New Here Need Color Advice!

[curlyqmishee]

Hi everyone. I'm thrilled to have found this message board. I became addicted to MAC thanks to EBAY! LOL! I started out with pigments and now I'm into everything!


I have dark brown hair, dark brown eyes, fair skin with yellow undertones (I'm 1/2 egyptian, 1/2 brooklyn new yorkian!) There is a big contrast between my skin color (yellow olive-ish fairish) and hair/eye color (dark). My cheeks are naturally rosy usually, esp. when I feel warm. A MAC artist sold me "NC30" in the studio fix powder. She gave me " NW20" for concealer.

I was told I have "warm" undertones, but I look best in stark colored clothing like jewel tones, bright reds, blues, hot pink, magenta... pastels don't look good on me.

I am confused with all these terms: Summer/Winter/Fall/Spring; Warm/cool, etc..

And should the clothing color match the makeup colors? Or is that old school? LOL!

The veins on the underside of my arm are green, insinuating I am warm toned, but warm colors don't look so good on me! But gold jewelry looks better on me than silver!

Help please!

What color clothing would flatter me most, and what color eueshadows/lipsticks would look best on me?

 

[user4]

welcome girl... you may want to put ur question in the 'recommendation' section. i wish i could answer you but i dont know about "warm" undertones or "cool." i know that i have olive undetones in my skin and i was told i would do better with warm colors too... as soon as i find out what those are... i'll let u know... lol. for now, im just playing with color to see how it goes. i can tell you this much, i dont like how pinks look on me too much...

 

[mspixieears]

Welcome to Specktra!

I suggest that you copy the text above from the second paragraph to the end, and start a new thread in our Recommendations section, as it will be much easier for people to give you suggestions based on what you want and what your colouring is etc.

Let me know if that doesn't make sense or if you need help. There are plenty of lovely people who will be willing to give their advice in the Recs forum, or PM myself, or any of the mods. Cheers!

 

[user3]

Welcome!!!!!

 

[midnightlouise]

Hello and welcome to Specktra! I hope you got your question answered in recs, but like mspixieears said, if you need any help sorting that out, let one of the mods know, we're glad to help!

 

[curlyqmishee]

Thanks!

Thanks everyone for replying to my post. I will go ahead and post it in the recs forum!

Hugs and keep on making up!

 

[Hikaru-chan]

Welcome to Specktra.

 

[user2]

Hi curlyqmishee and welcome to Specktra!

I'm sure you'll have as much fun here as we have everyday!

^x^ Linda