I have a very sad fun fact about misconception 4. when you're chronically ill your skin gets grayer, you skin gets payler. Your hair color usually remains more or less the same but can get duller. I used to be a tan child(&teenager) with light brown hair that shined with golden reflects. My tan leans very orange yellow. I used to be a warm olive, now I'm a pale cool olive :/ shit happens I guess lol But overall I became more cool and muted. Just thought it's an important point because us chronically ill folks usually get overlooked/forgotten anyway.
6:36 i like to rely on saturation in this case instead of constrast or hair colour. Especially for us poc, saturation is the only way to go. I think it was aly art who said "being saturated/bright is like there's a light bulb behind your skin."
It's why dark skin people with dark eyes can still wear high contrast while light skin and eyes have trouble. The darker you are the more contrast you have regardless of season. Also I think we are also more inclined to either actually be neutrals or at least be able to pull off colors that are warm and cool.
@@ReneeDeanei think that you can be dark with low contrast or dark with high contrast. But dark skin tones/ hair colour will always, by definition, have more saturation in their skin/ hair than light skin/ hair colours. So they can almost always pull off dark/ bright colours better, regardless of their contrast levels. Of course, that doesn't mean those will be their BEST colours. What i mean is...for eg. A brown/ black woman who is a light spring will not look so COMPLETELY washed out in a jewel toned gown, as for instance, a white person who is a light spring, simply because their higher levels of saturation helps them "get away with it" to some extent.
I liked Donna Fuji’s book a lot, she had examples of women in all four basic seasons, covering Caucasian, Hispanic, Asian, and black. Of course, Hispanic, covered different colors of skin, because that’s not a skin color category exactly. But it reminded me of a lovely summer woman who happened to be black. Everything about her screamed “soft” while warmer or clearer colors would have been a mistake on her. I only saw a photo of her (black) boyfriend, and it was fun to see that he favored gingham check in warm, clear colors that went with his sparkly, upbeat, personality. It would’ve been fun to see him in person to see if his coloring really suited his spring color choices, as well as it seemed in his photo!
I remember when this was first a big thing in the 80s, it was promoted as a way to overcome fear of wearing colours. Buying your seasonal colours meant you wouldn't have a bunch of clothes that didn't match or have to fall back on black because it "goes with everything". It seems like in this current iteration, people are seeing it way more as a system to restrict people as mentioned but it was originally meant to just give people confidence in choosing colours.
Ha, ive researched and tried color analysis over the last 8 years and i still just revert to black. It’s the most abundant colour in shops that looks okay on me and goes with everything 😂 The colours that look really good on me are rare to find, especially in the right style and shape and fitting
Fair olive and typed as cool summer within 16 season color system (that distinct cool summer form true summer, cool being brighter and darker than true summer.) for me this cancelling out yellowness with cool colors is the most important thing I need to do with my outfits. You’re the only one that is very explicit about this phenomenon of having warm/yellow skin but still being a cool season but it’s super important to realise. So thank you ☺️
I’ve recently realised the same, yellow but not warm. Also think I’m light olive. I’ve fooled myself into thinking I’m warm, but cousins figure out what kind of warm. Well, to be fair I was colour typed a bright spring years ago but I’m really not THAT bright.
I have warm yellow olive skin and got my season done and I am winter deep. I was so shocked. It was done remotely. They said the warm colours made my face and eyes look sallow. They also told me not to wear gold jewelry- I have a whole bunch and that’s all people buy in my native country. So I finally figured out why I like rose gold and my closet is 95% black and 4.9% dark colors already!
Yes as a neutral leaning more warm tone, I prefer cooler tone or neutral eyeshadow and same with clothes! Lol I thought my personal taste was off because I’m suppose to w wear “warm tone” But this makes sense.. color analysts I watch so far on UA-cam don’t explain this like Jenn does… they just suggest warm tones clothes for warm tones and cool tones for cool tones it seems
I really agree with the idea that color analysis isn't meant to restrict you. I say this as someone who's favorite color is one of their worst colors. Upon realizing this it made so much sense as to why I felt like I never had anything to wear. But instead of feeling limited it feels like a relief. Now when I'm shopping I know which colors to avoid and if something doesn't come in a color that I look good in then cool, that's less money spent on clothes. I've slowly built up a wardrobe that actually looks good on me, rather than just clothes that I like looking at but are unflattering.
Yes, most color analysis is eurocentric. Most make ups are that way too. Whenever I go shopping for lip sticks, almost automatically will be directed to salmon red/peach red....... I found the best way is to try and see with my own eyes. Theoretical analysis can give a general guideline, but in implementation, there are so many little differences between individuals and fabric..... Trying and selecting is way more fun than following an analysis report.
As always, your video is spot on. I wouldn't be surprised if you end developing your own color theory and leaving behind the warm/cool primary criteria. What bugs me about color theory is black, white and grey being considered cool colors when they have not blue at all. Something is wrong there. Any insight about that? I think that Black and White can be harsh on a lot of people, but I've found that the material and the shine of the fabric also impacts on the overall efect of the garment. And I think almost everybody can pull off some shade of grey (pure BW grey, not brownish or blueish grey) so I don't really understand why it only appears in cool pallettes.
I agree I can pull of black even if is not in my season,the fabric need to be bright,shimmery not plain and muted black,I notice that i need some form of brightness in the makeup and clothes, I think light is the first,than bright is the second!
I think because pure grey has no yellow in it, and nor does black and white so that’s why they’re considered cool. Put yellow into a grey and it would be considered a warmer grey.
It is interesting. As a Bright Spring I feel one of my best colors is charcoal gray. Yellows in general do nothing for me, to the point where an ivory is much better than a cream color. A lot of this is trial and error.
My mind was blown by your assertion that you can have a warm skin tone and be a cool season. I always thought I was warm and was typed as a spring years ago. I prefer gold jewelry although I think both gold and silver look fine on me. Recently I was typed as winter cool (and got rid of a lot of my warm clothes). But my skin - no doubt about it - is golden. There is no getting away from that. I’d love to hear more about this. The women who did my color analysis told me it was because of my “overtone” but I’d love to hear your take. Thanks!!
I’m like you but with much paler skin. I look yellow. I have to choose light yellow foundations. Because of that, and because of being typed a clear spring years ago, I got it into my head I was warm. No spring seemed to suit me tho. I’m not bright, I’m not THAT warm (warm or true spring) and I’m not that light. I’m medium light. So what seemed to ‘go’ on paper was a soft autumn. But that didn’t suit either. I’ve recently realised that I’m more likely ca cool summer who is light, cool and slightly olive. In terms of softness, as a spring, gold would suit and it doesn’t look bad in jewellery. A very pale gold dress I could possibly pull off. Possibly. As a cool season I can’t do pure white. Silver jewellery is ok, but silver and grey sandals make my feet look dead. Silver toe polish makes my feet look dead. Gold polish, or even bright coral looks better. Pinkish caramel sandals with gold accents looks better. I’ve realised that’s because of the softness that I have. I’m not clear/bright, so silver as clothes or nail polish is too bright/cool. That aspect was a mind blower to me. It makes a lot of sense that I’m a lot softer than the bright I was typed as.
@@cathwalsh9921 Yeah, I feel like we end up emphasising the temperature when that's not always the most important characteristic for everyone. I think it makes more sense to look at these things like scales: bright / muted, light / dark, and warm / cool, and then figure out which aspect is the most obvious one for the individual. That at least have been a lot more useful to me instead of trying to find a specific season that I fit into perfectly.
@@ericathefae "Temperature is not THE main parameter in a lot of people" is one of Jenn' s mantras and the first one wich made me want to listen about color analysis. I was, and I' m, ngl, a sketptical who refuses whatever coerces aesthetical freedom. As a MUA (and maybe that' s why) there' s not a single color than I cannot slay, it' s that easy and and simple for me😅. But this knowledgeable well articulated non _one size fits all_ woman has some mindblowing interesting points, all my attention and respect. 🧛🏻♀️🖤
I am warm yellow olive (when we had foundation mixed by prescriptive they added a lot of yellow and green). I turned out to be Deep winter. I was definitely shocked.
I'm a fair warm olive and a soft autumn who was told she is a soft summer her whole life (probably because I was blond before my mid twenties). I'm so thrilled to finally have found my season and especially learning the season's sister seasons was so helpful. For example soft autumn flows into soft summer, making it an autumn season that has some coolness to it, hence all the confusion when I was younger. And I so agree, just because someone is for example a soft autumn, does not mean all colours of that season automatically look good on them. The soft autumn palette has quite a few lighter brown shades that look weird on me I think because of my green undertone and I can't really wear pastels. I still wear whatever I want but it's been so fun learning about all this!
Yes,I agree with that point that any race and ethnicity can be summer and spring! I consider myself as a light spring even if I am black (race, not skin intensity) because I have low-medium contrast, and the autumn and winter colors make me look dead! Specially with makeup,my features are very soft and light and one of my worst colors is a dark orange,dark grey or dark colors in general! Yes,I think your subtype of color season may change;for me when I were black braids I can switch from light to bright spring (not exatly switch,be able to pull of more bright colors) this explain the problems that I had as a child my mom painting my hair black because it wasnt matching my natural hair that is brown. I am a olive and I am in a light season!! And I am more in the warm side,beside I look good in both cool and warm colors! I look very good in pastels! One of my best colors is like a light lemon yellow!
