Fine jewelry containing gemstones is rather wonderful but to make sure it has an impact - especially when it’s highly colored stones like garnets or amethysts, there are a few considerations. Gemstones come in a whole spectrum of colors from the palest pink morganite and faintly green citrine to the flashing deep blue of sapphire and the rich red of ruby, so it helps to know how to make their brilliance shine when you wear them.
Overall, there is the color of the outfit that you are planning to wear along with the general vibe and atmosphere of the event that you might be attending. The style and length of your hair and hair color matter when it comes to earrings and necklaces. Then there is face shape and eye color and then, perhaps most important of all, there is the natural tone of your skin!
Every piece of jewelry interacts with skin color and complexion differently and uniquely, and what looks amazing on one person is not so great on another! That is the beauty of finding the right jewelry for you, and to do that, you need to know your skin tone and which precious metals and gemstones are best suited to you.
The key to building a jewelry box of versatile treasures that are always going to look amazing on you no matter what you are wearing or what kind of event you are attending is skin undertones.
This guide will tell you everything you need to know about skin tones and which kinds of jewelry are the best choice to complement your natural beauty.
What’s Your Skin Tone?
The first step is an obvious one - you need to know what your skin tone is! The truth is that many of us don’t know what our skin tone is. Skin color is determined by the amount of melanin but the tone is more nuanced than simply your ethnic skin color.
The easiest way to ascertain your skin tone is to look at the veins visible on the inside of your wrist.
If you can see bluer than anything else, then you have a cool skin tone.
If you can see more green than blue, then you have a warm skin tone.
If you can’t distinguish any particular blue, green, olive, redness, or even espresso color on your wrist, then everything points to you having a neutral skin tone.
Matching Jewelry To Your Skin Tone
Once you have established what you think your skin tone is, the next step is learning which gemstones and metal choices are best suited to your complexion.
For those with cooler skin tones, lighter metals and lighter-colored gems are always a good choice, because they allow the natural light to play with your skin and the jewelry to bring out the best in both. White gold, platinum, and silver are classic choices for this kind of skin tone.
For warmer skin tones, a lean towards yellow metals and gold and orange types of gemstones is best because they bring out the extra warmth of your natural undertones.
Those who have neutral skin tones are arguably the luckiest of the bunch, as they are free to wear pretty much any type of jewelry that they wish! In particular, though, it must be said that clear diamonds work especially well with a neutral complexion.
Gold, Rose Gold, and Silver
Most of the time, the main element of a piece of jewelry will be its metal base. Gold, silver, and rose gold are usually good ways to differentiate your skin tone as well as your recommended color palette for wider fashion and makeup.
For example, yellow gold is by far the best choice for those who have warm tones and dark skin or slightly darker skin.
For those who have cool tones, then the opposite end of the spectrum is preferred, so silver jewelry and other types of white metals like platinum and rhodium.
For complete versatility, rose gold jewelry has been said to work well with every kind of skin tone. This is one reason why it seems to have become the most popular choice for jewelry in recent years. Whether you have warm undertones, cool undertones, or a neutral skin undertone, rose gold is a safe choice that will look great regardless of other factors.
Gemstones
Those who love jewelry will know just how infinite and exciting thae range of beautiful gemstones is, and you should always be able to find the stone that is going to perfectly complement your skin tone!
Those will cool skin tones are best suited to rubies, sapphires, imperial topaz, morganite, peridot, and amethyst.
Those with warmer skin tones are best suited to orange sapphire, blue sapphire, opal, zircon, tourmaline, and aquamarine.
Once again, those with a neutral skin tone are free to pick whichever gemstone they have the best personal connection with, as their complexion means they suit any type and color of stone imaginable!
Hair Color
Along with skin tone, hair color is another very important factor in choosing which items of jewelry are going to look best on you.
If you are somebody with beautiful red hair, then you should make the effort to seek out gemstones that are based in deep greens and blues to bring out your natural coloring.
On the other hand, people with blonde hair can quite happily wear most colors to equal effect, but in particular, sapphires are a very striking choice.
Dark brown hair is the most common natural hair color across the world, and anything that includes light blues and violets is ideal because it highlights the natural hues in the dark locks. Even resin jewelry is often recommended for people with particularly dark hair to create an effortless shine.
Brunettes are also really suited to red and deep purples because they can enhance the beautiful darkness of your complexion to create an alluring overall aesthetic.
Remember To Be Original And Creative
Ultimately, you should take these skin tone guidelines as inspiration, but never feel like you have to conform if you come across a particular piece of jewelry that you fall in love with. The beauty of jewelry is being able to experiment and wear every available kind, so don’t stay away from any particular gemstones or metal just because it goes against the traditional skin tone guidelines.
Treat this guide as a basis to find some of your staple pieces that you know are never going to let you down, but at the same time, we always think it is fun to go out of your comfort zone every now and then with some bolder choices. Originality and creativity is one of the best things about being a jewelry lover!
