Y'ALL! If you do this and find your perfect "red" PLEASE TAG ME on IG! I would love to repost them and have a highlight of the various shades that worked for y'all. Make sure you tell everyone what shade it is! ❤❤❤
I’m not on instagram but after your first contrast video I went on the hunt at Sephora and found NARS Aragon is my red lip! They make it in a lip shine (sort of balmy but more coverage) and a lip gloss. Both look stunning on me as red but look like… rusty chestnut brown in the bullet! ❤
Thank you for doing this! I have actually thought SO much about this over the years, because I try red lips (and bangs, unfortunately) about every five years, and I'm always disappointed. I'm not on insta (for my mentie healf), but my "red" is Charlotte Tilbury Walk of No Shame. I am a fairly light neutral olive, and I cannot wear a true red without it looking like a clown mouth that belongs to someone else. But darn it if Walk of No Shame doesn't read as red on me. I don't really like buying from CT, because she kind of annoys me, but I can't find another shade and formula that works better for me as an occasion lip. I have found other warmish roses, like Lisa Eldridge Enchantment, but too much opacity also isn't good on me. For some reason I have to have a tiny bit of my own lip coming through or, again, it looks like there are wax lips floating on my face.
Also, a pretty solid way to find a lipliner shade - any nifty tricks with concealer or foundation shades you’d like to teach? I struggle so hard to find any that look natural and am perpetually bamboozling employees at Sephora or other makeup stores. Pale desaturated olive with rosacea that distracts and makes people think I’m way more pink than I actually am.
Ok this explains why every single lipstick looks completely different on me than other people or the online swatches. This is absolutely amazing and I’ve never seen anyone address this!!
Same, same, same! I have only recently started trying to wear lipstick (in my early 50’s) and I was getting so very frustrated because everything I try turns out completely different on me! This is absolutely life changing for me and I thank you so much! ❤
This NEEDS to go viral. The number of people it would help!!! I am so excited to try this and to stop wasting money on lip colors that end up being terrible on me!
This is so interesting. Erin Parsons bought Marilyn Monroe’s actual lipsticks and her “signature red lip” wasn’t actually red, it was coral. I wonder if it’s the same thing at play.
That was because of the lighting and the filming. Movie and stage make up are notorious for things being different colors. They still do it today. Look at BTS shots from films and look in particular at clothing. Screen worn outfits are often NOT the color they appear on screen.
After watching that video, I ventured into buying some coral/orange lipsticks and voila! I found my ideal "red" lipstick shade. I don't have the exact one Erin said is the closest to Marylin's but I have Revlon 895 Poppy and I think it is close enough :)
Thank you for mentioning that olive skin tones make everything weirder. Having pale olive skin changes everything, I wonder if this would actually work for me! I used to wear peach because I liked it and every time I would see myself in a mirror in public I’d be like, oh girl you’ve never looked worse. And now I know I’m cool toned bright winter it has changed everything. Shopping is easier, I cleaned out my closet, I realized why peach blush never worked for me along with all bronzers (which are warm tone by nature), and started shopping Korean makeup which is has an actual selection of pale olive makeup like contour that actually blends seamlessly with my skin. It’s incredible.
Hi, I’m also a cool toned pale olive, high contrast winter. I’ve recently found Korean skincare products which I love. Could you please share the brand or store you’re getting your Korean makeup from? I’d love to try them as I’m struggling to find my colours in the usual western brands.
@@CuriousChar oh of course! Most notably Etude. The two tone Etude contour is chef’s kiss. The first time I used it I literally thought it wasn’t working because it complemented my skin tone so well and I was used to looking muddy from using bronzer as contour (a crime I know haha) or something super cool tone but also way too dark like the Kat Von D contour. I get most my recommendations come from Alexandra Anele. It’s been a game changer watching UA-camr with the same skin tone as me. She will even take all of her best olive foundations and swatch them all on her face at once to show the difference, it’s incredible.
Yep! As an ( warm) olive person on the mute autumn spectrum, I struggled for a long time with finding colors for my complexion. Warm colors like Oranges, deep browns and bright reds seemed too harsh on me. Corals were too pale or bright, did not blend. So of course, my next thought was, maybe I'm cool tone? ... No. Purples and cool pinks (bright winter colors or light summer colors) did not blend with my complexion and were too pale/ washed me out and just did not look right. No colors looked the same on me even if I saw someone the same shade as me (but different undertones) use it. All these brown girls who used purple and it showed pink on them or the ones that wore oranges and it looked more red/not as bright on me... Turns out that colors that show pink on me are... Calm warm colors like muted beige tones or pinky beiges, the ones that other brown girls would define as 'dusty'/'ashy'. It's very interesting how undertones work.
This explains how I stumbled into my perfect red by complete accident. I ordered a ColourPop lip tint in A-Go-Go which is described (and shown) as *a sheer rosy pink*. I really wanted it for those *no makeup* makeup days so imagine my surprise when I put it on and it morphed into a saturated watermelon red color that I NEVER would have chosen to try. And it looked amazing! I wear it almost every day now. Off to try that computer trick.
Omg when you said that its "art math" in the introduction you had me hooked. As a physicist I really appreciate your in depth understanding of how colors work and layer instead of just saying sth. is pretty or not. Whole other level of information than the standard beauty influencers.
This has my mind completely blown. This type of content scratches an itch in my brain and answers questions that I never even knew to ask. Science and math are subjects that I always understood and truly enjoy. Art has never been my strong suit, but I enjoy being creative and makeup has always been an outlet for me to just have fun with different colors, textures, etc. Now I get to combine science, art, math and makeup and put some more thoughtfulness behind my creativity. Thank you Kackie!!!
Exactly how I felt about this video! I'd love more ways to play with colour theory and photo tools like this for people like me that are not "naturals" when it comes to understanding colour but can do so with a bit of tech help.
Your genuine reaction was honestly the best part of this, I love the color theory and it's never occurred to me to actually TRY THAT ON MY OWN FACE (pro graphic artist here lol) but even knowing that mauve was going to turn red on you and then you reacting like it's Christmas morning was just so endearing. That kind of charisma ought to be bottled and sold. Great video! I have to try this now! 💋
OMG freedom! Who knew my ideal red was freaking orange?! Jones Road Valencia was in my desk drawer (inspired by Scarlet Johansson's lip in Wes Andersen's Asteroid City). Art math suggests my lips are so blue they balance out the orange and we land on red? You're magic. Thank you
🤯 Ruby slippers moment … just went through the steps and realized that first “reads red on me” color is a very close match for the lipstick I think of as “nude plus” and carry with me always. The one I can throw on with little or no other makeup and feel put together but not clownish. In other words, Fairy Godmother Kackie just showed me I’m already a French Girl.
The right shade of red to wear close to your face is the best thing you can do when not having time fir makeup and/or not feeling very well. It will work wonders. (scarves are easy for that!)
I already have my perfect red, which is rather orange and I never understood why it's red on me until I watched your video. This is such a valuable resource. I showed this video to my boyfriend who isn't interested in makeup but likes to draw, and even he got so delighted when that coral turned into red on your lips. Bravo!
Years of dance had me red traumatized and I never knew what kind of red I was. We always had to wear a bright red that I felt always looked disjointed. This affirms why even in clothing I like a deeper red, and for my lips they need to be more muted! Just seeing a hex for my coloring was eye opening. I follow many different undertones and shades of pale brunettes on UA-cam hoping I could find the right colors but this really was eye opening to show how even if the overall look reads the same the subtle color differences can really make a change for the “wow” color on you!
BRO!!! Do you know what this video means?? It means I can have a gorgeous red lip on my wedding day without having to wear a lipstick!! Just have to find the right gloss! This is AWESOME!!! I'll share this with freakin' every woman I know!
This is fantastic and I plan on doing this. It makes so much sense because of the color of a person’s lips are going to change what goes on top. I’ve always been hesitant to wear red. You probably just saved me a bunch of money and frustration finding the perfect most flattering red.
I really don't follow beauty channels and you just got randomly recommended in my feed. I actually ended up doing a similar process a few years ago on a whim (used the color picker in photoshop to click on the darkest part of my natural lip color to find my best lip shade), but you took it further than i thought to with the saturation and vibrancy slider. Anyway, you have such an endearing and likeable personality. I'm following your channel now. I can tell you're going to hit the million+ followers if you keep going.
Many brown lipsticks are red on me . I’m a redhead with what I would call peach undertones. There was once a makeup company called Prescriptives . They seemed me to have a red orange undertone and they could always find PERFECT lipstick for me . Wish they were still around. I find the way you used Picmonkey slightly confusing. I’ll watch the video again. I’d give anything for a long lasting lip stain with a brownish , slightly pinky , MLBB shade . My best “ red “ is Revlon Satin Ink in the shade , In Too Deep . It leaves a gorgeous reddish stain on my lips that wears off so nicely. Thank you SO MUCH for this ! You’re the first person I’ve seen to point this out ❤
Yep. I drove myself crazy trying all of the make up colors recommended for True Winters didn't work for me as expected. People were swatching the colors on white paper and matching that to the color fan. But I came to realize that though I'm very pale, I'm not paper white and my skin and lip color influence the final shade. I did find my perfect red by accident but, of course, Clinique discontinued it. I can rock a blue red, though, so I am gonna check out that Lisa Eldridge lip gloss you swatched!
Former florist here. When brides came to me and wanted to do a blush wedding…. I didn’t know what color they wanted. Pink or palest coral. I get it. Many thanks. And yes, I too am Oliver skin. Many things look weird when they shouldn’t. Nail polish is my bane. No more! Great tip to photograph and match. Perfection.
Holy crap! This is exactly what I needed - every single red lipstick I’ve ever tried looks hot pink on me. I am definitely going to try the Picmonkey thing and see if I can FINALLY find my perfect ‘red’. ❤️
I’ve been absolutely loving all the art math videos lately, I cannot wait to play around and figure out my perfect nude that won’t give me the dreaded “corpse lips”! Thank you thank you!!! 😊 And, as a literal girl raised in France who has never been able to pull off the effortless French girl look, I now understand that my essence likely factors heavily into that too because I can’t pull off all of those frilly French girl clothes either! Love videos like this that make me rethink things in helpful ways!
OMG this explains so much!!!! I used to buy every red shade from maybelline's matte ink line in Hope of finding MY RED, and one day I bought a slightly more Pink and desaturated shade that has become my favourite red of all times, but when you see the packaging is like Pink lol. Just discovered your channel, YOU ARE AMAZING!!! Subscribed!!!
I’m in school to study color and this is such a cool application/example of the contextual nature of color - what a color looks like in some isolated setting can seem so unrelated to how it looks with a particular background or surround
@@Geogaddii yeah Albers’ work is good but why do you have to use it to put down this video? Kackie is providing a context-specific example of the same concepts to an audience that might not otherwise have encountered them, in a way they can apply in their daily lives.. how is that ‘not it’?
Yep! My perfect red is actually a fuchsia. I need some purple in my red. Bite Beauty made a lipstick in the Mulberry that was absolutely perfect for me (RIP). The new Ilia lip crayons have 2 that are really similar: blue note and night bloom.
Same here. I've been gravitating to fuchsia in lieu of red since high school, and now I know why. And I'm not surprised, because I'm very pale and have a bluish undertone. Also, I have Bite Mulberry and really need to wear that more often.
You look like a strawberry blonde, as am I and I don’t know why purple lipstick works so well on me but I saw a makeup video with Julianne Moore and she said she has always been told peaches work well on redheads but she prefers purple. I feel like oranges look pretty but make my teeth look brown. The purple seems to make my blue eyes pop
THIS WAS WILD AND SO HELPFUL. omg thank you so much for this. as someone who cant picture things in my mind the idea of just trusting the computer is great!
I did this on multiple photos as I was worried I might not be picking up the ‘right’ initial colour. Did both lips and skin for funsies and got the same colours over and over again. Truly magic!
This channel has quickly became my comfort channel and one of the few things that keep getting me curious and excited since i haven’t been doing great lately. I learn mind blowing stuff from you and I can’t believe how quickly it changed how i look at things. Thank you, really. You’re doing great ❤❤
Wow, that was absolutely amazing. I'm a yearbook teacher and I frequently SKIP doing a color theory refresher for my students (because yearbook teachers are usually English teachers not art teachers), buuuuuut I think this is such a cool way to integrate color theory AND Photoshop-ish software in a digestible way. Also, I'm going to go buy my perfect "red" lipstick because the reds I have are the same as what you were talking about-very not effortless-and I never thought of trying this before. Thank you for posting this!
As someone who has studied color theory and works with it everyday, it still blowed my fracking mind when you put that first lipstick on.... Absolutely brillant video by the way. ❤❤
This is probably the best video you have ever made. Okay, not probably, it is! This whole series of color theory in makeup artistry is everything! I just can't get enough. I've watched each of these videos two to three times already. This series needs to blow up UA-cam!
I have been searching so long for a red and spent so much money to only check them in the trash. I'm blonde, blue eyed, but not the same coloring of Taylor Swift!! Thank you so much!!!!
This is so wild. I can pull off a true, bold red, but I rarely have a time and place where I feel comfortable wearing it. I've been looking for a "casual red" for years and couldn't figure out why it was so hard to find. Well, thanks to this magic trick, I found that my casual, every day red is actually disguised as a plummy mauve (Milani Color Fetish Balm Lipstick in Nylon). I NEVER would have figured this out on my own. Thank you!
Your knowledge of color theory & invaluable artistry skills are SO appreciated. Yes. So many dollars wasted on "red" lipstick that looked aweful on my lips. Now, I've got the tools to do better. Thank you!
I love these art math vids. To me this one was so clear and fun and very useful. Trying it tmrw... Then probably going to go down a Sephora rabbit hole of adding and deleting colours on my wish list😅
Thank you SO much for this video and your others on contrast. I have a relatively fair olive skin tone, which I've always known. But now, because of you, I understand that I'm very high contrast. My hair and eyebrows are so dark brown, they're almost black. I have thick dark eyelashes, and my natural lip color is a quite deep pinkish red hue compared to my skin. Every lip color described as "true red" seems to go orange on me. I finally tried a lip color that claimed to be a "raspberry" where the swatches look totally magenta. Wouldn't you know it!? It turned red on me. It looks nothing like the color in the applicator. I'm floored! I can not tell you how much money I've spent on various lip colors over the years. At 48 years old, I've finally found my perfect red lip! Thank you! ❣️
I just tested your theory and is absoluttely insane!!! It really works. Not only that, I found best lipstick colours that suits me well and they are totally opposite of what I expected it to be!
This recent series of videos you've made on contrast and color theory are MIND BLOWING!!! I can't believe nobody has taught me this before. I'd love more, endlessly more, ART MATH. And does this mean that I can do the same thing with blush by color picking my cheek colour??
the simple genius of this. i’m occasionally wasting money on “this time i’ve got it” colours. today i used your method, and have two fabulous colours i’d never have gotten for fear they’d be flat and boring - they actually flatter and pop, and don’t make me look like a badly painted babushka doll. 🙏🙏
so true! I discovered recently that my best beige/brown everyday lip colour is a PURPLE. In fact, all my best lip colours are some version of PURPLE. So I threw out a ton of "brown " lipsticks and i couldn't be happier. Now, less than 5% of readymade lipsticks out there are PURPLE -- but now that I know, I will never go back to all those pinks reds and browns ! BTW I also discovered that my best foundation is a whitish pink and my best contour colour is a plain yellow with a breath of grey. Seriously. Every other foundation, no matter how "cool" it seems, turns hideous ORANGE on my skin. So I mix my own now in a little dish everyday. I always said I couldn't be bothered to do that, but seeing the result, it's so worth it!
Interesting! I love purple as lip color, but to me it acts more as red / bold lip color. I wonder if you know your undertone? (This color theory on makeup thing is so fascinating)
@@MA-2020 yes my undertone (as you would expect) is cool. It's complicated by my having a lot of natural rosiness/flushing on my cheeks, nose and chin. The blush I use is the palest pastel baby pink that is made; as anything darker on me looks like clown patches. I am sure the makeup consultants in the shops think I'm mad when I go in asking for these products.
Purple is my favorite lip color. I discovered a beautiful raisin-plum-brown which is just my IDEAL dark lip. I haven't tried to get a red yet, but I need to try it, now.
turns out my red lipsticks have been looking wrong on me because...my lips are cool-toned?? and i need a mauve and/or blue toned red? im shaken to my core, thank you kackie
This explains why all my favorite shades are ones I didn't think I would like at first...so much mental space has been opened up now that this makes sense so thank you haha
What a gem of a video! I noticed something similar to this on myself. I have this black lipstick which has a blue base. As a black lipstick, I don't like it because it doesnt look food on my complexion. But when I apply a thin layer with a red lipstick that doesnt quite look right, it pulls the red more purple and makes it look effortless (and darker, but I'm high contrast so that's okay!). My best red is really kind of purple 💜
this rings so true. I have a Revlon lipstick called "blushing nude" that is supposed to be nude, but I swear looks red on me. Stone Rose from CT, which is orange, also pulls like a red on me. Really appreciate you sharing your wisdom!
This problem has been driving me nuts. I bought some glasses with a very pink bit in the frame, but couldn’t understand why they looked red on me, and was going nuts trying to find a lipstick to match. Now I know why this is happening and can reassess my lipsticks, thank you!! 😂
I'm so glad I'm not the only one that does this. I'm an art major and I photoshop my palette all the time lololol. It really is the best trick!! I also like using the geometric tools that turn your pixels into octagons/hexagons so you can make your own palette based on your face!!
This is *the* most helpful make up video I have ever seen. Thank you for giving us the THEORY behind why things work or not. Game changer. Absolute game changer.
GAME CHANGER! This made so much click for me. Between this video, the contrast, undertone, and saturation ones I'm figuring out why I tend to like certain colors on me better versus others. I think I'm a high contrast girlie on the neutral cooler side, and I tend to wear vampy lips. So, when summer rolls around, I feel lost with colors becuase they all feel too warm and usually end up going for blotted down versions of my vampy shades to lighten things up. This may also be becuase I'm olive and although I'm pale, my complexion tends to go more yellow in the summer sun. I would love if you addressed olive tones, becuase it seems like a wild card. It's so hard to find shades, especially when shopping online.
Well, this helps me understand why I always felt like my "perfect red" is... orange. Every time I wear a true red I just don't like the way it looks. When I wear a red that's orange-leaning I already feel like it works better. Orange doesn't necessarily look red on me- I feel like I would need to add more brown to it- but I think it helps me to understand what you're trying to teach. Based on this, I feel like my skin is contrasted and warm so will definitely give a go to what you're showing in today's two videos!!
Edit to say i tried this and it turns out a good red for me is Serenity by Rare Beauty - the tinted lip oil. Described as a "warm rose". Never would have even tried this shade if not for this. This is actually SO helpful. I struggled for YEARS as a super pale desaturated neutral-yellow freckle face to find a red i could wear because every. Single. One. Looks hot pink on me. Will try this immediately.
I immediately went and did this and its so true! I then rifled through my lipstick collection and tried on the ones that matched the colours. They were the most used shades, in most cases, and the ones that I have found always look flattering on me. I now have a range of photos in my phone that I will use when choosing lipsticks, from playing with those pic monkey colours. Very handy!
Art math for all the reds that I've bought that are NOT my perfect red, Alex Anele's trick of using a neutral (compared to you face and the red) brown lip liner makes it look so much more native. NYX moonwalk is my cool and NYX Nude Truffle is my warm. I'm excited to use this to find a red that doesn't require a brown lip!
Wow, wow, wow. Girl you could cream a line of make up or at least lip products using this theory. Thank so much for explaining this to us. Totally explains why lip colors look so different on me than they do in the tube. 🤗🙏🏼💃🏽🌺
So fun! You might know about the stylist David Zyla? Your video made me think about his way to find YOUR RED, which he call your Romantic Color. And It's by pinching the fleshy tip of your fingers, looking at the deepest color of your lips (like you do here) or the color you naturally blush - like if you litteraly pinch your cheek. He explains that different saturations will look good too. So your red can be brick, peppermint pink, strawberry, peach, burned orange, dusty whatever... it's all ''your red''! I love this concept.