Yes that colour looks lovely on you 😊 by looking at your pic i cannot clearly distinguish if you are cool or warm (maybe neutral-warm?) But the first thing i notice is softness, so pastels looking good on you certainly makes sense! I have a feeling you could get away with either warm or cool colours provided they are not too bright/ saturated ❤
As a MUA, and chromatically speaking, I don' t think in terms of POC, white, etc. All I see is yellow, olive oil, orange and pink people in different intensities. For example, Chief Boden character (from the TV show Chicago Fire) and Amanda Seyfried are the same color: pink. Each one on the extream of intensity. For me, the difference among them is features and ratios, just cause they belong to different ethnicities but it has nothing to do with color. Does it make any sense? 😅
Finally someone breaks it down!🙌🏼 When I wear gold jewelery, as the orthodox theory says, it literally melts with me, the earrings disappear😅. Silver creates a lovely contrast and adds a crystalline fresh touch kinda diamond-esque💎. 🧛🏻♀️🖤
I thought I was a dark autumn, but when I tan, brighter colors suits me better because my contrast level lows. So now I think I'm a warm autumn that can borrow from warm spring
So I'm pretty sure my dad is an olive (I think warm-olive but he's not gonna let me swatch foundation on him so just going with my eye). I do think he could be like Eva Mendes as in one of your olive videos is speculated to have more red and could be neutral tho. I do see that greenish hue tho...Anyway, his skintone is very in the middle of tan to deep in value. Darker colors just make him look darker and there's zero contrast and prominence in his facial features. The same thing happens with colors that are too muted. Bright colors have the looking separate effect where he's a floating head. Colors too warm and too cool also do something weird to his skin, sallow vs graying it out. Light colors however that are neutral in temp and medium in clarity look good! I can only think that the lightness of the clothes reflect back up and bring out all his features instead of darkening and hiding them. Whether light spring or summer is better is where the personal choice comes in. I say summer, mom says spring, dad says he's indifferent (but I know he likes my clothing recs better lol). I think it's the balancing effect of having a deeper skintone with a lighter color that is coming to play similar to how someone with a warmer skintone might look better with a cooler seasonal palette. Just my theory tho. Again, not exactly sure if he's a true olive and not just neutral tho!
WOW! You look absolutely BEAUTIFUL today. I’m a winter season, but since 2017 have stopped dying/bleaching my hair. As it turns out, I think nature got it right, and as I age, my gray hair is white-as it was when I was a toddler!
I am a 'soft summer' with a very pale, sallow, olive undertone. And yes, I'm definitely an olive. I also know at least one more pale woman that is an olive as well, only her overall colouring is clear, she has very light skin, dark eyes and hair.
People even in the color analysis business seem to think olive means you have dark skin. Uhm no it's literally an undertone, everybody can have a mix of yellow and blue aka green. Even Carol Brailey who is a very successful color analyst made a whole video saying "oLiVE iS nOT An UnDeRTonE". Yes, carol, olive aka green IS an undertone 😅 I think back in the day people used to call tanned people like latinos, italians and spaniards and greeks "olive" when they just meant "darker than us". But olive is not a darkness it's an undertone. There's many dark people who have orange and pink undertones. It's kind of annoying when people don't get it
Looking forward to your color season videos! I was analyzed 45 years ago as winter, and am sure I’m a true winter. It’s more challenging to choose colors these days, though, because with aging I really need to zero in on my palette. A white shirt, for example, needs to be very pure, bright, and saturated or it looks dingy and I look washed out. Lol no old tees for me any more!
I also look best in true white, any yellowish creams, ivories don’t suit me, but they’ve dominated fashion for so long. I think the trends for Spring 24 might be better, “Brilliant White” is one of Pantone's predicted colors, at last. I don’t follow color trends, I use my own coloring as my guide, but they greatly affect the availability of clothes colors for sale.🙂
The difference between foundation undertone and which tones suit you better is true, despite the almost universal misconception they must be identical. Eg I need very cool toned foundations, almost all foundations (even lightest ones) look too yellow on me. Yet i often seem very warm/yellow toned & seemingly there’s zero pinkness in my skin, maybe due to some optical illusion? i even wondered if im fair olive. Correspondingly my best colours tend to be warm (warm light green) although not exclusively warm. I think i’m spring.
I found my pro (CMB) analysis really useful, but I ended up dropping two hues I didn’t love or found hard to style - grays and purples. I also added some colors from the adjacent season, Soft Autumn to my Soft Summer, my overall characteristics are Soft, Cool (somewhat) and Light, but I‘m closer to a neutral undertone than many other cool-undertoned people. I never let the analysis limit my choices, but it does help to quickly scan choices in-store or online. I love the remaining colors in my personal palette, the seasonal analysis was just the starting point.
Seconded! I'm Soft Summer, but I tend toward neutral too. I dropped the yellows from my palette and definitely pull some of the more peachy and green tones from Soft Autumn.
Now that Im seeing you in this video,I remember that you said that you would categorize yourself as a Deep autumn/soft winter but honestly,I just can see a soft summer maybe slightly influenced by soft autumn,and that would explain why it is hard for you determine if you are warm or cool,you feauture are extremely soft,even your eyes.
Her contrast levels: High Her temperature levels: Neutral Cool Her chroma levels: Medium Bright I think she would most likely fall into a slightly Winter season here.
Warm olive here, professionally typed as a dark autumn. Agreed with the light colors!! I have pretty light hair naturally for a typical olive. My hair is light brown / dirty blonde. I always thought I was a light spring or summer from how I look, so I was shocked to be color matched as a dark autumn but it totally made sense. I struggled knowing if I am warm or cool because both warm beige and gray look awful on me. When I was color analyzed, it was clear all light colors were not for me. My color analyst triple checked me as deep since it’s rare for someone with my coloring to be a deep autumn. But that olive skin tone can be unsuspecting with which colors look best.
What you said about warm skin tone but a cool season, can also be applied to hair colour. For example I'm a natural redhead, but warm colours look horrible on me whereas cool, contrasted colours look harmoniously against my skin. What do you think?
@@stylerefinement My skin tone is more a cool pink. My arms have freckles, which is a sign of warmth, but my face doesn't have them as much. Side note, my hair is also more of an ashy red than a typical warm red - so my type of colouring is probably more the exception than the rule, but at least it was an adventure getting typed. Anyway, I really like your video's!
Hi Jenn! Thank you for such a fantastic video and for taking the time to demystify some of these misconceptions! I hope you have a wonderful weekend! 😊🩷
I find all your content so interesting. You have a such a gift for making concepts understandable. I am looking forward to learning more in your next color season series.
I was analyzed as an autumn in the late 80’s and a dark autumn a few years ago. You mention that with more of a yellow skin tone doesn’t mean wearing warm colors. I can see this. Too warm makes me sickly yellow. It has brought me a lot of confusion. I feel like I am an autumn but I have to gear myself to the neutral colors. Still on the warmer side but pretty neutral.
Thank you for your video! As a warm olive person, I find it super annoying that most color analysts claim olive skin is always cool. Actually, dark autumn colors (with medium chroma )help to warm up my skin in a nice way. Very blue based colors turn me grayish green, because yellow + blue = a very green girl 😅
I have Rosacea and agree with your assessment. There are colors that accentuate the redness and colors that calm it down. My undertone is warm, and I am a Soft Autumn I think.
This is so interesting. Especially the part about natural hair color. Visually people guess I'm some sort of summer. I have that mousy bronde hair with 10% blonde, blue eyes, and much of my body hair, including eyebrows and lashes, is blonde. But I only look good in soft colors with maybe 10% softness, like a charcoal with flecks of light gray. Muted colors make me look ill. My skin is fair olive and neutral. The colors I get complimented on most are bright winter shades of pink, purple, blue, or bright spring shades of aqua or tomato red... The color palette with the least bad options is Bright Winter. And I often have heard people puzzled about how someone with my soft coloring looks good in bright colors. I recently tried dying my brows darker and looked SO much better with the higher contrast. Maybe I should try darker hair instead of my typical blonde highlights. Actually, come to think of it, several of the celebrities that are bright winters have ashy bronde hair naturally and dye their hair darker. So maybe the whole concept of needing dark hair to be a bright winter is a lie. Please consider doing a video on people whose primary color concern is brightness and clarity. I often waffle between wanting that sophisticated neutral look and realizing I get many more compliments if I dress like a box of highlighters, and pastels usually look terrible on me.
Thank you so much for this video! I remember buying the Color Me Beautiful book when it first came out. And I have to tell you, I felt utterly defeated by it. It seemed so unyielding and restrictive that it made me kind of paranoid about color. So thank you again, for demystifying the topic! Subscribing right now! ❤
It is so true that the perceived skin tone, cool or warm, does not meam that you are a cool or warm season. I have a light pink-red-ish skin tone that look cool but the colors that is best for me are mildly warm, I am a soft autumn. Cool hues only emphasises the coolness in a bad way.
