I love that you include all shades of women in your analysis. Im a black woman with a deep skin tone and i often feel invisible in so many spaces. You make me feel seen. 1000 thank yous Aly.
@@elsagrace3893 English isn't your strong suit, is it? From Dictionary.com: feel: "to make itself perceived or apparent; seem: How does it feel to be rich?"
The artistic term for this is colour Saturation, when it’s closer to grey the colour is desaturated, when closer to the pure hue/pigment it’s saturated
yes! I was somewhat confused when I first saw the terms soft and clear in a different video by her, but then I was like ah okay she's talking about saturation and then it made sense to me.
I wish makeup companies can use the logic of mixing many colors so that foundation looked like true human tones in a bottle and everyone would have blood red in their color. Not that horrid peach off-white and light orangy brown to dark orangy brown. Noone is that color.
I will never understand why there is always an orange undertone. Who the fuck has an orange undertone? I know a lot of people with yellow undertones but orange? (Aside from Trumpy)
Yes fr. Literally no one has that strange orange sket as their undertone. I have pink undertone, and we have, like, only for yellow undertones and this orange thing. It's so hard to find something fitting. And if there's something for seemingly people with pink undertones, it's that peachy sket. I'm not pink. Come on. I'm not red. I have normal human skintone. The struggle of having pink undertone is real, at least where I live. Like, okay, my mother has a yellow undertone in her skin color. She is, umm, I can say, bronze? But ORANGE? NO. WHERE DID YOU SEE ORANGE PEOPLE, COMPANIES? Instead of making all this orange sket, y'all better make something for real people with different undertones... Sorry for this rant, I'm just really angry.
I have this problem. My top lip has no clear colour separation. Which is annoying because if I fill my top lip in with lipliner by following the shape without going OVER my natural lip I actually notice that I have quite full and rounded lips. However the contrast between my top lip (and lips in general) to my skin tone is not very astheatically satisfying.
@@not-a-russianbot8845 this also happens to me. My lips don't look as full as they are just because naturally they have a light color. so a dark colored lipstick always makes me look better.
A fun color theory fact is that you don’t need to mix grey with a color to mute it, which we call desaturating it. You actually mix the opposite color on the color wheel with it. This keeps the grey/black from “killing the color.” If you mix your paints with a grey/black and then mix it with the opposite color on the wheel side by side, you can visually see the difference I’m talking about. Love the video. I’m a clear +1
I've always noticed I have kinda of grey in my skin. But never heard someone talking about it till now. Thanks . When I had a blonde hair more grey I looked completely dead
When my hair reaches shoulder length I'm planning on dying the bottom half of it (the section under my ears) ombre soft pink and salmon because those 2 colors Really bring out my hair color, eye color and complexion, I look a lot like the girl on the right 6:28 but with darker hair but the overall look of the colors is very similar.
This video makes so much sense! I felt very ashamed of my skin tone for quite some time. Everyday I went home after school, looked at myself in the mirror and thought "I look dead". The reason why I thought this was because I have a pretty neutral undertone, but there is some oliveness there (my mother and her parents have super olive skin, but my father and his parents have more neutral/leaning towards golden/yellowish tones). I also have very dark undereye circles (it's genetics), but I always wore glasses that were a very rich, clear brown colour. They looked awful on me and I thought there was something wrong with my skin. I even bought skincare products to brighten (not lighten, just brighten) my skin because I thought I needed it. Now I know that bright, clear colours don't look good on me and they wash me out. Once I started wearing colours that suited me, I felt like the prettiest girl in the entire room. I know understand that colours with more of a grey hint to them look better on me than clear colours (for example: an olive shirt looks better on me than a bright dark green one). An although I have a very neutral undertone, I don't wear really cool colours either. I can finally embrace my undertone and feel good about myself.
There is no 100% neutral undertone .... Watch Merriam Style' artistic liscense vid ..... She is much more specific amd explains the undertones very well ...... The way she describes it is there are ....... 1 .Cool /bright - Clear Cool 2. Cool/ Delicate - Grey Cool 3. Warm /Bright - Clear Yellow 4. Warm/Delicate - Soft yellow
@@Iden_Elihio_1999. That’s a matter of opinion. There are color analysts who have typed people as True Neutrals, or Tonal types, rather than those for whom temperature is a determining factor in what looks good on them. Typically, they don’t look best in very warm, very cool, or high chroma colors.
Aly, I’m not sure if you take video requests but i was wondering if you could maybe do a video about different nose types and shapes, kind of like your videos about lip fillers and beauty standards? I know i speak for many people when i say that I’m not the most confident about my nose and it’d be amazing to see your perspective on nose shapes and how the ideal of modern beauty standards have changed expectations!
Beauty standards are objective, they never changed and they never will. That is the very unfortunate and very unfair truth. There is a science behind aesthetics. Asking the person to describe noses in hopes she will portray yours in a euphemistic way is just ridiculous, self-serving BS. Besides, the nose is not even one of the features of major importance. There are other features and proportions/ratios that matter far more. That’s why there are very attractive people who don’t have little button noses, and very unattractive people with perfect noses. Unless you got your nose screwed over during rhinoplasty (very common, sadly), have an insanely huge/beak like protrusion or suffer from rhinophyma-if you have other major proportions and features at play-it really will not matter. In fact, you will just look less bland, and more interesting.
to be honest i think soft people look ethereal, its like you dont see them immediately but once you do you keep watching and you cant stop because every part of them look so perfectly coordinated and made for them you get it? like their eyes are made for their skin and their skin is made for their hair and they are very unique in that way so to all the people who may have felt bad about yourself please dont, you're beautiful, beauty comes in many, many different ways and forms and unseen beauty is often considered more precious :)
Emily Pinkerton I know right...I even heard that it is a look of a dead mouse...😫 its horrible what people say and the thing is, if you google soft type celebrities you can find some real beauties among them like Natalia Vodianova and Emma Watson as examples. So it is not all that bad, the main thing is to know what suits you and what doesn’t and you can look great. I have also heard that soft types look very mysterious and interesting like fairies and I kind of agree with this. Also, as a bonus, soft types usually age much better than clear types. We loose that clearness and contrast with age and it is really visible on clear types while soft types look pretty much the same throughout their life😀
I love how you often have a different perspective (that makes sense of course). It really helps me reflect on whatever you're talking about amd understand it more. This was really interesting and helpful
Yes, olive skin is tricky to manage for both make-up and clothing. Even when you dye your hair or wear coloured lenses, your skin tone still carries out the "grey-ness" that is hard to manipulate on Photoshop. My Indian friends struggle A LOT with their looks and have to wear a lot of gold jewellery and clear coloured clothes to rebalance the overall saturation levels in their appearance. :)
I’ve just spent a couple of $1,000s on a colour analysis course. You’ve covered this topic in 20 minutes better than any of the course material i was given!! Thank you, a wonderful explanation!!
