Sooo, what am I?

I have never been proficient in choosing foundation colors; which is most likely why I stopped wearing it all together. However, with my resurgence of love for makeup, I am now again asking myself what is my skin tone? I'd like to narrow it down to a range so that I can decrease the probability of buying a poorly matched shade. And so begins the quest of  Am I Warm or Cool?

I started as I begin 95% of all attempts to answer a random question: with Google (duh). The first two websites I found were helpful in explaining how to determine if you are warm or cool and provided several tests to use.

1. The Vein Test
    Look at the veins in your arm. Do they look blue or green? If they are blue, you have cool undertones to your skin, if they are green, you are warm. The yellow in the skin with warm tones cause the veins to appear green.

Me: Do my veins look green? Boyfriend: You're asking the color blind person?

Those look.... green....ish? Moving on.

2. Metals

    Do you look better in silver or gold jewelry?  Cool undertones looks better with silver/white while warm looks better in gold. 

I don't even think I have any gold jewelry. I do have a white gold ring that looks okay, but I can't say it makes my skin "glow" or anything. 

3. Colors

    Get fabrics in orange, blue, black, brown, white and cream. Hold/ drape each fabric around your neck. Which colors are more flattering? Warm undertones will look best in orange, cream and brown. Cool will look better in blue, white and black.

This is tricky. I feel like I look good in white. When looking at my clothes (which conveniently are in a pile on the kitchen table) I wear colors that are darker hues: browns, dark blues, etc. but I also wear a shit ton of gray. I have no idea why I love gray, but I do and wear it as much as possible. I like purple as well, because it plays well off my green eyes... 

4. Genetics

    If you are fair skinned and:

       - burn easily, difficult to tan

       - look pink rather than peach

       - look brown/bronze when tanned

       - eye color is light blue, grey, dark brown, or black

       - hair color is ash blond, dark brown, or black

Then you have cool undertones

     

    If you are fair skinned and:

       - tan fairly easily

       - look peachy rather than pink

       - look golden when tan

       - eye color is amber, golden brown, hazel or green

       - hair color is red/golden brown, golden blond, red, strawberry blond or black 

Then you have warm undertones

I have green eyes with light brown hair that looks pretty red in the sunlight. I tan really easily, but I can't say for sure whether I look "golden". My mom always told me I have olive skin, but it looks like she was not correct in her assessment, in that I'm not a true olive skinned person. 

Well I guess this means I have warm undertones. Mystery solved!

Sites I found helpful and referenced:

Lesson 1: Skintone

Do you have a warm or cool skin tone?

Warm vs. cool