Cool Vs warm - I can’t tell

[SlicerAndEcho]

I think I’m being completely incompetent. I have no idea if I’m cool toned or warm toned.

The veins in my wrist look purple. I mainly wear silver jewellery, but I don’t think gold looks any different. I’ve just tried looking at my skin against a piece of white paper, and to me it just looks the same…

I saw one YouTube video where a stylist said if you tan or you blush easily you’re warm toned. I do tan, but a kind of light golden colour, but if I’m in the sun too long I burn, and I blush easily. But then another video said blushing is a cool toned thing. And another said rosacea throws it all off anyway, and I have rosacea on my face and chest since last DC was born.

I thought maybe I was cool toned, but DH said he thinks I’m warm. I think my hair is dark ash blond, but in the sun it has golden and red highlights…

I have grey-blue eyes, but I have a ring of, hazel maybe, in the centre.

As you can tell, I’m trying to sort my colours. I used to look ok but between the rosacea and developing an ongoing medical problem I look tired and ill all the time (partly because I am) I thought maybe having the right colours would give me a fighting chance, but I can’t work it out at all.

Is there a fool proof way to work it out please? Maybe I’m looking for the wrong thing.

FWIW I also think the red/orange varnish suits you better. Like me, I wonder if you are neutral-warm?

The red nail varnish looks miles better. I have the same issues as you OP in that I have quite mousey hair that I brighten up with ashy highlights. My eyes are a nothingy grey/blue with a tiny bit of green. When I exercise I go bright pink, but I tan very easily and go a deep golden bronze colour but I can easily burn if I'm not careful. I've been told I'm a soft Summer but I look good in fuchsia pink and ice blue, so I have given up trying to understand it and mainly wear grey, black and beige.

Thank you I’ll give this a watch.

It’s looking possible 😁

Thanks @hennybeans I’ve bitten the bullet and submitted a form, it’s significantly less of an investment that the actually draping people, so I’ll give it a go.

Yes this sounds similar to me. Bright red with exercise, but good tan if I’m outside a lot but for short bursts.
I dont wear fuchsia, but I have worn both ice blue and coral, and I thought they both looked okay.

My wedding dress was champagne and I thought I looked rather nice, but I also wore a Monsoon wedding dress for a party once (Jane Austen themed, empire waist), which was proper white albeit with burnished gold embroidery, and I think that looked good too.

I think you're neutral. People can be, and it confuses the die-hard 'first start with warm/cool' fans! I have warmish blonde hair and blue-y grey eyes with beige flecks. Silver and gold both look okay on me. I'm fair skinned, burn easily.

CMB analysed me as soft light warm, and I have a huge range of colours in my palette. Winning colours on me are claret, olive, teal, rust, hyacinth and a greeny blue/grey which is called pewter in my swatches.

Phone cameras definitely skew colours - mine makes things look 'cooler'.

The best test for me is whether you look good in white or cream. Cream makes me look really unwell, hence I am cool-toned.
And what about tan, beige and mustard? If you look good in those shades, you are probably warm.

I’m another one of the “too fair to tell if I’m cool or warm brigade” with pale skin, grey blue eye that sometimes are a bit turquoise in the right light and pink cheeks/yellow neck. I tan but burn too.

The nail varnish test is what sets it for me - coral nail varnish takes away the blue red blotchy feet but anything slightly pink toned makes me look like I’ve spent 20 mins with them plunged in boiling water.

I wear a cool toned foundation that’s super pale with a swirl of bronzer to pick it up 🙄 and peachy lipsticks/blusher.

I think you're warm there is more yellow than pink in your hand photos and orange suits you better than blue.

Sorry, forgot to say, I work with a light spring palette and it mostly covers what I need - I just keep away from the super pinks and the super browns

I found seasons more helpful in knowing which colours suit you than just warm or cool division. Even gold jewellery some more pink, some more rusty, some more bright yellow some browny yellow... it's all about the tone.

Thanks everyone, loads to think about. I tried uploading pics to a website where you can select hair, eyes and skin and come out as mainly light summer but sometimes light spring depending on the photo and area of skin. So I think I might be a light neutral 😂

Im going to see if I have any examples of either of those in my wardrobe to try.