Jin the banana from the left i think it’s debatable to say that whites have the most range. I have never seen a dark brown white person. Your “dark brown” might be different than my “dark brown”.
@@koo-core7274 I think all races have amazing ranges and combinations of color. I am white but have extremely olive yellow skin, mousy blonde hair and blue eyes. I shouldn't exist but I do. I can't follow advice for my skin, hair and eyes because nothing matches. It's hard when the advice for your race doesn't fit you. It's got to be incredibly hard for people of mixed race too. We are all just too unique to be put in a box
I just got my kitchener color consult results and I'm watching EVERYTHING about soft summer now. I saved up forever for my consult and I'm soo happy to finally know for sure. :)
I feel like people with very light warm olive skin are under represent in colour analysis videos and in foundation shade ranges ( most are based on tan olive skin ) the colours that are usually "ment" for olive skin don't look good on me like peaches and khaki greens. I tried looking for information about it but it just isn't any. I would love to hear your thoughts ❤️
Gaby Sam yes! Im actual in this sub Reddit called olivemua that really hones in on light medium and dark olive skin and good colors or products for said skin tones
There is this girl on UA-cam that has a video how to fix a fandation shade if it's to yellow/ pink. Her name is Alexandra Anele. I hope that helps my little olive skin friends ❤️
A few days ago I was watching a video by Audrey Coyne about light olive skin tone here on UA-cam and she was saying that light WARM olive skin tone do not exist. I tried to explain to her that I have light WARM olive skin tone and that she should watch MerriamStyle video about it. She replied to me telling me that I'm wrong. How can we light olive skin people fide base products if there is still misinformation that we don't exist ? 🙃
My hair is very ashy and I've always liked that, despite rich, dark, or bright colors being more in trend. I think it's cause without knowing this information, I figured out that dull colors bring out the brighter colors in my skin and make me glow more, versus competing with bright colors.
I'm most probably someone with soft colouring. In the Asian colour season theory, I'm a summer muted! So supposedly, I look better in soft, muted, sometimes grey-ish colouring. Really informative video 👏🏼👏🏼
Aly Art's videos make me love my skin, hair, body, more and more and more. I've never felt more beautiful being 'grey' than I did after this video😀 And once she used that 'lightbulb' analogy, I goooot it. Like a "lamp turned on inside her head", amazing visualization.
Yes! I agree. I am very bright/clear. In muted colors, I look ill, not glowing. Everyone radiates a certain glow, whether a moonlit, sunlit, or twilight glow, in colors that are harmonious with their features!
I really appreciate how much effort you put into showing all ethnicities. I know it’s much more work and you could do just as well only showing European looking women but you go the extra mile without having your arm twisted. Thank you.
My problem is that I have super pale skin, where my veins are visible throughout my body, but I have dark brown/almost black hair and eyebrows. So I can never tell if it's the contrast between the two that makes me look 'clear' or if the ashyness of my hair means I'm really a 'soft.' 🤣
It's amazing the way u explained everything. Now I can see why some colors looks weird or too much on me. I have a warm plus1 contrast, but I always have difficulty knowing my correct shade, and it's because I'm also dull :D
Again, you are brilliant! You have an artist's eye and create truly original content based on knowledge you have learned rather than repeating the same old information you can read anywhere. This was so eye opening, and I now realize why bright lipstick doesn't work well on me!
I would love to know how aging affects color, and the color mistakes made by older women (and men!). I think this is invaluable info because I do colored pencil portraits, and was having a hard time with skin color - you have clarified this for me!
I would love to see a video on just olive skin. I'm so olive I lean green. I've never matched to a foundation and I have to mix many colors to find a slight match. It drives me crazy.
You're amazing! I actually paid for a colour analysis but you explain everything so precisely and better than many professionals out there! I hope you're recognised enough and can make a living out of it (if that's your wish, of course).
Your video confirmed that my coloring is soft/delicate rather than radiant, so this is a huge help! To be honest, I bristled a bit at having this delicate, ethereal tone described in the video as dull, though. It was something in the way praise was lavished on the radiant, clear complexion. Both of these types shine, whether with a brilliant or an ethereal radiance, against their perfect colors. ❤️
Heather Forslin same here! I was like UGH she already talked about this. But I’m watching it and I’m once again baffled at her amount of knowledge. All hail the queen Aly!
I think the way you explain your own learning process, and the way you investigate topics, picture the process of a very intelligent and creative person
So that's why I feel kind of transparent when I'm not wearing any makeup! Because my soft features just blend together. I already noticed that for some people makeup doesn't do much, they already look "visible" without it. But for me it's a game changer - I use it to be seen. But being "invisible" comes in handy too sometimes :)
Yes! I am thinking of a girl in my college class, who seemed to have plain features. You couldn’t see her eyebrows or lashes. One day, she wore very well done, light makeup and her lips were full and eyes were so striking! I can relate…I look like I don’t have lips, at my age, because of depigmentation, until I put on a light lipstick. They have always been quite full, actually!
I feel like a lot of black girls have a hard time finding foundation because the darker the foundation usually more vibrant or suitable for clear skin or it’s waaay to ashy.
Thank you for the video! the part where you turned down the contrast on a picture and then changed the original lipstick colour to something more muted was very helpful for my understanding :)
So interesting!! I'm thought I was soft but I can see now that I'm clear. That makes a lot of sense because vibrant lip colors look really good on me, but any time I've tried more grey toned or mauve shades, it washes me out.
