Skin Tone & Undertone Detector: Warm, Cool, or Neutral

Upload a selfie to find your skin tone band, undertone, and matching 12-season palette, with metal and makeup notes. Free, no account needed.

Upload a selfie to get your tone band, undertone, and a matching color season in seconds.

FaceAuraAI's skin tone detector reads a selfie and returns a tone band, an undertone (warm, cool, or neutral), a matching 12-season color group, and metal and makeup notes. It samples pixel color from your cheek and face area rather than asking you to pick a shade from memory. The result is meant for styling choices, not for tracking skin health.

This is a style classification, not the Fitzpatrick scale used in dermatology, and it does not estimate sun sensitivity or burn risk. It is also not a diagnosis of any kind. Lighting, camera white balance, and beauty filters all shift the color your camera captures, so treat the result as a starting point for color choices, not a fixed label.

The detector works from average pixel color in the cheek and face-box area, then places that color on a tone band and undertone scale. FaceAuraAI skin tone detector does read approximate tone, undertone, and a matching color season from a selfie and does not perform dermatological skin typing or assess sun sensitivity. It is a style tool, not a clinical instrument, so it will not catch or flag skin conditions. Camera sensors and screens vary, which is a limit of any photo-based color reading, not just this one.

Your result has three separate parts, and each answers a different styling question.

If your result looks off, retake the photo in plain daylight with no filter before trusting the season match.

Five bands cover most results, and each behaves a little differently in photos.

This band often photographs pale, and flash or bright indoor light can wash it out further. Cool white light can push a light tone toward looking pinker or bluer than it is in daylight. Silver and platinum tend to read cleanly against this band in most photos.

This band shows more visible color range across the cheek and jaw than lighter tones. Undertone reads split fairly evenly between warm, cool, and neutral here, so lighting matters more than usual. Warm indoor bulbs can nudge a neutral reading toward warm even when it isn't.

This is the most common band in daylight selfies and tends to read consistently across different cameras. A recent tan or sun exposure can temporarily shift the band up without changing the underlying undertone. Warm-leaning medium tones often photograph well against gold, cool-leaning against silver.

Undertone contrast can flatten in low light at this band, making warm and neutral harder to tell apart. Beauty filters are especially prone to lightening this band, which throws off the whole reading. Warm metals like gold or bronze, and deeper berry or red makeup tones, usually photograph well here.

Common questions

Is this the same as the Fitzpatrick skin type scale?

No. FaceAuraAI's tone detector is a style classification, not the Fitzpatrick dermatology scale, and it does not measure sun sensitivity.

Can lighting change my undertone result?

Yes. Indoor bulbs, daylight, and flash all shift captured skin color, which can change the undertone result.

How well does this work for deeper skin tones?

It works across all five tone bands, including deep, though daylight gives the clearest undertone read at deeper bands.

Do beauty filters or smoothing modes affect the result?

Yes. Beauty filters and skin-smoothing change pixel color and can shift both tone band and undertone.

Is the skin tone detector free to use?

Yes. The tool is free to try with a limited number of daily analyses and no account required.

Is my photo stored after the analysis?

No. The photo is processed to generate the analysis result and is not kept afterward.

What should I check next after my tone result?

Pairing undertone results with glasses and hairstyle tools, which use face shape, gives a fuller styling picture.