The ToneMatch Method™ Melissa Murdick Start

Step 3

Make The Match™

You know your tone. You can decode shades. Now it's time to put the two together.

The rule is simple

Your best shades have the same undertone as your skin tone.

Three faces with cool, neutral and warm undertones, each wearing makeup matched to their own undertone
  • Cool skin tone cool toned makeup
  • Neutral skin tone neutral toned makeup
  • Warm skin tone warm toned makeup

Here's the good news

Your undertone has a range of tolerance — a band of shades that sit just around your exact undertone that can still look good on you!

A cool-to-warm scale showing each undertone's range of tolerance: cool undertones can wear some cool neutral shades; cool neutral can wear some cool and some neutral; neutral can wear some cool neutral and warm neutral; warm neutral can wear some neutral and warm; warm can wear some warm neutral shades
Lip shades swatched along a forearm from cool to warm, with circles marking the shades inside a cool neutral undertone's range of tolerance
The shades inside the circles sit within a cool neutral tone's range.

Now it's time to shop

I've organized tons of my favorite products by undertone, so you can shop your best shades with ease.

Ready for what's next?

Shop your tone Questions? Read the FAQ