Color is a powerful creative tool that can revitalize, restore, inspire and enhance your look.

Take the guesswork out of finding the perfect colors for you! When selecting everything from foundation to blush to lip color and any all-over face color, you need to know if you should purchase cool or warm colors. 

This is based on the undertone of your skin. Look at the underside of your arm. If your veins appear bluish you are cool toned, if they appear greenish you are warm toned. Confused? Read on...

Why is this important?

With the correct colors:

• Your skin tone will appear radiant and glowing
• Your eyes will appear brighter and clearer
• Your hair will reflect highlights
• You will hear fabulous compliments, such as "You look great"!

With the wrong colors:

• Your skin tone will appear tired and drained
• Your eyes may appear shadowed, dark circles
• Even your teeth can appear with a slight yellow hue
• You will hear comments, such as "You look tired”

Cool Tones

• Cool, jewel tones in serene blues, fresh greens, pinks, purples, blue-greens, magentas, and blue-based reds.
• Your perfect foundation is either neutral or pink based.
• You look better in pure white than ivory.
• Your are ihn good company! Cool celebrities include: Demi Moore, Courtney Cox, Sandra Bullock, Terri Hatcher, Kirstin Davis, Keira Knightley, Eva Longoria, Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Hudson, Liv Tyler, Alexis Bledel, Megan Fox, Jennifer Connelly, Shania Twain, Brooke Shields Sophia Bush, Penelope Cruz, Candace Bergen, Heather Locklear, Britney Spears, Sarah Jessica Parker, Christy Brinkley, Reese Witherspoon, Michelle Pfeiffer, Jennifer Aniston, Ellen Pompano.

Warm Tones

• Earth tones in stunning shades of yellows, oranges, browns, yellowish greens and orange-based reds.
• Your perfect foundation is either neutral or yellow based
• You tend to look beeter in ivory than pure white
• Your are in good company!  Warm celebrities include: Nicole Kidman, Meg Ryan, Cameron Diaz, Kate Hudson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Reba McIntyre, Julianne Hough, Sarah Ferguson, Marcia Cross, Calista Flockhart, Rebecca Romjin, Tara Reid, Renee Zellweger, Ellen Degeneres, Jillian Anderson, Amanda Bynes, Becki Newton, Nicole Richie, Kristen Johnston.

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The basic “map” for color theory is known as the color wheel. The color wheel is a circular arrangement of the spectrum that illustrates the relationship between colors.

If you were to divide the color wheel into 2 halves, you would have warm and cool colors on each half. Warm colors have a cozier feeling and make a welcoming statement in a room. Cool colors evoke a more tranquil mood within a space.

Monochromatic
Monochromatic means one color. This scheme is easiest to understand and the simplest to work with. It consists of one color and its different values. To bring depth to  your eyes, try three shades of color. To bring more interest, add pops of other color to your face using either lipstick or blush.

Analogous
The analogous color scheme is similar in feeling to the monochromatic where you choose a color and the two colors on the color wheel adjacent to it on either side. Stay within similar values on either end of the color you have selected.

Complementary
A complementary scheme uses two colors directly across from each other on the color wheel, such as, green and red. This scheme creates a contrast that can be vibrant and exciting or soothing and relaxing depending on what value of the colors you use. With this scheme it works best to allow one color to be the dominant so that the colors don’t compete with each other.

Triadic
This scheme uses a combination of any three colors that are an equal distance from each other on the color wheel. It can be a lively environment so it’s best to let one color dominate and to use toned down versions of the other two colors.