Video: Makeup Colors for Cool Skin Tones for Porcelain Skin

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About the Expert

Shannon Pulley

http://www.facesofjoy.net/

Shannon Pulley has more than 17 years' experience in the entertainment and beauty industry. She began as a model at the ripe age of 15, traveling across the U.S. and internationally to Milan, Italy. She has always been drawn to beauty and fashion and had the opportunity to teach preteen runway classes at John Robert Powers (2003). Her makeup career began in Washington State while working at Victoria’s Secret Beauty (2000). She moved to New York City in 2003 and has since worked with esteemed cosmetic companies such as Chanel, Dior, Yves St. Lauren, Clarins and Sephora. Her work has been featured on the cover of Manhattan Bride Magazine and in several plays, films and runways throughout the New York metropolitan area. Her latest accomplishment is her work on the film “Pariah” executively produced by Spike Lee and starring Kim Wayans which recently won a Sundance Film Festival Award in 2011. Pulley is also perfecting her skill as a professional airbrush and body paint artist and currently works for Hourglass Cosmetics, Dior and FACE Stockholm as a freelance artist while seeking representation. To view Pulley’s work and online resume please visit: www.facesofjoy.net

Transcript

Hi, my name is Shannon. I'm a makeup artist, and today I'm going to show you how to choose colors for cool skin tones. If you have a cool skin tone, some colors I would recommend would be soft colors like this, really neutral colors, soft pinks soft browns, a light purple, you know lilac colors like this. Also go ahead and try like some really pretty blues, indigo blues, sky blues, anything cool like Earth tones are going to work really really well on cool skin tones, even like soft grays you could do a smoky eye in a gray rather than in a harsh black. That's going to be really pretty or even a smoky eye in a blue or a purple and then don't forget about pinks. Pinks are great on porcelain skin on cool tones. So for your blush or your eye shadow, give a little pop even on the lips with a pink, that would be great, or even a nude. Cool skin tones can have a lot of fun with this palette. There's a lot of fun blues and purples in here that have a blue undertone to them. So it's a cool undertone. So as long as it has a cool undertone to it, it's going to sit really nice on your skin and go and blend really naturally. So you can do the purples, the blues, the blue greens, pinks are really nice as well. We've got a lot of neutral colors up here and you can even do a smoky eye with a cool skin tones. These blushes over here with the pinks and peaches are going to be really pretty. Also the gold is fine to wear as well. For the lips we have a lot of colors over here that I like, a lot of pinks that are going to pop on cool skin tones. You may not be able to wear these warmer tones here that are kind of a red brown but everything else, these bright orange and reds here and the pinks here, beautiful. So those were some tips on how to choose colors for cool skin tones. I hope they were helpful.