Skin Tone Analyzer
Upload a clear photo to detect your skin tone depth and undertone. Discover your best colours and foundation direction — analysed entirely on your device.
Upload a clear, well-lit photo of your face
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Your photo stays on your device — it is never uploaded to any server.
How the Skin Tone Analyzer works
Upload a photo
Select a well-lit, front-facing photo. Natural daylight gives the most accurate colour reading. Avoid photos with heavy filters or unusual lighting.
Face detection
AI locates your face in the photo and identifies the forehead and cheek regions. Only skin pixels are sampled — hair, eyes, and lips are excluded.
Colour analysis
Thousands of pixel samples are averaged and converted to a colour model that separates depth (lightness) from undertone (warm, cool, or neutral).
The 5 skin tone depths
Depth describes how light or dark the surface colour of your skin appears.
Fair
Very light skin that burns easily. Pink or peachy undertones are common. High sensitivity to sun exposure.
Light
Light skin that may tan slightly. Undertones range from peachy-warm to pink-cool. Very common in Northern European backgrounds.
Medium
Medium skin that tans moderately. Undertones range from olive-warm to neutral-cool. The most diverse category globally.
Tan
Tan or caramel skin that tans easily. Warm golden or neutral undertones are typical. Rich, warm colouring.
Deep
Deep or rich skin with minimal sun sensitivity. Undertones can be warm-red, cool-neutral, or mahogany. Stunning with bold colours.
Understanding skin undertones
Undertone is the permanent warm, cool, or neutral hue beneath your skin's surface — it doesn't change with tanning.
- Veins appear green or yellow-green on the wrist
- Gold jewellery looks more flattering than silver
- Cream or ivory is more flattering than stark white
- Skin tans easily to a golden colour
Look for foundations labelled W, Warm, N (neutral-warm), Golden, Peachy, or Yellow.
- Veins appear blue or blue-purple on the wrist
- Silver jewellery looks more flattering than gold
- Bright white looks crisp and fresh on you
- Skin tends to burn or turn pink in sun
Look for foundations labelled C, Cool, Pink, Rosy, or Porcelain.
- Veins appear both blue and green — hard to tell
- Both gold and silver jewellery work well
- Both white and cream look flattering
- Skin reacts moderately to sun
Look for foundations labelled N, Neutral, Beige, or Natural.
Skin Tone Analyzer — frequently asked questions
What is skin undertone and why does it matter?
Skin undertone is the subtle hue beneath the surface of your skin that persists regardless of tanning or blushing. It differs from your skin tone (the surface colour, which can change). Undertone matters because it determines which clothing colours, makeup shades, and jewellery metals look harmonious against your complexion.
What's the difference between skin tone and skin undertone?
Skin tone is the surface colour of your skin — the shade you describe when you say 'light', 'medium', or 'deep'. It changes with sun exposure. Undertone is the permanent warm, cool, or neutral cast beneath the surface. Two people with the same skin tone can have completely different undertones.
Does skin tone change with tanning?
Yes — your surface skin tone (depth) darkens with sun exposure or self-tanner. However, your undertone is fixed by genetics and does not change. A warm-undertone person who tans becomes a deeper warm, not a cool. The Skin Tone Analyzer reads the current state of your skin from the uploaded photo.
Why does the analyzer need to detect my face?
The tool uses face detection to locate the forehead, cheek, and mid-face regions of your photo. This ensures pixel sampling focuses on your actual skin rather than hair, eyes, lips, or background. Without face detection, the average colour would include non-skin areas and give inaccurate results.
How accurate is the skin tone analyzer?
Accuracy depends significantly on photo quality. The best results come from well-lit photos in natural daylight without heavy filters. Yellow or blue-tinted artificial lighting shifts the detected colour significantly. The analyzer is designed for guidance — a professional makeup artist consultation will always be more precise.
Can I use the skin tone result with any makeup brand?
Yes — the undertone guidance (warm, cool, neutral) applies universally across all foundation brands. The depth classification (Fair, Light, Medium, Tan, Deep) corresponds to the shade naming used by most major cosmetics brands. Use both together to narrow your search to the right shade range.