Funny as I'm talking about colors and wearing the least flattering color on myself ahahahah. (Mom's friend sent it to her, but the size wasn't hers, so she gave it to me and I was like - mmm it's gonna be better against my black background instead of my own stuff that is mostly black!) MY MUSIC ON UA-cam: bit.ly/2Ln0zjU INSTAGRAM: bit.ly/2NUy9Q9 PATREON: www.patreon.com/AlyArt PINTEREST: bit.ly/2NpJgiD
@@peachfountain I think so too! Btw, thank you so much for this amazing content Aly!! The way you are talking is very aristocratic it is always such a delight, watching your videos!! Hope you have a great day!!!
Hello Aly, just a note on that pale redhead you asked for comment on. I noticed that the background colour was white or grayish-white, and it's possible that that colour makes her look paler and leaves you not sure what undertone she has. It may be that with an ivory background, the natural warmth of her skin tone will come through. Pale skin tones wearing the wrong undertone often just look pale, not overtly warm or cool. Bringing a warmer colour near their face often makes their skin tone look warmer, ivory instead of just pale.
Thank you so much for showing pale warm toned girls. Almost every video on this topic just uses pictures of pale, blonde girls with obvious tans and/or heavy bronzer, which are not good examples.
Try holding a white paper next to your face, when you look yellow, you're warm, when you look pink, you're cool, when you're peachy, greenish or a mixture, you're neutral.
I'm a redhead and my undertone is probably green. I found this out because no foundation matched me (the palest were too pink and the warmer ones too dark), so I experimented and when I added green eyeshadow to the foundation, it was like magic! It suddenly blended out and it didn't look too pink or yellow - I didn't even have to mix in white (which is what I usually do).
Cherry Blossom I feel your pain! There is so much misinformation about olive undertone. I feel like it’s the “gamine “ Iof color theory. And if you are not darker people assume you cannot be olive. Not true!
I'm a soft, slightly cool neutral olive. My family actually argues with themselves and me, saying "You look best in blues/geens!" and "You look better in yellow and red!"; it's annoying. All I know, is I look best in soft colors, especially green. Soft green is totally not popular, and people say it's ugly.
I would pay someone to tell me which skin colour am I and what hair colour is the best for me, I love how you explain everything but it's really hard to tell on myself
All I know is that every pale colour fits me horribly, any, pale yellow, pale orange, pale red, pale pink, pale green. Most of all bright colours fits me better
Here is the theory: Try everything (give a chance even to the colors you hate😅) then look yourself into the mirror. Wear only what makes you say *YEEEES, THAT ONE!!!* with a smile in less than 3 secs. Period. Same for hair. Same for make up. Same for life!!! 🧛🏻♀️🖤
I did pay once and emerged with a colour plan of varying degrees of beige. if that's possible. Even she could not make up her mind, Needless to say, I now wear whatever suits my mood and to hell with it, If I am happy , then I will make you happy too. I have no rules apart from Yellow, that;s a no no, it makes me look like a sad canary.🟡🌻😇
The thing I've went by is trying a bunch of cheap brand lipsticks/samples out and seeing which ones make me look like a clown. Helps with dertermining if you're cool or warm as well as how much or how little color saturation you can wear. The white and off white/ivory/cream tshirt test is good too.
Hi Aly. Thank you for your explanation of undertones. It's important to note that not all women of rich tones (or +2) has cool or red undertones. There are those that have warm golden undertones. This mistake is often made in foundation makeup, which is often too orange or too red for these types.
@Elaine Bines, check out Merriam Style's channel. You might fall into the cool and "muted" category, as opposed to cool & radiant (the ones who could wear the fuchsia top above).
Same, I buy 2 foundations in same shade - one in cool tone( pink undertone) and one in warm( yellow undertone) cos cool tone too pink for me and warm too yellow, however there’s foundations in neutral colour which doesn’t Match me either, so the best match for me is mixing 70% of cool foundations and 30% same shade of warm.I hope that helps, cos I use to get so frustrated.
Try adding food coloring to it, it can be challenging because it's VERY, again VERY concentrated and you only need an almost microscopic drop to be added.
I'm enjoying this series, would you intertain a series with silver/grey haired beauties? We are a growing segment and would appreciate your expertise 💚. Love your videos!
Im hot when Im on a date and Im cool when Im being admired. Although Im quit cold when I interact with humans, I can give a pretty warm hug. So I have concluded that I am in fact, lukewarm.
When I pick makeup that matches my neck, I look very yellow whenever my chest flushes or my hands are near my face. When I pick more neutral tones, I get a pink line of demarcation! Skin tones are so hard! I have learned to choose a neutral tone foundation for my face, and then blend a slighty more yellow tone by my jaw/neck area to blend in
You're probably neutral-toned tilting towards yellow colour spectrum. When testing for foundations, I'll advise you opt for shades that have the word 'Beige' and in it, e.g, 'Neutral Beige'. By doing this, it should be easier picking your true foundation match.
This was super helpful! Thank you! My tones really confuse me and I've been matched all over the place, so your description put me smack dab in Cool 0 without question. So helpful!
I've watched so many videos on this over the years, and now I finally know what I am. Thanks Aly :) Can u do a video on the best colors to wear for each contrast and undertone?
Oh yes and thanks. Now I finally decided that I am neutral. My eyes are blue-green, my hair (light brown) reflects sometimes more yellowish, sometimes more greyish. My skin is pinkish and yellowish in the same time. :D
Andie Smile I am a neutral as well and it took me ages to find out, because I didn't fit into any of the 4-season-types. My eyes are greyish-green, my skin is very neutral and my hair is an ashy blonde. I use soft, muted colours such as taupe or seashell pink and they give me the exact amount of contrast without overpowering me.
