Im just more and more confused. I loved your video on olive skin and i strongly feel i am olive (have been called sickly my whole life and no foundation ever suited me before i started mixing with blue and green), but i am as Pale as julianne Moore (my legs and feet look like a wax doll!) and my eyes are hazel with a warm ring, my hair kinda ashy in some light and Golden in other. I feel beautiful in navy and olive, but is having a hard time with most colors. Terracotta and colors like that CAN be pretty but also too dominant. But I dont feel cool colors always fit me that well either... i tend to Fall for jewel tones but feel awful in brown hues (except maybe a very neutral taupe?) my lips look good in rosewood kinda colors, and peach and pink blush look awful BUT everybody tell me that copper hair looks good on me? Jen Thoden and Merriam Style here om youtube borh concluded from a photo that i am soft and warm, but I never put on yellow, orange, red, ugh! I feel in my heart that they are wrong. My heritage is part Danish / part french. I would love to send you some photos if you are curious or need a video on the palest of the olive skin tones - if I AM olive that is! this video was lovely, now i bingewatch you! 😆
Thank you so much for watching! :) I can totally relate to being thrown off by the complexities of coloring and color theory and it's something that only works when you do it perfectly for you. I'm not familiar with either Merriam Style or Jen Thoden so I don't know the methods they use to color type but I will say that unless you've had an in-person consultation in natural light it's impossible to diagnose someone through just a picture. Our own biases and even the color settings on our computers, phones and in our houses can alter how accurately we can diagnose color. For those reasons I personally don't offer digital consultations and I do think that warm is thrown around a little too often in most color theories. In my experience very few people are actually warm and it's much more likely that you are olive :) The copper hair is what really convinced me because I've yet to meet someone with olive skin that doesn't look amazing in copper. If you haven't tried it yet, you may love copper eyeliner or shadow as well. The reason it works so well is because copper is most composed of red and red is across from green on the color wheel - making them perfect together. Also, the purpose of color casting and typing when it comes to makeup and clothes is to make everything look harmonious so unless you truly have a warm undertone, warm colors will just exaggerate the yellow you have in your skin and can push things too far in an unnatural direction. I know for me, when I'm pale the yellow in my skin becomes very noticeable and if I wear warm or yellow based colors on top of that I look jaundiced and the discoloration in my skin becomes more apparent and I look very unbalanced. When I wear cooler colors though, the yellow recedes into natural territory and I look alive and healthy. I hope that helps and please do come back and share anything else you learn xx :)
Audrey Coyne thank you sooooooo much for taking time to reply Audrey! I am actually quite relieved to her you say those things about my coloring, and I do really think I am olive now! But now what? 😊 Do we olive skins fit into a color season? Soft summer? Soft autumn maybe? I still Pick a little here and there from all seasons, ha! 😊 Have a LOVELY day and thanks again ❤️
@@jose11032 you are so welcome! In my experience, you can use seasonal color analysis as a starting point but I don't think it works perfectly for anyone and especially with olive skin you really do have a little more flexibility depending on how your skin looks throughout the year and how yellow, green or grey it looks in different lighting coupled with the warmth or coolness in your eyes and hair. For example, by traditional seasonal color analysis I am a deep winter and many of those colors work for me and my olive skin year-round (deep, cool hues like burgundy - not maroon which is brown based - navy and black). They balance out my yellow and make me look so much healthier and alive! The actor Henry Golding is a great example of this. At first glance many people cast him as warm but he's actually olive and in Crazy Rich Asians they dress him exclusively in cool color which make him look luxe and sophisticated to suit his character whereas in the movie The Gentlemen his character is less refined so they dress him exclusively in warm colors which we subconsciously read as off - lending to his character. So cool and helpful to find your own color palette and the message you want to convey. Also, I know for me when I'm more tan and less obviously yellow, I like some warmer colors from deep autumn as well, especially when they're anchored with perfect makeup - anything too warm always makes me look sickly without makeup though. Since olive skin is usually lacking in any natural flush due to the green which counteracts red, I find that anything too muted doesn't really work for olives but that's all a matter of personal preference and what you like to see yourself in. I know some olives that enjoy playing with makeup so much that they wear almost exclusively muted softer colors and since most of us wear makeup, we can bring life and warmth into our complexions through that, rather than just relying on our clothes. I know that's definitely the case for me and as long as my makeup is perfect for my olive skin, I can wear so many more colors without feeling out of place. I also find that when I'm paler and more yellow, I can borrow some cooler, lighter colors from the summer palette - my beloved wedgwood blue comes from the summer palette :) It's all so fun really and I think that seasonal color analysis should only be used as a starting point and then you can go from there and let your individuality shine xx
@jose11032 I think the easiest test is to test if clear white or ivory white fits better to you. My skin is quite yellow, so ivory white looks more harmonious and elegant on me. Clear white makes me look sick and cheap. I also like the paper test, thatt Audrey Coney recommends in the beginning. Have never heard of it before. Does your skin look more yellow or more rose against a piece of paper?
Orange n peach make me look grey... Does that mean I am olive??? I am a dusky skin Indian and I am REALLY confused with all these undertone stuff. Trying to figure out for the past few years 😭
Same lol. People have the idea that more darker our skin is the more "warmer" we become which is truly wrong. Actually...most people who have darker skin tones have cool undertones and don't look so good with warmer colours. I'm olive toned myself and when i wear anything yellowish, orange, red....i don't look as good as when i wear blue, purple etc
Tip for people who find orange washes them out: choose its closest opposite - purple! Any purple-based reds, pinks or nudes will look great on you and give you a golden glow.
I love color theory! It has prevented me from spending money on things that are ultimately unflattering. If there’s a color that you love but doesn’t complement your complexion you can wear a small amount away from your face, like a bracelet or pair of shoes. I made a pair of sleep shorts in a Liberty print in muted pastels because I love them but they’re my worst colors! (I’m a deep autumn.)
FINALLY someone who understands a neutral/cool undertone for olive skin! That last bit about makeup rang so true with me. I’m of Asian descent and everyone automatically assumes I have a yellow undertone. I have a natural knack for colors (runs in my family with designers and artists, considered art school at the recommendation of art teachers), and knew I didn’t have a yellow undertone. But makeup salesperson matches me to yellow makeup. No. I don’t have a definite pink undertone but I look so much better in pinky foundations than the yellow ones. Neutral is the way to go, but many neutral toned foundations have a greyish tint, which is disappointing. Years ago, I met one older lady at a Bloomingdales who helped me find a bronzer that was labeled for blondes. She told me to ignore the labels and go with what compliments my skin. She was right, and she gave me the confidence to tell cursory makeup counter ppl to find me the neutral and cool options. I should try the white paper test and look up the chroma influence.
This is great! As a “medium dark” african-American woman I find it especially challenging to find colors that work in my skin tone as well as my overall lifestyle. Having recently decided to take a more scientific approach, content like this is timely and very informative! On a more personal note, I love the way I look, as do others, in very deep hues of blues, pinks and green! I find myself really stepping away from all black outfits now as they do NOTHING for me! Really enjoying this journey of self discovery! This video is a welcome aid!
Fancy Schmancy, I love black, greys, and blues. I’m also sort of “medium dark” as well. I’m not sure about my season, but I was told I’m neutral with a pinch of warmth. My hair is a sort of medium dark auburn naturally, and my brown eyes have a darker ring on the outside. My mom always told me I could wear all colors, but they aren’t me. Turquoise is the one color we both like on me. It’s probably the most complimentary to my skin. I’ve even painted a wall in my living room this color. Hehe!
Having olive skin with yellow overtone, I had been confused with this for years until I started learning water painting! I always thought I had warm skin tone because I’m yellow. But somehow coral lipsticks which supposedly compliment warm skin can wash me out , and coral blushes and brown eyeshadows always make me look muddy. Instead I found Taupe and grey always work on my eyelids, and mauve blushes actually works the best on my cheeks. Once I practiced color mixing and started training my eyes to detect the hues, I totally see the “green” in my skin,. Everything suddenly makes sense now!
cherriercheung So I am super confused , now. I also thought that I was a warm/autumn because my skin seems yellow. But now I don’t know if yellow is actually my under or over tone. I might have olive undertones...🤯
Discovering I was a deep autumn was the most enlightening thing for me. Learn your palette and you'll always look and feel great. Also makes the wardrobe SO much easier.
Audrey, you hit the nail on the head regarding foundations. I'm also a dark winter, neutral w/warm golden overtones. I've been mismatched so many times with foundations that are too yellow, orange, or oxidizes as such. From one of your older vids, I created my color palette only to discover all the colors I love fell in line with dark winter. It has made building my capsule a breeze. Shopping is more intentional now that I stick to my palette. Bonus, I look less yellow now in strong jewel tones.
I agree! Everytime I walk into a makeup store to get foundation or concealer, the sales assistances always try and match me to the overly yellow shades. They automatically assume cause I am brown that I am warm toned. Is there any foundations you recommend?
