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Helpful Tips for Choosing the Right Lipstick Color

Aparna Jadhav
Have you ever felt confused about which color lipstick would suit you? That happens a lot when you're confused about what shades actually look good on you. Take a look at the following lipstick color guide which might help you make a choice.
Lipstick shades are very confusing to choose from when you don't know what you want. There are millions of shades in reds, pinks, purples, browns, and beige that could look good on you, but you can't judge that by just looking at them.
You can't try every color to see if it matches your skin tone. Thus, you end up buying a neutral shade. Here are some tips about colors and shades for certain skin tones. There are complementary shades for each and every skin tone.

Choosing a Lipstick Color
To pick a good lipstick color, there are two things you should keep in mind. The first being your complexion and the second, your hair color.
The difference between your complexion and your hair color always complements the lip colors that you go for. Thus, we have a list of colors which you can choose from if your skin and hair color are as follows.

Fair Skin with Light Hair

If you have very fair skin and white or blonde hair, then you should try pinks (shell, soft, iced, neon, magenta), browns (dusty, plum, apricot, pastel, beige), and wine shades.

Fair Skin with Red Hair
If you have fair skin with shades of red in your hair, you can go for pinks (rose, clover, ginger, berry), peach, brown sugar, mocha, reds (cherry, scarlet, brilliant, garnet, soft), and golds.

Fair Skin with Medium Dark Hair
Many women have this type of look, with a skin tone of fair complexion and either black or dark brown hair. Such women can try shades like pinks (rose, clover, ginger, berry), reds (cherry, scarlet, brilliant, garnet, soft), gold, and purple.

Olive Skin with Medium Dark Hair

Such coordination is seen with women in the South East Asian countries. Especially, Chinese and Japanese women are very well-known for their beautiful hair and skin.
For them, the perfect shades in lipstick are reds (cherry, scarlet, brilliant, garnet, soft), browns (dusty, plum, apricot, pastel, beige), peach, and copper.

Warm Skin with Medium Dark Brown Hair

Mexican and Many Indian women have such skin tones, with dark brown or simply brown hair.
They have a slight dusky look and thus the lipstick colors that could be used by them can be pinks (shell, soft, iced, neon, magenta), velvet wine, reds (cherry, scarlet, brilliant, garnet, soft), browns (dusty, plum, apricot, pastel, beige), and golds (rough and damson).

Afro-Caribbean with all Hair Colors

For slightly tanned women with light or dark brown or even black hair, colors like pinks (rose, clover, ginger, berry), peach, brown sugar, mocha, golds (rough and damson), and browns (dusty, plum, apricot, pastel, beige) are suggested.

African-American with Medium to Dark Hair

These women have dark skin and sometimes jet black hair. But their skin is very beautiful and plain, which can suit many colors on the make up palate. These colors are copper, purples (light and dark), reds (cherry, scarlet, brilliant, garnet, soft), beechnut, bronze, golds (rough and damson), and brown sugar.

African-American with Medium to Dark Hair

These women have a very dark skin and sometimes jet black hair. But their skin is very beautiful and plain, which can suit many colors on the make up palate. These colors are copper, purples (light and dark), reds (cherry, scarlet, brilliant, garnet, soft), beechnut, bronze, golds (rough and damson), and brown sugar.

African Skin with Black Hair

Since this type of skin tone is very dark and the hair color is jet black, women with this skin tone look very attractive with colors like pinks (rose, clover, ginger, berry), wine, brilliant bed, garnet, damson brown, bronze, beechnut, and brown sugar.
With such a variety of colors from this guide, you must have found your choice shade. This will definitely help you make a decision with lipsticks the next time you go to buy some.