Here's How To Find the PERFECT Neutral Palette
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- čas přidán 20. 02. 2023
- Hey guys! Today I am sharing with you some tips on how to find the perfect neutral eyeshadow palette. Picking out the right neutral tones can be tricky- some shades are gray and dull, others can pull too warm and orange. But I am going to show you some of my favorite neutral palettes and share with you where they fall on my self-created neutral scale, along with swatches and tips! I hope you find it helpful! Thanks so much for watching!
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Natasha Denona Glam palette: go.magik.ly/ml/1raj5/
Nabla Side by Side palette: go.magik.ly/ml/1raiy/
Colourpop That's Taupe: go.magik.ly/ml/1rajk/
Nabla Cutie Nude palette: go.magik.ly/ml/1hgbh/
Anastasia Soft Glam: go.magik.ly/ml/1rajf/
Persona Identity palette: go.magik.ly/ml/1rajg/
Huda Beauty Empowered: go.magik.ly/ml/1raj9/
Colourpop Feelin' Bubbly: go.magik.ly/ml/1raiz/
Natasha Denona Bronze: go.magik.ly/ml/1raji/
Alter Ego Sahara palette: shopalterego.com/products/sahara
Patrick Ta Major Dimensions: go.magik.ly/ml/1raj1/
Tartelette In Bloom palette: go.magik.ly/ml/1raj8/
Anastasia Rose Metals: go.magik.ly/ml/1rajc/
Colourpop Going Coconuts: go.magik.ly/ml/s1bz/
On me:
Dior Backstage foundation: go.magik.ly/ml/1rajm/
IT Cosmetic Bye Bye undereye: go.magik.ly/ml/1dkpa/
Milani Liquid Contour: go.magik.ly/ml/1rajo/
Revlon Highlighter: go.magik.ly/ml/192ot/
MAC Warm Soul blush: go.magik.ly/ml/1rajp/
Tower 28 mascara: go.magik.ly/ml/1mk9a/
Charlotte Tilbury lipliner in Pillowtalk: go.magik.ly/ml/1fbx6/
Maybelline Lifter gloss in Opal: go.magik.ly/ml/1rajq/
Benefit Precisely My Brow: go.magik.ly/ml/1rajr/
ABH Brow Freeze: go.magik.ly/ml/1rajs/ - Jak na to + styl
I wish every creator did this! I’m a cool tuned girl. When reviewing them , maybe stating it’s a warm or cool tones would be a big help to us viewers. Or maybe help us understand how to see cool or warm tones in a palette. I always have this issue. Now it’s makeup and if u wanna have fun, totally have fun, but when ur trying to make something stand out understanding the tones to me anyways is so much easier.
Do you know what I hate, palettes that have cool toned mattes with warm shimmers. Monsters.
@@annadominguez9897 yes!!!! Soo frustrating 🙄
I wish creators would state their undertone in the description so we have sort of a guide sometimes
@@annadominguez9897Yess! And that's ALL of them. There are literally no light neutral shimmers that are actually cool-toned anywhere. Same goes for light mattes but you can at least find some mid-toned ones you can apply lightly and it can work. But it's incredibly frustrating to see palettes being called cool-toned and not being able to create one full look with them that is actually that. Cool undertones in neutrals are not a fad, we need them specifically for them to look "neutral" on us. If it shows up yellow on me, then it's not a cool-toned neutral.
Oh me too
This is brilliant. I think you are the only one that has done cool tones and warm scale. Absolutely, Brilliant.
@sandywilkerson1843 - I can’t agree more! I really do learn something new with each video. Thank you Mandy!! ❤
OMG - thank you so much for talking about the elephant in the room! I have a slightly cool undertone and consistently when someone says a palette is cool-toned, I get it and it’s too warm for me. Going Coconuts is one where influencers said “it’s cool-toned neutral,” but on me, it’s just warm. You are spot on about lighting and the reviewer’s undertone, and I would so appreciate if reviewers did a ranking of where on the cool to warm spectrum a palette falls. Soooo helpful! Thank you again for your great content!
I have the same problem.Very frustrating!
We are all unique in all our products (mascaras, shadows etc.) but I found this REALLY helpful. Your look today is stunning Mandy (not that you aren't always!) I have the Kiss Alter Ego palette (a dupe for the Natasha Denona Glam) and I *LOVE* it. I loved your cool/warm rating. Love your creative content and that you also focus on drugstore. ♥ Elle
I love this idea! Everyone reviewing neutral palettes needs to refer to your scale! Although as a cool toned gal I think your whole scale leans a bit warm. My favourite neutrals are rare to find - pink toned grays! Grays with zero blue tones in them. ND has too much yellow in her "neutral" eyeshadows for me, even if the shades don't lean warm, the yellow makes them look off if I'm not careful.
