What's Your Actual Skin Tone and What Color's Look Best To Wear on Your Body, Nails, Eyes and Lips

I got straight A's on the quiz. Let's see how you zone out on the pop quiz.

• What is the natural color of your hair A) dark brown or black B) blond, strawberry, red or light brown C) gray or white?
• Take a white piece of paper and hold it next to your face. Your skin looks A) yellow B) pink & rosy C) gray?
• What color are your veins A)green B) blue C) unsure?
• During the summer you're more likely to A) tan easily B) just burn C) mixture of both?

Mostly (A) answers means your skin tone is WARM. The experts suggest pairing golds like yellow and rose or copper or brass with earth tones such as yellows, browns, orange, peach, corals or turquoise will all bring out your natural glow.

Medium-Dark Skin Lip Colors

magenta, brick red, tangerine

Dark Skin Lip Colors

wine, orange, orchid

Mostly (B) answers gives you a COOL skin tone. Silver, white gold and platinum paired with colors that are vibrant such as red, blue, green or purple are the best colors for your fair skin.

Fair Skin Lip Colors

bubble-gum pink, fuchsia, tomato red

Light Skin Lip Colors

raspberry, plum, blue-red

Mostly (C) answers means your skin tone is somewhere in the middle and maybe leaning stronger to one side or the other. This skin tone has been labeled as the NEUTRAL skin tone. Yellow gold, white gold, silver or brass paired with white, jade, reds and blues. I suggest that deciding if you are closer to warm or closer to cool will help to narrow your choices. 

Light-Medium Skin Lip Colors

coral, fig, true red

Olive Skin Lip Colors

rosy pink, berry, pink coral

Research shows wearing lipstick will help boost confidence. We all could use a boost now and then.

A well-known tip to keep lipstick on the lips and not settling into those lines around the lips is the use of clear lip liner traced on top of your lip line.

If you're new to wearing lipstick, starting with a "sheer" color will help ease you into wearing it. Then, when you are ready to move on to a bright shade create a stain like effect by applying your lipstick to the center of your lips and blending it outward with your finger or a lip brush. 

Send a message with your choice of nail polish hue. I think you can figure out what color says what.

Here's some suggestions from the "experts." 

Fair - Light Skin / Cool 

enhance with deep colors like forest green, tomato red, dark purple

Light - Medium Skin / Neutral

avoid earth tones and go vivid with periwinkle, coral, raspberry

Olive Skin / Neutral

balance your yellow with a cooler hue like dusty pink, baby blue, grape

Medium - Dark Skin /  Warm

rich jewel tones of plum, magenta, blue red

Dark Skin / Warm

pop with bright shades of yellow, orange, robin's-egg blue

Wearing colorful eye shadow or liner will make you seem more outgoing or friendly or playful. That is, compared to a more "natural" look.

A rich shade of eye shadow will brighten the whites of your eyes and intensify your irises.

*Navy colored eye shadow will create this effect for every eye color. 

*Amethyst eye liner is universally flattering for every eye color.

*Teal colored eye shadow works for blue eyes and so does burgundy eye liner.

*Cobalt colored eye shadow works for brown eyes along with a navy eye liner.

*Choose purple colored eye shadow for green eyes as well as a plum eye liner.

Source: Dr. Oz The Good Life Magazine January/February 2015