The lady in the first example is olive in the second photo. Olive is it’s own animal. It’s like being a chameleon. Pain in the but! I change noticeably in different light, and somewhat in different seasons. I visited my daughter in New Zealand and I looked good in different colors than I did at home in the US
I feel like you're so right! I'm very pale, but I believe I'm olive, because I don't fit anywhere! My hair and eyes would suggest I'm cool. I always thought I was cool, but the more I learn and look at myself, the more I look yellow and it seems so off. I can't see anything looking particularly good on me. All I know is I gravitate to dark colours, whatever the shade. And at different times I look different. Cool is now too cool for me, warm feels too warm. Yet anything remotely in the muted family seems too muted. Olive sucks because it feels like nothing works. Yellow but not warm, blue but not cool. Neutral looks weird. I don't know anymore. 😂
This is me to a T! I relate to y’alls comments so much! The thing is, when I get sun, in some spots I freckle, and in some spots I get tan. Some areas tan into a golden color, and others are more brown🤦🏻♀️ I’m half Irish, and half Cajun French, and I feel like it gave me this weird combination type skin. It’s olive, but also kind of got a cream look to it🤷🏻♀️🙈
I relate! I’m also an olive. I have naturally medium to tan skin (depending on the time of year) and I just found out recently that I am not a simple straight forward warm toned person, but olive. Everything I had struggled with for years suddenly fell into place and made so much sense which is great, but at the same time, even discovering you’re olive doesn’t “fix” everything. The rules for olive are not simple or neat whatsoever, and it’s very challenging!
Exactly! I have light-medium skin with olive undertone. I'm warm delicate when not expose to the sun too much. It's really hot in Malaysia and I love to do things outdoor. My skin can be really warm when it expose to sun for too long. Therefore, I'm warm vibrant. Vibrant colors will look best on me. During this time, I'll usually change my hair to bright red almost orange and people around me compliment my hair alot and said it suit best with my skin. Any pastel colors dont suit me best during this period. However, in Malaysia we'll experience monsoon season from august-december. This is when I less expose to sunlight. That's the point when I noticed that olive skin is weirddd. Lol. During this season, my skin will become much lighter and the undertone kinda change. My yellow tone will go away and pink will take place. I can be cool and soft during this time. Yellow base hair color wouldnt look good on me anymore. Even muted warm clothes look off from my skin color. Pastel or soft cool color look best one me. I'll usually wear grey or black cloths during monsoon season just to be safe 🤣🤣🤣
This is me. In addition to having olive skin, which has made it hard for me to figure out what colors I look good in, my skin is light in the winter and medium in the summer. In the summer I pull off completely different colors than in the winter. It’s been so confusing! In some pictures my skin looks very green, in others yellow, and then again in other pictures it’s very cool and radiant.
I am south asian and have pretty deep skin tone. My skin looks very yellow in the winter but as soon as I tan in the summer it picks up a lot of redness and hides the yellow. And I find that I can wear a lot of cooler colors in the that I normally can't pull off in the winter. I definitely enjoy the variation and being able to wear a variety of colors.
Ahh, I’m like the woman in the video. I can’t wear the same lipstick colors year round. I’m olive 🫒. Sometimes I look gray, other times Very green, other times all I see is brown. Sometimes dying my hair black looks incredible on me, other times it doesn’t work. Red used to look good. Now it doesn’t quite. Deep magenta lipstick works, not always. Over all I feel like most things don’t work on me I don’t think I can even do highlights in my hair 🤨.
I was wondering if you could do a video addressing skin pigmentation issues like rosacea, where the facial skin is always a different color than the rest of the body - and perhaps a way to use color theory in the wardrobe to try and correct it?
Heather I have rosacea as well and heard to always match to the rest of your body and not your face. Beyoncé’s makeup artist said if your face is more red than the rest of your body then to use a more yellow foundation. You could always use a green color correcting primer or concealer, since green cancels out red.
that's me! I have a bit of rosacea and I match my foundation tone to my neck (yellow-ish). However, I am still very confused with the colour analysis - so many different things flatter me and yellow looks terrible on me; though yellow gold is the colour of my jewelry - not silver at all. So confusing(
, that was a useful reply, thank. My "issue" goes in the opposite direction, I'm freckles and feel my face is warm, while my whole self feels cool. I used to match all to my face. I'm so unsure still Jeje.
I have been unsure between cool and delicate and warm and delicate, you just made me realize I tend to think I look better in gray and navy in the winter and brown and burnt orange in the summer
You may be like me. I am most likely warm and delicate but very very close to neutral. Navy looks awesome when I am pale, olive green looks great in summer. I just navigate on the whole cool to warm and delicate color spectrum and pick what I feel looks better. If the colors look a bit too warm or cool they start looking off. You may be a bit warmer than me since brown and orange is a no no for me no matter what.
That happened to me as well however I still look better with cool and delicate colors. My season didn’t changed although I turned much more yellow / orange.
this is so cool! no pun intended, as I am cool and delicate, also known as summer type but adore spring colors, especially softer spring colors like coral or peach, warm green and some yellows. As I reached my 30s, I started wondering whether I am really cool because during the summer even the smallest tan brings more yellow in me and I do eat carrots more often during spring and summer as a snack as other foods during hot weather seem too heavy for me. I will use more of carrots to see if I can really wear something warmer during summer, especially lilac or even some muted purples for the evening, imagine summer nights!
Yes when younger I was paper white like Anne Hathaway and my best shade was Royal Blue. Now I'm older I still don't tan but I have got darker, with a radiant yellow-olive undertone. Still not dark enough for the lightest foundation shade in most cases. I may have gone from cool radiant to warm radiant. But I didn't go from radiant to delicate then radiant in a line like you said. I've NEVER had a blended soft skintone, its always been bright.
I think it might be because the saturation of your skin aka chroma didnt change much, and that it has always been bright. not to mention that usually these colour traits specifications (chroma, hue, value) are on a scale, so the above example might have been cool and radiant but not radiant enough to keep the saturation once it became warmer. Just a theory.
Totally makes sense, I definitely feel I am cooler in winter than in summer, my skin changes a lot from summer to winter, and I seem to have a very neutral skintone.
This is so, so helpful. I know I went from Cool and Delicate to Warm and Delicate. I lightened my hair with some warm highlights and got a little tan over the summer... it really changed my coloring. I can wear more autumn colors now. But, slightly cool beige neutral foundation still works on my skin.
I appreciate your content. Ive been delving into the color seasons palette for months and Ive noticed many cases where the situation illustrated in your video happens- one of those being my own brother and father. I did some reasearch and it turns out ( as with hair hues) the brightness and temperature of our skin changes dependending on diet, exercise , lack or excess of vitamins and health of our blood flow. The concept of "undertone" is a dynamic one. After reflecting about this factors I came to the conclusion that maybe the healthiest approach is to avoid the colors that are extremely unflattering but not to limit oneself to the extremely specific few hues of the assigned season at a specific point in time. In my lifetime so far- I was a brigth spring as a child, cool summer in my teens and deep winter or brigth winter as an adult- now almost Deep autumn since my current workplace is in a coastal area
I've found I'm warmer in the summer, of course. My skin has a yellow but muted tone except in the winter where I lose that coloring. I'm never super light but I think I hover around cool and delicate. I'm pretty safe in most muted and soft colors both cool and warm and I think I'm about as 'neutral' as one can be. I wear a lot of peaches, soft corals, and warm pinks, greige and taupe in the summer and I get several compliments on it. In the winter, I wear dark greens, burgundy, browns and blues. Blue is my best color most of the year but I find that chambray and light denim works better in summer than dark blues. So I don't know, I just go with my instincts. I'm not one of those who go gray or a weird color with certain shades, I don't wear most saturated colors because they read as too much, not unflattering, just overwhelming.
I am cool and radiant undertone , I did color analysis! but I also have an olive hint in my skin 😭😭 my skin is soo hard my skin change exactly like the lady in the video!
I am the exact same! However, I do not subscribe to this lady's color theory but rather to the 12 season color analysis. For this reason I have found myself to fit most accurately into TrueSummer (essentially cool, mostly muted, and medium in terms of darkness/lightness). I have found that those who tend to look their best (healthiest) in cool and radiant colors (jewel tones) and yet seem to have an olive or greenish color to their skin (which might make people think that they are "warm") are actually "cool" people. I believe is a common misconception that olive-toned skin means "warm". In many cases I know it is the exact opposite. Hence me being typed a Cool Summer. I am extremely sorry to say that this lady is definitively wrong not only on this topic, but on color analysis in general. The woman she analyzed in this video is likely not warm, but rather has an olive overtone that makes her skin look warm when she is wearing the wrong colors. Color analysis is all about harmony between your skin and the colors you are wearing. In this process therefore, one should be experimenting with trying on different colors so as to detect what pigments are hiding in the skin; not the other way around. In other words: first observe how your skin reacts when you place various colors next to it AND THEN come to a conclusion about what colors are lurking therein. Color can be very deceptive to the human eye. At the same time, color analysis is simply a matching game. I am very disappointed in the way in which this woman goes about color analysis as I believe she is confusing people more than helping them. I am not usually for criticizing things like this and I mean no disrespect to her (I know she uses her own system that she feels makes sense) however I think she is completely wrong. Back to the comment: I would venture to say that you were a winter or summer of some type. Don't worry, many people have this seeming problem but they most certainly DO fit into a particular season. I would advise you to see if you can get "Return to Your Natural Colors" by Christine Scaman. It includes a thorough explanation of the 12 season theory as well as many insightful tips. Hope that helps!
@@lilykateri2234 I totally agree. I have Olive skin, If i'm wearing the wrong colors I look yellow, but it's not a beautiful warm tone. With the right colors (i'm a deep winter), my skin glows and I look waaay better. Olive skin is tricky, cause it looks warm but looks better with cool tones clothes. I think its the case with the lady on the pictures. This video is wrong in so many ways :/
@@solongmari Exactly:) Hopefully this misconception about olive/cool skin can be dispelled from people's minds once and for all with testimonies like ours!