This video blew my mind!!! I am only aware of color theory as it pertains to makeup BECAUSE OF YOU!!! I’m here for all of these videos! I’m learning SO MUCH and this is helping me choose better colors! Thank you!!! You’re amazing!
This was so informative and helpful. But more than anything, you are just an UTTER DELIGHT to learn from and to watch. Thanks for the giggles and the rad info!
also a great explanation as to why a lip gloss i bought online was actually more of a desaturated mauve-taupe in the tube than i expected, and how it was somehow an exact match to my lip shade
This makes so much sense. I know from getting my colors done (by someone who knows what they are doing) that my skin tone affects how other colors look on me, plus the other colors affect how my skin looks. Black brings out red cheeks (not in a good way) but put me in a golden tan and the red goes away. One color WILL affect other color.
So glad you did this!! I've run into this issue for years where certain colors just look purple on me. I thought it was my lip pigmentation until I used the NARS virtual swatch thing, and a color turned purple even though it was just a digital overlay. Didn't occur to me until then that it was just how my skin contrasts. It's so cool to know that you can reverse engineer it!
so much color fun! Another dimension that I'd love to see you address is the visual weight/balance of features on the face and how that affects makeup. Eg. some of us cannot wear bold makeup not just because of contrast but because of things like hooded/protruberant eyes or a long philtrum/more weighted lower half of the face. It sounds weird but it's true. I have learned the hard way that I can't wear mascara or waterline (or even line) my lower lashes - it makes my eyes look much smaller and highlights my under eye bags. I have tried this my entire life and finally realize that I just don't have the eye shape for it. Also bold lips are not that great in my face shape (rectangular face, more weighted in bottom of face). In terms of celebrities I think of Renee Zellweger, Jennifer Aniston or Julia Roberts - basically none of them have worn bold lips since the 90s. I don't think it's just that they have lower contrast, I think it also has to do with how they balance their facial features. There are no makeup influencers talking about this, mostly I guess bc when you have these features you can't really do a lot of makeup looks!
THANK YOU!!! Just this week I was angry at someone saying Maybelline Matte Ink Hustler wasn’t actually red but in my very pale olive skin it looks very very red!!! I feel so validated and i’ll use this method foreverrrrrrrr to find my lipstick matches
I bought Merit Court, and WHOA it looks so red and bright on me. I had considered buying Vermillion or one of their brighter ones, but I’m so glad didn’t!
That’s one I keep deliberating over as it seems a muted, brick red. My colouring is soft autumn and I keep thinking it would look like it’s not too out of place on my face 😂
i've been wanting a bold colour but the typical red was so not me. gradually i drifted towards pink corals and a bit cold pinks. excited to use this method!
Very cool concept. I wish I wasn't colorblind! LOL!! I have worn red for decades! I'd love to see you do this with, gasp, drugstore affordable lipstick.
I SO appreciate this video!!! This is something I have always known, but couldn't explain it -- to myself or others! Thank you!!! All of the lipsticks you tried on look good on you, Kackie! By the way, listening to a color consultant who has been in business for decades, the best time to take a photo is between 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m., and not in direct sun.
Hi Kackie, Fellow painter here! I just want to make sure I’m understanding the background theory correctly. We have three dimensions of color: hue, value, saturation. The one thing you hold constant here is the value of your lip color. You manipulate hue-e.g. when you pick red or beige. And you can manipulate saturation to your liking. But the one dimension that won’t change is the original value of your lip color. Did I understand that correctly? And that relates, I think, to your point in the previous video that being high or low contrast matters-e.g. presumably, if you have deeper lip color, you are higher contrast. This method does require having some independent sense about which hue to select-e.g. which red will be flattering on you (a warmer or cooler red). Is this right? V Cool!
Yeah this is what I was thinking! She says not to change the "temperature" but you already change the color by dragging it over to red, and temperature is just a subset of color. It seems like the only thing this gives you is the amount of black/white aka value. Interesting that this seems to work for a lot of people anyways!
OHMYGOD. I recently bought the new Westman Atelier blush in garconne (a brownish mauve on my very very fair olive cool complexion) and I thought heck, why not put it on my lips as well and it turned into the most perfect berry red color on my very pigmented cool toned lips! I just did the color pick thing and it literally looks like this exact blush shade! This is wild.😂 I loved every second of this video! Thank youuuu!
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Y'ALL! If you do this and find your perfect "red" PLEASE TAG ME on IG! I would love to repost them and have a highlight of the various shades that worked for y'all. Make sure you tell everyone what shade it is! ❤❤❤
I'm unable to tag you on ig
I’m not on instagram but after your first contrast video I went on the hunt at Sephora and found NARS Aragon is my red lip! They make it in a lip shine (sort of balmy but more coverage) and a lip gloss. Both look stunning on me as red but look like… rusty chestnut brown in the bullet! ❤
Thank you for doing this! I have actually thought SO much about this over the years, because I try red lips (and bangs, unfortunately) about every five years, and I'm always disappointed. I'm not on insta (for my mentie healf), but my "red" is Charlotte Tilbury Walk of No Shame. I am a fairly light neutral olive, and I cannot wear a true red without it looking like a clown mouth that belongs to someone else. But darn it if Walk of No Shame doesn't read as red on me. I don't really like buying from CT, because she kind of annoys me, but I can't find another shade and formula that works better for me as an occasion lip. I have found other warmish roses, like Lisa Eldridge Enchantment, but too much opacity also isn't good on me. For some reason I have to have a tiny bit of my own lip coming through or, again, it looks like there are wax lips floating on my face.
Hey Kackie have you ever heard the theory that Marilyn's famous red lipstick was actually orange?!
Also, a pretty solid way to find a lipliner shade - any nifty tricks with concealer or foundation shades you’d like to teach? I struggle so hard to find any that look natural and am perpetually bamboozling employees at Sephora or other makeup stores. Pale desaturated olive with rosacea that distracts and makes people think I’m way more pink than I actually am.
When you got to "and if you have olive undertones, it's even WEIRDER--"
I felt that in my little green soul.
100% my green-yellow soul since I am a banana
Fellow banana here! Best description ever
FOR. REAL. tell me why i look like an unripe banana in the mornings man 💔
Im like green orange its weird
Me too. 😂
Ok this explains why every single lipstick looks completely different on me than other people or the online swatches. This is absolutely amazing and I’ve never seen anyone address this!!
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Same, same, same! I have only recently started trying to wear lipstick (in my early 50’s) and I was getting so very frustrated because everything I try turns out completely different on me! This is absolutely life changing for me and I thank you so much! ❤
This NEEDS to go viral. The number of people it would help!!! I am so excited to try this and to stop wasting money on lip colors that end up being terrible on me!
The one in which Kackie explains why it’s so hard to trust swatches and swatch photos. At least now I know I’m not an idiot. 🤣
You're not!!!
I literally had to reset my Sephora wish list after watching this series 😂
This is so interesting. Erin Parsons bought Marilyn Monroe’s actual lipsticks and her “signature red lip” wasn’t actually red, it was coral. I wonder if it’s the same thing at play.
I believe it would show as red on screen because of the camera
Yes, because the camera tecnology at that time PLUS the coral lips color AND her skin tone made it look red. 😊
That was because of the lighting and the filming. Movie and stage make up are notorious for things being different colors. They still do it today. Look at BTS shots from films and look in particular at clothing. Screen worn outfits are often NOT the color they appear on screen.
After watching that video, I ventured into buying some coral/orange lipsticks and voila! I found my ideal "red" lipstick shade. I don't have the exact one Erin said is the closest to Marylin's but I have Revlon 895 Poppy and I think it is close enough :)
Interesting! I’ve heard Marilyn’s coloring was bright spring, so coral / orange-toned red would make sense.
in all of my YEARS watching yt videos about makeup, i truly believe this is single-handedly the most useful EASY one by far
thank you!!!
Thank you for mentioning that olive skin tones make everything weirder. Having pale olive skin changes everything, I wonder if this would actually work for me! I used to wear peach because I liked it and every time I would see myself in a mirror in public I’d be like, oh girl you’ve never looked worse. And now I know I’m cool toned bright winter it has changed everything. Shopping is easier, I cleaned out my closet, I realized why peach blush never worked for me along with all bronzers (which are warm tone by nature), and started shopping Korean makeup which is has an actual selection of pale olive makeup like contour that actually blends seamlessly with my skin. It’s incredible.
Hi, I’m also a cool toned pale olive, high contrast winter. I’ve recently found Korean skincare products which I love. Could you please share the brand or store you’re getting your Korean makeup from? I’d love to try them as I’m struggling to find my colours in the usual western brands.
@@CuriousChar oh of course! Most notably Etude. The two tone Etude contour is chef’s kiss. The first time I used it I literally thought it wasn’t working because it complemented my skin tone so well and I was used to looking muddy from using bronzer as contour (a crime I know haha) or something super cool tone but also way too dark like the Kat Von D contour. I get most my recommendations come from Alexandra Anele. It’s been a game changer watching UA-camr with the same skin tone as me. She will even take all of her best olive foundations and swatch them all on her face at once to show the difference, it’s incredible.
Woah.. what?! You can be a cool-toned olive? I swear they never ever suggest that in most guides. 😭
Yep! As an ( warm) olive person on the mute autumn spectrum, I struggled for a long time with finding colors for my complexion.
Warm colors like Oranges, deep browns and bright reds seemed too harsh on me. Corals were too pale or bright, did not blend.
So of course, my next thought was, maybe I'm cool tone? ... No. Purples and cool pinks (bright winter colors or light summer colors) did not blend with my complexion and were too pale/ washed me out and just did not look right.
No colors looked the same on me even if I saw someone the same shade as me (but different undertones) use it. All these brown girls who used purple and it showed pink on them or the ones that wore oranges and it looked more red/not as bright on me...
Turns out that colors that show pink on me are... Calm warm colors like muted beige tones or pinky beiges, the ones that other brown girls would define as 'dusty'/'ashy'.
It's very interesting how undertones work.
And yeah, I also only get Korean autumn warm products because on the western side everything is too dark or orange 😅
This is the highest value makeup video I’ve watched in a long time! Your videos have become masterclasses and I’m loving it!
This explains how I stumbled into my perfect red by complete accident. I ordered a ColourPop lip tint in A-Go-Go which is described (and shown) as *a sheer rosy pink*. I really wanted it for those *no makeup* makeup days so imagine my surprise when I put it on and it morphed into a saturated watermelon red color that I NEVER would have chosen to try. And it looked amazing! I wear it almost every day now. Off to try that computer trick.
Omg when you said that its "art math" in the introduction you had me hooked. As a physicist I really appreciate your in depth understanding of how colors work and layer instead of just saying sth. is pretty or not. Whole other level of information than the standard beauty influencers.
I love how genuine and enthusiastic you are about this. No pretense, just real.
This has my mind completely blown. This type of content scratches an itch in my brain and answers questions that I never even knew to ask. Science and math are subjects that I always understood and truly enjoy. Art has never been my strong suit, but I enjoy being creative and makeup has always been an outlet for me to just have fun with different colors, textures, etc. Now I get to combine science, art, math and makeup and put some more thoughtfulness behind my creativity. Thank you Kackie!!!
Exactly how I felt about this video! I'd love more ways to play with colour theory and photo tools like this for people like me that are not "naturals" when it comes to understanding colour but can do so with a bit of tech help.
Yesss!
Your genuine reaction was honestly the best part of this, I love the color theory and it's never occurred to me to actually TRY THAT ON MY OWN FACE (pro graphic artist here lol) but even knowing that mauve was going to turn red on you and then you reacting like it's Christmas morning was just so endearing. That kind of charisma ought to be bottled and sold. Great video! I have to try this now! 💋
OMG freedom! Who knew my ideal red was freaking orange?! Jones Road Valencia was in my desk drawer (inspired by Scarlet Johansson's lip in Wes Andersen's Asteroid City). Art math suggests my lips are so blue they balance out the orange and we land on red? You're magic. Thank you
This is actually the case for Marilyn Monroe. Her classic red lip is actually orange. :)
🤯 Ruby slippers moment … just went through the steps and realized that first “reads red on me” color is a very close match for the lipstick I think of as “nude plus” and carry with me always. The one I can throw on with little or no other makeup and feel put together but not clownish.
In other words, Fairy Godmother Kackie just showed me I’m already a French Girl.
The right shade of red to wear close to your face is the best thing you can do when not having time fir makeup and/or not feeling very well. It will work wonders. (scarves are easy for that!)
I already have my perfect red, which is rather orange and I never understood why it's red on me until I watched your video. This is such a valuable resource.
I showed this video to my boyfriend who isn't interested in makeup but likes to draw, and even he got so delighted when that coral turned into red on your lips. Bravo!
Years of dance had me red traumatized and I never knew what kind of red I was. We always had to wear a bright red that I felt always looked disjointed. This affirms why even in clothing I like a deeper red, and for my lips they need to be more muted! Just seeing a hex for my coloring was eye opening. I follow many different undertones and shades of pale brunettes on UA-cam hoping I could find the right colors but this really was eye opening to show how even if the overall look reads the same the subtle color differences can really make a change for the “wow” color on you!
BRO!!! Do you know what this video means?? It means I can have a gorgeous red lip on my wedding day without having to wear a lipstick!! Just have to find the right gloss! This is AWESOME!!!
I'll share this with freakin' every woman I know!
This is fantastic and I plan on doing this. It makes so much sense because of the color of a person’s lips are going to change what goes on top. I’ve always been hesitant to wear red. You probably just saved me a bunch of money and frustration finding the perfect most flattering red.
I really don't follow beauty channels and you just got randomly recommended in my feed. I actually ended up doing a similar process a few years ago on a whim (used the color picker in photoshop to click on the darkest part of my natural lip color to find my best lip shade), but you took it further than i thought to with the saturation and vibrancy slider.
Anyway, you have such an endearing and likeable personality. I'm following your channel now. I can tell you're going to hit the million+ followers if you keep going.
Holy crap this technique feels revolutionary. It's actually objective and takes all the guesswork out. Gonna go hit up my Photoshop this afternoon!!!
Many brown lipsticks are red on me . I’m a redhead with what I would call peach undertones. There was once a makeup company called Prescriptives . They seemed me to have a red orange undertone and they could always find PERFECT lipstick for me . Wish they were still around. I find the way you used Picmonkey slightly confusing. I’ll watch the video again. I’d give anything for a long lasting lip stain with a brownish , slightly pinky , MLBB shade . My best “ red “ is Revlon Satin Ink in the shade , In Too Deep . It leaves a gorgeous reddish stain on my lips that wears off so nicely. Thank you SO MUCH for this ! You’re the first person I’ve seen to point this out ❤
Two Kackie videos at the same time??? Oh I am LIVING for it
YES!!! I am feeling spoiled as hell!!!! ❤
This is such a goldmine of a content for non art leaning people that loves makeup
THE WAY I JUST SHOUTED AT THE SCREEN WHEN THE COLOR LITERALLY CHANGED BEFORE MY EYES 👏
Yep. I drove myself crazy trying all of the make up colors recommended for True Winters didn't work for me as expected. People were swatching the colors on white paper and matching that to the color fan. But I came to realize that though I'm very pale, I'm not paper white and my skin and lip color influence the final shade. I did find my perfect red by accident but, of course, Clinique discontinued it. I can rock a blue red, though, so I am gonna check out that Lisa Eldridge lip gloss you swatched!
I have literally never commented on a UA-cam video, but your art math/makeup mash up is absolutely addicting. I love it so much.
Former florist here. When brides came to me and wanted to do a blush wedding…. I didn’t know what color they wanted. Pink or palest coral. I get it. Many thanks. And yes, I too am Oliver skin. Many things look weird when they shouldn’t. Nail polish is my bane. No more! Great tip to photograph and match. Perfection.
Holy crap! This is exactly what I needed - every single red lipstick I’ve ever tried looks hot pink on me. I am definitely going to try the Picmonkey thing and see if I can FINALLY find my perfect ‘red’. ❤️
I’ve been absolutely loving all the art math videos lately, I cannot wait to play around and figure out my perfect nude that won’t give me the dreaded “corpse lips”! Thank you thank you!!! 😊
And, as a literal girl raised in France who has never been able to pull off the effortless French girl look, I now understand that my essence likely factors heavily into that too because I can’t pull off all of those frilly French girl clothes either! Love videos like this that make me rethink things in helpful ways!
Moi Aussie!
OMG this explains so much!!!! I used to buy every red shade from maybelline's matte ink line in Hope of finding MY RED, and one day I bought a slightly more Pink and desaturated shade that has become my favourite red of all times, but when you see the packaging is like Pink lol. Just discovered your channel, YOU ARE AMAZING!!! Subscribed!!!
I’m in school to study color and this is such a cool application/example of the contextual nature of color - what a color looks like in some isolated setting can seem so unrelated to how it looks with a particular background or surround
I lecture on colour, and I’m telling you, a better resource would be Interaction of Colour by Josef Albers. This is not it.
@@Geogaddii yeah Albers’ work is good but why do you have to use it to put down this video? Kackie is providing a context-specific example of the same concepts to an audience that might not otherwise have encountered them, in a way they can apply in their daily lives.. how is that ‘not it’?
Yep! My perfect red is actually a fuchsia. I need some purple in my red. Bite Beauty made a lipstick in the Mulberry that was absolutely perfect for me (RIP). The new Ilia lip crayons have 2 that are really similar: blue note and night bloom.
Same here. I've been gravitating to fuchsia in lieu of red since high school, and now I know why. And I'm not surprised, because I'm very pale and have a bluish undertone. Also, I have Bite Mulberry and really need to wear that more often.
Omg y'all tag meeeee I wanna see
You look like a strawberry blonde, as am I and I don’t know why purple lipstick works so well on me but I saw a makeup video with Julianne Moore and she said she has always been told peaches work well on redheads but she prefers purple. I feel like oranges look pretty but make my teeth look brown. The purple seems to make my blue eyes pop
Merit fashion looks pretty on me and maybe would work for you😊
@@Pangaea83 no I am not strawberry at all 😂
THIS WAS WILD AND SO HELPFUL. omg thank you so much for this. as someone who cant picture things in my mind the idea of just trusting the computer is great!
I did this on multiple photos as I was worried I might not be picking up the ‘right’ initial colour. Did both lips and skin for funsies and got the same colours over and over again. Truly magic!
THIS. I've been hunting for a red lipstick for YEARS with minimal luck. I'm so excited to try this!!
This channel has quickly became my comfort channel and one of the few things that keep getting me curious and excited since i haven’t been doing great lately. I learn mind blowing stuff from you and I can’t believe how quickly it changed how i look at things. Thank you, really. You’re doing great ❤❤
One of the best makeup videos or color theory videos I’ve watched! Your artmath skills and teaching abilities are *chef’s kiss*.
Wow, that was absolutely amazing. I'm a yearbook teacher and I frequently SKIP doing a color theory refresher for my students (because yearbook teachers are usually English teachers not art teachers), buuuuuut I think this is such a cool way to integrate color theory AND Photoshop-ish software in a digestible way.
Also, I'm going to go buy my perfect "red" lipstick because the reds I have are the same as what you were talking about-very not effortless-and I never thought of trying this before. Thank you for posting this!
I've never seen someone else who is as genuinely thrilled by color theory as I am 😂 it's kind of validating, ngl.
Well you are just an absolute DELIGHT! I have failed with reds and I am 49 years old. Totallly doing this in Canva. THANK YOU!
Omg I'm doing this with my skin to get clothing colors, too. I've never known what looks good on me, so this is unbelievably helpful!
That could be so helpful! Do you select a specific part of the skin? I would like to try!
That is crazy! I always thought I couldn’t wear red lipstick. I’m definitely trying this to find my shade of “red” lipstick. Thank you! 💕
As someone who has studied color theory and works with it everyday, it still blowed my fracking mind when you put that first lipstick on.... Absolutely brillant video by the way. ❤❤
OMG A KACKIE DOUBLE-FEATURE!! Thanks Kackie!!! I need this red lip video so bad
This is probably the best video you have ever made. Okay, not probably, it is! This whole series of color theory in makeup artistry is everything! I just can't get enough. I've watched each of these videos two to three times already. This series needs to blow up UA-cam!
