Marlena~ you don't need to apologize or justify promoting M.U.G. cosmetics. You are fortunate enough to be living your dream and you have worked hard for it!!! You go girlfriend.
omg no matter how many videos i watch with this subject, I CANT figure out what i am... i just wish marlena could see me and tell me what i am... grrrr the fustration is real...
Finally- an educational video on UA-cam instead of just another "preference" video!!! I've been needing this!!! I've seen all the oily skin vs dry skin videos...I needed the skin tone video...love love love! Thank you!
For makeup newbies: MAC labels their foundations in reverse. I have warm undertones but I'm an NC40 in MAC. My fair skinned friend is cool-toned but she wears NW20. I know it's weird.
+AbbySaysHella This had me so confused for a while. I kept looking at warm foundations and I couldn't understand why they looked so yellow on me when my concealer was NW15. That was a learning experience >.
I'm so glad you mentioned this because I thought I was going insane! I wear NC37 and consider myself warm toned. Thanks for clarifying that because I've been confused about that for a long time!
+AbbySaysHella Another thing that MAC does is separate yellow tones and red tones. Both are warm, but if you have a yellow tone you're NC, and if you have more of a red tone you're NW.
Girl don't apologize for using Makeup Geek blushes as examples you've worked and continue to work so hard to grow your company and plus Makeup Geek products are THE BOMB! xo
This always confuses me cause my veins look blue to me but I'm pretty sure I'm warm toned because I look good in gold and red and warm tones in general.
Sometimes if you look good in warm colors you may be cool toned. Because of complimentary colors are on the opposite of the color wheel. It also depends on hair color too. If you have cool toned hair you'll look good in warm toned clothes. If that makes sense :)
+Shelby Reece Actually, if you look best in warm shades, you likely have a warm, yellow-based skin tone. A person with a pink or blue-toned complextion looks much better in cool-toned shades, and colours. Complimentary colôurs do not flatter the opposite skin tone; that is why people have their 'Colours done', and determine theîr skin tone so they ẃill know the colours, shades, and intensities of them, to best flatter their skin tone. People should wear the same tones in clothes, face make up, eye make up,lipstick, hair colour, and jewellery as their skin tone. If you have a cool-toned complexion,your môst flattering make up, hair colour, jewellery, etc. will also be cool-toned., and vice versa.Hair colôur can actually confuse things; if someone colours their hair opposite to their skin tone, it can be extremely difficult to wear your most flattering colours. Your hair should match your skin tone, and not compete with it.. Those with cool-toned ĉomplexions should dye their hair using cool-toned ôr neutral shades, and not warm. Hope that helps, Sherrey❤
+Timothy Sherrey Ehler ok this just confused me lol. So I'm super fair with red hair and blue eyes n all so as she said I'd be cool toned. But isn't red in general a warm tone? So ur saying I should dye my hair a cooler tone to look better? 😕
+Timothy Sherrey Ehler ok this just confused me lol. So I'm super fair with red hair and blue eyes n all so as she said I'd be cool toned. But isn't red in general a warm tone? So ur saying I should dye my hair a cooler tone to look better? 😕
+Timothy Sherrey Ehler ok this just confused me lol. So I'm super fair with red hair and blue eyes n all so as she said I'd be cool toned. But isn't red in general a warm tone? So ur saying I should dye my hair a cooler tone to look better? :/
i totally agree with the contour powder should be the same colour as your skin! so many MUA's advice to always go cool with contour shades, but if i use a cool colour on a warm client it looks like five o clock shadow! not cute
I have a warm skin with very strong yellow undertone. When I wear warm contour shades They end up looking so orange they dont even look like a shadow that a contour is supposed to mimic. So I decided to wear anastasia fawn n kevyn aucoin scultping powder in medium they are cool tone and omg I love them, they mimic a shadow on my face. I keep it everything cool on my warm skin, except for eyeshadows. I like my eyeshadows warm, cool tone eyeshadows ie purple make me look like I have a bruised eye
+Sam Powell I never knew about this! I bought nyx blush in taupe thinking it would be great and it just looks super ashy and like you said a five o'clock shadow!! so glad she said something about it cuz now it makes sense why the warm or neutral bronzers i have look fine for a contour.
This is the best informational video I have seen on UA-cam. You answered sooooooooo many of my questions. Thanks for taking the time to explain warm/cool tones. Have a great day!
I know this isn't a new video and I'm late to the party, but I'm very confused by this. I used to model a lot and my makeup was done professionally for shows. I learned a great deal from them. I am very warm toned with yellow/golden blonde hair and yellow skin tone, some ruddiness in my cheeks when I'm flushed. I was always so pleasantly surprised when a makeup artist put me in warmer tones, like a yellow-based foundation, coral-orange blush and coral lipstick. The Charles of the Ritz guys were THE BEST - on (tealish blue) eyes: beautiful browns and peaches with tiny teal/turquoise pop. I never, ever looked anywhere near as good if they went with pinks at all anywhere expect like "pink chocolates." So what you're saying is that the ones that looked almost jarring to me is the right way and the one that looks harmonious is the wrong one? I feel like I've misunderstood something. Not trying to push your patience and truly not criticizing. I want to do it right, but maybe I've been doing it wrong all this time (I'm turning 52 in a few weeks! That's a lot of wrong-way years!!) Thanks for any help.
Thank you Marlena! I see so many people who do not understand this concept, and they wear shades that just do not flatter their skin tones at all! I had my 'Colours' done way back in 1981, and I have been able to wear make up, and clothes that make me look the best with my skin tone, and Colours. I strongly dîsagree that you should wear blushes, and face make up that is opposite to your Colours, and skin tone! That goes against everything I have ever learned, or experienced. I have a very fair, cool-toned, blue-based "Winter' complexion, with porcelain skin, and dark brown hair, and eyes. The blushes, and lipsticks I can wear are true blue-toned reds, cool-toned lilacs (I wear 'Secret Admirer'), and cool-toned pinks (I wear 'Hanky Panky blush'), some berries, and fuschias. I absolutely cannot wear peaches, corals, yellow-toned reds, or rusty browns at all, which are warm-toned! Colours that look best on me are black, pure white, primary colours, and jewel tones. Cool-toned colours do look better on me as regards eye make up, as long as they also flatter brown eyes. I use contour shades that are also cool- toned like a shade similar to NYX“s blush in Taupe not just, because I am a 'Winter', but also because contour is creating shadows, and they are never warm, or orange, but cool-toned grey or taupe.. I did not think anyone should use a warm-toned bronzer for contouring for that specific reason. My bronzer must also not be orange, or warm. Self tanning can make it confusing when determining skin tone, especilly if it is not neutral.Another way to figure out skin tone is seeing which colour metals of jewellery looks better against your skin. I look best in 'cool'silver jewellery like pewter, white gold, silver, and platinum. I cannot wear 'warm' yellow gold, copper, or brass shades. Just looking at you, I personally think your engagement ring flatters your skin tone better than your yellow gold rings do, and I actually think ýou have cool-toned skin, and you would be a "Summer" or "Winter". “Summers' can wear pinks, and cooler-toned shades, but less intense, and in pastels, rather than primary colours (some colours overlap like purple, and turquoise). You are wearing Winter colours with your blôuse, but your make up conflicts, as it is quite warm-toned, althôugh it îs hard to tell îf you are wearing a blue-based red, or an orangy warm red lipstick. Your blush looks warm-toned as well to me, änd I think you look lovely in cooler-toned colours. I almost think you have similar skin tone to me, although you are not as fair. You look gorgeous in jêwel tones, black, bright pinks, purple (like your hair was), and colours like peach, mustard, rust, olive green don“t flatter your skin tone as much. I also look horrid in peaches, rusts, beiges, olives, moss greens,, orangey reds, etc. Anyway, thanks for doing this video, and I look forward to many more like this, Sherrey in Southern Ontario❤
+Timothy Sherrey Ehler I agree sooo much with you. I am cool toned all over. There's not a single hint of warmth in my complexion, hair or eyes. And I love it! I prefer to emphasize the cool tones in my appearance by always, always, always going with cool toned makeup.
***** Audra, which colour of jewellery looks the absolute best on you? Does gold look lovely next to your skin, or do sliver, pewter,and white gold, etc look better? I am also wondering if you have any roseacea that maybe contributing to the reddish tones on your skin. With cool tones there are those like me (I am a 'Winter') that can wear primary colours, pure white, black, and jewel tones, but we cannot wear pastels. There are also people with brown eyes, brown hair, and porcelain skin who also have cool- toned skin, but they can wear pastel pinks, blues,burgundy, lavenders, navy, grey, white (but no whiter than what a tissue is), but NOT black or jewel tones. They are known to be a 'Summer' in Colours. Just like there are two variants with cool tones, there are two with warm tones: 'Springs' who sparkle wearing pastel peaches, tans, gold, cream, turquoise, etc, and 'Autumns' who can wear darker mustards, olives, teals, purples, brown, etc. Strangely enough , there are colours I can wear as a winter such as turquoise,which is also a 'Spring' colour, and dark purple, which is also an 'Autumn' colour which is odd to me. I will wait on your answer about the colour of metals you can wear, but I do know that anyone with cool tones would not look their best with peach or apricot, especially close to their face. They actually use a large swatch of pink and one of peach, initially, to determine whether someone has warm, or cool toned skin when someone' has colour analysis done. Your current wardrobe colours of navy, raspberry, grey, and red are 'Summer' colours, but black can only be worn by those of us who are 'Winters'. I also have grey, and blue-toned red in my colour palette as well. Red pops up in all palettes in different shades (whether mixed with blue or orange). Teal would be either a 'Spring' or 'Autumn' colour depending on its intensity. Looking forward to hearing back from you, Sherrey❤
CeciliaStory You are talking my language, Cecilia! I doubt you were on the latest band wagon to purchase the Morphe 350 Palette then!! By the way, I got the 35P palette, and if you are brown-eyed and dark hair like I am, you would probably love all of the beautiful purple and brown colours in it......all as 'cool as a cucumber'!! Thanks for the comment, and have a gorgeous day,Sherrey❤
+shakaka binx a lot of it is lighting in this video- I promise when I go out in public I check my foundation better ;) But yes, it's probably slightly lighter than it could be because I spray tanned the night before ;)
***** thats very true with the lighting Marlena, and youve clarified this for us in the past too. Many of the foundations and most especially MG's blushes look cooler until you provide a closeup of them, then i am able to actually see the true color or undertone of what youre showing us. I would have sworn you were a cooler neutral, then you showed that foundation up closer and i was able to see the match as opposed to when you put the bottle up to your face. Thx for clarifying that! A-gain... Lol 😉
I love that you are such a great business woman but still have that humbleness in you that you want to continue to teach and show your followers how to differentiate between makeup to what's more flattering for our skin type
Your such a beauty Marlena! I don't know if it's the settings on my computer but in this video your face looked so cool and your neck extra warm. Anyway, very informative video...general knowledge is so necessary in the beauty/cosmetics industry now days & very few can offer it. Thank you for yours! Besitos xxox
+GlamJackie My lighting is different in this video, so I know that's part of it. Plus I spray tanned, which makes my skin very warm but I don't always spray tan my face because it breaks it out.