I've thought the same! I've got dark ash blonde hair and light neutral skin. But my eyes are brown black. I hate a lot of nude lipsticks on me. I live for bright orange and peach colours in lipsticks.
It's the opposite for me! I'm soft and tried to pull off a really bright red lipstick several times, and there was always that one person that said they didn't like the lipstick on me. I was a bit offended at the time, but now I see that they were just truthful, and I do enjoy "muddier" lip colours more.
Thank you so much for everything you do, it's amazing how well you explain this stuff which is usually very ambiguous (or at least, it used to be for me). I think I am a 0 contrasted, warm and soft theatrical romantic.
This is very helpful because I don't believe I've come across any version of the seasonal colour theory that accounts for the fact that a person can have colouring that is dark and soft/muted at the same time. Okay now that we know those of us with a certain "dusty" cast have the lamps in our face turned off, I hope you can talk a bit about the possible advantage of this colouring when wearing the right colours, and what colours look best. Personally I don't believe muted colouring necessarily means always looking best in neutral or very muted colours. Bright colours can be more flattering, just not too bright but rather with some degree of softness or depth to them. Then again I probably have some complicated mixture of muted and clear qualities.
This explains so much! I colour my hair now, but I was born with bright ginger red hair, but as I grew older, it started to become more toned down - more of a honey blonde, then it grew gradually more muted - especially once I got into my 30’s. My roots are still that same level of deepness, but much ashier than when I was a child and a teen. It could be a gradual subtle greying - mixing with that former ginger. Thanks for making it make sense
A person with medium brown hair and brown-green eyes. Fair neutral dull skin. Who can pull off dark colours or muted colours and looks best in rose, not peach, lipstick would be what color?
so impressed with your presentations Aly. Great. working my way through your body of work. i am loving some of the feedback from our other sisters in how included that they feel. such inclusivity is wonderful rather than feeling excluded. congratulations dear. really appreciate your endeavours.j you cannot imagine how much more reassured some people are after your explanations about colour saturation, undertones and quality of reflective light. wonderful.
Katy S Same here!! I can’t find a foundation match anywhere!! I already know that bleached blond does not look good on me! We need a tutorial for olive skin of all shades!!
You could try wearing a deep black and a washed-out black shirt and compare between them. When wearing deep black, is your coloring as "bright" as the shirt? Or do you only see the black clothing and your coloring fades in the back? Same with a pure white and an old white shirt.
Wanna know who are those 7 people who has the audacity to dislike this knowledge filled content!! Love love love your descriptions ❣️👌🏼 so simplified..
Wow finally someone who understands clear chroma! Hallelujah! There are so many people talking about color analysis who say that blonds can't be a bright/clear season because they only consider the high contrast group (who are the most obvious). This is so great to see examples of all hair and skin coloring (various contrast) with brightness compared to softness. I have very fair skin and dark blond hair and bright blue eyes (my eyes themselves really stand out with contrast within the white and pupils and a darker ring like you showed). I look kinda dead and pale if I wear soft muted colours. And I can do both black and white super well, both giving me healthy skin coloring, which is of course rare for blonds. The irony is that I don't even like black 😂 but it is kinda convenient of course.
i've been thinking about this recently! so cool that this video came up on my feed. while i have dark brown eyes, my limbal ring is even darker and quite thick. i also have wavy patterns in my eyes that are a bit lighter. it might be hard to tell that they're "clear" from far away, but you can tell when you're closer to me or if we're outside in natural light. after believing brown eyes were boring for so long, i'm happy to finally find such complex beauty in them. thank you for these videos! they're amazing.
Love how educated you are and that your sharing you knowledge before I found your channel I thought i was a lost cause because most tutorials I try just never end up looking that good on me and know I see why thank you so much....
Aly, i appreciate you and your videos. You are the few YTers whose videos I can re-watch and keep learning something new and enjoy watching each time. Keep being you❤️
Thank you so much! I finally start to understand my hair and skin tone. I was never sure if I'm more on the warmer or cooler side, because the obvious warm or cool colors never really worked on me. 🙂
Good explanation but, being from Greece, I have to ask you where does olive skin, regardless of light or dark, fall? For me, finding the right foundation is nearly impossible!😞
PerrrsianCat It really grey!! Like I look really sickly in winter!! In the summer, it’s more yellow but even those undertones look terrible!! There’s a makeup line (EX1) in Italy that caters to olive skin. I’m going to try it. Even neutral foundation don’t match. I need grey, green and a tad yellow!🤷🏻♀️
Please... discuss how natural white/silver/gray hair influences everything you discuss. Also please show photos that include such hair colorings with all different completions and eye colors. Thanks!
Love your videos Aly, particularly your Kibbe breakdowns! Was wondering if there's any chance you could do one about tattoos and piercings for Kibbe types please? Understand if this might be a bit out there, but it would be great to get some ideas about what body modifications might suit different types. Thanks and keep up the great work!
Hi Aly, I really like your content! Thank you for your work! Could you please make a video of this years Oscars red carpet looks and if the women are wearing their body type lines or not. I still struggle to see which is my body type, and find it helpful with real-life examples.
Primary colors bright, bold, and brilliant, certainly not dusty or muted. I don't see many pale, pale women with brighter complexion as you say. However they have the lions share of pale light skin that is not shiny or lustered.
What!? That very pale girl on the left is really cool in her tone and skin. Whereas the other one on the right is actually way warmer with a little yellow undertone, she is hardly grey and ashy. There is absolutely nothing warm about the shades white, grey, and black none of these shades are remotely COLORS! Plus black, grey, and white are certainly Not Warm nor are they Colors.
Thank you for the video. Can you please consider discussing how aging can change your season or hue or value etc. I am clear winter but aging skin that does not exfoliate properly goes more yellow, skin more dull, not shiny etc. Hair colour going grey too.
I love that you explain this in depth. I've learned from this video that I am soft. I have dark caramel skin and jet black hair with deep brown eyes. Can't your facial features also tell if you are soft or clear?