I have been searching so long for a red and spent so much money to only check them in the trash. I'm blonde, blue eyed, but not the same coloring of Taylor Swift!! Thank you so much!!!!
This is so wild. I can pull off a true, bold red, but I rarely have a time and place where I feel comfortable wearing it. I've been looking for a "casual red" for years and couldn't figure out why it was so hard to find. Well, thanks to this magic trick, I found that my casual, every day red is actually disguised as a plummy mauve (Milani Color Fetish Balm Lipstick in Nylon). I NEVER would have figured this out on my own. Thank you!
Your knowledge of color theory & invaluable artistry skills are SO appreciated. Yes. So many dollars wasted on "red" lipstick that looked aweful on my lips. Now, I've got the tools to do better. Thank you!
I love and admire you for your honest, unaltered picture. It helps me be less self conscious about myself. 🌷
I love these art math vids. To me this one was so clear and fun and very useful. Trying it tmrw... Then probably going to go down a Sephora rabbit hole of adding and deleting colours on my wish list😅
I agree 😁 I had to reconsider my wishlist too 😂
Thank you SO much for this video and your others on contrast. I have a relatively fair olive skin tone, which I've always known. But now, because of you, I understand that I'm very high contrast. My hair and eyebrows are so dark brown, they're almost black. I have thick dark eyelashes, and my natural lip color is a quite deep pinkish red hue compared to my skin. Every lip color described as "true red" seems to go orange on me. I finally tried a lip color that claimed to be a "raspberry" where the swatches look totally magenta. Wouldn't you know it!? It turned red on me. It looks nothing like the color in the applicator. I'm floored! I can not tell you how much money I've spent on various lip colors over the years. At 48 years old, I've finally found my perfect red lip! Thank you! ❣️
I just tested your theory and is absoluttely insane!!! It really works. Not only that, I found best lipstick colours that suits me well and they are totally opposite of what I expected it to be!
This recent series of videos you've made on contrast and color theory are MIND BLOWING!!! I can't believe nobody has taught me this before. I'd love more, endlessly more, ART MATH. And does this mean that I can do the same thing with blush by color picking my cheek colour??
I find it so infectious when you go all manic with how color theory works -- totally trying it out soon! Thank you!
OMG where has this been all my life?! Going to go download this program right now. As a scientist this really appeals to me.
LMK how it goes!!!
the simple genius of this. i’m occasionally wasting money on “this time i’ve got it” colours. today i used your method, and have two fabulous colours i’d never have gotten for fear they’d be flat and boring - they actually flatter and pop, and don’t make me look like a badly painted babushka doll. 🙏🙏
this is INSANE. one of the most helpful videos ever. I’m definitely gonna try it!!!
so true! I discovered recently that my best beige/brown everyday lip colour is a PURPLE. In fact, all my best lip colours are some version of PURPLE. So I threw out a ton of "brown " lipsticks and i couldn't be happier. Now, less than 5% of readymade lipsticks out there are PURPLE -- but now that I know, I will never go back to all those pinks reds and browns !
BTW I also discovered that my best foundation is a whitish pink and my best contour colour is a plain yellow with a breath of grey. Seriously. Every other foundation, no matter how "cool" it seems, turns hideous ORANGE on my skin. So I mix my own now in a little dish everyday. I always said I couldn't be bothered to do that, but seeing the result, it's so worth it!
Interesting!
Interesting! I love purple as lip color, but to me it acts more as red / bold lip color. I wonder if you know your undertone? (This color theory on makeup thing is so fascinating)
@@MA-2020 yes my undertone (as you would expect) is cool. It's complicated by my having a lot of natural rosiness/flushing on my cheeks, nose and chin. The blush I use is the palest pastel baby pink that is made; as anything darker on me looks like clown patches. I am sure the makeup consultants in the shops think I'm mad when I go in asking for these products.
Purple is my favorite lip color. I discovered a beautiful raisin-plum-brown which is just my IDEAL dark lip. I haven't tried to get a red yet, but I need to try it, now.
turns out my red lipsticks have been looking wrong on me because...my lips are cool-toned?? and i need a mauve and/or blue toned red? im shaken to my core, thank you kackie
This explains why all my favorite shades are ones I didn't think I would like at first...so much mental space has been opened up now that this makes sense so thank you haha
This is brilliant. You are brilliant! I cannot thank you enough for this. I have been trying to find my red for years. I’m so excited to try this!
Oh! This explains why most purple eyeshadow looks grey on me, and why greens turn bluish
Omg that's funny! And I noticed that pastel green eyeshadow look like some greyish beige on me 😂
What a gem of a video! I noticed something similar to this on myself. I have this black lipstick which has a blue base. As a black lipstick, I don't like it because it doesnt look food on my complexion. But when I apply a thin layer with a red lipstick that doesnt quite look right, it pulls the red more purple and makes it look effortless (and darker, but I'm high contrast so that's okay!). My best red is really kind of purple 💜
This is so helpful for someone like me who can't ever identify cool and warm is less obvious colors.
this rings so true. I have a Revlon lipstick called "blushing nude" that is supposed to be nude, but I swear looks red on me. Stone Rose from CT, which is orange, also pulls like a red on me. Really appreciate you sharing your wisdom!
This problem has been driving me nuts. I bought some glasses with a very pink bit in the frame, but couldn’t understand why they looked red on me, and was going nuts trying to find a lipstick to match. Now I know why this is happening and can reassess my lipsticks, thank you!! 😂
I'm so glad I'm not the only one that does this. I'm an art major and I photoshop my palette all the time lololol. It really is the best trick!! I also like using the geometric tools that turn your pixels into octagons/hexagons so you can make your own palette based on your face!!
Why am I literally tearing up about it your delighted laughter
This is *the* most helpful make up video I have ever seen. Thank you for giving us the THEORY behind why things work or not. Game changer. Absolute game changer.
GAME CHANGER! This made so much click for me. Between this video, the contrast, undertone, and saturation ones I'm figuring out why I tend to like certain colors on me better versus others. I think I'm a high contrast girlie on the neutral cooler side, and I tend to wear vampy lips. So, when summer rolls around, I feel lost with colors becuase they all feel too warm and usually end up going for blotted down versions of my vampy shades to lighten things up. This may also be becuase I'm olive and although I'm pale, my complexion tends to go more yellow in the summer sun. I would love if you addressed olive tones, becuase it seems like a wild card. It's so hard to find shades, especially when shopping online.
Well, this helps me understand why I always felt like my "perfect red" is... orange. Every time I wear a true red I just don't like the way it looks. When I wear a red that's orange-leaning I already feel like it works better. Orange doesn't necessarily look red on me- I feel like I would need to add more brown to it- but I think it helps me to understand what you're trying to teach.
Based on this, I feel like my skin is contrasted and warm so will definitely give a go to what you're showing in today's two videos!!