@ Lily Katery: I completely agree with you and I have experienced it myself and my sister. We both have olive pale skin which can look warm when we get a suntan but we look terrible with warm colours.
That would explain my different skin tone in summer and winter...guess I need to take even more care with my sunscreen. :-) Thank you both for sharing!
I just re-watched this and realised, my undertone changes a tiny bit when I'm tanned. I have a yellowish skintone, so I'm clearly warm. In summer I can pull off wearing my favorite yellow sundress and my light orange blouse, in winter these colors are a little too much for me and I prefer wearing warm colors a bit closer to neutral. So I might travel a little bit on the spectrum, but it isn't that drastic like with the lady in the video.
I have always been warm in my younger years ~ I'm 60 now and those same colors do not work anymore so I tried cool tones and BOOM! Really I feel so much better (:
Ok, that's it - you are my favorite UA-camr, officially!!! My natural skin color is "glow in the dark", and people identify me as Swedish / Nordic when I have no tan and as a Latina when I am tanned!!
I do change and am always a little surprised when half of my closet doesn't look good on me anymore. I even have spots on my body that have different undertones than the rest at the same time. In my wrists you can see both blue and green veins. Maybe it's some kind of extremely mild hyperpigmentation.
This is very interesting. I've been looking through photos from the last 10-15 years and there really seems to be a cycle where I can look deathly in pale pink/powdery blues yellow in black/optic white and fresh in a slight oatmeal or bronze in olive.... but then other times I've looked so crisp and in focus in a silvery white and cool vibrant blues and reds (the more color the better). My go to makeup colors are mystic black(when pale), black brown (summer time!) And a range of saturated berries to rose golds and peaches. It's odd. I think I may have some super shear olive going on in this pale girl. My vein test is blue with yellowish skin over top. So.... thank you for posing the question. Other boxes just aren't fitting consistently so I appreciate having this to think about.
Just a point I might mention. Certain medications can affect the liver, which can make the skin more yellow. This has happened to me. My cool undertone is still prevalent, but I have a bit more yellow to my overtone.
Thanks Merriam. I'm really enjoying learning more about colours and skin tone with you! I am a redhead with typically fair skin, and am moving my wardrobe towards cool and radiant colours. Keep up the good work!
So I’m a cool undertone with a warm pigment. In the winter my skin goes light and I look great in Cool/Bright colors but in Summer I burn then it turns into a tan, I can pull off the warmer colors. I think the reason for this is genetics. My father was European with fair skin that only burned whereas my mother is Latin with very tanned olive skin. I inherited my fathers undertone with my mother’s pigment. If I wear neutral makeup or muted colors it brings out the pinks and cool color... not too flattering. If I wear a warmer makeup it brings out my warmer skin color and matches my neck. For years people would always give me neutral makeup but I’d always have to return it. I finally went with my gut and picked out something more yellow. It doesn’t quite work that well when my skin is pale but at least it pairs better with my olive tone
Hi Merriam, thanks for the insightful video as always - and to the lady who donated her photos! I have been training my eye to see the difference between cool and warm skin tones somewhat successfully, but I don't feel I have that great a grip on how to tell the difference between a delicate vs. radiant tone, except in extremely obvious cases. I particularly struggle on the warm side of the spectrum. Would you mind doing a video to discuss this further at some point?
I am cool and delicate in winter and get more cool and radiant in summer 😎 which is cool because I'm always looking forward to the change of colours in my wardrobe for the next season
Hi Merriam, I have a question about posing and kibbe types. I remember you talked about this a bit in your soft classics video, but could you address the differences in posing for pictures for the different body types? Most videos I watch to learn how to pose better in photos give options that are too sultry/sexy for me as a soft classic. I want to look flattering and relaxed in photos but it looks separate from me when I try to pose in the typical instagram way. Thanks!
This is my case, I can be really cool and bright and then warm and delicate around the summer time. I would guess it's more of a neutral tone thing, where I can go cool or warm and it will look ok.
So interesting! Ya def every other colour analysis system I've seen so far claim your undertone will never change. I feel like u know so much more about this than anyone else out there!
So I'm really the only one here becoming redder in summer? Using your method I finally think warm and delicate (and I think I look good in white because I need high contrast colors) I'm black (currently 4.5N in Dior Backstage) and in summer the brown of my skin becomes redder even though if you look at my hand you can see a obvious yellow undertone. A similar example is the UA-camr Jackie Aina : she keeps switching from Golden undertone foundation in the winter to darker and redder foundations in the summer. I'm like that but two shade lighter.
I've read somewhere that a redder tan indicates cool undertones/pigments but according to your analysis, and the accurancy of this statement, you would go from warm to cool with warm undertone with cool overtone, Have you ever seen that @MerriamStyle? I answered your comment with a question because I was actually wondering whether the contrary (of this video) was possible.
I looked up this video because today I realized that I might have the same: my skin tone is light with very warm, yellow undertones, I think I am radiant warm. But when I get a tan I get a more reddish brown colour. Friends used to be yealous because I got such a beautiful reddish tan. I figured this must be why the more red toned bronzers look better on me.
I’m definitely in the 5% and suspect that’s why I’ve been told I’m neutral or have had very underwhelming colour analysis results before, and why I keep searching for my best colours, thank you
I am a light tan mexican woman that used to be cool and radiant from daily but indirect exposure to sunlight BUT, after a couple of months after quarantine and not going out at all, I noticed I became cool and delicate. I realized after changing my nail colors, that bright blue, purple, teal and magenta now overpower my hands. It is odd indeed. As soon as I have some money, I would definitely want you to analyze me.
Also, I would like to add that the skin in my body that never gets exposure to sunlight (breasts, booty, etc.) appear warm and delicate to my eye. Then, my legs, arms, face and neck are cool and delicate. After some natural sunlight exposure, I become cool and radiant.
Thank you...I'm still searching for my colours and found this interesting. I'm also light (Irish) my Mum had skin that would tan and almost black hair and dark brown eyes and my Dad was classic light skin with auburn hair....I am light, dark blonde/light brown hair, wrist veins mainly blue but a touch of purple and green due to slight yellow undertone - more peach colouring compared with other lighter skin tones. Learning through your posts, maybe gentle warm but confusing as often complimented when wearing bold colours as well as white and black. Will stay tuned and hopefully figure it out soon.
At my lightest, I’m a cool and delicate olive, but as soon as I start to get a tan, I become warm and delicate. This is the first description of skin undertone/colour analysis that I resonate with. I guess I need to shop different palettes for the winter and summer - summer season palette for the winter and autumn palette for the summer
Hi Merriam! I relate a lot to this kind of videos, even though I don't feel that my skin is changing color. I think I fit into the "lightest skins" category but I'm quite warm. The thing is I don't feel like being 100% spring, because my skin is so transparent, and I don't feel like being 100% automn, because I don't have any grey in my complexion. I always try to wear colors that are a little bit dusty but not completely dull. And weirdly, I think cool colors are not awful on me, as long as they are not too grey and not too bright. I see a lot of yellow in my skin, but when I look at my veins they are blue and purple. I never ever get tanned, and even in winter I see those warm undertones in my skin. I think those color theories are very interesting and so complex. I love your work, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. You really dig deeper then everyone else on UA-cam on that subject. Hope you always keep going! (sorry if my English isn't perfect, I'm French!)
Gitte Van de velde I wear sunscreen on all exposed parts. But my face is darker than my body. I think peach lipsticks look terrible on me but peach/orange nail polishes look great...
could it be that your face appears cooler because our faces tend to have more redness in them from hormones? it doesn't have to be obvious redness that you can see but it can influence your skin tone, the same way that hyperpigmentation can make it so your face is a different shade than your body. you can test that by wearing a foundation that matches your neck and see if peach looks good then but then again makeup on our faces is very different from the colors we wear, with lipstick it's also the underlying color of your lips and your lips' pH levels that can affect the color that shows up on you. if you've ever looked up lipstick swatches you'll see people with warm undertones wear the same lipstick but it still looks different, same with cool undertones and maybe you could try covering your lips with foundation first like Nikkietutorials does and then applying the peach lipstick if you really wanna wear it? if you truly have different undertones I think overall things that work for warm and delicate types might be helpful to you
wlw cats Thanks for your reply. I have redness on my cheeks and hyperpigmentation, but besides that, my undertone is considerably pinkier. I'd need to wear a super high coverage yellowish foundation to even out my face to my body, but it's too much for everyday. So I usually wear cool colors near my face and warmer near my body.
I'm in the same boat. My face looks pale and cool, while most of my body is slightly golden-olive. If I hold my wrist up to my face, it looks like it belongs to someone else entirely. I don't know if I'm a chimera, if faces often have different tones than bodies, or if (the most likely option) wearing sunblock on my face every day kept my face so pale, it looks cool, even though I'm naturally olive.
This my be me too!, Thank you Merriam for your interesting videos. I did the draping exercise and I was amazed to see that not all bright cool colors worked for me, and to see that some soft delicate, like beige gold are amazing, glossy chocolate, soft moss, also navy blue, royal blue,wine, burgundy, grape, purple, blue purple, teal, turquoise are my best colors, but bright pink, magenta and Red are not that great, It creates dark shadows on my face, but if they were a little muted blue, I could wear it ok. Gray looks beautiful on me in winter, but in summer I look very scary! Bright Orange is very bad any season, but when I tan, golden yellows look very aceptable, but not in winter. How Can I wear Blue and yellow? I am another rare case! I wear #5 neutral beige in winter and #8 warm in summer
I am cool and delicate but in summer I get a warm and radiant undertone... I assume it is because my parents are from different countries and have such different skin tones ..
haha yes! I am Greek and every summer I see tourists get this very nice golden look from tanning :) That's what you get if you're in the sun all day :))
I have eczema (inflamation, redness and dryness of the skin) and I am normally warm-muted (autum). But I notice that when I have less ezcema, and less inflammation (ie. less redness), I seem to have cool undertone. So it may have to do with biological reason and metabolic processes of the skin that we don't fully understand. My cosmetologist told me that I have a cool undertone, but with the redness it ends up being warm. And the colours that suit me are autum for clothes and peachy for make-up. So yes, in my experience, it can happen.