Haha! I thought I was clear because I have real pale skin and very dark hair, but I'm just soft with high contrast (hair is black-brown but in a sort of dull way, and eyes are a muddy hazel...plus my skin doesn't reflect light this way, it's a strange mat pinkish white). Thanks Aly!
Thank you @alyart this really was the best and the only video that helped me understand I am bright! I think I am +2 with black hair dark brown eyes (also referred black eyes in my country) and lighter skin. I might be a clear winter!! This helped me come closer to finding out my color subseason! Thank you! ❤️❤️👀
I’m curious about individuals with clear skin and hair with more muted or dusty eyes or vice versa. For instance, I have naturally dark brown hair, light cool skin and dark hazel eyes (clear skin and hair but muted eyes), would I be considered clear? Or on the other hand I recall be shocked when I first met my husband by his piercing dark reddish brown eyes against his more muted hair and and skin, would he be considered soft?
If you can't decide whether you're clear or soft, try putting a muted blue color next to your face, then put a clear, pure turquoise color next to your face. Which looks better? With me it's the clear color every time. Muted, dusty colors make me look dead. My skin reflects the gray tone, so I look corpse-like. I'm a Clear/Bright Spring.
I am binge watching your videos and starting to understand why I am attracted to specific kind of people. It is a revelation: we like in other people's features what we have subconsciously understood about ours.
Hello Aly! I'm classic dramatic and soft summer (deep/shaded). How to combine those two? I used to like the dynamic lines in clothes of classic dramatic and black eyeliner-red lipstick makeup as well as androgynous style but according to my colouring (face/hair/eyes) muted colours and softer designs match me more. What to do? 🤔
Dressing Your Truth is one to consider studying. It's one that is perfected and easy to know your type and all that goes with you, personality to fashion to colors etc.
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Wow Alyona , I really love the way how u explain. Great effort😍👏👍😘
Im a cool fair to neutral easily tanning male with dark hair and I wish you were my personal consultant 😩🙏🏻
I can't believe I just watched someone call me dusty for 20 minutes and then subscribed lmao
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What's bad in dusty?
I love that you include all shades of women in your analysis. Im a black woman with a deep skin tone and i often feel invisible in so many spaces. You make me feel seen. 1000 thank yous Aly.
What? YOU DONT KNOW HOW BEAUTIFUL YPUR SHADE IS
Yeah I feel very invisible 😂
This is so sad. No one should feel like that.
@@khxliakhxlia3605 I see you girl. you're beautiful!
I also see you, beautiful lady!
When you mentioned that that deep brown eyes are like colored glass I really felt complimented
I love brown eyes!
d x n i complimented is not a feeling. Try again.
@@elsagrace3893 english is not my first language but ok.
@@dxni27 Never mind her. You *can* feel complimented, in the same way that a person can feel insulted. English is obviously not that person's skill.
@@elsagrace3893 English isn't your strong suit, is it? From Dictionary.com: feel: "to make itself perceived or apparent; seem: How does it feel to be rich?"
I’m black so it is weird hearing someone call another person “dusty” in a non-insult way.
Lmfaooooo girl!! When I say I screamed!! 😂😂😂
She’s talking about colors ! For sure there are light and dark, clear and dusty
It is color undertone !
Let’s be realistic we are learning !
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@@Meeralo0o girl just laugh and keep it moving....lordtt🙄
@@trnigyul always trying to police somebody.
The artistic term for this is colour Saturation, when it’s closer to grey the colour is desaturated, when closer to the pure hue/pigment it’s saturated
Lmao thank you. I don't wanna be called ashy 😂😂🤣
Your picture is breathtaking!
yes! I was somewhat confused when I first saw the terms soft and clear in a different video by her, but then I was like ah okay she's talking about saturation and then it made sense to me.
English is her second language 😂
This.
I wish makeup companies can use the logic of mixing many colors so that foundation looked like true human tones in a bottle and everyone would have blood red in their color. Not that horrid peach off-white and light orangy brown to dark orangy brown. Noone is that color.
I will never understand why there is always an orange undertone. Who the fuck has an orange undertone? I know a lot of people with yellow undertones but orange? (Aside from Trumpy)
@@jermwerm2575 they only cater to those that use artificial tan
@@jermwerm2575 Trump isn't human
exactly! what I do is mixing my foundation with grey and blue eyeshadow to make it match my skintone...
Yes fr. Literally no one has that strange orange sket as their undertone. I have pink undertone, and we have, like, only for yellow undertones and this orange thing. It's so hard to find something fitting. And if there's something for seemingly people with pink undertones, it's that peachy sket. I'm not pink. Come on. I'm not red. I have normal human skintone. The struggle of having pink undertone is real, at least where I live.
Like, okay, my mother has a yellow undertone in her skin color. She is, umm, I can say, bronze? But ORANGE? NO. WHERE DID YOU SEE ORANGE PEOPLE, COMPANIES? Instead of making all this orange sket, y'all better make something for real people with different undertones...
Sorry for this rant, I'm just really angry.
In soft colored women you can also notice that their lip color tends to blend into their skin
I have this problem. My top lip has no clear colour separation. Which is annoying because if I fill my top lip in with lipliner by following the shape without going OVER my natural lip I actually notice that I have quite full and rounded lips. However the contrast between my top lip (and lips in general) to my skin tone is not very astheatically satisfying.
@VASTFLYER 232•••••••• interesting.
@@not-a-russianbot8845 this also happens to me. My lips don't look as full as they are just because naturally they have a light color. so a dark colored lipstick always makes me look better.
Not-a-Russian why don’t u go for lip microblading ? New techniques are very natural now
Kristell :u guess i am soft color
A fun color theory fact is that you don’t need to mix grey with a color to mute it, which we call desaturating it. You actually mix the opposite color on the color wheel with it. This keeps the grey/black from “killing the color.” If you mix your paints with a grey/black and then mix it with the opposite color on the wheel side by side, you can visually see the difference I’m talking about. Love the video. I’m a clear +1
I've always noticed I have kinda of grey in my skin. But never heard someone talking about it till now. Thanks . When I had a blonde hair more grey I looked completely dead
Ana's Song flat black hair does that to me, but intense blue black brings out my olive skin.