I think another channel, merriam style suggested, that it's almost impossible to be neutral, because that would mean you have to have *exactly* 50/50 ratio of warm and cool undertones. Usually people can be close to neutral, but still more on warm/cool side. Often warm and muted types think that they're neutral. And also, your color type depends mostly on your skin coloration
@@alzbetabaldovska360 No offense to Merriam, but she doesn't really know what she's talking about. I mean, she thinks she's soft and cool, but she's actually bright, cool and deep (which is why burgundy looks so good on her). Furthermore, she conflates undertone with overall intensity of the skin (ie how bright or soft one's skin is). In short, one can have equal amounts of pink and yellow (a neutral undertone) and have high intensity. Conversely, one can be fully warm or fully cool and have low intensity (ie soft and warm or soft and cool).
I agree with you on olive skin tones. My dad's family is Italian, so that's where I get the olive tone. There isn't a color I look bad in, but I look a little better in cool tones. So, I guess that means I'm neutral, but slightly cool toned at the same time.
Your commentary on peach tones for warm helped me so much! I always thought i was cool toned, but last year i realized i look way better in gold. I definitely have a warm undertone, which explains why the white platinum blonde looks so bad on me!
I am really liking this channel and the contrast topics. As a guy this is helpful to pick clothing colors or find what colors for other things work for me... Great job Ms. Aly Art!
Hi Aly! First of all thank you for the effort you put on the video. I've a skin condition called Argiria, my skin tends to look between grey and blue, and also green if I use green or golden accesories. It's soooo hard to know whats suits me well, those colors are more predominant in my face so for example the color of my neck and arms looks warmer... It's impossible found a foundation or the right haircolor that help me to diminish the "greyish" of my skin.
Excellent video as always, Aly! A note I made: I don't think your contrast is directly correlated with the lightness/darkness of your skin or the ability to tan. As an extremely pale yet naturally dark blonde / light brown haired Finnish woman, I would categorize myself as -1 contrast. But because of my extremely pale skin, I tan a lot less than my friends who are light blonde, -2 contrast women. Some of them can develop beautiful natural tan in summer (at least the ones with warmer undertones)! Overall, my skin tone is a lot paler than many of the -2 women I know.
Yes! I'm a warm - 1. I've been wondering wtf my natural hair colour actually is and why such ashy roots but really gold copper highlights in the sun but neither really blonde nor brunette and now I finally understand.
Thank you! I have a more warm undertone but it was so difficult to figure that out before because I have quite neutral under tones. Especially during the winter since my skin gets lighter quickly
So I am a cool +1, thank you! I already learned really much about myself when you uploaded the original contrast video, this video here made it so obvious I ask myself why I didn't see that exact result earlier
I love how you tell us the base of each color like yellow plus blue for olive. Now I understand why i have to wear warm colors, i have more yellow in my skin!
I actually read the makeup description for my foundation. As I was being swatched for my match there were colors that were my tone but not my undertone. Some were too red, too yellow or kind of dull looking. It didn't look too off but it was noticeable to me. Then i was matched for a "neutral" and perfect! 👌🏽👌🏽
I'm a neutral too, and I've never been able to find a good foundation. I've settled for trying to keep my skin as pimple'-free as possible and wear mattifying sunscreen over it.
Hi Aly, I had full color analisis, and they all came over because I was matching all seasons, Winter, spring, Autumn, gold and sliver ++, It was finally discovered that I am a pretty true neutral. This means that I have, both blue red, and yellow orange in my skin. I am around 53-54% warm, and 47-46% cool. I have had artist argue over the fact that I am a cool and then others that I was a warm olive. Yes I can wear just about any color. My eyes are golden, green brown...yeah hazel!! It looks like they change colors. My hair has looked good as brunette, as red head, and as a cooler blond. Yes My coloring is "rare" and I love it!! Fair skin, I burn bad then tan nicely.
I love your explanation of olive skin tone. I have light olive toned skin & it is strange to figure out. People think I'm pretty tan until you compare my skin side by side w/ people & realize I'm lighter than almost anyone. Then, makeup artists can't agree if I'm cool or warm. I just wear the neutral foundation powder. But my hair is a greenish grayish tone (ash?) of brown, & if I wear warm tones I look yellow & my hair gets an orangish tone. Wearing blue tones feels best & I look normal. Warm tones (& pink, I don't know where that falls) make me look like an Oompa Loompa with yellowish orangish skin. According to your explanation I am probably slightly cooler olive.
Most redhaired people have warm undertones. This is necessary to be able to pull off those orange and copper tones. On rare occasions a person might have a cool shade of red hair and cool undertones, but that is very rare. I've been confused about this for years myself, because I'm very pale (Danish redhead) and burn easily, so my undertone should be cool according to most theories. Since discovering just a couple of years ago, that my undertone is in fact warm, it has helped me so much when picking out clothes and makeup. Now I know why makeup often made me look like a doll, the cool colours looked somewhat foreign and fake on me.
i have been learning soooo much from you! THANK YOU for sharing your knowledge. Your powers of observation are top-notch, and you are amazing at explaining complex concepts. I am one of those people who sees extra colours, and i am a painter. my WORLD is colour, and i am often almost paralyzed by the beauty i encounter (especially in women). You are enriching everything i understand thus far so *bow bow bow* Thank you, Sensei!!
For as far as I learned from colours/makeup etc. people with redheads and light complexion tend to have a peachy/rosy overtone, which might make you think they have a cool complexion, when in fact they agree better with warmer colours in their makeup and clothes, golden jewellery. So they actually have a warmer undertone. In the same way many people with very light complexion, looking yellowish (not golden) have actually a neutral/cooler undertone
You look beautiful! Sometimes we just need a fun color in our clothes, even if it's not our best color. You rock it with the matching lip! Also love your hairstyle and color! 😘
I have Albinism, and my skin is mostly impacted I look like a goth person lol and my natural hair used to be white now it’s a bleached white platinum, it got yellower as I got older. I have green and blue looking veins and it’s always confused me with how pale I get. I assumed I had to be cool. But now I am pretty convinced I’m a pale olive now. More neutral. If I was the color of my family, they are true tanned olive with black hair. This video was so helpful!
Can't wait for this video! I hope you also include comments about changing your hair as you age. I have pale skin, blue-grey eyes and dark brown hair with some grey coming through at the temples (summer/winter in the old season types). I have been told to lighten and warm up my hair now that I am in my 40s - something the old Colour Me Beautiful book warned against back in the day for cool skin tones. Would love to hear your thoughts on this.
