Skin undertones and eye candy

In the last post I remarked on the similarities between the appearance of a new hire to the Trump administration and Peter Sarsgaard. I was looking at the pictures (pictures 1 and 2) that I included to show the comparison and noticed that in comparison to Anthony Scaramucci (I haven't really decided whether I should call him Anthony [first name basis], Scaramucci [more formal], or Anthony Scaramucci [middle ground?] in my posts), Peter seems to have fairly golden and glowing skin in the picture. Anthony Scaramucci's skin looks rather pinkish in the picture of him. Come to think of it, I'd also say that he looks fairly/somewhat similar as well to the actor Sebastian Stan (who is pretty good looking, for that matter). I looked at some more pictures of Anthony Scaramucci to examine his coloring/complexion. In some of the pictures he looks more/less pink than others. Maybe it has to do with lighting?? Some nights, Anderson looks kind of pink.  Then I looked again at pictures of Peter Sarsgaard (I wouldn't mind writing him as a first name basis on my blog, but he has a cool last name) to see if there were any where he looked particularly pink. In some he looked ever so slightly pink, but not particularly so. There are a few pictures of him wearing (reading??) glasses out there, which I thought was interesting (and he looks a little pink in this picture): 

Maybe it really is all down to lighting. I know sometimes I'll be in a public bathroom somewhere and notice that whatever lighting they have in there makes me look really yellow. 

I might as well mention about eyelashes guy, in that here is another conservative who is fairly nice looking, albeit conservative (this caused me a good deal of exasperation in the past, about eyelashes guy). If only eyelashes guy were a democrat and if only Anthony Scaramucci wasn't some crooked and unsavory person working for the Trump administration! Then I could admire their appearances guilt-free, without the strings of an undesirable (to me) conservative ideology attached. 

As far as good looking liberals go, I have to say that Joseph Kennedy, one of the congress members from Massachusetts (and a Kennedy, obviously), is pretty good looking. I wonder why he's never on television/in the news. Other congress members and senators are. No fair. I need my eye candy. Incidentally, Peter Sarsgaard was in a movie where he played Bobby Kennedy. 

This is turning into a pretty shallow post - how many times have I mentioned about people I consider good looking so far? It seems like a lot. It also probably seems potentially ridiculous to care about *ethical considerations* (meaning political affiliation and/or unsavory-ness as a person) as far as eye candy goes, but I can't help it. I mean, think about it. I have liberal values and I don't support conservative ones. Appreciating the appearances (although not the political ideas) of conservatives goes a bit counter to that, I'd say. 

I have more objection to Scaramucci as a person because of the whole directly working for Trump thing, which is certainly icky. At least it's wrapped up in a more-articulate-than-Spicer and visually similar to Peter Sarsgaard package... Eyelashes guy I think is a decent person, he seems nice/alright even though he's a republican. And he's not working in the Trump administration. So he's more palatable. 

I'll end this section here with the following: Jake Gyllenhaal once wore a shirt that said "Democrats make better lovers" on it.* That sentiment applies nicely in this situation although slightly altered: Democrats make better eye candy. (how's that for a new quote by yours truly?) Think about it: Peter Sarsgaard is a liberal and I don't have any problems at all with appreciating his appearance. I also can appreciate the appearance of Joseph Kennedy guilt free.  
I only know about Jake wearing that shirt from reading that Jake Gyllenhaal newsletter that I recently discovered; the shirt was mentioned in one of the posts/newsletter editions.  

And now, back to what this post was originally about. 
I don't really know about these things, but I decided to try and discern the undertone of my own skin. There are a number of criteria by which you can try to figure out your undertone. One has to do with what color your blood veins look like underneath your skin - blue (cool) or green (warm)? I tried to figure this out but I just couldn't. I looked at them and they just kind of looked... grey. They didn't seem to be obviously more blue or more green. 
Secondly, you can try to figure out if you look better in gold (warm) or silver (cool) jewelry. I don't wear jewelry very often but I probably prefer silver. That doesn't necessarily mean that I look better in it than gold. 
Next, you can see if you look better in regular white or off-white (ivory or something). I think maybe I look somewhat better in regular white (warm).
Then, you can look at what happens to your skin in the sun - sunburning (cool) or tanning (warm). I have occasionally gotten slightly sunburnt, but I think I'm more likely to tan (warm). 

So far, inconclusive. Veins are ??? and the silver/gold is also ???. The other two are possibly leaning towards warm. A few years ago, I went to Sephora and one of the employees recommended some makeup for me. Of particular interest here is the shade of tinted moisturizer (similar to foundation, but not as heavy) she recommended: Alaska by the French makeup brand NARS. That shade is described as "Light with a neutral balance of pink and yellow undertones." Taken with the inconclusiveness of some of the previous tests, maybe it means that I have neutral undertones?? I really have no idea. I guess if I really want to know I'd have to ask someone who knows about these things, since I just can't seem to figure it out myself. 

*Maybe I should get a shirt that says that? It'd be kind of amusing, I think. I wonder where Jake Gyllenhaal got his shirt with that saying. 

Final random thought: I was at CVS the other day and looked at the magazine selection. They didn't have Time but they did have GQ featuring Brad Pitt on the cover with an extensive photoshoot of him inside. And he looked really quite good in it. Those are probably some of the best images of him out there, and I don't even have a particular affinity for him or anything. Maybe because he looked more delicate than usual in them??