When my hair reaches shoulder length I'm planning on dying the bottom half of it (the section under my ears) ombre soft pink and salmon because those 2 colors Really bring out my hair color, eye color and complexion, I look a lot like the girl on the right 6:28 but with darker hair but the overall look of the colors is very similar.
This video makes so much sense! I felt very ashamed of my skin tone for quite some time. Everyday I went home after school, looked at myself in the mirror and thought "I look dead". The reason why I thought this was because I have a pretty neutral undertone, but there is some oliveness there (my mother and her parents have super olive skin, but my father and his parents have more neutral/leaning towards golden/yellowish tones). I also have very dark undereye circles (it's genetics), but I always wore glasses that were a very rich, clear brown colour. They looked awful on me and I thought there was something wrong with my skin. I even bought skincare products to brighten (not lighten, just brighten) my skin because I thought I needed it. Now I know that bright, clear colours don't look good on me and they wash me out. Once I started wearing colours that suited me, I felt like the prettiest girl in the entire room. I know understand that colours with more of a grey hint to them look better on me than clear colours (for example: an olive shirt looks better on me than a bright dark green one). An although I have a very neutral undertone, I don't wear really cool colours either. I can finally embrace my undertone and feel good about myself.
There is no 100% neutral undertone ....
Watch Merriam Style' artistic liscense vid ..... She is much more specific amd explains the undertones very well ......
The way she describes it is there are .......
1 .Cool /bright - Clear Cool
2. Cool/ Delicate - Grey Cool
3. Warm /Bright - Clear Yellow
4. Warm/Delicate - Soft yellow
I always thought I looked lifeless whenever I looked at the mirror. This makes much more sense now. I also used to wear a lot of bright colors.
I look like I'm dead too I would get bullied every day at school for it, so I feel you.
It feels like you are a cool olive. You should watch Audrey Coyne. She has really good videos on olive skin tone (she says it's never warm.)
@@Iden_Elihio_1999. That’s a matter of opinion. There are color analysts who have typed people as True Neutrals, or Tonal types, rather than those for whom temperature is a determining factor in what looks good on them. Typically, they don’t look best in very warm, very cool, or high chroma colors.
Aly, I’m not sure if you take video requests but i was wondering if you could maybe do a video about different nose types and shapes, kind of like your videos about lip fillers and beauty standards? I know i speak for many people when i say that I’m not the most confident about my nose and it’d be amazing to see your perspective on nose shapes and how the ideal of modern beauty standards have changed expectations!
Love this idea
Ally has a nose contour video.
Great idea! I'd love to hear more from her about different shapes and sizes, not just the few ones usually shown in the media
She already has such video
Beauty standards are objective, they never changed and they never will. That is the very unfortunate and very unfair truth. There is a science behind aesthetics. Asking the person to describe noses in hopes she will portray yours in a euphemistic way is just ridiculous, self-serving BS.
Besides, the nose is not even one of the features of major importance. There are other features and proportions/ratios that matter far more. That’s why there are very attractive people who don’t have little button noses, and very unattractive people with perfect noses.
Unless you got your nose screwed over during rhinoplasty (very common, sadly), have an insanely huge/beak like protrusion or suffer from rhinophyma-if you have other major proportions and features at play-it really will not matter. In fact, you will just look less bland, and more interesting.
to be honest i think soft people look ethereal, its like you dont see them immediately but once you do you keep watching and you cant stop because every part of them look so perfectly coordinated and made for them you get it? like their eyes are made for their skin and their skin is made for their hair and they are very unique in that way so to all the people who may have felt bad about yourself please dont, you're beautiful, beauty comes in many, many different ways and forms and unseen beauty is often considered more precious :)
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I 100 percent agree.
Best explanation I've ever seen of this concept - and thank you for not being lazy and calling all of the brown-skinned women warm and muted 🙄
This is some major beauty theory... love it!
Soft, I'm a low contrast beige mole rat without makeup
Ha! Me too...beige brows & lashes, pretty much a bowl of milk :D
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Same. All the comments about soft contrast are so negative too, man. I saw one saying specifically pale, soft people look “dead.” Niiiiiice, thanks. 😭
Emily Pinkerton I know right...I even heard that it is a look of a dead mouse...😫 its horrible what people say and the thing is, if you google soft type celebrities you can find some real beauties among them like Natalia Vodianova and Emma Watson as examples. So it is not all that bad, the main thing is to know what suits you and what doesn’t and you can look great. I have also heard that soft types look very mysterious and interesting like fairies and I kind of agree with this. Also, as a bonus, soft types usually age much better than clear types. We loose that clearness and contrast with age and it is really visible on clear types while soft types look pretty much the same throughout their life😀
@@ironsnowflake1076 like milk after chocolate cereal?
I love how you often have a different perspective (that makes sense of course). It really helps me reflect on whatever you're talking about amd understand it more. This was really interesting and helpful
I have olive skin and this is a problem 'cause there are soft olive skins and more clear olive skin.
I appreciate if you can speak about olive skin!!
Omg same! I'm contrast +1 and dusty and olive skinned. A lot of concealers look so ashy on me 😔
Yes, olive skin is tricky to manage for both make-up and clothing.
Even when you dye your hair or wear coloured lenses, your skin tone still carries out the "grey-ness" that is hard to manipulate on Photoshop.
My Indian friends struggle A LOT with their looks and have to wear a lot of gold jewellery and clear coloured clothes to rebalance the overall saturation levels in their appearance. :)
YES! All olive skin isn't muted and warm.
She did explain.....if your skin, hair and eyes are glowing it means you are bright, if your skin doesn't glow that means you're soft.....
@@cypto_203 lol it’s funny how my skin, hair and eyes glow but i look like a rotten corpse in bright colored clothes
I’ve just spent a couple of $1,000s on a colour analysis course. You’ve covered this topic in 20 minutes better than any of the course material i was given!! Thank you, a wonderful explanation!!
