How to choose the right lipstick for your skin color

Finding the right shade of lipstick for your lips can be a challenge. Here is the best way to find out which lipstick colors will fit best on you. Knowledge of your skin undertone will definitely help guide you. There three types of skin undertones-warm, cool and neutral. Once you know where your skin undertone falls, picking the right lipstick shade becomes easy and fun.
There are couple of ways to finding out whether your skin undertone is warm, cool, or neutral. One trick to see your skin undertone is to look at your veins as explained below;
  1. Warm undertone skins; These are mostly women with green veins. Apart from considering the veins, warm skin tones also appear yellowish or orangish which seems like golden, peachy, honeyed or sometimes yellow-green. They also look better with Gold than silver. Warmer skin tones pull off orange and red lipstick colors very well
  2. Cool undertone skin; These are mostly women with blue veins. Silver usually looks much better on them than gold. Cool undertones to your skin means you should stick more to lipstick colors that have more blue or purple undertones.
  3. Neutral Undertone skins; These are combination of both warm and cool undertones. They may have both green and blue veins on their inner wrist or else its hard to tell if their veins are green or blue. They also look equally good in gold or silver and they are in luck to just pull off any lipstick color.
If the vein trick doesn't work for you, you can always hold up jewelry to your skin. If gold jewelry looks good on your skin, you have a warm undertone. If silver jewelry looks better next to your skin, you have a cool undertone. Lastly if both gold and silver look great on you, you have a neutral undertone.
MillykCosmetics has a variety of quality matte lipstick shades to much whichever skin undertone you may have;
  • Audrey lipstick shade; has a more of a natural color with warm pink undertones. It's the perfect everyday wear for both cooler and warmer undertones and acts more as a nude color for those with darker skin.
  • Love guru lipstick shade; this is a pink color. It's more bold and seems to be a good fit for the cooler and neutral skin undertones.
  • Juliet lipstick shade:This is a purple color. It's a soft slight shine with a raspberry purple shade good for all skin tones.
  • Honeyk lipstick shade; This is a candy red color that can be worn by all skin tones. It has a warm earthy red color.
  • Pollo lipstick shade; This is another type of purple color. It's a bold Sangria purple shade that is good for all skin tones. Being a dark shade, this makes it neutral.
  • Preston lipstick shade; This is a soft pink color that is fit for those with a cool as well as neutral undertone skin.
  • Glip lipstick shade; This is a maroon color that usually looks good on people with warm skin undertones as well as those with a neutral skin undertone.
  • Melissa lipstick shade; This is French rose red color. It's a soft slight shine with a pink and red undertone that looks good for cooler skin tones plus those with a neutral undertone.
  • Kalibaba Velvet lipstick shade; This is a purple magenta color. Its more light and looks great with cool and neutral skin undertones.
  • Flora lipstick shade; This is a pearly purple type of color that is neutral. It looks good on both warm and cool skin undertones.
  • Audi lipstick shade; This is a ruby red color. Its more bold and looks great on all skin undertones.
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