Thank you, Audrey, for validating for me that olive toned skin is, indeed, a cool tone. I had my colors done and they told me that I am a winter, and I absolutely look my best in cool colors. However, makeup counters always want to put me in foundations with a yellow undertone. This makes my face look like an unbaked pie crust. Also, a hairstylist recently suggested that I add a red tint to my medium brown hair. I think that red hair is very pretty but would clash badly with nearly my entire wardrobe, and I look sickly and drab in warm autumn colors. So thank you again for the tip on olive skin tone being cool. As far as I know, you’re the only person who’s mentioned that, and I have read a lot of books and watched a lot of videos on color theory. With gratitude.
I'm also olive, but very yellow (noticably yellow when I'm tanned, less so when I'm pale). And it took me a long time to learn all this too. I use Nars Gobi which their website describes as "yellow" undertones, but yet I'm olive and very neutral although I think I lean cool. I was confused for so long on how yellow meant cool. Every thing everywhere reads as if yellow is warm. But I'm glad Audrey mentioned overtones too. I don't know if I'm still confused a little, however I was finally a few days ago able to "see" visibly the green cast in my skin. And now I can't unsee it! It's sooo nice to finally understand :)
Just watched this for the second time as I am currently working on my winter wardrobe. Starting to get chilly here in Seattle! You are definitely my go to for excellent fashion and beauty information. I learned that I am an olive undertone and a deep winter season from your video. But I never realized that olive is cool and now it makes so much sense to me. I have always loved "autumn colors" browns, golds, russets, beiges but had a hard time wearing them. With your video I have discovered that I can still wear these colors but my browns should be cooler, black-brown, ash brown, my russets more bronze than rust and my beiges more taupe, "greige". Thank you for always providing thoughtful, helpful information! Since following your channel I have eliminated so many of my shopping mistakes. Love what you do!!
You are a lovely, soft spoken lady and it is such a pleasure listening to you. Also, I have finally found my colour pallet/ season (clear autumn). Thank you so much!
One thing I love about your channel is that you come up wearing the same items in endless ways n that's so much affordable n convenient in long long. Each item shows how much you love it ❤. Timeless classic 😍
Thank you for this video. Wearing the “right” colors for you makes all the difference. I’m a deep autumn. If I hold winter or summer colors up to my face, I look like I’m sick, or exhausted.
Thank you. Jen Thoden’s color style blog has really helped me. Your comment about models dressed to flatter them vs. you resonates- I had not considered that. Great video.
Thank you, Audrey for sharing this. I have been a firm believer of this theory for years now. Not only do you look good in your colours but, you feel great in them too! 🤗💕
THANK YOU for addressing olive skin. I'm coming back to this video as a refresher but I wish I could share it with everyone I know. I think you may be one of the few UA-camrs who actually address it. Most people default to warm and cool only. When I was younger I always thought I was just warm but warm foundations always looked so terrible on me. When I figured out lighter olive skin DOES EXIST (which took me until my late 20s to discover) it completely changed how I dressed, the make up I used etc. Now I'm shouting it from the rooftops lol
Dear Audrey, thank you. Yes, I have found this theory so helpful. I was colour-analyzed as a "Summer" many, many years ago and cannot count the times it has made shopping for both clothes and make-up so easy. I am now in my late 50s and my hair is turning silvery, and still my Summer palette is so flattering, although I have turned from a Soft Summer into a Cool Summer.
It is really life changing! I like to say that once you see it, you can't unsee it. I used to have this cool magenta sweater that I loved but a collegue asked if I was sick, because the contrast didn't help me much. I'm a deep autumm, even though I haven't had a professional determine it, it is really obvious, and it changed my perception of color and opened up a whole realm of possibilities. My wardrobe is much more colored now and i'm super happy with it
Your olive skin notes confirmed for me that my face can be cool and somewhat neutral. I will pay more attention to looking for the cool hue of a color now. Thanks
I know this is an older video. I have to say a big THANK YOU! I have olive skin that is more olive on my body, that tans deeply, less so in my face, that freckles more, and have been so confused about this issue especially when buying foundation. So based on your excellent explanation, I now know I am a cool summer! Thanks again.
My college color theory course was not this in depth! We studied color and color combinations of fabrics, but not in relation to skin tone. This is great, thank you!
I was identified as a winter years ago, and it's been incredibly helpful as a guide in choosing my clothing, especially what I wear near my face. I'm a believer!
You are so smart! Learned 3 new things from this video: (1) olive skin is cool-toned, (2) it would be best to buy clothes worn by models with the same power colors as oneself, (3) what one wears (especially colors) during shopping/fitting can impact the accuracy of the rightness of the colors that one buys (e.g., clothes, makeup, etc.)
What a wonderful description of seasonal colors to see and start gaining understanding of the color world, skin & hair tones. Great video. We find it can change as we develop greater awareness of ourselves & preferences. Then magic happens as we go deeper and curiosity evolves to seeing energy profiling. It answers so many questions about ourselves and how we feel better is certain hues,design styles and fabrication. .
I learned my colors back in 1982 (I'm a summer), and I have rarely wavered. I do have a few black items because I need them for work, still cool, but I only buy my colors, so I know I will always look good, even when I'm tired or not feeling well.
Thank you for making this video! I have been trying to work out my colors recently and this made me realise that the reason I've been having trouble is because I have olive skin. It's yellowish with that cool green undertone, but I'd been assuming I was a deep autumn because of the yellow. Despite that, bright, deep colors have been appealing to me, and now I see that my natural inclinations were correct. Looks like I'm really a deep winter.
This is some education. Also, having such a pleasant and calm voice makes one just keep listening to you and keep watching your videos. I am a new subscriber of urs. ;-)
Ziia Zoozoo thank you it helps . I like your calm voice but I think you laugh a lot in an unnecessary way! Watch your video and you will see . But ...cool you look like a wonderful , good person !, looking forward to seeing more of your videos .
For most of my life i was puzzled as far as my season goes. My skin is yellowish, clearly not pink, but still I always knew I looked better in cool tones. You've just opened my eyes that I'm olive skin toned. I would never think of that myself!
Thank you so much! Now I understant a lot more about my "oliveness" haha. It's true, no one talks about it that much and it appears to be a warm skin colour because of the yellow but I've always naturally more gravitated around cool colours.
I found this topic very interesting. I too am a winter. When I was younger I kept wearing an Autumn color palette that just did not work...Once I discovered the "Color Me Beautiful" book it opened my eyes. I began to see what a difference the correct colors can have on your overall appearance. Just remarkable to think how the right shade of blue can brighten up your whole face.
I’ve known that I am a summer that I can wear soft, dusty tones. I feel really good in them. However. You stating that makeup should be right is very true. Foundation on your face finishes off the look. I’m really grateful to view your shows. I’m trying to set up my wardrobe, with a view to basic, but some pop of colour. What I am also looking for, is everyday clothes AND Handbags for me as a 72 year old. Thanks again for your episodes, as I keep trying your suggestions with clothes/colours. Thanks from Canada🇨🇦
Thank you Audrey. I had my colours done about 30 years ago and it certainly changed how I shopped as well as what I considered to be core colours/pieces in my wardrobe. It is very true too that we always seem to reach for what makes us feel the best. After having my colours done I understood why I would reach for certain pieces. I am a cool summer. If I venture outside my colour wheel it would be with a piece that is not close enough to my face/hair to be so obvious that it doesn’t compliment my skin tones. I may buy a skirt, pair of shorts or slacks that are in ‘that’ colour (I love yellow but there are very few I can wear) and be sure I put my favourite navy blazer, sweater or top to compliment it. Your videos are so enjoyable and very informative. I am 62 now and all the same rules apply.
Nice point about the models often modeling their season’s colors, as well as the color harmony causing consumers to think it will automatically look great on them! Then I also notice models who aren’t in their great colors, and then it makes me wonder how many other people who aren’t even aware of color analysis notice the clashing! Nice quick yet comprehensive summary of PCA. 😀
Thank you so much! This help me clear my confusion in the past and have more confident to try on something in cool side.I always considered myself warm untertone. Knowing I'm in the olive side and olive skin tone have cool untertone make everything changes.
I was color-matched years ago. I was draped with a bright white fabric and I looked fine. Then came the yellow tone white and in a few seconds my complexion looked muddy - I looked like death warmed over. It was so obvious that I’m cool. I was identified as a Winter (as I had thought). I guess now I’m a Light Winter. But I’m drawn to colors that don’t flatter me, especially in the fall, like olive green, etc. although I steer clear. TFS
I've tried this SO HARD but I just can't find a season that "fits me". I have individual colours that look great and I can identify them... I just wish there was a tool like this for me, it would make things so easy. 😌
I have olive skin (light) and this is the first time I've heard anyone discuss it. Wow. No wonder I never wear yellow! Thank you so much! Everything was spot on except I'd like to hear a little more about chromo, specifically the differences between rich, saturated, and muted. I'd really like to be able to better parse this out better and make use of this great tool! BTW, my color analysis completely flipped when I let my gray hair grow out (it had been a rich medium brown). I went from a deep Autumn (or so I was told) to light Summer (which years ago a different colorist has labeled me). Apparently, I'm not the only one who finds all this a bit tricky!