Love this scale format. ❤
Love your videos and using a scale makes my marketing researcher’s heart flutter. Suggestion, if you don’t mind: make your scale a 9 point, so you have a true middle (5). In your notes, put the number before your links so if one listens, they know what those numbers mean, but wouldn’t otherwise; this will allow me to come back and quickly find what I was looking for. And just rate using whole numbers. (I know, I’m guilty of wanting to go in the middle at times too, but it always makes me feel that I haven’t used the right scale.) If you continue with scales, can you also do one for level of shimmer/glitter to matte? This is a critical factor for me in deciding what to purchase (I lean more matte, but do love a good shimmer at times.) Thanks so very much! And I hope you know I was trying to help, not being critical.
Girl, these suggestions are A-1!!!
A+ suggestions right here!
I definitely prefer eyeshadows in the 5-7 range. I’ve made SO many mistakes purchasing palettes that are too too warm or too cool. It’s just amazing how a neutral shadow can bring liveliness to your skin or deadness. The super warm, orange or yellow shades just look tragic on me like the ones with too much gray.
I wish the standards that youtubers were held to were also held by the people complaining. Your content is just fine. You are a lovely person.
My makeup loving friend sent me the Tartelette in Bloom for Christmas a couple years ago. I will never be able to thank her enough. This palette is nearly always what I pull out when I have a date or event and have to get ready in a rush. Always a beautiful application, super quick! Thanks for such a comprehensive review on such a vague, personal topic!
Hi Mandy, great video! Loved this idea. I’m a cool olive which I didn’t realize until I started digging into why most neutrals turn orange on me (even my glam palette!) and greys look neutral! This video came at the perfect time! Thanks for the info❤
Just a recommendation but keep a matte palette of bright but deep hues of red, blue, yellow, orange etc. You can use very small amounts of these to cool/warm the tone of any other color. For example if you have a brown that's just a little too warm you can add very small amounts of dark blue and it will create a cooler brown color. You can also use white and black shades to change the depth of a color. It may take a little more time and some practice but you can create any color you like using your favorite formulas
@tinahickman6300 Doesn't work for spring skintone (bright, warm, light). Spring doesn't like any black or white or dark shades as this mutes down the color depth and makes everything look like grey mud. We want to remove the greige not add to it or warm it up.
Thanks so much for this - SUPER helpful! Warm tones look horrible on me, but I tend to get burned with purchases because everything seems to look cooler on my device screens than they actually are in person. This video gave me a good baseline referring to several things I already own, and helped me make decisions on a couple that I was wondering about. I would love it if you’d continue to use the warmth scale for all palettes going forward, even if they’re not just neutrals. Really enjoy your channel, Mandy!
Love this video! I’m always hunting for the Goldilocks neutral palette. Not too warm and not too cool.
I find this type of discussion about neutral palettes very interesting and it's good idea to make a video about. For example as someone who has fair skin that leans to having a rosy cool undertone it usually means that neutral palettes that suite me are those palettes that are either very in the middle of cool and warm axis or almost bit mauve leaning. A too warm toned orange bronzy palette will look bit off on me, just as anything too close to silver/ grey cool tones will make me look just very ill. Since the neutral palette has been done so many times and we have so many in the market, I would really appreciate that in the reviews there would also be a focus on to which type of preferences in terms on undertones the palette falls into, aside from evaluating the formula and textures in the individual palettes.
Your skin tone sounds like mine. Maybe that is why the ColourPop Stone Cold Fox palette with the silvers and grays didn't seem to flatter me. I ended up giving that palette away. :(
This is the best explanation of swatches & tones, regardless of it targeting neutral palettes. Please do more of these & Thank you, glad I came across your channel!
I’ve had a few colourpop palettes and on me they always pull warmer even though they may look cooler in the pan. It’s almost like the oxidize on me. Great video though because I gravitate towards neutral shades. This is very helpful.
Love the concept of this video. I’d love to see more like it ❤
Really impressed that you did this for your viewers girl! I have been in the fine arts and painting, portraits, mainly with oils and acrylics, and that is where I learned my makeup from, and went on to do other people’s makeup after learning about sanitation and other things that may not be learnt by an artist. Anyway, I had to learn how to paint a 3-D canvas that is skin not canvas material, but color theory never changes. I think some of us who know it inside out forget some people may need a refresher or a mini tutorial on the science of color. Good job for recognizing this and trying to help your viewers out!😊
This was an incredibly helpful video, thank you so much!!! I appreciate the scale and hope you always rank for us when a new palette comes out!
I learned a lot from this video. Thank you Mandy! I have figured out I am definitely more on the cool side of the scale.
Determining your undertone colors is so tricky! I love this palette tone review! Thank you!