Thank you for clearing that up for us, Malena😊 Either way I still Love you, your videos, and your makeup line!! These type of videos are so badly needed. I get confused and overwhelmed trying to pick out colors that will go with my pale yellow undertone skin.
I like the Wet and Wild one sold only at Walmart. I don't use the lighter side but the contour side is a perfect light cool brown. It's a huge pan and blends well. I found it thru another UA-cam suggestion on emilynoel's BeautyBroadcast Express. She did a quick review of it a few months ago. Plus I think it's less than $5. I also think Benefit's Hoola is cooler than most.
+Hollie Forrest inglot has some cooltoned contour powders.. i am warm, bud i tought that contour powder i must have the oposite..after a few applications i find out :D my skin was like dirty or something like that. Now i know ( sorry for language but i am from czech rep ) :)
I would like to mention that our hormones can cause a lot of redness in our face -- blotchy cheeks, etc. This doesn't mean that one with red blotchy cheeks is an automatic cool-tone. Look at an area of your chest where you don't get any sun. That will reveal your true skin tone for picking your foundation, etc. I learned through quite a bit of trial and error that I am a Neutral. My red cheeks looked a ghastly dark pink with cool foundation, and warm foundation was too yellow. I now use the L'Oreal True Match foundation in N1 Soft Ivory -- PERFECT match!
I LOVED this video. My mom never taught me about makeup, so everything I know, it's because of youtube. I have always wondered how to tell if I am cool/warm/neutral, since I have a hard time finding a good contour color, and foundation that won't make me look to orange. I believe I am cool/neutral. I am excited for more videos like these!
Elle!!!! I'm so happy you watched & commented :) because I always feel like you & I have similar coloring from the products/shades you buy. Would you say you are warm or cool? I thought I was warm but now I'm a little confused. #WWED (WhatWouldElleDo) :b
+Jennifer Micek I feel I am a on the warm side. That being said, it isn't a strong 'warm' so I can pull off some 'cool' if I want to (but the warm definitely looks better). I hope that helps I think Marlena did a fabulous job explaining and I can't wait for the rest of her videos in this series.
The blush tip makes so much sense! I have warm toned skin and I've always preferred pink blushes because I feel like they flatter my complexion. I've never worn peach blushes or lipsticks.
OMG!! It all makes sense to me now. I have always used the nyx sunny bronzer because I loved the way it looked. Then I saved up to buy a higher end one that was cool toned but I at the time didn't know the difference. I was so disappointed because it looked like dirt on my skin no matter how I applied it. Now I realize it was cool toned!! Great video! Thank you!!! I learned a lot. Though I will probably break the blush rule because it will break my heart not to wear my makeup geek blushes that are warm toned. I just love them too much!
my body is definitely warm toned. I am on the pale side too, but the problem is that my face is cool toned because I have a lot of redness. I'll buy warm toned foundation so my face will match my body but it still looks cool toned compared to my chest and arms. Not sure what to do about that...
I don't think u can have 2 different undertones of skin. The skin on ur face can look different because it is always open to the elements & it can cause ur skin to look like it has a different undertone.
My daughter and I have the same problem, but her's is much worse. Due to me being both fair, and naturally pink cheeked with allergy brought on rosacea at times, I thought I had pink undertones. First, determine if it is the surface of the skin that is pink, which is brought on by acne, allergies, etc? This is not an undertone, but just your skin's condition. Second, determine if you have naturally pink cheeks or pink undertones? My undertones are not pink, just my cheeks are. This is brought on by blood vessels near the surface. She is discussing pink toned all over your body. My son looks like this. If you press on his skin, where you pressed, turns white, and then goes back pink. He has skin that is similar to an albino's. This is pink undertones. Think of somebody that is so white that they look either blue or pink. Typically, these are your "gingers"-red hair, freckles, and extremely pale skin, that almost looks lightly burned a lot of the time. Very few people truly have pink undertones. I am warm toned,, with yellow undertones, with pale skin, freckles, naturally pink cheeks, and brownish/reddish hair. I thought the same thing about my face, and so would get ivory foundation, and looked DEAD, lol. I finally spoke with a color analyst, and she shared the above with me. She said you do not have pink undertones, you have yellow, and are a warm skintone.I actually have to pick foundation that is much darker than my face in the winter to look right, and then put it all over my neck, too. This then does what foundation does, it puts color and life back into the face. I use a full coverage, to help cover some off the freckles and the redness. Then, I use highlighter, blush, powder, and bronzer to get the color variation that I need in the different places. My daughter has to use the green, color neutralizer first, and then use a full coverage makeup on top of that. She previously could not wear blush, and struggled with people asking her if she was sick all of the time due to how dark the pink was. She also had the makeup transfer to her hands, even when set, and the pink would creep through. She tried several from the drugstore that did not work for her, and then found GREAT success with the green Becca neutralizer, and one of the Becca blushes. She can now wear blush,, and put it only where she wants her cheeks to look pink, and her makeup always looks flawless now! Hope this helps!
Marlena i have to say.. im LOVING warm colors on you! I feel like with your skin color and hair, warm colors brighten you up so much!! Eyes, hairs, lips, perfect!!
mystery finally solved!! I have yellowish undertone with light-medium skin tone, and my skin always looked much better with cool tone blush/eyeshadow/clothes.. so I was confused and thought I might have cool undertone. But NO. After watching this video, I realized that I definitely have yellowish undetone, and the cool toned makeup and clothes kind of neutralize making the whole look balanced complementing each other (warm skin & cool makeup/clothes). And of course you have to use the foundation and contour with the same undertone. Thanks Marlena!!
Im glad youre doing these types of educational videos. Even though im familiar with the subject matter, its great to refresh and pick up on details i either forgot about or didnt know. Great idea M!
I do have a question though. I am a cool to cool-neutral undertone and i absolutely cannot pull off a warmer or even a neutral blush tone, it looks hideous! My question is, in using the "opposite blush undertone" description you gave, is that a general rule of thumb? Because I use a cooler-neutral foundation, a cool contour and a super cool (lilac-colored) blusher. Honestly, should i really do that (blush undertone) differently?
+Allyson C. (Ally) I think the blush rule is a generalization, so if cool toned blush suits you better, wear that! You are the best judge on that matter :) It's mostly a matter of taste, I think. I'm warm and I kinda wear both.
Potentially Chique I hear what you're saying, but the reason I mentioned it is because she explained it once and then said (for clarification purposes) "let me say it again" and she proceeded to explain the "opposite blush" rule(?). That's why I asked if it was indeed a 'rule of thumb' and if I really should change this. I get that I should wear it if it works, but if it isn't a "generalization", then WHY doesn't it work for me? Understand lol?
+Allyson Sixx It doesn't work for you because we are all individuals with our own oppinions. Your oppinion (which is the only one that matters!) is that you look best in cool toned blush. I might agree with you, and the girl next to me on the bus might disagree. It's as simple as that. I think I look ridiculous in warm toned blush, and just like you I have cool undertones. I'm not even cool-neutral, just straight up cool.
CeciliaStory got it! 😊 I guess there must be a tiny part of me that still genuinely wants to be able to wear whatever I want and have it look good and I Cant lol.
I've been looking for a tutorial on this subject! I'm Warm/Neutral and been trying to find out for years exactly what my skintone is! Thanks, love your vids!
I'm definitely warm and i prefer warmer blush colours. I feel warm tones "harmonize" well with my complexion, when cool tones kinda "fight" with my warm skin. Purple blush is too contrast to my greenish-yellow skin, i feel like a clown wearing it. Anyone else?
yeah, I agree that you should use blush and lip colors that "harmonize" with your skin. I'm NW20, and anything peach I put on my skin pulls super orange. Same with coral lipsticks. As long as I cover up redness with foundation, it doesn't make me look too pink. there is a limit to how cool I can go. I can't pull off that greige trend because anything gray makes me look like a corpse.
This was soooo helpful!!! Especially the part about picking blush and contour shades. Now I know why I struggle finding cool toned blushes that work on me and why bronzer looks terrible on me. Thank you! I love the educational videos.
I have a neutral to yellow undertone and it's bloody impossible to find a matching foundation that is cheap cause even ones that are labelled"n" are really pink!! UGH. I'm looking at you true match n2
Same. So much same. Except I'm completely warm. I find that most "w" drugstore foundations are STILL too pink. Especially the L'Oréal True Match. Holy crap, those "warm" colors are pink. lol Luckily, my skin is just dark enough to get away with Milani's foundation in 01. Sooo yellow, and sooo amazing. lol
+Makeup Geek Thank You So Much for the educational video! This video changed my world! I think my skin is neutral but more on cool side. When you said "blush is the opposite tone from your skin tone", everything made sense. Now I can chose color/tone with more confidence, foundation, concealer, contour, blush, gloss. Thank you again for your tutorial. You solved all the riddles which had confused me for so many years! Yoko.
Right now, I dont have too much of a problem being tanned from the summer but my olive skin is at its palest, nothing ever matches me. Olive is usually classified as a deep skin color. But as I can testify to, it can also be what I can only describe as a pale green color. My mother is very warm toned, her skin being yellowy golden and when I compare my skin to hers its clearly got that green tone to it. I wish there was some guidelines to follow for a light/pale olive skin tone.
I am fair olive and I treat is as neutral. I look best in cool-toned clothes, silver and gold jewelry both look good on me but rose gold probably the best. My hair look better neutral-toned, eyeshadows cool-toned, but foundation neutral-yellow.
+Beauty Psycho oh my god! me, too! may i ask what your fave foundation is? i'm searching for a new one. i tried and liked the MUFE Ultra HD is Y225, (or was it Y255...whichever is at the second to fairest with yellow undertones.) i also liked the naked skin. but, drugstore-wise, i haven't had any luck. suggestions? also, i have the Naked 3 palette and wanted either 1 or 2. i could see both working on me. i have blue eyes and like the way both gold/bronzey/orange tones accentuate the blue, but i look more "polished" with taupe colors. do you have either and could you recommend? THANKS!
+Beauty Psycho I guess I'm just being picky. I've tried neutral foundations and they seem to look pinky on me. I did find a few by maybelline fit me that work nicely this summer but my tan is fading and it's almost too dark. When I've used yellow based foundations when I'm super pale, it too looks obvious. Ever used the EX1 brand? It's not available in the US but I'm thinking it might be worth a try. Thank you for you suggestions! Not too many people have the issues we do in this part of the world.