I used to sew most of my clothes, wool lined suits, linen coordinates, silk blouses... they would fit and hang beautifully, but just always missed the mark. Then I had my colors done and was shocked. I love soft heathered summer colors, but they didn’t love me. I’m a winter and winter colors seemed garishly bright or boringly bland like light gray-ugh-elementary school uniform. Well, I changed my makeup and started wearing my colors and the compliments started pouring in. I couldn’t believe how much better I looked. I took my packet of colors to the store and to prove they couldn’t be right tried on clothes in the ugliest colors in my pallet. The first day I tried on the ugliest light gray blouse, and bought it! That was 40 years ago. I never went back.
Very informative and helpful Audrey. Thank u. I always thought I was a winter but turned out I was a spring. My entire wardrobe was black and white at the time, so that was a bit of a drag. I have learnt to change the make up when I'm wearing colours that aren't great for me. The whole undertone, hue thing was new for me so interesting to learn.
I’ve have always been naturally drawn to the colors that compliment my season. But I have only been applying it fully for the last couple of years. And I must say it has changed my confidence in my wardrobe and how I feel about myself. It really is an amazing tool! You really did a wonderful job at explaining the seasons in this video!
I got into SCA a few years ago and it's made watching videos on youtube from style bloggers a little like pulling teeth at times! This is the first video from a style blogger I've ever seen that depicts this topic accurately. Especially because a lot of people assume that lighter skin tones are always cool and darker skin tones are always warm! I saw a video on this where the vlogger used a model who was very obviously a light spring as an example of someone who was cool toned, demonstrated she didn't look good in warm tones by using a warm tone that was much too rich for her, and then proved she was cool toned by using a warm-toned aqua blue. I was internally screaming! I love what you say about how even if you don't use it in your style - which you don't have to at all! there are lots of winter colors I dislike and i'm constantly trying to find ways to style colors i know don't flatter me - it changes and enriches the way you see the world. I love that about color theory!
I am neutral but lean slightly cool/pink. There are others that can be neutral but lean slightly warm. Neutral leaning slightly cool looks best in muted cool colors. Neutral leaning slightly warm look good in muted warm colors.
Thank you Audrey! The video was very informative and helpful! I have black hair and light skin with a olive hue. I had similar experience as you did... I didn't know I have cool undertone until one day my mom told me that silver jewelries look much better on me than the golden ones... It's good to know that I'm not the only olive girl struggled with undertone identification... :)
I actually found out there has been an update, and there are 16 seasons total so far to cover the full spectrum of colors. Deep winter has a soft winter, light spring has a soft spring, soft summer has a deep summer, soft autumn has a autumn. I found I was neither a clear or a deep winter since I am a muted with gray, I was labeled as a soft winter which is between a deep and cool winter.
I've heard of colour theory before, but I love the way you broke it down. I am a soft autumn. My boyfriend has Italian parents and is olive-skinned. I used to think olive skin was warm, and my mind is blown to hear it's actually cool-toned. But now it makes sense why 'cool' colours on my boyfriend's skin look amazing as opposed to warmer colours. He wears a lot of dark reds/maroons, blues including navy, bottle greens. These colours wouldn't suit me at all. It's funny though, we are often complementary with what we wear when out together. My colours seem to match his colours. :) Thank you for your video! Your voice is very soothing and calming to listen to.
Audrey, this is a very good video in relation to seasonal colour analysis. It saves a lot of time and money for a woman to know what colour season she is, as well as, the under and over tones. A woman can go into a shop and know with confidence as to what she will look great in, thus starting out with the basic essentials and then working from these. I'm a winter season who has had my colours done, ie. a white shirt or Tee is correct for me as opposed to a cream shirt or Tee. etc. The exception to this is as an example if you like a loden green colour, which I do, then you could put a nice scarf in your season colour right next to your face and get away with the loden green. Also the lower piece could be the way to go ie. slacks, shorts, skirt. Had I known many years ago I would not have bought a number of the wrong colours and got the right ones instead. Oh, did you know that the winter season person is truly the only season who can successfully wear black. Working with colours is great and a woman can have such fun working with colours in her clothes. Thank you for all your skill and knowledge, you're great for sharing all of it.
I love how this color theory works for you. The lighting in stores changes how clothing or make-up looks on me. And different sales people say, your a cool. Nope, your a warm. Sigh. I think it changes day to day? Is that a thing? For me at my age If I love it, I buy it a try it on at home. If I love it-I keep it. Otherwise. I return it to the store. Also I do Carol Tuttles energy profiling. Which makes, finding my favorite colors I wear easy & fun. Because honestly I have learned over the years, those colors are the only ones I’m going to wear anyway. That way I am not pressured into buying clothing I desperately want to work, because on the model or sales person it looks amazing. I love 💕everything you wear. 🤩But I have to tweak, the colors to work for my type 1 energy. You have lovely knack for straightening out all the confusing details and putting them into bite size pieces. 🥰I appreciate that. Thank you🌸
Yes! I have always found it confusing. It does seem like it can change from day to day. My veins are deep blue or blue green. Yellows change, sometimes I can wear and sometimes not. But like you, I just know i what like and how I feel. I well check out this energy profiling. I've never heard of it. Thank you!
After months of studying color analysis i finally understand it 😂 my undertone confused me so much because i had a mixture of both cool and warm tone on my skin. My veins are blue while i look yellow when compared to pure white. I have black hair but I also tan easy. But i could never tell if i looked better in gold or silver. So i thought maybe I'm warm but warm color palette washes me out so much I look horrendous and I never understood. Cooler color pallet suited me better. Then I finally realized I'm olive. And it all made sense from there. My color season is deep winter.
I don't look anything like you, but I, too, am a deep winter and have an olive tone to my skin. It is wonderful how God created such variety- not just the seasons, but within the seasons. This was a great video, Audrey. It helped me understand my coloring even more than I did before. Thanks! PS: I would love a video demonstrating how to choose makeup colors. Despite what I know about my skin, I still find it hard to decipher foundation colors, especially when they're labelled only light, medium, or dark.
Omg. I'm a deep winter too! This was so helpful. I would always look at those color theory notions and be confused about where I fit in it. I didn't really understand why I often gravitate towards blues.This is especilly helpful for bold or nude lipsticks.
Yes this is extremely helpful. I feel like I am similar to you. One thing I was told once is that for makeup I should stay away from colors that have blue undertones.
Thank you so much. I am light olive. So many different people have told me that I am a "warm spring, warm autumn or cool winter". I just thought I was in between. Some yellows, greys and light browns don't look good on me, and I just knew that. Now I know why I have been having trouble with foundation makeup being too yellow or peach. Usually, I try to use a neutral tone for foundation makeup. This was very helpful for me. Thank you.
I learnt about seasonal colour theory at a young age, and it has helped me so much - especially the concept of cool and warm! Warm colours make my olive skin look very yellow and so I easily avoid them and go for the cool colours. Even knowing that colours like yellow, orange and red could be warm or cool has helped me to choose the right ones!
Thanks Audrey. This really does work. My friend and I are polar opposites when it comes to clothing colors and you really can tell the difference. Lip color can actually clash if your dress is a vibrant berry color too.
I am a very odd deep autumn. Looking at me it seems like I would be a soft autumn, and for a while I believed that was what I was (blond hair, fair skin) but I realized that when I would go shopping I never liked the soft autumn colors when I tried them on. Instead, I was always buying dark autumn colors because they looked best. One day I looked at a list of deep autumn colors and realized that all the colors on the list were ones that looked good on me, and I had received compliments when I wore them. My hair is now a darker blond than it was when I was born, but even when I was younger I look back at photos and realize I looked best with the deep autumn colors.
I've been loving this topic in your videos, as I've never thought about this before. I'm going to pay more attention to this factor and try to figure out what I am :) Thanks heaps
my father was medium olive (Italian) and looked good in navy, black, burgundy. Brown was terrible on him. my son is olive and if he wears green he looks green 😂
@@toric9518 Yes!! My boyfriend is Italian and he is drawn to navy, dark reds, black, bottle greens and I always wondered why, because I thought olive was warm but now I'm looking at his pics and my mind is blown lol. And in fact these colours look so nice against his skin :D I'm a soft autumn so the colours he wears wouldn't suit me at all, but somehow we still look complementary when we go out.