I got my color analysis done professionally, I’m middle eastern light summer with medium olive skin, and dark brown hair with dark brown(almost black) eyes. The difference on how the color of fabric affects your skin is insane.
I was surprised that as I got older, my skin tone got slightly pinker, not more golden as my Mom’s did. My perfect foundation started looking too yellowish on me around age 59 or so, now I’m 63. I need to go to Nordy’s to get a new one, I won’t order this online until I know my exact color. I can’t wear Charlotte Tilbury, the brownish makeup ever, I’ll have to try other brands. Mostly I just wear sunscreen, but sometimes I like to mix a little foundation in.
I have naturally dark hair, green eyes, and medium tan skin yet was typed as a light summer! for a little while I thought my color analyst was wrong because I never see someone who looks like me as a light season! now I know she was so right :)
Hannah Louise Poston talks about her challenges as a redhead with olive and unsaturated skin! I’m so glad to see people thinking and sharing outside the box store boxes!
Great point about eye color! And my experience proves it from the opposite angle: My eyes are nearly black although I have very pale skin with auburn hair that has darkened with age. As a kid, I seemed to have low contrast although my eyes were an anomaly; as an adult I’m more medium to high contrast overall. Either way, my dark eyes and light skin have been a challenging pair to analyze!
As a warm tone i dont love warm tones all that much except warm tone greens…So this video finally justifies what I’ve been feeling which contrasts to what color analysts been saying!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤ love love love you so much Jenn 😊
Aging can be accompanied with changes, for sure: Eye color can change over time, and skin can fade as well, Making slightly less vivid colors look better.
I definitely lean warm. Gold looks far better on me than silver; though silver doesn't look terrible. However, every single time I'm in a store I'm instantly assumed to be cool tone because of my eyes- I have, what looks to most people, as grey eyes with a dark blue ring on the outside. But the grey in my eyes actually skews green and I have flecks of pale brown at the very center. So my eyes, despite being blue, lean warmer. And yeah, I can make them look more grey and cool if I wear certain things, but overall they are much warmer than people assume.
Loved this! I was analyzed as warm autumn and for the most parts I do resonate with my season. But I have came to realize that some warm autumn colors just don't work on me and it must be because of I'm so fair. Orange for example is not my best color, while it usually looks awsome on warm autumns with tan. But on me it's not that harmonious.
Even within a season there are certain colors that may work better / worse depending on your particular skin tone! :D Orange is an extremely difficult color in particular because of its warmth
I would highly disagree about hair color not usually changing your season. If you are someone like me, who has naturally blonde hair, and then dye your hair dark brown, that is a huge change in contrast that absolutely affects your season. Similarly, if you have black hair and go platinum blonde that will also immediately affect your season dramatically. I went auburn once and suddenly looked amazing in jewel tones that always used to overwhelm me. And that's to say nothing of how fashion colors can affect your level of contrast. I think in so far as hair color changes dramatically change the level of contrast in your look, they are guaranteed to equally change your season.
Fair point - but at that point doesn't it more so look like you're wearing someone else's colors? I've noticed it when I went platinum blonde that while I didn't look "bad" in lower contrast colors (I think it was also bc my eyes and eyebrows popped a lot more since they were the only dark colors found near my face), I also didn't look like... me 🙅
Amazing insight. Also appreciate you pointing out how color season analysis can be so eurocentric in the West, but doesn't have to be used that way! :)
I am a slightly warm fair olive, either from dark or soft autumn. I need both - contrast and some softness. My best colours are neither very cool nor very warm. They are saturated but soft. Yellow are tricky because of my yellow skin but blues also don’t work. Actually I can work most colours unless they are too light or too bright. Neon and pastels are not possible
@@stylerefinement haha I bet that’s also a reason why I follow you, I am a lot fairer than you but everything you say about being olive makes perfect sense to me. Being olive is a crazy thing :D but I’m not complaining … I can wear almost all of my favourite colours with ease because I’m olive :)
Thank you! ❤ I've been getting some questions about my lipstick and they're multiple colors mixed together - I'm actually planning a makeup tutorial for this look since some people have been requesting for it! Keep an eye out - all details to be shared soon 🤓
I’m a light olive and even though my undertone is neutral-warm I’ve typed myself as a true autumn. I arguably look more yellow in warmer colors, but it’s more of a healthy golden glow than sallowness. And while cool colors do seem to neutralize the yellow, because I’m so light in winter I just look pale and sickly. So thank you for acknowledging how subjective seasonal analysis is, because I was trying to force myself into a neutral-warm subtype and they just weren’t working for me!
I have natural hair that doesn't mach my skin. I am soft summer so my fair skin looks the best in soft, muted, slightly cold colors. But my hair is dark blonde with coppery sheen. Depending on the light it may look more copper or golden. And it not always suit me. I have acne and rosacea so, if my skin looks particularly bad, my hair clashes with it a lot.
Great video, looking forward to the next! Since you touched on it with Emma Stone, could you go into a bit more depth around unnatural hair colours that look more natural than the original colour and how this affects someone’s contrast? Emma Stone with her natural blonde would likely have low-medium contrast depending on whether she was fair, medium or even dark blonde, but as a red head clearly has much higher contrast. I seem to have the opposite issue: I’ve got naturally dark brown hair, but have been advised for years to go lighter by various hairdressers from different salons, and do feel lighter/highlighted hair suits me better than my natural dark brown colour
I'm a True Summer in the 12 color system, and my hair does not match. It appears golden blond or even strawberry blond at times. The culprit is the sun damage my hair si prone to. My hair grows as this pinkish beige (seen at the nape of my neck, pretty in-season color) but it bleaches itself quickly and the overall effect is peroxid yellow. Wearing my colors hepls with mitigating the effect and I sometimes put grey wash on it, which turns it to ashy blonde that makes me look great.
Great video! I was typed as Autumn as a child, self-diagnosed as Dark Autumn, but starting to see strands of pewter (both of my parents had the gene for premature grey). I am often perplexed when someone claims that premature grey hair automatically classes you as a Winter, so would love to know if that's true or not. From my own observation my best colors are still predominantly Dark Autumn--although I can and do borrow Dark Winter recs from time to time. Again, thank you for an informative deep dive!
My olive skinned friend is always coming through for me. I don’t really mess with cool colors but I’m gonna try see if I’m wrong about my color season.
I think eye color may only have an effect on depth or softness but not your season. If my eye color affected my season I’d be in a warm season (my eyes are hazel with some warm tones) and I look horrible in warm colors.
You explain so well! This topic is so confusing to me! I'm olive, leaning more warm but cool tones look better on me. But then, cool toned eyeshadow looks better but for some reason I can't wear a cool toned lipstick, a warm one looks better. I'm so confused 😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫
i have this problem too!! why is the case different from eye shadow to lipstick? i wonder if it has to do with opaqueness? for example, when you apply cool eyeshadow on warm skin, the eyeshadow color can appear more neutral. but lipstick can be very opaque, so when you apply opaque cool lipstick, it doesn’t blend with your lip color just appears very cool.
Yes I'm a dark autumn but my face is cooler, darker and brighter than my body. My lips are cool and my eyes are warm my hair is neutral. I wear everything but pastels and yellows on my face. Winter lipsticks are perfection.
Makeup is where seasonal color analysis reccs can be such a miss for me, specifically because of what was described in the video where depth really matters. I would also say that (natural) makeup looks can be more about matching your undertone exactly which is best for lips and skin and then eyes can be about contrasting cool vs warm to play up eyes and make them pop. So makes sense to me if you're warm-olive and need to match with warm lips. On the other side your cool eyeshadows prolly make your eyes look real good.
I wonder if your choice in lipstick shades has more to do with pigmentation rather than temperature! Or it may just be the degree of warmth / coolness that you have a preference towards!
Hi Jenn, I'm not sure if you've already covered this topic in another video but if not, could you pls elaborate more on having warm/yellow overtones and cool undertones and warm/cool skin vs warm/cool seasons? A lot of other videos are more technical and it's hard to find celeb examples as a reference for the topic esp for brown skin ( I'm South Asian).
Thank you for this. I had a color analysis last summer and I turned out to be a light spring because I have a golden hue to my skin and hair but I do not look good in spring colors in my opinion. I prefer cooler colors to take away from the warmth otherwise I look too golden and almost sickly to me
😮 that’s disappointing to not prefer your color palette! I want my colors done but I don’t want to pay someone to tell me that I look good in Thanksgiving colors (warm tonish ) I just prefer neutral cool colors
Yes, it is disappointing. It also made me doubt whether there really are objectively "better" colors for someone or whether it is highly subjective and depends on the theory. At the end of the day, I think personal preferences play a huge role, and you should wear what YOU think is the most flattering on you. Your preferences will also make you see colors on yourself a certain way, I believe. I do not view the golden hue of my skin as something warm and delicate like the color consultant did, I think it looks sickly and overpowering. An analysis might help you understand your own colors better, but you will not necessarily agree that the colors (they say are the best) flatter you the most@@KaliKali-hv9bt. If you know what you like and the colors make you feel good, I would just stay away from an analysis because the results of it might not even be something that you want to follow :)
I feel like online shopping makes all this harder. Shops have made less things available to try out. It makes no difference it a brand has a large shade range if my shop has only 3 shades of concealer. It’s the same with clothes online. Online stores don’t really make an effort to describe clothes and materials better.
