Picking the Right Lipstick Shade For Your Skin Tone

Lipstick is a powerful and an essential beautification tool without which it’s impossible to create a perfect makeup look. A right shade of lipstick that works well with your skin can make your complexion look clearer, brighter and more radiant. Therefore it is always important to consider your skin-tone while putting on any lipstick shade.

Your complexion is not the only determinant of best lipstick shade for you however. Another determining factor of what lipstick shade you should wear and what should not is the size of your pouts. If your lips are thinner and you want to accentuate them, bolder colors is the way to go. And if you want minimize you fuller lips with lipstick, settle on lighter, brighter shades of lipstick.
Anyways, come back to the point; follow the below given tips to pick perfect lipstick shade for your skin tone.

Fair skin

This skin-tone looks best with lighter shades of lipstick like pinks, light browns or nudes. Those with cool undertone should go for nude or a soft-mocha color while the warm-undertoned gals should seek pale pinks or nude peach.

Medium/Olive skin

If you have medium skin tone, there is a variety of color options to choose from as your can play with most lipstick shades. The best lipstick colors for your coloring are coppers, bronzes, corals, red, fuschias and peaches. You should however stay away from browns and purples as they tend to bring yellow tone of your skin out and thus can make your look sick.

Dark skin

Dark skin tone is really complemented with mauves, reds and berries. If you have cooler undertones try out rubies and wines, and if our undertone is warmer pull off coppers and bronzes. Follow up with lipgloss to make your pouts stand out even more.