I used to agree. No longer. I had nearly black hair and very light skin., with dark hazel. Brown-green eyes. I always thought I was a Winter, and definitely a Bright. Recently, I grew out my gray hair. Suddenly I could see that the dark, cool, bright colors sometimes clashed with my skin. My wrist veins are teal. I have an art background, so I know the properties of color. My best colors have to stay in the neutral zone. I can’t go to the blue pinks nor the cool blues. But I can’t go to the mustards or yellow greens. I can wear cool orange, dark olive green and a sunny, golden yellow.
It’s true that everyone leans at least slightly towards warm or cool, but it doesn’t always matter as much as people think. I’m what many people would call a “soft autumn” but I’m very neutral and muted, and the muted is definitely more important to finding colors that work for me than the warm aspect. Muted cornflower blue works well for me, as does a golden yellow. But if colors are too bright, too pale, or too dark, it doesn’t work for me. I need can’t go to any extremes with color and look like myself. I look equally bad in a tomato red and an electric blue. But a soft burgundy and a muted denim blue are both good.
Katherine, I think I need your help haha. I am not sure whether I'm soft autmn or soft summer (I'm leaning towards soft summer). Now I know greyish blues and greens and mauves look lovely but I would like to match foundation. I picked a cool leaning neutral foundation and it looked a little to red-ish pinky on me and didn't really even out those pink cheeks. What foundation do you pick?
Me too.. I have more autumn colouring but more cool olive skin .. I do best with mix colours like teal, purple, pink, green, not so much the primary colours
In some systems there is a group called Tonal Soft. Which as far as I can tell seems like all or most of Soft Autumn and Soft Summer. Possibly some very soft colors from other groups too. Not sure. So people will or won't resonate with that as an option, but it'd be for someone who feels they can wear both cool and warm pretty equally or lots of both (and they're very soft and best in not too light or deep).
Not all olive skin is “not light”. A very pale, slight olive is very common, especially among Greek, Italian, Spanish and many French women, as well as Eurasian women (by this I mean one Asian and one European parent). Audrey Coyne is one well-known example of this. I have much less color than she does in her eyes and hair, but my skin tone is similar, just a bit lighter.
I am convinced I have neutral undertones! I prefer gold jewelry but I think silver also looks good on me. I am very very pale and neutral foundations are usually a match for me. I’ve been trying to find my season for months and have been having trouble. I have always been a black and grey clothing person so I have given up and just stick to black for now since I still have no clue what my season is. I thought this would help but iit didn’t. I had freckles as a kid but also have blue eyes and medium blonde hair. When I look at pictures I think I’m warm and cool.
I’m so confused by this because I should be cool, but I can kinda pull off a soft rusty orange but look truly awful in a cool pale pink. Somewhere in the middle is better than either though
Carole Jackson said in her CMB book that the undertone is sometimes difficult to detect. You could look sallow or yellow but still have a blue undertone. I had difficulty for years with this. I'm a deep winter. Salt and pepper hair, dark eyes with a light olive skin tone that looks pale. For some of us it takes years to accept who we are. And sometimes the shades are difficult to find. It's a huge relief to get your colour type right though. You save time and money(hopefully) getting dressed. And within palettes there may only be a few colors that are right for one's skin tone/hair colour/eye colour that make you look great. I spent years trying to find shades within a large palette. Now I understand that some of the bright shades look overwhelming in a shirt or dress but may look fantastic as an accent colour, using it as a scarf, gloves, shoes or jewellery. Accent pieces for the colors that seem to overwhelm is the way to incorporate them.
Every warm and every cool foundation changes color on me....I have tried most foundations out there... I need a perfect mix between pink and yellow. I burn then tan...once tan my yellow tones kick in and turn my skin more "golden"....but I am still not as "golden" as someone who is truly warm. I pull off neutral- cool lipstick and neutral- warm lipsticks and blushes best. My mom is fair with pink skin and my dad is golden skinned....I am literally 50/50. What colors do you think would look best on me? I normally stick to jade, medium blue, champagne, peach, pink blush color, black, emerald green.
Still so confused, everywhere I go, the "experts" tell me different things. One says I'm warm; the other says I'm neutral; the next expert tells me I am neutral with a slight pink undertone; the only colour I find to be utterly unflattering is anything in the orange range. Most colours look nice on me, cool and warm. Both silver and gold jewelry looks nice against my skin. 🤔🤷♀️🤪
A special kind of limbo: Being neutral-ish to slightly warm, but instead of golden undertones, having peachy or red/orange by the old Prescriptives color printing system. Best foundation match I ever got, then they vanished from in-person locations and left me empty-handed. I just found this channel in a fit of nostalgia but also discontentment about how color analysis was conducted in the 80's when I was a teen. I was not *any* of the categories in the books in my local hair salon! Now I have stopped dyeing my naturally very very very ash brown hair, which is now ashy mouse brown *with tinsel*. I think it may be time to ponder how this is going to impact my face. :-o Thank you for addressing the neutral-seeming people out there!