Could you please do Sandra Bullock, Anne Hathway and Kate Beckinsale? I would LOVE to know what are their body types! Could you do a list of celebrities for each body type??? THANK YOU!
This is happening to me. I am cool when I have no tan. Now that I’ve tanned I’m warm and delicate. It’s very frustrating. I want a minimal wardrobe, but have to switch out for summer, lol. But at least now I know why this is happening and what is going on. So thank you for this video!
I literally just found out this happens to me. I analyzed photos of me since I was a kid. My skin tone is always lighter, warm and brighter in the winter and darker, cool and muted in the summer. The same no matter my age. It’s extremely bizarre. I posted on a color analysis group and everyone was so conflicted bc in my spring pics I look bright spring/ light spring but my June pics i look soft summer/soft autumn leaning soft summer. I’m more light to medium. Im guess when i tan, this is how my melanin changes my appearance.This is not just a thing with the lightest people. I can literally send you pictures if you want to see it.
You are a genius! My hands are a darker shade than my face and it’s so confusing to pick a good nail color because I’m trying to match my nail color to my face instead of my warmer hands. Thank you! 🥰💖
Is the opposite possible? I look pale and yellow in the winter and become more neutral to cool as I tan. A yellow toned foundation looks good on me in the winter but in the summer I need a neutral to cool tone. Wow.... I really struggle to understand this whole undertone thing... Thanks for another good video!
There's 3 types of skin pigments: black (diluted: grey), brown (diluted: yellow/blond) and red (diluted: pink). So technically if you start yellow by default, no matter which of these pigments you put on they would technically make your skin tone less warm 🤔
Right now, after quarantine, I am cool and delicate, but before I was cool and radiant. I have professional photos from last year where I look amazing in turquoise, but now that color is too intense on me. Seems I just gain cool pigment.
*I dont know if this happens to everyone. But I am a pale cool olive tone, yet for some reason it is in winter that I look extremely yellow and warm (?). I dont know how since one doesnt tan on winter. And I am OBVIOUSLY cool the rest of the year*
My best colors are the deep jewel tones (emerald grn., ruby red, electrc blue, violet purple, fuchsia and bright cerulean blue). However, my skin is fair w/ blue-green veins, a yellow/pink undertone, golden brown eyes (w/grn flecs), dark hair. Neutral foundations look best in the winter (Lt warm foundations in sumr). Am I a cool olive? 😏
I think this might be me. I noticed I can wear peach lipstick during summer and it looks really nice, but not throughout the year because I find it looks orange on me and I’m just not into that. Also I go back and forth on whether a particular color looks good on me or not. From now on I’ll try observing that depending on how much I’ve been in the sun. Cool video, I love your way of thinking. Rings more true than any other color analyst I’ve come across. Keep doing what you’re doing😇💪
I am quite light myself and I am warm and delicate yet I have some redness on my legs and chest, which can make them look cool and delicate sometimes, especially in photographs. I have not experienced it actually changing, but I think it could definitely happen, if your skin tone is light enough.
As a warm and delicate person (aka everything is confusing and I thought I knew what it was)... this video just gave me a headache (took away all of my hope of knowing). I'm going to wear what I want... even when its magenta and I have copper hair and eyes!
Hi Merriam, I definitely suit cool coloured clothing without a doubt and cool coloured blue based lipsticks but I just don’t understand why I look grey in cool coloured face foundations . Foundations on me have to be yellow based or closer to neutral ? I look forward to your answer. Another thing is do you think there is a nude lipstick to suit everyone or do some people just suit a brighter darker coloured lipstick?
Hi Merriam, @Heather did a very useful question to you one year ago: "I was wondering if you could do a video addressing skin pigmentation issues like rosacea, where the facial skin is always a different color than the rest of the body - and perhaps a way to use color theory in the wardrobe to try and correct it?" Please, take this into consideration, for those with rosacea the colour theory is a madness!!!! I/we appreciate your help.
OMG! I'm wondering if this is me! The colors I look good in have changed. I've alway struggled and maybe it's because I change with the seasons. Thank you so much for the video. Now I feel less frustrated by choosing colors. I'll just need to adjust my color choices to the season.
My skin in winter looks like the warm and delicate in her, the confusion to me was as I mentioned in your last video, the purple and blue veins in my skin that give me the strong olive cast. Interestingly, even when I am tanned, I still don’t look good in warm and radiant colors, seems that pale or tanned, I still fall in the warm and delicate zone. So I can confirm that I don’t change undertones.
I dont know about changing but I am not so sure if I am cool or warm( but I think I'm warm more). I get easily tanned in summer. I think i become darker and look good with light side of autumn colors too altho I am light spring .
I always thought I was warm because of pictures of me when I was younger, but my current pictures show me to be cool toned like Kim Kardashian (more red than yellow). But since I'm olive, my skin has a lot of green to it and the green presence shows when I compare my skin to my cool toned boyfriend. It also shows in pictures when I stand next to other people. It makes it hard to tell whether I'm truly cool or warm. I think I look okay in yellow in pictures but my closet is mostly filled with blues So I guess my main question is, to what extent do you think we can we trust phone cameras to be accurate in showing our skin undertone even in natural light? I did enjoy this video though, it goes to show how much more complicated and not so black and white the colour analysis thing can be
I also thought I was a Kim K but still not sure. I'm (light to medium - depending on the season) olive, too (Half central european-half northern indian). I find I look the worst in colours similar to my skin tone, like warm olives or mustardy yellows, I also despise greens (except dark greens). But I love cool olives* on me and more radiant yellows (in summer), cooler oranges and coral, petrol and lighter violets. Hate reds but blues are ok. I like mid too dark greys, more cool toned beiges. *I'm wearing a cool olive shirt right now and my veins seem to have the same colour?! But on the other hand I have tried on once a top in a more light orangey-copper tone and found it fine. Natural white looks not good. I think browns look ok (but I have nearly no clothes in brown, strangely?) I never find a matching foundation shade they're all to orange or pink, I have to mix in green corrector. I have lots of gold coloured jewellery but I think in summer it doesn't look good and I would prefer old silver. My friend thinks I look like an (traditional) autumn but I can't make peace with the (traditional) autumn colour palette and prefer the (traditional) winter one. I have lightend my hair to blonde (it's kind of too warm for me but the process isn't finished yet, I lightend it twice and want to wait before I make a third treatment) recently and now I can wear pastels like for the (traditional) spring colour palette. It's a whole mess :DDDDD
I thought I saw a video with Patrick Starrr saying Kim K had a WARM golden undertone? When he was mixing her foundation shade for her he mentioned she was very yellow I think.
@@MsSonali1980 For me, most colours that are muted will look fine on me, and super bright colours will make me look absolutely hideous. I actually like red on me, but I threw all my red clothes out recently because they got old And I dislike gold jewelry in general and only wear it with certain items. Apart from that I wear only silvers. I guess we're more of a tricky case specifically because we're olive. I'm assuming if green is a neutral colour that can be either warm or cool that it's why we may not look too bad in many colours? I don't know at this point
@@_maymie In autum/winter I prefer muted (jewel) colours but in summer def. more bright. I like contrast, I will wear a fuchsia lip or colour block clothing. But I hate when colour makes me look dull (like the mustard yellow in summer or a warmer orange). Don't know, maybe I look always like a clown :DDDD but I mean, no one complains and I get compliments for my clothing taste if I wear colour. I have a bright (lowkey neon but sheer) orangey-coral stick blush and I think like it's my best blush colour in summer. Illamasqua - Gel Colour - Charm (it looks hideous in the tube but on the skin beautiful, got it at TK Maxx).
This was so helpful! I had to make a photo grid with the cool and delicate and warm and delicate pictures and compare them to one of my pictures. My profile picture actually seems a bit cooler than usual. I used a picture of me outside and realized even at my palest I’m closer to warm and delicate. I’m still not quite as warm as this lady, but I don’t have the pinkness that was in the cool and delicate picture. It really helps comparing different undertones on the same person, thanks for sharing!
This was such an interesting video for me, since I'm unsure if I'm going through a color change. For a bit of context my mother is a theatrical romantic with a cool and radiant undertone. Even when she gets a deep tan, she always looks her best in royal blue, bright magenta, etc. (at least, in my opinion) and her cool undertones are always clear. My father, on the other hand, is a soft classic, with a warm and radiant undertone. During the winter, if it's a really long and dark one, he might go to warm and delicate, but I've never seen him have a cool undertone. Growing up, I always looked like a smaller, childlike version of my mother. I was a soft gamine who would switch between cool and radiant in winter to cool and delicate in the summer. Then, last fall, over the span of a few months I began to look crazy similar to my dad, and realized that in the 9ish months that had passed since I first figured out I was a soft gamine, I had become a soft classic. I'm a teenager, so I know that that may still change, but the very drastic change in body types caught me by surprise. And I don't know how, but during this winter I became the palest I've ever been, but I remained a cool and delicate (even though I would normally become cool and radiant). Now that the sun is coming out, I've barely darkened, but my best color has switched from grey to a beige color. TL:DR I used to look like a child version of my mom (who's TR + cool and radiant), now all of a sudden I'm beginning to look like my dad (who's SC + warm and radiant).