This is fun! On my skin tone, the ND glam pulls so cool. I can get a neutral look that I like, but most shades look so grey and dull on my skin tone. The ND bronze and the ND zendo I love in the summer. They are both so warm. I love them in summer, but in the winter when I’m more fair it’s not as flattering on me. The ND My Dream palette, however, is perfect for me all year! It’s neutral enough for me in the winter, and it can pull warm in the summer. It is the most perfect year round neutral palette that I have. And it’s got a little color. Hands down my most favorite ND palette.
Love this idea for a video! It is great to see the comparisons between the pallets!
Well done Mandy! This is a brilliant video idea! 😍
First off, jacket is gorgeous! Secondly, you always look amazing with or without makeup. Great video. I love the Persona Identity pallet. I’m definitely a fan of the plum and darker, brick reds. Reminds me of the new Rose Metals pallet from ABH. Which is my all time favorite pallet. It’s beautiful and I wish I could use it more. The tones and shimmers in that pallet are gorgeous and blend so well.
Absolutely love this video!!!! Very helpful and fun! I just ordered the Colourpop coconuts and I can’t wait to use it! Thanks so much ❤️
Thank you for all the hard work that mush have gone into this video! Very very helpful 😁
Hi Mandy! New subscriber and so happy I found you. I really love your videos and really really appreciate the cool/warm scale rating when reviewing these palettes. It's already saved me money. Thank you! 🙏
Hi Mandy this was so helpful! I plan to use this scale when purchasing new eyeshadow palettes. You are so pretty and authentic and I love watching your content.
Love this video. Great job on describing the differences and ranking system.
This is the most helpful eyeshadow video I've ever seen. Thank you.
I have the Alter Ego Shadow Kiss palette which is the alternative palette to the Natasha Denona glam palette. I love it and use it quite often! I definitely lean more neutral-cool in my preferences. I don't mind the occasional warmer look and I have been known to mix cool and warm tones together as well (I know what a total faux pas!). I also have the Alter Ego Harmony palette which is the alternative to the Natasha Denona Retro Palette. Alter Ego isn't quite as pigmented as the ND shadows, but for the amount of money I'm saving ($17 vs $69), I'm not going to complain about having to blend in an extra layer of shadow!
I just found your channel because I was looking for videos with cool toned looks. I’m so glad I did! I love the idea of the scale. You have a new follower 😊
This is such a great video! So much useful info for someone like me who uses make-up every morning but has never really studied it. Love it!
This video is so thoughtful and informational! This is the first videos of yours I’ve viewed by I’m now subscribed.
Absolutely brilliant video. I watched your eyeshadow application video followed by this one and just had to subscribe to your channel! Such great informative content. Simply fabulous!! 🎉
Thank you so much for this video. This has confounded me for years. The scale and the examples will be very helpful and I am saving this video. Also, you look absolutely stunning.
This is priceless!! The scale - exactly what we all want to know!! Thank you!!!
I just discovered your channel today and I love it! This is a great video and will come in handle for me in choosing my future palette's. Thanks
so informative! Hope to see this scale for every neutral palette you review in the future!
Wow, do I ever appreciate this! I have quite a few of the palettes you showed, and was disappointed in how warm many of them are when I first opened them, when creators called them "cool." Awesome video!
GREAT video! I love the concept of this content. Of course, I am always blown away by the fact that you are stunningly gorgeous and yet so down to earth. And by the way, I love your squeaky jacket and your humor.
Your video is very needed. In my opinion the warm tones are way too predominant everywhere. When I started, I had no idea so my first pallettes were inevitably warm and for me so hard to work with. Then I got mesmerised online by the look of quartz pallet and made a leap of faith. When it arrived, all I thought was ‘’where have you been my hole life?’’. I use it every day with zero effort. I still don’t know why warm tones don’t work on me, I am not that cool, they just make me seem tired and old and sick 😄.
You always look so lovely and I really appreciate your thoughtful videos!
The Natasha Denona Glam palette is my GO-TO neutral palette. It’s really versatile. There ARE some ‘holes’ though that I’ve filled in with singles. Soft Glam is MUCH too WARM. Neutrals ARE a challenge. Colourpop’s That’s Taupe is COOLER than Glam but VERY GREY. Maybe TOO GREY. The highlighter Flexitarian is a pinky silver that’s a amazing lid or inner corner highlight. Kush is a cool beige that’s beautiful. Both are the Supershock formula. Sephora Collection has some lovely singles. At $10 NOT cheap but some good formulas and shades. I just bought Chestnut(dark neutral matte brown) and Chock Shock, a SMOOth metallic in a neutral to cool undertone. I want to get a dark matte grey. The eye crayons, SPECIFICALLY the one in Grey is actually a cool silver grey.
