How to Choose the Right Lipstick Color for Your Skin Tone

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Lipstick is an essential component of femininity and one of the oldest non-conformist makeup products.

Etymologically, lipstick comes from the French adjective “rouge” and describes exactly the  color of red lips considered one of the essential attributes of femininity. But, in time, lipstick tends to cover the whole range of colors designed cover your lips and to individualize your makeup. Because the range of possibilities is enormous, I considered useful an article in which to teach you how to choose the correct shade of lipstick considering your skin tone.

1. Light Color Face (ivory, Porcelain, Nude)

Choose:

  • Mostly red: red wine shade, coral
  • Brown and beige: chocolate for the evening, caramel for daytime
  • Pink matte or with shiny golden reflections

Avoid:

  • Orange
  • Fuchsia
  • Brown with yellow pigment

2. Medium Brown Face Color (beige, Sand)

Choose:

  • Warm shades of red, red, rust
  • Caramel brown with yellow pigment, cafe au lait
  • Peach
  • Rose, pink but mostly fuchsia

Avoid: light brown to pale

3. Dark Colored Skin (Olive, Early Tan, Tan)

Choose:

  • Bluish red, raspberry
  • Plum, mahogany
  • A wide range of brown shades
  • Caramel pink, nude

Avoid:

  • Orange

Tricks:
You passed the outline of your lips? Do not remove the excess with your fingers. Use a cotton stick dipped in foundation or makeup remover.

You want more volume? Apply a beige blush, a shade lighter than the foundation, around the lips. The contrast between dark and light will give the feeling of volume.

Another trick is to color the white area outside the lips with an lip liner that has the same color as the lipstick.

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4 Responses

  1. andrea says:

    Hello Tertra,

    I think you got the idea wrong. The pictures are there to show lipstick shades, not women complexion tones.

    Thank you, Andrea

  2. tertra114 says:

    You have a white woman as the face for “medium brown” and then throw Rhianna in the dark category, how are you guys gonna give us make-up tips when you can’t even get your colors right, a women who is the color of the model in the second pic DOES NOT have a “medium brown face color” WTF?

  3. andrea says:

    Hello Nadia….well, i did some research on the internet and i came up with this. Rihanna’s lipstick might be one of the following:
    MAC Bubblegum or MAC Saint Germain. I couldn’t find them on Amazon, but still, here are your options:
    1. http://www.amazon.com/MAC-Lipstick-Fuschia-Boxed-Discontinued/dp/B00363DCKS/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=beauty&qid=1279817035&sr=8-11 – a fuchsia lipstick
    2. http://www.amazon.com/MAC-Lipstick-Fusion-Boxed-Discontinued/dp/B00363FMK6/ref=sr_1_47?ie=UTF8&s=beauty&qid=1279817065&sr=8-47 – fusion pink from mac
    3. From their website directly: http://www.maccosmetics.com/product/spp.tmpl?CATEGORY_ID=CAT168&PRODUCT_ID=7220
    A special edition lipstick created for Lady Gaga 🙂

    Hope you find the information useful 🙂

  4. Nadia says:

    What is name brand of the pink lipstick? I like the color pink on Rihanna’s lips.

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