I am very soft/muted, and my skin tone appears to be neutral. I have blue-green eyes, dirty blonde hair that turns reddish in the sun (it’s turning white now,) and freckles over pale skin, but I tan pretty well. I have been told with confidence that I was cool AND warm by different people. The “test” that worked best for me was the metals. Warm golds, especially rose gold looks great on me. Silver looks harsh against my skin. I can wear colors from both summer & autumn, but I am definitely a soft autumn.
My hair is a dark honey blonde, my eyes are a dark blue and my skin is pale and seems to have a golden glow, so I always assumed I had a warm undertone. But I could never figure out the colour of my veins and I wear both golden and silver jewelry (not at the same time). I struggled to find a matching foundation because even the lightest warm shade was too yellow or orange. When I asked a shop assistant they also tried out a warm shade first and we all were surprised when a fair cool shade matched perfectly. I really have no pink/ purple tint or redness in my face, so that confused me a lot. My worst colours are cool pink/purple and orange for clothes and make-up . I have a really hard time finding a bold red lip stick because most shades are either too orange or too purple. So now I am wondering if I might be more on the neutral side. My favourite colors for clothes are bordeaux red (not too purple), navy blue, dark turquoise (like your dress), emerald green and ivory white...
I have warmth in my eyes and some in my hair but my skin is on the cooler side. I think I am more cool than warm but my eye color really seems to throw it off.
When I had my color analysis, the very experienced color analyst, had difficulty deciding between warm and cool, until she put the aqua drape on me, which settled it as cool. Everyone ooh’d and ah’d and said it looked like I had foundation, blush and powder on, it was that flattering. My coloring is tricky, a cool, ashy dark blonde to bronde, very naturally streaky hair; very pale, slightly olive skin; and most difficult of all, a strange eye color. Overall, I suppose they are hazel, but there are three distinct color zones in them: a dark gray outer ring, a mostly gray/green iris, with a little golden brown in the inside around the pupil. People often assume they’re brown, but they seem to be a cross between my father’s more obvious hazel, and my mother’s cool brown. I can see why coloring like this can be difficult to determine whether it’s cool or warm, it has a mixture of cooler elements, with a warm brown inner iris.
Wow, you've completely described my eye color!! I always struggle a lot if I was a cool type, because mostly I prefer cool colors, however I have a very bit of warm in my hair, eye shades.
I have neutral dark brown hair and clear celadon eyes. My skin is a bit darker because my mom is Indigenous but I've been told it's truly neutral by many MUA. Everything about my colour palette is smack dab in the middle of something. People argue about my eyes being green or blue (40% of the population can't correctly identify green when it comes within a certain closeness to blue) Honestly, being truly neutral, while more compatible with literally any color in terms of what's complimentary is really hard when it comes to beauty maintenance. FOundation is impossible to find. You're right about technically not being smack dab in the middle, probably no one is. I do think freaking out about trying my best to figure it out might take just as long as manually trying on all the 'neutral' option until I find the one that pulls closest to my own undertone though. I also don't think comparing myself to any cool skinned or warm skinned person would really be fair as by comparison, I am neither of those things notably. I understand what you mean and I think it can be useful for fine-tuning between wearing two different similar shades, otherwise generalizing a neutral group is conventional for everyday use.
I'm 36 have natural dirty blonde hair, pale skin and dark blue eyes. Looking at my veins, I can't tell if they are green and blue or green and purple. Different colored clothing looks fine on me. I burn in the sun but it doesn't turn into tan. It just goes away.
Thank you. I first thought I was warm, then neutral, but now I know I'm soft, cool, medium and the colors in the quiz are all in my wardrobe and look good on me! Who would have thought that it is so easy? Just wear what looks good on you!
Auburn hair and blue/green eyes right here. I’m part Native too, so I have warm and cool. It’s strange because depending on what makeup, or hair color I have can change what colors look good on me.
I have neutral undertone and warm colors doesn't go on me.. Like golden red orange yellow But when I wear purple teal dark blues dark pinks dark greens these really goes well on me and it Flatters..