This is so complex. There is an incorrect supposition: that yellow in the skin is evidence of warmth and means you suit warmer colors!. No! I have heaps of yellow and stay cool. Evidence: i start out very light and cool and radiant. My skin gets more yellow as I tan but I STAY cool and radiant as I gain pigment even though my skin is yelliw undertone.
You may be becoming warm and delicate! You could watch my video titled Golden Overtones with Cool Undertones for more info on that! If you have clear yellow/golden overtones/undertones, but you still don't look great in yellows and oranges, and still look better in royal blues, you're most likely warm and delicate! Hope you check it out!
Merriam Style thank you so much for replying!. I watched that helpful video. I think my strong purple/ blue undertones mixing with my jaundiced/yellowed overtones gives me a greenish cast. To clarify, its not that I look ok in royal blue and fantastic in soft warm pink - i look dead in muted colors of either temperature, hence my problem. I just looked in the mirror and saw that at my palest (i am very light as it is winter here) I still have a yellowed-green cast. I still suck completely in muted colors either warm or cool, any time of year, and look radiantly my best in magenta and royal blue and black and white. Sorry for being a tricky one!
Thanks for putting up such helpful content. It has helped me realise i have super cool purple undertones with a slight yellow overtone that makes me look neutral but any yellow based makeup doesn't blend into my skin so i am not warm by any means. Thanks for describing the difference between the under and overtones!! I can see I was just tricked by the gold flecks in my green eyes and yellowish overtone but thats relative to how very cold my undertones are.
This is 100% me.. I'm mixed and my colour seems to confuse a lot of people. When people go to match my foundation shade they always grab a really dark yellow colour and then swipe it on my face and see it's completely wrong. There's a certain shade of blue that looks amazing on me when I'm pale but makes me look sickly as soon as I pick up some colour
What does this mean, " you add your own pigment?" It sounds deliberate, but undetermined. In other words, done on purpose but we don't know what is done or how. Does it just mean this: "tanning may change your undertone?"
This is interesting... I haven't seen sunlight in decades, so I wonder if it would change. I've always been fair, but I have childhood photos where I look pretty tan...
@@maropengralenala4404 Scandinavia. But it's more that I have Polymorphous Light Eruption and Migraines, so that I avoid sunlight and stay indoors during the months of the midnight sun.
I am like that. But when I tan a bit, if I were to wear a bronzer, it has to be a cool bronzer. Warm bronzers look too orange on me. I feel I go from cool to neutral or cooler neutral, ie muted cool.
If you run a marathon and look warmer, doesn't that mean it's less about pigment (which I would assume doesnt change quickly) and more about sensitivity/ visibility of blood circulation, for example blushing etc? Of course more blood near the skin surface would give skin more red and warmth. Conversely, if one has ill health, or on a cold day, less red blood on surface and more vein visibility would make one look cooler.
i've been trying to nail down my palette, but honestly i have difficulties with it. apps and such have placed me under cool summer, light summer, bright winter, warm autumn, soft autumn. i have a difficult time nailing my undertone. my skin looks pale/cool and radiant in natural light, but any artificial light, even if neutral white LED's i tend to get a yellowish or even greenish tint. where my skin is bunching up (armpits when hands hanging on the sides) it looks yellow or greenish yellow. im slowly loosing my mind tbh. And what about prefrence? because despite delicate pinks and stuff would look pretty on me, its not really the style i want to go for. i'd rather have grungey style than pastels for example. I also really love autumn colors, but are they the most flattering on me? not necessarily.
I think this would be me IF I didn’t have freckles. I am warm and delicate, and although my skin is always super pale and my veins always blue, I definitely always have a slight warmth to me because of having freckles on my arms and face that reveal my warm toned pigment. I can kinda pull off cool and radiant colors but I still always look better dressing in warm and delicate.
In the winter I am white cool ,in the summer I freckle heavily, I am way more warm.my eyes are gold brown with grey around the out side,my hair is nutrual Sandy medium blonde,the sun turns it strawberry blonde. Maybe you could make a video on freckling. It's confusing.
Yessss!!! omg i thought I was crazy haha !! thank you for this video, it makes all sense now! I noticed during winter i am very white/pale and I can pull off brown hair so good but in the summer when i get tanned i become more yellowish/warm and i want to change my hair colour to something like blonde warm or something! haha it's crazy y'all!!
This might explain a lot of confusion I have been having determining my Underlying Tones. With COVID, I've been outside more. Maybe, the change in my Surface Tone with tanning, changes the ratio of blue and red light passing through the skin, making my once blue veins look green?????
this video made me realize I might not have "the lightest skin tone", I kinda had a feeling cause the whole "really light = cool and radiant" thing was confusing to me cause cool colors make me look(and feel) like I'm sick and wearing a hospital gown, especially light cool colors which doesn't happen with light warm colors, and blue only looks tolerable on me probably because my hair is red and they're complimentary colors(and the moment I cover up my hair with a white towel blue betrays me too smh I look so pale and washed out) while warm colors especially darker richer warm colors make me look luxurious? if that's the right word, and make everything in me glow, even the color brown which I didn't even care about until I put it on a few days ago, and I don't look blue, I look greeninsh in worse lighting and yellowish and peachy and olive in good lighting and I have olive undertones in my skin and lots of my veins look green so this was a nice confirmation cause it was really bugging me that the theory behind your analysis contradicted what I was seeing and feeling☺️
I am the same. My skin just looks yellow all the time and I wear mostly cool and muted colors(grey is bae), which makes it stand out even more. I am very light, but I always say I am not the palest, even though I sometimes look like it.
@@Laura-vs6fs oof lucky! gray only looks good on me if it's a dark enough gray otherwise it just sits there which isn't the worst haha browns look much better on me when it comes to muted colors. I think my coloring overall really needs some richness and warmth when it comes to colors or I end up looking even more pale and I've always gravitated towards darker and warmer colors partly because of that. and yeah same, I'm used to thinking I'm pale but then if I wore foundation it wouldn't be lightest possible shade at all and my olive undertones make me look less pale and more green lmao
@@wlwcats5810 I think it is quite hard to find muted warm colors, as most colors in stores are quite bright actually or they are cool and muted, and I just love grey so much, even though it is not my best color. I think the most suitable would be beiges with a lot of yellow as opposed to orange and that is why I don't like coral and colors like that, since they always turn pink on me and look to cool toned. I think warm toned skin gets away easier with cool colors, rather than cool skin with warm ones and since we are muted, we can get away with a lot of colors. I also have dark to medium brown hair with an orange undertone and brown eyes, so I really don't have anything cool toned on me, but I am rather focused on the style than the color of clothes right now. It is just so interesting how color and type of clothes, makeup and hair, influence our appearance.
@@Laura-vs6fs that's very true! coral also turns pink on me haha I used to confuse it with salmon because of that, so pink. It makes sense warm skin gets away with a lot, it's hard for me to think of any colors that truly look bad on me outside of cool pastels but that has more to do with saturation. I think muted warm colors have been popular in the minimalism part of fashion and anything Kim K/Kanye but otherwise yeah it's all bright which I don't mind, I love all the mustard yellows and burnt oranges and whatever else haha. It's interesting when you look at two people with the same hair and eye and maybe even skin color but the same colors will look so different on them haha I know there are lots of redheads who have very cool skin and love cool colors and look great but that's never been me haha
also it's good to wear what you like, if you like gray wear it! the confidence that comes with it is much more important than whatever color rules we are supposed to follow haha if I turned out to be cool toned tomorrow I would still keep wearing warm colors and wouldn't touch the blues and the pinks because they don't feel like me and make me sad when I look at them and that's not way to live haha
This is such a helpful video! I see the same thing happening with my skin throughout the year, living in Southern Europe. How should we choose a good hair color, when our skin has such variations? Based on what..?🤔
I think I was cool radiant when I was younger but now I think I have become warm(delicate or is it radiant ?) I looked good in magenta few years back but now I don’t even know.
The lady in the first example is olive in the second photo. Olive is it’s own animal. It’s like being a chameleon. Pain in the but! I change noticeably in different light, and somewhat in different seasons. I visited my daughter in New Zealand and I looked good in different colors than I did at home in the US
I feel like you're so right!
I'm very pale, but I believe I'm olive, because I don't fit anywhere! My hair and eyes would suggest I'm cool. I always thought I was cool, but the more I learn and look at myself, the more I look yellow and it seems so off. I can't see anything looking particularly good on me. All I know is I gravitate to dark colours, whatever the shade. And at different times I look different. Cool is now too cool for me, warm feels too warm. Yet anything remotely in the muted family seems too muted.
Olive sucks because it feels like nothing works. Yellow but not warm, blue but not cool. Neutral looks weird. I don't know anymore. 😂
This is me to a T! I relate to y’alls comments so much! The thing is, when I get sun, in some spots I freckle, and in some spots I get tan. Some areas tan into a golden color, and others are more brown🤦🏻♀️ I’m half Irish, and half Cajun French, and I feel like it gave me this weird combination type skin. It’s olive, but also kind of got a cream look to it🤷🏻♀️🙈
i have olive skin tone as well, and i changed in new zealand too from canada, from kind of ''dark winter'' to some sort of ''deep soft autumn''
I relate! I’m also an olive. I have naturally medium to tan skin (depending on the time of year) and I just found out recently that I am not a simple straight forward warm toned person, but olive. Everything I had struggled with for years suddenly fell into place and made so much sense which is great, but at the same time, even discovering you’re olive doesn’t “fix” everything. The rules for olive are not simple or neat whatsoever, and it’s very challenging!
Exactly! I have light-medium skin with olive undertone. I'm warm delicate when not expose to the sun too much. It's really hot in Malaysia and I love to do things outdoor. My skin can be really warm when it expose to sun for too long. Therefore, I'm warm vibrant. Vibrant colors will look best on me. During this time, I'll usually change my hair to bright red almost orange and people around me compliment my hair alot and said it suit best with my skin. Any pastel colors dont suit me best during this period.
