Definition of "undertoned"

Makeup is most often a shopper’s port of entry into recreational buying, yet it is also where race immediately thwarts that lovely sense of possibility. I want foundation by the latest maker, but it’s all too ashen or ruddy for my brown, yellow-undertoned complexion.

2011, Erin Aubry Kaplan, Black Talk, Blue Thoughts and Walking the Color Line: Dispatches From a Black Journalista‎, Boston: Northeastern University Press, page 19

[…] talk show host Chris Matthews chastised former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney for his racially undertoned birther jokes […]

2012 August 30, The Oracle