I love analysing colours, but I'm not really on board with the seasons-system, it seems clunky and I think there is a reason that new seasons and caveats have to be added all the time - it's not a good system to begin with.
Hey girl- could you PRETTY PLEASE make a video about soft vs mute? In the korean (i think 20 color system) there's soft which is color+gray and white and mute wich is color+gray I think this would be such a cool video for you to make and if anybody can it's you ❤ pretty pretty please There's also those really interesting grayish categories
I think some systems differentiate by Soft/Muted Autumn vs Light Autumn (which I think is what you're describing by color + gray and white). I've got a video called "Soft Spring & Light Autumn" where I talk about these seasons in specific, and I'll be going more in depth with future videos soon! ❤
In my case eye color was also important. Of course, my colorist considered skin undertone reaction, but in my case fair skinned blondes falling into dark summer caregory should have dark eyes. If I had blue eyes, like my two other sisters it would be impossible I guess for my skin undertone to have that darkness in it, or my eye color create a higher contrast and depth that is too much for soft summers but not enough to be a soft winter. This is how I explain it.
Hey Jenn! Do you offer personal color analysis online? I was professionally analyzed as soft autumn and I cannot wrap my mind around it. I always considered myself as deep winter. And colors in which I got compliments are blue and dark red but the person who did the analysis said I should avoid blue and go lighter and warmer. He used spectrometer to see my skin undertone which showed that I have a bit more yellow than red but didn’t said anything about blue. I wonder if I am olive colored on warmer side but the one who actually needs cooler colors to appear less yellow. You were the only person who mentioned that possibility so I really would love to get your opinion.
Hi Katrina! Unfortunately at this moment I don't provide online consultations for color analysis :( I've been getting lots of questions about it and I'm trying to figure out how I can incorporate it into my services though! Stay tuned for updates ❤
The warm skin doesn’t equal warm season blew my mind. I have been told my whole life that I am warm, but I always felt that warm colors always made me look so sickly and yellow! And since I was told I was warm, I stayed away from cool colors.
What about Olives ability to wear their seasons greens? I’m a dark haired, dark eyed draped soft summer & while I love my greens, I get the sense that greens don’t work well even from my season
In korea (or wherever it was?).. There they have a winter subseason called pale winter. That palette contains only winter colors that is light. For that subseason you probably don't need to have contrast between hair, skin and eyes.
Lovely video as always ❤ i like to think i now know alot about colour theory and seasonal analysis 😂 but for the life of me still cannot figure out if am olive or not! Sometimes i think i see green, sometimes golden 😑 am referring to my face btw. On other body parts my veins are quite visible (wrist, even upper chest etc) and they are quite clearly green lol. But i also see lots of yellow in my skin so idk!! Pastels do look terrible on me though...
Forgive me if I've already said this comment....I wonder what it could mean that I seem like a dark winter, but often wearing black just magnifies the hell out of any redness I'm having.
I seem like a light spring, which is the worst season I could put on. If you cannot pull off black, you might not be a winter at all. Try dark autumn or soft summer, if it fits better.
I haven't seen it yet but I plan on watching it! It's over an hour long so I would assume it deep dives into quite a bit of details and I'm excited to check it out :)
I’ve seen lots of East Asian and African women who are a cool season, perhaps even more than those of warm seasons. I’m European, but really dislike Eurocentrism, especially in “beauty” standards. I’ve seen real beauties from all over the world, not just Norway! I don’t understand the obsession with bleaching hair red or blond, I think everyone always looks best with their natural color, God/Nature doesn’t make color mistakes. The wrong color always looks jarring to me.
I still think that a warm skintone equates to a warm season. But a yellow overtone doesnt mean youre a warm season. My bf has a warm overtone and I think he's a winter
More to dive into this specific topic in my series - there seems to be some differing opinions and I want to clarify my stance on it at a deeper level ❤
Wait a minute. I’ve always thought of Emma stone with blonde hair as iconic and gorgeous. I wonder if that’s because of things having to do with visual face weight and her facial features. I love her blonde hair:0
Again an interesting video, I discover I am olive skin tone with your video. True in makeup « oh you are cool tone because I have rosacea 🤦♀️ but this look weird and grey on me because I have no pink in my skin I am yellow golden olive light skin tone. Recently I changed my light brown hair with blonde highlights in warm tones to a cool medium/dark brown, crazy change. My blue/green eyes stand out a lot and my complexion like Mila Kunis is highlighted and yet it's cold while my complexion is "golden". I can dress myself more easily too, I don't understand why ahaha, but I can wear things that were bland and turned me off, whereas these colors suit me well! 🤷♀️
Im confused about what my light olive looks good in and what season that is. But, red with blue not orange undertones, lavender and light teal look good. I'm unsure if the last two count as pastel, but posting regardless
I did dye it! It’s like a dark purplish red - I have a video called “How to choose the right shade of red for your hair” and I actually died my hair in that video so check it out for specific colour reference 😊
i really want those videos about all seasons, especially those 4 from 16 seasons because there's almost no information :( and i feel like i'm one of them
Does anyone else have olive skin envy? I know it’s hard to find products for olive skin, but it’s so pretty! My best friend is olive and I stare at her way too much. She knows about my obsession so we’re cool 😂 Loved this video Jenn!
I agree that pastel colours don't work for us. When a pastel colour is in fashion, I will embrace it in accessories or nail colour, but never in clothing or face makeup...
You look soooooooooooooooooooo pretty 🥹🥹
🙈Thank you ❤️
I have a very sad fun fact about misconception 4. when you're chronically ill your skin gets grayer, you skin gets payler. Your hair color usually remains more or less the same but can get duller. I used to be a tan child(&teenager) with light brown hair that shined with golden reflects. My tan leans very orange yellow. I used to be a warm olive, now I'm a pale cool olive :/ shit happens I guess lol But overall I became more cool and muted.
Just thought it's an important point because us chronically ill folks usually get overlooked/forgotten anyway.
We r in the same boat 😢 wishing you the best
6:36 i like to rely on saturation in this case instead of constrast or hair colour. Especially for us poc, saturation is the only way to go. I think it was aly art who said "being saturated/bright is like there's a light bulb behind your skin."
I like that analogy a lot!
It's why dark skin people with dark eyes can still wear high contrast while light skin and eyes have trouble. The darker you are the more contrast you have regardless of season. Also I think we are also more inclined to either actually be neutrals or at least be able to pull off colors that are warm and cool.
@@ReneeDeanei think that you can be dark with low contrast or dark with high contrast. But dark skin tones/ hair colour will always, by definition, have more saturation in their skin/ hair than light skin/ hair colours. So they can almost always pull off dark/ bright colours better, regardless of their contrast levels. Of course, that doesn't mean those will be their BEST colours.
What i mean is...for eg. A brown/ black woman who is a light spring will not look so COMPLETELY washed out in a jewel toned gown, as for instance, a white person who is a light spring, simply because their higher levels of saturation helps them "get away with it" to some extent.
I liked Donna Fuji’s book a lot, she had examples of women in all four basic seasons, covering Caucasian, Hispanic, Asian, and black. Of course, Hispanic, covered different colors of skin, because that’s not a skin color category exactly. But it reminded me of a lovely summer woman who happened to be black. Everything about her screamed “soft” while warmer or clearer colors would have been a mistake on her. I only saw a photo of her (black) boyfriend, and it was fun to see that he favored gingham check in warm, clear colors that went with his sparkly, upbeat, personality. It would’ve been fun to see him in person to see if his coloring really suited his spring color choices, as well as it seemed in his photo!
I remember when this was first a big thing in the 80s, it was promoted as a way to overcome fear of wearing colours. Buying your seasonal colours meant you wouldn't have a bunch of clothes that didn't match or have to fall back on black because it "goes with everything". It seems like in this current iteration, people are seeing it way more as a system to restrict people as mentioned but it was originally meant to just give people confidence in choosing colours.
Ha, ive researched and tried color analysis over the last 8 years and i still just revert to black. It’s the most abundant colour in shops that looks okay on me and goes with everything 😂
The colours that look really good on me are rare to find, especially in the right style and shape and fitting
Fair olive and typed as cool summer within 16 season color system (that distinct cool summer form true summer, cool being brighter and darker than true summer.) for me this cancelling out yellowness with cool colors is the most important thing I need to do with my outfits. You’re the only one that is very explicit about this phenomenon of having warm/yellow skin but still being a cool season but it’s super important to realise. So thank you ☺️
I'm a dark autumn who uses neutral cool foundation for this exact reason. It's also why I prefer white shirts to cream.
