I have green olive undertones, and my favorite blush is the orange NYX butter blush. It looks like my natural blush tone, I love it. It's definitely not red though
UGH, its so damned rare to find someone who actually UNDERSTANDS colour theory PROPERLY. Thank you for not just blindly following trends for influencer points, and showing people how to do shit PROPERLY. You're a goddess.
@@cecilialait looks like she used the one in the limited edition mini bundle. The shade is called Beloved. It’s still available at Sephora but you have to buy the bundle.
@@ceciliala Beloved! In the mini bundle :) I have it and I'm pale and DAYM I can only use a pin sized dot per cheek but it's such a pretty red toned blush. Great for fall and winter :)
The makeup artist who did the Victoria's Secret is the creator of the RMS Beauty. her makeup is truly beautiful and I love that she always features women of all ages.
Yes! Was looking for this comment. Because she also specified it was her red blue she used. I wish ppl would use that red blush instead of all these random ones
i have one of the serum lipsticks (?) in shade “monica” and the formula is very interesting!! it always feels cold when i apply even though it’s a lipstick formula and isn’t minty. “monica” is a good mid-tone red for me as a pale, cool olive because even though it’s more warm than i prefer, it still works :))
This makes so much sense! I'm a black woman with a medium-deep skin tone and warm-olive undertone and I wondered why certain bright colors look so wrong on me. One of my favorite blushes is a muted orange color and now I get why! Thank you girl 😊
To be fair, this doesn’t apply to everyone with olive skin regardless of the depth. I have neutral warm olive skin and muted products Make me look dead bc of the grayish effect being green/yellow gives my skin. I can’t use bright colors like the blush mentioned either, I have to use deep colors with a neutral to warm undertone
Yes! As a pale olive girl, I love terracotta blushes or more brown toned blushes (mauve instead of pink, for example). Bright blushes or lipsticks (like most pinks and reds) make me look unwell lol
i can only do a super purple-y mauve lol 😭😭 the only blush i stay with consistently is the essence baked shimmer one (truly beautiful 🥲) and sometimes i add a tiny bit more purple blush to amp it up even more! i cannot do orchid purple blushes (like the clinique pansy pop one) because it’s too bright, but i also reallyyyy don’t like the black honey pop blush from clinique because it looks amazing in pan… but when i put it on, it looks straight up terracotta which i do not like… it’s interesting learning more about olive skintones because i never thought that we had the warm-cool spectrum too!! i’m also a pale, but cool olive, so for red lipstick as an example, i cannot do anything but one that has brown as well as purple undertones-i can imagine that if you’re warm olive, that muted purple undertones wouldn’t work, but muted orange would :))) i’d really recommend looking for bricky or more muted reds because i absolutely despised wearing red lipstick until i tried revlon’s “vampire love” last year
Compared to the Rare Beauty, the Armani looked neon red when you swatched them side-by-side. It's still astounding how much different pigment in a bottle looks different when applied to human skin.
I love SO MUCH that you clarify that in the end it's just preference. You're giving people the tools to help understand makeup better and how best to use it but also not putting anyone down, and I think that's so important ❤
One of the ways you can tailor these types of blushes to your undertone is to mix them with your concealer or foundation. If the base product matches your skin tone properly, this will add the green and brown to subdue bright colors.
Placement matters too. Red looks best for a ‘point’ blush Kbeauty technique (just in the center of a base blush) instead of being swept from the front of your face and up to the sides.
Whether I put it in the center or the side it’s still gonna make other parts of my face pull more green cause my skin has more green in it already. It’s why on camera when I wear blue I look more orange it’s color theory!
I’m a brown girl, but how do I figure out my undertone. I wear neutral foundation because the yellow or pink versions always looks terrible on me. Could I have a green undertone - how do I figure it out?