Thanks again for your content! I always learn new things and what is making me unique. I'm looking forward to create the best look for myself and help some friends to see and enhance the particularities of their beauty. Love you Aly! 💖
You asked a question about the model at 7:50. The average RGB value for the rectangle that spans from the left to right cheek, and from the bottom of her eyes to the tip of her nose is [227,210,213], which is impossible under normal lighting conditions. In normal human skin, the relationship of R, G and B is R > G > B. The surface cells in skin are dead and devoid of any color beyond a faint translucent yellow. We sometimes see blue because veins are close to the surface In human skin and we see pink due to capillaries with red blood. The blue is always in defined channels and not distributed throughout the skin. Any available blue light will bind with the green and red to form gray. Any leftover green after all the blue is bound will bind with the red to create yellow. Any excess red after that will make the skin look pink. The brightest pixel in any photo cannot exceed RGB [255,255,255], which is white. In this photo, there is a solid blob of pixels at threshold level 252, and not a single pixel at 253-255. This means there was a blown-out hotspot above the model's right eye approximately 24x24 pixels that was filled in with RGB [252,251,253], which is slightly blue. It should also be noted that the background behind the model is slightly blue. This photo was not white-balanced correctly. I opened the photo in Camera Raw and bumped up the temperature (Y/B) +3. The average RGB was now [229,212,211] and the model looked fantastic, totally void of Avatar genes.
Very unique and interesting channel,huge source of beauty knowledge, glad I found it on youtube. My colour type is very hard to precize- only thing I can be sure it is a low contrast-I have ashy blonde hair that very easy became higlighted by the sun, my skin tone seems light and has yellow undertones (my tan is more golden than brown and skin is pinkish at the beginning of tanning)and eyes are cool light green with grey edges.
holy cow, i think i finally know my undertone! i’m very pale, so any redness in my face is very obvious. my neck is def yellow though, and compared to my pink husband i am very, very yellow! a fair skinned, warm undertone! i’ve been so confused trying to look at my veins, knowing i have redness in my skin, and i sunburn easily. thank you so much!
Thanks to your video, I’m finally sure that I’m indeed warm colored. The clue to compare yourself to friends really did it for me. I’m super yellow compared to everyone else. Now, if only I could identify my contrast (very light skin, medium golden blonde, yet darker green eyes and dark brown brows ), that’d be perfect. 😅
Ah thank you! I can finally confirm that I am cool +2 even though I have medium overtone. There are too many videos that only show examples of either extremely fair or extremely dark to describe cool tones. Another example is Alicia Keys, she has medium skin but a red undertone and high contrast
Please Aly, could you do a whole video talking about olive undertone? I always had difficulty understanding my skin color because it has intense green undertone and I could never fit the cool and neutral category, and not always the warm category. Even founding a foundation that suits me without making me orange. I look good in warm coolish clothes, like olive brown, “toasted” Yellow/ Orange color, i also look good in vibrant colors, also in some kinds of greenish blue or even super cool blue or lavander, but not all of them, depends on the undertone of the colors.. it’s so complex because this formulas (if you re warm use this, if you are cool use that) never worked for me.
Thank you for talking about olive skin. I am a pale olive and so many people just don't believe me because they think I'm too pale to be olive...wrong. Some warm colours look good on me, some look terrible, same with cool colours...olive skin is a challenge.
I love that you included literally all shades...didnt k ow it went into such depth with contrast. But makes more sense. I absolutely love the skin and eyes of the low contrast women! My elder daughter is a warm -1 capillaries, so rosy cheeks, big dark green eyes, Carrie's peach well, few freckles and does go yellow in the sun especially, her hair is bright blonde...like wheat/yellow..and lightens up very quick in the sun. My youngest is harder to determine, I think when is cool 0- with that olive wash- her skin I had no imperfections, tans easily, bright turquoise eyes, hair is light brown, but I dont know what color to be exact. I think I am a warm +1
Oh! God! As a Brazilian I couldn't identify myself with none of the colors explained, neither the photos that you were shown. Even the brown hair here can in fact have shades of golden hair and be totally natural...so I'm lost. :-/
+1 +2 = High contrast: wear saturated colours with words like "deep" or "bold". Conversely, avoid pastels and washed out colours, or if you wear eg a duck-egg dress have contrasted accessories or detailing. Warm undertone: Don't wear cool colours, or if you do wear cool colours borrow only colours that mimic other aspects of your colouration, such as depth or brightness eg if you want to wear a green, wear a warm green as opposed to a blue-green. Olive undertone: Most relevant to makeup. Most make up is marketed to your pigment, so if you go into MAC and tell the assistant you have an olive undertone she will pick a complimentary shade. Conversely, using a concealer for a peach undertone on olive skin will make the blemished more evident and patchy. And if all fails, use a colour theory system like 12 seasons or the like and just follow the rules. These people know their stuff. Hope that helps!
@@farahzamir2138 I think someone finally explained my problem here. I've no idea what skin/undertone I'm, but I can tell I'm weird yellowish brown with dark black hair and dark brown eyes. Lips also has dark color, close to smoky plum lipstick from Elizabeth Arden. My skin is dull, probably as she said matte and probably with olive. Whatever makeup (foundation, bronzer, highlighter, blush, concealer) I use it makes my blemishes, dark spots, freckles show up even more. On top of these all, I've dark circles around my eyes that my husband calls me 🐼 panda sometimes and eyes are so deep set that with regular eyelash curler I can't get my corner eyelashes curled. Ahhh, welcome to my world! :((
I'm so glad you talked about olive skin. My family is all olive skinned and green/hazel eyes but I am pale and blue eyed/blonde. My undertone is a nightmare to figure out!
Very interesting, thank you! As for your question about redheads at 8:00 mark; I am a redhead with similar colouring to this photo (bright hair, blue eyes, pale skin with fixed redness near the surface on cheeks). I look much better in pure jewel tone colours, often cooler, but I have to be careful with reds, oranges, pinks or purples--that is almost on a case-by-case basis. Warmer reds and oranges look better with my hair, but cooler ones look better with my skin...so I usually avoid them because it's hard to find the right one. Burgundy is a very good colour, though, as long as it's cool enough. I tend to wear a lot of black haha.