I have a medium skin with warm neutral olive undertone ! I have a lot of yellow in my skin , hint of grey & green , I don’t look good in silver jewelry or baby pink & pastel clothes ! I’m still discovering what am I 😂 but I kinda have a general idea now !
to have a seasonal color consultation has been one of the most valuable investments in my life, could have used it much earlier, though.... Once you can see, everything becomes so much easier. You save money, time, energy and feel so much better with less clothes!!
It would seem to me that if yellow & blue make green (olive), then most olive skin would be primarily neutral & could lean more cool or warm in a gradient fashion since skin tone is rather complex & may fall within a range. I’ve really found that dynamic to be true for me as I’m olive but NOT w/a 100% neutral skin tone. Anything cool looks horrible on me BUT I can do many muted, neutral tones in my clothing & makeup, especially if they’re warmer, & sometimes deeper.
This is me as well! Olive skin can definitely lean cool or warm. Not all olive skin tones are cool. I’m close to neutral but lean slightly warm and have an olive skin tone.
Thank you for the don’t wash and dry jeans with heat tip. I have washed my clothes on cold for years, but it never occurred to me that the dryer might be shrinking my jeans. I bought a replace,ent pair this weekend and let them drip dry. We will see if they last longer! PS, I’m light skinned, cool undertones, sunflower blonde hair, with brown eyes. My favorite color to wear is yellow-gold, I think I nailed it!
I did this progressively over a few years and no jokes, i now only own either black or navy blue clothes (except for old tshirts on days idgaf about my looks LOL). Realised these are the best colors on me especially navy blue. NEVER disappointed now whenever i buy navy blue clothes
I found this very helpful since im cool and fair tone with cool dark brown hair and eyes . Fond of dark winter tone colors and They match!! Learning from this It is a huge huge help! This gave me more appreciation for the cool winter colors for any season like my dresses for formals that are dark than the summer "bright ones" thanks
Great presentation Audrey! Thank you. As a teen I read Color Me Beautiful and figured out I was a cool summer. I loved to wear those colors, everything else looked strange on me. As I've aged, I've discovered I can wear some winter and spring colors as well as long as I adjust the makeup significantly.
According to Carole Jackson's book Color Me Beautiful, all four seasons are divided into cool and warm... Summer and Winter are cool, and Spring and Autumn are warm.
Fun video! I like it and I think your advice is spot-on. As for me, I’ve tried every self-guided color analysis in the book and always come up empty-handed. I even tried to use the reverse route: identify colors that make me look and feel my best, and then see what categories they fall into. Instead of an “aha!” moment, I found out that all the colors that look good on me are what’s known as “universal” colors; that is, colors anyone can wear (think burgundy, true blue, that one mid-toned, neutral pink that doesn’t really have a name). In fact, I am so neutral that I ONLY can wear the universal colors. What’s hilarious about this is that I’m also neutral in every other way: politically fairly neutral (I agree with different points from different sides), religiously neutral...in every argument I’m the neutral one, the one who can argue both sides, the mediator. It seems neutrality is my destiny. 😂🤣
Wow! This is such a great video wish so many helpful tips. I could never get a straight answer on what I was, and the fact that I bleach my hair makes it even more complicated. You've saved a lot of time and stress!
I loved that you told me about lighter olive. I’ve struggled with people telling me I’m golden because I’m olive! I finally got my perfect foundation match thanks to you and I now know why I look good in certain clothes when my warm toned sister doesn’t (we assumed we were both autumn colors) I would love to see videos on each season separately so I can really nail down colors and hues. (Any jewelry too) Thank you!!! I’m enjoying your videos so much :)
Very helpful. So I'm most definitely an olive. Yellow foundations are just too yellow for me, the green shows with clear contrast. Now I can't work out either I'm a deep winter or deep autumn.
Some constructive criticism here. It’s common in color analysis to use hair and eye color to help decide if you are cool or warm. While sometimes it can help, it’s not always accurate. Someone could have warm eyes and hair but have cool skin or vice versa. What you want to look at is the skin itself. Merriam Style has a fantastic channel on color analysis and she has done several case studies on different celebrities. For example, Cate Blanchett is typed as a Summer here (cool) when on Merriam’s channel she is typed as “warm and delicate,” which simply means warm and muted. Someone like Cate doesn’t look great in bright warm colors so she is automatically typed as cool. When in fact she looks best in soft warm colors. Merriam has a video explaining this. Also, while some olive skin tones are cool, not all of them are! Someone like Kim Kardashian has a cool olive skin tone while Aishwarya Rai has a warm olive skin tone. It’s a spectrum. Hope this didn’t come across as too critical, this is just something I’m really interested in.
I just commented on your last video on olive skin and how much it helped me, and gave me an "aha!" moment. Now I'm sooo happy you mentioned that the 4 seasons may not embody me either. I downloaded an app once telling me I'm cool winter, but sometimes soft autumn which I'm pretty sure are contradictory. My hair is brown, but is kind of an ashy/gray brown. My eyes are medium brown - so I never know which option to choose between "dark eyes" vs "light eyes." I'm a yellow-y olive color, very noticable when I'm tanned, but pale in the winter time. I never felt like the 4 season pallettes were me. I'll keep watching your videos for more :) It seems I can't find many pictures online of celebrities (or anyone) who are strongly yellow but olive. I can find some green olive people, but not much yellow olive. Supposedly I'm not supposed to look good in pastels, however I've definitely warn them and been complimented on how well they match my skin tone. I also am 100% I look great in dark earthtones like dark brown and khaki. I think I look good in peachy/coral colors too, but I also look good in bright jewel tones. I don't think I look good in all pastels though. I've been told I look good in gold jewelery, but I've always worn silver and I really think that looks fine too. It's just so hard to tell! Lol season pallettes have just confused me more.
Best color theory video I've seen, and I've seen sooooo many! For myself, I never want anyone to remember what I'm wearing, but rather to take away the impression that I looked good. And since I don't have unlimited money to spend on clothes and makeup, I need the ones I have to work for me. Quick story: I had a matte black silk dress years ago, and it was beautiful. But every time I wore it, someone would invariably ask me if I felt well! lol Was I tired? (I always though, well, I was fine until I ran into you! lol) So, eventually, and painfully, I stopped buying black clothes. I think I've moved from maybe a Soft Autumn, to a Soft Spring as my auburn hair has faded. (In some systems there are 16 choices, and what I've learned is that I'm good in Spring colors + some gray - a Muted Spring. I've never had my colors done professionally, but after much personal study, I've landed with muted spring colors, and a neutral undertone (itself a challenge since there are both cool and warm elements to the undertone). Just a wonderful job making applied color theory accessible, Audrey! Thank you!
Im just more and more confused. I loved your video on olive skin and i strongly feel i am olive (have been called sickly my whole life and no foundation ever suited me before i started mixing with blue and green), but i am as Pale as julianne Moore (my legs and feet look like a wax doll!) and my eyes are hazel with a warm ring, my hair kinda ashy in some light and Golden in other. I feel beautiful in navy and olive, but is having a hard time with most colors. Terracotta and colors like that CAN be pretty but also too dominant. But I dont feel cool colors always fit me that well either... i tend to Fall for jewel tones but feel awful in brown hues (except maybe a very neutral taupe?) my lips look good in rosewood kinda colors, and peach and pink blush look awful BUT everybody tell me that copper hair looks good on me? Jen Thoden and Merriam Style here om youtube borh concluded from a photo that i am soft and warm, but I never put on yellow, orange, red, ugh! I feel in my heart that they are wrong. My heritage is part Danish / part french. I would love to send you some photos if you are curious or need a video on the palest of the olive skin tones - if I AM olive that is! this video was lovely, now i bingewatch you! 😆
Thank you so much for watching! :) I can totally relate to being thrown off by the complexities of coloring and color theory and it's something that only works when you do it perfectly for you. I'm not familiar with either Merriam Style or Jen Thoden so I don't know the methods they use to color type but I will say that unless you've had an in-person consultation in natural light it's impossible to diagnose someone through just a picture. Our own biases and even the color settings on our computers, phones and in our houses can alter how accurately we can diagnose color. For those reasons I personally don't offer digital consultations and I do think that warm is thrown around a little too often in most color theories. In my experience very few people are actually warm and it's much more likely that you are olive :) The copper hair is what really convinced me because I've yet to meet someone with olive skin that doesn't look amazing in copper. If you haven't tried it yet, you may love copper eyeliner or shadow as well. The reason it works so well is because copper is most composed of red and red is across from green on the color wheel - making them perfect together. Also, the purpose of color casting and typing when it comes to makeup and clothes is to make everything look harmonious so unless you truly have a warm undertone, warm colors will just exaggerate the yellow you have in your skin and can push things too far in an unnatural direction. I know for me, when I'm pale the yellow in my skin becomes very noticeable and if I wear warm or yellow based colors on top of that I look jaundiced and the discoloration in my skin becomes more apparent and I look very unbalanced. When I wear cooler colors though, the yellow recedes into natural territory and I look alive and healthy. I hope that helps and please do come back and share anything else you learn xx :)
Audrey Coyne thank you sooooooo much for taking time to reply Audrey! I am actually quite relieved to her you say those things about my coloring, and I do really think I am olive now! But now what? 😊 Do we olive skins fit into a color season? Soft summer? Soft autumn maybe? I still Pick a little here and there from all seasons, ha! 😊 Have a LOVELY day and thanks again ❤️
@@jose11032 you are so welcome! In my experience, you can use seasonal color analysis as a starting point but I don't think it works perfectly for anyone and especially with olive skin you really do have a little more flexibility depending on how your skin looks throughout the year and how yellow, green or grey it looks in different lighting coupled with the warmth or coolness in your eyes and hair. For example, by traditional seasonal color analysis I am a deep winter and many of those colors work for me and my olive skin year-round (deep, cool hues like burgundy - not maroon which is brown based - navy and black). They balance out my yellow and make me look so much healthier and alive! The actor Henry Golding is a great example of this. At first glance many people cast him as warm but he's actually olive and in Crazy Rich Asians they dress him exclusively in cool color which make him look luxe and sophisticated to suit his character whereas in the movie The Gentlemen his character is less refined so they dress him exclusively in warm colors which we subconsciously read as off - lending to his character. So cool and helpful to find your own color palette and the message you want to convey. Also, I know for me when I'm more tan and less obviously yellow, I like some warmer colors from deep autumn as well, especially when they're anchored with perfect makeup - anything too warm always makes me look sickly without makeup though. Since olive skin is usually lacking in any natural flush due to the green which counteracts red, I find that anything too muted doesn't really work for olives but that's all a matter of personal preference and what you like to see yourself in. I know some olives that enjoy playing with makeup so much that they wear almost exclusively muted softer colors and since most of us wear makeup, we can bring life and warmth into our complexions through that, rather than just relying on our clothes. I know that's definitely the case for me and as long as my makeup is perfect for my olive skin, I can wear so many more colors without feeling out of place. I also find that when I'm paler and more yellow, I can borrow some cooler, lighter colors from the summer palette - my beloved wedgwood blue comes from the summer palette :) It's all so fun really and I think that seasonal color analysis should only be used as a starting point and then you can go from there and let your individuality shine xx
@jose11032 I think the easiest test is to test if clear white or ivory white fits better to you. My skin is quite yellow, so ivory white looks more harmonious and elegant on me. Clear white makes me look sick and cheap.