However, in Malaysia we'll experience monsoon season from august-december. This is when I less expose to sunlight. That's the point when I noticed that olive skin is weirddd. Lol. During this season, my skin will become much lighter and the undertone kinda change. My yellow tone will go away and pink will take place. I can be cool and soft during this time. Yellow base hair color wouldnt look good on me anymore. Even muted warm clothes look off from my skin color. Pastel or soft cool color look best one me. I'll usually wear grey or black cloths during monsoon season just to be safe 🤣🤣🤣
This is me. In addition to having olive skin, which has made it hard for me to figure out what colors I look good in, my skin is light in the winter and medium in the summer. In the summer I pull off completely different colors than in the winter. It’s been so confusing! In some pictures my skin looks very green, in others yellow, and then again in other pictures it’s very cool and radiant.
I am south asian and have pretty deep skin tone. My skin looks very yellow in the winter but as soon as I tan in the summer it picks up a lot of redness and hides the yellow. And I find that I can wear a lot of cooler colors in the that I normally can't pull off in the winter. I definitely enjoy the variation and being able to wear a variety of colors.
Ahh, I’m like the woman in the video. I can’t wear the same lipstick colors year round. I’m olive 🫒. Sometimes I look gray, other times Very green, other times all I see is brown. Sometimes dying my hair black looks incredible on me, other times it doesn’t work. Red used to look good. Now it doesn’t quite. Deep magenta lipstick works, not always. Over all I feel like most things don’t work on me I don’t think I can even do highlights in my hair 🤨.
I was wondering if you could do a video addressing skin pigmentation issues like rosacea, where the facial skin is always a different color than the rest of the body - and perhaps a way to use color theory in the wardrobe to try and correct it?
Heather I have rosacea as well and heard to always match to the rest of your body and not your face. Beyoncé’s makeup artist said if your face is more red than the rest of your body then to use a more yellow foundation. You could always use a green color correcting primer or concealer, since green cancels out red.
That would be really helpful!!
that's me! I have a bit of rosacea and I match my foundation tone to my neck (yellow-ish). However, I am still very confused with the colour analysis - so many different things flatter me and yellow looks terrible on me; though yellow gold is the colour of my jewelry - not silver at all. So confusing(
, that was a useful reply, thank. My "issue" goes in the opposite direction, I'm freckles and feel my face is warm, while my whole self feels cool. I used to match all to my face.
I'm so unsure still Jeje.
@@slimtodress you might be olive...
I have been unsure between cool and delicate and warm and delicate, you just made me realize I tend to think I look better in gray and navy in the winter and brown and burnt orange in the summer
This is me too.
You may be like me. I am most likely warm and delicate but very very close to neutral. Navy looks awesome when I am pale, olive green looks great in summer. I just navigate on the whole cool to warm and delicate color spectrum and pick what I feel looks better. If the colors look a bit too warm or cool they start looking off. You may be a bit warmer than me since brown and orange is a no no for me no matter what.
Same here. My winter coat is navy, my summer coat is rusty orange and they both look great in season
Carotenoids in fruits and vegetables might change skin to a warmer tone when regularly consumed.
True. I had a classmate who always looked a bit orange during summer. She drank a lot of carrot juice
So would this change their basic skin undertone ?
Yes, this happened to me! I ate a lot of carrots during my breaks (up to 2kg per week) and my skin became slightly orange!
That happened to me as well however I still look better with cool and delicate colors. My season didn’t changed although I turned much more yellow / orange.
this is so cool! no pun intended, as I am cool and delicate, also known as summer type but adore spring colors, especially softer spring colors like coral or peach, warm green and some yellows. As I reached my 30s, I started wondering whether I am really cool because during the summer even the smallest tan brings more yellow in me and I do eat carrots more often during spring and summer as a snack as other foods during hot weather seem too heavy for me. I will use more of carrots to see if I can really wear something warmer during summer, especially lilac or even some muted purples for the evening, imagine summer nights!
Yes when younger I was paper white like Anne Hathaway and my best shade was Royal Blue. Now I'm older I still don't tan but I have got darker, with a radiant yellow-olive undertone. Still not dark enough for the lightest foundation shade in most cases. I may have gone from cool radiant to warm radiant. But I didn't go from radiant to delicate then radiant in a line like you said. I've NEVER had a blended soft skintone, its always been bright.
I think it might be because the saturation of your skin aka chroma didnt change much, and that it has always been bright. not to mention that usually these colour traits specifications (chroma, hue, value) are on a scale, so the above example might have been cool and radiant but not radiant enough to keep the saturation once it became warmer. Just a theory.
Your client in the video appears to have olive undertones
Totally makes sense, I definitely feel I am cooler in winter than in summer, my skin changes a lot from summer to winter, and I seem to have a very neutral skintone.
This is so, so helpful. I know I went from Cool and Delicate to Warm and Delicate. I lightened my hair with some warm highlights and got a little tan over the summer... it really changed my coloring. I can wear more autumn colors now. But, slightly cool beige neutral foundation still works on my skin.
I appreciate your content. Ive been delving into the color seasons palette for months and Ive noticed many cases where the situation illustrated in your video happens- one of those being my own brother and father. I did some reasearch and it turns out ( as with hair hues) the brightness and temperature of our skin changes dependending on diet, exercise , lack or excess of vitamins and health of our blood flow. The concept of "undertone" is a dynamic one. After reflecting about this factors I came to the conclusion that maybe the healthiest approach is to avoid the colors that are extremely unflattering but not to limit oneself to the extremely specific few hues of the assigned season at a specific point in time.
In my lifetime so far- I was a brigth spring as a child, cool summer in my teens and deep winter or brigth winter as an adult- now almost Deep autumn since my current workplace is in a coastal area
I've found I'm warmer in the summer, of course. My skin has a yellow but muted tone except in the winter where I lose that coloring. I'm never super light but I think I hover around cool and delicate. I'm pretty safe in most muted and soft colors both cool and warm and I think I'm about as 'neutral' as one can be. I wear a lot of peaches, soft corals, and warm pinks, greige and taupe in the summer and I get several compliments on it. In the winter, I wear dark greens, burgundy, browns and blues. Blue is my best color most of the year but I find that chambray and light denim works better in summer than dark blues. So I don't know, I just go with my instincts. I'm not one of those who go gray or a weird color with certain shades, I don't wear most saturated colors because they read as too much, not unflattering, just overwhelming.
I am cool and radiant undertone , I did color analysis! but I also have an olive hint in my skin 😭😭 my skin is soo hard
my skin change exactly like the lady in the video!
The guy that made a comment on carotenoids changing your skin pigment may help a bit.
I am the exact same! However, I do not subscribe to this lady's color theory but rather to the 12 season color analysis. For this reason I have found myself to fit most accurately into TrueSummer (essentially cool, mostly muted, and medium in terms of darkness/lightness). I have found that those who tend to look their best (healthiest) in cool and radiant colors (jewel tones) and yet seem to have an olive or greenish color to their skin (which might make people think that they are "warm") are actually "cool" people. I believe is a common misconception that olive-toned skin means "warm". In many cases I know it is the exact opposite. Hence me being typed a Cool Summer.
I am extremely sorry to say that this lady is definitively wrong not only on this topic, but on color analysis in general. The woman she analyzed in this video is likely not warm, but rather has an olive overtone that makes her skin look warm when she is wearing the wrong colors. Color analysis is all about harmony between your skin and the colors you are wearing. In this process therefore, one should be experimenting with trying on different colors so as to detect what pigments are hiding in the skin; not the other way around. In other words: first observe how your skin reacts when you place various colors next to it AND THEN come to a conclusion about what colors are lurking therein. Color can be very deceptive to the human eye. At the same time, color analysis is simply a matching game.
I am very disappointed in the way in which this woman goes about color analysis as I believe she is confusing people more than helping them. I am not usually for criticizing things like this and I mean no disrespect to her (I know she uses her own system that she feels makes sense) however I think she is completely wrong.
Back to the comment: I would venture to say that you were a winter or summer of some type. Don't worry, many people have this seeming problem but they most certainly DO fit into a particular season. I would advise you to see if you can get "Return to Your Natural Colors" by Christine Scaman. It includes a thorough explanation of the 12 season theory as well as many insightful tips.
Hope that helps!
@@lilykateri2234 I totally agree. I have Olive skin, If i'm wearing the wrong colors I look yellow, but it's not a beautiful warm tone. With the right colors (i'm a deep winter), my skin glows and I look waaay better. Olive skin is tricky, cause it looks warm but looks better with cool tones clothes. I think its the case with the lady on the pictures. This video is wrong in so many ways :/
@@solongmari Exactly:) Hopefully this misconception about olive/cool skin can be dispelled from people's minds once and for all with testimonies like ours!
@ Lily Katery: I completely agree with you and I have experienced it myself and my sister. We both have olive pale skin which can look warm when we get a suntan but we look terrible with warm colours.
That would explain my different skin tone in summer and winter...guess I need to take even more care with my sunscreen. :-) Thank you both for sharing!
I just re-watched this and realised, my undertone changes a tiny bit when I'm tanned. I have a yellowish skintone, so I'm clearly warm. In summer I can pull off wearing my favorite yellow sundress and my light orange blouse, in winter these colors are a little too much for me and I prefer wearing warm colors a bit closer to neutral. So I might travel a little bit on the spectrum, but it isn't that drastic like with the lady in the video.
I have always been warm in my younger years ~ I'm 60 now and those same colors do not work anymore so I tried cool tones and BOOM! Really I feel so much better (:
yay!! Yes, people get usually cooler as they get older. Not all the time but sometimes!
Ok, that's it - you are my favorite UA-camr, officially!!!
My natural skin color is "glow in the dark", and people identify me as Swedish / Nordic when I have no tan and as a Latina when I am tanned!!
