Jewelry to Enhance your Features: How to Find the Right Jewelry for Your Hair, Eye and Skin Tone

Everyone wants to look their best with just the right clothes and accessories, but you may be picking out jewels that take away from your natural features instead of enhancing them. Yup, you read it right, the colors you wear every day can either wash you out or make you stand out against the rest depending on how well they match with your skin tone, eyes, and hair color. Read on to learn which jewelry metals and gemstones you should consider wearing right now.

Figuring out if you’re cool or warm

The first step figuring out what which pieces of jewelry complement your look the best, is to first figure out if your skin tone is cool or warm. Fortunately there is a quick and easy test to find out. Under natural light, take a close look at the color of your veins. If they are clearly blue, then you have a cool skin tone, but if the color is closer to a shade of teal, then your skin tone is warm. If it’s still hard to tell what color your skin tone is, hold a white piece of paper or towel next to your arm.

Selecting the right color of metal

If your skin tone is cool, then the obvious match should be silver and vice versa for a warm skin tone with gold metal. After you have the metal base down based on your skin tone, you can select gemstones based on your hair and eye color.

Gemstones for hair and eye color

As far as hair color to help narrow down the choice of which gemstone to pick out, you should not have to base it strictly on the fact that you are a blonde or brunette. The best way to pick out gemstones to enhance your hair color is to base it on once again, the overall tone of the color. People tend to have cool tones in their hair color if it is within the range of light blonde, coffee brown, burgundy or jet black. Warmer toned hair includes shades of honey, caramel, and red.

Finally, look at the color of your eyes. Do they have flecks of gold or grey in the iris? Are they a very clear shade of blue or do they tend to look different depending on the light? When you put your hair and eye color together, you can figure out what season you are to figure out what jewelry to wear.

Seasonal colors: spring, summer, fall, and winter

When it comes down to it, taking a look at your hair, eye, and skin color helps you to figure out what season your overall palette is. Spring tones are warm, light, and clear; summer tones tend to be cool, light, and soft; fall tones are warm, deep, and soft; and finally winter is cool, deep, and clear.

Based on the categorization of skins, the following gemstones and metals look best according to the unique season:

Summer

• Aquamarine
• Larimar
• Pink Sapphire
• Amethyst
• White Opal
• Platinum silver or white gold metal

Spring

• Turquoise
• Watermelon Tourmaline
• Bright pink sapphire
• Coral
• Gold or rose gold metal

Fall

• Citrine
• Peridot
• Olivine
• Amber
• Gold or rose gold metal

Winter

• Emeralds
• Ruby
• Sapphire
• Platinum silver or white gold metal

 

If you happen to be a Fall, but love the gemstones that are suggested for people with Winter skin tones, don’t let this article hold you back from wearing your favorite gemstones. The best part about jewelry is that you can mix up your look however you want, whenever you want. What piece of jewelry do you think looks best on you?