+L'Aurora Borealis My favorite ones that match my skintone are It Cosmetic CC cream in Fair, Skin79 BB (orange one), Tarte Amazonian Clay 12-h Full Coverage... in Fair Sand, UD Naked in 1.0 but I feel it is not yellow enough and a bit too light so I will be adding Cover FX costume cover drops in G20 into it, Too Faced Tinted BB SPF 20 in Snow Glow. I have UD Naked 1 pallette, even though I prefer cool-toned eyeshadows and this palette is more warm I still picked this one over Naked 2.
+Lynette I treat my overall skintone as neutral-cool when I choose clothes, jewelry, eyeshadows, blush/contour/bronzer and lipstick. Pale olive people look best in jeweled colors like navy, blues, burgundy, greys, black, white, puple (cool) I think. But when it comes to foundation I go for slightly yellow-olive to contract redness in my face. If I wear neutral foundation my face also looks too pink so I always make sure there is enough yellow in it. Maybe you are picking foundations that are too dark? Match to your neck not other way around. Have you tried any foundations/CC creams I mentioned in the previous comment (most of them are yellow-olive)? Alima Pure and Meow Cosmetics have straight up olive shades that work awesome but they are mineral makeup and I can only wear that in the summer (too drying).
For contour powders, you actually want to use a color with cool/neutral undertones, no matter what your under tone is, because natural shadows are gray and have cool undertones. The whole point of contouring is to add definition to the face using light and shadow, and bronzers can't mimic shadows because they *bronze* and *add warmth*. Kevyn Aucoin Sculpting Powder in Medium is the perfect shade for light to medium/tan skin. He's coming out with more shades for every skin tone. Something more affordable would be the MAC Sculpting Powder in Sculpt or Shadowy. The Becca Low Light is also really great, and this leans more warm/neutral, so good for those who want a "warmer" contour but don't want a snickers bar stripe. If you want to make your own shade, buy a black cream color from Ben Nye and add THE SMALLEST AMOUNT of black to your foundation. (pump/pour the foundation on to a palette or the back of your hand first, of course). Adding black will create the perfect color for YOUR skin tone.
+Andy T That's the general makeup rule that someone told long ago and everyone just goes with. Have you seen someone with very warm skin, say yellow undertone or a caramel skinned girl with a cool toned contour? It looks dirty… Shadows are just that: darker versions of your skin. If your skin is warm, you need something a couple shades darker not cooler.
+Makeup Geek lighting matters too,though. I am warm toned, but my natural shadow is very clearly cool in most (not all) types of light, so I use a cooler contour with a light hand to emphasize it. Nyx taupe is my favorite. It looks good everywhere but the bathroom at work. The lighting in there makes me look like death anyway, so I deal with it.
Omg you just spoke to my soul!!!! I wish I would’ve found you many many many wrong foundation undertones ago!!!! Thank you for your in depth descriptions and not leaving us hanging still guessing blush’s and contour shades.
I wished there was a norm of makeup labelling without the words warm and cool - because they are bound to definition and perception. According to your definition I'm warm, but according to MAC and many drug store companies I'm cool. OCC does the labelling right imo - they use Y for yellow-based and R for red-based base products. Per se, red does NOT make a colour cool! In reality it's the addition of blue/cyan and/or absense of yellow. For someone like me who went to an art school this is really a pet peeve, but who said the makeup industry was logical, right?
Mac Cosmetics labeling is VERY confusing. Mac is basiclly opposite of everything else. I am CLEARLY cool toned, no question. For whatever reason (a mac employee will give a long explanation) I wear mac NW. It matches perfectly and has pink undertones. NC from mac has yellow undertones.
She mentioned that warm and cool skintones really only affect your face makeup and not your eye makeup. In my case, I big to differ. My skin tone has so much yellow undertones that the warmest eyeshadows really look the most flattering to me. I get compliments for days when I wear warm eyeshadows. I'm talking about very warm eyeshadows like red brick from Mac. Even warm shadows such as brown script from mac look so bland on me even though that's considered already a very warm eyeshadow for many people's skin tones. On my skin, it looks more like a neutral brown. I can see her take on the blush though. When I wear a full face of warm makeup, including blush, I look way too warm LOL. I will try to include a cooler tone for my blush and see how I like it. Very helpful video!
You may be neutral. It could also depend on the season. I am definitely cool toned when I am at my fairest. When I have a tan I tend to pull a little more warm. So overall, I consider myself neutral but it really depends on the season.
Or you could be olive. Olive is greenish tone and olive people can look yellow and require yellow foundation but they look way better in cool tone clothes and therefore considered to be neutral. A bit confusing.
this is the first time I've seen your blush compacts and the packaging is absolutely magnificent it looks so high end. You did a fantastic job, Congrats
I love Marlena and her videos but I think , generally in a well structured video you should mention the ''rule'' that says ''choose the same undertone as you in products because it looks more harmonized'' . You should mention both ''rules'' because many people have different prefrences and each of these two cases have different effects . If you choose the same undertone blush then it's going to look more natural , more like you , it's gonna make your face more awaken . If you choose the opposite undertone it's going to pop more , not have everything too matchy-matchy and balance the undertones . I prefer for me and my clients to go the ''same undertone'' route because it looks more pulled together and everything just ties up nicely (imo) . But of course eveyone can choose whatever they want . I just wanted to mention this in case anyone was wandering or was confused .
I found the blush information very interesting. I am a warm tone fair person who tends to go for peach and warm tones because I feel pink is unflattering due to some acne scarring, but I am going to try out some of those soft purple shades. Thank you Marlena for sharing!!
I have red/pink undertones with fair skin so would technically be cool toned . But, for some reason, cool foundations always make me look pink or redder. I always have looked better with the yellow warm under-toned foundations that counteracted the redness. I don't get how a cool toned complexion that is already pinkish or reddish needs more pink cool toned colors in foundation?
+urthebest1122 It's not so much that it 'needs' anything, the point of foundation is not really to counteract the colour, just to set a base that matches with your skin. Redness does not always mean cool toned (I'm an example myself), it could just be flush. Maybe try different brands (and match foundation to your neck!), and if they all make you look weird you may be neutral or warm. Good luck!
The interesting thing about what youre saying is that you may indeed be a more neutral undertone or fall on the cooler side of neutral (as i sometimes do depending on the brand) and you may just have some ruddines to your complexion as many of us fair-skinned people do. I mistook my rudiness for a complete cool undertone for a long time many yrs ago, only to find that im a cooler neutral. I mistook the rudiness and uneven skintone for a cooler undertone. Perhaps you are a neutral. But the other side of the coin is that you could be a cool tone and just have some ruddiness to contend with and the yellower toned foundations are simply counteracting that redness. Theres no one answer to this that fits across the board for all. The only one that can say definitively what your actual undertone is, is you or someone who can actually see you and see what foundations work or better yet, which ones dont work. Good luck! 😉
+Allyson C. (Ally) Yes, I can wear the neutrals so I am probably in that range but even some of those look pasty on me. The yellow based always look best and that's judging from what I see and when I've asked several people around me, the yellow based warm foundations always look better on me then a the cool or even neutral. But, technically, I'm a cool toned as I've been told by a couple of makeup pros. I guess I'm one of those exceptions that don't fit the rules, lol. Thanks for the thoughts! )
+urthebest1122 those cool toned people who don't have a lot of redness in their face look fine with cool-toned foundation. However if a cool toned person has a lot of redness on their face (which a lot of people do) then it needs counteracting with neutral or yellow foundation otherwise it will just make the face even more red. So those people who have even skintone can match exactly but others need conteracting.
Bella Davies actually olive is a warm green. Ill explain. If you look at a regular (crayola crayon-type) green on the color wheel, next to it youll see that olive green is just that regular (crayola-type) green with yellow added to it. So, because yellow has been added to it, this would changr it to a warmer color. To make the green cooler, you would add blue to it, turning the green to a teal or turquouse. Thus making olive green a warmer color and teal/turquoise a cooler color. Any color with yellow added will begin to change the color to a warmer tone. Any color with blue added will begin to change it to a cooler tone. I hope this provides some clarity! 😊
This was super informative , and I totally agree with the contour shade omg! Everyone says to only use cool but on super warm skin it can look real muddy real fast!
Marlena, thank you so much for this, I hope you do a whole lot more of these videos. I love learning about makeup and especially love hearing tips, tricks and colours that compliment my skin tone. Another way to tell if your warm or cool is to stand in front of a mirror, get a piece of white paper and hold it next to your skin/face in a well lit room. Compare your skin colour next to the white paper. If your skin looks rose/gold or yellow, you're probably warm. If it looks pinky or blueish compared to the white, you're probably cool. I just found this the easiest way. I found it hard to tell using vein colour for some reason. The jewelry test using silver and gold is a great way to tell too. I'm fair to light-medium but i have obvious yellow tones to my skin. Oh, and I just bought the 9 piece set of blushes on sale, i'm soo exited to try them out! yay!
I do agree that most people have a warm or yellow undertone, I would actually say about 90% of people have a yellow undertone. But I do not agree that more fair skinned people have cool toned skin than medium to dark skinned people. This is a very widely believed myth. Fair, medium, and dark skinned people have an equal amount of cool and warm undertones. Actually, nobody is just a warm or cool toned. Everyone has a mixture of the two tones. What matters is the ratio of yellow to pink tones.
You explained it really well! It took me so long to get my head round this when I was at makeup school. It doesn't help that MAC makes their shade in reverse!!
What if you have warm tone, but a redness due to mild rosacea? I'm thinking warm for foundation, but what about blush & contour? Pink blush seems to highlight the redness /pinkness from the rosacea. Usually end up with a coral. I've never been happy with any contours, they always seem to look muddy/ dirty. Maybe because they were warm and due to the pinkieness from the rosacea I need something cooler? The pinkness from the rosacea makes it confusing.
My skn switched. Im 31 and have always had cool undertones. Last year I did two months of fasting, during which I developed Gilbert's syndrome (a very mild form of jaundice - non harmful). My skin yellowed (not drastically noticeable) and never went back. I think i'm a true neutral now. Happy Sunday! Thank you for posting this!
The veins on the bottom of my palm are blueish purple, but the veins down the middle are more green... am I neutral? But pink-y foundations always look odd on me
This vid helped me so much. I didn't realize it's much better to chose a blush in the opposite of my tone, very good to know, thank you! I'm warm toned and did notice certain blushes added so much more life to my face. Like the blush in the Urban Decay Naked on the Run palette looks beautiful on my skin tone. Great video Marlena, hugs!
People are going on about your foundation being light, but I'm sure it's the lighting! I just wanted to say TY for this video AND that your skin looks FLAWLESS! And the eye MU is bomb. ;)
How come u made your skin too pale in this tutorial dedicated to determining your undertones? I love ur tutorials and have been a subscriber since the beginning but it's quite obvious.... Was this intentional? Some sort of a make up look? It looks pure white almost.