I’ve recently realised the same, yellow but not warm. Also think I’m light olive. I’ve fooled myself into thinking I’m warm, but cousins figure out what kind of warm. Well, to be fair I was colour typed a bright spring years ago but I’m really not THAT bright.
I have the same coloring type and I agree, avoiding that yellowness is the key!🙂
I have warm yellow olive skin and got my season done and I am winter deep.
I was so shocked. It was done remotely. They said the warm colours made my face and eyes look sallow.
They also told me not to wear gold jewelry- I have a whole bunch and that’s all people buy in my native country. So I finally figured out why I like rose gold and my closet is 95% black and 4.9% dark colors already!
Yes as a neutral leaning more warm tone, I prefer cooler tone or neutral eyeshadow and same with clothes! Lol I thought my personal taste was off because I’m suppose to w wear “warm tone” But this makes sense.. color analysts I watch so far on UA-cam don’t explain this like Jenn does… they just suggest warm tones clothes for warm tones and cool tones for cool tones it seems
I really agree with the idea that color analysis isn't meant to restrict you. I say this as someone who's favorite color is one of their worst colors. Upon realizing this it made so much sense as to why I felt like I never had anything to wear. But instead of feeling limited it feels like a relief. Now when I'm shopping I know which colors to avoid and if something doesn't come in a color that I look good in then cool, that's less money spent on clothes. I've slowly built up a wardrobe that actually looks good on me, rather than just clothes that I like looking at but are unflattering.
💯! More efficiency
It also saves a lot of money by having a lot fewer buying mistakes.
Your dog's little fluffy face is just TOO CUTE 🥰
Haha he is cute on the outside... 😈
Yes, most color analysis is eurocentric. Most make ups are that way too. Whenever I go shopping for lip sticks, almost automatically will be directed to salmon red/peach red....... I found the best way is to try and see with my own eyes. Theoretical analysis can give a general guideline, but in implementation, there are so many little differences between individuals and fabric..... Trying and selecting is way more fun than following an analysis report.
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As always, your video is spot on. I wouldn't be surprised if you end developing your own color theory and leaving behind the warm/cool primary criteria.
What bugs me about color theory is black, white and grey being considered cool colors when they have not blue at all. Something is wrong there. Any insight about that?
I think that Black and White can be harsh on a lot of people, but I've found that the material and the shine of the fabric also impacts on the overall efect of the garment.
And I think almost everybody can pull off some shade of grey (pure BW grey, not brownish or blueish grey) so I don't really understand why it only appears in cool pallettes.
I agree I can pull of black even if is not in my season,the fabric need to be bright,shimmery not plain and muted black,I notice that i need some form of brightness in the makeup and clothes, I think light is the first,than bright is the second!
@@YumeraChauque I'm so glad I'm not the only one who noticed that!
@@irnalonso ikr?!
I think because pure grey has no yellow in it, and nor does black and white so that’s why they’re considered cool. Put yellow into a grey and it would be considered a warmer grey.
It is interesting. As a Bright Spring I feel one of my best colors is charcoal gray. Yellows in general do nothing for me, to the point where an ivory is much better than a cream color. A lot of this is trial and error.
My mind was blown by your assertion that you can have a warm skin tone and be a cool season. I always thought I was warm and was typed as a spring years ago. I prefer gold jewelry although I think both gold and silver look fine on me. Recently I was typed as winter cool (and got rid of a lot of my warm clothes). But my skin - no doubt about it - is golden. There is no getting away from that. I’d love to hear more about this. The women who did my color analysis told me it was because of my “overtone” but I’d love to hear your take. Thanks!!
I’m like you but with much paler skin. I look yellow. I have to choose light yellow foundations. Because of that, and because of being typed a clear spring years ago, I got it into my head I was warm. No spring seemed to suit me tho. I’m not bright, I’m not THAT warm (warm or true spring) and I’m not that light. I’m medium light. So what seemed to ‘go’ on paper was a soft autumn. But that didn’t suit either.
I’ve recently realised that I’m more likely ca cool summer who is light, cool and slightly olive. In terms of softness, as a spring, gold would suit and it doesn’t look bad in jewellery. A very pale gold dress I could possibly pull off. Possibly. As a cool season I can’t do pure white. Silver jewellery is ok, but silver and grey sandals make my feet look dead. Silver toe polish makes my feet look dead. Gold polish, or even bright coral looks better. Pinkish caramel sandals with gold accents looks better. I’ve realised that’s because of the softness that I have. I’m not clear/bright, so silver as clothes or nail polish is too bright/cool. That aspect was a mind blower to me. It makes a lot of sense that I’m a lot softer than the bright I was typed as.
@@cathwalsh9921 Yeah, I feel like we end up emphasising the temperature when that's not always the most important characteristic for everyone. I think it makes more sense to look at these things like scales: bright / muted, light / dark, and warm / cool, and then figure out which aspect is the most obvious one for the individual. That at least have been a lot more useful to me instead of trying to find a specific season that I fit into perfectly.
@@ericathefae "Temperature is not THE main parameter in a lot of people" is one of Jenn' s mantras and the first one wich made me want to listen about color analysis. I was, and I' m, ngl, a sketptical who refuses whatever coerces aesthetical freedom. As a MUA (and maybe that' s why) there' s not a single color than I cannot slay, it' s that easy and and simple for me😅. But this knowledgeable well articulated non _one size fits all_ woman has some mindblowing interesting points, all my attention and respect. 🧛🏻♀️🖤
I am warm yellow olive (when we had foundation mixed by prescriptive they added a lot of yellow and green). I turned out to be Deep winter. I was definitely shocked.
@@teacheschem I wish I’d have taken note of what they added when mine was done.
I'm a fair warm olive and a soft autumn who was told she is a soft summer her whole life (probably because I was blond before my mid twenties). I'm so thrilled to finally have found my season and especially learning the season's sister seasons was so helpful. For example soft autumn flows into soft summer, making it an autumn season that has some coolness to it, hence all the confusion when I was younger. And I so agree, just because someone is for example a soft autumn, does not mean all colours of that season automatically look good on them. The soft autumn palette has quite a few lighter brown shades that look weird on me I think because of my green undertone and I can't really wear pastels. I still wear whatever I want but it's been so fun learning about all this!
Yes,I agree with that point that any race and ethnicity can be summer and spring! I consider myself as a light spring even if I am black (race, not skin intensity) because I have low-medium contrast, and the autumn and winter colors make me look dead! Specially with makeup,my features are very soft and light and one of my worst colors is a dark orange,dark grey or dark colors in general!
Yes,I think your subtype of color season may change;for me when I were black braids I can switch from light to bright spring (not exatly switch,be able to pull of more bright colors) this explain the problems that I had as a child my mom painting my hair black because it wasnt matching my natural hair that is brown.
I am a olive and I am in a light season!! And I am more in the warm side,beside I look good in both cool and warm colors! I look very good in pastels! One of my best colors is like a light lemon yellow!
Oohhhhh there you are!! I’ve been looking for someone like you! So I guess I was clearly wrong about olives not belonging to light seasons 😛
@@stylerefinement the color that I metion is on my profile!! What do you think?
Yes that colour looks lovely on you 😊 by looking at your pic i cannot clearly distinguish if you are cool or warm (maybe neutral-warm?) But the first thing i notice is softness, so pastels looking good on you certainly makes sense! I have a feeling you could get away with either warm or cool colours provided they are not too bright/ saturated ❤
As a MUA, and chromatically speaking, I don' t think in terms of POC, white, etc. All I see is yellow, olive oil, orange and pink people in different intensities. For example, Chief Boden character (from the TV show Chicago Fire) and Amanda Seyfried are the same color: pink. Each one on the extream of intensity. For me, the difference among them is features and ratios, just cause they belong to different ethnicities but it has nothing to do with color. Does it make any sense? 😅
@@sebumpostmortem I think its make sense
I've heard so many times that you have to have dark or black hair to be a winter, as if that was the only way to have contrast.
Yeah that’s a common belief for sure!
Definitely not true..
Finally someone breaks it down!🙌🏼 When I wear gold jewelery, as the orthodox theory says, it literally melts with me, the earrings disappear😅. Silver creates a lovely contrast and adds a crystalline fresh touch kinda diamond-esque💎.
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I have the same thing! Someone gave me some lovely gold nail polish and it just looks like I'm not wearing anything on my nails.
This happens to me when I wear a beige nail polish that is too opaque 😂
This cleared up a lot already. Makes sense why I'm a more of a cool undertone but look good in soft autumn colors
yeah im a dark autumn but i steal from dark winter all the time
I thought I was a dark autumn, but when I tan, brighter colors suits me better because my contrast level lows.
So now I think I'm a warm autumn that can borrow from warm spring
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Definitely can be! 💯
Sounds like me. I'm olive, but cool colors are not very flattering. The softer warm tones bring out a healthy glow.
