How to Choose the Best Lipstick Color

Choosing the lipstick color that suits you best can make all the difference in whether your makeup makes you look overdone, washed out, or like a more beautiful version of you. However, many women have a difficult time choosing their best lipstick color.

Things You’ll Need:

• Tester lipsticks

Step1

Determine whether you have fair skin, medium skin, olive skin or dark (brown or black) skin.

Step2

Use your skin tone to determine which shade of lipstick will look best on you.

Step3

If you have fair skin, choose deep plum and wine reds with a blue undertone, light browns or beige with a pink undertone, or light shiny pinks with blue undertones.

Step4

If you have medium skin tone, choose deep browns, deep reds with blue undertones, warm reds, medium browns with pink or yellow undertones, deep, rich pinks, and pinks with brown undertones.

Step5

Choose deep and rich browns with reddish or mahogany undertones, dark berry shades, and rich and dark pinks with yellow undertones if you have yellowish or olive skin.

Step6

Choose dark reds with blue undertones, deep plums, any shade of brown, soft sheer pinks and beige shades, and deep berry shades if you have dark skin tone.

Step7

Wear lighter and glossier shades if you have thinner lips, as they generally make thin lips appear fuller. Dark lipsticks will make your thin, small lips even thinner and smaller.

Step8

Wear darker, matte lipsticks if you have very full lips.

Step9

Wear deeper, darker or bolder lipstick colors and shades with light eye makeup.

Step10

Wear a lighter or more neutral lip color to complement heavier eye makeup.

Step11

Wear lighter and more neutral colors of lipstick with a matte or cream finish during the day (at work, for example), and save your darker, glossier and more dramatic colors for a night on the town.