Apparently i am a neutral - cool. It's frustrating because i was so sure I'm a true winter. Now I find out a mix between wamr and cool looks best on me.. and colors like brown, which i would never wear
I am neutral I oft to know after visiting a pro she said that I lean more towards warm slightly more. I tend to get way with wearing almost any color very few look off.
I cannot wear the camel color because it’s too close to my skin tone and I just look naked but I always thought I was cool but actually I’m neutral. Can wear both silver and gold but look better in gold. I have blue grey eyes with hint of green in center, brown hair. Outdoors and in natural light, my skin has no visible pink or redness only golden but when I go into a store or building depending on how hot it is or whatever, I get flustered and my overtone my look like I have redness so I get mistaken for cool. When I wear cool foundation, I can blend it in but it always looks too pink. A lady at the makeup counter said I was cool but when I tried to explain to her the diff between undertone and overtone she said the next shade was too dark. I went home with her “color” and I was right, too pink. I since bought a neutral foundation and it matched me 1000 times better. I can tell you I am not warm but I have green veins and definitely don’t look better in anything on the cooler side, but pull it off well due to my eye color. Edit: also wondering is neutral peach is a thing🤔
My natural hair color is a dark ash blonde and i have warm brown eyes and my skin tone apears neutral... Ive been confused all of my life what hair color, makeup pallets and clothes suit me. Ive been told every color suites me so i have no idea. I hope your quiz helps !
I'm Bright, Cool and Deep; a stylist friend once described me as a "classic winter." But I do think my coloring leans a bit neutral. I think that's why I gravitate towards the universal colors.
Im still confused because i cant wear worm colours ( earthy tones) i look sick, and at the best ( plums and family )i look elegant but 10 years older. And when i wear cool light colours ( bleu pink green) i look grey and ashy . So im tired of wearing only 2 colours that make me look good , cool olive green and worm blush pink, i looked for colour analysist in my city but couldnt find and my pictures to do it online are not accurate 💔
Thank you so much, I have really struggled to make sense of this. Then I saw this video and did your color test, and I get it now! I am bright, warm, and deep so I did only appear neutral. I know how to go about it now, thank you so much! And everyone, I highly recommend taking the color test in the description box and I'll be getting the guide or portable color scheme when I update my wardrobe in a couple of months. Cheers!
Love your hair color! This is what I am trying to achieve. Is it possible for you to detail what color products, levels, etc? Perhaps you have done this already. Then would you please post the link here? Thank you in advance.
I have both green and purple veins. gold and silver both looks good on me and I have golden grey hairs. I have green eyes with gold flecks . Can you Tell my undertone.
I do not perfectly fit on either. Rich auburn red hair, green hazel eyes that have little yellows/browns and of course green. Freckles. Light Fair skinned, very very slight yellow tent to my skin, but pale. No tan. Barely tans to none, but has before, mostly burns and freckles. Can't tell between colors. I do know certain colors I shy away from wearing but pretty confused on that. Even more so now. No purple veins. Just blue, & one with greensih tent. Obviously been tryn figure this out, been getting into make up, enjoying it but...... ??? What... am I. Sister has fair olivey skin, tans some but not deeply. She has green blue eyes, dark dark brunette hair. Some kind a nuetral. Confused.
I struggle with this also! I appear neutral in so many ways. Because I have a mix of both warm and cool tones, both in eyes and hair. My eyes are greyish green, but with some golden specks in the mix, and my hair is light ash brown with natural golden highlights. My skin is light but not fair, and both warm and cool foundations look ridiculous on me as if I'm wearing a mask, neutral is best. Regarding jewelry, both gold and silver look good, there's no contrast in which one looks better. What I have found though, is that I wear soft colors the best, as long as they're soft/greyish medium tones (cold or warm) they look good, but definitely neither bold warms nor colds, because they both look harsh on me. Even pastels are too harsh on me, I find the more muted the colors, the better.....So, how to know if I tend to be more cool than warm or viceversa?
I am answering this late, but try more traditionally warm or cool colors. So a muted pumpkin orange (peach will be too harsh for you probably) or try a more muted lemon yellow (I would avoid a more warm yellow like honey yellow though). Pumpkin orange is very muted but extremely warm if you find that you can wear this color and look fantastic in it (not meh or almost ok), then you're likely more warm than cool. If you find that a more muted lemon yellow looks great on you, then you are probably cool. But really try to see if you wear warm muted colors that are in the medium color range (so try terracotta, salmon pink, or a mustard yellow). Autumn and summer seasons are somewhat similar in that they have a little bit of mutedness to the them. That's why I suggest trying the more muted warm colors rather than the fresh bright spring colors or the bright cool winter colors.