So I'm pretty sure my dad is an olive (I think warm-olive but he's not gonna let me swatch foundation on him so just going with my eye). I do think he could be like Eva Mendes as in one of your olive videos is speculated to have more red and could be neutral tho. I do see that greenish hue tho...Anyway, his skintone is very in the middle of tan to deep in value. Darker colors just make him look darker and there's zero contrast and prominence in his facial features. The same thing happens with colors that are too muted. Bright colors have the looking separate effect where he's a floating head. Colors too warm and too cool also do something weird to his skin, sallow vs graying it out. Light colors however that are neutral in temp and medium in clarity look good! I can only think that the lightness of the clothes reflect back up and bring out all his features instead of darkening and hiding them. Whether light spring or summer is better is where the personal choice comes in. I say summer, mom says spring, dad says he's indifferent (but I know he likes my clothing recs better lol). I think it's the balancing effect of having a deeper skintone with a lighter color that is coming to play similar to how someone with a warmer skintone might look better with a cooler seasonal palette. Just my theory tho. Again, not exactly sure if he's a true olive and not just neutral tho!
Interesting! Thank you for sharing this ❤
WOW! You look absolutely BEAUTIFUL today. I’m a winter season, but since 2017 have stopped dying/bleaching my hair. As it turns out, I think nature got it right, and as I age, my gray hair is white-as it was when I was a toddler!
Thank you so much! ❤
I am a 'soft summer' with a very pale, sallow, olive undertone. And yes, I'm definitely an olive. I also know at least one more pale woman that is an olive as well, only her overall colouring is clear, she has very light skin, dark eyes and hair.
People even in the color analysis business seem to think olive means you have dark skin. Uhm no it's literally an undertone, everybody can have a mix of yellow and blue aka green. Even Carol Brailey who is a very successful color analyst made a whole video saying "oLiVE iS nOT An UnDeRTonE". Yes, carol, olive aka green IS an undertone 😅
I think back in the day people used to call tanned people like latinos, italians and spaniards and greeks "olive" when they just meant "darker than us". But olive is not a darkness it's an undertone. There's many dark people who have orange and pink undertones. It's kind of annoying when people don't get it
Looking forward to your color season videos! I was analyzed 45 years ago as winter, and am sure I’m a true winter. It’s more challenging to choose colors these days, though, because with aging I really need to zero in on my palette. A white shirt, for example, needs to be very pure, bright, and saturated or it looks dingy and I look washed out. Lol no old tees for me any more!
I also look best in true white, any yellowish creams, ivories don’t suit me, but they’ve dominated fashion for so long. I think the trends for Spring 24 might be better, “Brilliant White” is one of Pantone's predicted colors, at last. I don’t follow color trends, I use my own coloring as my guide, but they greatly affect the availability of clothes colors for sale.🙂
That's a fair point!
The difference between foundation undertone and which tones suit you better is true, despite the almost universal misconception they must be identical. Eg I need very cool toned foundations, almost all foundations (even lightest ones) look too yellow on me. Yet i often seem very warm/yellow toned & seemingly there’s zero pinkness in my skin, maybe due to some optical illusion? i even wondered if im fair olive. Correspondingly my best colours tend to be warm (warm light green) although not exclusively warm. I think i’m spring.
I found my pro (CMB) analysis really useful, but I ended up dropping two hues I didn’t love or found hard to style - grays and purples. I also added some colors from the adjacent season, Soft Autumn to my Soft Summer, my overall characteristics are Soft, Cool (somewhat) and Light, but I‘m closer to a neutral undertone than many other cool-undertoned people. I never let the analysis limit my choices, but it does help to quickly scan choices in-store or online. I love the remaining colors in my personal palette, the seasonal analysis was just the starting point.
Seconded! I'm Soft Summer, but I tend toward neutral too. I dropped the yellows from my palette and definitely pull some of the more peachy and green tones from Soft Autumn.
Now that Im seeing you in this video,I remember that you said that you would categorize yourself as a Deep autumn/soft winter but honestly,I just can see a soft summer maybe slightly influenced by soft autumn,and that would explain why it is hard for you determine if you are warm or cool,you feauture are extremely soft,even your eyes.
I find soft summer colors alone to be too low in contrast. I mix soft season colors with black and it works well! :D
Her contrast levels: High
Her temperature levels: Neutral Cool
Her chroma levels: Medium Bright
I think she would most likely fall into a slightly Winter season here.
SO refreshing. All the details I ponder! Thank you. And yes, as a medium warm olive my worst colors are cool pastels.
same here ❤ Colors like lavender makes my face look so dark and shadowed!
You makeup is very flattering in this video ❤
Aw thank you so much! ❤❤❤
Warm olive here, professionally typed as a dark autumn. Agreed with the light colors!! I have pretty light hair naturally for a typical olive. My hair is light brown / dirty blonde. I always thought I was a light spring or summer from how I look, so I was shocked to be color matched as a dark autumn but it totally made sense. I struggled knowing if I am warm or cool because both warm beige and gray look awful on me. When I was color analyzed, it was clear all light colors were not for me. My color analyst triple checked me as deep since it’s rare for someone with my coloring to be a deep autumn. But that olive skin tone can be unsuspecting with which colors look best.
Being green ain't easy sometimes 💚
What you said about warm skin tone but a cool season, can also be applied to hair colour. For example I'm a natural redhead, but warm colours look horrible on me whereas cool, contrasted colours look harmoniously against my skin. What do you think?
Interesting point! What about your skin tone - is it also warm?
@@stylerefinement My skin tone is more a cool pink. My arms have freckles, which is a sign of warmth, but my face doesn't have them as much. Side note, my hair is also more of an ashy red than a typical warm red - so my type of colouring is probably more the exception than the rule, but at least it was an adventure getting typed. Anyway, I really like your video's!
Hi Jenn! Thank you for such a fantastic video and for taking the time to demystify some of these misconceptions! I hope you have a wonderful weekend! 😊🩷
Have a lovely weekend ❤️❤️❤️
I find all your content so interesting. You have a such a gift for making concepts understandable. I am looking forward to learning more in your next color season series.
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed the video ❤❤❤
I was analyzed as an autumn in the late 80’s and a dark autumn a few years ago. You mention that with more of a yellow skin tone doesn’t mean wearing warm colors. I can see this. Too warm makes me sickly yellow. It has brought me a lot of confusion. I feel like I am an autumn but I have to gear myself to the neutral colors. Still on the warmer side but pretty neutral.
DA colors tend to be more neutral than TA colors since DA leans closer to DW!
Thank you for your video! As a warm olive person, I find it super annoying that most color analysts claim olive skin is always cool. Actually, dark autumn colors (with medium chroma )help to warm up my skin in a nice way. Very blue based colors turn me grayish green, because yellow + blue = a very green girl 😅
💯! I’m similar where I can’t wear extremely warm / cool colors
I have Rosacea and agree with your assessment. There are colors that accentuate the redness and colors that calm it down. My undertone is warm, and I am a Soft Autumn I think.
This is so interesting. Especially the part about natural hair color. Visually people guess I'm some sort of summer. I have that mousy bronde hair with 10% blonde, blue eyes, and much of my body hair, including eyebrows and lashes, is blonde. But I only look good in soft colors with maybe 10% softness, like a charcoal with flecks of light gray. Muted colors make me look ill. My skin is fair olive and neutral. The colors I get complimented on most are bright winter shades of pink, purple, blue, or bright spring shades of aqua or tomato red... The color palette with the least bad options is Bright Winter. And I often have heard people puzzled about how someone with my soft coloring looks good in bright colors. I recently tried dying my brows darker and looked SO much better with the higher contrast. Maybe I should try darker hair instead of my typical blonde highlights. Actually, come to think of it, several of the celebrities that are bright winters have ashy bronde hair naturally and dye their hair darker. So maybe the whole concept of needing dark hair to be a bright winter is a lie. Please consider doing a video on people whose primary color concern is brightness and clarity. I often waffle between wanting that sophisticated neutral look and realizing I get many more compliments if I dress like a box of highlighters, and pastels usually look terrible on me.
Thank you so much for this video! I remember buying the Color Me Beautiful book when it first came out. And I have to tell you, I felt utterly defeated by it. It seemed so unyielding and restrictive that it made me kind of paranoid about color. So thank you again, for demystifying the topic! Subscribing right now! ❤
Aw I'm glad you found the video helpful! Welcome to the channel ❤
It is so true that the perceived skin tone, cool or warm, does not meam that you are a cool or warm season.
I have a light pink-red-ish skin tone that look cool but the colors that is best for me are mildly warm, I am a soft autumn. Cool hues only emphasises the coolness in a bad way.
I got my color analysis done professionally, I’m middle eastern light summer with medium olive skin, and dark brown hair with dark brown(almost black) eyes. The difference on how the color of fabric affects your skin is insane.
I was surprised that as I got older, my skin tone got slightly pinker, not more golden as my Mom’s did. My perfect foundation started looking too yellowish on me around age 59 or so, now I’m 63. I need to go to Nordy’s to get a new one, I won’t order this online until I know my exact color. I can’t wear Charlotte Tilbury, the brownish makeup ever, I’ll have to try other brands. Mostly I just wear sunscreen, but sometimes I like to mix a little foundation in.