I have been waiting for this video ever since you released your colour theory video. Thank you so much for doing this video. Love you and love your channel. PS : You look great in this video.
When people say to look at your veins to see if blue or green, and I’m like, “is turquoise an option?” I have rosacea, and I’m very pink on the face. But all of my skin has a lot of capillary pinkness. This seems to be kind of at war with the ashy hair color I’ve always had. Green and gold eyes, ash blonde hair. Probably a -1 contrast, can I be neutral? Some soft warm colors and some soft cool colors look good.
I'm definitely a mix. Cool pinkish skin, very pale, easily burns, but very dark brown hair and dark brows. The hair I think is on the warmer end because it has gold in it, especially in the sun. Eyes are a hazel brown, amber/olive like with lighter hair and black like with darker hair. I have no idea what to do to 'fix' the difference (what to color my hair), hahahaha but I'll get there. Wonderful as always!! 💖
This is so difficult, sometimes I think I'm neutral but I think I look better in warmer colors but then sometimes I think I'm cool toned because I'm very pale and I have blue eyes. Can anybody help me? I have some videos on my channel and I always film with natural light.
Hi from Spain! Im olive undertone, i have to use yellow undertone for make up. But I think are differents between yellow undertone and olive undertone. My skin with the sun goes to more grey, and the yellow undertone goes to more orange. Very interesting information.
In my opinion we have 2 main spectrum in photography: blue-yelllow and green-pink, yellow pink being red and etc So olive isnt by definition cold or hot but green, not pink, and it normally is hot
I used to believe that I was warm automatically because I’m half Asian , but I know that most cool toned colors look better on me than warm ones . So I just picked up a cool toned (I’ve always bought warm /neutral, and kind a noticed that they looked a little bit yellow on me , but I always thought that’s the way they are supposed to look, lol) foundation and it looks my exact same shade . I’m mind blown right now and your video it’s been sooo helpful to understand this whole undertone thing . Thank you so much 😊 💖✨
@@susannahb2723 yes, black people have beautifully white teeth; blondes have more yellowish teeth naturally. I read this in a scientific journal somewhere.
Excellent job... I love the so talented and so beautiful Aly. I was wondering why among all those phenotypes I didn't find mine actually.... Extra white mixed undertone (some parts of cace and body extra cool /blue veins, some other parts mixed warmer or mixed cooler.... With veins purple, blue and greenish blue), almost no eyebrows or body hair, cool toned pink lips, almost black cool toned eyes, extra dark similar black ashy brown..... A lot of freckles, moles and spot and pink burnt if in the sun
Funny as I'm talking about colors and wearing the least flattering color on myself ahahahah. (Mom's friend sent it to her, but the size wasn't hers, so she gave it to me and I was like - mmm it's gonna be better against my black background instead of my own stuff that is mostly black!)
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The cut and vivid color look so fabulous on you! Even if the color is not as flattering for your skin, your mom's friend has great taste ☺
@@peachfountain I think so too! Btw, thank you so much for this amazing content Aly!! The way you are talking is very aristocratic it is always such a delight, watching your videos!! Hope you have a great day!!!
Hello Aly, just a note on that pale redhead you asked for comment on. I noticed that the background colour was white or grayish-white, and it's possible that that colour makes her look paler and leaves you not sure what undertone she has. It may be that with an ivory background, the natural warmth of her skin tone will come through. Pale skin tones wearing the wrong undertone often just look pale, not overtly warm or cool. Bringing a warmer colour near their face often makes their skin tone look warmer, ivory instead of just pale.
It's nice. You used your makeup colors to make it work. I think with the right makeup one can pull off most any color.
I watched the video thinking that top looks great on you! You wore it well.
I’m just confused. It’s easy to see in others, and hard to see in myself.
Me too. I still can't figure it out. I'm probably more neutral.
Saaaame
Well you could tell from the color of your veins you can look it up and if that’s a picture of you on your channel I’d say you look cool toned.
C Mickie why does this sound philosophical?
MadeofIce Good point. 😉
Thank you so much for showing pale warm toned girls. Almost every video on this topic just uses pictures of pale, blonde girls with obvious tans and/or heavy bronzer, which are not good examples.
Yeah - we do exist 🤣💪
Agreed! I’m a 2c in MAC studio fix
S. O. You’re right! I’ve noticed that too!
These color theories are too much for my brain to hundle but still watch your video because i trust you can teach me a lot
I suggest you ignore any advice for colors you are NOT! THAT IS TOO MUCH INFO.
I will NEVER understand color theory. I'm literally crying and laughing at the same time. It's not a joke.
Dude, seriously you have to watch right now her video "what you should know about colour" and "What is a skin Colour" it has changed my life.
When people compliment me on my outfit, or say “ you look great in that color”, I always make a mental note.
I am confused too
Still.not sure what I am...
Try holding a white paper next to your face, when you look yellow, you're warm, when you look pink, you're cool, when you're peachy, greenish or a mixture, you're neutral.
Yout definitely look cool in your profile pic.
Cool toned
You have cool undertone
I'm a redhead and my undertone is probably green. I found this out because no foundation matched me (the palest were too pink and the warmer ones too dark), so I experimented and when I added green eyeshadow to the foundation, it was like magic! It suddenly blended out and it didn't look too pink or yellow - I didn't even have to mix in white (which is what I usually do).
Wow
Your comments on olive makes sense! Olive is a whole ‘nuther animal in color theory. I agree it’s not warm or cool it can be either.
Neutral
English Irish no it’s not neutral necessarily. There are warmer olives and cooler olives. Both are olive but some are warm and some are cool
I suffer so much! I’m a light medium olive 😩
Cherry Blossom I feel your pain! There is so much misinformation about olive undertone. I feel like it’s the “gamine “ Iof color theory. And if you are not darker people assume you cannot be olive. Not true!
I'm a soft, slightly cool neutral olive. My family actually argues with themselves and me, saying "You look best in blues/geens!" and "You look better in yellow and red!"; it's annoying. All I know, is I look best in soft colors, especially green. Soft green is totally not popular, and people say it's ugly.
Umm i think this colour you are wearing is BOMB lol
Nice to see that I am not the only turkish person who waches her 👋
Yes GORGEOUS high chroma cool fuschia, looks amazing.
sarah ben de varım ;)
I thought the color looked very flattering on her...!!! ...guess I need to study up on skin tone compliments 🙎🏼
Washes her out tho
I would pay someone to tell me which skin colour am I and what hair colour is the best for me, I love how you explain everything but it's really hard to tell on myself
All I know is that every pale colour fits me horribly, any, pale yellow, pale orange, pale red, pale pink, pale green. Most of all bright colours fits me better
Tell me about it
Here is the theory: Try everything (give a chance even to the colors you hate😅) then look yourself into the mirror. Wear only what makes you say *YEEEES, THAT ONE!!!* with a smile in less than 3 secs. Period. Same for hair. Same for make up. Same for life!!! 🧛🏻♀️🖤
I did pay once and emerged with a colour plan of varying degrees of beige. if that's possible. Even she could not make up her mind,
Needless to say, I now wear whatever suits my mood and to hell with it,
If I am happy , then I will make you happy too.
I have no rules apart from Yellow, that;s a no no, it makes me look like a sad canary.🟡🌻😇
The thing I've went by is trying a bunch of cheap brand lipsticks/samples out and seeing which ones make me look like a clown. Helps with dertermining if you're cool or warm as well as how much or how little color saturation you can wear. The white and off white/ivory/cream tshirt test is good too.
Perfect timing ☕ Hope everyone has a great day!
Thank you! Have a great day too ))
Hi Aly. Thank you for your explanation of undertones. It's important to note that not all women of rich tones (or +2) has cool or red undertones. There are those that have warm golden undertones. This mistake is often made in foundation makeup, which is often too orange or too red for these types.
I'm cool toned and find lavender, grey, muted pinks suit me and surprisingly, a red blush, applied lightly.
@Elaine Bines, check out Merriam Style's channel. You might fall into the cool and "muted" category, as opposed to cool & radiant (the ones who could wear the fuchsia top above).
Severian - I second this!! I myself am a COOL RADIANT, and I look best in black, white, and bright almost neon purples and blues 👌🏼
Hello fellow soft cool! White, soft blue, rose golds, and lavender look amazing on me, where brighter blues tend to be overwhelming.
I watch a few beauty channels for fun, but Aly and Wayne Goss are the only ones I "take seriously".
Pale olive skin here with more blueish undertones... it's a pain to find makeup foundation for me.
Adri same!!! Even the the lightest shade is too orange for me :/
Same, I buy 2 foundations in same shade - one in cool tone( pink undertone) and one in warm( yellow undertone) cos cool tone too pink for me and warm too yellow, however there’s foundations in neutral colour which doesn’t Match me either, so the best match for me is mixing 70% of cool foundations and 30% same shade of warm.I hope that helps, cos I use to get so frustrated.
@@AmyJ0Y. sameeee omg
Go without foundation? Money saved and your skin will thank you. :)
Try adding food coloring to it, it can be challenging because it's VERY, again VERY concentrated and you only need an almost microscopic drop to be added.
Since I’m here first I figured I’d tell you how much I love your videos!
Thank you!!!
I'm enjoying this series, would you intertain a series with silver/grey haired beauties? We are a growing segment and would appreciate your expertise 💚. Love your videos!
Im hot when Im on a date and Im cool when Im being admired. Although Im quit cold when I interact with humans, I can give a pretty warm hug. So I have concluded that I am in fact, lukewarm.
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You absolute genius.
Bravo!👍👍😂
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Your comment is underrated
When I pick makeup that matches my neck, I look very yellow whenever my chest flushes or my hands are near my face. When I pick more neutral tones, I get a pink line of demarcation! Skin tones are so hard! I have learned to choose a neutral tone foundation for my face, and then blend a slighty more yellow tone by my jaw/neck area to blend in
You're probably neutral-toned tilting towards yellow colour spectrum. When testing for foundations, I'll advise you opt for shades that have the word 'Beige' and in it, e.g, 'Neutral Beige'. By doing this, it should be easier picking your true foundation match.
Clever!
Fol Dudeney yes exactly! beige sometimes almost grey tones match best but they’re so hard to find!
This was super helpful! Thank you! My tones really confuse me and I've been matched all over the place, so your description put me smack dab in Cool 0 without question. So helpful!
This is the best explanation of color theory i’ve seen so far! Thank you for going so deep into it, it really gave me insight on my own coloring!
Thank you for talking about redheads! I feel like not many videos mention natural redheads and I have a hard time deciding what skin tone I have.
I've watched so many videos on this over the years, and now I finally know what I am. Thanks Aly :)
Can u do a video on the best colors to wear for each contrast and undertone?
I think in all the time I've been following you, this is the first video i got completely lost and confused.
Oh yes and thanks. Now I finally decided that I am neutral. My eyes are blue-green, my hair (light brown) reflects sometimes more yellowish, sometimes more greyish. My skin is pinkish and yellowish in the same time. :D
Andie Smile I am a neutral as well and it took me ages to find out, because I didn't fit into any of the 4-season-types. My eyes are greyish-green, my skin is very neutral and my hair is an ashy blonde. I use soft, muted colours such as taupe or seashell pink and they give me the exact amount of contrast without overpowering me.
I think another channel, merriam style suggested, that it's almost impossible to be neutral, because that would mean you have to have *exactly* 50/50 ratio of warm and cool undertones. Usually people can be close to neutral, but still more on warm/cool side. Often warm and muted types think that they're neutral. And also, your color type depends mostly on your skin coloration
@@alzbetabaldovska360 No offense to Merriam, but she doesn't really know what she's talking about. I mean, she thinks she's soft and cool, but she's actually bright, cool and deep (which is why burgundy looks so good on her). Furthermore, she conflates undertone with overall intensity of the skin (ie how bright or soft one's skin is).
In short, one can have equal amounts of pink and yellow (a neutral undertone) and have high intensity. Conversely, one can be fully warm or fully cool and have low intensity (ie soft and warm or soft and cool).
I have olive skintone, but more on the warmer side!! Totally agree with you!!💛
I agree with you on olive skin tones. My dad's family is Italian, so that's where I get the olive tone. There isn't a color I look bad in, but I look a little better in cool tones. So, I guess that means I'm neutral, but slightly cool toned at the same time.
You are a mind reader! I was just researching whether I was warm or cool undertoned!
I finally understand! Thank you, Aly!
Your commentary on peach tones for warm helped me so much! I always thought i was cool toned, but last year i realized i look way better in gold. I definitely have a warm undertone, which explains why the white platinum blonde looks so bad on me!
I am really liking this channel and the contrast topics. As a guy this is helpful to pick clothing colors or find what colors for other things work for me... Great job Ms. Aly Art!
I love your videos, Aly. You are so knowledgeable, and interesting. Many blessings...MaryEllen
Hi Aly! First of all thank you for the effort you put on the video. I've a skin condition called Argiria, my skin tends to look between grey and blue, and also green if I use green or golden accesories. It's soooo hard to know whats suits me well, those colors are more predominant in my face so for example the color of my neck and arms looks warmer... It's impossible found a foundation or the right haircolor that help me to diminish the "greyish" of my skin.
Excellent video as always, Aly! A note I made: I don't think your contrast is directly correlated with the lightness/darkness of your skin or the ability to tan. As an extremely pale yet naturally dark blonde / light brown haired Finnish woman, I would categorize myself as -1 contrast. But because of my extremely pale skin, I tan a lot less than my friends who are light blonde, -2 contrast women. Some of them can develop beautiful natural tan in summer (at least the ones with warmer undertones)! Overall, my skin tone is a lot paler than many of the -2 women I know.
Love how you explain cool and warm and also how you explained the olive skin tone - you are awesome! xo Jackie
Yes! I'm a warm - 1. I've been wondering wtf my natural hair colour actually is and why such ashy roots but really gold copper highlights in the sun but neither really blonde nor brunette and now I finally understand.
Thank you! I have a more warm undertone but it was so difficult to figure that out before because I have quite neutral under tones. Especially during the winter since my skin gets lighter quickly
So I am a cool +1, thank you!
I already learned really much about myself when you uploaded the original contrast video, this video here made it so obvious I ask myself why I didn't see that exact result earlier
I think I’m more confused now 😔
I wish so much that I had your talent for figuring this out. You always look perfect.
I love how you tell us the base of each color like yellow plus blue for olive. Now I understand why i have to wear warm colors, i have more yellow in my skin!
This was super helpful! I would love it if you could make a video about what colors look best on each contrast level/temperature! :D
This woman is so underrated 🥺
I have yellowish skin and I look better in dark colours but when I try autumn colours it doesn't look good, but if I wear cool dark colours, I glow.
One of my new favorite UA-cam channels!!
I actually read the makeup description for my foundation.
As I was being swatched for my match there were colors that were my tone but not my undertone. Some were too red, too yellow or kind of dull looking. It didn't look too off but it was noticeable to me. Then i was matched for a "neutral" and perfect! 👌🏽👌🏽
I'm a neutral too, and I've never been able to find a good foundation. I've settled for trying to keep my skin as pimple'-free as possible and wear mattifying sunscreen over it.
Could you please make a video on which colours would look good on each type of skin tone and contrast? :)
Hi Aly, I had full color analisis, and they all came over because I was matching all seasons, Winter, spring, Autumn, gold and sliver ++, It was finally discovered that I am a pretty true neutral. This means that I have, both blue red, and yellow orange in my skin. I am around 53-54% warm, and 47-46% cool. I have had artist argue over the fact that I am a cool and then others that I was a warm olive. Yes I can wear just about any color. My eyes are golden, green brown...yeah hazel!! It looks like they change colors. My hair has looked good as brunette, as red head, and as a cooler blond. Yes My coloring is "rare" and I love it!! Fair skin, I burn bad then tan nicely.
I love your explanation of olive skin tone. I have light olive toned skin & it is strange to figure out. People think I'm pretty tan until you compare my skin side by side w/ people & realize I'm lighter than almost anyone. Then, makeup artists can't agree if I'm cool or warm. I just wear the neutral foundation powder. But my hair is a greenish grayish tone (ash?) of brown, & if I wear warm tones I look yellow & my hair gets an orangish tone. Wearing blue tones feels best & I look normal. Warm tones (& pink, I don't know where that falls) make me look like an Oompa Loompa with yellowish orangish skin. According to your explanation I am probably slightly cooler olive.
Oompa Loonpa! 😀
Aly, you look AMAZING in that color!!
Most redhaired people have warm undertones. This is necessary to be able to pull off those orange and copper tones. On rare occasions a person might have a cool shade of red hair and cool undertones, but that is very rare. I've been confused about this for years myself, because I'm very pale (Danish redhead) and burn easily, so my undertone should be cool according to most theories. Since discovering just a couple of years ago, that my undertone is in fact warm, it has helped me so much when picking out clothes and makeup. Now I know why makeup often made me look like a doll, the cool colours looked somewhat foreign and fake on me.
i have been learning soooo much from you! THANK YOU for sharing your knowledge. Your powers of observation are top-notch, and you are amazing at explaining complex concepts. I am one of those people who sees extra colours, and i am a painter. my WORLD is colour, and i am often almost paralyzed by the beauty i encounter (especially in women). You are enriching everything i understand thus far so *bow bow bow* Thank you, Sensei!!
Best video on UA-cam about undertones! Finally, I’m not confused anymore!!!
I have parents from different countries. My skin is warm but my hair color is cool. I recently dyed it to a warm color and I instantly looked better.
I'm a man and find your videos extremelly informative, wish you luck and more subscribers!!!
For as far as I learned from colours/makeup etc. people with redheads and light complexion tend to have a peachy/rosy overtone, which might make you think they have a cool complexion, when in fact they agree better with warmer colours in their makeup and clothes, golden jewellery. So they actually have a warmer undertone. In the same way many people with very light complexion, looking yellowish (not golden) have actually a neutral/cooler undertone
Eek always excited to dive into your series. Hands down the best youtuber.