And I’ll see what the style me happy assessment says.

Thanks for all your help!

Could you be neutral? I always thought I was cool as I'm very pale with rosacea but recently decided I'm actually olive skinned. Never thought it was possible because in my head "olive people" look kinda "Mediterranean" not mousey hair and hazel eyes, but I joined the OliveMUA subreddit, bought a revlon foundation highly recommended on there, and it's one of the best matches I've had. I definitely was not a cool despite living my whole life assuming I must be because I didn't tan much.

I fit the criteria for warm, in that I look best in cream and can wear orange.

However I can also get away with some cooler toned things- so I have a great true purple lipstick that looks good, wear silver, and can wear white if I want to. I just look better in ivory and cream.

I Look rubbish in navy and the best blues are teal/turquoise.

I've decided I'm an autumn of some kind. Pumpkin is a great colour on me, olive is good.

Burgundy is awful- brings out the red in my face.

I think we can be predominantly one thing, but have specific situations (like burgundy and my redness) that also impact.

The most obvious thing was my wedding dress. I looked at golds and champagnes, mum made me try bright white. The white was noticeably awful- enough for her to back down and agree I was right very rare!

I struggle With this too I have dark hair, hazel
Eyes and pale skin that tans.
My toenails look so much better in coral or burgundy varnish , other colours make my skin look red and angry .
I can't work outbid my veins are green or blue neither one nor the other but not purple!

You are not alone @SlicerAndEcho.
I too amn't sure if I am cool or warm.
My veins are both blue and green.
The MAC make up lady recently said I was cool toned.
The CMB lady told me years ago I was Warm Spring.
I think I'm a mixture of Light Spring and Light Summer.
On the Fitzpatrick Skin Type table I would be Type 2. Fair, burns easily but does tan.

The nail polish thing is so interesting. I would never wear blue as it just looks so wrong on me, I can't tell why. I'll wear vampy burgundy but I think it somehow probably shortens my fingers as a pp mentioned above.

My best ever colours are bright pinky/coral/reds and a certain type of purple.

You could be neutral

I personally don't think the orange red looks good on you and I think you are cool.

Jen Thoden is quite good on warm/cool. Basicallly don't overthink it. Go with your overall look.

I have brown eyes and brown hair, fairly light skin and freckles. My veins are green mainly. Overall I look warm, but I knew I don't look good in rich colours which are autumn. I couldn't fathom being spring as I don't look like one so went to HOC. It was fascinating. The consultant kind of took me along on the journey and made sure I could see the differences of colours. It was only two colours where I really got the oh wow moment which were chocolate brown and bright navy - spring colours.

Knowing you are cool is only half of it - which kind of cool? Summer is vv different to winter. Summer is smoky, blue, rose and winter is icey, high contrast, clear. Autumn is earthy, rich and spring is jazzy (they use the word splashy), clear, warm and has a light quality to it, not rich ever.

These are my eyes just to show you - you would never think spring! A very interesting thing on the colours is that summers tend to have feather patterns in the eyes, springs have bright eyes with a characteristic defined outer ring, autumns have flecks of warm and winters tend to have one solid eye colour, though there can be cross over.

https://mystylebox.ca/pages/eye-patterns

Eye patterns ^

Another one saying the reddy nails look best!

I got my colours done at HoC and was unsure if I was warm or cool. I thought I was likely dark winter or dark autumn which have similar colours. In the end I was cool. The consultant was checking whether I was summer or winter - draping me in different light sources etc. By the end it was really obvious I wanted to shout out "I'm obviously a winter!!"

Anyway, I'm not dark or warm - I'm a jewel winter - high contrast!

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Your skin tones look very warm.

I did mine this month as I'm redoing my wardrobe after a dramatic weight loss. I've decided I'm a warm autumn. But looking at the colour palette on line apart from white and black it's basically every colour. I don't really understand.

Thanks @MistySkiesAreGone , that’s really interesting. These are my eyes, they’re looking especially grey as there’s no sun at the moment, when they sun is out the6 look very blue.