I wished you do a video on Asian women. It’s so incredibly hard to decide what and where we are as far as colors
She hasn't made a video just about Asian women (I don't think). But her contrast video touches on just about everyone, including asian women.
Yes exactly
Lol same with whites. They have the most range of colors, from palest white to dark brown - just look at northern Nordics and southern Slavs.
Jin the banana from the left i think it’s debatable to say that whites have the most range. I have never seen a dark brown white person. Your “dark brown” might be different than my “dark brown”.
@@koo-core7274 I think all races have amazing ranges and combinations of color. I am white but have extremely olive yellow skin, mousy blonde hair and blue eyes. I shouldn't exist but I do. I can't follow advice for my skin, hair and eyes because nothing matches. It's hard when the advice for your race doesn't fit you. It's got to be incredibly hard for people of mixed race too. We are all just too unique to be put in a box
You.are.so.damn.good! Where other confuse me with their explanations, your’s are perfectly clear (not soft).
haha funny
Damn girl you pun game is clearly amazing (not softly)
I just got my kitchener color consult results and I'm watching EVERYTHING about soft summer now.
I saved up forever for my consult and I'm soo happy to finally know for sure. :)
I feel like people with very light warm olive skin are under represent in colour analysis videos and in foundation shade ranges ( most are based on tan olive skin ) the colours that are usually "ment" for olive skin don't look good on me like peaches and khaki greens. I tried looking for information about it but it just isn't any. I would love to hear your thoughts ❤️
Gaby Sam yes! Im actual in this sub Reddit called olivemua that really hones in on light medium and dark olive skin and good colors or products for said skin tones
YES! I'm pale olive and I can never find anything. Even the yellow tones gray me out.
There is this girl on UA-cam that has a video how to fix a fandation shade if it's to yellow/ pink. Her name is Alexandra Anele. I hope that helps my little olive skin friends ❤️
Look up Merriam Style's video - Color Analysis for Deep, East Asian, and Olive Skin Tones
A few days ago I was watching a video by Audrey Coyne about light olive skin tone here on UA-cam and she was saying that light WARM olive skin tone do not exist. I tried to explain to her that I have light WARM olive skin tone and that she should watch MerriamStyle video about it. She replied to me telling me that I'm wrong. How can we light olive skin people fide base products if there is still misinformation that we don't exist ? 🙃
My hair is very ashy and I've always liked that, despite rich, dark, or bright colors being more in trend. I think it's cause without knowing this information, I figured out that dull colors bring out the brighter colors in my skin and make me glow more, versus competing with bright colors.
A video about makeup suiting soft and clear type would be really helpful! :)
I'm most probably someone with soft colouring. In the Asian colour season theory, I'm a summer muted! So supposedly, I look better in soft, muted, sometimes grey-ish colouring. Really informative video 👏🏼👏🏼
Aly Art's videos make me love my skin, hair, body, more and more and more. I've never felt more beautiful being 'grey' than I did after this video😀
And once she used that 'lightbulb' analogy, I goooot it. Like a "lamp turned on inside her head", amazing visualization.
Yes! I agree. I am very bright/clear. In muted colors, I look ill, not glowing. Everyone radiates a certain glow, whether a moonlit, sunlit, or twilight glow, in colors that are harmonious with their features!
I really appreciate how much effort you put into showing all ethnicities. I know it’s much more work and you could do just as well only showing European looking women but you go the extra mile without having your arm twisted. Thank you.
My problem is that I have super pale skin, where my veins are visible throughout my body, but I have dark brown/almost black hair and eyebrows. So I can never tell if it's the contrast between the two that makes me look 'clear' or if the ashyness of my hair means I'm really a 'soft.' 🤣
You are the holy grail for seasonal color analysis and Kibbe body style; two of my obsessions! Thank you so much for your wonderful content. 💜
The lipstick example was very helpful! Now I think I understand more about the soft or clear term. Very interesting ❤
It's amazing the way u explained everything. Now I can see why some colors looks weird or too much on me. I have a warm plus1 contrast, but I always have difficulty knowing my correct shade, and it's because I'm also dull :D
Again, you are brilliant! You have an artist's eye and create truly original content based on knowledge you have learned rather than repeating the same old information you can read anywhere. This was so eye opening, and I now realize why bright lipstick doesn't work well on me!
The ONLY "beauty guru" i need to follow. Thank you for all your work.
I would love to know how aging affects color, and the color mistakes made by older women (and men!). I think this is invaluable info because I do colored pencil portraits, and was having a hard time with skin color - you have clarified this for me!
I would love to see a video on just olive skin. I'm so olive I lean green. I've never matched to a foundation and I have to mix many colors to find a slight match. It drives me crazy.
You're amazing! I actually paid for a colour analysis but you explain everything so precisely and better than many professionals out there! I hope you're recognised enough and can make a living out of it (if that's your wish, of course).
Your video confirmed that my coloring is soft/delicate rather than radiant, so this is a huge help! To be honest, I bristled a bit at having this delicate, ethereal tone described in the video as dull, though. It was something in the way praise was lavished on the radiant, clear complexion. Both of these types shine, whether with a brilliant or an ethereal radiance, against their perfect colors. ❤️
Am I the only one who gets more confused than ever but still watch? Lmao
I hesitated to tune in since I know I am bright. Yet I am consistently captivated with how far you take it/ your depth of knowledge. TY Ally!
Heather Forslin same here! I was like UGH she already talked about this. But I’m watching it and I’m once again baffled at her amount of knowledge. All hail the queen Aly!
I think I‘m -1 contrast, warm, and soft 🤔 everytime I wear a bright lipstick, it „washes“ out the rest of my face
I think the way you explain your own learning process, and the way you investigate topics, picture the process of a very intelligent and creative person
So that's why I feel kind of transparent when I'm not wearing any makeup! Because my soft features just blend together. I already noticed that for some people makeup doesn't do much, they already look "visible" without it. But for me it's a game changer - I use it to be seen. But being "invisible" comes in handy too sometimes :)
Yes! I am thinking of a girl in my college class, who seemed to have plain features. You couldn’t see her eyebrows or lashes. One day, she wore very well done, light makeup and her lips were full and eyes were so striking! I can relate…I look like I don’t have lips, at my age, because of depigmentation, until I put on a light lipstick. They have always been quite full, actually!