I also like the paper test, thatt Audrey Coney recommends in the beginning. Have never heard of it before. Does your skin look more yellow or more rose against a piece of paper?
Maybe these video of Merriam Style could be helpful for you: "No such thing as a neutral undertone" and "Golden overtones with cool undertones".
THANK YOU!!! Im olive toned. I always wondered why I looked crap in any peachy, orangy colored lip color, because I thought I was warm. I get it now.
Saaame!
Same here even though I’m pale I have the same issue
Orange n peach make me look grey... Does that mean I am olive??? I am a dusky skin Indian and I am REALLY confused with all these undertone stuff. Trying to figure out for the past few years 😭
Same lol. People have the idea that more darker our skin is the more "warmer" we become which is truly wrong. Actually...most people who have darker skin tones have cool undertones and don't look so good with warmer colours. I'm olive toned myself and when i wear anything yellowish, orange, red....i don't look as good as when i wear blue, purple etc
Tip for people who find orange washes them out: choose its closest opposite - purple! Any purple-based reds, pinks or nudes will look great on you and give you a golden glow.
I love color theory! It has prevented me from spending money on things that are ultimately unflattering. If there’s a color that you love but doesn’t complement your complexion you can wear a small amount away from your face, like a bracelet or pair of shoes. I made a pair of sleep shorts in a Liberty print in muted pastels because I love them but they’re my worst colors! (I’m a deep autumn.)
FINALLY someone who understands a neutral/cool undertone for olive skin!
That last bit about makeup rang so true with me. I’m of Asian descent and everyone automatically assumes I have a yellow undertone. I have a natural knack for colors (runs in my family with designers and artists, considered art school at the recommendation of art teachers), and knew I didn’t have a yellow undertone. But makeup salesperson matches me to yellow makeup. No. I don’t have a definite pink undertone but I look so much better in pinky foundations than the yellow ones. Neutral is the way to go, but many neutral toned foundations have a greyish tint, which is disappointing. Years ago, I met one older lady at a Bloomingdales who helped me find a bronzer that was labeled for blondes. She told me to ignore the labels and go with what compliments my skin. She was right, and she gave me the confidence to tell cursory makeup counter ppl to find me the neutral and cool options.
I should try the white paper test and look up the chroma influence.
Your light blue sweater is a beautiful color on you!
This is great! As a “medium dark” african-American woman I find it especially challenging to find colors that work in my skin tone as well as my overall lifestyle. Having recently decided to take a more scientific approach, content like this is timely and very informative! On a more personal note, I love the way I look, as do others, in very deep hues of blues, pinks and green! I find myself really stepping away from all black outfits now as they do NOTHING for me! Really enjoying this journey of self discovery! This video is a welcome aid!
Fancy Schmancy, I love black, greys, and blues. I’m also sort of “medium dark” as well. I’m not sure about my season, but I was told I’m neutral with a pinch of warmth. My hair is a sort of medium dark auburn naturally, and my brown eyes have a darker ring on the outside. My mom always told me I could wear all colors, but they aren’t me. Turquoise is the one color we both like on me. It’s probably the most complimentary to my skin. I’ve even painted a wall in my living room this color. Hehe!
Having olive skin with yellow overtone, I had been confused with this for years until I started learning water painting! I always thought I had warm skin tone because I’m yellow. But somehow coral lipsticks which supposedly compliment warm skin can wash me out , and coral blushes and brown eyeshadows always make me look muddy. Instead I found Taupe and grey always work on my eyelids, and mauve blushes actually works the best on my cheeks. Once I practiced color mixing and started training my eyes to detect the hues, I totally see the “green” in my skin,. Everything suddenly makes sense now!
cherriercheung you just made this more interesting but I’m still lost. I love joe mixing colors helped you figure it out.
How did you train your eyes?
Check out ua-cam.com/video/hw_ie8PUXGI/v-deo.html for more details. She explains in details the cool/warm undertones.
cherriercheung So I am super confused , now. I also thought that I was a warm/autumn because my skin seems yellow. But now I don’t know if yellow is actually my under or over tone. I might have olive undertones...🤯
Same!! I’m so lost
Discovering I was a deep autumn was the most enlightening thing for me. Learn your palette and you'll always look and feel great. Also makes the wardrobe SO much easier.
Audrey, you hit the nail on the head regarding foundations. I'm also a dark winter, neutral w/warm golden overtones. I've been mismatched so many times with foundations that are too yellow, orange, or oxidizes as such. From one of your older vids, I created my color palette only to discover all the colors I love fell in line with dark winter. It has made building my capsule a breeze. Shopping is more intentional now that I stick to my palette. Bonus, I look less yellow now in strong jewel tones.
I agree! Everytime I walk into a makeup store to get foundation or concealer, the sales assistances always try and match me to the overly yellow shades. They automatically assume cause I am brown that I am warm toned. Is there any foundations you recommend?
To my olive folks... I add a little green concealer in my foundation to help it match my skin tone. It’s been a game changer!
Same!
No matter what topic concerning beauty and style I search about you videos are always the most comprehensive!
Thank you, Audrey, for validating for me that olive toned skin is, indeed, a cool tone. I had my colors done and they told me that I am a winter, and I absolutely look my best in cool colors. However, makeup counters always want to put me in foundations with a yellow undertone. This makes my face look like an unbaked pie crust. Also, a hairstylist recently suggested that I add a red tint to my medium brown hair. I think that red hair is very pretty but would clash badly with nearly my entire wardrobe, and I look sickly and drab in warm autumn colors. So thank you again for the tip on olive skin tone being cool. As far as I know, you’re the only person who’s mentioned that, and I have read a lot of books and watched a lot of videos on color theory. With gratitude.
Helping me realize olive skin is cool....that is a game changer. That has made me confused for years - especially when it came to buying makeup.
I'm also olive, but very yellow (noticably yellow when I'm tanned, less so when I'm pale).
And it took me a long time to learn all this too. I use Nars Gobi which their website describes as "yellow" undertones, but yet I'm olive and very neutral although I think I lean cool.
I was confused for so long on how yellow meant cool. Every thing everywhere reads as if yellow is warm.
But I'm glad Audrey mentioned overtones too. I don't know if I'm still confused a little, however I was finally a few days ago able to "see" visibly the green cast in my skin. And now I can't unsee it! It's sooo nice to finally understand :)
Just watched this for the second time as I am currently working on my winter wardrobe. Starting to get chilly here in Seattle! You are definitely my go to for excellent fashion and beauty information. I learned that I am an olive undertone and a deep winter season from your video. But I never realized that olive is cool and now it makes so much sense to me. I have always loved "autumn colors" browns, golds, russets, beiges but had a hard time wearing them. With your video I have discovered that I can still wear these colors but my browns should be cooler, black-brown, ash brown, my russets more bronze than rust and my beiges more taupe, "greige". Thank you for always providing thoughtful, helpful information! Since following your channel I have eliminated so many of my shopping mistakes. Love what you do!!
