Match Your Polish With Your Skin Tone

How to match your nail polish with your skin tone:

Sometimes I notice that when I try on new colours, some could be a little bit off at times. So I wondered: are you supposed to match your nail polish with your skin tone? So what did I do? Went on a little research mission and found out YEAH, matching your nail polish with your skin tone is like matching your clothes.

I learned this rule: Pale with pale and dark with dark.

Do I like this rule? No, because I’m really pale and I sometimes like to paint my nails black. Can I do this? Yes, however, I must make sure my nails are trimmed so they aren’t fang like. A rule from allwomenstalk.com. Plus, dark polishes can make your skin look paler. If that’s something you don’t want, maybe you should stay away from dark shades! Also, if you’re pale, you want to avoid yellows and go more toward blue based nail polishes.

The darker your skin tone, the more choices you have. Apparently this is true because darker women can pull off most nail colours. Pale colours give good contrast, bright colours look exotic and dark colours look classy. BUT, if you’re dark skin toned, you still need to match the colours with your complexion. If you have a warm complexion, go for warm shades and for a cool complexion, look for cool shades.

To see what complexion you are just look at your veins. If they’re blueish, your complexion is cool. And if they’re green, your complexion is warm.

If you’re somewhere between pale and dark and you want to look more tan, try metallic shades! Good shades for you would be purples and browns and gold.

At the end of the day, you can do whatever you want but if you want to have Claws with Class, follow these rules. 

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