I feel like a lot of black girls have a hard time finding foundation because the darker the foundation usually more vibrant or suitable for clear skin or it’s waaay to ashy.
Yes. I am grey toned in coloring but I am brown skinned. So some colors look too red on me.
as an artist it's interesting to hear you talk about the concept of values and contrast but in a really unique way LOL
I'm impressed how knowledge you have, and your English is perfect for people don't have it as a mothertongue. Congratulations for your Channel!
Wow, I love your videos. Color is sooo complicated, fascinating. I’m still a little vague on my own coloring… but I’ll keep watching 💞🛠✨🎨🌸 THANK YOUUU
Thank you for the video! the part where you turned down the contrast on a picture and then changed the original lipstick colour to something more muted was very helpful for my understanding :)
Between you and Merriam Style, my people watching commentary has been _elevated,_ lol
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Aikaterine Illt I’m confused, stop what?
So interesting!! I'm thought I was soft but I can see now that I'm clear. That makes a lot of sense because vibrant lip colors look really good on me, but any time I've tried more grey toned or mauve shades, it washes me out.
I've thought the same! I've got dark ash blonde hair and light neutral skin. But my eyes are brown black. I hate a lot of nude lipsticks on me. I live for bright orange and peach colours in lipsticks.
It's the opposite for me! I'm soft and tried to pull off a really bright red lipstick several times, and there was always that one person that said they didn't like the lipstick on me. I was a bit offended at the time, but now I see that they were just truthful, and I do enjoy "muddier" lip colours more.
Same
I think this video has provided me with a lot more clarity (pun intended) about this aspect of color theory than I was able to figure out so far!
You’re a master class
She really is! She could easily do a master class on singing, too. So much talent!
I just LOOOOVE that muted skin/hair/ eye tone. So pretty. Everyone who is muted you are gorgeous.
Thank you for showing a wide variety of skin tones- it made your video super helpful because you had diverse examples!
Thank you so much for everything you do, it's amazing how well you explain this stuff which is usually very ambiguous (or at least, it used to be for me).
I think I am a 0 contrasted, warm and soft theatrical romantic.
This is very helpful because I don't believe I've come across any version of the seasonal colour theory that accounts for the fact that a person can have colouring that is dark and soft/muted at the same time. Okay now that we know those of us with a certain "dusty" cast have the lamps in our face turned off, I hope you can talk a bit about the possible advantage of this colouring when wearing the right colours, and what colours look best. Personally I don't believe muted colouring necessarily means always looking best in neutral or very muted colours. Bright colours can be more flattering, just not too bright but rather with some degree of softness or depth to them. Then again I probably have some complicated mixture of muted and clear qualities.
This explains so much! I colour my hair now, but I was born with bright ginger red hair, but as I grew older, it started to become more toned down - more of a honey blonde, then it grew gradually more muted - especially once I got into my 30’s. My roots are still that same level of deepness, but much ashier than when I was a child and a teen. It could be a gradual subtle greying - mixing with that former ginger. Thanks for making it make sense
A person with medium brown hair and brown-green eyes. Fair neutral dull skin. Who can pull off dark colours or muted colours and looks best in rose, not peach, lipstick would be what color?
so impressed with your presentations Aly. Great. working my way through your body of work. i am loving some of the feedback from our other sisters in how included that they feel. such inclusivity is wonderful rather than feeling excluded. congratulations dear. really appreciate your endeavours.j you cannot imagine how much more reassured some people are after your explanations about colour saturation, undertones and quality of reflective light. wonderful.
Her videos are so relaxing🌸
Such cool info about mousey hair 😬❤
That's my natural hair and i have pale olive skin do it's always confusing 😫🌟
Same!
Katy S Same here!! I can’t find a foundation match anywhere!! I already know that bleached blond does not look good on me! We need a tutorial for olive skin of all shades!!
mama byrd, Yes! Tutorials for olive skinned women would be SO helpful... especially when they sport natural gray/silver/ or white hair!
I don’t really know what my coloring is. Bright lipsticks and eyeshadows look silly on me, but muted color shirts make me look boring and washed out.
You could try wearing a deep black and a washed-out black shirt and compare between them. When wearing deep black, is your coloring as "bright" as the shirt? Or do you only see the black clothing and your coloring fades in the back? Same with a pure white and an old white shirt.
@@rdpcl seems like a good idea
Same for me. Maybe u are wearing a cool color(that's what the problem is 4 me) try a very warm color. It also could be the opposite
Maybe it's about the shade. Try AlexandrasGirlyTalk's video on colour.
Do you know if you are cool or warm? If you are cool and wearing warm colors, you can look washed out, and vice versa.
When I need things explained I always go to Aly Art!
Wanna know who are those 7 people who has the audacity to dislike this knowledge filled content!! Love love love your descriptions ❣️👌🏼 so simplified..
Nidhi Kesharwani The truth hurts them. They thought they weren’t dusty but they got proven wrong.
Aly is always SLLLightly easy to follow 😄
Wow finally someone who understands clear chroma! Hallelujah!
There are so many people talking about color analysis who say that blonds can't be a bright/clear season because they only consider the high contrast group (who are the most obvious).
This is so great to see examples of all hair and skin coloring (various contrast) with brightness compared to softness.
I have very fair skin and dark blond hair and bright blue eyes (my eyes themselves really stand out with contrast within the white and pupils and a darker ring like you showed).
I look kinda dead and pale if I wear soft muted colours.
And I can do both black and white super well, both giving me healthy skin coloring, which is of course rare for blonds.
The irony is that I don't even like black 😂 but it is kinda convenient of course.
Aly, how do you learn all this? It's so impressive.
i've been thinking about this recently! so cool that this video came up on my feed. while i have dark brown eyes, my limbal ring is even darker and quite thick. i also have wavy patterns in my eyes that are a bit lighter. it might be hard to tell that they're "clear" from far away, but you can tell when you're closer to me or if we're outside in natural light. after believing brown eyes were boring for so long, i'm happy to finally find such complex beauty in them. thank you for these videos! they're amazing.
