You know, I clearly have more blue than yellow in my skin and as such blue looks better than yellow. Nevertheless blue is not my best perfect color either. Does that make sense to you?
I got this color guide and found it very interesting! I was looking at the palettes and noticed that my skin was most harmonious with the semi-bright and warm over the muted and the bright palettes. I’m not sure how to categorise my coloring. Any thoughts?
@@Masi-vk5kz That's wonderful! Thank you for supporting my business! I would say that you're probably in the middle between warm and delicate and warm and radiant. In reality, it's a spectrum of warm to cool as I draw it in my videos, and the categories are more for ease of understanding. It could also be that gold doesn't look too separate from you, but just looks bright and vibrant (since you're semi-bright/semi-muted), rather than way too bright, would you say you're bright enough for that?
Merriam Style gold is a tricky one for me in terms of jewellery and makeup. I can wear clothing with gold accents, but I feel very aged with gold especially if it’s darker and rich. I prefer light yellow gold, but when I wear silver/white gold jewellery I feel a sense of relief. Not sure that makes sense! Even with rose gold I prefer if it’s a bright tone rather than a rich, red-brownish rose gold. I can also wear bronze as long as it’s not too coppery/terracotta or too taupe. Overall I would say my coloring is deep, warm with some brightness/clarity. The RGB of my undertone is about 251, 217, 181. I’ve been confused my entire life, which is why this video and your color guide really resonated with me! Thank you! And yes, overall yellow gold doesn’t look too separate on me. I just don’t like gold eyeshadow or highlighter.
@@Masi-vk5kz That's really interesting about the metals! I think I'd have to see some photos to make sense of it!! Maybe the brighter rose gold makes sense for you because you are semi-muted/semi-bright. The other ones may be too muted for you and drag you down--not sure, would have to see, but just a thought! Gold eyeshadow and highlighter are really for the very warm and radiant undertones!! I wonder if a champagne highlighter would be nice on you in that case.
Wow! This is such an insight that silver is neutral, not cold. I'm a soft-warm and I never could understand the reason why silver jewelry looks on my skin mutch better than the gold one. And here we are! Thank you for that, now I can live on 😎
that's crazy, bc i’m neutral-warm (pale but very olive skin tone) which, on paper, doesn't sound that different from your skin tone, except that i look AWFUL in silver. i wonder if it has something to do with the fact that olive is almost completely devoid of red/pink tones? hm
I'm absolutely a cold season, I can' wear warm yellows and browns. Most others think that cool colors suit me better, And I've noticed more and more that I look better in cool colors... But I have yellowish skin
I agree, and if you could include high vs low contrast as well that would be so great! I am delicate cool tone and high contrast myself and the usual season colour analysis that people use gives me some of the most horrible options for me like light cool pink, light cool blue and lilac etc when colours that suit me in reality are cool medium to dark blue, deep neutral red and black. The low contrast cool colours even make me look like I have a slightly warm undertone but with a grey tint, how does that work or what's the theory behind it? I don't think I've mistyped myself either because I definitely have a lot of pink in my skin and yellow, orange and even peach don't look good at all on me, then again neither does bright cool colours unless they are really dark and create a big contrast so I can get away with it.
Yes this is me! I don't look good in bright yellow or bright blue. I don't look bad in navy or teal, and neither gold or silver jewelry looks bad on me. But my best colours are always muted/faded/dusty greens and reds, and copper or vintage brass suit my skin perfectly.
Right! I look fine in light or dark olives, deep emerald, navy, medium-deep mauves, medium-deep reds, and brown based oranges. Brights make me look ill. Or even childish!
You tust in what you see and you expose mistakes that can happen when you rely to much on those colour systems without thinking about them. I'm really impressed with the explanation you give in this video, you're like a colour detective!
This is really helpful! I always resolved that I was neutral, gold and silver both look good (though gold always did seem a little much sometimes), cooler colors not too bad, etc. but this makes a lot of sense. I have slightly olive skin and a little redness in the face, so it was hard to tell, but I definitely see a little bit of yellow cast to my skin in cooler colors. And I would say I always considered peach and corals to be good colors on me, icy pink not so much...You mentioned rose gold goes well with warm and delicate, and I noticed I am drawn to jewelry pieces that are mixed metals. I have some earrings with silver and gold that I really like, and a watch with a silver and gold band. I liked the versatility of them, but I think also it evens out the two metals. Champagne colors I found are also nice, as opposed to a gold shirt/dress. Thanks!
This is SO spot on for me!! The only difference is that I tend to look better in hunter green and sage, or deep shades of blue. I've been noticing I wear lots of neutral browns, taupes, and cream colors, too. Things are finally beginning to make so much sense 😭
Yes! Thank you for this! My best foundation is warm and I have yellow tones, but I have a lot of pink/redness from capillaries, and can get very very pale by the end of winter. My eyes are a gray-green with golden-orangey brown starburst bits. Most people tell me I’m cool, but I’ve never bought it! Warm and delicate is it!
I've always been drawn to warm and muted colors and I've also chosen bronze and brass over silver and gold. On an intuitive level I've kind of figured out which colors work for me, but your videos makes it much clearer why. Using the scale as you do is genius! And as always, your examples are great! :)
this is so helpful! just by watching this video, i have a strong feeling that i am warm and delicate due to the fact that i have really struggled to find what undertones i have, all the tests i have done had classed me as “cool toned” because my olive skin is very confusing, i look better in silver than gold, i have been told that navy blue is “my colour” and i feel like i look sick when i wear orange or yellow
Thank you!!! Your metal/jewelry test is particularly helpful. Bright silver and bright gold both look garish on me, so neither looks better than the other, lol. The way you simplify all of this makes so much more sense than other color analysis systems. The others feel so rigid yet complicated for people who fall in the middle somewhere.
Thank you so much for explaining why I look bad in both blue and yellow! And so much better in warm, muted red, muted dark green, muted eggplant, gray, and other colors that are warm and cool.
I came here because Mina at the Universe Guru recommended you and you have clarified so… much for me. I have been drawn to my colors but wasn’t sure if I was choosing the right ones because some other colors don’t look bad on me. Now, I know I was. I’m a warm and delicate!
I just thought about this: if you have olive skin you're probably more likely to have a delicate undertone than a bright one. Why? green is a neutral, if you ad it to a skintone it "pulls" your tone towards neutral, even a warm or a cool green is still more close to neutral than the clear blue or yellow undertones of the bright skintones. What do you think?
I disagree. If we assume that the primary colours are red, yellow and blue, yellow being warm and blue being cool, then red will be neutral as well (just like green). The difference between olive skin tones and other skin tones is that olive skin tones have more green (yellow+blue) than other skin tones. This green can still be cool or warm, depending on how much blue or yellow is in it. The fact that a skin tone is olive has more to do with the proportion to red than the proportion between blue and yellow.
Yes, I can see how a pale olive complexion could be delicate, as it has less pigment and is closer to neutral... but a more intense olive complexion would not. A more yellow olive would be obviously warm, and a deeper olive complexion (has more blue) would be obviously cool. Though the thing with olive skin is, it's such an intense undertone that they can get away with wearing either warm or cool, as long as the colors are rich or deep enough.
That’s what I was wondering. I’ve been told multiple times that I’m yellow, but I have olive skin. But depending on the time of year, my skin changes a lot. I get much darker in the summer and turn golden brown easily but in the winter, I get very pale and have rosacea. Due to this, I’ve also been mismatched as pink undertones in the winter but pink undertoned foundation looks terrible and unnatural on me, but the yellow foundations I’ve been matched with pull too yellow. Perhaps, I’m a delicate undertone?
