Why Do I Look Bad in BOTH Warm and Cool Colors?? Here's Why.
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2023
- If you've ever tried the self-diagnosis tests of finding your seasonal colors, the first step is to always see if you look better in warm or cool colors, right? BUT! Have you found that you look equally good or bad in BOTH?? Let's talk about what ELSE you need to actually consider in order to truly find your season!
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I look bad on both because Im light olive 🤣
Some tips to my fellow girls:
- Dark red lipstick with lots of blue like burgundy or wine look better
- Nude lipstick doesn’t work
- peachy blush but don’t wear orange or yellows!
- pastels like pastel pink or lavender, mint makes you look more green and washed out
- dark colors like dark purple, Navy, or pure colors like white, cream (not too warm) , fucsia, wine, burgundy, military (cool and dark) green, look AMAZING on us!!!
Wow, you just described me to a T!
I'm a light warm olive and some of your best choices look terrible on me :D
- dark red lipstick or cool toned ones is true for me too (Ruby Woo is my best red), but I have to have them mat to not overpower me. If I want to go more purple, then CT Viva la Vergara is great.
- nude lipstick does work but you have to go in the darker nudes for your match. I am at the NC15 level in MAC, and my nude lipsticks are the ones tailored towards medium-tan range. Granted, I also have naturally dark lip pigmentation, but this is what works for me. No pale corpse-y tones for me.
- I can wear well almost all types of blush except of cool powdery pink and cool mauves. My best matches for natural look are bronzer-blushers, though.
- ALL pastels look terrible on me, but true, pale violets like lavender or periwinkle are the worst of them. Lime is just next to it. But I also look bad in all whites, creams, beiges, khaki. Greys and cool greens are the terrible too.
- Dark(ish) muted colours that are neutral or leaning slightly warm are my best friends. Fire brick, burgundy, plum, barn red, maroon, navy (the more neutral one without a purple hint), anthracite (i.e. almost black grey), warm blacks, rich chocolate brown, warmer dark greens like bottle or forest green and warm lighter greens (like grass green), stormy or darker steel grey-blues. I can also wear mustardy yellows well if they are saturated and not almost-white. My absolutely best colour is petrol.
Exactly! except I'm still going to wear my lavender colors haha
Light olive here too!😂😂
I don’t know. I’m light olive skin tone with dark brown hair and eyes. I think I look good in both warm and cool colors. I was previously determined to be a winter.
They always say "Choose the one that minimises your under eye circles" Not one color under the sun can minimise the babies lmao.
I tend to go by what makes my lips look healthier. If I wear colours that are wrong for me, they look washed out. When I wear colours that look good on me, they’re more peachy-pink.
I agree with both - the blue tones show up in both my under eyes and lips when I wear colors that are too cool on me!
Some days no color helps and I can put on enough make up to look like an elderly street walker and it still won’t help. I have wallpaper paste complexion with bunny eyes ( my daughters description.)
Omg and all these years I had wondered why every color looked off on me. In my case the intensity of the color was way more important than the hue itself. What an eye opening video!
I'm glad you found the video refreshing and helpful! :D
Yes! I too had the same revelation! I kept getting stuck between SA and SS for literal years, because warm and cool are equally fine on me. But, this is only true if the color is muted and low-low medium contrast. I've spent SO much money trying to figure out why I didn't "fit" into a certain seasonal box by trying new clothes or new makeup. Im so so hyped I found this video ahhhhh
@@stylemejenn, you’re Wonderful.
I really like the seasonal color videos , there's a million channels about this but honestly you are one of those channels that explains the information the best😊❤🎉
Thank you so much for the compliment! ❤ Another color video coming next week too :D
@@stylemejenngreat,and you are very welcome
I agree. Have seen many videos and explanations but this one gives more clarity. Thank you!
True! Jenn is The best 😊!!!
Yes! Many U.S. color analysts are very adamant that everyone is either more Warm or more Cool. I have some things in common with Olives, because I’m a very fair redhead. There are some redheads who are fully warm and, I’ve heard, a few who are cool. However, many, like me, are somewhere in the middle and can play it up either way, like many Olives can. That’s because we have far more pheomelanin (produces yellow, pink, red) than eumelanin (produces beige, tan, brown, black). Like me, many reds have the very warm yellow/red (shades of orange) hair, but pink/red under the skin, which color analysis says is cool. However, our freckles add warmth. We are usually bright and high chroma (though only the darker reds are high contrast). Within our subtype (usually Light or Bright, but all are possible), we combined temperature redheads can usually pull off powder blue, light purples and pinks (cool) and yellow greens, grass greens, light/bright olive, blue -green, warm or cool reds and yellows…the whole gamut, although some have trouble with very warm or very cool colors. On me, the more neutral colors, in temperature, look best. Neutral temp = coral (pink plus orange), mint, blue greens, butter/daffodil yellow, salmon, and other colors midway between Warm and Cool. Still, the dominant color analysis theory holds that no one, or almost no one, is truly neutral. I am considered Warm-Neutral (typed as Light/Bright Spring), because of my warm hair eyes and freckles, though my skin has what are usually called cool undertones and a yellowish/peachy skin tone. It’s just not pigmented enough pigment to change my blush to peach or bronze, so the effect is pretty neutral skin. If there are Warm and Cool people, logically speaking, there should also be neutral people and people at every point on the spectrum. What do you think?