Edit to say i tried this and it turns out a good red for me is Serenity by Rare Beauty - the tinted lip oil. Described as a "warm rose". Never would have even tried this shade if not for this.
This is actually SO helpful. I struggled for YEARS as a super pale desaturated neutral-yellow freckle face to find a red i could wear because every. Single. One. Looks hot pink on me. Will try this immediately.
I immediately went and did this and its so true! I then rifled through my lipstick collection and tried on the ones that matched the colours. They were the most used shades, in most cases, and the ones that I have found always look flattering on me. I now have a range of photos in my phone that I will use when choosing lipsticks, from playing with those pic monkey colours. Very handy!
Art math for all the reds that I've bought that are NOT my perfect red, Alex Anele's trick of using a neutral (compared to you face and the red) brown lip liner makes it look so much more native. NYX moonwalk is my cool and NYX Nude Truffle is my warm.
I'm excited to use this to find a red that doesn't require a brown lip!
Wow, wow, wow. Girl you could cream a line of make up or at least lip products using this theory. Thank so much for explaining this to us. Totally explains why lip colors look so different on me than they do in the tube.
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So fun! You might know about the stylist David Zyla? Your video made me think about his way to find YOUR RED, which he call your Romantic Color. And It's by pinching the fleshy tip of your fingers, looking at the deepest color of your lips (like you do here) or the color you naturally blush - like if you litteraly pinch your cheek. He explains that different saturations will look good too. So your red can be brick, peppermint pink, strawberry, peach, burned orange, dusty whatever... it's all ''your red''! I love this concept.
Light berry, apparently. Thanks, I'll try it!
I have a palette from Zyla and my red works in clothes but not in lipstick. I turn the color very very pink when I put it on my lips.
This video blew my mind!!! I am only aware of color theory as it pertains to makeup BECAUSE OF YOU!!! I’m here for all of these videos! I’m learning SO MUCH and this is helping me choose better colors! Thank you!!! You’re amazing!
This was so informative and helpful. But more than anything, you are just an UTTER DELIGHT to learn from and to watch. Thanks for the giggles and the rad info!
This is genius!! Thank you! I always struggle to find the correct color that will look great on my skin!
This is the best UA-cam video I've ever seen. How does this apply to blush and bronzers, etc??
I need this too. Especially the blush. Please please do blush like this!
Wow! Interesting!!! Yess
also a great explanation as to why a lip gloss i bought online was actually more of a desaturated mauve-taupe in the tube than i expected, and how it was somehow an exact match to my lip shade
Man, I have been loving your videos lately. Here for the art nerd content!!
This makes so much sense. I know from getting my colors done (by someone who knows what they are doing) that my skin tone affects how other colors look on me, plus the other colors affect how my skin looks. Black brings out red cheeks (not in a good way) but put me in a golden tan and the red goes away. One color WILL affect other color.
I love all your art math videos. This is so bleeping helpful. I was a math math major and am art math dumb lol. THANK YOU!
So glad you did this!! I've run into this issue for years where certain colors just look purple on me. I thought it was my lip pigmentation until I used the NARS virtual swatch thing, and a color turned purple even though it was just a digital overlay. Didn't occur to me until then that it was just how my skin contrasts. It's so cool to know that you can reverse engineer it!
so much color fun! Another dimension that I'd love to see you address is the visual weight/balance of features on the face and how that affects makeup. Eg. some of us cannot wear bold makeup not just because of contrast but because of things like hooded/protruberant eyes or a long philtrum/more weighted lower half of the face. It sounds weird but it's true. I have learned the hard way that I can't wear mascara or waterline (or even line) my lower lashes - it makes my eyes look much smaller and highlights my under eye bags. I have tried this my entire life and finally realize that I just don't have the eye shape for it. Also bold lips are not that great in my face shape (rectangular face, more weighted in bottom of face). In terms of celebrities I think of Renee Zellweger, Jennifer Aniston or Julia Roberts - basically none of them have worn bold lips since the 90s. I don't think it's just that they have lower contrast, I think it also has to do with how they balance their facial features. There are no makeup influencers talking about this, mostly I guess bc when you have these features you can't really do a lot of makeup looks!
I love the way Mickie looks on you! Just lovely. I’m going to have to try this myself.
The force with which my jaw hit the floor......
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This was too much fun.
Ugh the desired effect. This thrills me!!!
THANK YOU!!! Just this week I was angry at someone saying Maybelline Matte Ink Hustler wasn’t actually red but in my very pale olive skin it looks very very red!!! I feel so validated and i’ll use this method foreverrrrrrrr to find my lipstick matches
I bought Merit Court, and WHOA it looks so red and bright on me. I had considered buying Vermillion or one of their brighter ones, but I’m so glad didn’t!
That’s one I keep deliberating over as it seems a muted, brick red. My colouring is soft autumn and I keep thinking it would look like it’s not too out of place on my face 😂
i've been wanting a bold colour but the typical red was so not me. gradually i drifted towards pink corals and a bit cold pinks. excited to use this method!
Very cool concept. I wish I wasn't colorblind! LOL!!
I have worn red for decades! I'd love to see you do this with, gasp, drugstore affordable lipstick.
I SO appreciate this video!!! This is something I have always known, but couldn't explain it -- to myself or others! Thank you!!! All of the lipsticks you tried on look good on you, Kackie! By the way, listening to a color consultant who has been in business for decades, the best time to take a photo is between 9:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m., and not in direct sun.
This might be the most informative makeup video ever created.
WOW, this is amazing!!! I never understood why more 'muted' pinks looked great on me for a red, but this makes so much sense.
Hi Kackie, Fellow painter here! I just want to make sure I’m understanding the background theory correctly. We have three dimensions of color: hue, value, saturation. The one thing you hold constant here is the value of your lip color. You manipulate hue-e.g. when you pick red or beige. And you can manipulate saturation to your liking. But the one dimension that won’t change is the original value of your lip color. Did I understand that correctly? And that relates, I think, to your point in the previous video that being high or low contrast matters-e.g. presumably, if you have deeper lip color, you are higher contrast. This method does require having some independent sense about which hue to select-e.g. which red will be flattering on you (a warmer or cooler red). Is this right? V Cool!
Yeah this is what I was thinking! She says not to change the "temperature" but you already change the color by dragging it over to red, and temperature is just a subset of color. It seems like the only thing this gives you is the amount of black/white aka value. Interesting that this seems to work for a lot of people anyways!
OHMYGOD. I recently bought the new Westman Atelier blush in garconne (a brownish mauve on my very very fair olive cool complexion) and I thought heck, why not put it on my lips as well and it turned into the most perfect berry red color on my very pigmented cool toned lips! I just did the color pick thing and it literally looks like this exact blush shade! This is wild.😂 I loved every second of this video! Thank youuuu!
WOW! Affair looks red on you?!?! my goodness I have to try this. Thanks for this, fascinating. Our visual system is an absolute gas, isn't it.