Do you think the Rare beauty blush in the shade Love is a good muted brick red? Love that you're sharing your knowledge. You've saved me so much time when choosing makeup for my skin ❤
Color theory is WILD! My skin tone is a lot lighter than yours, but it’s still VERY olive-y and has a good bit of green in it, that’s why I use a terracotta colored blush, it looks so much more natural on my skin tone than straight up red blush
The red one looks like sunburn on you whereas the desaturated one actually looks like a more natural blush to me. Very nice application of colour theory and clear explaination
As a light medium olive girl, yess! True reds make me look sick, but the darker desaturated red shades look amazing on me! My bf always says those reds were made for me
Huh this makes me think of that filter that mentioned how much contrast your face has, and how you shouldn't do hard contrast makeup if your face has soft contrast or something like that. I wonder what the really pigmented red would count as
Girl, you look better without a blush, or very subtle. I love your make up, but your blush application is always like a bruise or if you'd been slapped.
Right?! It's so frustrating, like she would look soooo good with a better placement and less, even less foundation would also level up her make up look in my opinion
As a pale girl who always has green concealer for redness you mixing the green with the red just blew my mind! I prefer having a neutral brown ish red ish kind of blush and you just changed the game for me!
I’m white, but my skin is tan and olive-y. My favorite blush is a reddish purple color. Reds and oranges and yellows just kinda make me look orange/green. So things that are more blue make me look more neutral.
Tbh I'm really pale too and i wear red blush (well it's my red lipstick but it's the same) and it looks pretty good, i just needed to make sure I won't put too much and that it's coolish red, not warm one because i have pink undertones
I’m very fair and have used red blue blush for years to add a natural healthy glow from within look. With red blush I apply where the sun would hit me first (nose, tops of cheeks forehead, chin, collarbone) for a very natural look.
i absolutely adore the new rare beauty blush and was wondering if you could do a makeup look with out foundation and and bronzer/ contour. I really like your style and want to try a fun makeup look with all the holidays. coming up pls
To mute any color you must add grey (both white and black pigment) or mix in its complimentary color (I.e. green into red, blue into orange, etc) adding only white makes the color pastel, adding only black makes it a shade.❤
This helps me SM because I have warm undertones but bright colors always wash me out. Now ik that I need to find a warm but desaturated color for my lipstick and blush.
That model actually used rms lip 2 cheek in beloved not Rare beauty nd all. Nd when she did used it it did looked alot more natural cause she didnt applied too much product, it was more subtle. And kinda orange on darker skin tones looks pink if you are fairer
Its going to depend on the undertone tbh, its not necessarily the saturation. Color theory means diff types of reds will look better on diff undertones ie cool toned vs warm toned vs neutral red. This is the same for pale to dark
I never really cared about what color my blush was until yesterday when I tried a sample of mad hippie in the color poppy. I was absolutely shook. The color is so stunning and it actually stayed on all day!! Super clean ingredients. highly recommend you try. I am dark skin.
To see what blush is likely to work for you, look at 4 things: how warm/cool is your skin? How gray is it? How olive is it? How dark is it? I’m pale/olive/slightly warm/slightly gray. A very purple or fuschia blush won’t work that well with my warmth /olive/grayness; a true red blush also won’t work that well with my grayness; the best blush for me is a warm dusty rose, which has warmth/grayness and works for pale skin. And doesn’t interact with olive tones. A note about what causes olive: hemoglobin in your skin causes the olive tones visible in certain people (from any race, with any skin tone). I’m also low-medium contrast overall, so very dramatic blush is overpowering. I use a neutral-toned bronzer and dusty rose blush and it looks very natural.
Oh wow.. I love your videos.. they're so eye-opening. Do brands... take color theory into consideration.. when making colors like this? Like, have a red tone maybe in one or two shades.. that you CAN use across all skin tones.. it should just depend on how much you use? Is that even a possibility? I feel like if we made more colors with less white toned fillers it could and wpuld be possible? Am I wrong? 🤔
yeah i see it now, the bright one really does bring the green out of her skin tone which makes her look ghostly??!... 😮 so that means the bright red blush was missing green and was fighting against her natural greenish pigments. so adding green to the bright blush helps to mute it to match her olive muted skin shade 🤔
I’m super pale but I also have a neutral undertone and red just looks like muddy orange on me. Red is really only appropriate for a very specific group of people
I have a warm undertone nd im indian the red actually works so well for me . Since tht victoria secret video ive been doing it. It really adds tht depth .