I was so confused I guess am a warm prsn cuz I obviously don't have cool undertone.(I don't have any features of a cool undertone prsn) But the warmth isn't SUPER obvious.. I'm a warm afterall
Each time I hear neutral undertone I try to imagine what colours would belong to this. I mean, there already are certain differences in the colour temperature of the diffent colour categories, right? But it goes only to some points. Maybe there are more teals than really cool blues in their palette or there is a mahogany red which could be read as a warmer colour. It´s not super cold, but in my imagination it´s still a jump to the warm colours.
I am not sure if I really have a neutral undertone, but I suspect it. My worst colours are cool pink and orange and my favourite colors for clothes are bordeaux red (not too purple), navy blue, dark turquoise (like Jens dress), emerald green and ivory white. I have also been wondering if those are neutral colours or not. What do you think?
@@evaweiss1160 It sounds very neutral and concerning the lightness level medium to deep, at least to me (I´m not an expert), and it reminds me of the "universal colours" Jen sometimes talked about (there are videos by Jen about this topic). This would be the most neutral colours I know. :-) The thing is if you are cool toned you would have some more colours in your palette which would be good to know e.g. a cool grey, powder blue, rose colours or maybe a cool cocoa brown. Or if you are warm toned peach hues or mustard etc. To me it´s about having the most and best suitable options. :-)
Can people please tell me what my undertones are? I look ok in silver and gold and rose gold. I asked my friends that are professional (make their entire living from) photography, graphic design, and makeup art and I've gotten a mix of responses so far. Some say that I have pink undertones in some areas and not others, others say I'm neutral. I'm curious if I've changed over the last few years due to some health issues. lol What am I? I know I have some warm but I also see yellows. I'll go take the quiz but the ones I've take so far all ask difficult questions. I think I see 8 different colors in my veins.
my skin is so pale and has pink undertone so its's obvious that i have cool skin tone but my eyes are amber.. so i don't like ashy colors (btw im blonde) it makes me look l,ke i killed my eyes. i usually use very light blonde hair but never ashy platinum
Hi, I was wondering if anyone could give a second opinion on my undertone as I have no friends who's interested (or knowledgeable) in this. My skin; - In extremely pale - Can look pink ish - I flush easily - To mix paint to get my skin colour I had to put almost equal amounts of blue and red paint, maybe a little more red but minimally My hair is a warm light brown that often gets mistaken as red. Pretty much 50% of the people I meet think it's red at first. Can look kind of golden/copper ish I have light brown eyes with a bit of green. I look good in light pink, pure whites, and when my hair was coloured a deeper red I looked good in dark green
@ I know! It's so hard to tell. It sounds like you fit in the unique category like me. What jewellery looks best on you - gold or silver? For me it's both. My hair is dark ash (cool) blonde, I have dark hazel eyes with a outer ring of grey and yellow near the pupils. My viens look green and blue. My mother told me I looked "jaundice" like my skin is yellow. I have very pale skin. I've dyed my hair previously to both cool and warm blonde, warm blonde looks better on me . I can wear olive green, warm green, cool green & brown but I can't wear yellow, white and cream both look good oh and I can wear soft grey. Whenever I am not certain about a colour I focus on the brightness/contrast. Because of my pale skin most soft colours make me look more pale. I have high contrast to my hair and eyes so colours that are medium brightness to dark look best. Try that out. And remember when people give you a compliment "you look amazing today" and they can't tell you specifically why (new shoes/different hairstyle, etc) take a note of the colours you wearing or take a photo of your outfit. Once you have a few photos you can look at all of them together and try find a common thread, is it more cool or warm, is it soft, medium, dark, etc. Or if it's mixed like you will have a collection of colours to focus on when you go shopping next!
THANK YOU for this video. I struggle with this, as I appear neutral. I’m slightly warm, but I definitely don’t have an obvious golden look like you.
You are so very welcome! I'm glad I could help.
I used to agree. No longer. I had nearly black hair and very light skin., with dark hazel. Brown-green eyes. I always thought I was a Winter, and definitely a Bright. Recently, I grew out my gray hair. Suddenly I could see that the dark, cool, bright colors sometimes clashed with my skin. My wrist veins are teal.
I have an art background, so I know the properties of color. My best colors have to stay in the neutral zone. I can’t go to the blue pinks nor the cool blues. But I can’t go to the mustards or yellow greens. I can wear cool orange, dark olive green and a sunny, golden yellow.
