Summer is on the horizon!
Everyone loves coming home with a perfect tan after a day of memorable summer fun!
If we didn’t tan, we would burn.
So tanning is actually protecting our skin from premature aging.
If you continue sun exposure, you will continue to tan" (viaThe Indian Express).
This can lead to skin aging in the form of wrinkles and age spots.
Ramy Gafni, creator of Ramy Cosmetics, toldOprah Daily, “Undertones do not change.
They may become more noticeable over time.
While asunburn can help you identify your undertone, it won’t actually affect your skin’s undertone.
Gafni noted that undertones can be warm, cool or neutral.
“Just like the color spectrum, your undertone falls into one of these categories.
Yellow, peachy undertones are warm.
Pink and blue undertones are cool while olive undertones can be neutralorwarm,” he elaborated.
So regardless of how tanned (or not tanned) someone is, their undertone is unaffected.
Skin tone vs. undertones: What’s the difference?
In a nutshell, tanning will affect your skin tone, but never your skin’s undertones.
Undertone is often one of the most misunderstood or disregarded elements of our skin.
Know the distinction between skin tone and undertone is important, because these two can’t be treated interchangeably.
Skin tone is the actual surface color of your skin that people see.
Your skin tone can be light, fair, medium, or dark.
It might sound tricky, but there areeasy ways to determine your skin’s undertones.