I do change and am always a little surprised when half of my closet doesn't look good on me anymore. I even have spots on my body that have different undertones than the rest at the same time. In my wrists you can see both blue and green veins. Maybe it's some kind of extremely mild hyperpigmentation.
This is very interesting. I've been looking through photos from the last 10-15 years and there really seems to be a cycle where I can look deathly in pale pink/powdery blues yellow in black/optic white and fresh in a slight oatmeal or bronze in olive.... but then other times I've looked so crisp and in focus in a silvery white and cool vibrant blues and reds (the more color the better).
My go to makeup colors are mystic black(when pale), black brown (summer time!) And a range of saturated berries to rose golds and peaches.
It's odd. I think I may have some super shear olive going on in this pale girl. My vein test is blue with yellowish skin over top.
So.... thank you for posing the question. Other boxes just aren't fitting consistently so I appreciate having this to think about.
Just a point I might mention. Certain medications can affect the liver, which can make the skin more yellow. This has happened to me. My cool undertone is still prevalent, but I have a bit more yellow to my overtone.
I was JUST thinking about this today! In the winter, I look amazing in navy but in the summer, I just can't seem to find my colors :'c
Indra Braun same
Thanks Merriam. I'm really enjoying learning more about colours and skin tone with you! I am a redhead with typically fair skin, and am moving my wardrobe towards cool and radiant colours. Keep up the good work!
So I’m a cool undertone with a warm pigment. In the winter my skin goes light and I look great in Cool/Bright colors but in Summer I burn then it turns into a tan, I can pull off the warmer colors. I think the reason for this is genetics. My father was European with fair skin that only burned whereas my mother is Latin with very tanned olive skin. I inherited my fathers undertone with my mother’s pigment. If I wear neutral makeup or muted colors it brings out the pinks and cool color... not too flattering. If I wear a warmer makeup it brings out my warmer skin color and matches my neck. For years people would always give me neutral makeup but I’d always have to return it. I finally went with my gut and picked out something more yellow. It doesn’t quite work that well when my skin is pale but at least it pairs better with my olive tone
Hi Merriam, thanks for the insightful video as always - and to the lady who donated her photos! I have been training my eye to see the difference between cool and warm skin tones somewhat successfully, but I don't feel I have that great a grip on how to tell the difference between a delicate vs. radiant tone, except in extremely obvious cases. I particularly struggle on the warm side of the spectrum. Would you mind doing a video to discuss this further at some point?
I am cool and delicate in winter and get more cool and radiant in summer 😎 which is cool because I'm always looking forward to the change of colours in my wardrobe for the next season
Hi Merriam, I have a question about posing and kibbe types. I remember you talked about this a bit in your soft classics video, but could you address the differences in posing for pictures for the different body types? Most videos I watch to learn how to pose better in photos give options that are too sultry/sexy for me as a soft classic. I want to look flattering and relaxed in photos but it looks separate from me when I try to pose in the typical instagram way. Thanks!
This is my case, I can be really cool and bright and then warm and delicate around the summer time. I would guess it's more of a neutral tone thing, where I can go cool or warm and it will look ok.
So interesting! Ya def every other colour analysis system I've seen so far claim your undertone will never change. I feel like u know so much more about this than anyone else out there!
So I'm really the only one here becoming redder in summer? Using your method I finally think warm and delicate (and I think I look good in white because I need high contrast colors)
I'm black (currently 4.5N in Dior Backstage) and in summer the brown of my skin becomes redder even though if you look at my hand you can see a obvious yellow undertone.
A similar example is the UA-camr Jackie Aina : she keeps switching from Golden undertone foundation in the winter to darker and redder foundations in the summer. I'm like that but two shade lighter.
I've read somewhere that a redder tan indicates cool undertones/pigments but according to your analysis, and the accurancy of this statement, you would go from warm to cool with warm undertone with cool overtone,
Have you ever seen that @MerriamStyle?
I answered your comment with a question because I was actually wondering whether the contrary (of this video) was possible.
I looked up this video because today I realized that I might have the same: my skin tone is light with very warm, yellow undertones, I think I am radiant warm. But when I get a tan I get a more reddish brown colour. Friends used to be yealous because I got such a beautiful reddish tan. I figured this must be why the more red toned bronzers look better on me.
Ah! This is what made me so confused going through my photos. Thank you!
I’m definitely in the 5% and suspect that’s why I’ve been told I’m neutral or have had very underwhelming colour analysis results before, and why I keep searching for my best colours, thank you
I am a light tan mexican woman that used to be cool and radiant from daily but indirect exposure to sunlight BUT, after a couple of months after quarantine and not going out at all, I noticed I became cool and delicate. I realized after changing my nail colors, that bright blue, purple, teal and magenta now overpower my hands. It is odd indeed. As soon as I have some money, I would definitely want you to analyze me.
Also, I would like to add that the skin in my body that never gets exposure to sunlight (breasts, booty, etc.) appear warm and delicate to my eye. Then, my legs, arms, face and neck are cool and delicate. After some natural sunlight exposure, I become cool and radiant.
Thank you...I'm still searching for my colours and found this interesting. I'm also light (Irish) my Mum had skin that would tan and almost black hair and dark brown eyes and my Dad was classic light skin with auburn hair....I am light, dark blonde/light brown hair, wrist veins mainly blue but a touch of purple and green due to slight yellow undertone - more peach colouring compared with other lighter skin tones. Learning through your posts, maybe gentle warm but confusing as often complimented when wearing bold colours as well as white and black. Will stay tuned and hopefully figure it out soon.
At my lightest, I’m a cool and delicate olive, but as soon as I start to get a tan, I become warm and delicate. This is the first description of skin undertone/colour analysis that I resonate with. I guess I need to shop different palettes for the winter and summer - summer season palette for the winter and autumn palette for the summer
Hey ! Just love your channel. And just for fun, what about doing a Game of Thrones bodytyping..?
It is extremely hard to always wear your best colors and having only a capsule wardrobe 😂😱
Not really you just know what looks good on you it comes naturally
Hi Merriam!
I relate a lot to this kind of videos, even though I don't feel that my skin is changing color. I think I fit into the "lightest skins" category but I'm quite warm. The thing is I don't feel like being 100% spring, because my skin is so transparent, and I don't feel like being 100% automn, because I don't have any grey in my complexion. I always try to wear colors that are a little bit dusty but not completely dull. And weirdly, I think cool colors are not awful on me, as long as they are not too grey and not too bright.
I see a lot of yellow in my skin, but when I look at my veins they are blue and purple. I never ever get tanned, and even in winter I see those warm undertones in my skin.
I think those color theories are very interesting and so complex. I love your work, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. You really dig deeper then everyone else on UA-cam on that subject. Hope you always keep going!
(sorry if my English isn't perfect, I'm French!)
Wdym your English is fine and very understandable.
yeah in Winter i look blue. then i get warm and delicate
Hi!
Is it possible to have two undertones? For example, cool and delicate face and warm and radiant body? Maybe I'm crazy, but I think I'm like that.
Good question. My face is a lot paler than my arms, since I always wear sunscreen
Gitte Van de velde I wear sunscreen on all exposed parts. But my face is darker than my body. I think peach lipsticks look terrible on me but peach/orange nail polishes look great...
could it be that your face appears cooler because our faces tend to have more redness in them from hormones? it doesn't have to be obvious redness that you can see but it can influence your skin tone, the same way that hyperpigmentation can make it so your face is a different shade than your body. you can test that by wearing a foundation that matches your neck and see if peach looks good then but then again makeup on our faces is very different from the colors we wear, with lipstick it's also the underlying color of your lips and your lips' pH levels that can affect the color that shows up on you. if you've ever looked up lipstick swatches you'll see people with warm undertones wear the same lipstick but it still looks different, same with cool undertones and maybe you could try covering your lips with foundation first like Nikkietutorials does and then applying the peach lipstick if you really wanna wear it? if you truly have different undertones I think overall things that work for warm and delicate types might be helpful to you
wlw cats Thanks for your reply. I have redness on my cheeks and hyperpigmentation, but besides that, my undertone is considerably pinkier. I'd need to wear a super high coverage yellowish foundation to even out my face to my body, but it's too much for everyday. So I usually wear cool colors near my face and warmer near my body.
I'm in the same boat. My face looks pale and cool, while most of my body is slightly golden-olive. If I hold my wrist up to my face, it looks like it belongs to someone else entirely. I don't know if I'm a chimera, if faces often have different tones than bodies, or if (the most likely option) wearing sunblock on my face every day kept my face so pale, it looks cool, even though I'm naturally olive.
This my be me too!, Thank you Merriam for your interesting videos. I did the draping exercise and I was amazed to see that not all bright cool colors worked for me, and to see that some soft delicate, like beige gold are amazing, glossy chocolate, soft moss, also navy blue, royal blue,wine, burgundy, grape, purple, blue purple, teal, turquoise are my best colors, but bright pink, magenta and Red are not that great, It creates dark shadows on my face, but if they were a little muted blue, I could wear it ok. Gray looks beautiful on me in winter, but in summer I look very scary! Bright Orange is very bad any season, but when I tan, golden yellows look very aceptable, but not in winter. How Can I wear Blue and yellow? I am another rare case! I wear #5 neutral beige in winter and #8 warm in summer
I don't think she ever became warm and radiant, but just warm and delicate. She is probably olive skin.
I am cool and delicate but in summer I get a warm and radiant undertone... I assume it is because my parents are from different countries and have such different skin tones ..
This is totally me, usually I'm very pale and cool, but this summer I went to a 20 day trip in Greece with a sailboat and got literally yellow 😳
haha yes! I am Greek and every summer I see tourists get this very nice golden look from tanning :) That's what you get if you're in the sun all day :))
I'm warm and bright in the winter and don't know what to wear after the summer, because the regular colors I wear seem to bright after I've tanned.
maybe you are warm and delicate in the winter? peaches and creams, and soft greens, warm dusty purples, warm dusty blues. ??