It’s true that everyone leans at least slightly towards warm or cool, but it doesn’t always matter as much as people think. I’m what many people would call a “soft autumn” but I’m very neutral and muted, and the muted is definitely more important to finding colors that work for me than the warm aspect. Muted cornflower blue works well for me, as does a golden yellow. But if colors are too bright, too pale, or too dark, it doesn’t work for me. I need can’t go to any extremes with color and look like myself. I look equally bad in a tomato red and an electric blue. But a soft burgundy and a muted denim blue are both good.
Katherine, I think I need your help haha. I am not sure whether I'm soft autmn or soft summer (I'm leaning towards soft summer). Now I know greyish blues and greens and mauves look lovely but I would like to match foundation. I picked a cool leaning neutral foundation and it looked a little to red-ish pinky on me and didn't really even out those pink cheeks. What foundation do you pick?
Me too.. I have more autumn colouring but more cool olive skin .. I do best with mix colours like teal, purple, pink, green, not so much the primary colours
In some systems there is a group called Tonal Soft. Which as far as I can tell seems like all or most of Soft Autumn and Soft Summer. Possibly some very soft colors from other groups too. Not sure. So people will or won't resonate with that as an option, but it'd be for someone who feels they can wear both cool and warm pretty equally or lots of both (and they're very soft and best in not too light or deep).
Not all olive skin is “not light”. A very pale, slight olive is very common, especially among Greek, Italian, Spanish and many French women, as well as Eurasian women (by this I mean one Asian and one European parent). Audrey Coyne is one well-known example of this. I have much less color than she does in her eyes and hair, but my skin tone is similar, just a bit lighter.
I am convinced I have neutral undertones! I prefer gold jewelry but I think silver also looks good on me.
I am very very pale and neutral foundations are usually a match for me. I’ve been trying to find my season for months and have been having trouble. I have always been a black and grey clothing person so I have given up and just stick to black for now since I still have no clue what my season is. I thought this would help but iit didn’t. I had freckles as a kid but also have blue eyes and medium blonde hair. When I look at pictures I think I’m warm and cool.
I’m so confused by this because I should be cool, but I can kinda pull off a soft rusty orange but look truly awful in a cool pale pink. Somewhere in the middle is better than either though
Carole Jackson said in her CMB book that the undertone is sometimes difficult to detect. You could look sallow or yellow but still have a blue undertone. I had difficulty for years with this. I'm a deep winter. Salt and pepper hair, dark eyes with a light olive skin tone that looks pale. For some of us it takes years to accept who we are. And sometimes the shades are difficult to find. It's a huge relief to get your colour type right though. You save time and money(hopefully) getting dressed. And within palettes there may only be a few colors that are right for one's skin tone/hair colour/eye colour that make you look great. I spent years trying to find shades within a large palette. Now I understand that some of the bright shades look overwhelming in a shirt or dress but may look fantastic as an accent colour, using it as a scarf, gloves, shoes or jewellery. Accent pieces for the colors that seem to overwhelm is the way to incorporate them.
Every warm and every cool foundation changes color on me....I have tried most foundations out there... I need a perfect mix between pink and yellow. I burn then tan...once tan my yellow tones kick in and turn my skin more "golden"....but I am still not as "golden" as someone who is truly warm. I pull off neutral- cool lipstick and neutral- warm lipsticks and blushes best. My mom is fair with pink skin and my dad is golden skinned....I am literally 50/50. What colors do you think would look best on me? I normally stick to jade, medium blue, champagne, peach, pink blush color, black, emerald green.
Still so confused, everywhere I go, the "experts" tell me different things. One says I'm warm; the other says I'm neutral; the next expert tells me I am neutral with a slight pink undertone; the only colour I find to be utterly unflattering is anything in the orange range. Most colours look nice on me, cool and warm. Both silver and gold jewelry looks nice against my skin. 🤔🤷♀️🤪
wow same! im confused too, the only color that i cant pull is definitely orange
A special kind of limbo: Being neutral-ish to slightly warm, but instead of golden undertones, having peachy or red/orange by the old Prescriptives color printing system. Best foundation match I ever got, then they vanished from in-person locations and left me empty-handed.
I just found this channel in a fit of nostalgia but also discontentment about how color analysis was conducted in the 80's when I was a teen. I was not *any* of the categories in the books in my local hair salon! Now I have stopped dyeing my naturally very very very ash brown hair, which is now ashy mouse brown *with tinsel*. I think it may be time to ponder how this is going to impact my face. :-o
Thank you for addressing the neutral-seeming people out there!
I have green and purple veins
Same
I am very soft/muted, and my skin tone appears to be neutral. I have blue-green eyes, dirty blonde hair that turns reddish in the sun (it’s turning white now,) and freckles over pale skin, but I tan pretty well. I have been told with confidence that I was cool AND warm by different people.