Ive been toning down the red blush from Milk via powder or underpainting (depending on which techniques Im experimenting with that day). Its been working out so far, but I think it might be me inadvertently using color theory. 😂😂
I literally just ordered that limited edition rare beauty blush two weeks ago cause it looked great on my neutral olive skin! True red looks awful on my skin
Omg someone finally explained why my face looks dull in comparision to my blush!! It would either look ashy or slightly green. Unfortunately the cheeks area of my face are a lil redder/lighter while the rest of my face is more than and sometimes dull. Is it possible to have two undertones on your face?
I have a pale olive skin tone and normally I like my reds to be a little brown or dark orangy, but I love the red blush on me, pink is not my color, so I love better with more vibrant colors like a red. Still I know a brownish red would look more flattering on me hahaha.
I wonder how orange would look? Still bright but has yellow so is closer to olive?
It’s still too “bright” it’s not a matter of shade but a matter of saturation! I love desaturated orange blushes ✨
@@makeupbymonicaa that makes sense! It would be cool to see the desaturated orange
i have a cool olive undertone & orange blush looks awful on me 😭
I have green olive undertones, and my favorite blush is the orange NYX butter blush. It looks like my natural blush tone, I love it. It's definitely not red though
@@Ri-Valelf cosmetics shade bronze bombshell I use it as my example of desaturated orange blush all the time! :)
UGH, its so damned rare to find someone who actually UNDERSTANDS colour theory PROPERLY. Thank you for not just blindly following trends for influencer points, and showing people how to do shit PROPERLY. You're a goddess.
Watch kackie beauty. She goes IN DEPTHHH on this topic
That rare beauty blush looks phenomenal on you
So true
Does anyone know what the shade name is?
@@cecilialathat’s what I wanna know 😂
@@cecilialait looks like she used the one in the limited edition mini bundle. The shade is called Beloved. It’s still available at Sephora but you have to buy the bundle.
@@ceciliala Beloved! In the mini bundle :) I have it and I'm pale and DAYM I can only use a pin sized dot per cheek but it's such a pretty red toned blush. Great for fall and winter :)
As an artist i 100% agree with you on this, i love giving my art a natural flush so i always desaturate and lower opacity on darker skin tones
I was gonna say something really similar!! I'm a scenic artist for theatres and I love learning color theory from new places
Yess I used to do traditional art in hs but moved into makeup after I graduated and so much of what I learned in school helps me with doing makeup
Just depends on the undertones, most dark people have warm undertones, some of us are olive, and it's rare to be true cool as a darkskin
The makeup artist who did the Victoria's Secret is the creator of the RMS Beauty. her makeup is truly beautiful and I love that she always features women of all ages.
Yes! Was looking for this comment. Because she also specified it was her red blue she used. I wish ppl would use that red blush instead of all these random ones
See I thought she was creator of RMS but I wasn't sure! Thanks for confirming!
Her name is Rose-Marie Smith. Her brand RMS is her initials.
@@lilcastro04 exactly
i have one of the serum lipsticks (?) in shade “monica” and the formula is very interesting!! it always feels cold when i apply even though it’s a lipstick formula and isn’t minty. “monica” is a good mid-tone red for me as a pale, cool olive because even though it’s more warm than i prefer, it still works :))
This makes so much sense! I'm a black woman with a medium-deep skin tone and warm-olive undertone and I wondered why certain bright colors look so wrong on me. One of my favorite blushes is a muted orange color and now I get why! Thank you girl 😊
To be fair, this doesn’t apply to everyone with olive skin regardless of the depth. I have neutral warm olive skin and muted products Make me look dead bc of the grayish effect being green/yellow gives my skin. I can’t use bright colors like the blush mentioned either, I have to use deep colors with a neutral to warm undertone
Yes! As a pale olive girl, I love terracotta blushes or more brown toned blushes (mauve instead of pink, for example). Bright blushes or lipsticks (like most pinks and reds) make me look unwell lol
i can only do a super purple-y mauve lol 😭😭 the only blush i stay with consistently is the essence baked shimmer one (truly beautiful 🥲) and sometimes i add a tiny bit more purple blush to amp it up even more!