P.S. Thankfully, tonal theory says that temperature is not everyone’s dominant trait, so that does account for many of us neutral types.
I feel like as an olive skinned person the hue of your best colours should reflect the warm-cool balance of your specific olive. I am a slightly warm learning pale Olive with a little more yellow than blue. For me colours work best that reflect that. Like petrol: a green with a tad of blue. Or plum: a red with a tad of blue. Being a little soft I also benefit from every colour being a bit muddy, it doesn’t really need to be super greyed out but the colour should be ambiguous, i should not be able to say „it’s a green!“ it should be „is it green or brown or grey?“ „is it a yellow, a brown or a green?“ „is it a red a brown or a purple?“ also patterns with contrast in itself work super well, contrast is even more important in winter when my skin is pale. Dark colours look stunning, regardless of their temperature, as long as they are a little muted they are fine . Patterns can also be in a mix of a cool and a warmer colour. It looks amazing. I got a pullover in dark green, navy and mustard yellow and it looks so in harmony.
I feel that for olives tan does matter more than for others. When I am tanned softness becomes more important and contrast and warmth become less important. In Summer i wear soft autumn and soft summer colours very well, which in winter does not work at all. I’d say my home palette is deep autumn(/deep soft winter)and depending on my level of tan I can go into soft autumn and soft summer very easily.
Such a detailed explanation - thank you!! I agree with you 100% abiyt the colors being somewhat ambiguous ❤ I find that when I tan I'm actually able to wear brighter/clearer colors better as opposed to soft/muted colors!
I second this. I’m a very cool olive. Olive is an overtone, not an undertone 😢
This explains why the professional color analyst initially struggled in determining whether I’m warm or cool, my dominant characteristic is Soft. I’m a Soft Summer, but can wear some Soft Autumn colors, too. So long as the colors are soft, light to medium intensity and neutral to cool, they work fine. The worst colors for me are bright, very warm or very dark ones.
Everyone is unique. Of course we are closer to some season type, but everything depends on an exact shade.
Temperature is just one aspect of color and people are so obsessed with it! It’s temperature, clarity and depth that inform our overall appearance.
Most of us only LEAN cool or warm but it’s the value of a color or the softness or vibrancy of a color that make us look good or bad.
Agreed! :)
I love this video. I find color analysis so confusing, but the explanation of olive skin and warm/cool colors was a lightbulb moment. I've settled on dark autumn for me but can wear some cooler (not too cool) colors. I love that there are no hard and fast rules and that everyone has a little bit different framework.
I'm glad you liked the video Stephanie ❤❤❤ There really is no reason to box ourselves into a season as long as we know what works / doesn't work with our skin!
This video was made for me. I'm pale with medium golden brown hair. I could never figure out my season. I look horrible in pale colors (warm or cool) and look best in things like navy, burgundy, burnt orange, cobalt, warm and cool greens. I think I may have an olive undertone.
Check out my Olive Skin video if you haven't already ❤
I could have written this comment. Pastels are the enemy, but deep, saturated warm and cool colors are both friendly. I am still not sure what that makes us though. 😂
@@bibliophilelady6106I feel like I am totally the same! Though I just have yellow undertones I think, not olive skin. I still can't place myself on that wheel 😂. All I know is that I look good in rich jewel tones, but pastells are a no no 😄
@@bibliophilelady6106 It makes you neutral bright.
@@bibliophilelady6106SAME!!!
TLDR: each subseason has a predominant characteristic: brightness (clarity), value (lightness), or temperature (warmth). The temperature is the predominant characteristic for only 4 of the 12 subseasons. The remaining 8 subseasons are predominantly soft vs bright or light vs dark.
Thank you Jenn for this video! Im also a warm olive. I have discovered that I can wear cool reds, but I look horrible in cool pinks and purples. They really bring out the green in my skin🤢I prefer warm, deep and slightly soften colors on me, because they help to warm up my complexion without making me look like I have jaundice 😂
That's me! Cool pink & purples are my absolute wrost colors lol
Really interesting! I am a redhead (warm, bright red hair) with cooler skin.
I find that my important characteristic is clarity; I suit bright colors infinitely better than muted. But warm or cool colors equally suit me.