The “test” that worked best for me was the metals.
Warm golds, especially rose gold looks great on me. Silver looks harsh against my skin. I can wear colors from both summer & autumn, but I am definitely a soft autumn.
I have green-brownish eyes and golden blond hair, I in general think I'm more warm toned, but I still feel like I look good in silver
I wish metals truly told us our undertones. But there are so many unique types of skin tones and many, with warm undertones, can wear silver
My hair is a dark honey blonde, my eyes are a dark blue and my skin is pale and seems to have a golden glow, so I always assumed I had a warm undertone. But I could never figure out the colour of my veins and I wear both golden and silver jewelry (not at the same time).
I struggled to find a matching foundation because even the lightest warm shade was too yellow or orange. When I asked a shop assistant they also tried out a warm shade first and we all were surprised when a fair cool shade matched perfectly. I really have no pink/ purple tint or redness in my face, so that confused me a lot. My worst colours are cool pink/purple and orange for clothes and make-up . I have a really hard time finding a bold red lip stick because most shades are either too orange or too purple. So now I am wondering if I might be more on the neutral side.
My favourite colors for clothes are bordeaux red (not too purple), navy blue, dark turquoise (like your dress), emerald green and ivory white...
I have warmth in my eyes and some in my hair but my skin is on the cooler side. I think I am more cool than warm but my eye color really seems to throw it off.
When I had my color analysis, the very experienced color analyst, had difficulty deciding between warm and cool, until she put the aqua drape on me, which settled it as cool. Everyone ooh’d and ah’d and said it looked like I had foundation, blush and powder on, it was that flattering. My coloring is tricky, a cool, ashy dark blonde to bronde, very naturally streaky hair; very pale, slightly olive skin; and most difficult of all, a strange eye color. Overall, I suppose they are hazel, but there are three distinct color zones in them: a dark gray outer ring, a mostly gray/green iris, with a little golden brown in the inside around the pupil. People often assume they’re brown, but they seem to be a cross between my father’s more obvious hazel, and my mother’s cool brown. I can see why coloring like this can be difficult to determine whether it’s cool or warm, it has a mixture of cooler elements, with a warm brown inner iris.
It's interesting once you went into detail describing your coloring and hair and eye you read as a more muted or soft cool to me.
Wow, you've completely described my eye color!! I always struggle a lot if I was a cool type, because mostly I prefer cool colors, however I have a very bit of warm in my hair, eye shades.
I have neutral dark brown hair and clear celadon eyes. My skin is a bit darker because my mom is Indigenous but I've been told it's truly neutral by many MUA. Everything about my colour palette is smack dab in the middle of something. People argue about my eyes being green or blue (40% of the population can't correctly identify green when it comes within a certain closeness to blue)
Honestly, being truly neutral, while more compatible with literally any color in terms of what's complimentary is really hard when it comes to beauty maintenance. FOundation is impossible to find.
You're right about technically not being smack dab in the middle, probably no one is. I do think freaking out about trying my best to figure it out might take just as long as manually trying on all the 'neutral' option until I find the one that pulls closest to my own undertone though. I also don't think comparing myself to any cool skinned or warm skinned person would really be fair as by comparison, I am neither of those things notably. I understand what you mean and I think it can be useful for fine-tuning between wearing two different similar shades, otherwise generalizing a neutral group is conventional for everyday use.
This was very helpful as I constantly struggle with this. I think I get it now. Thanks!
I'm so glad! Thank you for sharing!
I'm 36 have natural dirty blonde hair, pale skin and dark blue eyes. Looking at my veins, I can't tell if they are green and blue or green and purple. Different colored clothing looks fine on me. I burn in the sun but it doesn't turn into tan. It just goes away.
Thank you. I first thought I was warm, then neutral, but now I know I'm soft, cool, medium and the colors in the quiz are all in my wardrobe and look good on me! Who would have thought that it is so easy? Just wear what looks good on you!
Auburn hair and blue/green eyes right here. I’m part Native too, so I have warm and cool. It’s strange because depending on what makeup, or hair color I have can change what colors look good on me.
I have neutral undertone and warm colors doesn't go on me..
Like golden red orange yellow
But when I wear purple teal dark blues dark pinks dark greens these really goes well on me and it Flatters..
Apparently i am a neutral - cool. It's frustrating because i was so sure I'm a true winter. Now I find out a mix between wamr and cool looks best on me.. and colors like brown, which i would never wear
I am neutral I oft to know after visiting a pro she said that I lean more towards warm slightly more. I tend to get way with wearing almost any color very few look off.
