Gold or Silver-test: Find Your best Colors

"A Simple Alternative to Standard Color Analysis"

Did you find the Color Analysis with different seasons and colorings complex to understand? Then I recommend another test which is direct and quite simple:

Gold or Silver-test.

When it comes to determining your best colors, you'll have to look for your skin's undertone.

Many women don't have a clue on what that means. So that's why we have to use gold and silver to determine just that.

Silver and gold are the two most common metals and can easily reflect what kind of colors look best against your skin.

How to Do the Gold or Silver Color Test

You need:

A mirror (not those compact ones)
Two jewelry pieces -- the one in silver and the other one in gold
Natural lighting

Simply hold a necklace or jewelry in those two metals against your face, and take notice of which one looks brighter and stands out more. This is best done under natural lighting.

Observe the changes to your face

Do you look healthier? Or does the metal make you look bland? Does the metal create or accentuate dark eye cirles? Does it make your teeth look yellowish?

Notice the difference each metal make to your face?

If you want to get a better idea on how to test warm and cool colors work, you might want to check this out (opens in a new window).

So Which One Are You?

If the gold metal makes you glow and feel fresh and alive then you're a gold!

If the silver metal lights up your face then you're a silver!

But if you can't decide because both metals seem to look good on your skin, then lucky you, you're a neutral!

Are You a Gold?

Are You a Silver?

Both Silver and Gold?

Not quite convinced with the Gold and Silver-test? Then you might want to review the Color Season & Coloring Analysis instead.

Now read further below and find your right colors:

If Gold Looks Much Better on You Than Silver:

Then you have blonde, red, brown or black with reddish or golden tints, with fair to deeper skin color with warm undertone.

You look fabulous in rich, golden and earthy colors.

These are some of your musts in your wardrobe:

Muted and warm colors such as camel, beige, bronze, mochas and charcoal grey
Exotic mango orange, softer tones of peach and gold are your wardrobe musts
Earthy greens like lime, grass, celery, olive, moss and jade

For a more detailed suggestions you might want to check out Color Me Beautiful's warm seasons Spring and Autumn.

When it comes to basic colors:

Off-white/ivory look more inviting on you than snow white.
You suit warmer shades of red (like tomatoe red) a lot better then the blue-toned ones.
Just because blue is considered as a cool color you can still find warmer shades of blue that will look stunning on you. Like for example bright navy blue.
Charcoal and darker nuances of gray suit you better than light gray

Quick reference about your skin tone:

You have yellow or peachy undertones
Your eyes are typically brown, green or hazel; also hints of orange, yellow, red or gold
Haircolor is typically brown, black, red, auburn or strawberry blonde with golden or reddish highlights
The veins on the underside of your wrist are greenish (you can see it in natural light)

If Silver Looks Much Better on You Than Gold

Then you might have bluish or pinkish black, olive, ivory or fair skin color with cool or ashy-toned hair.

You look stunning in jewel, cooler and true colors that have blue undertones.

You need these in your wardrobe:

Delicate pastels like mint-green, baby-blue and lightand rose-pink.
Range of pink shades like raspberry, plum, light-rose and soft-reds shades.
Vivid green like deep emerald green.

For a more detailed suggestions you might want to check out Color Me Beautiful's cool seasons Summer and Winter.

And when it comes to basic colors:

Pure, crispy white looks magnificent on your cool-toned skin.
You look gorgeous with blue-toned reds like true red.
Almost every hue of the ocean goes perfectly with your complexion (except for warmer shades like bright navy blue, anything warm).
Light as we as charcoal grey looks great on your skin.

Quick reference about your skin tone:

Your eyes are typically blue, blue-green, turquoise, cool brown or gray
Haircolor ranges from light blonde to jetblack but instead of golden highights, it has hints of silver, drab and ash undertones
Skin has definite pink or blue undertone
The veins on the underside of your wrist is undeniably blueish

If both Gold and Silver Look on You:

If you're unable to determine if you suit gold or silver best, you could be a neutral. That means you suit both gold and silver, and can wear just about any color. Lucky you!

One color restricted from your palette has to be ash tones which can make your skin look bland.

Quick reference about your skin tone: