I absolutely ❤️❤️❤️ that you can spend 35 minutes talking about bronze eyeshadow! As a quilter and lover of color this deep dive into your personal ideal of bronze (which is mine also) thrills me. I can spend hours talking about colors and the nuances that distinguish each one - my family rolls their eyes when I get in the zone. This video is a real treat for a color nerd like me. Have an amazing day!
Sometimes I just have to take a step back and laugh at the fact that someone, anyone could talk about something so seemingly minuscule and finite as a single color of eyeshadow for 35 minutes. Like, it’s kind of ridiculous. And yet, I absolutely love it. You could even do separate videos for each color of the rainbow!
I agree, taupe has so many different definitions, and the makeup versions of taupe tend to be quite pink/purple leaning. I'm always so surprised when I swatch my taupes next to each other.
I'm a taupe heaux, so that idea? brill, *mwah* chef's kiss😘💋 I'm always happy to find a lovely new taupe, any particular favorites? I love ALL iterations of taupe...from rosy/plummy & lilac/mauve-y taupes, to warmer "chargold" taupes w/hints of gold, sage, or olive, more neutral champagne-to-bronzy taupes, and my personal FAVORITES- cool-toned, grey/silver/pewter/charcoal taupes😍. Sydney Grace makes my favorite selection of taupe single shadows.
I love that you shadows look so deliciously smudged up and used. It’s nice to be reminded to enjoy and use makeup in an artful loose way, not in an overly precious and timid way. Just dig in!
Bronze develops a patina - we have bronze door knobs in our 100 year old house. The colour of them varies from a dark glossy brown to a glossy greeny gold. The patina of the bronze enhances rather than detracts from its value. The colours you chose as your favourites were beautiful and I loved this video so much.
This video is like a love letter to bronze and I love it. Every moment. Our definitions of bronze are very much the same. I do agree that copper is often called bronze when I’m looking for a true bronze palette.
Well, technically, it depends on the patina of the bronze... so, technically - those olive greens and bright teals could be considered bronze; or blacks; or even warm browns could be considered a bronze. I am speaking from the point of view of someone who has done bronze sculptures, of course. Nearly every round single you had in the large black palette would be considered bronze (with few exceptions like the magenta colours). That entire Natasha palette is all shades of bronze - like every single shade is something you can see in different bronzes... which is probably why you enjoy those sorts of shades.
@@dreamof_me Yeah, we would use different chemicals to accelerate the patina of the metal, so you could get the teals and blacks without having to wait for the environment to change the appearance. I hadn’t (admittedly) watched the entire video when I wrote this comment but she does touch on it later on. But, yeah, I always think of patinas or finishes when I personally think of bronze.
Thats so fascinating! It also makes me want to see the ND Gold palette alongside the ND Bronze palette that came out, since the Gold palette encapsulates bronze so well.
Love this sort of thing. It's just so lovely and immersive. For me I definitely think of the greeny/bluey tones in bronze so for me my perfect recipe for bronze is 1 swatch of Varis from the ND gold palette, 1 swatch over the top of Lime Chrome from ND gold, blend and then one final lighter swatch of Varis over the top and that for me is what I think of when I think bronze. Also, I don't think of any of the ND Bronze palette as being bronze for me it's more Gold/Copper, as much I like the palette itself.
Ah, I just love bronze! I’m with you, your last shot of those 9 shades are what I think of as bronze. I always end up decluttering bronzes that are too coppery or red/warm. I prefer that browny/neutral version. Smog from UD is my favorite bronze ever. I’ve gone thru several pans of it and just decided its my perfect bronze :) But now you have me wanting that Roen warm quad! Lol
Coloured Raine's Golden Olive is one of my favorite eyeshadows. I definitely consider it "bronze" in my color concept of bronze. If you place it next to a brown it will look green, it you put it in with your green eyeshadows it will look brown. Realistically I know that both copper & bronze & silver (any metal that tarnishes or can be polished) can be different colors. I have seen brand new pennies that are shiny & very orange, but I've also seen pennies that look almost dark brown & are very dull. We were warned off buying a copper sink for this reason. Bronze just sounds cosmetically more appealing than brown lol. You love brown eyeshadow & there's no shame in that 🥰
Bronze is the ultimate eye shadow color for me. I went on the hunt for the "perfect" bronze cream eyeshadow a few years ago and it was difficult to shop for online because lighting and skin tone can change its appearance. I thought Charlotte Tilbury's Eyes to Mesmerise in Marie Antoinette Color was going to be the one, but it ended up being too light, gold, and coppery on me. Coloured Rain in Golden Olive looks like what I wanted, depth with shimmer without going too red or dark. Color is so altered by what it sits next to!
@@inactiveaccount8105 they're still stunning though!!! I'm a color fanatic. But Hannah is slowly convincing me to incorporate a few sparkliest of sparkly 'neutrals' into my collection here and there.
love this video!! color variation is soooo important to note. i spent a good long time one day recently trying to really analyze the difference between three taupe shadows (one being mac's satin taupe). they are so similar, but not entirely the same! the nuanced differences really makes or breaks it for me. one is perfect, the other two or just not, so why keep them? boom! decluttered!
It is so interesting because you can look at bronze from a scientific perspective. Bronze is copper with other metals or non metals added into it. Depending on what mixture of elements you add to copper the finishes are going to be different. Then when you bring that into colors of make up it is really hard to pinpoint what exactly "true bronze" is. When I see bronze statues the colors range from a reddish orange, yellow gold, to a almost burnt brass. Either way I love all of these. I would love a video on gold eyeshadows!! Oops.. Ha ha I didn't finish the whole video before I commented but yeah
Very interesting. I think of bronze as the deeper metallic browns. I think maybe my ideas of color names are founded on the crayola names. I love this kind of exploration. Some people describe colors so differently and this was a great exercise on “What is bronze?” I’d love to see more of these. Are all bluish pinks purple? When is a teal a green vs a blue?
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Hi Hannah. Bronze is my favourite eyeshadow too! In the past I made the mistake to buy whole palettes just for that perfect shade of bronze. Often I go back and swatch everything trying to find my perfect bronze and I struggle, some of them are too orange, too copper, too bright, too metallic. My perfect bronze would be medium tone, more neutral chocolaty, with golden shimmers. I got the roen quad for Christmas and I loved it! I like the illamasqua cream eyeshadows in embellish, I like Charlotte tilbury Amber haze, a colour from the Estée Luder nude palette, bronze by Mac, the dolce vita quad from Charlotte Tilbury. One day I really would like the Gold palette and the Tom ford eyeshadow but I'm on a no buy and I'm trying to enjoy what I own. Thanks for the video! Xxx
I'm with you on bronze = green/gold-tinged metallic brown, but I loved the investigative aspect of this video too! My mother used to collect antique copper and brass pots from the Middle East, so I grew up being pretty familiar with the entire spectrum of colours those could encompass, some of which were decidedly bronzey!
This video is so yummy! I could listen to you muse about color for hours. Before getting into makeup I always considered bronze as being a brassy gold (basically brass from ND Gold palette). Those more brown leaning shade would've just been brown to me. (Side note: it took me AGES of watching videos to figure out what color "peach" was, according to youtubers. "Coral" and "salmon" also throw me for a loop. Color is so subjective.)
From Wikipedia (as you found): "Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12-12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (such as aluminium, manganese, nickel or zinc) and sometimes non-metals or metalloids such as arsenic, phosphorus or silicon. These additions produce a range of alloys that may be harder than copper alone, or have other useful properties, such as stiffness, ductility, or machinability." This makes me love my "confusing, unmatchable" skin tone. Its orange, green and gold at the same time. Both cool and warm, but not neutral. Undefineable. Mutable. Tan olive. Light bronze. 🥉😊💚🧡💛
While you were swatching, I looked up the definition of bronze.......hahaha......then you did the same! Wonderful presentation with photo examples of bronze. Your eye for color is amazing and what a fabulous presentation. Monday Evening Hugs!
Not even three minutes in, and I have to say that the sleeves are vibe that I’m feeling right now and I’m here for it. Love the black and white stripes covering most of the hand... I’ll be on the lookout for a similar shirt when we are out of total lockdown.
YESSSSSS. I haven't even watched a second of this but I am so excited. I have literally googled "what is bronze" in recent years (and was reminded that it is an actual metal, lol)
Ok i just watched and I definitely share your working definition of bronze for makeup purposes. To me the quintessential bronze is the urban decay shadow smog, which is more in the neutral territory and was one of the first eyeshadows i truly loved. I also have the MAC shade Sumptuous Olive, which I suspect is a watered down version of your Coloured Raine shadow. I was disappointed in it at first because it wasn't as green as I'd expected, but when I came to think of it more as a light golden bronze I really liked it. This was a great video. Filming what you love is a smash!
Your single shadow content has me intrigued. Would you consider filming a ‘single shadows for beginners’ video? Curating a beginner single shadow palette... 🙃 Thanks!
I would love a video like that! I’m certainly not a single shadow beginner haha, I’ve quite a nice little collection. But that sounds like such a lovely idea to go with Hannah’s content style, and I’d watch it nonetheless.
It really doesn’t matter what you post - i’m going to watch it and love listening to your voice no matter what. I’m definitely with you on what bronze is to me. Leaning more brown, can be cooltone or warmtone, but copper and taupe are definitely no longer actual bronze to me. They are bronze-adjacent, and I absolutely love those colors.
I love a good bronze, by the same definition you use, and it's a color that's supposed to be super flattering on my blue eyes. I've also always thought about it as a one of the most classic eyeshadow colors throughout the decades, yet somehow I really struggle to find some (or one) that would not be too orange or too gold for my fair cool skin... This video was helpful, while also contributing to the feeling that there really aren't as many true bronze eyeshadows out there as it seems. I may be able to find some indie single ones but I try to avoid that part of the beauty industry as single eyeshadows are an even more dangerous pitfall than eyeshadow palettes are for me... That Róen quad is stunning though and I might have to give it a chance, even though I'm very much a powder makeup kind of gir
I really loved this video, Hannah! It was so original. I know in 2021 you wanted to create videos you truly enjoyed making. I hope this one was as fun for you to make as it was for us to watch!
I'm so glad you did this. I've seen so many different colors called bronze. I think of those pinky/peachy metallics as Rose Gold, and tend to agree with you that bronze is a metallic brown. Also, I have a couple of bronze vases and they are a deep brown metal. I have the Coloured Raine Golden Olive, but my favorite that you swatched is Yep. I have been wanting the Roen 52 Cool palette for a long time. I may get it someday. It's just lovely.
I love these swatching videos- they are such a good way to explore colour an eyeshadow as paint and colour rather than as ‘possessions’. I did the same with bronze myself a few months ago and had the same journey from a clear concept of bronze to perfect doubt and rebuilding. I found myself taking a range of bronze from the reddish and purplish bronzes to the yellow-green end of the spectrum. I wanted to think about antique bronze in an archaeological sense and built looks thinking through the patina colours that often exit with bronze.
I very much agree, this video indulged my love of the subtleties of colour, which is such a huge part of my love for makeup, without really making me want to buy those particular products? Instead it reminded me of my own beloved bronze eyeshadows.
@@fray-adjacent Completely agree! It's not about purchasing the ones that are featured, but about personal favourites, smudgy swatches and looking at colour in new ways.
@@mapleleaf1956 You could sum up Hannah's channel pretty accurately with the tagline: "personal favourites, smudgy swatches and looking at colour in new ways" - I love it!
LOVE that you did this. I am on the same page as you about what bronze looks like. And I totally agree about your assessment of the Natasha Denona gold palette being quite bronze. And her bronze palette is more of a copper to me.
HAHAHAHAHA!! I love this. The debates about whether bronze is warm toned or cool toned or neutral toned after the ND Bronze palette released were epic. It was like everyone had seen exactly ONE bronze statue in a museum and argued with burning conviction that it was indeed that shade. Nevermind that essentially every ND palette except maybe tropic and love has some riff on bronze. I wanted to see if I could duplicate the ND bronze colors, but alas, my alchemical lab has been shut down for many years. This tickles me to no end because it's not only an extreme color distinction AND an extreme semantics distinction but also an extreme chemical distinction as if only one possible alloy could exist between copper and tin. This is the kind of beauty youtube drama I can get behind. In case you were wondering (and I'm sure you were not), I prefer warm, heavy copper toned bronzes because I have blue eyes. But because I have blonde hair and neutral skin, I can get down with the full rainbow of bronze. And I apparently am in the minority in believing bronze is a rainbow (in the context of the aforementioned what is bronze drama, not your swatches, I'm pretty much in line with both your narrowed down and expanded swatches).
I feel like bronze has cooler undertones and is based in brown, while copper is very red, pinky warm toned. Gold is very yellow and yellow-orange in over- and undertones. Edit: I also personally feel like once grey tones enter the building, it becomes a gunmetal type shade. I would also consider the shadows including more green or blues etc as metals that are treated with patina, tarnished or dirty metals
I think of bronze as a metallic brown. Gold as a metallic yellow. Rust as a metallic red. Rose Gold as a metallic pink. Copper as a metallic orange. Silver as a metallic grey or even sometimes white. Gunmetal as a metallic black. Champaign as a metallic beige.
Bronze is for sure my favourite eyeshadow to wear. I totally agree with your definition of bronze, the warm bronzes are copper to me. I was actually disappointed when I saw the pictures of the natasha denona bronze palette for that reason, it felt more like a copper palette to me. My favourite bronze shades from my collection are the two from the roen warm quad! My boyfriend got me that quad for my birthday (it was on my wishlist) and my godness I love it so much! The texture, OMG the texture! Thank you so much for your recommendation, you never steer me wrong ❤️
Dang, after every swatch I thought to myself that this one was the most true bronze, and then you would swatch another one with completely different undertones and I would think the same thing again! I think I’ve concluded that anything I would consider a metallic brown(regardless of undertone) is a bronze, metallic oranges are copper, and metallic yellows are gold, at least in my eyes.
I literally just waxed poetic about how the ND bronze palette wasn't bronze and then scrolled and saw your comment. Her "true bronze' shade is definitely not bronze lol
@@petitepatate2222 that is a very cool interpretation, I like it, because that's basically the vibe I'm going for when I want to wear bronze eyeshadow even if I'm not consciously thinking of it. I very much doubt I could acheive that look with the ND Bronze palette, but some might!
you make me want to get that gold palette from ND soooooo bad. For some reason, used eyeshadow palettes show so much better the formula and the eyeshadow shifts to me than a perfectly new one. This gold palette has some incredible pigments, I'm just not psychologically ready to spend 120+euros on a single palette, but hope that someday I will be! To the people who own it: do you enjoy it? Do you have the feeling that it is worth every penny? I'm super curious ^^ This was such an incredibly soothing video, and your bronze definition is also the one I share, thank you Hannah ^^
You're the person who made me fall in love with bronze about 2 years ago, so this video was beautiful😻 I have the same definition as you about what I consider bronze as well lol🤎
When I think of bronze, I think of those photos your put up of bright, shiny new bar stock. Like a deep gold with a bit of copper. I enjoyed this a lot!
How fun! I have loved bronze since I was a little girl. My dad brought back a set of bronze ware from Siam. (Thailand) it was so beautiful. My mom allowed me to play with it.
well butter my biscuits I just realised what I've been calling bronze is actually warm gold, which is why I always thought I disliked bronze. But the spectrum of "metallic brown" and "greeny gold" and "neutral metal" all speak to my soul. Maybe I am a bronze binch after all
I’ve always associated bronze with the Olympics. The bronze medal is what I think of as bronze. Thanks for the eye opening video. I googled bronze, too.
The nails, cup, and shirt combo is an amazing visual 😍 Ok, update... your definition of bronze is the same as mine and I'm so upset that I bought the 11:11 quad instead of the 52° quad 😫 My first thought when someone mentions bronze eyeshadows I always think of UD Lost.
I'm with you and your idea of bronze... Funny thing is that I have Natasha Denona's 3 "bronze" palettes, 28 Bronze/Green, the Gold palette and the Bronze palette and the first leans greener and the last lean more copper, while the Gold is to me the "bronzest". :)
Your arms and hand (nails) remind me of the sand worms in Beetlejuice right now and I’m about it. There has been nothing to watch on UA-cam today, so I’m very excited to end my day while watching this. I’ll probably fall asleep halfway thru and watch the rest tomorrow 😝
Ugh these are all so beautiful, especially the green leaning bronzes. I love bronze shadows in theory but I don’t own many so your collection is very pleasant to look at. I would love to watch a grwm with the look you’ve been doing where you layer Danessa Myricks milky way over bronze shadows, it’s so stunning
that "deep" jaclyn hill bronze is so fascinating. I just dug back into it yesterday and the way it performs is so incredibly fascinating; never quite as I expect it to blend and shift but always a trip well worth it
some of those aged bronze sculptures make me think of urban decay lounge with that greenish blue shift. also i am seriously lusting after that roen quad after seeing it in consecutive videos from you and bbb ted!
I always struggle with this category of color. But I am very attracted to the cooler ones out of the bunch, like pewters, taupes, antique gold and olive golds. From the warmer ones I prefer copper and rose golds. What would these colors be called as a collective? Metal finishes?
The metal bronze like what the liberty bell is made out of is a mix of copper and tin. So it would make since that the coppers would sneak into the bronzes because to make bronze you use copper. And also the ones with silver reflects it make sense that they snuck in as well because tin can have a silvery appearance.
I had to open a second browser tab to examine a photo of bronze in an attempt to keep my sanity....even then I question whether I know what bronze is. Great video!
I've seen a bazillion swatches and looks from you and a few others with Identity 2, and nothing (except the green in pan) has ever made me want it so much as seeing it on the line of bronze swatches.
I totally agree with your definition of bronze. When you started pulling shadows that were very warm, I kept thinking, "No, that's gold/copper/pewter/brass." Sure, bronze really is such an umbrella term, but because we have other words (gold, copper, pewter, brass etc), I feel like we can narrow down our definition of bronze more. Furthermore, I wish you'd been on Natasha Denona's team when she made the bronze palette. I can really only comfortably say that one singular shade amongst them all is true bronze--and it's not even the shade she called "true bronze." That one is more gold or maaayyybe brass. I'm not unhappy with that purchase because literally none of my other palettes have similar colors to the ones in the bronze palette but oof it ain't /my/ definition of bronze. Now I feel like I should of just gotten that warm Roen quad and called it a day.
Husband bought a beautiful candle for me. He presented it as the perfect "copper" shade. According to my instincts and your 2nd set of swatches, I would say it's definitely a bronze candle. And very beautiful still.
my range for bronze as a color also veers into gold because i think of those bronze statues with the hands and faces worn shiny from people touching them. but then for makeup i always conceptualize bronze as leaning more warm, not quite copper, because i think of the colors i would use as bronzer. i have two different bronzes i guess.
I absolutely ❤️❤️❤️ that you can spend 35 minutes talking about bronze eyeshadow! As a quilter and lover of color this deep dive into your personal ideal of bronze (which is mine also) thrills me. I can spend hours talking about colors and the nuances that distinguish each one - my family rolls their eyes when I get in the zone. This video is a real treat for a color nerd like me. Have an amazing day!
I'm the same way! We are among our people ❤️
the way we all collectively had an existential crisis over what constitutes “bronze” is what really makes this video
Sometimes I just have to take a step back and laugh at the fact that someone, anyone could talk about something so seemingly minuscule and finite as a single color of eyeshadow for 35 minutes. Like, it’s kind of ridiculous. And yet, I absolutely love it. You could even do separate videos for each color of the rainbow!
Yes! Swatch all the golds... all the purples... all the blues and greens... I would watch it.
I would watch this series in a heartbeat too! I can be a very impatient person and you have a huge talent for these kinds of videos. I adore them 🖤🖤🖤
I could watch you swatch every single eyeshadow in your collection all day every day.
Would love to see this with your grungey greens and mustards 😍
It would be delightful to see this turn into a series. A taupe episode could be really interesting 🥰
I agree, taupe has so many different definitions, and the makeup versions of taupe tend to be quite pink/purple leaning. I'm always so surprised when I swatch my taupes next to each other.
yes! taupe is even more vague than bronze.
I'm a taupe heaux, so that idea? brill, *mwah* chef's kiss😘💋 I'm always happy to find a lovely new taupe, any particular favorites?
I love ALL iterations of taupe...from rosy/plummy & lilac/mauve-y taupes, to warmer "chargold" taupes w/hints of gold, sage, or olive, more neutral champagne-to-bronzy taupes, and my personal FAVORITES- cool-toned, grey/silver/pewter/charcoal taupes😍. Sydney Grace makes my favorite selection of taupe single shadows.
I love that you shadows look so deliciously smudged up and used. It’s nice to be reminded to enjoy and use makeup in an artful loose way, not in an overly precious and timid way. Just dig in!
Bronze develops a patina - we have bronze door knobs in our 100 year old house. The colour of them varies from a dark glossy brown to a glossy greeny gold. The patina of the bronze enhances rather than detracts from its value. The colours you chose as your favourites were beautiful and I loved this video so much.
The first shot of the video was mesmerizing! Your nails with the striped sleeves that hook over the thumbs and your mug. Beautiful!
Everything about this video was perfection for me. Nails, cup, shadows, and learning about bronze (that part was a fun surprise). Love it!
Haha I love those nails too! They're so fun, but in a muted colour-scheme 💖✨
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thanks for the love!
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This video is like a love letter to bronze and I love it. Every moment. Our definitions of bronze are very much the same. I do agree that copper is often called bronze when I’m looking for a true bronze palette.
Bronze is more yellow-green to me whereas copper is more orange-red. Enjoyed this!
Basically my dream collection right here. Golds, taupes, browns, bronzes, coppers... don't need anything else!
I don't even wear makeup but Hannah is just soothing somehow
Well, technically, it depends on the patina of the bronze... so, technically - those olive greens and bright teals could be considered bronze; or blacks; or even warm browns could be considered a bronze. I am speaking from the point of view of someone who has done bronze sculptures, of course.
Nearly every round single you had in the large black palette would be considered bronze (with few exceptions like the magenta colours). That entire Natasha palette is all shades of bronze - like every single shade is something you can see in different bronzes... which is probably why you enjoy those sorts of shades.
That’s so cool to learn. I never knew bronze could have so many shades!
@@dreamof_me Yeah, we would use different chemicals to accelerate the patina of the metal, so you could get the teals and blacks without having to wait for the environment to change the appearance. I hadn’t (admittedly) watched the entire video when I wrote this comment but she does touch on it later on. But, yeah, I always think of patinas or finishes when I personally think of bronze.
Thats so fascinating! It also makes me want to see the ND Gold palette alongside the ND Bronze palette that came out, since the Gold palette encapsulates bronze so well.
I think the bronze palette is more copper?
Love this sort of thing. It's just so lovely and immersive. For me I definitely think of the greeny/bluey tones in bronze so for me my perfect recipe for bronze is 1 swatch of Varis from the ND gold palette, 1 swatch over the top of Lime Chrome from ND gold, blend and then one final lighter swatch of Varis over the top and that for me is what I think of when I think bronze.
Also, I don't think of any of the ND Bronze palette as being bronze for me it's more Gold/Copper, as much I like the palette itself.
Ah, I just love bronze! I’m with you, your last shot of those 9 shades are what I think of as bronze. I always end up decluttering bronzes that are too coppery or red/warm. I prefer that browny/neutral version. Smog from UD is my favorite bronze ever. I’ve gone thru several pans of it and just decided its my perfect bronze :) But now you have me wanting that Roen warm quad! Lol
Coloured Raine's Golden Olive is one of my favorite eyeshadows. I definitely consider it "bronze" in my color concept of bronze. If you place it next to a brown it will look green, it you put it in with your green eyeshadows it will look brown. Realistically I know that both copper & bronze & silver (any metal that tarnishes or can be polished) can be different colors. I have seen brand new pennies that are shiny & very orange, but I've also seen pennies that look almost dark brown & are very dull. We were warned off buying a copper sink for this reason. Bronze just sounds cosmetically more appealing than brown lol. You love brown eyeshadow & there's no shame in that 🥰
Bronze is the ultimate eye shadow color for me. I went on the hunt for the "perfect" bronze cream eyeshadow a few years ago and it was difficult to shop for online because lighting and skin tone can change its appearance. I thought Charlotte Tilbury's Eyes to Mesmerise in Marie Antoinette Color was going to be the one, but it ended up being too light, gold, and coppery on me. Coloured Rain in Golden Olive looks like what I wanted, depth with shimmer without going too red or dark. Color is so altered by what it sits next to!
For some reason, this was just the most soothing journey. Loved it.
Me, who doesn't own a single bronze eyeshadow: *clicks video as quickly as possible* *watches intently*
To not own a single bronze eyeshadow. I couldn’t fathom it. What a world. xD
@@inactiveaccount8105 they're still stunning though!!! I'm a color fanatic. But Hannah is slowly convincing me to incorporate a few sparkliest of sparkly 'neutrals' into my collection here and there.
love this video!! color variation is soooo important to note. i spent a good long time one day recently trying to really analyze the difference between three taupe shadows (one being mac's satin taupe). they are so similar, but not entirely the same! the nuanced differences really makes or breaks it for me. one is perfect, the other two or just not, so why keep them? boom! decluttered!
It is so interesting because you can look at bronze from a scientific perspective. Bronze is copper with other metals or non metals added into it. Depending on what mixture of elements you add to copper the finishes are going to be different. Then when you bring that into colors of make up it is really hard to pinpoint what exactly "true bronze" is. When I see bronze statues the colors range from a reddish orange, yellow gold, to a almost burnt brass. Either way I love all of these. I would love a video on gold eyeshadows!!
Oops.. Ha ha I didn't finish the whole video before I commented but yeah
Gosh I just LOVE these overhead videos
Very interesting. I think of bronze as the deeper metallic browns. I think maybe my ideas of color names are founded on the crayola names. I love this kind of exploration. Some people describe colors so differently and this was a great exercise on “What is bronze?” I’d love to see more of these. Are all bluish pinks purple? When is a teal a green vs a blue?
What a fabulous video! I have wanted to see something just like this for a long time. I love this format! Thank you. Néw fan…
I have the same feels for brown eyeshadow. I want an entire palette of delicious, sparkling and decadent browns. I loved this video!
Please do this same style video with taupe!!🥰
Love the sandworm vibes
I pre-liked this one so fast! This is an awesome video idea, thanks for posting!
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My brain: BRONZE IS SHINY BROWN
Hi Hannah. Bronze is my favourite eyeshadow too! In the past I made the mistake to buy whole palettes just for that perfect shade of bronze. Often I go back and swatch everything trying to find my perfect bronze and I struggle, some of them are too orange, too copper, too bright, too metallic. My perfect bronze would be medium tone, more neutral chocolaty, with golden shimmers. I got the roen quad for Christmas and I loved it! I like the illamasqua cream eyeshadows in embellish, I like Charlotte tilbury Amber haze, a colour from the Estée Luder nude palette, bronze by Mac, the dolce vita quad from Charlotte Tilbury. One day I really would like the Gold palette and the Tom ford eyeshadow but I'm on a no buy and I'm trying to enjoy what I own. Thanks for the video! Xxx
I'm with you on bronze = green/gold-tinged metallic brown, but I loved the investigative aspect of this video too! My mother used to collect antique copper and brass pots from the Middle East, so I grew up being pretty familiar with the entire spectrum of colours those could encompass, some of which were decidedly bronzey!
This video is so yummy! I could listen to you muse about color for hours. Before getting into makeup I always considered bronze as being a brassy gold (basically brass from ND Gold palette). Those more brown leaning shade would've just been brown to me. (Side note: it took me AGES of watching videos to figure out what color "peach" was, according to youtubers. "Coral" and "salmon" also throw me for a loop. Color is so subjective.)
From Wikipedia (as you found): "Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, commonly with about 12-12.5% tin and often with the addition of other metals (such as aluminium, manganese, nickel or zinc) and sometimes non-metals or metalloids such as arsenic, phosphorus or silicon. These additions produce a range of alloys that may be harder than copper alone, or have other useful properties, such as stiffness, ductility, or machinability."
This makes me love my "confusing, unmatchable" skin tone. Its orange, green and gold at the same time. Both cool and warm, but not neutral. Undefineable. Mutable. Tan olive. Light bronze. 🥉😊💚🧡💛
While you were swatching, I looked up the definition of bronze.......hahaha......then you did the same! Wonderful presentation with photo examples of bronze. Your eye for color is amazing and what a fabulous presentation. Monday Evening Hugs!
I love this video, it’s so comforting
Bronze is always trending in my soul!
same
Top ten videos to calm down to for sure
I just love the way you discuss colour. You’re so gently enthusiastic, so calmly passionate. It makes me happy ❤️
Not even three minutes in, and I have to say that the sleeves are vibe that I’m feeling right now and I’m here for it. Love the black and white stripes covering most of the hand... I’ll be on the lookout for a similar shirt when we are out of total lockdown.
I would love to see a version of this for other colors. Maybe taupe next?
Yes I need this for taupe
I was thinking the exact same! What even is taupe? 😂
im so excited to watch a 35 minute long video about juicy, creamy eyeshadow
In my book, bronze is a medium dark warm brown with gold shimmer or a deeper gold. But it's hard to have one definition for the same color.
YESSSSSS. I haven't even watched a second of this but I am so excited. I have literally googled "what is bronze" in recent years (and was reminded that it is an actual metal, lol)
Ok i just watched and I definitely share your working definition of bronze for makeup purposes. To me the quintessential bronze is the urban decay shadow smog, which is more in the neutral territory and was one of the first eyeshadows i truly loved. I also have the MAC shade Sumptuous Olive, which I suspect is a watered down version of your Coloured Raine shadow. I was disappointed in it at first because it wasn't as green as I'd expected, but when I came to think of it more as a light golden bronze I really liked it.
This was a great video. Filming what you love is a smash!
Your single shadow content has me intrigued. Would you consider filming a ‘single shadows for beginners’ video? Curating a beginner single shadow palette... 🙃 Thanks!
I would love a video like that! I’m certainly not a single shadow beginner haha, I’ve quite a nice little collection. But that sounds like such a lovely idea to go with Hannah’s content style, and I’d watch it nonetheless.
It really doesn’t matter what you post - i’m going to watch it and love listening to your voice no matter what. I’m definitely with you on what bronze is to me. Leaning more brown, can be cooltone or warmtone, but copper and taupe are definitely no longer actual bronze to me. They are bronze-adjacent, and I absolutely love those colors.
I love a good bronze, by the same definition you use, and it's a color that's supposed to be super flattering on my blue eyes. I've also always thought about it as a one of the most classic eyeshadow colors throughout the decades, yet somehow I really struggle to find some (or one) that would not be too orange or too gold for my fair cool skin...
This video was helpful, while also contributing to the feeling that there really aren't as many true bronze eyeshadows out there as it seems. I may be able to find some indie single ones but I try to avoid that part of the beauty industry as single eyeshadows are an even more dangerous pitfall than eyeshadow palettes are for me...
That Róen quad is stunning though and I might have to give it a chance, even though I'm very much a powder makeup kind of gir
If I were a color I would be bronze, every single glorious iteration of it. This video gave me life and sparked so much joy ❤️ thank you!!
Luv the creative decisions made in the video- very visually engaging.. nicely done 👏💯
I really loved this video, Hannah! It was so original. I know in 2021 you wanted to create videos you truly enjoyed making. I hope this one was as fun for you to make as it was for us to watch!
I'm so glad you did this. I've seen so many different colors called bronze. I think of those pinky/peachy metallics as Rose Gold, and tend to agree with you that bronze is a metallic brown. Also, I have a couple of bronze vases and they are a deep brown metal. I have the Coloured Raine Golden Olive, but my favorite that you swatched is Yep. I have been wanting the Roen 52 Cool palette for a long time. I may get it someday. It's just lovely.
I love these swatching videos- they are such a good way to explore colour an eyeshadow as paint and colour rather than as ‘possessions’. I did the same with bronze myself a few months ago and had the same journey from a clear concept of bronze to perfect doubt and rebuilding. I found myself taking a range of bronze from the reddish and purplish bronzes to the yellow-green end of the spectrum. I wanted to think about antique bronze in an archaeological sense and built looks thinking through the patina colours that often exit with bronze.
I very much agree, this video indulged my love of the subtleties of colour, which is such a huge part of my love for makeup, without really making me want to buy those particular products? Instead it reminded me of my own beloved bronze eyeshadows.
@@fray-adjacent Completely agree! It's not about purchasing the ones that are featured, but about personal favourites, smudgy swatches and looking at colour in new ways.
@@mapleleaf1956 You could sum up Hannah's channel pretty accurately with the tagline: "personal favourites, smudgy swatches and looking at colour in new ways" - I love it!
LOVE that you did this. I am on the same page as you about what bronze looks like.
And I totally agree about your assessment of the Natasha Denona gold palette being quite bronze. And her bronze palette is more of a copper to me.
HAHAHAHAHA!! I love this. The debates about whether bronze is warm toned or cool toned or neutral toned after the ND Bronze palette released were epic. It was like everyone had seen exactly ONE bronze statue in a museum and argued with burning conviction that it was indeed that shade. Nevermind that essentially every ND palette except maybe tropic and love has some riff on bronze. I wanted to see if I could duplicate the ND bronze colors, but alas, my alchemical lab has been shut down for many years. This tickles me to no end because it's not only an extreme color distinction AND an extreme semantics distinction but also an extreme chemical distinction as if only one possible alloy could exist between copper and tin. This is the kind of beauty youtube drama I can get behind. In case you were wondering (and I'm sure you were not), I prefer warm, heavy copper toned bronzes because I have blue eyes. But because I have blonde hair and neutral skin, I can get down with the full rainbow of bronze. And I apparently am in the minority in believing bronze is a rainbow (in the context of the aforementioned what is bronze drama, not your swatches, I'm pretty much in line with both your narrowed down and expanded swatches).
haha "this is the kind of YT drama I can get behind." SAME
"In case you were wondering (and I'm sure you were not)" - I flipping love you, Courtney 😂
I feel like bronze has cooler undertones and is based in brown, while copper is very red, pinky warm toned. Gold is very yellow and yellow-orange in over- and undertones.
Edit: I also personally feel like once grey tones enter the building, it becomes a gunmetal type shade.
I would also consider the shadows including more green or blues etc as metals that are treated with patina, tarnished or dirty metals
I think of bronze as a metallic brown. Gold as a metallic yellow. Rust as a metallic red. Rose Gold as a metallic pink. Copper as a metallic orange. Silver as a metallic grey or even sometimes white. Gunmetal as a metallic black. Champaign as a metallic beige.
Bronze is for sure my favourite eyeshadow to wear. I totally agree with your definition of bronze, the warm bronzes are copper to me. I was actually disappointed when I saw the pictures of the natasha denona bronze palette for that reason, it felt more like a copper palette to me. My favourite bronze shades from my collection are the two from the roen warm quad! My boyfriend got me that quad for my birthday (it was on my wishlist) and my godness I love it so much! The texture, OMG the texture! Thank you so much for your recommendation, you never steer me wrong ❤️
I hit that like button before i even watched because I knew I’d love it. ☺️
I love this video
Dang, after every swatch I thought to myself that this one was the most true bronze, and then you would swatch another one with completely different undertones and I would think the same thing again! I think I’ve concluded that anything I would consider a metallic brown(regardless of undertone) is a bronze, metallic oranges are copper, and metallic yellows are gold, at least in my eyes.
Tom Ford Naked Bronze is my favourite ❤️
I am so glad you posted this. On a devastating, disgusting, anxiety-inducing day like today, this is a welcome break.
I think of bronze as metallic brown hence my disappointment with the ND bronze pallet which leaned so orange. It also stung my non sensitive eyes.
I literally just waxed poetic about how the ND bronze palette wasn't bronze and then scrolled and saw your comment. Her "true bronze' shade is definitely not bronze lol
I have sometimes questioned my perception of reality based on what makeup marketing ppl decide to call bronze. That palette is clearly copper.
In my eyes, the "bronze" palette reference more what your skin can be with some tan (or bronze). A palette to achieve a "bronze godess" look.
@@petitepatate2222 that is a very cool interpretation, I like it, because that's basically the vibe I'm going for when I want to wear bronze eyeshadow even if I'm not consciously thinking of it. I very much doubt I could acheive that look with the ND Bronze palette, but some might!
you make me want to get that gold palette from ND soooooo bad. For some reason, used eyeshadow palettes show so much better the formula and the eyeshadow shifts to me than a perfectly new one. This gold palette has some incredible pigments, I'm just not psychologically ready to spend 120+euros on a single palette, but hope that someday I will be! To the people who own it: do you enjoy it? Do you have the feeling that it is worth every penny? I'm super curious ^^
This was such an incredibly soothing video, and your bronze definition is also the one I share, thank you Hannah ^^
You're the person who made me fall in love with bronze about 2 years ago, so this video was beautiful😻 I have the same definition as you about what I consider bronze as well lol🤎
This video is so satisfying. the swatching, the color analysis, the relaxed tone. Please do more :)
Such beautiful shades! You introduced Naked Bronze & Roen 75 to me which turned to be my favourite bronzes!
When I think of bronze, I think of those photos your put up of bright, shiny new bar stock. Like a deep gold with a bit of copper. I enjoyed this a lot!
How fun! I have loved bronze since I was a little girl. My dad brought back a set of bronze ware from Siam. (Thailand) it was so beautiful. My mom allowed me to play with it.
well butter my biscuits I just realised what I've been calling bronze is actually warm gold, which is why I always thought I disliked bronze. But the spectrum of "metallic brown" and "greeny gold" and "neutral metal" all speak to my soul. Maybe I am a bronze binch after all
I’ve always associated bronze with the Olympics. The bronze medal is what I think of as bronze. Thanks for the eye opening video. I googled bronze, too.
The nails, cup, and shirt combo is an amazing visual 😍 Ok, update... your definition of bronze is the same as mine and I'm so upset that I bought the 11:11 quad instead of the 52° quad 😫 My first thought when someone mentions bronze eyeshadows I always think of UD Lost.
Agreed 😍
I was just going to comment the same thing! Chic beetlejuice vibes 👌🏻🪲
So true 👍💯
Your whole vibe is just so chill and relaxing. Love your content! 🖤
I'm with you and your idea of bronze...
Funny thing is that I have Natasha Denona's 3 "bronze" palettes, 28 Bronze/Green, the Gold palette and the Bronze palette and the first leans greener and the last lean more copper, while the Gold is to me the "bronzest". :)
I would love a bronze palette of those final 9 swatches ❤️
Your arms and hand (nails) remind me of the sand worms in Beetlejuice right now and I’m about it. There has been nothing to watch on UA-cam today, so I’m very excited to end my day while watching this. I’ll probably fall asleep halfway thru and watch the rest tomorrow 😝
Ugh that Roen 'yep'. I live, I die, I swoooooon. May be the most used shadow in my collection 🖤🖤
So satisfying. I’m with you in the bronze brown corner. The Rosen shadows are so dimensional
Ugh these are all so beautiful, especially the green leaning bronzes. I love bronze shadows in theory but I don’t own many so your collection is very pleasant to look at.
I would love to watch a grwm with the look you’ve been doing where you layer Danessa Myricks milky way over bronze shadows, it’s so stunning
Hannah please do this with more colours. It was extremely entertaining and educative at the same time.
This is straight up asmr and I LOVE IT
The existential crisis started in title. ✅
This is my kind of video. 😂😂
that "deep" jaclyn hill bronze is so fascinating. I just dug back into it yesterday and the way it performs is so incredibly fascinating; never quite as I expect it to blend and shift but always a trip well worth it
How I would love to see Bad to the Bronze Color Tattoo in comparison! Such an old fav of mine and I’m always seeking it in other eyeshadows.
Same! I know Charlotte Tilbury Oyster Pearl and Tom Ford Platinum are supposed to match that but I’m searching for a drugstore version.
some of those aged bronze sculptures make me think of urban decay lounge with that greenish blue shift. also i am seriously lusting after that roen quad after seeing it in consecutive videos from you and bbb ted!
I always struggle with this category of color. But I am very attracted to the cooler ones out of the bunch, like pewters, taupes, antique gold and olive golds. From the warmer ones I prefer copper and rose golds. What would these colors be called as a collective? Metal finishes?
The metal bronze like what the liberty bell is made out of is a mix of copper and tin. So it would make since that the coppers would sneak into the bronzes because to make bronze you use copper. And also the ones with silver reflects it make sense that they snuck in as well because tin can have a silvery appearance.
I see that you looked this up later in the video. I love how intelligent you are when making videos.
I live near a lot of bronze statues, so when you said we don't think of dark shimmery browns as bronze, I was like "what?" XD
I had to open a second browser tab to examine a photo of bronze in an attempt to keep my sanity....even then I question whether I know what bronze is. Great video!
The title is what gets me ,😂😂😂 what even is bronze, indeed? 😜😆
I've seen a bazillion swatches and looks from you and a few others with Identity 2, and nothing (except the green in pan) has ever made me want it so much as seeing it on the line of bronze swatches.
also! you could make a whole palette called The Bronze Age and include all the variations, including some green shades for the verdigris patina. :-D
Such beautiful swatches 😍Thanks so much for including us in this video, Hannah!
I totally agree with your definition of bronze. When you started pulling shadows that were very warm, I kept thinking, "No, that's gold/copper/pewter/brass." Sure, bronze really is such an umbrella term, but because we have other words (gold, copper, pewter, brass etc), I feel like we can narrow down our definition of bronze more.
Furthermore, I wish you'd been on Natasha Denona's team when she made the bronze palette. I can really only comfortably say that one singular shade amongst them all is true bronze--and it's not even the shade she called "true bronze." That one is more gold or maaayyybe brass. I'm not unhappy with that purchase because literally none of my other palettes have similar colors to the ones in the bronze palette but oof it ain't /my/ definition of bronze. Now I feel like I should of just gotten that warm Roen quad and called it a day.
Husband bought a beautiful candle for me. He presented it as the perfect "copper" shade. According to my instincts and your 2nd set of swatches, I would say it's definitely a bronze candle. And very beautiful still.
I love seeing the growth on your channel recently!!! :)
my range for bronze as a color also veers into gold because i think of those bronze statues with the hands and faces worn shiny from people touching them. but then for makeup i always conceptualize bronze as leaning more warm, not quite copper, because i think of the colors i would use as bronzer. i have two different bronzes i guess.
omg I didn't even think of bronz-ER
LOVE this deep dive into color
Looove when I you do swatch videos!❤️
I LOVED this video and I hope you could do more videos like this with different colours ❤️