I cannot wear the camel color because it’s too close to my skin tone and I just look naked but I always thought I was cool but actually I’m neutral. Can wear both silver and gold but look better in gold. I have blue grey eyes with hint of green in center, brown hair. Outdoors and in natural light, my skin has no visible pink or redness only golden but when I go into a store or building depending on how hot it is or whatever, I get flustered and my overtone my look like I have redness so I get mistaken for cool. When I wear cool foundation, I can blend it in but it always looks too pink. A lady at the makeup counter said I was cool but when I tried to explain to her the diff between undertone and overtone she said the next shade was too dark. I went home with her “color” and I was right, too pink. I since bought a neutral foundation and it matched me 1000 times better. I can tell you I am not warm but I have green veins and definitely don’t look better in anything on the cooler side, but pull it off well due to my eye color.
Edit: also wondering is neutral peach is a thing🤔
My natural hair color is a dark ash blonde and i have warm brown eyes and my skin tone apears neutral... Ive been confused all of my life what hair color, makeup pallets and clothes suit me. Ive been told every color suites me so i have no idea. I hope your quiz helps !
I'm Bright, Cool and Deep; a stylist friend once described me as a "classic winter." But I do think my coloring leans a bit neutral. I think that's why I gravitate towards the universal colors.
Im still confused because i cant wear worm colours ( earthy tones) i look sick, and at the best ( plums and family )i look elegant but 10 years older. And when i wear cool light colours ( bleu pink green) i look grey and ashy . So im tired of wearing only 2 colours that make me look good , cool olive green and worm blush pink, i looked for colour analysist in my city but couldnt find and my pictures to do it online are not accurate 💔
Yes same!!!☹️
Thank you so much, I have really struggled to make sense of this. Then I saw this video and did your color test, and I get it now! I am bright, warm, and deep so I did only appear neutral. I know how to go about it now, thank you so much! And everyone, I highly recommend taking the color test in the description box and I'll be getting the guide or portable color scheme when I update my wardrobe in a couple of months. Cheers!
Love your hair color! This is what I am trying to achieve. Is it possible for you to detail what color products, levels, etc? Perhaps you have done this already. Then would you please post the link here? Thank you in advance.
I have both green and purple veins. gold and silver both looks good on me and I have golden grey hairs. I have green eyes with gold flecks . Can you Tell my undertone.
I do not perfectly fit on either.
Rich auburn red hair, green hazel eyes that have little yellows/browns and of course green. Freckles. Light Fair skinned, very very slight yellow tent to my skin, but pale. No tan. Barely tans to none, but has before, mostly burns and freckles.
Can't tell between colors.
I do know certain colors I shy away from wearing but pretty confused on that. Even more so now.
No purple veins. Just blue, & one with greensih tent. Obviously been tryn figure this out, been getting into make up, enjoying it but...... ??? What... am I.
Sister has fair olivey skin, tans some but not deeply. She has green blue eyes, dark dark brunette hair. Some kind a nuetral.
Confused.
Are white colour clothes good for neural ?
I struggle with this also! I appear neutral in so many ways. Because I have a mix of both warm and cool tones, both in eyes and hair. My eyes are greyish green, but with some golden specks in the mix, and my hair is light ash brown with natural golden highlights. My skin is light but not fair, and both warm and cool foundations look ridiculous on me as if I'm wearing a mask, neutral is best. Regarding jewelry, both gold and silver look good, there's no contrast in which one looks better. What I have found though, is that I wear soft colors the best, as long as they're soft/greyish medium tones (cold or warm) they look good, but definitely neither bold warms nor colds, because they both look harsh on me. Even pastels are too harsh on me, I find the more muted the colors, the better.....So, how to know if I tend to be more cool than warm or viceversa?
This is me
I am answering this late, but try more traditionally warm or cool colors. So a muted pumpkin orange (peach will be too harsh for you probably) or try a more muted lemon yellow (I would avoid a more warm yellow like honey yellow though). Pumpkin orange is very muted but extremely warm if you find that you can wear this color and look fantastic in it (not meh or almost ok), then you're likely more warm than cool. If you find that a more muted lemon yellow looks great on you, then you are probably cool. But really try to see if you wear warm muted colors that are in the medium color range (so try terracotta, salmon pink, or a mustard yellow). Autumn and summer seasons are somewhat similar in that they have a little bit of mutedness to the them. That's why I suggest trying the more muted warm colors rather than the fresh bright spring colors or the bright cool winter colors.