I use colors from both bright winter and bright spring palettes. :)
This is where I am with my 2 year old red head. He looks bad in completely warm colors. His skin turns yellow with true spring and orange and ruddy with true autumn. I’m leaning towards Bright Spring for him. But Bright Winter is not bad, I think it just drains him slightly. Excited to find another red head with similar coloring. I’ve been having the toughest time finding his colors since he was born. Most people automatically put red heads into the True Warm seasons based off of the overtone instead of undertones.
My coloring is somewhat similar but with dark brown auburn instead of bright red, and I think for me, my colors that work are opposite. I think redhead coloring is the hardest to figure out for sure because most of us are a mix of seasons. Ive found colors that make my complexion glow, do nothing for my hair and eyes. 🤔
i@@Beth-77 it might get easier when your hair starts to gray/whiten, maybe you'll naturally gravitate to cooler tones. I was a natural bright redhead and I have neutral/warm (not olive, but kind of sallow) very fair skin and hazel brown eyes, and deep/bright autumn colors (royal and other warm bright blues, olive, warm greens, warm chocolate browns) as well as certain soft autumn colors (rose-mauve, mustard, warm charcoal gray) are the best for me, and with makeup I can pull off black (my hair/skin have a nice bright contrast to the black). I'm almost 50% gray/white, and when I don't dye my hair (right now it's the perfect shade, almost like what my hair used to be - a bright warm auburn with no cool tones) I look completely washed out and sallow. I'm not looking forward to when I let go of dying my hair as it will really mean having to re-do a lot of my color sense. I'll probably wind up being a decidedly soft autumn, which is a bummer (eg no more dramatic contrasts, which I love). Thanks Jen for your deep dives into color and makeup types - so helpful.
My husband is the same! Red hair with cool/neutral pale skin and he can pull off highlighter neon colors and look effortless, typically regardless of undertone, but bright spring is really the best overall when looking for neutrals due to his warm hair and bright blue-green eyes :)
I have the opposite problem! My natural hair color is a very ashy dark blonde but my skin has a warm undertone. I have always added golden highlights to my hair to make my look more cohesive. I suppose my hair does naturally appear more golden with a little sun anyway, but it's still a strange combination of tones.
Ugh, wish I found this video sooner!! I agree so much with everything you said, and finally I have an explanation for why I don't seem to fit into any single season. For me, the closest season is Deep Autumn, but somehow I look best in cool-ish (but not too cool, more muted) makeup. Very warm makeup looks horrible on me.
You're probably sitting closer to the Deep Winter (like in between Deep Autumn and Deep Winter) than to the True Autumn! :)
@@stylemejenn that's exactly what i was going to say. I just discovered I am Deep/Dark winter and can borrow from dark autumn a bit. Go to Spice Market Colour...Discover...and read up on Dark winter. I resonated so well! I find I look best in Jewel colors. I'm 58 and it's so exciting! I always thought I was an Autumn and am realizing that although skin-tone wise, I can get away with it...but the brightness of the Deep Winter colors brings me to life.
Very fascinating analysis! It took me decades to work out what colours suit me, as I am all contradictions. I have dark blonde hair, pale skin and blue eyes. I look terrible in pastels, deep jewel tones and neutrals like beige and grey. Cool colours look best, but I can only wear foundation with neutral rather than pink undertones. I look great in mauve/lilac, emerald green, white and black. I can't wear navy, but I can wear cool brown/bronze/taupe only if it is a medium value. I can wear silver and rose gold jewellery. It's been a challenging journey.
I like your nuanced take on colour analysis and treating it as a spectrum, feels very realistic! I had a similar but opposite realisation to yours about my colours:) light-dark contrast looks bad on me (and light colours in general look bad), but I feel like my best outfits have a warm-cool contrast (like deep blue with some bright warm red). So for me the softness is in the lack of value contrast but the colours themselves work better on me when bright and contrasting, if that makes any sense:D
Some of the issues arise from saturation - muted colours can make olive tones look washed out. I find the deepest but bright, most saturated cool colours are most flattering.
I think it depends on the olive! There are olives that look better in muted than saturated too :)
@@stylemejennYes! Pale olive here, muted colors are the only ones that look good on me.
@seemakazmi965 "muted colours can make olive tones look washed out". No, there are muted olives (you are a bright olive) just as there are warm olives and cool olives.
Point taken - just shows how complicated it is to find colours that suit us! Hence the need for so many different colours! I have to wait until my flattering colours and styles are in vogue! @@violetviolet888
I believe I have fair olive skin, but I feel that darker, brighter colors tend to look better on me. Lipstick, for example, has to have an extra shine, otherwise it won't work! The fact that I have hazel eyes that pull green and skin with a certain pink also helps with that!
You could make a video showing who looks best in neutral colors and colorful colors or a mix of them!
Thank you for the suggestion! Let me add it to my topics list :)
It means you have fair skin with a bright olive undertone. However you didn't indicate if you are cool or warm. Would you look better in warm or cool colors?
