What is my personal colour or undertone?
Like the rest of our personal characteristics, our personal colour tone is inherited at conception, and is uniquely ours. It cannot be altered. We may artificially colour our hair, get a spray tan or alter our eye colour by wearing contact lenses, but this does not change our natural undertone. Our skin, which is our largest organ is the easiest and most accurate indicator of our colour tone. Our personal colour tone is determined by our pigmentation. Pigments are colour-forming chemical matter within the human body which combine to give us our unique colour tone. The colouring of every human being, whether s/he is white, yellow, red, brown or black is determined by a combination of the same three pigments: melanin, carotene and hemoglobin. Colour differences between different individuals and races are caused only by variations in their concentrations Personal Colour Analysis works because it allows us to observe the positive and negative optical effects and illusions (this effect is c