You are a lovely, soft spoken lady and it is such a pleasure listening to you. Also, I have finally found my colour pallet/ season (clear autumn). Thank you so much!
In the 12 Seasons theory there is no "Clear" Autumn. Where is that from? I'm interested as a tetrachrome colorist.
One thing I love about your channel is that you come up wearing the same items in endless ways n that's so much affordable n convenient in long long. Each item shows how much you love it ❤. Timeless classic 😍
Thank you for this video. Wearing the “right” colors for you makes all the difference. I’m a deep autumn. If I hold winter or summer colors up to my face, I look like I’m sick, or exhausted.
My sister has been into this since the 80’s. She had a huge book on it. She tells me I’m an Autumn. Which happens to b my favorite time of year.
That’s when I was color-matched. I had that book.
Thank you. Jen Thoden’s color style blog has really helped me. Your comment about models dressed to flatter them vs. you resonates- I had not considered that. Great video.
Great info, but was waiting to find out what are the power colors for each category😀. Thanks!
Thank you, Audrey for sharing this. I have been a firm believer of this theory for years now. Not only do you look good in your colours but, you feel great in them too! 🤗💕
THANK YOU for addressing olive skin. I'm coming back to this video as a refresher but I wish I could share it with everyone I know. I think you may be one of the few UA-camrs who actually address it. Most people default to warm and cool only. When I was younger I always thought I was just warm but warm foundations always looked so terrible on me. When I figured out lighter olive skin DOES EXIST (which took me until my late 20s to discover) it completely changed how I dressed, the make up I used etc. Now I'm shouting it from the rooftops lol
Dear Audrey, thank you. Yes, I have found this theory so helpful. I was colour-analyzed as a "Summer" many, many years ago and cannot count the times it has made shopping for both clothes and make-up so easy.
I am now in my late 50s and my hair is turning silvery, and still my Summer palette is so flattering, although I have turned from a Soft Summer into a Cool Summer.
It is really life changing! I like to say that once you see it, you can't unsee it. I used to have this cool magenta sweater that I loved but a collegue asked if I was sick, because the contrast didn't help me much.
I'm a deep autumm, even though I haven't had a professional determine it, it is really obvious, and it changed my perception of color and opened up a whole realm of possibilities. My wardrobe is much more colored now and i'm super happy with it
Your olive skin notes confirmed for me that my face can be cool and somewhat neutral. I will pay more attention to looking for the cool hue of a color now. Thanks
Yes I had my colours done when I was a teenager and 40 + years later it makes shopping and packing and dressing very easy
I know this is an older video. I have to say a big THANK YOU! I have olive skin that is more olive on my body, that tans deeply, less so in my face, that freckles more, and have been so confused about this issue especially when buying foundation. So based on your excellent explanation, I now know I am a cool summer! Thanks again.
My college color theory course was not this in depth! We studied color and color combinations of fabrics, but not in relation to skin tone. This is great, thank you!
I was identified as a winter years ago, and it's been incredibly helpful as a guide in choosing my clothing, especially what I wear near my face. I'm a believer!
You are so smart! Learned 3 new things from this video: (1) olive skin is cool-toned, (2) it would be best to buy clothes worn by models with the same power colors as oneself, (3) what one wears (especially colors) during shopping/fitting can impact the accuracy of the rightness of the colors that one buys (e.g., clothes, makeup, etc.)
What a wonderful description of seasonal colors to see and start gaining understanding of the color world, skin & hair tones. Great video.
We find it can change as we develop greater awareness of ourselves & preferences.
Then magic happens as we go deeper and curiosity evolves to seeing energy profiling.
It answers so many questions about ourselves and how we feel better is certain hues,design styles and fabrication.
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I learned my colors back in 1982 (I'm a summer), and I have rarely wavered. I do have a few black items because I need them for work, still cool, but I only buy my colors, so I know I will always look good, even when I'm tired or not feeling well.
Thank you for making this video! I have been trying to work out my colors recently and this made me realise that the reason I've been having trouble is because I have olive skin. It's yellowish with that cool green undertone, but I'd been assuming I was a deep autumn because of the yellow.
Despite that, bright, deep colors have been appealing to me, and now I see that my natural inclinations were correct. Looks like I'm really a deep winter.
This is some education. Also, having such a pleasant and calm voice makes one just keep listening to you and keep watching your videos.
I am a new subscriber of urs. ;-)
Ziia Zoozoo Same here :)
Ziia Zoozoo thank you it helps . I like your calm voice but I think you laugh a lot in an unnecessary way! Watch your video and you will see . But ...cool you look like a wonderful , good person !, looking forward to seeing more of your videos .
Thank you so much for this video and you helped me so much with olive complexion skin line. I enjoyed your video and thank you.
For most of my life i was puzzled as far as my season goes. My skin is yellowish, clearly not pink, but still I always knew I looked better in cool tones. You've just opened my eyes that I'm olive skin toned. I would never think of that myself!
Thank you so much! Now I understant a lot more about my "oliveness" haha. It's true, no one talks about it that much and it appears to be a warm skin colour because of the yellow but I've always naturally more gravitated around cool colours.
I found this topic very interesting. I too am a winter. When I was younger I kept wearing an Autumn color palette that just did not work...Once I discovered the "Color Me Beautiful" book it opened my eyes. I began to see what a difference the correct colors can have on your overall appearance. Just remarkable to think how the right shade of blue can brighten up your whole face.
I’ve known that I am a summer that I can wear soft, dusty tones. I feel really good in them. However. You stating that makeup should be right is very true. Foundation on your face finishes off the look.
I’m really grateful to view your shows. I’m trying to set up my wardrobe, with a view to basic, but some pop of colour. What I am also looking for, is everyday clothes AND Handbags for me as a 72 year old.
Thanks again for your episodes, as I keep trying your suggestions with clothes/colours. Thanks from Canada🇨🇦
Thank you Audrey. I had my colours done about 30 years ago and it certainly changed how I shopped as well as what I considered to be core colours/pieces in my wardrobe. It is very true too that we always seem to reach for what makes us feel the best. After having my colours done I understood why I would reach for certain pieces. I am a cool summer. If I venture outside my colour wheel it would be with a piece that is not close enough to my face/hair to be so obvious that it doesn’t compliment my skin tones. I may buy a skirt, pair of shorts or slacks that are in ‘that’ colour (I love yellow but there are very few I can wear) and be sure I put my favourite navy blazer, sweater or top to compliment it. Your videos are so enjoyable and very informative. I am 62 now and all the same rules apply.
Nice point about the models often modeling their season’s colors, as well as the color harmony causing consumers to think it will automatically look great on them! Then I also notice models who aren’t in their great colors, and then it makes me wonder how many other people who aren’t even aware of color analysis notice the clashing!
Nice quick yet comprehensive summary of PCA. 😀
I love the blue sweater on you. I really enjoyed this video. Thank you for the lesson & the update to color theory. Cheers 😉🌺
Thank you so much! This help me clear my confusion in the past and have more confident to try on something in cool side.I always considered myself warm untertone. Knowing I'm in the olive side and olive skin tone have cool untertone make everything changes.
I was color-matched years ago. I was draped with a bright white fabric and I looked fine. Then came the yellow tone white and in a few seconds my complexion looked muddy - I looked like death warmed over. It was so obvious that I’m cool. I was identified as a Winter (as I had thought). I guess now I’m a Light Winter. But I’m drawn to colors that don’t flatter me, especially in the fall, like olive green, etc. although I steer clear. TFS
I've tried this SO HARD but I just can't find a season that "fits me". I have individual colours that look great and I can identify them... I just wish there was a tool like this for me, it would make things so easy. 😌
Your voice is so soothing, so calming.
it got upgraded to twelve so why don't we call them months?
Along the Lane this is a really good idea!
Along the Lane It wouldn't work globally.... Opposite for Northern and Summer hemisphere
Makes me sad how the people on the northern hemisphere completely ignore us in the south when it comes to fashion and seasons.
Enhriimaa Tsagaantsooj I don’t think it’s intentional, just didn’t realise that it would be different for us
I've seen them listed that way, and it all made way more sense to me.
I have olive skin (light) and this is the first time I've heard anyone discuss it. Wow. No wonder I never wear yellow! Thank you so much! Everything was spot on except I'd like to hear a little more about chromo, specifically the differences between rich, saturated, and muted. I'd really like to be able to better parse this out better and make use of this great tool! BTW, my color analysis completely flipped when I let my gray hair grow out (it had been a rich medium brown). I went from a deep Autumn (or so I was told) to light Summer (which years ago a different colorist has labeled me). Apparently, I'm not the only one who finds all this a bit tricky!