i cannot do orchid purple blushes (like the clinique pansy pop one) because it’s too bright, but i also reallyyyy don’t like the black honey pop blush from clinique because it looks amazing in pan… but when i put it on, it looks straight up terracotta which i do not like…
it’s interesting learning more about olive skintones because i never thought that we had the warm-cool spectrum too!! i’m also a pale, but cool olive, so for red lipstick as an example, i cannot do anything but one that has brown as well as purple undertones-i can imagine that if you’re warm olive, that muted purple undertones wouldn’t work, but muted orange would :)))
i’d really recommend looking for bricky or more muted reds because i absolutely despised wearing red lipstick until i tried revlon’s “vampire love” last year
Compared to the Rare Beauty, the Armani looked neon red when you swatched them side-by-side. It's still astounding how much different pigment in a bottle looks different when applied to human skin.
I love SO MUCH that you clarify that in the end it's just preference. You're giving people the tools to help understand makeup better and how best to use it but also not putting anyone down, and I think that's so important ❤
One of the ways you can tailor these types of blushes to your undertone is to mix them with your concealer or foundation. If the base product matches your skin tone properly, this will add the green and brown to subdue bright colors.
u look so good with the rare beauty blush!!
Very true, but also, the other girl put A LOT of blush on 😅😅 if she had used less it might have been less vibrant 🥹🥹❤️
Placement matters too. Red looks best for a ‘point’ blush Kbeauty technique (just in the center of a base blush) instead of being swept from the front of your face and up to the sides.
Whether I put it in the center or the side it’s still gonna make other parts of my face pull more green cause my skin has more green in it already. It’s why on camera when I wear blue I look more orange it’s color theory!
red blushes are my favourite when doing a "sick" makeup look because of how it just looks slightly off on me lol
Milani has a beautiful merlot color that looks fab in brown skin.
What product/shade is it? I’ve been wanting to try Milani blush haha
@nawalk7263 Milani cheek kiss (cream blush) color merlot moment
We need a whole video on color theory
Wow this is cool! The green drops would make feel like a scientist every morning
That’s why brick red blush looks amazing on brown skin!
I think the issue is people are Mia quoting her. She used a specific red blush from RMS. Not just red blush. As red comes in many shades.
Not just that but she is the creator of RMS beauty and it's a blue toned red.
I’m a brown girl, but how do I figure out my undertone. I wear neutral foundation because the yellow or pink versions always looks terrible on me. Could I have a green undertone - how do I figure it out?
Do you think the Rare beauty blush in the shade Love is a good muted brick red? Love that you're sharing your knowledge. You've saved me so much time when choosing makeup for my skin ❤
Love is muted!!
Color theory is WILD! My skin tone is a lot lighter than yours, but it’s still VERY olive-y and has a good bit of green in it, that’s why I use a terracotta colored blush, it looks so much more natural on my skin tone than straight up red blush
the elf red liquid blush is gorge too
The red one looks like sunburn on you whereas the desaturated one actually looks like a more natural blush to me. Very nice application of colour theory and clear explaination
They both look beautiful, but you're absolutely right. The desaturated version looks better. Regardless you rock everything.
She was talking about the RMS lip to cheek in beloved, but everyone has used different red blushes in their own videos.
The red one looks like rosecea and the brick red is beautiful
yess i do this w my hair dye everytime, i always mix some opposite color to my blues or purples to make them darker and less saturated
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As a light medium olive girl, yess! True reds make me look sick, but the darker desaturated red shades look amazing on me! My bf always says those reds were made for me
When makeup tutorials feels like science lessons 😂❤
Bro the way this all clicked when you added the green to mute the red omg
Love Colour theory! I am also a brown girl but i rock red blushes ❤️
This is a great video thank you. Love it.❤❤
Ugh, thank you!! I have pale olive-tone skin and these tips always work on me too
As a girl who loves pinks and reds but has a neutral brown skin, THANK YOU. The way I’m about to RUN to buy green color corrector when I get paid.