What about lipstick choices? Should you go with undertones that match your skin or is it more flattering to do the opposite? Sorry if you answered this already. I might have missed it in the video. Thanks for doing this by the way. It's very helpful. :)
I know with reds, you're supposed to stick to the same. Cool tone skin is supposed to use cool toned, blue based reds. Warm is supposed to used warmer, orange based reds. I'm not sure that rule applies to other colors.
ALWAYS A BIG HELP MARLENA! If you are ever in LA giving a class please announce it because i would definitely attend! You are an amazing teacher! I am looking forward to more of these educational makeup videos!
I still can not determine my undertone.. My veins look like a mixture of blue and green... As far as Jewerly, I don't think one looks better on me (Silver or Gold), and the same goes for wearing colors...
Thank you for this...super helpful not many people say which ones to choose for blush and contour. And your look in this video is stunnning I want to buy the whole outfit and look even the hair haha. I appreciate you being a genuine makeup up artist in the community and happy you are still around
I love your videos. But one thing... you work hard for your company. You built something you are proud of and you are confident in your products. Please don't apologize for "pushing" your products. I haven't tried them myself, but I plan on placing an order after all the Christmas rush, but I have heard great things about them from a lot of people. So push your brand all you like. :)
So I'm pretty sure I'm warm toned, which I only recently found out. I was trying to figure out which Mac paint pot to get, painterly or soft ochre. Turns out soft ochre was a better match. I LOVE this video and I can't wait for more like it.
I think I'm neutral. But regardless, I advise all cool toned people to stay the helllll away from the "cool toned" foundations. They are sooo pink and they'll end up making you look flushed all the time. Find a neutral or a neutral-warm one.
I can't wait for you to do contour powders. In general, there just aren't tons of cool toned contour powders, especially at affordable prices. I've had issues finding affordable brow products that were cool toned as well, though there seem to be more choices now.
question for cool skin types... I heard that if you have cool toned skin that you shouldn't use foundations with pink undertones because it accentuates your already pink looking skin?
nah, not if it's a wearable color. Some foundations are pure bright pink, and everyone avoids those, but most are wearable. Now we have a question for you. How do you wear yellow toned without looking jaundiced? lol, WE WANT TO KNOW
+Stephanie Klauck and +DancesWithBeauty If you have cool-toned skin, wear cool-toned foundation. If you have a good colour match it won't accentuate the pink. Wearing warm-toned (or even neutral, to an extent) foundation will always make you look yellow and will never look natural. Like she was explaining with the blush, you can add warmth to your face in other ways, but foundation is only meant to even out your complexion/natural skin colour, whatever shade and undertone that may be!
+Stephanie Klauck This is only really a problem with cheap drugstore foundations (like covergirl) that run VERY pink in their pale shades and don't actually look like skin, and then oxidise even pinker again. I avoid drugstore foundations altogether for this reason. But if it's a good natural looking cool toned foundation, it would look fine.
+Stephanie Klauck I prefer to accentuate my cool undertones. I always rock pink-based foundations and it looks fabulous (in my opinion, which on the other hand is the only one that matters).
I just stumbled on this video. I NEED a cool toned contour but I don't want to buy a huge palette! Any of the contours that come in a smaller palette or in a single are soooo warm! I hope you come out with your new contour products soon!
Omg! This was literally the BIGGEST help for me, like i have never watched a video ever that has helped me as much as this one. Thank you Marlena, this was the best video and im keeping this video in my Favorites folder in case i need reference. I didnt know about the blush and contour rule, so that was awesome. YES YES YES, thank you
I am one of those unlucky people that are in the fairest/lightest category and have a warm tone. Most of light makeup is cool toned so I look like death using it.
Nars might be a good choice then. I bought a bottle two weeks ago and I'm super pale. It looks really good and I just need a little powder to make myself look less pale. And really, most people don't even know I'm wearing foundation and I used to wear literally nothing on my skin ;)
Veronika Lah nyx don't test on animals , and they do white foundation which you can mix with your preference of warm foundation from any cruelty free brand. Hope that helps
Hey Veronika, I feel your pain! I am extremely pale naturally, so everybody called me fair and told me to get ivory shades. I always looked dead in them. I am very pale until I tan, and then I tan a golden. I also have golden freckles, naturally pink cheeks, and a neck that is 4 shades lighter than my face. I finally went to Sephora to get the color analysis done. Even they had trouble at first, for they wanted to try to come up with a color that was in between my neck and face color. This shade looked horrible! Then, a different consultant came up and said although you are very pale, you have golden undertones, which means that you are warm toned. Therefore, ignore the fair and the pink cheeks, and the white lily neck. Come up with a darker shade that is warm that is flattering for your face with your hair and eyes. Then, you will have to use the foundation on your neck until you get a tan to get the right color. This worked! She found a shade that was perfect for me! She also gave me a color IQ number that was for the shade of foundation that I should look for, not just the one that my "face scanned for". I was so thankful for this! If you have a Sephora near you, I would highly recommend trying to get them to help you. You would not have to do the full makeover. They do free 10 minute consultations per category, so you could get feedback on the right shade, and then will even let put the sample on you, so that you can see what it looks like. Some people do not know this either, but they will give you up to 3 free samples in each section of the store, so you can try it before committing, and they also allow you to return the makeup if it is in the wrong shade. Don't give up, though, for even the color consultants stated that I was very diffficult to match, but were able to find the perfect shade for me! They can help you, too:)!
Ew I hate people like you. You don't know her, many people fidget due to underlying reasons usually anxiety, ADD, ADHD or sometimes because of past abuse. please please please STOP grasping at straws to be hateful !!! Very annoying that everyone on UA-cam does it instead of just simply moving the fuck along. Do people like you realize there are 1000000s of channels out there? Why would you watch someone that drives you nuts? Misery loves company right?
Ugh I feel sorry for people like you. Something could be 99.9% good and you'd find that .1% to be annoying and whiny about. Must be a miserable way to go through life really.
Thank you soo much for this video. I always knew I was a warm as I have yellow undertones to my skin but I was buying warm blushes and wondered why they never looked good on me now I know!! Thank you soo much for this very helpful video. This is the best video on youtube on warm vs cool skin tone. Can't wait for the other videos coming. I love educational videos on skin and makeup!!
Marlena thank u thank u for doing a video like this!! no one has gone soo in dept like u have. And showing examples helps soo much, especially when u do a close up. I was looking up this topic for a while and they jus weren't so informative. Plz Plz keep doing videos like this and keep using examples!! UR THE BEST!!
I love your explanation to help my students for makeup. I would love to see your lesson plan template and wondered how you made the poster size eye makeup looks on some of your videos.
Marlena...... This video is SO helpful. Oh my gosh. Thank you SO much for starting this series! I have had this question for so long and I really want to get better at contouring and highlighting so this video was great.
Really good info here. I didn't realize that about the blush. Maybe that is why I am never satisfied with my blush color. I am a neutral leaning more on the cool side, especially in winter. Yet I feel that I look better with a bit of warmth in my makeup. Just a little, because I don't want my face looking a different color than my neck.
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Marlena~ you don't need to apologize or justify promoting M.U.G. cosmetics. You are fortunate enough to be living your dream and you have worked hard for it!!! You go girlfriend.
Totally agree 😀
Shara Andreini Of course!She deserves it!!
It might be interesting if you brought in "models" that are cool and warm and did tutorials and showed different options on each girl.
Great idea :)
I love this idea!
I think this would really help :)
+Agree.
She said she will do tutorials for each section & show examples & applications! It has to include models! It will be great!
omg no matter how many videos i watch with this subject, I CANT figure out what i am... i just wish marlena could see me and tell me what i am... grrrr the fustration is real...
+gwgw kal I hear you!
It you can't decide then you probably are a neutral...
same here, I've spent a lot of money trying foundations and still haven’t found the right one for me.
Finally- an educational video on UA-cam instead of just another "preference" video!!! I've been needing this!!! I've seen all the oily skin vs dry skin videos...I needed the skin tone video...love love love! Thank you!
For makeup newbies: MAC labels their foundations in reverse. I have warm undertones but I'm an NC40 in MAC. My fair skinned friend is cool-toned but she wears NW20. I know it's weird.
+AbbySaysHella This had me so confused for a while. I kept looking at warm foundations and I couldn't understand why they looked so yellow on me when my concealer was NW15. That was a learning experience >.
NC = not cool
NW=not warm
if i remember correctly i think thats what it means lol I'm warm i use nc30
I'm so glad you mentioned this because I thought I was going insane! I wear NC37 and consider myself warm toned. Thanks for clarifying that because I've been confused about that for a long time!
+AbbySaysHella i HATE how mac does that.
+AbbySaysHella Another thing that MAC does is separate yellow tones and red tones. Both are warm, but if you have a yellow tone you're NC, and if you have more of a red tone you're NW.
Girl don't apologize for using Makeup Geek blushes as examples you've worked and continue to work so hard to grow your company and plus Makeup Geek products are THE BOMB! xo
This always confuses me cause my veins look blue to me but I'm pretty sure I'm warm toned because I look good in gold and red and warm tones in general.
Sometimes if you look good in warm colors you may be cool toned. Because of complimentary colors are on the opposite of the color wheel. It also depends on hair color too. If you have cool toned hair you'll look good in warm toned clothes. If that makes sense :)
+Shelby Reece Actually, if you look best in warm shades, you likely have a warm, yellow-based skin tone. A person with a pink or blue-toned complextion looks much better in cool-toned shades, and colours. Complimentary colôurs do not flatter the opposite skin tone; that is why people have their 'Colours done', and determine theîr skin tone so they ẃill know the colours, shades, and intensities of them, to best flatter their skin tone. People should wear the same tones in clothes, face make up, eye make up,lipstick, hair colour, and jewellery as their skin tone. If you have a cool-toned complexion,your môst flattering make up, hair colour, jewellery, etc. will also be cool-toned., and vice versa.Hair colôur can actually confuse things; if someone colours their hair opposite to their skin tone, it can be extremely difficult to wear your most flattering colours. Your hair should match your skin tone, and not compete with it.. Those with cool-toned ĉomplexions should dye their hair using cool-toned ôr neutral shades, and not warm. Hope that helps, Sherrey❤
+Timothy Sherrey Ehler ok this just confused me lol. So I'm super fair with red hair and blue eyes n all so as she said I'd be cool toned. But isn't red in general a warm tone? So ur saying I should dye my hair a cooler tone to look better? 😕
+Timothy Sherrey Ehler ok this just confused me lol. So I'm super fair with red hair and blue eyes n all so as she said I'd be cool toned. But isn't red in general a warm tone? So ur saying I should dye my hair a cooler tone to look better? 😕
+Timothy Sherrey Ehler ok this just confused me lol. So I'm super fair with red hair and blue eyes n all so as she said I'd be cool toned. But isn't red in general a warm tone? So ur saying I should dye my hair a cooler tone to look better? :/
The woman in the video is wearing a foundation that is too cool toned, if you notice her neck is much more yellow/warm than her face.
i totally agree with the contour powder should be the same colour as your skin! so many MUA's advice to always go cool with contour shades, but if i use a cool colour on a warm client it looks like five o clock shadow! not cute
I agree and I learned the hard way when I was starting because it would look like mud, now I stick to what makes sense...
