Do you have a pale, fair or light skin tone? What are the best nail polish colors these tones? Read on to find out more details to choose the, best brands plus more ideas that will give the most amazing results. Contents How to Choose Nail Polish Colors for Pale, Light & Fair Skin TonesWhen you have a pale or fair skin tone, you want to choose ideally nail polish colors that will create an interesting contrast and won’t make your hands look washed out. The choice of your ideal nail polish shade depends on how fair your skin tone is to begin with, as well as your natural skin undertones e.g. cool or warm. For example, some people have alabaster skin with neutral undertones, some have fair skin with peachy pink skin undertones, and some have fair skin with yellow or olive undertones like most Eastern and South Asian populations. If you are not sure what your dominant skin undertone is, look-up the color of your veins in natural sunlight. If they look like cool blue purple, you have cool pink undertones, if they have a green tint, they are have warm yellow undertones. Finally, if you see no visible purple blue or green veins, you have neutral undertones. As a general rule, fair skin tones with pink undertones do well with cool pastel nail polish shades whereas warmer fair skin tones are complemented with light or medium warm nail polish shades. If your skin tone has no obvious undertones, you can pretty much sport any light nail polish shade and even medium ones, except from too dark shades. If your natural skin tone is extra light that almost looks like a milky white or alabaster beige shade with subtle pink or peach skin undertones, these nail polish shades will look good on you:
Stay away from: Deep vampy colors like eggplant, burgundy, magenta and similar shades as these will make you look extra pale and reddish in a not so good way. Dark and warm brown shades are also not your best choice. Now if your skin undertones are pale but towards the yellow side, these nail polish colors will look ideal on you:
Stay away from: dark shades with cool purple undertones like deep purple, magenta, dark grey blues, and deep silvers as these will clash with your fair yellow skin tone and make your fingers look extra pale and yellow. Best Nail Polish Colors for Fair/Light SkinIf your skin is fair to light with no obvious skin undertones, you can pretty much sport any nail polish shade except from dark yellow, berry, magenta and dark purple shades. The best nail polish colors for your skin tone category are:
Nail Polish Tips & Ideas for both Fair & Pale SkinIf you belong in the fair/light skin-tone category, other than trying out the solid color shades recommended below, it would be also nice to play with nail designs to make your nails and skin tone look more interesting. If your skin tone is light with pink undertones, an easy idea to add some jazz to your existing nails is to add some silver sparkles or a transparent multi-color glitter nail polish on top of your light shade. Similarly, if you have light yellow skin tone, gold or bronze glitters or gemstones will work best over your solid hair polish. Regardless of your skin undertones, you can also play up your solid nail polish with mini floral designs, stars, and any other cute small shape you can think of as long as it’s in a complementary shade to the one you are using as your base polish color. Pastel blues or mint greens for example, do well with pastel pink or coral nail designs whereas darker greens or reds do well with silver, gold, yellow, white and purple pink colors. What color looks best on pale skin?As a cool skin tone often means your skin is pale or has light features, you'll want to use darker colors. The best outfits for pale skin often rely on colors like emerald green, navy and bold shades of blue.
Does blue nail polish look good on pale?FAIR SKIN TONE
"If it looks reddish or gray, that shade isn't the right one for you." Fair skinned Beauties can also wear a navy polish, but the deep manicure looks better if there is still a hint of blue, as opposed to hues that veer closer to black.
What nail Colour is on trend 2022?Pantone has declared that 2022 will be the year of 'Very Peri' – a lush shade of periwinkle with blue, violet, and red undertones – that represents “carefree confidence”. Frankly, we're already obsessed. Block colour, french tips, or nail art – anything goes.
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