Omggg you cooked with this!! You always come in solid for us brown girlies ❤
The RB blush actually has more blue in it. A bit of blue added to red makes it less warm and less bright.
Huh this makes me think of that filter that mentioned how much contrast your face has, and how you shouldn't do hard contrast makeup if your face has soft contrast or something like that. I wonder what the really pigmented red would count as
Hi! You should review etude's dear darling watery lip and cheek tint in the shade cherry, I would love to see it on an olive undertone
BROOOOOO the rare beautiful one looks insane!!!
MONICA BEING A MAKEUP SUPERHERO🫡❤️
I love the explaintion !!
where’s the green pigment from
Girl, you look better without a blush, or very subtle. I love your make up, but your blush application is always like a bruise or if you'd been slapped.
Right?! It's so frustrating, like she would look soooo good with a better placement and less, even less foundation would also level up her make up look in my opinion
@@lillrich9894totally!! She is so so beautiful. Bit less make up and subtle blush would really highlight her natural beauty!
Such a good explanation!!
As a pale girl who always has green concealer for redness you mixing the green with the red just blew my mind! I prefer having a neutral brown ish red ish kind of blush and you just changed the game for me!
Hope you launch your own beauty brand soon ❤❤❤
I’m white, but my skin is tan and olive-y. My favorite blush is a reddish purple color. Reds and oranges and yellows just kinda make me look orange/green. So things that are more blue make me look more neutral.
what shade is that rare beauty blush?
Beloved!
As someone who's really pale, the red blush would make me look like a clown 😭
Tbh I'm really pale too and i wear red blush (well it's my red lipstick but it's the same) and it looks pretty good, i just needed to make sure I won't put too much and that it's coolish red, not warm one because i have pink undertones
I’m very fair and have used red blue blush for years to add a natural healthy glow from within look. With red blush I apply where the sun would hit me first (nose, tops of cheeks forehead, chin, collarbone) for a very natural look.
As an artist I love that she’s teaching us color theory cause I was LOST
i absolutely adore the new rare beauty blush and was wondering if you could do a makeup look with out foundation and and bronzer/ contour. I really like your style and want to try a fun makeup look with all the holidays. coming up
pls
You're a genius!!
To mute any color you must add grey (both white and black pigment) or mix in its complimentary color (I.e. green into red, blue into orange, etc) adding only white makes the color pastel, adding only black makes it a shade.❤
Ah this is so well done! You go girl!
So important..Great vid.
No but seriously you're so intelligent!!
This helps me SM because I have warm undertones but bright colors always wash me out. Now ik that I need to find a warm but desaturated color for my lipstick and blush.
That model actually used rms lip 2 cheek in beloved not Rare beauty nd all. Nd when she did used it it did looked alot more natural cause she didnt applied too much product, it was more subtle. And kinda orange on darker skin tones looks pink if you are fairer
Its going to depend on the undertone tbh, its not necessarily the saturation. Color theory means diff types of reds will look better on diff undertones ie cool toned vs warm toned vs neutral red. This is the same for pale to dark
You keep me so educated on color theory
Please can u share the deeds on the green pigment? @Monica Ravichandran
Love your vids! You give so much useful information ❤ I have learnt so much. Thanks! ❤
I'd say this is more of a bright versus muted situation. The darker red is more muted
I really really REALLY wanna hear Monica say “But that’s just a theory, a COLOR THEORY!”
The original artist uses and works for RMS Beauty. Why not try the brand out?
hs mm ...good color match 🤔 got me doubting but it looks out so good at the end! 😮🎉
I saw that actual artist use the potted sheer red cream blush. She makes the actual blush for a japanese brand.