I been use this method of shopping & dressing since the late 70s, it's makes getting ready a breeze.
Thank you Audrey! I really needed this! No wonder why some of my white t shirts make me look washed out and others really make me look and feel great!
Thanks! Finally I hear somebody is talking about the olive undertone! I was so confused for a while.
I used to sew most of my clothes, wool lined suits, linen coordinates, silk blouses... they would fit and hang beautifully, but just always missed the mark. Then I had my colors done and was shocked. I love soft heathered summer colors, but they didn’t love me. I’m a winter and winter colors seemed garishly bright or boringly bland like light gray-ugh-elementary school uniform. Well, I changed my makeup and started wearing my colors and the compliments started pouring in. I couldn’t believe how much better I looked. I took my packet of colors to the store and to prove they couldn’t be right tried on clothes in the ugliest colors in my pallet. The first day I tried on the ugliest light gray blouse, and bought it! That was 40 years ago. I never went back.
Very informative and helpful Audrey. Thank u. I always thought I was a winter but turned out I was a spring. My entire wardrobe was black and white at the time, so that was a bit of a drag. I have learnt to change the make up when I'm wearing colours that aren't great for me. The whole undertone, hue thing was new for me so interesting to learn.
Seasonal color analysis has helped me so much to look good at my job!
I’ve have always been naturally drawn to the colors that compliment my season. But I have only been applying it fully for the last couple of years. And I must say it has changed my confidence in my wardrobe and how I feel about myself. It really is an amazing tool!
You really did a wonderful job at explaining the seasons in this video!
Adrienne Paxton thank you so much!
I got into SCA a few years ago and it's made watching videos on youtube from style bloggers a little like pulling teeth at times! This is the first video from a style blogger I've ever seen that depicts this topic accurately. Especially because a lot of people assume that lighter skin tones are always cool and darker skin tones are always warm! I saw a video on this where the vlogger used a model who was very obviously a light spring as an example of someone who was cool toned, demonstrated she didn't look good in warm tones by using a warm tone that was much too rich for her, and then proved she was cool toned by using a warm-toned aqua blue. I was internally screaming! I love what you say about how even if you don't use it in your style - which you don't have to at all! there are lots of winter colors I dislike and i'm constantly trying to find ways to style colors i know don't flatter me - it changes and enriches the way you see the world. I love that about color theory!
This is one of the most informative videos I have found so far on color analysis.
I am neutral but lean slightly cool/pink. There are others that can be neutral but lean slightly warm. Neutral leaning slightly cool looks best in muted cool colors. Neutral leaning slightly warm look good in muted warm colors.
Lately, i am watching your channel from morning till evening so worth watching ♥️
So grateful for finding you
Thank you Audrey! The video was very informative and helpful! I have black hair and light skin with a olive hue. I had similar experience as you did... I didn't know I have cool undertone until one day my mom told me that silver jewelries look much better on me than the golden ones... It's good to know that I'm not the only olive girl struggled with undertone identification... :)
I actually found out there has been an update, and there are 16 seasons total so far to cover the full spectrum of colors. Deep winter has a soft winter, light spring has a soft spring, soft summer has a deep summer, soft autumn has a autumn. I found I was neither a clear or a deep winter since I am a muted with gray, I was labeled as a soft winter which is between a deep and cool winter.
Zi Yang I have been told I look good in silver (as a Winter), but I have loved yellow gold since I was very young.
That’s so interesting, thank you! :) you’re such a lovely person and your way of speaking is so warm and pleasant, it instantly lifted my mood! 🌷
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Thank you for the info, you present it in a gentle nice way. I am actually looking to find out what my season is.
thank u so much for the olive skin update ,it really did clear a lot of confusion
I've heard of colour theory before, but I love the way you broke it down. I am a soft autumn. My boyfriend has Italian parents and is olive-skinned. I used to think olive skin was warm, and my mind is blown to hear it's actually cool-toned. But now it makes sense why 'cool' colours on my boyfriend's skin look amazing as opposed to warmer colours. He wears a lot of dark reds/maroons, blues including navy, bottle greens. These colours wouldn't suit me at all. It's funny though, we are often complementary with what we wear when out together. My colours seem to match his colours. :) Thank you for your video! Your voice is very soothing and calming to listen to.
Thank you Audrey, I have started to notice models on online shopping and it is a big help. However, I haven't fully understood the color theory. 😋
Wow I can see that you’re a winter! That cool blue sweater-like frost or snow- and the cardinal red skirt. So beautiful ❄️ 🌹
Audrey, this is a very good video in relation to seasonal colour analysis. It saves a lot of time and money for a woman to know what colour season she is, as well as, the under and over tones. A woman can go into a shop and know with confidence as to what she will look great in, thus starting out with the basic essentials and then working from these. I'm a winter season who has had my colours done, ie. a white shirt or Tee is correct for me as opposed to a cream shirt or Tee. etc. The exception to this is as an example if you like a loden green colour, which I do, then you could put a nice scarf in your season colour right next to your face and get away with the loden green. Also the lower piece could be the way to go ie. slacks, shorts, skirt. Had I known many years ago I would not have bought a number of the wrong colours and got the right ones instead. Oh, did you know that the winter season person is truly the only season who can successfully wear black. Working with colours is great and a woman can have such fun working with colours in her clothes. Thank you for all your skill and knowledge, you're great for sharing all of it.
I think I am a warm autumn, which is a surprise since I am very pale. Thank you Audrey! Now I have to research what clothes will fit me best!
I love how this color theory works for you. The lighting in stores changes how clothing or make-up looks on me. And different sales people say, your a cool. Nope, your a warm. Sigh. I think it changes day to day? Is that a thing? For me at my age If I love it, I buy it a try it on at home. If I love it-I keep it. Otherwise. I return it to the store. Also I do Carol Tuttles energy profiling. Which makes, finding my favorite colors I wear easy & fun. Because honestly I have learned over the years, those colors are the only ones I’m going to wear anyway. That way I am not pressured into buying clothing I desperately want to work, because on the model or sales person it looks amazing. I love 💕everything you wear. 🤩But I have to tweak, the colors to work for my type 1 energy. You have lovely knack for straightening out all the confusing details and putting them into bite size pieces. 🥰I appreciate that. Thank you🌸
Yes! I have always found it confusing. It does seem like it can change from day to day. My veins are deep blue or blue green. Yellows change, sometimes I can wear and sometimes not. But like you, I just know i what like and how I feel. I well check out this energy profiling. I've never heard of it. Thank you!
After months of studying color analysis i finally understand it 😂 my undertone confused me so much because i had a mixture of both cool and warm tone on my skin. My veins are blue while i look yellow when compared to pure white. I have black hair but I also tan easy. But i could never tell if i looked better in gold or silver. So i thought maybe I'm warm but warm color palette washes me out so much I look horrendous and I never understood. Cooler color pallet suited me better. Then I finally realized I'm olive. And it all made sense from there. My color season is deep winter.
I don't look anything like you, but I, too, am a deep winter and have an olive tone to my skin. It is wonderful how God created such variety- not just the seasons, but within the seasons. This was a great video, Audrey. It helped me understand my coloring even more than I did before. Thanks! PS: I would love a video demonstrating how to choose makeup colors. Despite what I know about my skin, I still find it hard to decipher foundation colors, especially when they're labelled only light, medium, or dark.
Omg. I'm a deep winter too! This was so helpful. I would always look at those color theory notions and be confused about where I fit in it. I didn't really understand why I often gravitate towards blues.This is especilly helpful for bold or nude lipsticks.
Yes this is extremely helpful. I feel like I am similar to you. One thing I was told once is that for makeup I should stay away from colors that have blue undertones.
Thank you so much. I am light olive. So many different people have told me that I am a "warm spring, warm autumn or cool winter". I just thought I was in between. Some yellows, greys and light browns don't look good on me, and I just knew that. Now I know why I have been having trouble with foundation makeup being too yellow or peach. Usually, I try to use a neutral tone for foundation makeup. This was very helpful for me. Thank you.
I learnt about seasonal colour theory at a young age, and it has helped me so much - especially the concept of cool and warm! Warm colours make my olive skin look very yellow and so I easily avoid them and go for the cool colours. Even knowing that colours like yellow, orange and red could be warm or cool has helped me to choose the right ones!
No new color theory, but well explained and with the typical "Audrey charm". Thank you!
Thanks Audrey. This really does work. My friend and I are polar opposites when it comes to clothing colors and you really can tell the difference. Lip color can actually clash if your dress is a vibrant berry color too.
