What Jewellery Suits My Colour Tone?

Your skin tone is always important when choosing the right precious metal jewellery. It is always a personal choice on what you prefer. However, skin tones typically come under three categories for jewellery - cool, neutral and warm. Knowing your skin tone will ensure the jewellery you wear suits you, and you feel comfortable starting your jewellery collection in your chosen metal type. Diamond Heaven explores which jewellery suits your colour tone.

How to Check Your Skin Tone

When discovering the type of jewellery that suits your skin tone, there are a few ways of doing this:

• Wearing a coloured shirt: Put on any coloured shirt, and it will tell you your skin tone. If a light-coloured shirt makes your skin pop, you have cool-toned skin. Whereas, if a white shirt works better, you have a warm skin tone.  

• Look at the veins on your wrist: Flash a light over your wrist, and it’ll discover the colour of your veins. For green/yellow-coloured veins, you’ll have a warm skin tone, while for blue/purple-coloured veins, you’ll have a cool undertone. However, if you cannot tell the difference in the colour of your veins, you’ll have a neutral skin tone.

• The colour of your eyes: Look in the mirror at the colour of your eyes. Having hazel or brown-coloured eyes means you usually have warm-coloured skin, while if you have blue or green eyes, it means you have a cool skin tone.

Which Jewellery Suits Warm Skin Tones?

Yellow and rose gold are excellent if you have a warm skin tone. The warm tones of rose and yellow gold allow the diamonds and gemstones to complement one another. If you want to add a gemstone to your diamond jewellery, consider selecting yellow sapphire, citrine, ruby or emerald for warm skin tones.

Which Jewellery Suits Neutral Skin Tones?

Do you have green-to-blue veins on your wrists? You will have a neutral skin tone, meaning you can wear any precious metal colour or a mix in your jewellery collection. Whether that is the warm colours of rose and yellow gold or the silvery colours of white gold, silver and platinum, any metal colour will suit your skin beautifully, so feel free to get creative.

Which Jewellery Suits Cool Skin Tones?

White metals, like platinum and white gold, are perfect for cool skin tones. Pairing a white metal with colourless diamonds works well on an engagement ring or eternity band. It allows the metal to shine bright and the stones to sparkle and dazzle against a cool skin tone.

Alternatively, if you love coloured gemstones, consider choosing aquamarine, sapphire and amethyst. However, cool skin tones don’t mean pale. If you have pale skin with yellowish undertones, consider selecting yellow gold and rose gold jewellery. Whereas, if you have dark skin with cool blue undertones, white gold and platinum allow the metal to pop on your skin.

Can I Mix Silver and Gold Jewellery?

Ultimately, combining silver and gold depends on whether it complements the colour tone of your skin. If you have the skin tone to wear gold and silver jewellery, mixing the two metals will add depth and interest to your outfits. You can incorporate silver and gold jewellery in your outfits by doing the following:

• Layer your gold and silver jewellery by stacking or mixing them. Consider wearing multiple necklaces and chains of different lengths or having stacks of gold and silver diamond rings.
• Add rose and white gold to create a romantic tonal palette, or use it between silver and yellow gold when combining all three. 
• Match similar styles featuring bright gemstones or designs within the silver or gold jewellery you wear.

Does All My Jewellery Need to Be the Same Metal?

You don’t need to stick to one metal colour with your jewellery. Combining different jewellery metals can allow your outfits to stand out throughout the seasons. In the winter, you may find white metals, like silver, white gold, and platinum, that may complement your look in the winter months. Rose gold or yellow gold are excellent options if your skin develops a warmer skin colour over spring and summer.

Have you found the jewellery metal that matches your skin tone? Treat yourself to a magnificent piece of diamond jewellery from Diamond Heaven. Book an appointment at your local Diamond Heaven showroom today. Our diamond experts will advise and answer your questions about finding a diamond ring, pendant or earrings that suit your skin tone.