Best Metal and Stone Colours for Your Skin Tone

Choosing the right piercing jewellery isn’t just about style — it’s also about enhancing your natural features. Your skin tone plays a big role in determining which metal finishes and CZ stone colours look most flattering. Here’s how to pick piercing jewellery that complements your undertone beautifully.

How to Find Your Skin Tone

Understanding your skin tone is key to choosing jewellery that complements you. Skin tone refers to the subtle undertones beneath your skin — not your overall skin colour. While skin colour can change with sun exposure, your undertone remains the same and helps determine which metal and CZ stone colours suit you best.

• Cool undertones: Your skin has pink, red, or blue hues. You likely burn before you tan and veins on your wrist appear blue or purple.

• Warm undertones: Your skin has golden, peachy, or yellow hues. You tan easily and your veins appear green.

• Neutral undertones: A mix of both — you might have difficulty telling if your veins are blue or green, and most colours suit you.

Best Jewellery Colours for Cool Skin Tones

• Metals: Silver jewellery naturally flatters cool undertones.

• Stones: Choose cooler hues like sapphire blue, emerald green, amethyst, or classic clear cubic zirconia to complement your skin tone beautifully.

Best Jewellery Colours for Warm Skin Tones

• Metals: Yellow gold jewellery enhances the natural warmth and radiance of warm-toned skin.

• Stones: Rich, earthy hues like champagne, garnet, peridot and soft pink cubic zirconia pair beautifully with warm undertones.

Best Jewellery Colours for Neutral Skin Tones

• Metals: Lucky you — both gold and silver complement your balanced undertones effortlessly.

• Stones: You’ve got options! Clear CZ is a timeless go-to, while soft shades like blush, teal, or lilac add a playful twist to your stack.

Mixing Metals: A Modern Jewellery Trend

While certain metals may flatter your undertones more than others, the latest trend says: why choose just one? Mixing metal colours — like gold and silver in a single ear stack — is a bold, stylish move that can work for any skin tone with the right styling. It adds visual interest and shows off your creativity, especially when paired with complementary CZ stones and thoughtful placement.

Try stacking a silver flatback in your helix with a gold clicker in your daith, or alternate gold and silver studs across your lobes for a playful, high-impact finish.

💡Bonus Styling Tips

• Pair your jewellery with makeup and outfit tones that match your undertones for a cohesive look.

• Don’t be afraid to experiment — skin tone is a guide, not a rule, and mixed metals or playful CZ colours can still look stunning.

• Layer with intention: Try mixing different stone sizes, placements, or textures to create depth in your ear stack.

• Balance is key: If you're mixing metals or bold stone colours, keep one area minimal (like your lobes) while adding detail elsewhere (like your helix or daith).

• CZ stones come in a rainbow of colours, so you're never short on options — switch them out based on season, mood, or outfit.

• Consider healing stages: Save bold or chunkier jewellery for healed piercings, and stick to flatter, more comfortable options for newer ones.

Whether you're curating your dream ear stack or choosing your next nose stud, finding piercing jewellery that complements your skin tone makes all the difference.

At With Bling, our jewellery comes in both gold and silver finishes, paired with a wide variety of CZ stone colours to suit every mood and undertone. However you style your piercings, you can do it your way—with confidence and sparkle.