades of greens, yellows, brown, orange, gold, and copper.

Asian or Latin skin with pink undertones: Light to dark olive, or light to medium beige skin tones should wear pinks, purple, blue, gray, silver, or white.

Asian or Latin skin with yellow undertones: Skin with yellow undertones should stick with colors in the peach, yellow, orange, brown, or green families.

Choose Makeup Colors Based on Your Hair Color

Colors of Makeup for Blondes: Blondes should stay with the palest of colors and steer clear of deeper shades that will cause too much of a contrast. Mauves, peaches, and pinks work best on the cheeks and lips, while a wide range of pinks, plums, grays, and taupe are for eye shadow, depending on the eye color.

Colors of Makeup for Brunettes: Brown haired beauties will look great with eye shadows in a range of colors, with everything from blues, browns, greens, bronze, and plum. For lips and cheeks, brunettes look best in deeper colors such as plum, terra cotta, or shades of red. Most any color that has some type of brown undertone will look good on a brunette.

Colors of Makeup for Redheads: For lipsticks and blush, stick to warm shades such as bronzes, corals, cinnamon, or terra cotta. Instead of using shades of greens for eye shadow like most redheads are always told to do, experiment with other colors such as copper, plum or eggplant, and sable.

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