I have a warm skin with very strong yellow undertone. When I wear warm contour shades They end up looking so orange they dont even look like a shadow that a contour is supposed to mimic. So I decided to wear anastasia fawn n kevyn aucoin scultping powder in medium they are cool tone and omg I love them, they mimic a shadow on my face. I keep it everything cool on my warm skin, except for eyeshadows. I like my eyeshadows warm, cool tone eyeshadows ie purple make me look like I have a bruised eye
And I like my foundation warm as well. 😁
+Sam Powell I never knew about this! I bought nyx blush in taupe thinking it would be great and it just looks super ashy and like you said a five o'clock shadow!! so glad she said something about it cuz now it makes sense why the warm or neutral bronzers i have look fine for a contour.
You've done something no one on UA-cam has done. I've struggled with warm vs cool. Thank you so much this video changed my life!!!
This is the best informational video I have seen on UA-cam. You answered sooooooooo many of my questions. Thanks for taking the time to explain warm/cool tones. Have a great day!
I know this isn't a new video and I'm late to the party, but I'm very confused by this. I used to model a lot and my makeup was done professionally for shows. I learned a great deal from them. I am very warm toned with yellow/golden blonde hair and yellow skin tone, some ruddiness in my cheeks when I'm flushed. I was always so pleasantly surprised when a makeup artist put me in warmer tones, like a yellow-based foundation, coral-orange blush and coral lipstick. The Charles of the Ritz guys were THE BEST - on (tealish blue) eyes: beautiful browns and peaches with tiny teal/turquoise pop. I never, ever looked anywhere near as good if they went with pinks at all anywhere expect like "pink chocolates." So what you're saying is that the ones that looked almost jarring to me is the right way and the one that looks harmonious is the wrong one? I feel like I've misunderstood something. Not trying to push your patience and truly not criticizing. I want to do it right, but maybe I've been doing it wrong all this time (I'm turning 52 in a few weeks! That's a lot of wrong-way years!!) Thanks for any help.
Thank you Marlena! I see so many people who do not understand this concept, and they wear shades that just do not flatter their skin tones at all! I had my 'Colours' done way back in 1981, and I have been able to wear make up, and clothes that make me look the best with my skin tone, and Colours. I strongly dîsagree that you should wear blushes, and face make up that is opposite to your Colours, and skin tone! That goes against everything I have ever learned, or experienced. I have a very fair, cool-toned, blue-based "Winter' complexion, with porcelain skin, and dark brown hair, and eyes. The blushes, and lipsticks I can wear are true blue-toned reds, cool-toned lilacs (I wear 'Secret Admirer'), and cool-toned pinks (I wear 'Hanky Panky blush'), some berries, and fuschias. I absolutely cannot wear peaches, corals, yellow-toned reds, or rusty browns at all, which are warm-toned! Colours that look best on me are black, pure white, primary colours, and jewel tones. Cool-toned colours do look better on me as regards eye make up, as long as they also flatter brown eyes. I use contour shades that are also cool- toned like a shade similar to NYX“s blush in Taupe not just, because I am a 'Winter', but also because contour is creating shadows, and they are never warm, or orange, but cool-toned grey or taupe.. I did not think anyone should use a warm-toned bronzer for contouring for that specific reason. My bronzer must also not be orange, or warm. Self tanning can make it confusing when determining skin tone, especilly if it is not neutral.Another way to figure out skin tone is seeing which colour metals of jewellery looks better against your skin. I look best in 'cool'silver jewellery like pewter, white gold, silver, and platinum. I cannot wear 'warm' yellow gold, copper, or brass shades. Just looking at you, I personally think your engagement ring flatters your skin tone better than your yellow gold rings do, and I actually think ýou have cool-toned skin, and you would be a "Summer" or "Winter". “Summers' can wear pinks, and cooler-toned shades, but less intense, and in pastels, rather than primary colours (some colours overlap like purple, and turquoise). You are wearing Winter colours with your blôuse, but your make up conflicts, as it is quite warm-toned, althôugh it îs hard to tell îf you are wearing a blue-based red, or an orangy warm red lipstick. Your blush looks warm-toned as well to me, änd I think you look lovely in cooler-toned colours. I almost think you have similar skin tone to me, although you are not as fair. You look gorgeous in jêwel tones, black, bright pinks, purple (like your hair was), and colours like peach, mustard, rust, olive green don“t flatter your skin tone as much. I also look horrid in peaches, rusts, beiges, olives, moss greens,, orangey reds, etc. Anyway, thanks for doing this video, and I look forward to many more like this, Sherrey in Southern Ontario❤
+Timothy Sherrey Ehler I agree sooo much with you. I am cool toned all over. There's not a single hint of warmth in my complexion, hair or eyes. And I love it! I prefer to emphasize the cool tones in my appearance by always, always, always going with cool toned makeup.
***** Audra, which colour of jewellery looks the absolute best on you? Does gold look lovely next to your skin, or do sliver, pewter,and white gold, etc look better? I am also wondering if you have any roseacea that maybe contributing to the reddish tones on your skin. With cool tones there are those like me (I am a 'Winter') that can wear primary colours, pure white, black, and jewel tones, but we cannot wear pastels. There are also people with brown eyes, brown hair, and porcelain skin who also have cool- toned skin, but they can wear pastel pinks, blues,burgundy, lavenders, navy, grey, white (but no whiter than what a tissue is), but NOT black or jewel tones. They are known to be a 'Summer' in Colours. Just like there are two variants with cool tones, there are two with warm tones: 'Springs' who sparkle wearing pastel peaches, tans, gold, cream, turquoise, etc, and 'Autumns' who can wear darker mustards, olives, teals, purples, brown, etc. Strangely enough , there are colours I can wear as a winter such as turquoise,which is also a 'Spring' colour, and dark purple, which is also an 'Autumn' colour which is odd to me. I will wait on your answer about the colour of metals you can wear, but I do know that anyone with cool tones would not look their best with peach or apricot, especially close to their face. They actually use a large swatch of pink and one of peach, initially, to determine whether someone has warm, or cool toned skin when someone' has colour analysis done. Your current wardrobe colours of navy, raspberry, grey, and red are 'Summer' colours, but black can only be worn by those of us who are 'Winters'. I also have grey, and blue-toned red in my colour palette as well. Red pops up in all palettes in different shades (whether mixed with blue or orange). Teal would be either a 'Spring' or 'Autumn' colour depending on its intensity. Looking forward to hearing back from you, Sherrey❤
CeciliaStory You are talking my language, Cecilia! I doubt you were on the latest band wagon to purchase the Morphe 350 Palette then!! By the way, I got the 35P palette, and if you are brown-eyed and dark hair like I am, you would probably love all of the beautiful purple and brown colours in it......all as 'cool as a cucumber'!! Thanks for the comment, and have a gorgeous day,Sherrey❤
Thank you so much Marlena for the in-depth explanation. I loved how you broke it down by products too!
irony is shes wearing the wrong foundation shade
+shakaka binx a lot of it is lighting in this video- I promise when I go out in public I check my foundation better ;) But yes, it's probably slightly lighter than it could be because I spray tanned the night before ;)
+Makeup Geek Wonderful response. BTW you look #Flawless as usual
+Makeup Geek well done Marlena for being so polite!
***** thats very true with the lighting Marlena, and youve clarified this for us in the past too. Many of the foundations and most especially MG's blushes look cooler until you provide a closeup of them, then i am able to actually see the true color or undertone of what youre showing us. I would have sworn you were a cooler neutral, then you showed that foundation up closer and i was able to see the match as opposed to when you put the bottle up to your face.
Thx for clarifying that! A-gain... Lol 😉
+Makeup Geek Gorgeous as always!Perfect makeup look do a tutorial
I love that you are such a great business woman but still have that humbleness in you that you want to continue to teach and show your followers how to differentiate between makeup to what's more flattering for our skin type
Your such a beauty Marlena! I don't know if it's the settings on my computer but in this video your face looked so cool and your neck extra warm. Anyway, very informative video...general knowledge is so necessary in the beauty/cosmetics industry now days & very few can offer it. Thank you for yours! Besitos xxox
I thought the same thing!
+GlamJackie Sunscreens give a white cast. In cameras, it's much more visible
I've been noticing that on her current videos. I'm sure its the "flashback."
+GlamJackie My lighting is different in this video, so I know that's part of it. Plus I spray tanned, which makes my skin very warm but I don't always spray tan my face because it breaks it out.
Thank you for clearing that up for us, Malena😊 Either way I still Love you, your videos, and your makeup line!! These type of videos are so badly needed. I get confused and overwhelmed trying to pick out colors that will go with my pale yellow undertone skin.
the way the light is hitting off your face is really making the highlight pop! very pretty!!
I think your foundation and everything is perfect.. and what other people are seeing is your highlights popping out due to your lights.
Finding a cool toned bronzer/contour powder is so difficult, I can't wait to see the ones that you come out with!!! :)
Fawn by ABH is a very grey cool tone contour powder. If you don't want to get the whole contour kit you can buy the color separetely on her website.
I like the Wet and Wild one sold only at Walmart. I don't use the lighter side but the contour side is a perfect light cool brown. It's a huge pan and blends well. I found it thru another UA-cam suggestion on emilynoel's BeautyBroadcast Express. She did a quick review of it a few months ago. Plus I think it's less than $5. I also think Benefit's Hoola is cooler than most.
+Hollie Forrest NYX blush in taupe is perfection for me.
+Hollie Forrest inglot has some cooltoned contour powders.. i am warm, bud i tought that contour powder i must have the oposite..after a few applications i find out :D my skin was like dirty or something like that. Now i know ( sorry for language but i am from czech rep ) :)
Benefit Dallas can also work as a contour for cooler tones as well.
This is the BEST information. I'm a 42 year old porcelain red head and you have answered so many of my life long cosmetic questions!!
I would like to mention that our hormones can cause a lot of redness in our face -- blotchy cheeks, etc. This doesn't mean that one with red blotchy cheeks is an automatic cool-tone. Look at an area of your chest where you don't get any sun. That will reveal your true skin tone for picking your foundation, etc. I learned through quite a bit of trial and error that I am a Neutral. My red cheeks looked a ghastly dark pink with cool foundation, and warm foundation was too yellow. I now use the L'Oreal True Match foundation in N1 Soft Ivory -- PERFECT match!
I LOVED this video. My mom never taught me about makeup, so everything I know, it's because of youtube. I have always wondered how to tell if I am cool/warm/neutral, since I have a hard time finding a good contour color, and foundation that won't make me look to orange. I believe I am cool/neutral. I am excited for more videos like these!
