July 7th 2023.
Two friends, Wendy and May, have been using TikTok to show people how different makeup can look depending on skin tones. Whether you are shopping for yourself or for a friend, it is important to understand the basics of colour theory.
Jasmine Desouza, a makeup artist at 3INA, explains that colour theory is a technique used to make colours work together harmoniously. In makeup, colour correcting is a popular technique - counteracting a certain colour with its exact opposite on the colour wheel.
Using colour theory when shopping for makeup, particularly lipsticks, is important since the natural undertones of your lips will affect how a certain lip colour will look on you. Wendy and May show this in their viral video, where the same product looks brown on May and orange on Wendy. Even other colours such as blue showed differences between the two.
Jasmine advises that typically, lipsticks are a blend of cool and warm tones, so if you have cool blue undertones in your lips, using a lipstick that is more on the cool side will make your lips appear more purple or mauve. She suggests holding the lipstick over your lips and looking in the mirror to see if the colour makes you feel good.
The differences between the two friends’ skin tones has been shocking viewers. Comments on their videos have praised the different hues each skin tone pulled from the lipsticks, and how great both looked.
So if you are looking to buy a lipstick for yourself or a friend, consider the difference in skin tones and how that will affect the result. Colour theory is a thing, and understanding it can make a big difference!
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