Any cosmetic gurus around? How to work out if you are yellow or pink toned skin?

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How do you know?
I am forever on the hunt for the perfect foundation after my Clinique one was discontinued in my shade.
I'm really pale- use Bobbi Brown Porcelain, but am not really impressed with the range of foundations- none is 'right' for me- either too greasy or too drying.

I'm now using NARS in Gobi which is pale and yellow toned and looks really yellow on my skin but actually blends in quite nicely. They do a shade Mont Blanc which is the pinkier equivalent, but I find it impossible to tell which is better- and it's £30.

Estee Lauder assessed me as 'neutral'.

So- just wondering is there a 'test' you can do with colours to work out your skin tone? ( Like they use for working out your season for clothes.)

I know you can tell if you are warm or cool toned by looking at the veins on your wrist and if they are greeny or bluey but I can't remember the rule so I'm a bit useless!

Look at the veins in your arm. If they appear blue, you're cool

If they appear greenish, you're warm.

If you look good in silver jewellery = cool.

Better in gold jewellery - warm.

The paler you are the more likely you are to have pink undertones.

Realising this finally stopped me buying yellow foundation! I'm NW15 in Mac.

Thanks.
I def look better in silver- have recently changed my wedding ring even to white gold!!!!

veins are blue ( including very blue under eye circles:( )

The 'red herring' for me is that there is quite a bit of gold/ slightly auburn in my natural hair colour ( now highlighted with goldy blonde) though as a child I was white blonde.

I'm a cool toned red head so I don't think the hair colour counts, not for me anyway!

Have you looked a Lily Lolo's mineral foundations? They do a wide range of colours, divided into warm, cool or neutral. You can order samples for a few pounds to see what works best for you in the privacy of your own home!
www.lilylolo.co.uk/sp+mineral-foundation-spf-15+001

Sounds like you are neutral with cool (pink) tones. Go and get assessed by Mac, they are usually great.

I like lilylolo too. Good & light fiundation that you can build-the samples are great!

Boots No.7 do that thing advertised on TV... where they have a wee handheld device that tells you what colour foundation suits you. It tells you if you are cool or warm. I couldn't decide as I wear both silver and gold and some veins are green and some blue.

Look at the soles of your feet. Are they pink or yellowish?

I think its easier to determine whether you are cool or warm toned and this also coincides with your wardrobe colours.
My skin in blueish pink, so my blusher is usually a pink with blue hues iyswim. My colours are winter so my hair dyes are the ash version of the colour rather than a warm tone.
The warm tones are spring and autumn. the cool tones summer and Winter.

My veins are green,and I'm a cool. Don't follow the veins thing because it's wrong!

Not even a bluey green, they are bright green

I must admit I thought everyone's veins showed up blue.
Boots No 7 put me at the palest shade and even that was too dark- I gave it away on MN in the end!

I had my colours done years ago by colour me beautiful and she was useless. she put me as a light spring but admitted she had doubts. :(

I look awful in olive, sludgy greens, orange, beige , peach and all the autumn colours.
I look best in baby blue, baby pink, warm pinky taupe, light grey, teal, ( my best colour of all as my eyes are green-grey) turquoise, can do navy, charcoal, white and some pale lemon-yellow.

ok have done an online quiz which puts me as either a light spring or a light summer- not much difference as far as I can see- so that must make me more pink tones?

You sound like a summer. The lemon yellow is a real summer colour, as is pink

Spring and summer are the opposites though.
Spring is like winter as in suits cool colours and has bluey tints.

Summer is more suited to warm colours and pastels.
A spring doesn't suit pastels.

The less true colours like mustard, olive, burnt orange etc are Autumn.

Taupe is the only brown shade said to suit winter.

If you look better in silver and had white blond hair as a child you are more likely to be winter if you are dark, or spring if you are paler.

Gold suits summer and Autumn types.

This is what I read anyway.

The colours you've just listed that suit you are all winter. Can you wear black?

I'm have winter colouring and VERY pale skin, and I always struggle to find the right coloured foundation. Even MAC have tried to put me in yellowish foundation before, so have Space NK (when I have neutral toned skin, neither particularly pink or yellow). I have to get them to put it on my cheek and then go outside with a mirror, the fluoro lights do something weird that stops them from getting it right.