Loved this and this series. Can't wait for the next one! ♥ Elle
Elle!!!! I'm so happy you watched & commented :) because I always feel like you & I have similar coloring from the products/shades you buy.
Would you say you are warm or cool? I thought I was warm but now I'm a little confused.
#WWED (WhatWouldElleDo) :b
+Jennifer Micek I feel I am a on the warm side. That being said, it isn't a strong 'warm' so I can pull off some 'cool' if I want to (but the warm definitely looks better). I hope that helps I think Marlena did a fabulous job explaining and I can't wait for the rest of her videos in this series.
I love your channel Elle!
The blush tip makes so much sense! I have warm toned skin and I've always preferred pink blushes because I feel like they flatter my complexion. I've never worn peach blushes or lipsticks.
OMG!! It all makes sense to me now. I have always used the nyx sunny bronzer because I loved the way it looked. Then I saved up to buy a higher end one that was cool toned but I at the time didn't know the difference. I was so disappointed because it looked like dirt on my skin no matter how I applied it. Now I realize it was cool toned!! Great video! Thank you!!! I learned a lot. Though I will probably break the blush rule because it will break my heart not to wear my makeup geek blushes that are warm toned. I just love them too much!
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Love your tutorials! I admire that you don’t push your brand, you mention others so it does make it more educational ❤️❤️❤️
my body is definitely warm toned. I am on the pale side too, but the problem is that my face is cool toned because I have a lot of redness. I'll buy warm toned foundation so my face will match my body but it still looks cool toned compared to my chest and arms. Not sure what to do about that...
I have the same situation going on as well. 😓
I don't think u can have 2 different undertones of skin. The skin on ur face can look different because it is always open to the elements & it can cause ur skin to look like it has a different undertone.
HeyyyCarriAnn12 I have the same situation but you might be neutral
My daughter and I have the same problem, but her's is much worse. Due to me being both fair, and naturally pink cheeked with allergy brought on rosacea at times, I thought I had pink undertones.
First, determine if it is the surface of the skin that is pink, which is brought on by acne, allergies, etc? This is not an undertone, but just your skin's condition.
Second, determine if you have naturally pink cheeks or pink undertones? My undertones are not pink, just my cheeks are. This is brought on by blood vessels near the surface.
She is discussing pink toned all over your body. My son looks like this. If you press on his skin, where you pressed, turns white, and then goes back pink. He has skin that is similar to an albino's. This is pink undertones. Think of somebody that is so white that they look either blue or pink. Typically, these are your "gingers"-red hair, freckles, and extremely pale skin, that almost looks lightly burned a lot of the time. Very few people truly have pink undertones.
I am warm toned,, with yellow undertones, with pale skin, freckles, naturally pink cheeks, and brownish/reddish hair. I thought the same thing about my face, and so would get ivory foundation, and looked DEAD, lol. I finally spoke with a color analyst, and she shared the above with me. She said you do not have pink undertones, you have yellow, and are a warm skintone.I actually have to pick foundation that is much darker than my face in the winter to look right, and then put it all over my neck, too. This then does what foundation does, it puts color and life back into the face. I use a full coverage, to help cover some off the freckles and the redness. Then, I use highlighter, blush, powder, and bronzer to get the color variation that I need in the different places. My daughter has to use the green, color neutralizer first, and then use a full coverage makeup on top of that. She previously could not wear blush, and struggled with people asking her if she was sick all of the time due to how dark the pink was. She also had the makeup transfer to her hands, even when set, and the pink would creep through. She tried several from the drugstore that did not work for her, and then found GREAT success with the green Becca neutralizer, and one of the Becca blushes. She can now wear blush,, and put it only where she wants her cheeks to look pink, and her makeup always looks flawless now!
Hope this helps!
Marlena i have to say.. im LOVING warm colors on you! I feel like with your skin color and hair, warm colors brighten you up so much!! Eyes, hairs, lips, perfect!!
super early and super excited! Loving all my duo chromes. They arrived yesterday which was perfect because it was my birthday!
It was my birthday too lol yesterday!!! Which ones did u get?! 😄
I own Insomnia and it's amazing! i cant wait to buy more MG shadows!
Happy Birthday! :)
+Chelsea Marie Happy Birthday Chelsea!!!!
mystery finally solved!! I have yellowish undertone with light-medium skin tone, and my skin always looked much better with cool tone blush/eyeshadow/clothes.. so I was confused and thought I might have cool undertone. But NO. After watching this video, I realized that I definitely have yellowish undetone, and the cool toned makeup and clothes kind of neutralize making the whole look balanced complementing each other (warm skin & cool makeup/clothes). And of course you have to use the foundation and contour with the same undertone. Thanks Marlena!!
Im glad youre doing these types of educational videos. Even though im familiar with the subject matter, its great to refresh and pick up on details i either forgot about or didnt know. Great idea M!
I do have a question though. I am a cool to cool-neutral undertone and i absolutely cannot pull off a warmer or even a neutral blush tone, it looks hideous! My question is, in using the "opposite blush undertone" description you gave, is that a general rule of thumb? Because I use a cooler-neutral foundation, a cool contour and a super cool (lilac-colored) blusher. Honestly, should i really do that (blush undertone) differently?
+Allyson C. (Ally) I think the blush rule is a generalization, so if cool toned blush suits you better, wear that! You are the best judge on that matter :) It's mostly a matter of taste, I think. I'm warm and I kinda wear both.
Potentially Chique I hear what you're saying, but the reason I mentioned it is because she explained it once and then said (for clarification purposes) "let me say it again" and she proceeded to explain the "opposite blush" rule(?). That's why I asked if it was indeed a 'rule of thumb' and if I really should change this. I get that I should wear it if it works, but if it isn't a "generalization", then WHY doesn't it work for me? Understand lol?
+Allyson Sixx It doesn't work for you because we are all individuals with our own oppinions. Your oppinion (which is the only one that matters!) is that you look best in cool toned blush. I might agree with you, and the girl next to me on the bus might disagree. It's as simple as that. I think I look ridiculous in warm toned blush, and just like you I have cool undertones. I'm not even cool-neutral, just straight up cool.
CeciliaStory got it! 😊 I guess there must be a tiny part of me that still genuinely wants to be able to wear whatever I want and have it look good and I Cant lol.
I've been looking for a tutorial on this subject! I'm Warm/Neutral and been trying to find out for years exactly what my skintone is! Thanks, love your vids!
I'd like to see you in more warm tones, your foundation has been looking more cool toned and light.
This makes a lot of sense. I generally gravitate towards cooler foundations but always felt that warmer blushes looked better on me. Now I get why.
I'm definitely warm and i prefer warmer blush colours. I feel warm tones "harmonize" well with my complexion, when cool tones kinda "fight" with my warm skin. Purple blush is too contrast to my greenish-yellow skin, i feel like a clown wearing it. Anyone else?
yeah, I agree that you should use blush and lip colors that "harmonize" with your skin. I'm NW20, and anything peach I put on my skin pulls super orange. Same with coral lipsticks. As long as I cover up redness with foundation, it doesn't make me look too pink. there is a limit to how cool I can go. I can't pull off that greige trend because anything gray makes me look like a corpse.
+Tayler Brumble me too! I want to try those lip colors but i know it would look bad on me.
+Nadya Aqilla It's all about preference too :) That's why I tried to keep emphasizing the generalization, because it doesn't work for everyone :)
Of course! I completely understand;) Just want to share my opinion. Oh and thank you for replying Marlena! Keep doing the great job!
This was soooo helpful!!! Especially the part about picking blush and contour shades. Now I know why I struggle finding cool toned blushes that work on me and why bronzer looks terrible on me. Thank you! I love the educational videos.
I have a neutral to yellow undertone and it's bloody impossible to find a matching foundation that is cheap cause even ones that are labelled"n" are really pink!! UGH. I'm looking at you true match n2
I have the same problem!!! They are either too pink or too yellow. :( I have yet to find my perfect shade.
try mixing them for getting a perfect shade!
ziggylavigne i use revlon cs in buff. its a perfect match. im yellow and pale. nc15 at mac
Same. So much same. Except I'm completely warm.
I find that most "w" drugstore foundations are STILL too pink. Especially the L'Oréal True Match. Holy crap, those "warm" colors are pink. lol
Luckily, my skin is just dark enough to get away with Milani's foundation in 01.
Sooo yellow, and sooo amazing. lol
+Makeup Geek Thank You So Much for the educational video! This video changed my world! I think my skin is neutral but more on cool side. When you said "blush is the opposite tone from your skin tone", everything made sense. Now I can chose color/tone with more confidence, foundation, concealer, contour, blush, gloss. Thank you again for your tutorial. You solved all the riddles which had confused me for so many years! Yoko.
Right now, I dont have too much of a problem being tanned from the summer but my olive skin is at its palest, nothing ever matches me. Olive is usually classified as a deep skin color. But as I can testify to, it can also be what I can only describe as a pale green color. My mother is very warm toned, her skin being yellowy golden and when I compare my skin to hers its clearly got that green tone to it. I wish there was some guidelines to follow for a light/pale olive skin tone.
I am fair olive and I treat is as neutral. I look best in cool-toned clothes, silver and gold jewelry both look good on me but rose gold probably the best. My hair look better neutral-toned, eyeshadows cool-toned, but foundation neutral-yellow.
+Beauty Psycho oh my god! me, too! may i ask what your fave foundation is? i'm searching for a new one. i tried and liked the MUFE Ultra HD is Y225, (or was it Y255...whichever is at the second to fairest with yellow undertones.) i also liked the naked skin. but, drugstore-wise, i haven't had any luck. suggestions? also, i have the Naked 3 palette and wanted either 1 or 2. i could see both working on me. i have blue eyes and like the way both gold/bronzey/orange tones accentuate the blue, but i look more "polished" with taupe colors. do you have either and could you recommend? THANKS!
+Beauty Psycho I guess I'm just being picky. I've tried neutral foundations and they seem to look pinky on me. I did find a few by maybelline fit me that work nicely this summer but my tan is fading and it's almost too dark. When I've used yellow based foundations when I'm super pale, it too looks obvious. Ever used the EX1 brand? It's not available in the US but I'm thinking it might be worth a try. Thank you for you suggestions! Not too many people have the issues we do in this part of the world.
+L'Aurora Borealis My favorite ones that match my skintone are It Cosmetic CC cream in Fair, Skin79 BB (orange one), Tarte Amazonian Clay 12-h Full Coverage... in Fair Sand, UD Naked in 1.0 but I feel it is not yellow enough and a bit too light so I will be adding Cover FX costume cover drops in G20 into it, Too Faced Tinted BB SPF 20 in Snow Glow. I have UD Naked 1 pallette, even though I prefer cool-toned eyeshadows and this palette is more warm I still picked this one over Naked 2.