I have a burgundy dress with a brown undertone, the cut is incredible on me but the colour is draining. So this video was helpful at 1) discerning that it is a burgundy terracotta 2) that it is too warm for my skin. Helpful
My sister looks so good in rose gold jewelry. I believe its her best metal choice. With this video, I can confirm why she is warm (she is a natural redhead), but she looks better in rose gold than just gold.
Your skin tone videos are so helpful - this one, your "Mystical Undertone" video, and the "No Such Thing as a Neutral Undertone" videos are my favorites so far. I always used to be confused the idea of "undertones," thinking that I was supposed to figuring out whether my veins were blue or green, and never having any luck because they are bluish-green. Now I understand that "undertone" and "overtone" are misleading terms; the most important thing is simply the overall skin tone, period - whether it is warm or cool. I especially like the color chart you used in the "Neutral Undertones" video; it made it really clear how true neutral colors relate to the warm & cool colors, much clearer for me than the usual color wheel.
Best explanation! I so agree about the metal test. I believe I am neutral/slightly warm and while I do tend to wear more silver-toned jewelry, I also wear gold well (but I prefer brassy gold or antique gold). With rose gold, I find that I do not like high shine. I have been told I am olive and cool, olive and warm, warm and bright, cool, warm - makes my head spin :))
I've always thought I was warm and delicate, but some of my closest people insist that I look great in pinks. Now I know why!! Thanks for this, love your work!
Thank you! Mystery solved! A makeup consultant told me this exact thing to explain why I always look tanned and still needed the lightest shades of foundation. I always assumed I was a muted Summer, and couldn't figure out why I'm being drawn to peach make-up and gold tone jewelry. I recently lost much of my wardrobe, and when I just now objectively looked at the new pieces I've been acquiring, I've realized they are almost all on the warmer side of neutral.
This is SO very helpful. After hearing all of this I am definitely similar to Emilia, warm and delicate but tending towards very close to neutral. Thank you for all of your videos and information! ☺️☺️
THANK YOU. Finally I feel seen. I felt like my skin color didn't exist for the longest time, and that something was wrong with my skin. I didn't think anybody looked liked me. But seeing Emilia outside of GoT and tanning, she has my exact skin tone! I'm not alone anymore!
For years I have tried to figure out what my undertone is and this video is describing me. It makes perfect sense now. I just discovered your UA-cam channel, thank you !!!!!!!
You are obviously very good at what you do, Merriam. I've been trying to figure out why everyone says I'm cool toned, but cool makeup makes me look dead, and bright cool clothing is distracting. Neutrals look great on me as do soft colors that are warm or cool. I'm warm and delicate! Thank you!! I really enjoy your videos and your perspective.
I am as you describe a warm delicate to be. Your videos are so good and super helpful. So a tip- I wear jewelry that is a mix of gold and silver in the design and that seems to complement and balance the effect of both metals against my skin I cannot wait to try copper gold
This was so helpful! I gave up on color theory years ago. I could NEVER figure out my season; none of the descriptions ever fit me, and the rules that were supposed to go with my undertones never seemed to apply. The closest I came was someone telling me exactly this, that I have cool undertones with a yellow overtone. Their conclusion was that I can wear anything. But watching this video (as well as the one you did on color theory and ethnicity) was really clarifying. I am definitely a warm/delicate and all the things you said were spot on for me. Thank you!
I think this warm and delicate might be my situation as well, not sure. I look nice in pale cool blues, but also in warm muted yellows and peaches, and I look ok with both silver and gold as long as they're not too silver or too gold. To this day I can't exactly determine my season because I'm somewhere in the middle in all aspects, I feel like I'm not too warm and not too cold, not too muted and not too bright, not too light and not too deep. But my best bet was neutral-warm, given that my natural brown hair has sort of golden or copper reflexions, same as my eyes. So based on this, my best guess is probably some sort of soft autumn.
You. Are. A. Genius!... I'm binge watching your videos, and it finally clicked why I have such a hard time knowing what colors I should be wearing! I suspect that I'm a warm delicate, with dark hair. Which is why I can seemingly wear a lot of colors from black, white, yellow, brown, grey, to warm and cool greens. Most color systems point to me being a deep winter, yet I don't think black is my best color.
I love your videos! I REALLY appreciate that you show us actual pictures, almost training our eyes to see what you look for and how you analyse outfits and colours. It's really frustrating to watch video of UA-camrs just talking and using terminology without any images. You also have a beautiful voice, and a kind and gentle way of speaking.
This video is amazing 🤩, you put all my chaotic thoughts into a well researched explanation on what colors work in me and why. I know that I am not really olive but some colors make me look too yellow so I know I can’t be purely neutral. I never look good in anything with too bright of a yellow tone in it. I also always gravitate to any make-up that is described as rose or rose-gold. I love getting to know the theory behind the choices I’ve made based on my own artistic eye. Also my human brain likes labels so it is nice to know that I have an exact term for my mixed heritage skin tone.
What is so different about this from, say Color me Beautiful from my childhood, is that the warm delicate colors are not the cool pastels that were associated with the ‘summer’ and ‘winter’ season palettes! They are warm and in softened intensity, but not muted and earthy like the ‘autumn’ colors! Such a great breakthrough, thank you. Peach is my new fave! And I understand why I can do some cool delicates as well, based on the spectrum you show here.
So, warm and delicate is not the relative to autum? I’m so confused. I know I’m warm and delicate but I don’t know what colors a warm and delicate should use!!!
@@jessicagp yes, it correlates to Autumn, but some autumn colors are not delicate enough. In a system with more like 12 palettes, there are more delicate, muted warm tones. I have just learned what looks good on me personally
@@clairekurdelak2913 thank you for your help. I feel like I look good in autumn/winter colors, but not very soft colors. Since my skin is a little brown, if I wear those warm muted colors like beige and light terracota, it looks like I’m naked lol. In the other hand, I fall into this category people call “neutral”. I know Merriam doesn’t believe in it, and she says if you’re not sure about your undertone, you’re definitely warm and muted. But I feel I don’t look good in those!! ☹️☹️☹️
Wow! I just found you! I think I've had an epiphany. I am still unsure. Life is too short to wear less flattering colors. Plus I love top quality clothes so it's time to get it right. Thank you Merriam!
Thank you for this! I've been typed as cool and delicate because gold did not look good on me, but I was finding that cool colours always seemed a bit off. Now I know why! Warm and delicate colours do work best for me. I really love your concept and your solutions, which seem so natural and logic.
Thank you!! This makes so much sense! THIS is why I look great in terracotta, coral or pumpkin spice colors but I look almost jaundiced in strong golds/yellows!
Wow. Truly the most accurate color typing system and it’s simple too. I have a golden tan skintone with olive undertones and I look better in greys which led me to think I’m cool leaning. I also can’t wear crisp bright colors or blacks or whites. I naturally gravitate towards dark silver jewelry, rose gold, and brass. I had to watch this video several times because I’ve been so convinced I’m cool. I wear an NC40 in mac for example.
Best video ever!!! Your content keeps us informed and interested and you keep getting better and better and better!!!!! Really impressive and really wonderful, thank you so much Merriam!!! Warm and delicate ❤️❤️💃🏻
Yes Merriam! I definitely needed this video. I've been recently wondering why I looked good in almost all the colours but slightly looked better in warm and delicate ones. Now I know that I'm only a tiny bit warmer than neutral. Thank you !
