What Jewellery Suits My Skin Tone?
Victoria Rodas 16 July 2025
Perfecting your ear stack takes time, but it’s worth every bit of effort. From your skin undertone to your hair and eye colour, understanding what suits you best is key to choosing the right metal tones for your jewellery.
If you’ve ever wondered, “What colour jewellery should I wear for my skin tone?” or “How do I choose the best jewellery for my undertone?” — you’re in the right place. At Essential Beauty Shop, we make it easy to mix, match, and curate your perfect ear stack with our simple jewellery colour guide.
Warm and Cool Tone Colour Types
When it comes to curating your jewellery collection, creating balance and coordination is everything. A simple way to elevate any outfit is by matching your jewellery metals to your skin’s undertone and the colours you wear most. Choosing jewellery that complements your natural features makes your whole look appear more polished and effortless.
Warm tones: If you love warm colours like yellows, olive greens, oranges, and rich earthy shades, gold jewellery and rose gold jewellery are your perfect match. Warm metal tones enhance the golden glow in warm-toned skin and complement your wardrobe’s warmth beautifully.
Warm hair shades like golden blonde, auburn, caramel brown, or rich black with warm highlights suit best. Green or hazel eyes also pop beautifully against warm metal tones. Silver jewellery, however, may sometimes appear too cool against warm tones and clash with your overall palette.
Cool tones: If your wardrobe is filled with cool hues like blues, purples, and greys, silver jewellery will likely suit you best. Silver and white gold jewellery accentuate the crisp undertones of cool-toned skin, creating a fresh, elegant finish.
Silver pairs perfectly with cool-toned hair colours like platinum blonde, ash brown, jet black, or hair with blue or purple hues. Blue or grey eyes also perfectly complement silver or white gold, which bring out their icy undertones and make them sparkle. Gold can still work for contrast but may highlight any redness rather than blending naturally.
Neutral tones: If you have a neutral undertone, you’re in luck, both warm and cool metal colours usually suit you. You can easily mix silver, gold, rose gold and black steel jewellery to create a layered ear stack that works with all your outfits. Neutral undertones are versatile for hair and eyes too; you might have hair that looks good with both warm and cool highlights and eyes that shift colour depending on what you wear.
How Do I Determine My Skin Undertone?
Understanding your skin’s undertone is the easiest way to find the jewellery metal that suits you best. Here’s a quick trick to check:
- Stand near natural light or use your phone’s flashlight.
- Look at the veins on the inside of your wrist or forearm.
- If your veins look blue or purple, you likely have a cool undertone.
- If your veins look green or yellow, you likely have a warm undertone.
- If your veins match your skin tone or don’t seem to lean either way, you probably have a neutral undertone.
One common misconception is that fair skin is always cool-toned and darker skin is always warm-toned. That’s not true! Skin depth (light or dark) does not automatically determine undertone, so it’s always worth checking with a simple vein test.
Curate Your Perfect Ear Stack
At Essential Beauty Shop, we have a wide range of high-quality jewellery to suit every undertone and style from classic surgical steel studs and silver labrets to stunning rose gold clickers, gold hoops, and mixed metal choices. Whether you’re building your first ear stack or refreshing your look with a new piercing, our jewellery collections help you find the perfect match for your unique skin tone and personal style.
Ready to level up your look? Explore our curated jewellery collections online or visit your local Essential Beauty salon for expert styling advice and professional piercings. We’re here to help you shine with jewellery you’ll love for years to come.