+Lynette I treat my overall skintone as neutral-cool when I choose clothes, jewelry, eyeshadows, blush/contour/bronzer and lipstick. Pale olive people look best in jeweled colors like navy, blues, burgundy, greys, black, white, puple (cool) I think. But when it comes to foundation I go for slightly yellow-olive to contract redness in my face. If I wear neutral foundation my face also looks too pink so I always make sure there is enough yellow in it. Maybe you are picking foundations that are too dark? Match to your neck not other way around. Have you tried any foundations/CC creams I mentioned in the previous comment (most of them are yellow-olive)? Alima Pure and Meow Cosmetics have straight up olive shades that work awesome but they are mineral makeup and I can only wear that in the summer (too drying).
A few places I've had my foundation matched they say I'm neutral, but I've always had a hard time matching myself. Thank you for this video.
For contour powders, you actually want to use a color with cool/neutral undertones, no matter what your under tone is, because natural shadows are gray and have cool undertones. The whole point of contouring is to add definition to the face using light and shadow, and bronzers can't mimic shadows because they *bronze* and *add warmth*. Kevyn Aucoin Sculpting Powder in Medium is the perfect shade for light to medium/tan skin. He's coming out with more shades for every skin tone. Something more affordable would be the MAC Sculpting Powder in Sculpt or Shadowy. The Becca Low Light is also really great, and this leans more warm/neutral, so good for those who want a "warmer" contour but don't want a snickers bar stripe.
If you want to make your own shade, buy a black cream color from Ben Nye and add THE SMALLEST AMOUNT of black to your foundation. (pump/pour the foundation on to a palette or the back of your hand first, of course). Adding black will create the perfect color for YOUR skin tone.
+Andy T FYI....Kevyn Aucoin died in May 2002.
CALB2009 I'm aware of that. What I meant was, his brand is coming out with more shades.
yes sweetie, spread the awareness lol
+Andy T That's the general makeup rule that someone told long ago and everyone just goes with. Have you seen someone with very warm skin, say yellow undertone or a caramel skinned girl with a cool toned contour? It looks dirty… Shadows are just that: darker versions of your skin. If your skin is warm, you need something a couple shades darker not cooler.
+Makeup Geek lighting matters too,though. I am warm toned, but my natural shadow is very clearly cool in most (not all) types of light, so I use a cooler contour with a light hand to emphasize it. Nyx taupe is my favorite. It looks good everywhere but the bathroom at work. The lighting in there makes me look like death anyway, so I deal with it.
Omg you just spoke to my soul!!!! I wish I would’ve found you many many many wrong foundation undertones ago!!!! Thank you for your in depth descriptions and not leaving us hanging still guessing blush’s and contour shades.
I wished there was a norm of makeup labelling without the words warm and cool - because they are bound to definition and perception. According to your definition I'm warm, but according to MAC and many drug store companies I'm cool. OCC does the labelling right imo - they use Y for yellow-based and R for red-based base products.
Per se, red does NOT make a colour cool! In reality it's the addition of blue/cyan and/or absense of yellow. For someone like me who went to an art school this is really a pet peeve, but who said the makeup industry was logical, right?
+orangeandyoghurt Yeah, it's a little tricky… But when I tell my labs to make my products more warm, they always add yellow and sometimes red
Mac Cosmetics labeling is VERY confusing. Mac is basiclly opposite of everything else. I am CLEARLY cool toned, no question. For whatever reason (a mac employee will give a long explanation) I wear mac NW. It matches perfectly and has pink undertones. NC from mac has yellow undertones.
+TBirdTrish mac is so confusing so the way I always look at their colors is NW means "not warm" and NC is "not cool."
+Jeanne I always say 'needs warm' or 'needs cool' to remind myself. :) I am cool toned, NW20.
She mentioned that warm and cool skintones really only affect your face makeup and not your eye makeup. In my case, I big to differ. My skin tone has so much yellow undertones that the warmest eyeshadows really look the most flattering to me. I get compliments for days when I wear warm eyeshadows. I'm talking about very warm eyeshadows like red brick from Mac. Even warm shadows such as brown script from mac look so bland on me even though that's considered already a very warm eyeshadow for many people's skin tones. On my skin, it looks more like a neutral brown. I can see her take on the blush though. When I wear a full face of warm makeup, including blush, I look way too warm LOL. I will try to include a cooler tone for my blush and see how I like it. Very helpful video!
I can never figure out my undertone I'm mixed and my veins look green and blue
You may be neutral. It could also depend on the season. I am definitely cool toned when I am at my fairest. When I have a tan I tend to pull a little more warm. So overall, I consider myself neutral but it really depends on the season.
Thanks for the response now that I'm thinking about it I might be neutral the weird thing is cool and warm make me look red or orange
Or you could be olive. Olive is greenish tone and olive people can look yellow and require yellow foundation but they look way better in cool tone clothes and therefore considered to be neutral. A bit confusing.
+Beauty Psycho you are so right!! OMG!! This is the perfect explanation!
My vein are blue, green, purple
I have been told cool tone but none of the foundations look right so I thought I was a Neutral shade.
I've been looking through tones of tutorials, and it's the first clear and wonderful explanation how to chose the blush color. Thank you!
Did anyone else look at their wrist and see a blue vein directly next to a green vein.. #cantwin
Alysha A Yes, me too!
Alysha A yes and I’m neutral tone.
this is the first time I've seen your blush compacts and the packaging is absolutely magnificent it looks so high end. You did a fantastic job, Congrats
I love Marlena and her videos but I think , generally in a well structured video you should mention the ''rule'' that says ''choose the same undertone as you in products because it looks more harmonized'' . You should mention both ''rules'' because many people have different prefrences and each of these two cases have different effects .
If you choose the same undertone blush then it's going to look more natural , more like you , it's gonna make your face more awaken . If you choose the opposite undertone it's going to pop more , not have everything too matchy-matchy and balance the undertones .
I prefer for me and my clients to go the ''same undertone'' route because it looks more pulled together and everything just ties up nicely (imo) . But of course eveyone can choose whatever they want . I just wanted to mention this in case anyone was wandering or was confused .
I found the blush information very interesting. I am a warm tone fair person who tends to go for peach and warm tones because I feel pink is unflattering due to some acne scarring, but I am going to try out some of those soft purple shades. Thank you Marlena for sharing!!
I have red/pink undertones with fair skin so would technically be cool toned . But, for some reason, cool foundations always make me look pink or redder. I always have looked better with the yellow warm under-toned foundations that counteracted the redness. I don't get how a cool toned complexion that is already pinkish or reddish needs more pink cool toned colors in foundation?
+urthebest1122 It's not so much that it 'needs' anything, the point of foundation is not really to counteract the colour, just to set a base that matches with your skin. Redness does not always mean cool toned (I'm an example myself), it could just be flush. Maybe try different brands (and match foundation to your neck!), and if they all make you look weird you may be neutral or warm. Good luck!
The interesting thing about what youre saying is that you may indeed be a more neutral undertone or fall on the cooler side of neutral (as i sometimes do depending on the brand) and you may just have some ruddines to your complexion as many of us fair-skinned people do. I mistook my rudiness for a complete cool undertone for a long time many yrs ago, only to find that im a cooler neutral. I mistook the rudiness and uneven skintone for a cooler undertone. Perhaps you are a neutral. But the other side of the coin is that you could be a cool tone and just have some ruddiness to contend with and the yellower toned foundations are simply counteracting that redness. Theres no one answer to this that fits across the board for all. The only one that can say definitively what your actual undertone is, is you or someone who can actually see you and see what foundations work or better yet, which ones dont work.
Good luck! 😉
+Allyson C. (Ally) Yes, I can wear the neutrals so I am probably in that range but even some of those look pasty on me. The yellow based always look best and that's judging from what I see and when I've asked several people around me, the yellow based warm foundations always look better on me then a the cool or even neutral. But, technically, I'm a cool toned as I've been told by a couple of makeup pros. I guess I'm one of those exceptions that don't fit the rules, lol. Thanks for the thoughts! )
Lol yes! Perhaps so! That may very well be that you are one of the exceptions! 😉
+urthebest1122 those cool toned people who don't have a lot of redness in their face look fine with cool-toned foundation. However if a cool toned person has a lot of redness on their face (which a lot of people do) then it needs counteracting with neutral or yellow foundation otherwise it will just make the face even more red. So those people who have even skintone can match exactly but others need conteracting.
Finally! Someone that explains the science behind picking the correct foundation, contour and blush shade! Thank you, thank you thank you!🙋🏻👏🏼🙏🏼
question...what if your light-medium olive skin? is that warm?
Yes olive is warm
Could be neutral too because I'm olive yellow undertone
I have light olive skin! Olive is warm but 'warm' foundations always look too yellow on me
Olive is green, olive is cool toned but obviously looks warm its confusing
Bella Davies actually olive is a warm green. Ill explain. If you look at a regular (crayola crayon-type) green on the color wheel, next to it youll see that olive green is just that regular (crayola-type) green with yellow added to it.
So, because yellow has been added to it, this would changr it to a warmer color.
To make the green cooler, you would add blue to it, turning the green to a teal or turquouse. Thus making olive green a warmer color and teal/turquoise a cooler color.
Any color with yellow added will begin to change the color to a warmer tone. Any color with blue added will begin to change it to a cooler tone.
I hope this provides some clarity! 😊
This was super informative , and I totally agree with the contour shade omg! Everyone says to only use cool but on super warm skin it can look real muddy real fast!
Wow about the blushes. I didn't know that
Marlena, thank you so much for this, I hope you do a whole lot more of these videos. I love learning about makeup and especially love hearing tips, tricks and colours that compliment my skin tone. Another way to tell if your warm or cool is to stand in front of a mirror, get a piece of white paper and hold it next to your skin/face in a well lit room. Compare your skin colour next to the white paper. If your skin looks rose/gold or yellow, you're probably warm. If it looks pinky or blueish compared to the white, you're probably cool. I just found this the easiest way. I found it hard to tell using vein colour for some reason. The jewelry test using silver and gold is a great way to tell too. I'm fair to light-medium but i have obvious yellow tones to my skin. Oh, and I just bought the 9 piece set of blushes on sale, i'm soo exited to try them out! yay!
I do agree that most people have a warm or yellow undertone, I would actually say about 90% of people have a yellow undertone. But I do not agree that more fair skinned people have cool toned skin than medium to dark skinned people. This is a very widely believed myth. Fair, medium, and dark skinned people have an equal amount of cool and warm undertones. Actually, nobody is just a warm or cool toned. Everyone has a mixture of the two tones. What matters is the ratio of yellow to pink tones.
You explained it really well! It took me so long to get my head round this when I was at makeup school. It doesn't help that MAC makes their shade in reverse!!
I have missed Marlena the teacher! This is why I started watching Makeup Greek back in your early days.
I am soooo happy to hear that warm/cool does not affect eyeshadow choices.