Same here!
I have eczema (inflamation, redness and dryness of the skin) and I am normally warm-muted (autum). But I notice that when I have less ezcema, and less inflammation (ie. less redness), I seem to have cool undertone. So it may have to do with biological reason and metabolic processes of the skin that we don't fully understand. My cosmetologist told me that I have a cool undertone, but with the redness it ends up being warm. And the colours that suit me are autum for clothes and peachy for make-up. So yes, in my experience, it can happen.
Could you please do Sandra Bullock, Anne Hathway and Kate Beckinsale? I would LOVE to know what are their body types! Could you do a list of celebrities for each body type??? THANK YOU!
This is happening to me. I am cool when I have no tan. Now that I’ve tanned I’m warm and delicate. It’s very frustrating. I want a minimal wardrobe, but have to switch out for summer, lol. But at least now I know why this is happening and what is going on. So thank you for this video!
I think she is warm and delicate so looks OK in some blue tones.
I literally just found out this happens to me. I analyzed photos of me since I was a kid. My skin tone is always lighter, warm and brighter in the winter and darker, cool and muted in the summer. The same no matter my age. It’s extremely bizarre. I posted on a color analysis group and everyone was so conflicted bc in my spring pics I look bright spring/ light spring but my June pics i look soft summer/soft autumn leaning soft summer. I’m more light to medium. Im guess when i tan, this is how my melanin changes my appearance.This is not just a thing with the lightest people. I can literally send you pictures if you want to see it.
You are a genius! My hands are a darker shade than my face and it’s so confusing to pick a good nail color because I’m trying to match my nail color to my face instead of my warmer hands. Thank you! 🥰💖
Is the opposite possible? I look pale and yellow in the winter and become more neutral to cool as I tan. A yellow toned foundation looks good on me in the winter but in the summer I need a neutral to cool tone. Wow.... I really struggle to understand this whole undertone thing... Thanks for another good video!
There's 3 types of skin pigments: black (diluted: grey), brown (diluted: yellow/blond) and red (diluted: pink).
So technically if you start yellow by default, no matter which of these pigments you put on they would technically make your skin tone less warm 🤔
@@lockwie9176 Thank you! Excellent point 👍
Right now, after quarantine, I am cool and delicate, but before I was cool and radiant. I have professional photos from last year where I look amazing in turquoise, but now that color is too intense on me. Seems I just gain cool pigment.
*I dont know if this happens to everyone. But I am a pale cool olive tone, yet for some reason it is in winter that I look extremely yellow and warm (?). I dont know how since one doesnt tan on winter. And I am OBVIOUSLY cool the rest of the year*
Thanks so much for discussing this! Great video.
This always happens to me as I would always look yellow then pale in photos but lighting also contributes to that .......
My best colors are the deep jewel tones (emerald grn., ruby red, electrc blue, violet purple, fuchsia and bright cerulean blue). However, my skin is fair w/ blue-green veins, a yellow/pink undertone, golden brown eyes (w/grn flecs), dark hair. Neutral foundations look best in the winter (Lt warm foundations in sumr). Am I a cool olive? 😏
I think this might be me. I noticed I can wear peach lipstick during summer and it looks really nice, but not throughout the year because I find it looks orange on me and I’m just not into that. Also I go back and forth on whether a particular color looks good on me or not. From now on I’ll try observing that depending on how much I’ve been in the sun. Cool video, I love your way of thinking. Rings more true than any other color analyst I’ve come across. Keep doing what you’re doing😇💪
My tone changes from cool and radiant with bright white light and warm and delicate with warmer lighting. Even my eyebrows. It gets confusing.
I have deep skin. I'm orange then I turn more blue when I tan.
I am quite light myself and I am warm and delicate yet I have some redness on my legs and chest, which can make them look cool and delicate sometimes, especially in photographs. I have not experienced it actually changing, but I think it could definitely happen, if your skin tone is light enough.
As a warm and delicate person (aka everything is confusing and I thought I knew what it was)... this video just gave me a headache (took away all of my hope of knowing). I'm going to wear what I want... even when its magenta and I have copper hair and eyes!
Hi Merriam, I definitely suit cool coloured clothing without a doubt and cool coloured blue based lipsticks but I just don’t understand why I look grey in cool coloured face foundations . Foundations on me have to be yellow based or closer to neutral ? I look forward to your answer. Another thing is do you think there is a nude lipstick to suit everyone or do some people just suit a brighter darker coloured lipstick?
Hi Merriam, @Heather did a very useful question to you one year ago: "I was wondering if you could do a video addressing skin pigmentation issues like rosacea, where the facial skin is always a different color than the rest of the body - and perhaps a way to use color theory in the wardrobe to try and correct it?" Please, take this into consideration, for those with rosacea the colour theory is a madness!!!! I/we appreciate your help.
OMG! I'm wondering if this is me! The colors I look good in have changed. I've alway struggled and maybe it's because I change with the seasons. Thank you so much for the video. Now I feel less frustrated by choosing colors. I'll just need to adjust my color choices to the season.
My skin in winter looks like the warm and delicate in her, the confusion to me was as I mentioned in your last video, the purple and blue veins in my skin that give me the strong olive cast. Interestingly, even when I am tanned, I still don’t look good in warm and radiant colors, seems that pale or tanned, I still fall in the warm and delicate zone. So I can confirm that I don’t change undertones.
I dont know about changing but I am not so sure if I am cool or warm( but I think I'm warm more). I get easily tanned in summer. I think i become darker and look good with light side of autumn colors too altho I am light spring .
I feel like this happens to me too, Though my 4 shades are maybe one shade deeper than her 4 shades.
I always thought I was warm because of pictures of me when I was younger, but my current pictures show me to be cool toned like Kim Kardashian (more red than yellow). But since I'm olive, my skin has a lot of green to it and the green presence shows when I compare my skin to my cool toned boyfriend. It also shows in pictures when I stand next to other people. It makes it hard to tell whether I'm truly cool or warm. I think I look okay in yellow in pictures but my closet is mostly filled with blues
So I guess my main question is, to what extent do you think we can we trust phone cameras to be accurate in showing our skin undertone even in natural light?
I did enjoy this video though, it goes to show how much more complicated and not so black and white the colour analysis thing can be
I also thought I was a Kim K but still not sure.
I'm (light to medium - depending on the season) olive, too (Half central european-half northern indian). I find I look the worst in colours similar to my skin tone, like warm olives or mustardy yellows, I also despise greens (except dark greens). But I love cool olives* on me and more radiant yellows (in summer), cooler oranges and coral, petrol and lighter violets. Hate reds but blues are ok. I like mid too dark greys, more cool toned beiges.
*I'm wearing a cool olive shirt right now and my veins seem to have the same colour?!
But on the other hand I have tried on once a top in a more light orangey-copper tone and found it fine. Natural white looks not good. I think browns look ok (but I have nearly no clothes in brown, strangely?)
I never find a matching foundation shade they're all to orange or pink, I have to mix in green corrector. I have lots of gold coloured jewellery but I think in summer it doesn't look good and I would prefer old silver.
My friend thinks I look like an (traditional) autumn but I can't make peace with the (traditional) autumn colour palette and prefer the (traditional) winter one. I have lightend my hair to blonde (it's kind of too warm for me but the process isn't finished yet, I lightend it twice and want to wait before I make a third treatment) recently and now I can wear pastels like for the (traditional) spring colour palette. It's a whole mess :DDDDD
I thought I saw a video with Patrick Starrr saying Kim K had a WARM golden undertone? When he was mixing her foundation shade for her he mentioned she was very yellow I think.
@@MsSonali1980 For me, most colours that are muted will look fine on me, and super bright colours will make me look absolutely hideous. I actually like red on me, but I threw all my red clothes out recently because they got old
And I dislike gold jewelry in general and only wear it with certain items. Apart from that I wear only silvers.
I guess we're more of a tricky case specifically because we're olive. I'm assuming if green is a neutral colour that can be either warm or cool that it's why we may not look too bad in many colours? I don't know at this point
@@_maymie In autum/winter I prefer muted (jewel) colours but in summer def. more bright.
I like contrast, I will wear a fuchsia lip or colour block clothing. But I hate when colour makes me look dull (like the mustard yellow in summer or a warmer orange).
Don't know, maybe I look always like a clown :DDDD but I mean, no one complains and I get compliments for my clothing taste if I wear colour.
I have a bright (lowkey neon but sheer) orangey-coral stick blush and I think like it's my best blush colour in summer. Illamasqua - Gel Colour - Charm (it looks hideous in the tube but on the skin beautiful, got it at TK Maxx).
@@MsSonali1980 where do you get green correcter?
Yep when I tan I go from cool to warm
This was so helpful! I had to make a photo grid with the cool and delicate and warm and delicate pictures and compare them to one of my pictures.
My profile picture actually seems a bit cooler than usual. I used a picture of me outside and realized even at my palest I’m closer to warm and delicate. I’m still not quite as warm as this lady, but I don’t have the pinkness that was in the cool and delicate picture.
It really helps comparing different undertones on the same person, thanks for sharing!
This was such an interesting video for me, since I'm unsure if I'm going through a color change.
For a bit of context my mother is a theatrical romantic with a cool and radiant undertone. Even when she gets a deep tan, she always looks her best in royal blue, bright magenta, etc. (at least, in my opinion) and her cool undertones are always clear. My father, on the other hand, is a soft classic, with a warm and radiant undertone. During the winter, if it's a really long and dark one, he might go to warm and delicate, but I've never seen him have a cool undertone.