@@violetviolet888 More in cool colors!
"fair olive" is a contradiction. You can't have both. Fair skin is the very white blue/pinkish skin of English/Irish/Scottish ancestry, that freckles and burns easily. Pretty much the opposite of olive skin. What you are probably trying to say is light olive skin. Tip: all olive skin falls into the Winter palettes. Tip #2 hazel eyes can belong to any of the seasons, eye colour is not linked to skin types.
@@SueRosalie Incorrect. Anyone of any skin value (lightness/darkenss porcelain to deep black) can absolutely have an *olive undertone*. Ask anyone who is fair with an olive undertone. I can assure you they exist.
I love when I'm watching your videos and I just give an audible "ohhhhh" everything makes sense !
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I know I'm most sensitive to value of colour, meaning dark colours are best and light ones generally bad; with brightness I'm somewhere in the middle, so both too soft and too bright are bad. As you described, temperature is not as important to me, though some colours are clearly too cool or too warm :) So it's obvious I'm one of the Dark seasons, just not entirely sure which one (though my natural colouring isn't that dark, per se). :)
This resonates a lot with me, I lean towards cooler colors but I have some olive undertones as well. I look best in dark colors but not bright colors because I have softer features! Thanks for the insight!
I'm glad you found the video relatable! :D
Sounds like you have a muted cool-olive undertone
no, olive is an overtone not an undertone.
I have olive skin as well and to me I look bad in most colors 😅 even makeup, most foundations look off, so I prefer not to wear them, most lipsticks look grey, 90% of my wardrobe is black or jeans
True for me 😂
I also have a problem with jewelry... I feel like I look bad in both silver and gold
Hey! I‘m olive too and felt the same way. I now have the theory, that all types of reds, oranges and pinks bring out the green in our skin - since they’re opposite on the colour wheel. You can therefore try greens, blues and yellows. I found that these cancel out the green and bring out the (little 😅) pink, orange or lilac in my skin.
Let me know if that works for you as well! :) x
@@irsprst I like your theory!!
That may explain why I feel like color pink make me look "shrek", but olive green or mint green actually suits me.
The fact that you feel at ease in black could also indicate that depth of color is important for you! :D
Could also be the texture of the jewelry that you don't find looks good (if it's too shiny for example)!
This actually makes sooo much since to me. I’ve finally determined that I’m a bright spring, but it took me a long time to come to that conclusion. It think the main reason why is because I fall closer to the neutral end of bright spring, and because I happen to have the combination of dark, but very bright brown eyes, and dark brown hair, as well as very pale complexion. It also confused me that I could get away with black and white even if warmer black/brown, or eggshell looked better. For me it’s the bright, highly contrasting colors that matter more than the temperature of the colors. Once too much white, or gray are added to a color it really starts to look off, so grays, pastels, icy colors or neons that have too much white added are my absolute worst colors, and make me look tired, and sickly. I worry more about warm or cool when it comes to makeup, or hair color choices because then you can tell it kind of doesn’t work for me if the colors lean cool rather than neutral/warm. It was really freeing for me to figure all of this out because I didn’t feel like I had to be as picky about the color being warm or cool as long as it was clear and bright when picking out clothes, but I can immediately zero in or what makeup colors will work, and which ones won’t.
I'm a spring and can look good in some cool colors like baby blue or icy grey especially when a little tan. We can tend to be very fair with yellow or peach undertones and some cool tones can contrast that nicely. Get a little tan and try on cool light greys and light blues - so so nice!
Try My Color Style. She would call what you are Deep Soft Cool, I believe. I like how she (also a Jen!) breaks down the color variables into three, but different than the seasonal analysis, which can be confusing. I also learned from Merriam Style how adding black to anything cools it down, which is why deeper colors are also cooler no matter their undertone in their true value form (so this is why deep winters can also wear some of deep autumn).
That's a really good point about black cools down any color!
Surely black doesn’t cool down an already cool colour like blue?
I'm a soft summer from your analysis. And I realized it by seeing my favorite colours. As you say seeing pictures of myself does give me this impression. I have porcelain skin with bluish undertones, brown eyes, but I tan easily and have a golden tan afterwards. I always liked soft pinkish bordo, dark pinkish champagne, fort lila and violet, muted greyish turquoise and muted colours in general. When I was younger I would choose black, dark violet, bordo, now I lean more into lighter colours but they need the extra darker accent to not look dull on me. Great video, very accurate.
You could also be a Deep Summer if you need that extra darkness!
You clearly know your stuff! I really enjoy your videos 😊
Wonderfully help and so logical and clear! Thank you.
This is a great video! I am similar to you in that colors being high contrast is the most important characteristic, but since my skin is so pale, I don't get the same contrast from white as you do so I generally need a dark color somewhere in my outfit.
I thought for the longest time that I was primarily muted, because super bright colors like neons looked so terrible on me, but I realized through your earlier videos that a dark saturated color like deep red actually looked amazing on me in comparison to grayed out mid toned colors.
If I had to pick a season, dark/deep autumn would be my choice, but like you said, warmth is not that important, since one of my best colors is actually navy blue.
I'm glad you were able to find your colors through my earlier videos ❤❤❤
The the same exact way! Being quite pale, the brighter colors not giving as much of a contrast makes a huge difference. I always find myself going for very and saturated dark colors frequently! I used to self tan and it definitely opened up my wardrobe to lighter colors! So cool!
@@karleejames3717. Yes! I’m a Strawberry haired Spring with very fair , neutral skin. I can’t wear Warm Spring, but I can’t wear the lighter Light Spring colors either, despite my light red hair, because I cannot tan. My hair is high chroma and my eyes are a vivid dark Olive with gold flecks, so they create enough contrast with my skin to wear the more classic, crayon colors (green, red, yellow, royal blue, etc.). However, I can’t wear the neon, or nearly neon colors. That seems to require more darkness, like the pastel colors do. I can wear light, bright colors…just not pastels or neons, of any shade. I think there are some fair-skinned people who may be able to wear neon, with the thicker pigment layer often found in Winters that creates a stark white skin tone. I have a very thin pigment layer, so a lot of ruddiness shows through, which looks ridiculous with neon.
Thanks for this explanation. It really opened me up to consider more colors than I had previously.
This is such a great and helpful video. Very easy to understand. I was always told I was an autumn because I have hazel-green eyes but now that I have gray hair it's so much more obvious to me that I'm a soft, and both soft autumn and summer work for me.
This is really helpful! I didn't understand why I couldn't determine my actual season. But I'm one of those people who look better in soft, muted colors.
The system is a guide for a personalized palette. I really love this video because it’s realistic. Thank you Jenn ❤
You're welcome ❤ Yes the system is only meant to be used as a guide, but I see so many people expect very concrete rules and palettes that apply for each season and being frustrated about it!
Great video. I've always just thought clarity (no grey in the color) is the single most important thing for me across all colors that look decent on me.
Im so much like you. I especially struggled because I'm a very pale olive skin girlie!😭 This video helped me a lot because I noticed that Im more of a soft winter or like a medium mixture of few seasons.
Fully warm makes me look yellow and fully cool makes me look grey. But bright colors work. I think I'm a bright spring because warmer works slightly better but bright is the most important factor.
thank you so much for this video! it was so very badly needed on social media -- where temperature seems to be the prioritized trait and the other traits are secondary in general!
I'm glad you found the video helpful! ❤❤❤
Thank you for another informative video Jenn!!! 😊
You're so welcome Linda! I'm glad you enjoyed the video ❤❤❤
This video was perfect and super helpful, thank you!! Love hearing another olive and deep autumn/winter girl trying out different colours and walking us through the process.
I'm glad you liked the video! ❤
This was so helpful! I have light olive skin and have always had trouble with but the typical draping because I think I look washed out in both white and ivory.
Thank you for this video!!
Everything in this covered all my conclusions about my own skin tone. I look better in muted and dark tones but just wearing muted colours washes me out and just wearing dark looks too much on me. Deep winter/autumn suits me best but sometimes can be too heavy on me and temperature doesn't matter but warm colors make me a bit yellow. I felt super confused and lost cause it didn't make sense and your video really validated my own conclusions on my skin and made me feel a little less crazy haha.
I'm so glad you found the video helpful and it provided some clarity for you! ❤
That’s the hardest part about finding your color season, subtype and palette…feeling crazy! I often feel crazy, because I have Warm red hair and green/gold eyes, but my pinkish/red undertone is described as unequivocally cool. Yet, my skin tone is yellow/peach and freckle are warm. What am I? I was determined to be between Light and Bright Spring, but I can’t wear the warmest Spring colors and can wear the bright Summer colors. I finally know the palette that works well for me. It’s a Tonal palette, with the brighter Light colors and the lighter Tonal Brights. I was typed as Spring, but can’t wear the warmer Spring colors. They bring out my hair and eyes, but I look like a ghost 👻
@@sciencenotstigma9534 we mixed warm/ cool redheads are the most challenging! ( often very cool undertones , fair skin value, with warm surface or tan freckles, brown or gold eyes with green and either darker auburn ( so high contrast) or golden strawberry blond, we just really don’t fit into a typical season. I think redheads should have a totally different system than the 4 seasons
Really looking forward to the video about your consultations - I have been thinking about signing up. I love your videos!
Coming up on Wednesday! :D
I cant even begin to explain how much I needed this video! Thank you so much! Everything was so very well explained!!!
I'm so glad you found the video helpful! :D
Such a great an helpfull video!! I was colour-analyzed in person and it took hours, but to this day I feel there is something off or limiting my choice to less than possible. Your video helps me a lot!
I'm glad you're finding my videos helpful! ♥ There can be instances where you're typed into a wrong season, or even if it is the right season for you, you might just not feel comfortable with the palette! These things are so personal that it's hard to find a single right answer :)
Thank you for putting the marks on the good examples!! So often in videos like these, I honestly don't know which one is the example of something working!
Haha you're welcome! I'll do that more to make things clear ❤
Great video. Very helpful in understanding the role of contrast and value...which I never really understood before. Thank you.
I'm glad you found the video informative! ❤
Best color analysis I’ve seen. I am definitely going to start taking pictures of myself to help me see what looks best. Thanks for a great video!
You're welcome! I'm glad you found it helpful ❤
This is the best color analysis video I’ve ever seen and I’ve watched I bet a 100. Thank you❤
Aw thank you so much for the sweet comment ❤
It's so comforting to watch your videos 😭
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Best video of color analysis ever! Seriously! 🫶🫶🫶👌👌👌💜💜💜🙏🏻😊☀️
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Wow thank you so much for the compliment! ❤❤❤
I am shooked because I think I have the exact the “issue” as you (in which I need overall contrast with a little bit of softness). Neutral/olive skin. Typed as a deep autumn but doesn’t feel like it fits perfectly. I didn’t know exactly what the issue was but now that saw the video I know I finally know! Thank you!
I’ve just had my first big eureka moment in quite some time thanks to this video. So thank you! The black-gray-white was perfect. As someone who was stuck on the warm/cool question for years (figured out last year finally) I really appreciate you bringing this up in general.
I'm glad you found the video helpful! ❤❤❤
Thanks for this video! Your explained it perfectly.
You're so welcome! I'm glad you found it helpful ❤
Jenn, I found your channel yesterday and I'm binge watching all the videos. Your explanations make so much sense and are better than anything I ever watched/read about color palettes, facial features, etc.
I already changed my eyebrows shape and got bangs, haha 😅
Welcome to the channel ❤❤❤ I'm glad my content is of help to you :D
This is so useful! Thank you ❤
I'm happy you found it useful! ❤
Best explanation of colour analysis ever!! Thank you
I'm glad you think so! Thank you ❤
This was great! Thank you 🌸
You're welcome ❤❤❤
Well done. Such a great way to look at the seasons in a more sophisticated way. I had finally just figured out that I needed DEEP colors and I could cheat a little between autumn and winter deep- now I see why!
Glad you liked the video! ❤
That blew my mind. Gosh thank you. 💗
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Thanks for the fresh logical perspectives. So needed!
I struggle so much with this. I’m medium dark olive, and none of the primary characteristics seem to work for me. I *think* that actually I am most sensitive to temperature, but not ‘has to be warm’ or ‘has to be cool’ - for me it has to be close to neutral. Too warm, terrible. Too cool, terrible. They have to be in the spectrum between perfectly neutral and, say, halfway between neutral and either totally warm or totally cool. The more neutral the better. Those tones can be anywhere between light and dark and also anywhere from muted to bright and they look great on me.
And by neutral I mean neutral in temperature, not classic neutrals. Pure grey is a really cool color, and I do not look good in it. (Shudder). Bright pinky peach is a pretty neutral color.. Taupe? Chef’s kiss. It can be hard to distinguish between ‘neutral in temperature’ and ‘muted’. They’re not the same thing. Especially, muted warm colors can seem close to neutral when they’re really not. Muted pumpkin and that warm beige you demonstrated? Terrible.
This is kind of a book, but it took me so long, I hope it helps someone.
I’m curious if it’s something you’ve come across?
Wow so helpful!!!
This is a really good video. Clears things up for me. I believe I was a deep winter when I was younger and had naturally jet black (almost blue-black) hair. Now I have salt and pepper / grey hair. The soft winter palette definitely suits me better now.
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I have never heard of Soft Winter. Is that in a more expanded system, or do you mean what they call Cool Winter? I’ve noticed it has more light colors than other Winter palettes.
@@sciencenotstigma9534 It is really difficult to find a palette for soft winter online. I've seen that some stylists have a 16 season colour analysis and Soft Winter seems to be part of that. I just know that pure black looks a bit harsh on me now (before it looked amazing, one of my best colours along with royal or navy blue). Now I find I need to add a lighter colour alongside it to soften it. But I know I'm definitely not a summer - they are too muted and without enough contrast for me.
@@sciencenotstigma9534 As explained in the video, softer means more grey is in the hue.
This is why I love dressing according to your energy - like via the Dressing Your Truth method by Carol Tuttle. So liberating!
I've never heard of it but it looks cool! I'm gonna watch some of her videos now ♥
Brilliant video ❤ I've seen tones and tones of color analysis videos and I can say with confidence that your way of approaching the subject is by far the most interesting and logical. So thank you ❤
Glad you enjoyed it!