I was so confused
I guess am a warm prsn cuz I obviously don't have cool undertone.(I don't have any features of a cool undertone prsn)
But the warmth isn't SUPER obvious..
I'm a warm afterall
What hair color would you recomend? I want to go darker but i feel like every color is either too warm or too cool
Each time I hear neutral undertone I try to imagine what colours would belong to this.
I mean, there already are certain differences in the colour temperature of the diffent colour categories, right? But it goes only to some points. Maybe there are more teals than really cool blues in their palette or there is a mahogany red which could be read as a warmer colour. It´s not super cold, but in my imagination it´s still a jump to the warm colours.
I am not sure if I really have a neutral undertone, but I suspect it. My worst colours are cool pink and orange and my favourite colors for clothes are bordeaux red (not too purple), navy blue, dark turquoise (like Jens dress), emerald green and ivory white. I have also been wondering if those are neutral colours or not. What do you think?
@@evaweiss1160 It sounds very neutral and concerning the lightness level medium to deep, at least to me (I´m not an expert), and it reminds me of the "universal colours" Jen sometimes talked about (there are videos by Jen about this topic). This would be the most neutral colours I know. :-)
The thing is if you are cool toned you would have some more colours in your palette which would be good to know e.g. a cool grey, powder blue, rose colours or maybe a cool cocoa brown. Or if you are warm toned peach hues or mustard etc. To me it´s about having the most and best suitable options. :-)
@@011silbermond Thank you very much! I just watched the "Universal colours" video and these colours are pretty much what I have in my wardrobe ;)
@@evaweiss1160 Oh, that´s cool! I´m glad to hear that my thoughts were helpful. :-D
@@evaweiss1160 i'd like to have the answer too
Can people please tell me what my undertones are? I look ok in silver and gold and rose gold. I asked my friends that are professional (make their entire living from) photography, graphic design, and makeup art and I've gotten a mix of responses so far. Some say that I have pink undertones in some areas and not others, others say I'm neutral. I'm curious if I've changed over the last few years due to some health issues. lol What am I? I know I have some warm but I also see yellows. I'll go take the quiz but the ones I've take so far all ask difficult questions. I think I see 8 different colors in my veins.
your probably neutral 😊
my skin is so pale and has pink undertone so its's obvious that i have cool skin tone but my eyes are amber.. so i don't like ashy colors (btw im blonde) it makes me look l,ke i killed my eyes. i usually use very light blonde hair but never ashy platinum
Hi, I was wondering if anyone could give a second opinion on my undertone as I have no friends who's interested (or knowledgeable) in this.
My skin;
- In extremely pale
- Can look pink ish
- I flush easily
- To mix paint to get my skin colour I had to put almost equal amounts of blue and red paint, maybe a little more red but minimally
My hair is a warm light brown that often gets mistaken as red. Pretty much 50% of the people I meet think it's red at first. Can look kind of golden/copper ish
I have light brown eyes with a bit of green. I look good in light pink, pure whites, and when my hair was coloured a deeper red I looked good in dark green
I'd love to help. Please visit yourcolorstyle.com/askjen and submit your photo and question
My skin tone is neutral which foundation should I use ??
I can wear them all :\
Where is the quiz ?
yourcolorstyle.com/quiz
Jen Thoden thank you!
black is considered a cool hair color?
black can be both cool and warm apparently. some blacks look great on me n then theres so blacks that dont as much. just really weird
Great video thank you Jen! I was wondering if it is possible to have a yellow skin tone with cool undertones? - would this make you neutral?
@ I know! It's so hard to tell. It sounds like you fit in the unique category like me. What jewellery looks best on you - gold or silver? For me it's both. My hair is dark ash (cool) blonde, I have dark hazel eyes with a outer ring of grey and yellow near the pupils. My viens look green and blue. My mother told me I looked "jaundice" like my skin is yellow. I have very pale skin. I've dyed my hair previously to both cool and warm blonde, warm blonde looks better on me . I can wear olive green, warm green, cool green & brown but I can't wear yellow, white and cream both look good oh and I can wear soft grey. Whenever I am not certain about a colour I focus on the brightness/contrast. Because of my pale skin most soft colours make me look more pale. I have high contrast to my hair and eyes so colours that are medium brightness to dark look best. Try that out. And remember when people give you a compliment "you look amazing today" and they can't tell you specifically why (new shoes/different hairstyle, etc) take a note of the colours you wearing or take a photo of your outfit. Once you have a few photos you can look at all of them together and try find a common thread, is it more cool or warm, is it soft, medium, dark, etc. Or if it's mixed like you will have a collection of colours to focus on when you go shopping next!
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