Metal color and skin tone...

[kenny]

I pick a metal's color based on the metal's color.
How it 'goes' with my skin would not enter my mind.

 

[beaujolais]

yellow gold looks best on me - fair skin & blonde/brown hair

(I don't care if white gold is more in. I never cared much for white gold anyway. Although a few certain color stones look better in white gold, though - grey spinel, for example.)

 

[distracts]

I'm fair and pinkish, and white metals look best on me. Lower carat (14k/10k) gold looks fine too, but higher carat YG makes me look a little ruddy. Rose gold makes me look SUPER ruddy... but I like it anyway. I have many white and YG pieces and only about three RG things.

I also don't care about mixing metals when I wear them.

 

[LittleRiver]

I wear Laura Mercier tinted moisturizer in Fawn which, apparently, is for "medium skin with pink tones". Yellow gold looks best on me but, for some pieces, I prefer white metal anyway. My watch is stainless and my wedding set is platinum.

 

[AGBF]

I'd love to know how you all define pale/fair, because I've only met about 2 people in my life with paler skin than myself. Many makeup brands actually don't make a color light enough for me... Ivory maks me orange Also I have no ability to tan, I just burn and/or freckle.

All of the above is also true of me....

I seriously have no idea how I'm not a redhead with this skin.

Now here is where we part company. I figured if nature got it wrong, that that didn't mean I had to leave things that way. I've been a redhead for about six months now and an amazing number of people have come up to me and said things like that their children were redheads like me!!!

Deb/AGBF

 

[chrono]

Medium skin tone with yellow undertones and I can wear all metal colours well. I don't mix and match but enjoy wearing both white and yellow metals. I think I'm "caramel" using Little River's picture. I tan very well in summer but get fair in winter.

 

[wakingdreams53]

What a great thread! I wear a 18kt yellow gold ring on my right hand and a 14kt yellow gold ring on my left. I want to see pictures of you ladies that are so utterly pale! I've joked for years that if I don't get some sunlight I'd be transparent!

Most of my jewelry is yellow gold, but I have a silver bracelet on my right hand and silver necklace, and it's perfectly "matchy" with my skin tone... idk, I guess I'm one of the lucky ones!

(I wear Brilliance foundation that has a bit of a tint, it's called "Fair with a Twist" , if I'd just wear "fair" I'd be perfectly ghostly)

 

[canuk-gal]

HI:

I wear everything--and often mix colors. I don't discriminate--or rather I cannot!

cheers--Sharon

I like this!
I actually have a few pieces of jewelry that combine yellow, white and rose gold (bracelets, necklace and earrings) and while I wear the earrings (which I love) I forgot about the other pieces. Thanks Sharon for the reminder!
I also mix metals. When I'm wearing any of my yellow gold pieces I still wear my ER (platinum) and watch which technically don't "go". I don't mind not "matching" my metals.

I like mixing colors, metal and textures. Pearls with other stuff, KWIM.

One of my favorite pieces is the Sydeny Evans blue sapphire and blackened gold star--because I like to layer, I wear that with yellow gold and platinum. If I wear more than one necklace, I dont ususally wear anything in my ears.

cheers--Sharon

 

[iheartscience]

I wear Laura Mercier tinted moisturizer in Fawn which, apparently, is for "medium skin with pink tones". Yellow gold looks best on me but, for some pieces, I prefer white metal anyway. My watch is stainless and my wedding set is platinum.

Oh nice swatch pic! I'm the Porcelain color and it matches my face perfectly.

 

[diamondringlover]

I prefer yellow gold, I have white and rose gold as well, but the majority of mine is yellow gold (most of it is many years old) I guess I never gave it any thought as to what looks best on me..I am fair skinned and honestly I dont care what color gold I wear...if I like it I will wear it

 

[Laila619]

I just got a new plain rose gold band and it looks surprisingly good on my pale skin. I think I like it even better than white or yellow gold!

 

[WindyCitySparkle]

I just got a new plain rose gold band and it looks surprisingly good on my pale skin. I think I like it even better than white or yellow gold!

This exactly! I am pale with red undertones, especially on my hands.

 

[4ever]

I am very fair skinned, freckly and a strawberry blonde ginger,I'm the kind of pale that if you sit me in the sun too long, I not so much burn as burst into flames. My skin has red undertones. I wear white metals but also look good in rose gold. Yellow gold brings out the red in my skin and looks pretty terrible on me.

 

[Logan Sapphire]

I like all three! Not sure what looks the best though...

 

[Laila619]

I like all three! Not sure what looks the best though...

You really pull off all three I think!

 

[VRBeauty]

I pick a metal's color based on the metal's color.
How it 'goes' with my skin would not enter my mind.

I'm guessing you don't wear a lot of earrings and necklaces - jewelry that's intended to enhance how you look!

 

[AGBF]

When I first saw this thread I remembered some past discussions of metal color and skin tone. I especially remembered agreeing with aljdewey about yellow gold and fair women with pink undertones. By accident I just came upon the old thread entitled, "Is Yellow Gold out of style?" Here is a quotation from that thread.

Deb/AGBF



Date: 11/2/2005 5:11:14 PM
Author: aljdewey


Date: 11/1/2005 2:31:03 PM

Author: Pyramid

I keep reading that people think yellow gold or white gold/platinum looks better with their skin.


What skin suits which color?


Is it yellow gold for darker skin and white gold for fairer skin?


Nope - it's usually the opposite.


Causacasians typically have a green tone to their skin that is more complemented by yellow/ivory. It's why most fair-skinned ladies look better in ivory wedding dresses, and in yellow gold.


Other nationalities with darker or more olive tones tend to favor whiter looks - i.e. white metals and white dresses.



You are absolutely right when it comes to me: I looked better in an off-white bridal gown (but wore a pure white one out of a desire to keep the tradition for a first marriage). I also look better in yellow gold. (I am very fair. I am currently a blonde, but was a brunette when I got married.)

Some blondes are very tan, however. I, as a brunette, was fair with pink tones. Surely there are more variables than skin color involved in what looks good on someone? I can imagine one blonde friend who tans wearing yellow gold to GREAT advantage!

Also: why would lighter Caucasians be more green? I thought that some of us had more pink undertones and others, who were more sallow, had more yellow. I am pink and when I want to disguise extra pink on my face I use a little green cream to cover the pink. What does that mean!!??

I am very serious. I want to understand more about skin color and jewelry.

Deb

 

[missy]

Many many years ago I read a book that described the color season palettes.

http://personalitycafe.com/general-chat/37461-what-your-color-season-spring-summer-autumn-winter-fun.html

http://www.colormebeautiful.com/seasons/

Maybe this will help add insight on what colors look best on you.