Thank you for such comprehensive information!
I adore your hair and outfit. It harmonizes very well with your face
You look beautiful! Sometimes we just need a fun color in our clothes, even if it's not our best color. You rock it with the matching lip! Also love your hairstyle and color! 😘
I have Albinism, and my skin is mostly impacted I look like a goth person lol and my natural hair used to be white now it’s a bleached white platinum, it got yellower as I got older. I have green and blue looking veins and it’s always confused me with how pale I get. I assumed I had to be cool. But now I am pretty convinced I’m a pale olive now. More neutral. If I was the color of my family, they are true tanned olive with black hair. This video was so helpful!
Yes. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens when warm +1 dye their hair ash blonde... honey blonde. 🤔
Next week!
@@AlyArt Oh thank goodness! I am looking forward to having that finally sorted!
Can't wait for this video! I hope you also include comments about changing your hair as you age. I have pale skin, blue-grey eyes and dark brown hair with some grey coming through at the temples (summer/winter in the old season types). I have been told to lighten and warm up my hair now that I am in my 40s - something the old Colour Me Beautiful book warned against back in the day for cool skin tones. Would love to hear your thoughts on this.
Thanks again for your content! I always learn new things and what is making me unique. I'm looking forward to create the best look for myself and help some friends to see and enhance the particularities of their beauty. Love you Aly! 💖
You asked a question about the model at 7:50. The average RGB value for the rectangle that spans from the left to right cheek, and from the bottom of her eyes to the tip of her nose is [227,210,213], which is impossible under normal lighting conditions. In normal human skin, the relationship of R, G and B is R > G > B. The surface cells in skin are dead and devoid of any color beyond a faint translucent yellow. We sometimes see blue because veins are close to the surface In human skin and we see pink due to capillaries with red blood. The blue is always in defined channels and not distributed throughout the skin. Any available blue light will bind with the green and red to form gray. Any leftover green after all the blue is bound will bind with the red to create yellow. Any excess red after that will make the skin look pink. The brightest pixel in any photo cannot exceed RGB [255,255,255], which is white. In this photo, there is a solid blob of pixels at threshold level 252, and not a single pixel at 253-255. This means there was a blown-out hotspot above the model's right eye approximately 24x24 pixels that was filled in with RGB [252,251,253], which is slightly blue. It should also be noted that the background behind the model is slightly blue. This photo was not white-balanced correctly. I opened the photo in Camera Raw and bumped up the temperature (Y/B) +3. The average RGB was now [229,212,211] and the model looked fantastic, totally void of Avatar genes.
Very unique and interesting channel,huge source of beauty knowledge, glad I found it on youtube. My colour type is very hard to precize- only thing I can be sure it is a low contrast-I have ashy blonde hair that very easy became higlighted by the sun, my skin tone seems light and has yellow undertones (my tan is more golden than brown and skin is pinkish at the beginning of tanning)and eyes are cool light green with grey edges.
You look gorgeous in that magenta/pink blouse, it is not a bad colour on you at all.
I can’t wait for you to make make-up videos for each tone !!! Even though I am still wondering if I am cool or warm and +1 or +2 hahahaha.
holy cow, i think i finally know my undertone! i’m very pale, so any redness in my face is very obvious. my neck is def yellow though, and compared to my pink husband i am very, very yellow! a fair skinned, warm undertone! i’ve been so confused trying to look at my veins, knowing i have redness in my skin, and i sunburn easily. thank you so much!
You’re my favorite beauty blogger
Thanks to your video, I’m finally sure that I’m indeed warm colored. The clue to compare yourself to friends really did it for me. I’m super yellow compared to everyone else.
Now, if only I could identify my contrast (very light skin, medium golden blonde, yet darker green eyes and dark brown brows ), that’d be perfect. 😅
I recently bought the old colour me beautiful book from the 80s and they also had a clear category like Courtney Cox, I was so confused lol
I have that book too and I really like it!
Ah thank you! I can finally confirm that I am cool +2 even though I have medium overtone. There are too many videos that only show examples of either extremely fair or extremely dark to describe cool tones. Another example is Alicia Keys, she has medium skin but a red undertone and high contrast
Please Aly, could you do a whole video talking about olive undertone? I always had difficulty understanding my skin color because it has intense green undertone and I could never fit the cool and neutral category, and not always the warm category. Even founding a foundation that suits me without making me orange. I look good in warm coolish clothes, like olive brown, “toasted” Yellow/ Orange color, i also look good in vibrant colors, also in some kinds of greenish blue or even super cool blue or lavander, but not all of them, depends on the undertone of the colors.. it’s so complex because this formulas (if you re warm use this, if you are cool use that) never worked for me.
Thank you for talking about olive skin. I am a pale olive and so many people just don't believe me because they think I'm too pale to be olive...wrong. Some warm colours look good on me, some look terrible, same with cool colours...olive skin is a challenge.
I'm so excited for the hair colors video!
I love that you included literally all shades...didnt k ow it went into such depth with contrast. But makes more sense. I absolutely love the skin and eyes of the low contrast women! My elder daughter is a warm -1 capillaries, so rosy cheeks, big dark green eyes, Carrie's peach well, few freckles and does go yellow in the sun especially, her hair is bright blonde...like wheat/yellow..and lightens up very quick in the sun. My youngest is harder to determine, I think when is cool 0- with that olive wash- her skin I had no imperfections, tans easily, bright turquoise eyes, hair is light brown, but I dont know what color to be exact.
I think I am a warm +1
Oh! God! As a Brazilian I couldn't identify myself with none of the colors explained, neither the photos that you were shown. Even the brown hair here can in fact have shades of golden hair and be totally natural...so I'm lost. :-/
I'm lost too as an Italian. My skin is very pale and cool and my hair is so dark. None of the girls in photos is like this :(
@@Angie-qh4do 🤷🏾♀️😅🤣 so we came to this video and we couldn't find our answers. Hehe!
She said pale skinned women also can have +2 contrast. She also mentioned that not everybody fit into this simple classification.