I have naturally dark hair, green eyes, and medium tan skin yet was typed as a light summer! for a little while I thought my color analyst was wrong because I never see someone who looks like me as a light season! now I know she was so right :)
Hannah Louise Poston talks about her challenges as a redhead with olive and unsaturated skin! I’m so glad to see people thinking and sharing outside the box store boxes!
Great point about eye color! And my experience proves it from the opposite angle: My eyes are nearly black although I have very pale skin with auburn hair that has darkened with age. As a kid, I seemed to have low contrast although my eyes were an anomaly; as an adult I’m more medium to high contrast overall. Either way, my dark eyes and light skin have been a challenging pair to analyze!
As a warm tone i dont love warm tones all that much except warm tone greens…So this video finally justifies what I’ve been feeling which contrasts to what color analysts been saying!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤ love love love you so much Jenn 😊
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Aging can be accompanied with changes, for sure: Eye color can change over time, and skin can fade as well, Making slightly less vivid colors look better.
Loved this video, so helpful and so excited for the color season series coming up!
Me too! I'm planning it out and it's gonna be long but great ❤
You can have a yellow over tone and a cool undertone this can confuse people but it's a cool skin tone x
I definitely lean warm. Gold looks far better on me than silver; though silver doesn't look terrible. However, every single time I'm in a store I'm instantly assumed to be cool tone because of my eyes- I have, what looks to most people, as grey eyes with a dark blue ring on the outside. But the grey in my eyes actually skews green and I have flecks of pale brown at the very center. So my eyes, despite being blue, lean warmer. And yeah, I can make them look more grey and cool if I wear certain things, but overall they are much warmer than people assume.
Your videos on color are the best I've found. Thank you for explaining the nuances in a clear way!
Aw thank you for the compliment! Glad you're finding my content informative ❤
Excited for the new videos on color seasons!
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Loved this! I was analyzed as warm autumn and for the most parts I do resonate with my season. But I have came to realize that some warm autumn colors just don't work on me and it must be because of I'm so fair. Orange for example is not my best color, while it usually looks awsome on warm autumns with tan. But on me it's not that harmonious.
Even within a season there are certain colors that may work better / worse depending on your particular skin tone! :D Orange is an extremely difficult color in particular because of its warmth
I agree with olives not viking with pastels. As a child I was fair skinned and blonde and I still looked jaundice in all of my Easter dresses.
Too relatable 😝
This explains why I need warm foundation but wear cool colors!
I would highly disagree about hair color not usually changing your season. If you are someone like me, who has naturally blonde hair, and then dye your hair dark brown, that is a huge change in contrast that absolutely affects your season. Similarly, if you have black hair and go platinum blonde that will also immediately affect your season dramatically. I went auburn once and suddenly looked amazing in jewel tones that always used to overwhelm me. And that's to say nothing of how fashion colors can affect your level of contrast. I think in so far as hair color changes dramatically change the level of contrast in your look, they are guaranteed to equally change your season.
Fair point - but at that point doesn't it more so look like you're wearing someone else's colors? I've noticed it when I went platinum blonde that while I didn't look "bad" in lower contrast colors (I think it was also bc my eyes and eyebrows popped a lot more since they were the only dark colors found near my face), I also didn't look like... me 🙅
Dying your hair could just end up clashing with your skin tone. Some people grey and it doesn’t match their skin tone anymore.
Amazing insight. Also appreciate you pointing out how color season analysis can be so eurocentric in the West, but doesn't have to be used that way! :)
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Olive Skin Dark colour the best on me 😊
I am a slightly warm fair olive, either from dark or soft autumn. I need both - contrast and some softness. My best colours are neither very cool nor very warm. They are saturated but soft. Yellow are tricky because of my yellow skin but blues also don’t work. Actually I can work most colours unless they are too light or too bright. Neon and pastels are not possible
Same!!!!! That’s why I hesitate getting my colors done.. But I’m still curious to see what they would type me as
You just described me (except for the fair part) 😝
@@stylerefinement haha I bet that’s also a reason why I follow you, I am a lot fairer than you but everything you say about being olive makes perfect sense to me. Being olive is a crazy thing :D but I’m not complaining … I can wear almost all of my favourite colours with ease because I’m olive :)
i think your eyes pop in this vid, brown eyes can sparkle beautifully
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Damn girl your hair and makeup are looking perfect for you today. Link the lipstick, the people want to know !
Thank you! ❤ I've been getting some questions about my lipstick and they're multiple colors mixed together - I'm actually planning a makeup tutorial for this look since some people have been requesting for it! Keep an eye out - all details to be shared soon 🤓
I've definitely preferred looling at each colour indepedently rather than findjng a pallet because there just isn't one for me I kind find on my own.
I’m a light olive and even though my undertone is neutral-warm I’ve typed myself as a true autumn. I arguably look more yellow in warmer colors, but it’s more of a healthy golden glow than sallowness. And while cool colors do seem to neutralize the yellow, because I’m so light in winter I just look pale and sickly. So thank you for acknowledging how subjective seasonal analysis is, because I was trying to force myself into a neutral-warm subtype and they just weren’t working for me!
Glad you liked the video! ❤
I have natural hair that doesn't mach my skin. I am soft summer so my fair skin looks the best in soft, muted, slightly cold colors. But my hair is dark blonde with coppery sheen. Depending on the light it may look more copper or golden. And it not always suit me. I have acne and rosacea so, if my skin looks particularly bad, my hair clashes with it a lot.
Great video, looking forward to the next! Since you touched on it with Emma Stone, could you go into a bit more depth around unnatural hair colours that look more natural than the original colour and how this affects someone’s contrast? Emma Stone with her natural blonde would likely have low-medium contrast depending on whether she was fair, medium or even dark blonde, but as a red head clearly has much higher contrast. I seem to have the opposite issue: I’ve got naturally dark brown hair, but have been advised for years to go lighter by various hairdressers from different salons, and do feel lighter/highlighted hair suits me better than my natural dark brown colour
Sure! It has to do with your contrast level which is the first video topic on the new series. Keep an eye out! ❤
I'm a True Summer in the 12 color system, and my hair does not match. It appears golden blond or even strawberry blond at times. The culprit is the sun damage my hair si prone to. My hair grows as this pinkish beige (seen at the nape of my neck, pretty in-season color) but it bleaches itself quickly and the overall effect is peroxid yellow. Wearing my colors hepls with mitigating the effect and I sometimes put grey wash on it, which turns it to ashy blonde that makes me look great.
Great video! I was typed as Autumn as a child, self-diagnosed as Dark Autumn, but starting to see strands of pewter (both of my parents had the gene for premature grey). I am often perplexed when someone claims that premature grey hair automatically classes you as a Winter, so would love to know if that's true or not. From my own observation my best colors are still predominantly Dark Autumn--although I can and do borrow Dark Winter recs from time to time. Again, thank you for an informative deep dive!
Pewter and gunmetal are in the dark autumn pallette
@@ReneeDeane Fair point. Pewter I knew; gunmetal surprises me since I'd assumed it was DW territory.
I'm glad you liked the video! Premature greys doesn't automatically mean you're a Winter btw - I'll try to cover this topic in the deep-dive videos ❤
@@stylerefinement I'm glad to have that cleared up. And thank you!
My olive skinned friend is always coming through for me. I don’t really mess with cool colors but I’m gonna try see if I’m wrong about my color season.
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13:31 i like those pastels on them, personally😊
I think eye color may only have an effect on depth or softness but not your season. If my eye color affected my season I’d be in a warm season (my eyes are hazel with some warm tones) and I look horrible in warm colors.
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🙌 glad you liked the video Kamal! ❤️
You explain so well! This topic is so confusing to me! I'm olive, leaning more warm but cool tones look better on me. But then, cool toned eyeshadow looks better but for some reason I can't wear a cool toned lipstick, a warm one looks better. I'm so confused 😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫
i have this problem too!! why is the case different from eye shadow to lipstick? i wonder if it has to do with opaqueness? for example, when you apply cool eyeshadow on warm skin, the eyeshadow color can appear more neutral. but lipstick can be very opaque, so when you apply opaque cool lipstick, it doesn’t blend with your lip color just appears very cool.
Try comparing the palettes for Dark Autumn and Dark Winter--one of those might jell for you.
Yes I'm a dark autumn but my face is cooler, darker and brighter than my body. My lips are cool and my eyes are warm my hair is neutral. I wear everything but pastels and yellows on my face. Winter lipsticks are perfection.
Makeup is where seasonal color analysis reccs can be such a miss for me, specifically because of what was described in the video where depth really matters. I would also say that (natural) makeup looks can be more about matching your undertone exactly which is best for lips and skin and then eyes can be about contrasting cool vs warm to play up eyes and make them pop. So makes sense to me if you're warm-olive and need to match with warm lips. On the other side your cool eyeshadows prolly make your eyes look real good.
I wonder if your choice in lipstick shades has more to do with pigmentation rather than temperature! Or it may just be the degree of warmth / coolness that you have a preference towards!
I’m a very pale olive with medium contrast and overall Soft. I do look best in cool pastels and white, but I don’t know if I’m a “Light Season”.