Wow this video has been extremely helpful. I was thinking I was cool and radiant but I'm starting to think that I am actually warm and delicate with some olive mixed in as well. I look good in navy blue, hot pink and even purple but I look really really good (if I do say so myself haha!) in light warm pinks and even soft yellows. Thank you so much for these amazing videos, you really do have a gift :)
I will impatiently wait for the cool and delicate video! I considered the possibility of being warm and delicate since I have that tricky olive undertone that is so close to neutral. At first I look being slightly warm and I look good in warm grays and olive green but peach, cream and peachy pinks looks absolutely terrible on me so I am still pretty confused and thinking I am then cool and delicate as I have suspected in the past.
Yes - ivory, cream and earthy colors drain me even though I think they are lovely. And I'm fair with dark brown eyes and nearly black hair but not as fair as Ann Hathaway, for example. Even though I've understood what colors look terrible on me, and which ones are ok, I've never nailed down the BEST version of a color (tone? shade?).
@@melissaleyva3802 Same, we have the same colouring. Nearly black hair, brown eyes, pale olive skin but not as pale as Anne Hathaway. People actually think I am darker than what I am like when I shop foundations ( extremely hard to find the right shade ) they would give me something dark and be surprised that I actually need one of the palest shades . Beige is very bad , earthy colours too... What type of colours do you like on you generally ? We can share experiences and maybe we will figure it out eventually
Rita Sefraoui Tahiri that's what is hard, I'm uncertain. For example, I think I look good in blue-green, like Aqua, Turquoise, Robin's egg blue. Following this system, that makes sense: blue for cool, greenish because it's closer to the midpoint between blue and yellow. I mostly have silver toned jewelry, but that could be a style habit from my teens. I wear a lot of black - again, it's more a habit: dark hair, urban living and it's easy to find black clothing. But maybe black is properly one of my flattering colors? I'm usually told I look good in purple too, but it seems so bold to me that I only feel comfortable with it as an accent. I think I look good in red, again, like green it can be balanced between warm and cool. Also my skin is changing with age. There's sun damage, some hormonal acne scarring/discoloration and overall dullness. I'm working on giving it more care and like you I'm often given foundation that's too dark.
wow it seems like their is a lot of us with the same confusion here 😅 I would need to take pictures to test because I think looking in the mirror it's harder to tell the difference but I am also maybe biased because I don't like most of "muted warm" 😂 but maybe they actually fit me great. For us pale with dark eyes/hair maybe it relate between this video and the other video about "super pale people are all Cool bright " ? 🤔 so we are both at different times of the year depending how much our skins been exposed to sun ? what are your thoughts ?
Nice video! I think it goes well with your other video on skin pigments to help discern muted types. I’m Cool & Muted all year & reflect grayish against my friends in photos which I think emphasizes that I’m Cool & Muted. (I’m learning so much from u!) It’s almost like there is a spectrum of Pale & Muted LOL In winter I’m definitely more toward that neutral line which now makes sense why I can wear such pale cool colors! But when I get a lot of sun, I’m still Cool & Muted, but the extra color I get allows me to wear “a little brighter” cool tones like grape, turquoise or neon pink. Keep it up beautiful lady! 👩🏻🌸💜👏🏼
Great, detailed examples. I am warm and delicate and I thought rose gold would be no good for me because I avoid “rose” pink colors, which are usually dusty cool pinks. This is exciting! And it makes sense because as you say, peach really is one of my best colors.
You are just incredible, thank you for this, this like the other ladies, has been my ongoing struggle. I’ve done the gold versus silver jewelry test with many people, and literally get half saying I look best in the gold and the other half prefer the silver on me! Thank you for this!
This is very interesting. My skin is almost exactly rose gold colored and i never wear it because i thought it disappeared on me. I usually wear bold saturated colors. I might need to try on some more peachy colors and see how they look.
I WAS JUST GOING TO WRITE THIS!! I love brass, copper and light gold. But yellow gold, or something above 20K, I've never tried it on myself, but I have an aversion to it. Just thinking of putting it on myself is throwing me off. I have silver jewelries as well with some crystal on them, and they don't look that bad on me. This is why I was a bit hesitant on the color me beautiful color analysis. I don't look that bad in black, actually some people would say I glow in soft black shirts, and other cool shades, but I look bad in orange.
You are the BEST I have run into by far!! Please, Do more analysis on Olive, Tan color skin. with various shades -if possible-. Lots and lots of love and respect my dear. Thank you.
Thank you very much for your insight, dear. I have the so called "delicate and golden" overtone, and Seasonal Color Analysis just couldn't nail that down. IMO, the biggest drawback of the system is that it doesn't accommodate LIGHT and MUTED/SOFT hue TOGETHER (a.k.a. Neutral-Warm undertones) for warm undertones like it does for the cool undertone (Summer: Cool and Delicate (Light and Muted) or a Neutral-Cool undertone). Both seasons of warm undertones (Spring: Light, Warm and Bright) and (Autumn: Deep, Warm, Muted). Either way, the combinations just gives in downright yellow undertones on both ends of the spectrum, neutral-warm undertones are inexistent in the system! This is exactly why I ended up testing as Cool-undertoned yet still look a wee bit more yellowish sometimes with my season's colors. I often get away with clothing due to the borderline neutral undertone I have like you said, but makeup is a real deal-breaker. Winter makeup pallette overpowers me. Both Spring and Autumn ones look separate on me, the closest that I can wear would be the Summer pallette, but not entirely or it looks slightly separate too. Now I know why I often need to mix up colors to make my own hues and shades of makeup, while it's just a fun option to try for others around me. But it's really true that this undertone is often mistyped as Cool, as the only category that fit the more neutral, both muted and light chroma is only available under the Summer pallette, which is under the Cool category. Most probably, anyone with a light but muted coloring is just sorted as Cool-undertoned, even if they aren't! (Btw both Clarke and Blanchett are prototypes of the Summer category).
I feel like I am one of these cases! What you said in this video makes so much sense, we are in one of the sides but very close to neutral and I will try the test with antique silver x rose gold.
That was really well explained, thank you! I’m pretty sure I’m warm and delicate; I’ve always considered myself neutral, leaning warm. I have a terracotta orange dress that I love, and rose-gold is my favourite jewellery colour (although silver doesn’t look terrible).
This is THE video I’ve been looking for. I am mixed races, have redness to my face, dark features with a pale but olive complexion. I have always gravitated towards rose gold jewelry and worn lots of blues. I’ve always been told I look the best in red and purple, but personally thought red washed me out due to my fair skin. I have purple and turquoise veins and was never able to tell if I’m cool or warm. I was just about to surrender to saying I’m neutral until now. I’m DEFINITELY warm and delicate.
Silver vs gold is crazy, I knew for gold was too yellow and silver was a tiny bit too harsh while rose gold and bronze were perfect, long before hearing about this warm and delicate thing hahaha love it
This is great because I look super golden in natural light with lots of pink and red here and there. I couldn't figure myself out because I never get lost in my clothes and I've been pulling off wearing cool and gold foundations! This clears up so many different things.
thank you for this vid! i was really confused while doing the golden-silver test but now you reminded me of the golden rose! it really is the one that looks better on me. :D also, orange really fits me and grey does too, so i was kinda ??? haha the cool-neutral-warm scale helped me a lot ^_^
Great Video 👏. Thats pretty much my finding after a long time searching my best colors as a person with a nearly neutral undertone (very very hard to say warm or cool) - that colors they’re also nearly neutral really suits me by far the best. It’s actually not so important if the are warm neutral or cool neutral, as long they are nearly neutral it’s better than warmer or cooler colors.