Thanks for the video. Finally I understand the meaning of 'soft' and 'clear' in seasonal color analysis.
Love how educated you are and that your sharing you knowledge before I found your channel I thought i was a lost cause because most tutorials I try just never end up looking that good on me and know I see why thank you so much....
Aly, i appreciate you and your videos. You are the few YTers whose videos I can re-watch and keep learning something new and enjoy watching each time. Keep being you❤️
I love how much more inclusive you are of other ethnicities in your more recent videos!
Thank you so much! I finally start to understand my hair and skin tone. I was never sure if I'm more on the warmer or cooler side, because the obvious warm or cool colors never really worked on me. 🙂
Good explanation but, being from Greece, I have to ask you where does olive skin, regardless of light or dark, fall? For me, finding the right foundation is nearly impossible!😞
Olive skin is considered neutral! Because olive has a lot of grey added to it. Choose neutral foundation shades
PerrrsianCat It really grey!! Like I look really sickly in winter!! In the summer, it’s more yellow but even those undertones look terrible!! There’s a makeup line (EX1) in Italy that caters to olive skin. I’m going to try it. Even neutral foundation don’t match. I need grey, green and a tad yellow!🤷🏻♀️
@@mamashiraz as a light olive, I feel your pain
Ha!! I got an idea and it doesn’t look bad: now I’m a redhead!! It’s pulling any red from my skin and I don’t look as sickly!😂
Please... discuss how natural white/silver/gray hair influences everything you discuss. Also please show photos that include such hair colorings with all different completions and eye colors.
Thanks!
Love your videos Aly, particularly your Kibbe breakdowns! Was wondering if there's any chance you could do one about tattoos and piercings for Kibbe types please? Understand if this might be a bit out there, but it would be great to get some ideas about what body modifications might suit different types. Thanks and keep up the great work!
The one and only channel way too under-rated..
So I am warm, +1 and clear, interesting 🤔now I need guidance on what makeup/hair/clothes suit me. Aly you are doing God's work 😍💕😌💯💯
Hi Aly, I really like your content! Thank you for your work! Could you please make a video of this years Oscars red carpet looks and if the women are wearing their body type lines or not. I still struggle to see which is my body type, and find it helpful with real-life examples.
I feel like what you are describing in this video is pretty much saturation :) Interesting points.
Wow!super helpful to see the comparisons.
I am always so excited for tbis videos, and always end up being the exact middle. 0 contrast and classical body type
This clears it up for me. I'm soft and warm but not sure about how far dark or light I can go with colors.
I am not even half way through your video... but I am loving the way you have explained things!!
I had so many epiphanies about why it's hard for me to find a foundation shade 😭❤️ thank you
Primary colors bright, bold, and brilliant, certainly not dusty or muted. I don't see many pale, pale women with brighter complexion as you say. However they have the lions share of pale light skin that is not shiny or lustered.
What!? That very pale girl on the left is really cool in her tone and skin. Whereas the other one on the right is actually way warmer with a little yellow undertone, she is hardly grey and ashy. There is absolutely nothing warm about the shades white, grey, and black none of these shades are remotely COLORS! Plus black, grey, and white are certainly Not Warm nor are they Colors.
Thank you for the video. Can you please consider discussing how aging can change your season or hue or value etc. I am clear winter but aging skin that does not exfoliate properly goes more yellow, skin more dull, not shiny etc. Hair colour going grey too.
I love that you explain this in depth. I've learned from this video that I am soft. I have dark caramel skin and jet black hair with deep brown eyes. Can't your facial features also tell if you are soft or clear?
Haha! I thought I was clear because I have real pale skin and very dark hair, but I'm just soft with high contrast (hair is black-brown but in a sort of dull way, and eyes are a muddy hazel...plus my skin doesn't reflect light this way, it's a strange mat pinkish white).
Thanks Aly!
I thought being bright was the same to have high contrast ,thank you that helps a lot good job
Thank you @alyart this really was the best and the only video that helped me understand I am bright! I think I am +2 with black hair dark brown eyes (also referred black eyes in my country) and lighter skin. I might be a clear winter!! This helped me come closer to finding out my color subseason! Thank you! ❤️❤️👀
You are so knowledgeable I wish you could do a complete analysis of my complexion lol
I’m curious about individuals with clear skin and hair with more muted or dusty eyes or vice versa. For instance, I have naturally dark brown hair, light cool skin and dark hazel eyes (clear skin and hair but muted eyes), would I be considered clear? Or on the other hand I recall be shocked when I first met my husband by his piercing dark reddish brown eyes against his more muted hair and and skin, would he be considered soft?
If you can't decide whether you're clear or soft, try putting a muted blue color next to your face, then put a clear, pure turquoise color next to your face. Which looks better? With me it's the clear color every time. Muted, dusty colors make me look dead. My skin reflects the gray tone, so I look corpse-like. I'm a Clear/Bright Spring.
Omigod the mouse at 11:54 is so cute!!! Nobody could think looking mousy is bad after seeing that little darling.
I am binge watching your videos and starting to understand why I am attracted to specific kind of people.
It is a revelation: we like in other people's features what we have subconsciously understood about ours.
Hello Aly!
I'm classic dramatic and soft summer (deep/shaded). How to combine those two? I used to like the dynamic lines in clothes of classic dramatic and black eyeliner-red lipstick makeup as well as androgynous style but according to my colouring (face/hair/eyes) muted colours and softer designs match me more. What to do? 🤔
Alternative title for this video: Are you just ashy or did you moisturize today?
Spasiba krasiva Aly🤗♥️💖 I learn more and more every time! LOOKING FORWARD to the next one on this series🤓😍
Dressing Your Truth is one to consider studying. It's one that is perfected and easy to know your type and all that goes with you, personality to fashion to colors etc.
This explained so much to me about an issue I've run into with my skin. Cool/warm bright /dark didn't full explain by my color felt so muted.