Color and Style Guides

Short, practical guides to the questions behind color analysis: how to read your skin tone and undertone, why some colors make you glow and others wash you out, and how to choose colors for your own skin.

Fair Skin: Undertones, Colors, Makeup, Hair and Sun Care
What counts as fair skin, how to spot your undertone within it, and the clothes, makeup, hair colors and sun habits that suit each type.
Skin Tone Chart: How to Read It and Find Yourself
A skin tone chart with eight depths and four undertones, plus how to read the rows and columns and use your spot for clothes and foundation.
Skin Colors: The Full Range and What Shapes Yours
The full range of human skin colors, the clearest words to describe them, why skin color varies, and how to dress for any of them.
What Is My Skin Tone? How to Find It in 3 Steps
A ten-minute, step-by-step way to determine your skin tone: depth from the chart, undertone from four simple tests, and what to do with the result.
What Colors Look Good on Me? How to Find Your Best Shades
Three quick daylight tests for warmth, depth and clarity, then the best colors for your undertone, contrast and season, and a small palette to shop from.
16 Season Color Analysis: What It Is and How It Maps to 12
What the 16 color seasons are, why analysts name them differently, and a step-by-step way to translate a 16-season result onto the 12 seasons.
The Best Colors for Pale Skin, by Undertone
Swatches for cool, warm, neutral and olive pale skin, the shades that drain it, and three-color outfits you can copy.
The Best Colors for Dark Skin, by Undertone
What colors look good on dark skin: swatches for warm, cool, neutral and olive undertones, plus pastels, neons, metals and makeup.
Blue vs Green Veins: What the Vein Test Says About You
How to do the vein test properly, what blue, purple and green veins suggest about your undertone, and why you should confirm it with a second test.
The Best Colors for Olive Skin
What an olive undertone is, the greens, reds and earth tones that flatter it, the pastels that turn it sallow, and how to find olive foundation.