You really are helping me, so I know you are really helping so many people!
Thanks beautiful!!!
It makes me so happy to hear that you're finding my content helpful ❤❤❤ You are so welcome!!
I tried so hard to determine my season. Allways thought that I'm neutral, but in every video they say that you have to be warm or cool. Now I understand that softness is the thing to pay attention to. Thank you.
this was soooo useful !! thank you so much omg
I'm glad you found it useful! ❤
Loved this video!! This pretty much explains The Tonal system analysis 🙌🏼 thanks so much for putting it so clearly!
I'm glad you found it helpful! :)
I'm so excited about the updates to your consultation structure! I currently have an alarm set up for your bookings open which is 4:55 am NZ time😅
The updates are precisely for people that are outside of my own time zone ❤
This is exactly what I've been looking for 💕. I consider myself neutral undertones, maybe a touch cool-leaning, and it's extra hard as I have chronic illness and often look sickly so a colour that suits me on a good day looks awful on a bad day!
Knowing about the saturation and tone aspects resonates heaps with me, I'll definitely be thinking about that more now that you've articulated it so well!
I'm glad you found the video relatable and helpful ❤❤❤
This video describes my situation perfectly. I’ve frustrated myself trying the linear way. So much more clear now. Thank you! (I need to keep it soft and muted in either the warm or cool color I choose to wear.)
I'm glad you resonated with the video! ❤
I also noticed that some “tests” for the first step, temperature, are unsuccessful because the colours chosen are unhelpful. For example bright blue vs bright orange. Say you are not a very bright season, and you see the blue as very strong, you may not see it as better than orange, even if you are cool.
That’s why it takes a long time sometimes and involves many many tests.
These quick tests will simply not work for many people.
Fair points!
Brilliant! Your angle is revolutionary.
Thank you so much Susan! ❤
This was the most in-depth easy to understand video I have seen on color theory, and I've watched A-lot.
Thank you for the compliment! I'm glad you found the video informative :)
just found your channel and I'm loving all your videos they are very helpful! I'm not sure if you're if you know about the kibble body type system but if you're interested I would love to see some videos on that subject :)
Some people have been requesting Kibbe videos but I'm not well versed at it so I'm still in the process of learning :) Work in progress!
Appreciate this video! I’ve learned I can wear both warm and cool colors so long as they’re soft and muted with a bit of contrast but overly bright or dark colors can look harsh on me 🙌
I'm glad you liked the video! I'm similar to you but lean more towards dark ❤
Hey Jenn, great video! It's crazy, but I have almost the exact same situation as you and I already figured it out on my own that I would theoretically fall under deep autumn-deep winter, but not exactly. It's so awesome to see someone with the exact same issue and explain it sooo well and give so helpful advice! By the way, I LOVE to wear white, although my stylist who typed me said I should wear dark autumn colours, but honestly it's just not my vibe 😭 I do wear deep autumn colours, too, but personally I prefer light and bright colours.
You wear what you feel the most comfortable in! ❤❤❤
Temperature was my biggest hurdle with colour analysis, and I was convinced I was Light Spring before I was types professionally as a Light Summer. It is only when I get to the autumn colours or warmest of the spring colours I really see how bad warmth can look on me. But I think white is absolutely awful on me and completely drains all colour from my complexion. I believe it’s the clarity of white that doesn’t work, but I wear loads of ivory as my lightest basic.
Omg this made so much sense why I could pull colors from cool tones as well as warm tones ❤❤❤ ty for this
You're so welcome! Glad you found the video helpful ❤
@@stylemejenn can you make a video with actual test subject getting a make over?? Make overs are so fun 🤩
Really informative video!!
Glad it was helpful! ❤️
Wow you explained this so well, great job and thank you! I go back and forth between thinking I’m bright spring or bright winter all the time, but definitely muted colors look the worst on me.
I'm glad you liked the explanations! As long as you know that bright colors suit you the best and clarity of the colors is the most important to you that's all that matters :D
Hundreds of videos but this is def one of the most helpful ones! Thank you!
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So helpful!!
I'm glad!
Fantastic video, THANK YOU! I'm in the same spot as you--I'm a light olive in between Dark Winter and Dark Autumn (but not veering too far into either) and also need a bit of softness. The mid-tone meh and why bright lipsticks look too intense on me finally make sense! No wonder even the grey I prefer is more of a darker grey.
Yay skin twinss ❤❤❤ I'm glad you liked the video!