I have watched many vedios on skintone but some are deeply explained. This vedio is one of them.
Way too excited for this YAY!!! I know it’ll be good because your whole wardrobe is my goals 😍😭 also you look so fresh and GLOWING!! 😘❤❤
Loving this series so so much💚 hope you will be touching on hair color for neutral contrast.
So helpful and informative as always!❤️
I think i`m +1 or +2 with warm/olive undertones although i dont know what to do with this info now LOL
+1 +2 = High contrast: wear saturated colours with words like "deep" or "bold". Conversely, avoid pastels and washed out colours, or if you wear eg a duck-egg dress have contrasted accessories or detailing.
Warm undertone: Don't wear cool colours, or if you do wear cool colours borrow only colours that mimic other aspects of your colouration, such as depth or brightness eg if you want to wear a green, wear a warm green as opposed to a blue-green.
Olive undertone: Most relevant to makeup. Most make up is marketed to your pigment, so if you go into MAC and tell the assistant you have an olive undertone she will pick a complimentary shade. Conversely, using a concealer for a peach undertone on olive skin will make the blemished more evident and patchy.
And if all fails, use a colour theory system like 12 seasons or the like and just follow the rules. These people know their stuff.
Hope that helps!
@@farahzamir2138 Wow! Thanks a lot!
Look up Deep Autumn palette and that should work for you
No problem!
@@farahzamir2138 I think someone finally explained my problem here. I've no idea what skin/undertone I'm, but I can tell I'm weird yellowish brown with dark black hair and dark brown eyes. Lips also has dark color, close to smoky plum lipstick from Elizabeth Arden. My skin is dull, probably as she said matte and probably with olive. Whatever makeup (foundation, bronzer, highlighter, blush, concealer) I use it makes my blemishes, dark spots, freckles show up even more. On top of these all, I've dark circles around my eyes that my husband calls me 🐼 panda sometimes and eyes are so deep set that with regular eyelash curler I can't get my corner eyelashes curled. Ahhh, welcome to my world! :((
I'm so glad you talked about olive skin. My family is all olive skinned and green/hazel eyes but I am pale and blue eyed/blonde. My undertone is a nightmare to figure out!
Very interesting, thank you! As for your question about redheads at 8:00 mark; I am a redhead with similar colouring to this photo (bright hair, blue eyes, pale skin with fixed redness near the surface on cheeks). I look much better in pure jewel tone colours, often cooler, but I have to be careful with reds, oranges, pinks or purples--that is almost on a case-by-case basis. Warmer reds and oranges look better with my hair, but cooler ones look better with my skin...so I usually avoid them because it's hard to find the right one. Burgundy is a very good colour, though, as long as it's cool enough. I tend to wear a lot of black haha.
I have been waiting for this video ever since you released your colour theory video. Thank you so much for doing this video. Love you and love your channel.
PS : You look great in this video.
Thank you!
When people say to look at your veins to see if blue or green, and I’m like, “is turquoise an option?”
I have rosacea, and I’m very pink on the face. But all of my skin has a lot of capillary pinkness. This seems to be kind of at war with the ashy hair color I’ve always had.
Green and gold eyes, ash blonde hair. Probably a -1 contrast, can I be neutral?
Some soft warm colors and some soft cool colors look good.
I'm definitely a mix. Cool pinkish skin, very pale, easily burns, but very dark brown hair and dark brows. The hair I think is on the warmer end because it has gold in it, especially in the sun. Eyes are a hazel brown, amber/olive like with lighter hair and black like with darker hair. I have no idea what to do to 'fix' the difference (what to color my hair), hahahaha but I'll get there. Wonderful as always!! 💖
i know that model with green eyes at 13:02 . She was murdered in Bangladesh
This is so difficult, sometimes I think I'm neutral but I think I look better in warmer colors but then sometimes I think I'm cool toned because I'm very pale and I have blue eyes. Can anybody help me? I have some videos on my channel and I always film with natural light.
These videos are helping me so much! You’re an amazing teacher
I finally see my colors taken into consideration!
Hi from Spain! Im olive undertone, i have to use yellow undertone for make up. But I think are differents between yellow undertone and olive undertone. My skin with the sun goes to more grey, and the yellow undertone goes to more orange. Very interesting information.
In my opinion we have 2 main spectrum in photography: blue-yelllow and green-pink, yellow pink being red and etc
So olive isnt by definition cold or hot but green, not pink, and it normally is hot
I used to believe that I was warm automatically because I’m half Asian , but I know that most cool toned colors look better on me than warm ones . So I just picked up a cool toned (I’ve always bought warm /neutral, and kind a noticed that they looked a little bit yellow on me , but I always thought that’s the way they are supposed to look, lol) foundation and it looks my exact same shade . I’m mind blown right now and your video it’s been sooo helpful to understand this whole undertone thing . Thank you so much 😊 💖✨
I still don't understand how a dark skin woman with dark features has high contrast level.
Na Na I think it's because of the contrast between skin color and the whites of the eyes and teeth
@@cblka in that situation there is a lot less contrast
@@susannahb2723 yes, black people have beautifully white teeth; blondes have more yellowish teeth naturally. I read this in a scientific journal somewhere.
Na Na dark skin reflect light too. when you shine a white light on dark skin they reflect it more, so their skin starts too look shinee
I was wondering this as well
omg, this video opened my eyes! I'm def a 0 contrast warm
Excellent job... I love the so talented and so beautiful Aly.
I was wondering why among all those phenotypes I didn't find mine actually.... Extra white mixed undertone (some parts of cace and body extra cool /blue veins, some other parts mixed warmer or mixed cooler.... With veins purple, blue and greenish blue), almost no eyebrows or body hair, cool toned pink lips, almost black cool toned eyes, extra dark similar black ashy brown..... A lot of freckles, moles and spot and pink burnt if in the sun
Aly you are amazing, I talk about you with every person that crosses my way, Thank you SO MUCH!!!
Thank you so much!!
Love your contrast in this video 🤩
I watched all your videos, and I still have no clue what type/undertone I have..... But that's not your fault!! It's totally mine hahah