I’m the opposite way - was told I’m warm and delicate by someone else but cool and delicate by Merriam. This video was still helpful for me too! The graph visual helped me see how gold is farther from warm and delicate than silver so someone could get mistyped. I’m curious to test antique silver and rose gold on myself.
UGH. I’m so happy I found this video. You’re clarifying SO many things for me. I’m especially into makeup and this explains so well why I have trouble finding blushes and lipsticks that TRUELY flatter me.
THANK YOU! This is why I've been so confused all this time. I've got that light skin, blonde hair, blue eyes, and my lashes and brows have no warmth, seems like I'd be cool. But in photos you can see my skin has a faint yellow tint, even in winter. I had the makeup counter ladies fighting over my correct foundation color, so no wonder I could never figure it out. This explains it so well, and with this and some of your other videos, I draped myself and am going all in with Warm and Delicate.
Thank you for this video! It has really helped me better understand olive better in general, however, I'm wondering if your color guide includes examples for more a more medium skintone? Amelia was a nice example but I'm finding it hard to determine if I really am a warm delicate olive since she is quite pale and may pull off 'cool' or 'clear' colors better.
This is it! This explains why I detest shiny silver and gold. I can only wear matte or antique silver and gold and I didn’t know why. I think I’m neutral and soft. Is that why I don’t like rose gold? I feel good in soft pink clothing though.
why would the image on the right be so far on the warm side? It looks pea green to me rather than a true gold, so wouldn't that blue in the pigment bring it WAAAY closer to neutral? It doesn't look like a warm yellow to me at all.
Hi Miriam! Do you have any insight into how two-tone jewelry (silver and gold) looks on different skin tones? From watching your videos, I think I am definitely a warm-delicate, and I never wear silver jewelry exclusively, almost always lean towards gold. However, I love wearing both gold and silver together (I would just never wear silver without the gold). I wonder if this is because the combination of the two balances out to more neutral?
I was just - again(!) - getting annoyed that I don’t seem to fit in to any og the classic seasonal catogories. I have very dark hair and eyebrows with very light skin and my veins seem to come off blue - so I must be some sort of winter, right? However, my eyes are a very warm golden-green hazel, I have light orange-y freckles and until I was about 4 my hair was a mostly red-ish copper brown - so some sort of autumn, then…right? I look ok in some blue colors - horrid in others, I look ok in most yellow colors - not so great in others. I look good in most greens, and most reds - apart from more cool purple-y reds. The gold vs. silver test has reveiled nothing to me. The “check out your veins” test has had me confused - shouldn’t I have looked great in that ducks egg blue dress I bought rather than give me that all over sickly yellow cast that the pictures later reveiled? I was beginning to think that I was some sort of color inept. Now, having watched this video I think maybe not, maybe I’m just a Warm and Delicate. A few weeks ago I bought a cheap gold colored ring. It looked ok on my hand but now that the gold has more or less worn off and the coppery brass is showing through it looks better. Thank you for making and posting this video!
I knew I was warm and delicate after watching your initial video but now I REALLY know. I thought I was neutral for years before realizing I’m actually warm!
My overtone is quite yellow/golden and recently got typed as a dark winter but I find the colours too saturated and I also love rose gold on me. This is making me think I might be a different type maybe a warm and delicate! Thank you :)
Wow, thank you, Merriam! I’ve been following your videos for some time and your insights are always informative and interesting. This video was the a-ha! moment for me-I am quite sure that I am warm and delicate after watching 😁 I have mixed heritage so I’ve always found my type a bit difficult to determine for myself but you’ve clarified it for me, thank you 😊
Thank you for the Color Guide for warm and delicate...it makes it easier...✨🌈 would have been great to have the name of the colors on the blocks...where you have the pairing, :) ...I 'll will try to found them :) (for shopping on Internet...sometimes it is easier knowing the colour name :)...
I'm going to try the silver v rose gold test today. I'm definitely a delicate undertone, unless it's the dead of winter and I'm super fair! This gives me something to work with - thank you Merriam! 🧡
Thank you, this is groundbreaking!! I couldn't figure out how come I seemed to check off all the 'cool boxes' (gray-blue eyes with gold around pupil, neutral skin, muted soft hair-skin-eyes) but yet have peach and light salmon seem to be my best colors?! All the while, anything too bright just sits on me in both warm or cool colors. Anything too yellow isn't great either. I put stripes of different foundations at the store on the inside of my arm, and neither the cool nor the warm foundations looked good even. Only the most neutral one seemed to blend in. I think I'm on that neutral line with a hair over to that warm side. I haven't really come across any videos that explained this so well - thank you!!
I thought my skin was kinda yellow and I totally thought it might be cool based on your other videos. but some colors on both sides suit me as long as they rent overly vibrant, and turns out rose gold blends right into my skin. I AM SO CONFUSED! 😭😭😭😭😭 I don't know what kind of olive I ammmm.
I’m starting to think I’m warm and delicate. I was colour typed years ago as a bright spring, but I’m not sure that bright colours are quite me. Although some sites wouid have you believe that bright spring colours are really in your face, yet others make them look more forgiving. I have had the ‘I love your pink trousers’ comment rather than ‘you do look nice’, so that tells me my fuschia trousers are too ‘much’. I think I’m neutral warm. If I wear light blue I look more yellow. A lightish yellow doesn’t seem to look too bad. Too dark doesn’t do much, to neon / intense doesn’t do much. Greyed colours don’t do much. I feel like I need clear, but not bright. I tried the lipstick recommendations for bright spring. They both wore me, but one was too orange and the other just wore me. I’ve tried patting the lip copies on like a stain. The orange red looked better as a delicate stain than the pink red. The pink red looked too pink on me. So I think I’m warm. 🤦🏻♀️ it’s not easy.
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You know, I clearly have more blue than yellow in my skin and as such blue looks better than yellow. Nevertheless blue is not my best perfect color either. Does that make sense to you?
I got this color guide and found it very interesting! I was looking at the palettes and noticed that my skin was most harmonious with the semi-bright and warm over the muted and the bright palettes. I’m not sure how to categorise my coloring. Any thoughts?
@@Masi-vk5kz That's wonderful! Thank you for supporting my business! I would say that you're probably in the middle between warm and delicate and warm and radiant. In reality, it's a spectrum of warm to cool as I draw it in my videos, and the categories are more for ease of understanding. It could also be that gold doesn't look too separate from you, but just looks bright and vibrant (since you're semi-bright/semi-muted), rather than way too bright, would you say you're bright enough for that?
Merriam Style gold is a tricky one for me in terms of jewellery and makeup. I can wear clothing with gold accents, but I feel very aged with gold especially if it’s darker and rich. I prefer light yellow gold, but when I wear silver/white gold jewellery I feel a sense of relief. Not sure that makes sense! Even with rose gold I prefer if it’s a bright tone rather than a rich, red-brownish rose gold. I can also wear bronze as long as it’s not too coppery/terracotta or too taupe. Overall I would say my coloring is deep, warm with some brightness/clarity. The RGB of my undertone is about 251, 217, 181. I’ve been confused my entire life, which is why this video and your color guide really resonated with me! Thank you! And yes, overall yellow gold doesn’t look too separate on me. I just don’t like gold eyeshadow or highlighter.
@@Masi-vk5kz That's really interesting about the metals! I think I'd have to see some photos to make sense of it!! Maybe the brighter rose gold makes sense for you because you are semi-muted/semi-bright. The other ones may be too muted for you and drag you down--not sure, would have to see, but just a thought! Gold eyeshadow and highlighter are really for the very warm and radiant undertones!! I wonder if a champagne highlighter would be nice on you in that case.
Wow! This is such an insight that silver is neutral, not cold.