You’re the only person that makes sense on this difficult topic. I almost understand.😮
Thank you so much!! I'm so glad you found the video helpful
Yes, thank you very much for this video. I did a colour analsys about five or six month ago. I turned out to be a (soft) autumn. No big surprise fo rme. Most of the colours I do like. Still, I don't like every colour in my pallette on me for reasons. And I still have some black tops ... makes me look mean, but sometimes that is just what I'm going for. Funnily enough, white is not as "bad" for me as black (most of my lighter tops are creme or ivory but I think, I have one nice blouse in white) but grey is absolutely terrible. I'm still learning but I am glad I made the colour analysis. Helps me to quicker decide what I want or not.
First time to your channel!!! This is so good!!! Love this info!!🩵
I'm glad you liked the video! Welcome to the channel :)
I think clarity then depth then temperature are the most important characteristics on determining what colour looks good on me, thanks for your help!
Glad it was helpful!
That helped a lot! Thank you so much 🥰
You’re welcome! Glad you enjoyed the video ❤️
Great video Jenn. I think I’m Olive too. I have found this very confusing, so this video really helps me, thank you. Do you do online consultations for people in the UK?
I'm glad you found the video helpful! My consultations are 100% virtual so it doesn't matter where you live, but currently I'm only focusing on proportional analysis for my services :)
Yay! This finally gives me my answer. I can wear both soft summer and soft Autumn colors and really didn't know why. Now I know that as long as it's soft and muted I can pull it off. Thanks!!!
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This video is the missing link that I was looking for. Congratulations to your clear pronounciation. It enabled me as a German to understand the content. Thanks a lot. I send you greetings from Munich ❤
Aw thank you! I’m glad the video provided clarification for you ❤️❤️❤️
This video was so - clarifying, pardon the expression! I'm soft/muted, and those shares with Autumn/Summer have baffled me forever. THANK YOU
I’m glad you found the video helpful! ❤️
Touché! Finally! I have watched a ton of videos on this and nothing made any sense when I went to use the information. I have an olive complexion and the warm vs cool just didn't work but I noticed that pastels absolutely don't work . . . Thank you!!
You're so welcome - I'm glad you found it helpful! ♥
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I love how unique your videos are and that you understand how touchy color can really be. I am trying to find a plumberry blush. It can't have too much red or brown or it looks like I have dirt on my cheeks! I love that you understand how hard it really is to find our colors. 🥰
I know the feeling when what seems like a tiny difference to the eye makes a huge difference when you actually apply it on your skin!!
You might try looking at ULTA's own brand of Flushed Blush in the shade "Pink with Envy." It's a dark pink color, similar to Lancome's Aplum.
@@nickyonstilts128 Thanks very much! 🌹
I have very pale, cool skin but warm dark auburn hair, golden brown eyes with a bit of green flecks, and neutral/warm tan freckles. Very contrasting colors with the pale skin and dark hair. Cool underneath but warm surface. I am definitely a mix and have always had a hard time finding my colors. One thing I know for sure is that pale pastels look horrible on me. White makes me look like a ghost, cream not much better.
In summer I can get away with aqua but thats about it. Ive always felt more comfortable in darker, richer colors, but not absolutely pure “jewel” tones. And definitely cant just wear all autumn colors as I was told when I was younger. Would love to see that mix analyzed, a lot of redheads actually have this cool/warm mix. I seem to veer towards non primary colors, plum or burgundy, periwinkle or teal not pure blue. Its all so interesting!
It sounds like contrast is very important for you, and colors of low value (with a lot of black added to pure colors) is the most important characteristic! I wonder how you do with soft colors that contain a lot of gray (like Soft Autumn / Soft Summer colors)?
@@stylemejenn I can wear some but not all, a can wear a soft denim blue if a mid tone but not too pale. I dont see the other “greyed” tones very often so havent tried very many. Definitely not greyed out and light.
Omg I can't thank you enough for this video. I learned about the color theory more than a year ago and I've been trying to find my undertone and season ever since. I couldn't tell if I was warm or cool with any method I tried, so I decided that I am neutral. But I couldn't find my season because I thought undertone was the first step and I got overwhelmed and even stopped trying. Until this video! Now I'm thinking that maybe I could be a "soft winter." Thank you so much Jenn! 🥰
I'm glad you found the video helpful! :)
I needed this so much. I am a soft summer, but also love olive green and warm browns, and wear both silver and gold jewelry. I felt like I must be doing something wrong, but I think muted contrast is more important for me than temperature. Thanks so much!
I'm glad you found the video helpful! ❤❤❤
This was so helpful, thank you!
Ellie Jean in England developed her own style roots to reflect one's personal style and then recommends picking the 3 that reflect you the most. Maybe it'll give direction on that end to some of you. 😊
Yes I have seen her videos about style roots which I thought was quite interesting! ❤
Wow, this is the video I was needing! I was so confused, believing I had "changed seasons" (when all stylist say seasons never change). That was cause I felt equally towards how I looked in cool and warm colors - provided they were bright. Now you've made me understand temperature is not the decisive factor for me. Thank you so much!
I'm glad you found the video helpful! ❤