I never really cared about what color my blush was until yesterday when I tried a sample of mad hippie in the color poppy. I was absolutely shook. The color is so stunning and it actually stayed on all day!! Super clean ingredients. highly recommend you try. I am dark skin.
Perfect explanation as always
I might not have brown undertones but this is still so cool!😮😊 Color theory is awesome! Super fun Channel! ❤
To see what blush is likely to work for you, look at 4 things: how warm/cool is your skin? How gray is it? How olive is it? How dark is it?
I’m pale/olive/slightly warm/slightly gray. A very purple or fuschia blush won’t work that well with my warmth /olive/grayness; a true red blush also won’t work that well with my grayness; the best blush for me is a warm dusty rose, which has warmth/grayness and works for pale skin. And doesn’t interact with olive tones. A note about what causes olive: hemoglobin in your skin causes the olive tones visible in certain people (from any race, with any skin tone). I’m also low-medium contrast overall, so very dramatic blush is overpowering. I use a neutral-toned bronzer and dusty rose blush and it looks very natural.
They both look good on you. You didn’t apply 10lbs of it
What green pigments do you use to save bright makeups? Please 🥲💖
i’ve been loooving wearing red blush for like a year now it looks so great on my skin tone, I feel like everybody found out my little secret now 😭
Oh wow.. I love your videos.. they're so eye-opening. Do brands... take color theory into consideration.. when making colors like this? Like, have a red tone maybe in one or two shades.. that you CAN use across all skin tones.. it should just depend on how much you use? Is that even a possibility? I feel like if we made more colors with less white toned fillers it could and wpuld be possible? Am I wrong? 🤔
Yes to saturation! I find I need things to have a mauvey tint for it to look normal on me.
Omg I need a desaturated dusty purple blush. Mauve looks brighttt pink on me. So difficult these days.
Also..You're absolutely beautiful ❤
yeah i see it now, the bright one really does bring the green out of her skin tone which makes her look ghostly??!... 😮 so that means the bright red blush was missing green and was fighting against her natural greenish pigments. so adding green to the bright blush helps to mute it to match her olive muted skin shade 🤔
I’m super pale but I also have a neutral undertone and red just looks like muddy orange on me. Red is really only appropriate for a very specific group of people
I have a warm undertone nd im indian the red actually works so well for me . Since tht victoria secret video ive been doing it. It really adds tht depth .
Ive been toning down the red blush from Milk via powder or underpainting (depending on which techniques Im experimenting with that day). Its been working out so far, but I think it might be me inadvertently using color theory. 😂😂
I literally just ordered that limited edition rare beauty blush two weeks ago cause it looked great on my neutral olive skin! True red looks awful on my skin
May i ask what shade is that rare beauty blush? Thank you 🫶🏻
I have green olive undertones, and my favorite blush is the orange NYX butter blush. It looks like my natural flush❤
Omg someone finally explained why my face looks dull in comparision to my blush!!
It would either look ashy or slightly green. Unfortunately the cheeks area of my face are a lil redder/lighter while the rest of my face is more than and sometimes dull. Is it possible to have two undertones on your face?
Hi Monica 😊 hope you're well. Wheres the green pigment from?
I need to find someone my shade. I’m very neutral tan but not dark idk lol
I have a pale olive skin tone and normally I like my reds to be a little brown or dark orangy, but I love the red blush on me, pink is not my color, so I love better with more vibrant colors like a red. Still I know a brownish red would look more flattering on me hahaha.
Yup I always have my green corrector ready. I found out I was cool tone. Just because you’re brown doesn’t mean your warm tone.
Yess looks so good!
Does desaturated colours also goes for light olive tones?
Thank you. I’m very pale but I still have an olive undertone and yeah the bright red makes me look green
out here doing the lord's work!
You are doing for the Indian makeup community, what Einstein did for the world.
I love your content! Always very interesting and informative! Thanks ❤
I’ve seen another POC creator do the trend but said to dab it on the back of your hand first and then apply, maybe they’ll make a difference
You really know your stuff it’s so awesome!