I'm a soft-warm and I never could understand the reason why silver jewelry looks on my skin mutch better than the gold one. And here we are! Thank you for that, now I can live on 😎
You are a sub season and can wear both
that's crazy, bc i’m neutral-warm (pale but very olive skin tone) which, on paper, doesn't sound that different from your skin tone, except that i look AWFUL in silver. i wonder if it has something to do with the fact that olive is almost completely devoid of red/pink tones? hm
I'm absolutely a cold season, I can' wear warm yellows and browns. Most others think that cool colors suit me better, And I've noticed more and more that I look better in cool colors... But I have yellowish skin
You're the best ! :) 32 years of colour problems solved in 12 minutes... :D
Would love to see a cool and delicate video!
I agree, and if you could include high vs low contrast as well that would be so great! I am delicate cool tone and high contrast myself and the usual season colour analysis that people use gives me some of the most horrible options for me like light cool pink, light cool blue and lilac etc when colours that suit me in reality are cool medium to dark blue, deep neutral red and black. The low contrast cool colours even make me look like I have a slightly warm undertone but with a grey tint, how does that work or what's the theory behind it?
I don't think I've mistyped myself either because I definitely have a lot of pink in my skin and yellow, orange and even peach don't look good at all on me, then again neither does bright cool colours unless they are really dark and create a big contrast so I can get away with it.
Seriously would love a cool and delicate video :) I looked at your videos and couldn’t find it but it may just be me 🤦🏻♀️😅
Yes this is me! I don't look good in bright yellow or bright blue. I don't look bad in navy or teal, and neither gold or silver jewelry looks bad on me. But my best colours are always muted/faded/dusty greens and reds, and copper or vintage brass suit my skin perfectly.
Right! I look fine in light or dark olives, deep emerald, navy, medium-deep mauves, medium-deep reds, and brown based oranges. Brights make me look ill. Or even childish!
You tust in what you see and you expose mistakes that can happen when you rely to much on those colour systems without thinking about them. I'm really impressed with the explanation you give in this video, you're like a colour detective!
This color system never fails. Would love a cool and delicate video!
Yes, I resonated with everything in this video! Thanks again for the amazing FREE content on UA-cam. You are so wonderful 😍
This is really helpful! I always resolved that I was neutral, gold and silver both look good (though gold always did seem a little much sometimes), cooler colors not too bad, etc. but this makes a lot of sense. I have slightly olive skin and a little redness in the face, so it was hard to tell, but I definitely see a little bit of yellow cast to my skin in cooler colors. And I would say I always considered peach and corals to be good colors on me, icy pink not so much...You mentioned rose gold goes well with warm and delicate, and I noticed I am drawn to jewelry pieces that are mixed metals. I have some earrings with silver and gold that I really like, and a watch with a silver and gold band. I liked the versatility of them, but I think also it evens out the two metals. Champagne colors I found are also nice, as opposed to a gold shirt/dress. Thanks!
Lauren Carlton well hello, apparent color twin! (Ignore the filter on my pic!) 😂
Same!
I could’ve written what you said word for word. You just described me EXACTLY.
That's me!
This is SO spot on for me!! The only difference is that I tend to look better in hunter green and sage, or deep shades of blue. I've been noticing I wear lots of neutral browns, taupes, and cream colors, too. Things are finally beginning to make so much sense 😭
Yes! Thank you for this! My best foundation is warm and I have yellow tones, but I have a lot of pink/redness from capillaries, and can get very very pale by the end of winter. My eyes are a gray-green with golden-orangey brown starburst bits.
Most people tell me I’m cool, but I’ve never bought it!
Warm and delicate is it!
I've always been drawn to warm and muted colors and I've also chosen bronze and brass over silver and gold. On an intuitive level I've kind of figured out which colors work for me, but your videos makes it much clearer why. Using the scale as you do is genius! And as always, your examples are great! :)
this is so helpful! just by watching this video, i have a strong feeling that i am warm and delicate due to the fact that i have really struggled to find what undertones i have, all the tests i have done had classed me as “cool toned” because my olive skin is very confusing, i look better in silver than gold, i have been told that navy blue is “my colour” and i feel like i look sick when i wear orange or yellow
I'm with you! But I look good in orange, but not in yellow... so confusing, being an olive...
Thank you!!! Your metal/jewelry test is particularly helpful. Bright silver and bright gold both look garish on me, so neither looks better than the other, lol. The way you simplify all of this makes so much more sense than other color analysis systems. The others feel so rigid yet complicated for people who fall in the middle somewhere.
Thank you so much for explaining why I look bad in both blue and yellow! And so much better in warm, muted red, muted dark green, muted eggplant, gray, and other colors that are warm and cool.
I came here because Mina at the Universe Guru recommended you and you have clarified so… much for me. I have been drawn to my colors but wasn’t sure if I was choosing the right ones because some other colors don’t look bad on me. Now, I know I was. I’m a warm and delicate!
I just thought about this: if you have olive skin you're probably more likely to have a delicate undertone than a bright one.
Why? green is a neutral, if you ad it to a skintone it "pulls" your tone towards neutral, even a warm or a cool green is still more close to neutral than the clear blue or yellow undertones of the bright skintones. What do you think?
I disagree. If we assume that the primary colours are red, yellow and blue, yellow being warm and blue being cool, then red will be neutral as well (just like green). The difference between olive skin tones and other skin tones is that olive skin tones have more green (yellow+blue) than other skin tones. This green can still be cool or warm, depending on how much blue or yellow is in it. The fact that a skin tone is olive has more to do with the proportion to red than the proportion between blue and yellow.
Yes, I can see how a pale olive complexion could be delicate, as it has less pigment and is closer to neutral... but a more intense olive complexion would not. A more yellow olive would be obviously warm, and a deeper olive complexion (has more blue) would be obviously cool. Though the thing with olive skin is, it's such an intense undertone that they can get away with wearing either warm or cool, as long as the colors are rich or deep enough.
Rivka Maria Fascinating! I am a pale olive and was just referred to this video on warm and delicate. These two answers really resonate with me.
That’s what I was wondering. I’ve been told multiple times that I’m yellow, but I have olive skin. But depending on the time of year, my skin changes a lot. I get much darker in the summer and turn golden brown easily but in the winter, I get very pale and have rosacea. Due to this, I’ve also been mismatched as pink undertones in the winter but pink undertoned foundation looks terrible and unnatural on me, but the yellow foundations I’ve been matched with pull too yellow. Perhaps, I’m a delicate undertone?
aed - I think we are similar.
I have a burgundy dress with a brown undertone, the cut is incredible on me but the colour is draining. So this video was helpful at 1) discerning that it is a burgundy terracotta 2) that it is too warm for my skin. Helpful
My sister looks so good in rose gold jewelry. I believe its her best metal choice. With this video, I can confirm why she is warm (she is a natural redhead), but she looks better in rose gold than just gold.
Your skin tone videos are so helpful - this one, your "Mystical Undertone" video, and the "No Such Thing as a Neutral Undertone" videos are my favorites so far. I always used to be confused the idea of "undertones," thinking that I was supposed to figuring out whether my veins were blue or green, and never having any luck because they are bluish-green. Now I understand that "undertone" and "overtone" are misleading terms; the most important thing is simply the overall skin tone, period - whether it is warm or cool. I especially like the color chart you used in the "Neutral Undertones" video; it made it really clear how true neutral colors relate to the warm & cool colors, much clearer for me than the usual color wheel.
yay!!