Me too! But I'm still apprehensive to try cool tones on my cheeks and eyes! lol
What if you have warm tone, but a redness due to mild rosacea? I'm thinking warm for foundation, but what about blush & contour?
Pink blush seems to highlight the redness /pinkness from the rosacea. Usually end up with a coral. I've never been happy with any contours, they always seem to look muddy/ dirty. Maybe because they were warm and due to the pinkieness from the rosacea I need something cooler? The pinkness from the rosacea makes it confusing.
thank you! can't wait for more videos like this.. blushes, contouring and how to apply them? yes please!!
I'm fair cool tone yet I think my blush looks much better in pinks not warm tones.
My skn switched. Im 31 and have always had cool undertones. Last year I did two months of fasting, during which I developed Gilbert's syndrome (a very mild form of jaundice - non harmful). My skin yellowed (not drastically noticeable) and never went back. I think i'm a true neutral now. Happy Sunday! Thank you for posting this!
The veins on the bottom of my palm are blueish purple, but the veins down the middle are more green... am I neutral?
But pink-y foundations always look odd on me
try loreal true match . they have neutral, warm, and cool toned foundation
This vid helped me so much. I didn't realize it's much better to chose a blush in the opposite of my tone, very good to know, thank you! I'm warm toned and did notice certain blushes added so much more life to my face. Like the blush in the Urban Decay Naked on the Run palette looks beautiful on my skin tone. Great video Marlena, hugs!
My face looks grey after I apply my foundation nd that's the reason am here but I think she's also suffering from same problem
People are going on about your foundation being light, but I'm sure it's the lighting! I just wanted to say TY for this video AND that your skin looks FLAWLESS! And the eye MU is bomb. ;)
How come u made your skin too pale in this tutorial dedicated to determining your undertones? I love ur tutorials and have been a subscriber since the beginning but it's quite obvious.... Was this intentional? Some sort of a make up look? It looks pure white almost.
shayna mcarthur.some people have pale skin
You are so sweet. And I am very thankful & surprised you have the time to do those kind of tutorials. Love & respect
What about lipstick choices? Should you go with undertones that match your skin or is it more flattering to do the opposite? Sorry if you answered this already. I might have missed it in the video. Thanks for doing this by the way. It's very helpful. :)
I know with reds, you're supposed to stick to the same. Cool tone skin is supposed to use cool toned, blue based reds. Warm is supposed to used warmer, orange based reds. I'm not sure that rule applies to other colors.
+Heather Bennett thank you!
Do the same for all colors. I'm a cool and I always look for a blue undertone. Makeupbyemily does a great series for cool toned lipsticks
+Heather Bennett sorry I meant beautybyemilyfox. Just search lipstick for cool tone and she'll pop up. Her accent is amazing to listen to as well lol
ALWAYS A BIG HELP MARLENA! If you are ever in LA giving a class please announce it because i would definitely attend! You are an amazing teacher! I am looking forward to more of these educational makeup videos!
You can't get any warm tone drug store foundations here in Germany. I always have to buy the high end ones. It's really annoying.
That's really annoying :( I am warm toned and find a lot of foundation in Australia caters for me thankfully :)
THIS MAKEUP IS EVERYTHING. Oh my goodness. You look flawless. So so so beautiful.
I still can not determine my undertone.. My veins look like a mixture of blue and green... As far as Jewerly, I don't think one looks better on me (Silver or Gold), and the same goes for wearing colors...
Thank you for this...super helpful not many people say which ones to choose for blush and contour. And your look in this video is stunnning I want to buy the whole outfit and look even the hair haha. I appreciate you being a genuine makeup up artist in the community and happy you are still around
that foundation makes your face look gray,it looks to light for you
I love your videos. But one thing... you work hard for your company. You built something you are proud of and you are confident in your products. Please don't apologize for "pushing" your products. I haven't tried them myself, but I plan on placing an order after all the Christmas rush, but I have heard great things about them from a lot of people. So push your brand all you like. :)
Please do a tutorial on your makeup, it's stunnung!
Yes! Tutorial on this look! Love the red :)
the blush tip is new to me... totally makes sense as to why i gravitate toward cool/neutral blushes!! thanks for sharing with us :)
COMPLETELY disagree about wearing the opposite tone blush
Yeah I think she's hitting the crack pipe. You should totally wear a color scheme that matches your natural scheme.
So I'm pretty sure I'm warm toned, which I only recently found out. I was trying to figure out which Mac paint pot to get, painterly or soft ochre. Turns out soft ochre was a better match. I LOVE this video and I can't wait for more like it.
I think I'm neutral. But regardless, I advise all cool toned people to stay the helllll away from the "cool toned" foundations. They are sooo pink and they'll end up making you look flushed all the time. Find a neutral or a neutral-warm one.
I can't wait for you to do contour powders. In general, there just aren't tons of cool toned contour powders, especially at affordable prices. I've had issues finding affordable brow products that were cool toned as well, though there seem to be more choices now.
question for cool skin types... I heard that if you have cool toned skin that you shouldn't use foundations with pink undertones because it accentuates your already pink looking skin?
nah, not if it's a wearable color. Some foundations are pure bright pink, and everyone avoids those, but most are wearable. Now we have a question for you. How do you wear yellow toned without looking jaundiced? lol, WE WANT TO KNOW
I tend to wear neutral shades (so I don't look yellow lol!) but wonder now if the cool tones would match my skin better.
+Stephanie Klauck and +DancesWithBeauty If you have cool-toned skin, wear cool-toned foundation. If you have a good colour match it won't accentuate the pink. Wearing warm-toned (or even neutral, to an extent) foundation will always make you look yellow and will never look natural. Like she was explaining with the blush, you can add warmth to your face in other ways, but foundation is only meant to even out your complexion/natural skin colour, whatever shade and undertone that may be!
+Stephanie Klauck This is only really a problem with cheap drugstore foundations (like covergirl) that run VERY pink in their pale shades and don't actually look like skin, and then oxidise even pinker again. I avoid drugstore foundations altogether for this reason. But if it's a good natural looking cool toned foundation, it would look fine.
+Stephanie Klauck I prefer to accentuate my cool undertones. I always rock pink-based foundations and it looks fabulous (in my opinion, which on the other hand is the only one that matters).
I just stumbled on this video. I NEED a cool toned contour but I don't want to buy a huge palette! Any of the contours that come in a smaller palette or in a single are soooo warm! I hope you come out with your new contour products soon!
Loved the video! but your lighting is off. You look ghostly pale, but your neck is tan :/
Bryana Camille Braxton Ikr?!
Omg! This was literally the BIGGEST help for me, like i have never watched a video ever that has helped me as much as this one. Thank you Marlena, this was the best video and im keeping this video in my Favorites folder in case i need reference.
I didnt know about the blush and contour rule, so that was awesome.
YES YES YES, thank you
I am one of those unlucky people that are in the fairest/lightest category and have a warm tone. Most of light makeup is cool toned so I look like death using it.
Veronika Lah L'Oréal True Match foundation for pale warm skin tone.
Thank you but I'm searching for cruelty free cosmetics
Nars might be a good choice then. I bought a bottle two weeks ago and I'm super pale. It looks really good and I just need a little powder to make myself look less pale. And really, most people don't even know I'm wearing foundation and I used to wear literally nothing on my skin ;)
Veronika Lah nyx don't test on animals , and they do white foundation which you can mix with your preference of warm foundation from any cruelty free brand. Hope that helps
Hey Veronika, I feel your pain! I am extremely pale naturally, so everybody called me fair and told me to get ivory shades. I always looked dead in them. I am very pale until I tan, and then I tan a golden. I also have golden freckles, naturally pink cheeks, and a neck that is 4 shades lighter than my face. I finally went to Sephora to get the color analysis done. Even they had trouble at first, for they wanted to try to come up with a color that was in between my neck and face color. This shade looked horrible! Then, a different consultant came up and said although you are very pale, you have golden undertones, which means that you are warm toned. Therefore, ignore the fair and the pink cheeks, and the white lily neck. Come up with a darker shade that is warm that is flattering for your face with your hair and eyes. Then, you will have to use the foundation on your neck until you get a tan to get the right color. This worked! She found a shade that was perfect for me! She also gave me a color IQ number that was for the shade of foundation that I should look for, not just the one that my "face scanned for". I was so thankful for this! If you have a Sephora near you, I would highly recommend trying to get them to help you. You would not have to do the full makeover. They do free 10 minute consultations per category, so you could get feedback on the right shade, and then will even let put the sample on you, so that you can see what it looks like. Some people do not know this either, but they will give you up to 3 free samples in each section of the store, so you can try it before committing, and they also allow you to return the makeup if it is in the wrong shade. Don't give up, though, for even the color consultants stated that I was very diffficult to match, but were able to find the perfect shade for me! They can help you, too:)!
This was EXTREMELY helpful! I look forward to the other videos in your educational series!
No still confused sorry
Your right!! I use colors like spellbound and hanky panky and they work for me. I have warm tones
please please please STOP touching your hair !!! Very annoying that everyone on UA-cam does it
I was wondering why she shakes the ends of her hair allll the time!!
Shut the fuck up
Lol seriously not your body not your business don't be a bitch
Ew I hate people like you. You don't know her, many people fidget due to underlying reasons usually anxiety, ADD, ADHD or sometimes because of past abuse.
please please please STOP grasping at straws to be hateful !!! Very annoying that everyone on UA-cam does it instead of just simply moving the fuck along. Do people like you realize there are 1000000s of channels out there? Why would you watch someone that drives you nuts? Misery loves company right?
Ugh I feel sorry for people like you. Something could be 99.9% good and you'd find that .1% to be annoying and whiny about. Must be a miserable way to go through life really.
Thank you soo much for this video. I always knew I was a warm as I have yellow undertones to my skin but I was buying warm blushes and wondered why they never looked good on me now I know!! Thank you soo much for this very helpful video. This is the best video on youtube on warm vs cool skin tone. Can't wait for the other videos coming. I love educational videos on skin and makeup!!
she look like a vampire... LITERALLY (no shade)
Marlena thank u thank u for doing a video like this!! no one has gone soo in dept like u have. And showing examples helps soo much, especially when u do a close up. I was looking up this topic for a while and they jus weren't so informative. Plz Plz keep doing videos like this and keep using examples!! UR THE BEST!!
Marlena, Michigan misses you! I started watching you when you did tutorials I think in your room. God bless you and your mom! ♥
I love your explanation to help my students for makeup. I would love to see your lesson plan template and wondered how you made the poster size eye makeup looks on some of your videos.
Marlena...... This video is SO helpful. Oh my gosh. Thank you SO much for starting this series! I have had this question for so long and I really want to get better at contouring and highlighting so this video was great.
Really good info here. I didn't realize that about the blush. Maybe that is why I am never satisfied with my blush color. I am a neutral leaning more on the cool side, especially in winter. Yet I feel that I look better with a bit of warmth in my makeup. Just a little, because I don't want my face looking a different color than my neck.