Cosmetics are a woman’s best weapon to enhance facial features and cover up any imperfections. But with all the cosmetic products in the market, it can be overwhelming to know what to choose.
Picking the right makeup palette to complement your complexion is a whole lot easier if you know how to select and stick to a family of colours that works for your skin shade and tone. From redheads with fair skin to brunettes with dark skin, we’ve listed the best makeup colours that work with your eyes, cheeks and lips.
Whether you want to learn how to create the perfect smoky eye look or would like tips on how to contour and define the face using bronzer, we’ve put together a list of our favourite expert resources to help you in our How-To Makeup Lessons page.
Fragrances can affect us on a deeply emotional level by evoking specific memories and moods. For this reason, your signature scent should be an extension of your personality and reflective of your tastes. To guide you on choosing the right perfume for you, see our overview of the four major categories of scents, along with some tips on selecting the right one.
Just as you have different styles of clothing for different occasions, there are some tried-and-true rules for choosing fragrances that match distinct seasons and times. Learn more about perfume matching in our Tips section.
Picking the right makeup palette to complement your complexion is a whole lot easier if you know how to select and stick to a family of colours that works for your skin shade and tone.
Your skin shade is the surface colour of the skin, and is usually categorised as either fair, medium, olive or dark. Your skin tone (also known as undertone) on the other hand, is the warm or cool hue that shows through the surface colour of the skin. Although your skin shade can change depending on certain factors, in particular sun exposure, the skin’s undertone always remains consistent.
To determine your skin tone, a quick trick is to examine the colour of your veins in the underside of the wrist. If they show through as blue or purple, you have cool undertones. If your veins appear green or even yellowish, you have warm undertones.
Think Nicole Kidman or Susan Sarandon. Women with this complexion steer towards earth tones like corals, salmons, browns, ambers and bronze.
For blondes like Gwyneth Paltrow or Claire Danes, a range of pink shades bring colour to the face and provide contrast.
If your complexion is like Julia Roberts or Lucy Liu, rosy shades will suit you best.
Think Selena Gomez or Kim Kardashian. Women with olive skin have so many makeup hues to choose from, and look especially radiant in golden colours or in more vivid shades of rose and cherry.
Darker skin tones such as Halle Berry or Oprah Winfrey tend to wear soft natural tones such as nude pinks, soft browns, and corals. However, anything too light or sheer might look ashy. Women with black hair and dark skin can also pull off bold, jewel-toned colours extremely well.
Whether you want to learn how to create the perfect smoky eye look or would like tips on how to contour and define the face using bronzer, we’ve put together a list of our favourite resources to give you a hand:
Fragrances can affect us on a deeply emotional level by evoking specific memories and moods. For this reason, your signature scent should be an extension of your personality and reflective of your tastes. With the overwhelming choice of perfumes available, shopping for the right one can be tough. To guide you, here’s an overview of the four major categories of scents, along with some tips to help you select the right one.
This is the most popular scent family. Just like its name suggests, floral scents will evoke freshly cut flowers and are suitable for all occasions. Floral perfumes contain the scent of either one flower, such as rose or lavender, or a bouquet of several varieties. Perfumes in this category are both feminine and romantic.
Fresh scents often include "green" notes, like fresh-cut grass, the smell of spring in the air, light citruses and airy notes. If you have an outdoorsy personality, this type of fragrance may appeal to you most.
Oriental scents are made up of notes that are rich, bold, exotic and slightly spicy. Notes like amber and vanilla are usually present in the oriental group. Oriental fragrances lean toward the heavier side and are more sensual fragrances, ideal for nighttime wear or romantic occasions. Think warm, mysterious and sexy.
This fragrance group consists of your aromatic wood and moss notes, such as sandalwood, cedarwood, oak and bergamot. Perfumes within this category are subtle yet sophisticated. Many masculine fragrances fall into this category, given the richness of woody scents.
Most people have a signature scent, a perfume which is reflective of your character and tastes. But just as you have different styles of clothing for different occasions, there are some tried-and-true rules for choosing fragrances that match distinct seasons and times.
Some perfumes seem ideally suited to special occasions, others to the office. Here's a quick look at the different scent families and the occasions they best match:
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