How to choose the right shade of red for your lips

How to choose the right shade of red for your lips?

Red lips give you a more striking look and super BOLD look if you want to stand out in the crowd or simply look like that fashionista walking down the street. 

All heads will whip in your direction.

But how do you know what shade of red to pick?! In a dilemma? Hope this helps (:

Amongst skin types, there are three:

- Warm undertones

- Cool undertones

- Neutral undertones 

Huh? What're they?! How do I know which one I am?!

Here's a short quiz :) take a pen and jot down your answers!

1. Look at the inside of your wrist, under natural sunlight, what colour are your veins predominantly? 

A. More blue

B. More olive/green

C. Mix of both

2. Picture yourself (or better yet, do it) in a yellow shirt or orange shirt? Which do you look best in?

A. Absolutely fabulous!

B. Yucks, I look sickly. 

C. Hmm, I could pull this off

3. Place a piece of plain white paper next to your face, how do you look in comparison?

A. Urgh gross my complexion is so bad, so dull and sallow.

B. Hmm quite nice, I don't see any like too bad shadows.

C. Oh I look okay la

4. Place something gold on your wrist, then place something silver next to it, which colour makes your skin look more wow and alive?

A. Gold gold gold

B. Silver all the wayy

C. I look good in both!

5. When you get under the sun for a tan, do you...

A. Skin turns a golden-brown

B. Burn and turn pink

C. Burn then tan

If most of your answers are...

A

Yay, like me, you fall under the category of warm undertones (: there is this misconception that pale girls cannot have warm undertones, but I mean look at Nicole Kidman, I kid you not, she has a warm undertone. And so does Jessica Alba, Jennifer Lopez and Beyoncé. Wowowow, here's the colour palette for your preferred lip colour and/or clothing colour! Warm toned people should lean towards yellows, oranges, browns, yellow-greens, ivorys and warm reds.

Lip colours such as...

B

Mmm, you have a cool undertone.

Many celebrities such as Anne Hathaway, Lucy Liu, Cameron Diaz, Scarlett Johansson (I love all of them omg).

Cool undertones should lean towards blues, greens, pinks, blue-greens, magentas, and there're this things called "blue-based" reds. Colour palette...

Lip colours such as...

C

LUCKY YOU!! You, my friend, have a neutral undertone, you can pull of BOTH warm undertone colours and cool undertone colours!!! URGH I ENVY YOU.

Well, at the end of the day, don't be restricted to your undertone! Go out and explore (: use whatever shades of red you think look good on you! Just wear a smile and you'll always look great :D remember to line your lips when wearing a red lip so that it gives you a cleaner look and a perfect Cupid's bow ♡

And so, this marks the end of our post today! Hope this helped you a lot!!!

Good luck! ☆

- Audrey