Hairy skin all year round, caramel carnation or post-vacance gold dye: how can you reveal the beauty of your hands when you have medium skin? Thanks to a few colorimetry markers and taking into account your skin subton, you can identify the most flattering varnishes for a manicure that matches (really) with your carnation. Lets nail it!
Find the right colors with colorimetry
The essentials to know for good use
Colourimetry allows for detect colors that enhance you according to the natural pigmentation of your skin, the color of your hair and your eyes. We serve on the wardrobe side, opting for the colors that give a good look: the right tones awaken the complexion, the bad ones tarnish it. For the nail polishSame logic! The good tint allows visually to elongate your fingers, sublimate your hands or even increase your tan. Conversely, a bad shade can swear with your skin color.
Find the shades that embellish you with colorimetry.
What's your undertone?
Here, it is necessary to identify not the visible colour of your skin (light, matt or dark tinted) but well your subton This subtle and permanent shade influences how colors interact with your carnation. There are three large families of subtons:
- Hot : your skin colour pulls towards gold, peach or olive
- Cold : your skin has pink, bluish or reddish undertones.
- Neutral : you hesitate? It's probably that you have a mixture of both.
Identify your skin subton to better choose your colors.
🔎 Simple tip to know Place your wrist in natural light and observe your veins. If they shoot at the blue or purple then you probably have a cold subton. If they appear green, it is that your skin presents a warm subton. And if you hesitate or see a little of both, you're probably neutral, what opens up an infinitely coloured playground !
The perfect match of medium skins
Good news! Medium skins can dare to do anything or almost on the colour side. Here is a selection of varnish color tested and approved by us, whether you tend more to hot or cold subtons.
6 colors to flatter neutral skin with warm subtons
As a chromatic resonance, the following shades capture the heat of your skin and extend it to the end of your nails. Result: a harmonious and perfectly tuned rendering.
Hot colors for the good days
Starting with Cream, one Gourmet and irresistible off-white nail polish, between almond milk and whipped cream. Perfect ally to coat your hands with softness and a beautiful alternative to white varnish classic pure, the perfect shade to achieve a French manicure subtle and elegant. It agrees, which is more, without harm, with the whole of your dressing room.
This vitamin sweet pink, it's Pink Paradise - I'm not. Our bubble gum varnish or twist pop that color your hands (and your days) by waking up any look. It brings out the golden of your skin, with an immediate good mood effect.
The one who also does wonders on tanned or caramel skin is Shimmer : one glittery varnish golden brown with cold undertones, as glittering as a meteor shower. A shade that diffuses energy on your nails from elsewhere... Cosmic love!
Sun and pop shades to enhance neutral skin with warm subtons.
Your varnish shades to brave the cold season
It evokes the elegance of a late summer with Italian... Indian Summer is this nail polish red hot brick, infused with ochre light, which can easily be associated with a summer outfit in beige linen or camel. He signs a manicure imprinted of character and sophisticated.
In the brown coloursHere is another shade that you can easily marry with your locker room: Orme, a creamy light brown nail polish that marries the skin with natural. A beige reinvented cappuccino way, a discreet shade in balance and lightness, which changes classic nude colors. What else?
From the soft shades, choose Sage, a green, felty and vegetal grey that creates a soothing contrast on warm skins. Fresh and original, it is adopted in both urban and field areas.
Warm, soft or vegetal hues to go through the cold with style.
6 colors to electrify neutral skin with cold subtons
Here's the trick to bet on contrasts that warm the carnation without crushing it.
Your allies in spring and summer
Mint is this fresh, light and easy to wear menthol varnish, who has everything to please : pastel green slightly bluish in a clean style, charming on slightly pink skin. A nuance that breathes the joy of living! And we're with it.
Among the best-sellers varnish colours there are Armeria. A fuschia purple Punchy raised from a rose tip, with a affirmed personality. Sparkling, vibrant, a little insolent, it gives plume to every gesture and pimps the medium carnations to cold subtons, without turning on the fluo.
One red varnish deep raspberry, between grenade and carmine : Here you go Pomegranate. A color that dresses your nails like a case and enhances the complexion with controlled intensity. A timeless hue, one that you don't tire of. So precious!
Fresh, intense or fruity shades to awaken the skin to cold undertones.
Your assets for autumn and winter
Moon is a white varnish with pearly reflections, between mastered shine and discreet chic. It is adorned with a white iridescent veil, like a pearl of light... A must-have pearly varnish for those who love the delicate effect of the pearl nails. To slip, without hesitation, into the vanity of olive or golden skins with cold undertones. As chic to wear on a daily basis as on great occasions!
Like a stormy sky with a nail-flower, Poppy Seed is a blue-grey varnish mysterious with changing accents that bring a touch of stylish modernity to your nails. Neither too cold nor too neutral, it is ideal for a sober and distinguished manicure.
With its vintage retro charm, Eggplant seduces curious minds. This dark purple, inspired by brocades and rare objects, tastes good finders... A beautiful alternative to black varnish for a guaranteed refinement.
Deep and vibrant shades to make your seasonal look vibrate.
Your custom color diagnosis with Color Finder
Are you still not sure? Do you feel like your hands change color as the seasons change? Welcome to the evolutionary carnations club! The good varnish color depends on an infinite number of parameters: your subton but also your style, your desires, the weather, your outfit... That's why we designed the Color Finder.
One simple and fast tool to find your perfect match among our classic varnishes Green™ and semi-permanent varnish Green Flash™. Just indicate the shade of your skin, mood or desired rendering, and the algorithm guides you with one click to THE color that will delight you. Try it. Here !
Matt skins, rejoice: in addition to radiating naturally, your carnation matches with (almost) all pallets. Pastel varnish, nude varnish, violets, fuschia... you can dare everything. By mastering your subtons and playing with contrasts, you have the power to sublimate your carnation all year round, without making any mistake. You're up to it - and you're up to it!