Best explanation! I so agree about the metal test. I believe I am neutral/slightly warm and while I do tend to wear more silver-toned jewelry, I also wear gold well (but I prefer brassy gold or antique gold). With rose gold, I find that I do not like high shine. I have been told I am olive and cool, olive and warm, warm and bright, cool, warm - makes my head spin :))
I've always thought I was warm and delicate, but some of my closest people insist that I look great in pinks. Now I know why!! Thanks for this, love your work!
I cry! I think I finally figured out why I can't nail my undertone and why trying to figure out my best indoor lighting is a nightmare.
This video clarified sooooooooo much re metals and my (newly discovered) warm delicate skin. Thank you!
Thank you! Mystery solved! A makeup consultant told me this exact thing to explain why I always look tanned and still needed the lightest shades of foundation. I always assumed I was a muted Summer, and couldn't figure out why I'm being drawn to peach make-up and gold tone jewelry. I recently lost much of my wardrobe, and when I just now objectively looked at the new pieces I've been acquiring, I've realized they are almost all on the warmer side of neutral.
This is SO very helpful. After hearing all of this I am definitely similar to Emilia, warm and delicate but tending towards very close to neutral. Thank you for all of your videos and information! ☺️☺️
yay!! I'm so happy it was helpful for you. Yes, color analysis doesn't have to be complicated!
THANK YOU. Finally I feel seen. I felt like my skin color didn't exist for the longest time, and that something was wrong with my skin. I didn't think anybody looked liked me. But seeing Emilia outside of GoT and tanning, she has my exact skin tone!
I'm not alone anymore!
For years I have tried to figure out what my undertone is and this video is describing me. It makes perfect sense now. I just discovered your UA-cam channel, thank you !!!!!!!
You are obviously very good at what you do, Merriam. I've been trying to figure out why everyone says I'm cool toned, but cool makeup makes me look dead, and bright cool clothing is distracting. Neutrals look great on me as do soft colors that are warm or cool. I'm warm and delicate! Thank you!! I really enjoy your videos and your perspective.
I am as you describe a warm delicate to be. Your videos are so good and super helpful. So a tip-
I wear jewelry that is a mix of gold and silver in the design and that seems to complement and balance the effect of both metals against my skin I cannot wait to try copper gold
This was so helpful! I gave up on color theory years ago. I could NEVER figure out my season; none of the descriptions ever fit me, and the rules that were supposed to go with my undertones never seemed to apply. The closest I came was someone telling me exactly this, that I have cool undertones with a yellow overtone. Their conclusion was that I can wear anything. But watching this video (as well as the one you did on color theory and ethnicity) was really clarifying. I am definitely a warm/delicate and all the things you said were spot on for me. Thank you!
Ah! So happy you finally figured it out and that my videos were helpful! Thanks for leaving this comment.
The best video on my colouring that I have ever watched. Wow!! Thank you sooooooo much! 👍
The way you present it makes it more digestible. Makes a lot of sense.
I think this warm and delicate might be my situation as well, not sure. I look nice in pale cool blues, but also in warm muted yellows and peaches, and I look ok with both silver and gold as long as they're not too silver or too gold. To this day I can't exactly determine my season because I'm somewhere in the middle in all aspects, I feel like I'm not too warm and not too cold, not too muted and not too bright, not too light and not too deep. But my best bet was neutral-warm, given that my natural brown hair has sort of golden or copper reflexions, same as my eyes. So based on this, my best guess is probably some sort of soft autumn.
You. Are. A. Genius!... I'm binge watching your videos, and it finally clicked why I have such a hard time knowing what colors I should be wearing! I suspect that I'm a warm delicate, with dark hair. Which is why I can seemingly wear a lot of colors from black, white, yellow, brown, grey, to warm and cool greens. Most color systems point to me being a deep winter, yet I don't think black is my best color.
I love your videos! I REALLY appreciate that you show us actual pictures, almost training our eyes to see what you look for and how you analyse outfits and colours.
It's really frustrating to watch video of UA-camrs just talking and using terminology without any images. You also have a beautiful voice, and a kind and gentle way of speaking.
This video is amazing 🤩, you put all my chaotic thoughts into a well researched explanation on what colors work in me and why.
I know that I am not really olive but some colors make me look too yellow so I know I can’t be purely neutral. I never look good in anything with too bright of a yellow tone in it. I also always gravitate to any make-up that is described as rose or rose-gold.
I love getting to know the theory behind the choices I’ve made based on my own artistic eye. Also my human brain likes labels so it is nice to know that I have an exact term for my mixed heritage skin tone.
Your system is so smart and easy. Thank you Merriam Style!
What is so different about this from, say Color me Beautiful from my childhood, is that the warm delicate colors are not the cool pastels that were associated with the ‘summer’ and ‘winter’ season palettes! They are warm and in softened intensity, but not muted and earthy like the ‘autumn’ colors! Such a great breakthrough, thank you. Peach is my new fave! And I understand why I can do some cool delicates as well, based on the spectrum you show here.
This!! It blows my mind how traditional colour analysis systems completely missed this one
So, warm and delicate is not the relative to autum? I’m so confused. I know I’m warm and delicate but I don’t know what colors a warm and delicate should use!!!
@@jessicagp yes, it correlates to Autumn, but some autumn colors are not delicate enough. In a system with more like 12 palettes, there are more delicate, muted warm tones. I have just learned what looks good on me personally
@@clairekurdelak2913 thank you for your help. I feel like I look good in autumn/winter colors, but not very soft colors. Since my skin is a little brown, if I wear those warm muted colors like beige and light terracota, it looks like I’m naked lol.
In the other hand, I fall into this category people call “neutral”. I know Merriam doesn’t believe in it, and she says if you’re not sure about your undertone, you’re definitely warm and muted. But I feel I don’t look good in those!! ☹️☹️☹️
Wow! I just found you! I think I've had an epiphany. I am still unsure. Life is too short to wear less flattering colors. Plus I love top quality clothes so it's time to get it right. Thank you Merriam!
Thank you for this! I've been typed as cool and delicate because gold did not look good on me, but I was finding that cool colours always seemed a bit off. Now I know why! Warm and delicate colours do work best for me. I really love your concept and your solutions, which seem so natural and logic.
Thank you!! This makes so much sense! THIS is why I look great in terracotta, coral or pumpkin spice colors but I look almost jaundiced in strong golds/yellows!
this explains so much!!! you’re such a genius with color
Wow. Truly the most accurate color typing system and it’s simple too. I have a golden tan skintone with olive undertones and I look better in greys which led me to think I’m cool leaning. I also can’t wear crisp bright colors or blacks or whites. I naturally gravitate towards dark silver jewelry, rose gold, and brass. I had to watch this video several times because I’ve been so convinced I’m cool. I wear an NC40 in mac for example.
all olive skin has cool undertones and are on the Winter spectrum so if you don't suit black you are mostly likely a cool winter or a bright winter
@@SueRosaliefrom all that I’ve looked at it’s not correct that all olive tones are cool.
And in MAC, NC is actually warm.
Best video ever!!! Your content keeps us informed and interested and you keep getting better and better and better!!!!! Really impressive and really wonderful, thank you so much Merriam!!! Warm and delicate ❤️❤️💃🏻
Yes Merriam! I definitely needed this video. I've been recently wondering why I looked good in almost all the colours but slightly looked better in warm and delicate ones. Now I know that I'm only a tiny bit warmer than neutral.
Thank you !
