The white-paper check
Hold plain white paper near your bare jaw. Compare the color you see in soft daylight, away from colored walls.
What is my skin tone?
One selfie. Your depth, your undertone, your contrast. A starting point for finding the colors that feel like you.
Free result No sign-up Photo stays on your device
YOUR PHOTO. YOUR DEVICE.
Every shade has its own possibilities.
Start with one selfie
Natural daylight. Bare skin. No filters.
A clear, front-facing photo works best.
Your photo is never uploaded.
No account. No payment. Just your result.
No account. No payment. Just your result.
One person Even daylight No heavy filters Relaxed expression
A LITTLE COLOR KNOW-HOWDepth isn’t undertone.
Depth isn’t undertone.
And neither is a rule.
Depth describes how light or deep your skin appears. Undertone describes its underlying color direction. Contrast describes the visible difference between your skin and eyes in this photo.
All three are affected by lighting. Use your result as a starting point, then check it against what you see in daylight.
Warm
Golden, peach or yellow direction
Cool
Rosy, pink or blue direction
Neutral
A balance of warm and cool
Olive
Green-gray, warm or cool direction
Three ways to compare in daylight
The wrist-vein clue
Blue-purple or green-looking veins may offer a clue, but this is not a reliable test by itself. Check alongside other observations.
The less-exposed check
Compare your jaw, neck and skin behind an ear. Look for the shared color direction rather than judging one sun-exposed area.
GOOD QUESTIONSA little more
A little more
understanding.
What the tool does, what it doesn’t, and how to get a useful result.
How do I identify my skin undertone?+
Compare your bare skin beside white and cream fabric in indirect daylight. Warm undertones may look golden, cool ones rosy, neutral ones balanced, and olive ones subtly green-gray. Vein color is only a clue, not a reliable test on its own.
How can I check my undertone myself?+
Remove makeup and filters, face a window, and compare white paper against your jaw and neck. Check the result in more than one light. Use the manual controls if the photo reading does not match what you see.
Can AI find my undertone?+
It can estimate the color visible in a photo. It cannot remove every lighting, camera or makeup effect. Our local analysis uses cheek color samples; treat its answer as a starting point, not a calibrated measurement of your skin.
How can I tell someone else’s undertone?+
With their permission, compare white and cream fabrics or silver and gold accessories in the same daylight. These are subjective comparisons, not rules about what someone is allowed to wear.
Is olive an undertone or a skin depth?+
Olive describes a greenish or grayish undertone and can appear across light to deep skin. It can lean warmer or cooler. Photo estimates commonly confuse olive with warm or neutral.
Why do different photos give different results?+
White balance, exposure, colored walls, makeup and filters can change sampled colors. Retake a photo in even daylight and compare it with your own observation.
Where can I see an undertone chart?+
The chart below compares warm, cool, neutral and olive color directions. Those swatches are illustrations, not a scale of human skin colors.
Can you give me a foundation shade?+
The paid guide includes official US foundation shade-family starting ranges and a swatch-testing method. It does not claim an exact brand shade match from an uncalibrated selfie. Test products along the jaw in daylight before buying.
Do you store my selfie?+
No. Your photo is decoded and analyzed in this browser, kept in memory while you use the tool, and never uploaded. Clear your result or close the page to release it. Downloaded files stay wherever you save them.
Does tanning change my undertone?+
A tan mainly changes visible depth, and it can change a photo estimate. Check again when choosing foundation. Seasonal color labels are styling suggestions, not permanent biological categories.