While I love finding colors that go well together in a jewelry design, it’s not quite as easy for me to choose which colors look good on my body. I remember back oh, those many years ago, when “having your colors done” was all the rage. I went to a party where I was draped in all the colors of the rainbow and was deemed to be a “cool.” I never was really sure what that meant, though.
silver dreams necklace
Here’s an easy way to figure out if your skin tone is warm or cool, and no draping is necessary. Look at the veins on the inside of your arm. If the veins are greenish, that means you have yellow undertones and a warm skin tone. If your veins look blue, you have a cool skin tone. When I read about this little trick, it seemed easy enough… until my vein color seemed to change from day to day. Whitney’s veins are decidedly blue, while mine seem to bounce around — blue one day, green the next, or even bluish-green. Must be the lighting, or maybe I’m eating too many carrots…
If you’ve decided that you have a cool skin tone, you’ll look best wearing silver, white gold and platinum metals. To compliment your cool skin tone you should wear jewelry that includes pink, violet, magenta, red, rich blue or green.
glistening moss necklace
For those of you that fall in the warm category, yellow gold is your main jewelry metal. You also look amazing wearing pewter, brass, and copper colored metals. To bring out the color of your skin you can wear earth-tone jewelry. You’ll look best if you choose beads that are coral, orange, an earthy green, brown, yellow, peach and turquoise.
These are just a few ideas. Regardless of the color of your veins, though, what really matters is that you feel comfortable in whatever earrings, necklace, bracelet or ring you choose. There’s nothing more beautiful than a woman wearing a jewelry design that makes her feel confident and happy – whatever the color.
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