I am a very odd deep autumn. Looking at me it seems like I would be a soft autumn, and for a while I believed that was what I was (blond hair, fair skin) but I realized that when I would go shopping I never liked the soft autumn colors when I tried them on. Instead, I was always buying dark autumn colors because they looked best. One day I looked at a list of deep autumn colors and realized that all the colors on the list were ones that looked good on me, and I had received compliments when I wore them. My hair is now a darker blond than it was when I was born, but even when I was younger I look back at photos and realize I looked best with the deep autumn colors.
Olive skin is cool??!!! Life changing!! I definitely know now I’m a deep winter. Thank you for this very informative and educational video. ♥️
I've been loving this topic in your videos, as I've never thought about this before. I'm going to pay more attention to this factor and try to figure out what I am :) Thanks heaps
Someone just told me... OLIVE SKIN IS COOL TONED AND MY LIFE HAS CHANGED.
I think my Olive is cool because I receive more compliments when I wear silver jewelry
my father was medium olive (Italian) and looked good in navy, black, burgundy. Brown was terrible on him. my son is olive and if he wears green he looks green 😂
@@toric9518 Yes!! My boyfriend is Italian and he is drawn to navy, dark reds, black, bottle greens and I always wondered why, because I thought olive was warm but now I'm looking at his pics and my mind is blown lol. And in fact these colours look so nice against his skin :D I'm a soft autumn so the colours he wears wouldn't suit me at all, but somehow we still look complementary when we go out.
Maybe anything with added blue would be complimentary.
Happy exploring =)
I have a medium skin with warm neutral olive undertone !
I have a lot of yellow in my skin , hint of grey & green , I don’t look good in silver jewelry or baby pink & pastel clothes !
I’m still discovering what am I 😂 but I kinda have a general idea now !
Pretty sure I’m a cool winter! I always knew I was a winter, but I love that they broke it down further :)
to have a seasonal color consultation has been one of the most valuable investments in my life, could have used it much earlier, though.... Once you can see, everything becomes so much easier. You save money, time, energy and feel so much better with less clothes!!
It would seem to me that if yellow & blue make green (olive), then most olive skin would be primarily neutral & could lean more cool or warm in a gradient fashion since skin tone is rather complex & may fall within a range. I’ve really found that dynamic to be true for me as I’m olive but NOT w/a 100% neutral skin tone. Anything cool looks horrible on me BUT I can do many muted, neutral tones in my clothing & makeup, especially if they’re warmer, & sometimes deeper.
This is me as well! Olive skin can definitely lean cool or warm. Not all olive skin tones are cool. I’m close to neutral but lean slightly warm and have an olive skin tone.
@@ggr9068 Hey, that’s great…..so glad I’m not alone!😊
Thank you for the don’t wash and dry jeans with heat tip. I have washed my clothes on cold for years, but it never occurred to me that the dryer might be shrinking my jeans. I bought a replace,ent pair this weekend and let them drip dry. We will see if they last longer! PS, I’m light skinned, cool undertones, sunflower blonde hair, with brown eyes. My favorite color to wear is yellow-gold, I think I nailed it!
That periwinkle blue top is beautiful on you! Color harmony.
I loved this video! It was clear, to the point, and your personality is so warm. Thank you for the education.
If I declutter my wardrobe according to this color theory, I will be left with only a black top and a legging XD
Scarves can really help if you don't want to start over or start with tops
I did this progressively over a few years and no jokes, i now only own either black or navy blue clothes (except for old tshirts on days idgaf about my looks LOL). Realised these are the best colors on me especially navy blue. NEVER disappointed now whenever i buy navy blue clothes
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I found this very helpful since im cool and fair tone with cool dark brown hair and eyes . Fond of dark winter tone colors and They match!! Learning from this It is a huge huge help! This gave me more appreciation for the cool winter colors for any season like my dresses for formals that are dark than the summer "bright ones" thanks
Great presentation Audrey! Thank you. As a teen I read Color Me Beautiful and figured out I was a cool summer. I loved to wear those colors, everything else looked strange on me. As I've aged, I've discovered I can wear some winter and spring colors as well as long as I adjust the makeup significantly.
According to Carole Jackson's book Color Me Beautiful, all four seasons are divided into cool and warm... Summer and Winter are cool, and Spring and Autumn are warm.
Fun video! I like it and I think your advice is spot-on. As for me, I’ve tried every self-guided color analysis in the book and always come up empty-handed. I even tried to use the reverse route: identify colors that make me look and feel my best, and then see what categories they fall into. Instead of an “aha!” moment, I found out that all the colors that look good on me are what’s known as “universal” colors; that is, colors anyone can wear (think burgundy, true blue, that one mid-toned, neutral pink that doesn’t really have a name). In fact, I am so neutral that I ONLY can wear the universal colors. What’s hilarious about this is that I’m also neutral in every other way: politically fairly neutral (I agree with different points from different sides), religiously neutral...in every argument I’m the neutral one, the one who can argue both sides, the mediator. It seems neutrality is my destiny. 😂🤣
Wow! This is such a great video wish so many helpful tips. I could never get a straight answer on what I was, and the fact that I bleach my hair makes it even more complicated. You've saved a lot of time and stress!
I loved that you told me about lighter olive. I’ve struggled with people telling me I’m golden because I’m olive! I finally got my perfect foundation match thanks to you and I now know why I look good in certain clothes when my warm toned sister doesn’t (we assumed we were both autumn colors) I would love to see videos on each season separately so I can really nail down colors and hues. (Any jewelry too) Thank you!!! I’m enjoying your videos so much :)
Very helpful. So I'm most definitely an olive. Yellow foundations are just too yellow for me, the green shows with clear contrast. Now I can't work out either I'm a deep winter or deep autumn.
Fantastic video! I just learned colour theory very quickly from this. Thank you.
Some constructive criticism here. It’s common in color analysis to use hair and eye color to help decide if you are cool or warm. While sometimes it can help, it’s not always accurate. Someone could have warm eyes and hair but have cool skin or vice versa.
What you want to look at is the skin itself. Merriam Style has a fantastic channel on color analysis and she has done several case studies on different celebrities. For example, Cate Blanchett is typed as a Summer here (cool) when on Merriam’s channel she is typed as “warm and delicate,” which simply means warm and muted. Someone like Cate doesn’t look great in bright warm colors so she is automatically typed as cool. When in fact she looks best in soft warm colors. Merriam has a video explaining this.
Also, while some olive skin tones are cool, not all of them are! Someone like Kim Kardashian has a cool olive skin tone while Aishwarya Rai has a warm olive skin tone. It’s a spectrum.
Hope this didn’t come across as too critical, this is just something I’m really interested in.
Brandi Davis I love the way Merriam explains both Kibbe and colouring. I’m a warm & delicate in her system.
Keapix I love her channel! I’m a soft dramatic and warm and delicate in her system :)
She has the best color typing system I have ever come across. Before finding her channel I had concluded it was all nonsense.
I just commented on your last video on olive skin and how much it helped me, and gave me an "aha!" moment.
Now I'm sooo happy you mentioned that the 4 seasons may not embody me either.
I downloaded an app once telling me I'm cool winter, but sometimes soft autumn which I'm pretty sure are contradictory.
My hair is brown, but is kind of an ashy/gray brown. My eyes are medium brown - so I never know which option to choose between "dark eyes" vs "light eyes."
I'm a yellow-y olive color, very noticable when I'm tanned, but pale in the winter time. I never felt like the 4 season pallettes were me. I'll keep watching your videos for more :)
It seems I can't find many pictures online of celebrities (or anyone) who are strongly yellow but olive. I can find some green olive people, but not much yellow olive.
Supposedly I'm not supposed to look good in pastels, however I've definitely warn them and been complimented on how well they match my skin tone. I also am 100% I look great in dark earthtones like dark brown and khaki.
I think I look good in peachy/coral colors too, but I also look good in bright jewel tones.
I don't think I look good in all pastels though. I've been told I look good in gold jewelery, but I've always worn silver and I really think that looks fine too. It's just so hard to tell! Lol season pallettes have just confused me more.
Best color theory video I've seen, and I've seen sooooo many! For myself, I never want anyone to remember what I'm wearing, but rather to take away the impression that I looked good. And since I don't have unlimited money to spend on clothes and makeup, I need the ones I have to work for me. Quick story: I had a matte black silk dress years ago, and it was beautiful. But every time I wore it, someone would invariably ask me if I felt well! lol Was I tired? (I always though, well, I was fine until I ran into you! lol) So, eventually, and painfully, I stopped buying black clothes. I think I've moved from maybe a Soft Autumn, to a Soft Spring as my auburn hair has faded. (In some systems there are 16 choices, and what I've learned is that I'm good in Spring colors + some gray - a Muted Spring. I've never had my colors done professionally, but after much personal study, I've landed with muted spring colors, and a neutral undertone (itself a challenge since there are both cool and warm elements to the undertone).
Just a wonderful job making applied color theory accessible, Audrey! Thank you!
Thank you for all the time and effort you are putting into making these videos!! im binge watching :) and are hugely inspired.