Growing up, I always looked like a smaller, childlike version of my mother. I was a soft gamine who would switch between cool and radiant in winter to cool and delicate in the summer. Then, last fall, over the span of a few months I began to look crazy similar to my dad, and realized that in the 9ish months that had passed since I first figured out I was a soft gamine, I had become a soft classic. I'm a teenager, so I know that that may still change, but the very drastic change in body types caught me by surprise.
And I don't know how, but during this winter I became the palest I've ever been, but I remained a cool and delicate (even though I would normally become cool and radiant). Now that the sun is coming out, I've barely darkened, but my best color has switched from grey to a beige color.
TL:DR I used to look like a child version of my mom (who's TR + cool and radiant), now all of a sudden I'm beginning to look like my dad (who's SC + warm and radiant).
This is so complex. There is an incorrect supposition: that yellow in the skin is evidence of warmth and means you suit warmer colors!. No! I have heaps of yellow and stay cool. Evidence: i start out very light and cool and radiant. My skin gets more yellow as I tan but I STAY cool and radiant as I gain pigment even though my skin is yelliw undertone.
You may be becoming warm and delicate! You could watch my video titled Golden Overtones with Cool Undertones for more info on that! If you have clear yellow/golden overtones/undertones, but you still don't look great in yellows and oranges, and still look better in royal blues, you're most likely warm and delicate! Hope you check it out!
Merriam Style thank you so much for replying!. I watched that helpful video. I think my strong purple/ blue undertones mixing with my jaundiced/yellowed overtones gives me a greenish cast. To clarify, its not that I look ok in royal blue and fantastic in soft warm pink - i look dead in muted colors of either temperature, hence my problem. I just looked in the mirror and saw that at my palest (i am very light as it is winter here) I still have a yellowed-green cast. I still suck completely in muted colors either warm or cool, any time of year, and look radiantly my best in magenta and royal blue and black and white. Sorry for being a tricky one!
Thanks for putting up such helpful content. It has helped me realise i have super cool purple undertones with a slight yellow overtone that makes me look neutral but any yellow based makeup doesn't blend into my skin so i am not warm by any means. Thanks for describing the difference between the under and overtones!! I can see I was just tricked by the gold flecks in my green eyes and yellowish overtone but thats relative to how very cold my undertones are.
This is 100% me.. I'm mixed and my colour seems to confuse a lot of people. When people go to match my foundation shade they always grab a really dark yellow colour and then swipe it on my face and see it's completely wrong. There's a certain shade of blue that looks amazing on me when I'm pale but makes me look sickly as soon as I pick up some colour
OMG I think this is me! How validating.
What does this mean, " you add your own pigment?" It sounds deliberate, but undetermined. In other words, done on purpose but we don't know what is done or how. Does it just mean this: "tanning may change your undertone?"
This is what I do. But everyone says that you can't change undertones.
This is interesting...
I haven't seen sunlight in decades, so I wonder if it would change. I've always been fair, but I have childhood photos where I look pretty tan...
Fanny's LoA Where do you live with no sunshine for decades?? 😮
@@maropengralenala4404 Scandinavia. But it's more that I have Polymorphous Light Eruption and Migraines, so that I avoid sunlight and stay indoors during the months of the midnight sun.
yeah no one ever talks about this! Thank you.
I am like that. But when I tan a bit, if I were to wear a bronzer, it has to be a cool bronzer. Warm bronzers look too orange on me. I feel I go from cool to neutral or cooler neutral, ie muted cool.
If you run a marathon and look warmer, doesn't that mean it's less about pigment (which I would assume doesnt change quickly) and more about sensitivity/ visibility of blood circulation, for example blushing etc? Of course more blood near the skin surface would give skin more red and warmth. Conversely, if one has ill health, or on a cold day, less red blood on surface and more vein visibility would make one look cooler.
i've been trying to nail down my palette, but honestly i have difficulties with it. apps and such have placed me under cool summer, light summer, bright winter, warm autumn, soft autumn.
i have a difficult time nailing my undertone. my skin looks pale/cool and radiant in natural light, but any artificial light, even if neutral white LED's i tend to get a yellowish or even greenish tint. where my skin is bunching up (armpits when hands hanging on the sides) it looks yellow or greenish yellow.
im slowly loosing my mind tbh.
And what about prefrence? because despite delicate pinks and stuff would look pretty on me, its not really the style i want to go for. i'd rather have grungey style than pastels for example. I also really love autumn colors, but are they the most flattering on me? not necessarily.
Maybe it’s also nutrition status…even my foundation changed from warm yellow to cool olive brown. Different diet. Different liver health status.
I think this would be me IF I didn’t have freckles. I am warm and delicate, and although my skin is always super pale and my veins always blue, I definitely always have a slight warmth to me because of having freckles on my arms and face that reveal my warm toned pigment. I can kinda pull off cool and radiant colors but I still always look better dressing in warm and delicate.
In the winter I am white cool ,in the summer I freckle heavily, I am way more warm.my eyes are gold brown with grey around the out side,my hair is nutrual Sandy medium blonde,the sun turns it strawberry blonde. Maybe you could make a video on freckling. It's confusing.
Yessss!!! omg i thought I was crazy haha !! thank you for this video, it makes all sense now! I noticed during winter i am very white/pale and I can pull off brown hair so good but in the summer when i get tanned i become more yellowish/warm and i want to change my hair colour to something like blonde warm or something! haha it's crazy y'all!!
I used to be cool undertone. Now i am warm. Its very confusing.
My face is kinda beige, after marathonexercise reddish, my neck is always pale, and my body very yellowish. Am I an olive? A flag? 😅
This might explain a lot of confusion I have been having determining my Underlying Tones. With COVID, I've been outside more. Maybe, the change in my Surface Tone with tanning, changes the ratio of blue and red light passing through the skin, making my once blue veins look green?????
It can be because you tan or because you have a warm overtone ans cool undertone..
Please please please! Can you make a video on hairstyles depending on body type for Afro textured hair?
I really loved this video thank you Meriam! Question: can a person with delicate undertone become radiant?!
yes, that's what she mentioned in the video with this lady example :) it's about pigment basically
this video made me realize I might not have "the lightest skin tone", I kinda had a feeling cause the whole "really light = cool and radiant" thing was confusing to me cause cool colors make me look(and feel) like I'm sick and wearing a hospital gown, especially light cool colors which doesn't happen with light warm colors, and blue only looks tolerable on me probably because my hair is red and they're complimentary colors(and the moment I cover up my hair with a white towel blue betrays me too smh I look so pale and washed out) while warm colors especially darker richer warm colors make me look luxurious? if that's the right word, and make everything in me glow, even the color brown which I didn't even care about until I put it on a few days ago, and I don't look blue, I look greeninsh in worse lighting and yellowish and peachy and olive in good lighting and I have olive undertones in my skin and lots of my veins look green so this was a nice confirmation cause it was really bugging me that the theory behind your analysis contradicted what I was seeing and feeling☺️
I am the same. My skin just looks yellow all the time and I wear mostly cool and muted colors(grey is bae), which makes it stand out even more. I am very light, but I always say I am not the palest, even though I sometimes look like it.
@@Laura-vs6fs oof lucky! gray only looks good on me if it's a dark enough gray otherwise it just sits there which isn't the worst haha browns look much better on me when it comes to muted colors. I think my coloring overall really needs some richness and warmth when it comes to colors or I end up looking even more pale and I've always gravitated towards darker and warmer colors partly because of that. and yeah same, I'm used to thinking I'm pale but then if I wore foundation it wouldn't be lightest possible shade at all and my olive undertones make me look less pale and more green lmao
@@wlwcats5810 I think it is quite hard to find muted warm colors, as most colors in stores are quite bright actually or they are cool and muted, and I just love grey so much, even though it is not my best color. I think the most suitable would be beiges with a lot of yellow as opposed to orange and that is why I don't like coral and colors like that, since they always turn pink on me and look to cool toned. I think warm toned skin gets away easier with cool colors, rather than cool skin with warm ones and since we are muted, we can get away with a lot of colors. I also have dark to medium brown hair with an orange undertone and brown eyes, so I really don't have anything cool toned on me, but I am rather focused on the style than the color of clothes right now. It is just so interesting how color and type of clothes, makeup and hair, influence our appearance.
@@Laura-vs6fs that's very true! coral also turns pink on me haha I used to confuse it with salmon because of that, so pink. It makes sense warm skin gets away with a lot, it's hard for me to think of any colors that truly look bad on me outside of cool pastels but that has more to do with saturation. I think muted warm colors have been popular in the minimalism part of fashion and anything Kim K/Kanye but otherwise yeah it's all bright which I don't mind, I love all the mustard yellows and burnt oranges and whatever else haha. It's interesting when you look at two people with the same hair and eye and maybe even skin color but the same colors will look so different on them haha I know there are lots of redheads who have very cool skin and love cool colors and look great but that's never been me haha
also it's good to wear what you like, if you like gray wear it! the confidence that comes with it is much more important than whatever color rules we are supposed to follow haha if I turned out to be cool toned tomorrow I would still keep wearing warm colors and wouldn't touch the blues and the pinks because they don't feel like me and make me sad when I look at them and that's not way to live haha
This is such a helpful video! I see the same thing happening with my skin throughout the year, living in Southern Europe. How should we choose a good hair color, when our skin has such variations? Based on what..?🤔
That's how I looked during the day in the first pic and second picture I look that way at night its confusing
I suspect that I went from warm and delicate to cool and delicate after moving from a subtropical country to the UK
I have a feeling this MIGHT be Leighton Meester's case.
I intentianlyl alter the wearmth of ym skin tone so ican wear differnt colours of makeup and look flattering
I think I was cool radiant when I was younger but now I think I have become warm(delicate or is it radiant ?)
I looked good in magenta few years back but now I don’t even know.
I am super yellowish-grayish, but when I blush or become flushed, I turn pinky-red, not a orange or peach. Would that count as a changing undertone?
Would this be considered olive?