Hi Jenn, I'm not sure if you've already covered this topic in another video but if not, could you pls elaborate more on having warm/yellow overtones and cool undertones and warm/cool skin vs warm/cool seasons? A lot of other videos are more technical and it's hard to find celeb examples as a reference for the topic esp for brown skin ( I'm South Asian).
Yes more to come on this as there seems to be a lot of differing opinions! ❤
Thank you for this. I had a color analysis last summer and I turned out to be a light spring because I have a golden hue to my skin and hair but I do not look good in spring colors in my opinion. I prefer cooler colors to take away from the warmth otherwise I look too golden and almost sickly to me
Might be you're leaning more towards light summer. They are sister seasons after all so I think some colors should suit you 😊
😮 that’s disappointing to not prefer your color palette! I want my colors done but I don’t want to pay someone to tell me that I look good in Thanksgiving colors (warm tonish ) I just prefer neutral cool colors
Yes, it is disappointing. It also made me doubt whether there really are objectively "better" colors for someone or whether it is highly subjective and depends on the theory. At the end of the day, I think personal preferences play a huge role, and you should wear what YOU think is the most flattering on you. Your preferences will also make you see colors on yourself a certain way, I believe. I do not view the golden hue of my skin as something warm and delicate like the color consultant did, I think it looks sickly and overpowering.
An analysis might help you understand your own colors better, but you will not necessarily agree that the colors (they say are the best) flatter you the most@@KaliKali-hv9bt. If you know what you like and the colors make you feel good, I would just stay away from an analysis because the results of it might not even be something that you want to follow :)
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I feel like online shopping makes all this harder. Shops have made less things available to try out. It makes no difference it a brand has a large shade range if my shop has only 3 shades of concealer. It’s the same with clothes online. Online stores don’t really make an effort to describe clothes and materials better.
I love analysing colours, but I'm not really on board with the seasons-system, it seems clunky and I think there is a reason that new seasons and caveats have to be added all the time - it's not a good system to begin with.
A lot of variables for sure!! It's more so to be used as a general / broad guideline imo :)
Hey girl- could you PRETTY PLEASE make a video about soft vs mute? In the korean (i think 20 color system) there's soft which is color+gray and white and mute wich is color+gray
I think this would be such a cool video for you to make and if anybody can it's you ❤ pretty pretty please
There's also those really interesting grayish categories
I think some systems differentiate by Soft/Muted Autumn vs Light Autumn (which I think is what you're describing by color + gray and white). I've got a video called "Soft Spring & Light Autumn" where I talk about these seasons in specific, and I'll be going more in depth with future videos soon! ❤
In my case eye color was also important. Of course, my colorist considered skin undertone reaction, but in my case fair skinned blondes falling into dark summer caregory should have dark eyes. If I had blue eyes, like my two other sisters it would be impossible I guess for my skin undertone to have that darkness in it, or my eye color create a higher contrast and depth that is too much for soft summers but not enough to be a soft winter. This is how I explain it.
Fair point!
Yes, Im a cool summer and my natural brunette hair has red highlights. Which is not supposed to happen!!
Hey Jenn! Do you offer personal color analysis online? I was professionally analyzed as soft autumn and I cannot wrap my mind around it. I always considered myself as deep winter. And colors in which I got compliments are blue and dark red but the person who did the analysis said I should avoid blue and go lighter and warmer. He used spectrometer to see my skin undertone which showed that I have a bit more yellow than red but didn’t said anything about blue. I wonder if I am olive colored on warmer side but the one who actually needs cooler colors to appear less yellow. You were the only person who mentioned that possibility so I really would love to get your opinion.
Hi Katrina! Unfortunately at this moment I don't provide online consultations for color analysis :( I've been getting lots of questions about it and I'm trying to figure out how I can incorporate it into my services though! Stay tuned for updates ❤
The warm skin doesn’t equal warm season blew my mind. I have been told my whole life that I am warm, but I always felt that warm colors always made me look so sickly and yellow! And since I was told I was warm, I stayed away from cool colors.
💯! There seems to be some debate on this topic and I plan on going into more detail in future vids ❤
@@stylerefinement oh yay! I can’t wait ❤️
What about Olives ability to wear their seasons greens? I’m a dark haired, dark eyed draped soft summer & while I love my greens, I get the sense that greens don’t work well even from my season
I think it varies by the person for individual colors! I do think that green in general does bring out a bit more yellowness in the skin :)
In korea (or wherever it was?).. There they have a winter subseason called pale winter. That palette contains only winter colors that is light. For that subseason you probably don't need to have contrast between hair, skin and eyes.
i am a medium fair olive and i think it depends on the pastel shade
Can anyone answer whether a soft or true summer can have warmth in their natural hair?
Lovely video as always ❤ i like to think i now know alot about colour theory and seasonal analysis 😂 but for the life of me still cannot figure out if am olive or not! Sometimes i think i see green, sometimes golden 😑 am referring to my face btw.
On other body parts my veins are quite visible (wrist, even upper chest etc) and they are quite clearly green lol. But i also see lots of yellow in my skin so idk!! Pastels do look terrible on me though...
Checking the inside of your arms or thighs could be a way to tell too! Since our face is often exposed to sun etc.
Love this as always!
Glad you liked it! ☺️
Forgive me if I've already said this comment....I wonder what it could mean that I seem like a dark winter, but often wearing black just magnifies the hell out of any redness I'm having.
I seem like a light spring, which is the worst season I could put on. If you cannot pull off black, you might not be a winter at all. Try dark autumn or soft summer, if it fits better.
Thank you! Dark autumn has crossed my mind...
Yay new video!!😃
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Hello jenn, have you seen the new dear peachie seasonal colors? Do you think it’s pretty accurate or it’s missing something?
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I haven't seen it yet but I plan on watching it! It's over an hour long so I would assume it deep dives into quite a bit of details and I'm excited to check it out :)
@@stylerefinement yes it has a lot of different points that I’ve never heard before, it’s exciting. have fun watching it jenn. 😊
@@n.m8287 yes!! Its interesting but I think it was a little bit too ambyguos
I’ve seen lots of East Asian and African women who are a cool season, perhaps even more than those of warm seasons. I’m European, but really dislike Eurocentrism, especially in “beauty” standards. I’ve seen real beauties from all over the world, not just Norway! I don’t understand the obsession with bleaching hair red or blond, I think everyone always looks best with their natural color, God/Nature doesn’t make color mistakes. The wrong color always looks jarring to me.
I still think that a warm skintone equates to a warm season. But a yellow overtone doesnt mean youre a warm season. My bf has a warm overtone and I think he's a winter
More to dive into this specific topic in my series - there seems to be some differing opinions and I want to clarify my stance on it at a deeper level ❤
The hair colour thing is BS. I had blonde hair up until I had children.. and now my hair is dark brown.. and will gradually go grey too...
omg the puppy 🤍
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Wait a minute. I’ve always thought of Emma stone with blonde hair as iconic and gorgeous. I wonder if that’s because of things having to do with visual face weight and her facial features. I love her blonde hair:0
Opinions are subjective in the end ❤
Again an interesting video, I discover I am olive skin tone with your video. True in makeup « oh you are cool tone because I have rosacea 🤦♀️ but this look weird and grey on me because I have no pink in my skin I am yellow golden olive light skin tone. Recently I changed my light brown hair with blonde highlights in warm tones to a cool medium/dark brown, crazy change. My blue/green eyes stand out a lot and my complexion like Mila Kunis is highlighted and yet it's cold while my complexion is "golden". I can dress myself more easily too, I don't understand why ahaha, but I can wear things that were bland and turned me off, whereas these colors suit me well! 🤷♀️
Im confused about what my light olive looks good in and what season that is. But, red with blue not orange undertones, lavender and light teal look good. I'm unsure if the last two count as pastel, but posting regardless
I think lavender is definitely considered as pastel :)
I believe pastel/olive doesn't go together nicely is because olive is very nuanced whilst pastels (and neons) are bright and flat.
Whats the colour of your hair? Did you dye it?
I did dye it! It’s like a dark purplish red - I have a video called “How to choose the right shade of red for your hair” and I actually died my hair in that video so check it out for specific colour reference 😊
i really want those videos about all seasons, especially those 4 from 16 seasons because there's almost no information :( and i feel like i'm one of them
Coming soonnnnn ❤
Please make a video on how piercing affect face attractive
Does anyone else have olive skin envy? I know it’s hard to find products for olive skin, but it’s so pretty! My best friend is olive and I stare at her way too much. She knows about my obsession so we’re cool 😂 Loved this video Jenn!
Really? I'm olive skinned and dont like thag i look green compared to a white sheet of paper😂😂finding the rigjt foundation shade is so difficult too
Glad you liked the video Linda! ❤ Your comment about staring at your bestie 😂
“A not European-centric point of view” 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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12:08 Shakira is also a good example
I agree that pastel colours don't work for us. When a pastel colour is in fashion, I will embrace it in accessories or nail colour, but never in clothing or face makeup...
I find that I steer away from them altogether lol!