Wow this video has been extremely helpful. I was thinking I was cool and radiant but I'm starting to think that I am actually warm and delicate with some olive mixed in as well. I look good in navy blue, hot pink and even purple but I look really really good (if I do say so myself haha!) in light warm pinks and even soft yellows. Thank you so much for these amazing videos, you really do have a gift :)
I will impatiently wait for the cool and delicate video! I considered the possibility of being warm and delicate since I have that tricky olive undertone that is so close to neutral. At first I look being slightly warm and I look good in warm grays and olive green but peach, cream and peachy pinks looks absolutely terrible on me so I am still pretty confused and thinking I am then cool and delicate as I have suspected in the past.
I am the same ...
Yes - ivory, cream and earthy colors drain me even though I think they are lovely. And I'm fair with dark brown eyes and nearly black hair but not as fair as Ann Hathaway, for example. Even though I've understood what colors look terrible on me, and which ones are ok, I've never nailed down the BEST version of a color (tone? shade?).
@@melissaleyva3802 Same, we have the same colouring. Nearly black hair, brown eyes, pale olive skin but not as pale as Anne Hathaway. People actually think I am darker than what I am like when I shop foundations ( extremely hard to find the right shade ) they would give me something dark and be surprised that I actually need one of the palest shades . Beige is very bad , earthy colours too... What type of colours do you like on you generally ? We can share experiences and maybe we will figure it out eventually
Rita Sefraoui Tahiri that's what is hard, I'm uncertain. For example, I think I look good in blue-green, like Aqua, Turquoise, Robin's egg blue. Following this system, that makes sense: blue for cool, greenish because it's closer to the midpoint between blue and yellow. I mostly have silver toned jewelry, but that could be a style habit from my teens. I wear a lot of black - again, it's more a habit: dark hair, urban living and it's easy to find black clothing. But maybe black is properly one of my flattering colors? I'm usually told I look good in purple too, but it seems so bold to me that I only feel comfortable with it as an accent. I think I look good in red, again, like green it can be balanced between warm and cool. Also my skin is changing with age. There's sun damage, some hormonal acne scarring/discoloration and overall dullness. I'm working on giving it more care and like you I'm often given foundation that's too dark.
wow it seems like their is a lot of us with the same confusion here 😅 I would need to take pictures to test because I think looking in the mirror it's harder to tell the difference but I am also maybe biased because I don't like most of "muted warm" 😂 but maybe they actually fit me great. For us pale with dark eyes/hair maybe it relate between this video and the other video about "super pale people are all Cool bright " ? 🤔 so we are both at different times of the year depending how much our skins been exposed to sun ? what are your thoughts ?
Warm and delicate here! I’m so glad I found this because I was always so confused about this!
Thank you so much for this video! It was so informative for me. I’ve been continuously confused if I’m warm or not.
I feel like this video has been a turning point for me, thanks for your insight! I'm enjoying your colour theory and kibbe videos very much.
You typed me as warm and delicate and I agree completely!!
This might be one of my favorite UA-cam videos. Thanks for the amazing explanation!
I always love to watch your stuff because you bring such thorough, new and unique perspectives when it come to color, fit and style. 😊
Nice video! I think it goes well with your other video on skin pigments to help discern muted types. I’m Cool & Muted all year & reflect grayish against my friends in photos which I think emphasizes that I’m Cool & Muted. (I’m learning so much from u!) It’s almost like there is a spectrum of Pale & Muted LOL In winter I’m definitely more toward that neutral line which now makes sense why I can wear such pale cool colors! But when I get a lot of sun, I’m still Cool & Muted, but the extra color I get allows me to wear “a little brighter” cool tones like grape, turquoise or neon pink. Keep it up beautiful lady! 👩🏻🌸💜👏🏼
Great, detailed examples. I am warm and delicate and I thought rose gold would be no good for me because I avoid “rose” pink colors, which are usually dusty cool pinks. This is exciting! And it makes sense because as you say, peach really is one of my best colors.
You are just incredible, thank you for this, this like the other ladies, has been my ongoing struggle. I’ve done the gold versus silver jewelry test with many people, and literally get half saying I look best in the gold and the other half prefer the silver on me! Thank you for this!
This is very interesting. My skin is almost exactly rose gold colored and i never wear it because i thought it disappeared on me. I usually wear bold saturated colors. I might need to try on some more peachy colors and see how they look.
I personally think she looks GORGEOUS in the first image on the right in the green-gold
Girl, this video just changed my life
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Thank you! I have been told I'm a winter yet my skin is so warm. I can pull off both silver and gold, and now I know why.
olive skin has warm overtones but cool undertones
please do a color analysis video for olive skin
I needed this so badly... I was really confused. Now is everything clear
Now I know why I look better in silver and 14/18 K gold than 22 K gold! Thank you!
I WAS JUST GOING TO WRITE THIS!! I love brass, copper and light gold. But yellow gold, or something above 20K, I've never tried it on myself, but I have an aversion to it. Just thinking of putting it on myself is throwing me off. I have silver jewelries as well with some crystal on them, and they don't look that bad on me. This is why I was a bit hesitant on the color me beautiful color analysis. I don't look that bad in black, actually some people would say I glow in soft black shirts, and other cool shades, but I look bad in orange.
You are the BEST I have run into by far!! Please, Do more analysis on Olive, Tan color skin. with various shades -if possible-. Lots and lots of love and respect my dear. Thank you.
Thank you really helpful..thinkingim warm anddelicate. ..I'm going to try the antique silver vs rose gold test now 🙂
Thank you very much for your insight, dear. I have the so called "delicate and golden" overtone, and Seasonal Color Analysis just couldn't nail that down.
IMO, the biggest drawback of the system is that it doesn't accommodate LIGHT and MUTED/SOFT hue TOGETHER (a.k.a. Neutral-Warm undertones) for warm undertones like it does for the cool undertone (Summer: Cool and Delicate (Light and Muted) or a Neutral-Cool undertone). Both seasons of warm undertones (Spring: Light, Warm and Bright) and (Autumn: Deep, Warm, Muted). Either way, the combinations just gives in downright yellow undertones on both ends of the spectrum, neutral-warm undertones are inexistent in the system!
This is exactly why I ended up testing as Cool-undertoned yet still look a wee bit more yellowish sometimes with my season's colors. I often get away with clothing due to the borderline neutral undertone I have like you said, but makeup is a real deal-breaker.
Winter makeup pallette overpowers me. Both Spring and Autumn ones look separate on me, the closest that I can wear would be the Summer pallette, but not entirely or it looks slightly separate too. Now I know why I often need to mix up colors to make my own hues and shades of makeup, while it's just a fun option to try for others around me.
But it's really true that this undertone is often mistyped as Cool, as the only category that fit the more neutral, both muted and light chroma is only available under the Summer pallette, which is under the Cool category. Most probably, anyone with a light but muted coloring is just sorted as Cool-undertoned, even if they aren't! (Btw both Clarke and Blanchett are prototypes of the Summer category).
I feel like I am one of these cases!
What you said in this video makes so much sense, we are in one of the sides but very close to neutral and I will try the test with antique silver x rose gold.
That was really well explained, thank you! I’m pretty sure I’m warm and delicate; I’ve always considered myself neutral, leaning warm. I have a terracotta orange dress that I love, and rose-gold is my favourite jewellery colour (although silver doesn’t look terrible).
This is THE video I’ve been looking for. I am mixed races, have redness to my face, dark features with a pale but olive complexion. I have always gravitated towards rose gold jewelry and worn lots of blues. I’ve always been told I look the best in red and purple, but personally thought red washed me out due to my fair skin. I have purple and turquoise veins and was never able to tell if I’m cool or warm. I was just about to surrender to saying I’m neutral until now. I’m DEFINITELY warm and delicate.
Silver vs gold is crazy, I knew for gold was too yellow and silver was a tiny bit too harsh while rose gold and bronze were perfect, long before hearing about this warm and delicate thing hahaha love it
This is great because I look super golden in natural light with lots of pink and red here and there. I couldn't figure myself out because I never get lost in my clothes and I've been pulling off wearing cool and gold foundations! This clears up so many different things.
thank you for this vid! i was really confused while doing the golden-silver test but now you reminded me of the golden rose! it really is the one that looks better on me. :D also, orange really fits me and grey does too, so i was kinda ??? haha
the cool-neutral-warm scale helped me a lot ^_^
Great Video 👏. Thats pretty much my finding after a long time searching my best colors as a person with a nearly neutral undertone (very very hard to say warm or cool) - that colors they’re also nearly neutral really suits me by far the best. It’s actually not so important if the are warm neutral or cool neutral, as long they are nearly neutral it’s better than warmer or cooler colors.
Thank you so much! This line helped a lot the understanding of how neutral skins work! I think I must be cool delicate.
I’m the opposite way - was told I’m warm and delicate by someone else but cool and delicate by Merriam. This video was still helpful for me too! The graph visual helped me see how gold is farther from warm and delicate than silver so someone could get mistyped. I’m curious to test antique silver and rose gold on myself.
UGH. I’m so happy I found this video. You’re clarifying SO many things for me. I’m especially into makeup and this explains so well why I have trouble finding blushes and lipsticks that TRUELY flatter me.
Thank you. I appreciate you including African American women with different colors and tones. How do I get a color analysis done?
THANK YOU! This is why I've been so confused all this time. I've got that light skin, blonde hair, blue eyes, and my lashes and brows have no warmth, seems like I'd be cool. But in photos you can see my skin has a faint yellow tint, even in winter. I had the makeup counter ladies fighting over my correct foundation color, so no wonder I could never figure it out. This explains it so well, and with this and some of your other videos, I draped myself and am going all in with Warm and Delicate.
foundation colour is separate to skin undertones and best clothing colours
Oh wow! @merriamstyle I think you are spot on here. I think you are right!
yay!
I loved this video and will watch it again. I found it particularly interesting to see who you classified into which groups.
Thank you for this video! It has really helped me better understand olive better in general, however, I'm wondering if your color guide includes examples for more a more medium skintone? Amelia was a nice example but I'm finding it hard to determine if I really am a warm delicate olive since she is quite pale and may pull off 'cool' or 'clear' colors better.
1000x likes. Fantastic information. Love you Merriam!
This is it! This explains why I detest shiny silver and gold. I can only wear matte or antique silver and gold and I didn’t know why. I think I’m neutral and soft. Is that why I don’t like rose gold? I feel good in soft pink clothing though.
I purchased the warm Ana delicate color guide but I would prefer to have included color codes on the color wheel
why would the image on the right be so far on the warm side? It looks pea green to me rather than a true gold, so wouldn't that blue in the pigment bring it WAAAY closer to neutral? It doesn't look like a warm yellow to me at all.
Hi Miriam! Do you have any insight into how two-tone jewelry (silver and gold) looks on different skin tones? From watching your videos, I think I am definitely a warm-delicate, and I never wear silver jewelry exclusively, almost always lean towards gold. However, I love wearing both gold and silver together (I would just never wear silver without the gold). I wonder if this is because the combination of the two balances out to more neutral?
I was just - again(!) - getting annoyed that I don’t seem to fit in to any og the classic seasonal catogories.
I have very dark hair and eyebrows with very light skin and my veins seem to come off blue - so I must be some sort of winter, right? However, my eyes are a very warm golden-green hazel, I have light orange-y freckles and until I was about 4 my hair was a mostly red-ish copper brown - so some sort of autumn, then…right?
I look ok in some blue colors - horrid in others, I look ok in most yellow colors - not so great in others. I look good in most greens, and most reds - apart from more cool purple-y reds. The gold vs. silver test has reveiled nothing to me. The “check out your veins” test has had me confused - shouldn’t I have looked great in that ducks egg blue dress I bought rather than give me that all over sickly yellow cast that the pictures later reveiled? I was beginning to think that I was some sort of color inept.
Now, having watched this video I think maybe not, maybe I’m just a Warm and Delicate.
A few weeks ago I bought a cheap gold colored ring. It looked ok on my hand but now that the gold has more or less worn off and the coppery brass is showing through it looks better.
Thank you for making and posting this video!
I knew I was warm and delicate after watching your initial video but now I REALLY know. I thought I was neutral for years before realizing I’m actually warm!
My overtone is quite yellow/golden and recently got typed as a dark winter but I find the colours too saturated and I also love rose gold on me. This is making me think I might be a different type maybe a warm and delicate! Thank you :)
Wow, thank you, Merriam! I’ve been following your videos for some time and your insights are always informative and interesting. This video was the a-ha! moment for me-I am quite sure that I am warm and delicate after watching 😁 I have mixed heritage so I’ve always found my type a bit difficult to determine for myself but you’ve clarified it for me, thank you 😊
Thank you for the Color Guide for warm and delicate...it makes it easier...✨🌈 would have been great to have the name of the colors on the blocks...where you have the pairing, :) ...I 'll will try to found them :) (for shopping on Internet...sometimes it is easier knowing the colour name :)...
I love your channel!!! could you do a video explaining red garments for every undertone?
I'm going to try the silver v rose gold test today. I'm definitely a delicate undertone, unless it's the dead of winter and I'm super fair! This gives me something to work with - thank you Merriam! 🧡
I look more glowy in muted, low contrast colours too! Not too warm and not too cool. Omg 🤯
So helpful. Thank you. I wondered why I loved Rose Gold so much.
Thank you, this is groundbreaking!! I couldn't figure out how come I seemed to check off all the 'cool boxes' (gray-blue eyes with gold around pupil, neutral skin, muted soft hair-skin-eyes) but yet have peach and light salmon seem to be my best colors?! All the while, anything too bright just sits on me in both warm or cool colors. Anything too yellow isn't great either. I put stripes of different foundations at the store on the inside of my arm, and neither the cool nor the warm foundations looked good even. Only the most neutral one seemed to blend in. I think I'm on that neutral line with a hair over to that warm side. I haven't really come across any videos that explained this so well - thank you!!
eye colour is irrelevant, it's separate genes to your skin typing. Study all the videos here: www.youtube.com/@colouranalysis_studio/featured
I thought my skin was kinda yellow and I totally thought it might be cool based on your other videos. but some colors on both sides suit me as long as they rent overly vibrant, and turns out rose gold blends right into my skin.
I AM SO CONFUSED! 😭😭😭😭😭
I don't know what kind of olive I ammmm.
i watch all your olive /delicate / muted content like 3 times because i look good in peach and pink but not much else
I’m starting to think I’m warm and delicate. I was colour typed years ago as a bright spring, but I’m not sure that bright colours are quite me. Although some sites wouid have you believe that bright spring colours are really in your face, yet others make them look more forgiving.
I have had the ‘I love your pink trousers’ comment rather than ‘you do look nice’, so that tells me my fuschia trousers are too ‘much’.
I think I’m neutral warm. If I wear light blue I look more yellow. A lightish yellow doesn’t seem to look too bad. Too dark doesn’t do much, to neon / intense doesn’t do much. Greyed colours don’t do much. I feel like I need clear, but not bright.
I tried the lipstick recommendations for bright spring. They both wore me, but one was too orange and the other just wore me. I’ve tried patting the lip copies on like a stain. The orange red looked better as a delicate stain than the pink red. The pink red looked too pink on me. So I think I’m warm. 🤦🏻♀️ it’s not easy.