What a clever idea to do the scale for cool to warm! Good analysis of neutral palettes and helpful. Thanks.
This was so helpful ❤ thank you!
Thank you SO much for this video. This is one in my saved for later that I've watched a few times. It really helped me understand if I should get one of the Nabla palettes in the Ulta sale.
Loved this video! Great idea ranking the cool vs warm tones! I have a few of these beautiful palettes! I tend to prefer cooler tones on myself since I’m really fair with a pink undertone.
Thank you!!❤
Great review! What a helpful way of describing neutrala.
I LOOOOOOVE this idea of placing palettes along a "warmth" scale! I prefer a palette that has a combination of cool and warm neutrals, so I'm not surprised to see the Tartelette in Bloom ranked in the middle of the scale---it's the only palette I've ever hit pan on every eyeshadow. The other one was KVD "Shade + Light" eye contour palette.
This is the video I needed but didn't know how to ask for! I've tried so many neutral palettes and they're either too cool or too warm. I'm loving that I can try some of these in the middle. What a great idea, THANK YOU!!
This was really helpful, Mandy! I haven’t seen a video like this in all the time I’ve watched beauty YT. I find that with my cool undertone, I don’t like cool shades on me because it makes me look sickly. I much prefer warm tones, and I’m excited about you using the scale moving forward.
As a cool toned girl I was actually surprised that you didn't rank the Soft Glam even higher on the warmth scale. It's always been raved about as the ideal neutral palette, and that probably what made me get it, but I struggled with it every single time I tried to use it until it made me actively hate it. No one buys a 14 shadow palette for a transition shade, a deep brown and a black, and other than that there isn't much there to create a full neutral eye look
Thank you so much Mandy! This is a very helpful video and the fact you took the time to put it together based on a follower’s comment just makes me love you even more! I have just gotten into playing with makeup in the past few years, actually during COVID, and I think my problem is I’m not sure what looks good on me and I am easily influenced by something I see here on CZcams that looks good on someone else but not necessarily on me. So I need to spend time figuring out what looks best on me. I am playing around with the Bubbly palette and it’s growing on me . ☺️ Thank you again for taking the time to help us. You are beautiful inside and out!
What a great video concept. Have not seen anything done ever in a video Me Mandy. I'm a cool complexion so this helped me immensely. Thanks 🙏 for helping me understand this a bit better because truthfully I don't have the eye to know the difference. Your's did the trick. You do a great job. Keep them coming.
This is the first video I've watched of yours, and I'm hooked. The scale is a brilliant way to communicate this. Thank you. I look forward to more content of yours. Xx
This is such a good idea! Great video ❤
Loved this video format!!. I have olive skin tone and only like warm palettes and this was soo helpful. It took me a long time before I realized that cool eyeshadow palettes don't work on me even thou I love the colors but not for me . Warm colors looks best. This is one of the best videos that was most helpful for me. Thanks.
This is the most informative video I ever watched about neutral palettes.
Thank you ❤
I really appreciate the close ups and swatches along with the cool and warm toned scale! I would definitely have put the Soft Glam at a number seven as well!
I find that when most content creators call a palette neutral - it is usually warm. Love your scale. I am very cool toned and my favourite palette is the Colorpop Stone Cold Fox even though it does have some warmish shades.
Thank you 🙏 for this video. It help me a lot. Now I finally know what I should look for in a palette and which one I should buy. Keep up the good work. I really enjoy watching your videos.
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Great comparison video. So helpful Mandy. thank you
Good topic to talk about Mandy! I will give perspective from someone with a warm-ish olive GREEN 💚 undertone. My beige's and brown's have to be very warm. Even when they say they are neutral, they all pull gray on my eyelids. From drugstore to high-end. I look horrible in gray , zombie or sick looking lol. The joys of being green 💚. Let's not even talk about foundation shades.
I'm green too! So hard, do you have any suggestions on products, colors, influencers or anything you can recommend? I'm a light olive
@@lauraswensgard3703 it depends if you are cool, neutral, or warm olive green. I lean warm and look good in fall harvest colors. But most Influencers on here ... So many fake tan and you can't even tell. Hanna Louise Posten is a very light green, idk I think she is more neutral? There is a CZcamsr on here that has some good info , Merriam styles. There are others on here ... That don't know what they are talking about also, watch out. NYX soft matte lip cream in Rome , and ELF lip gloss in black cherry are some newer lippies to me that I love. Reds I hate , except brick reds, aka brown reds. Maroon or burgundy, only neutral ones , or ones with a brown undertone. Even some berries , but not pink or purple. Neutral ones or ... Brownish berries. I am a fall season , but the more tan I get I look more yellow. The tan hides the green. Then I can wear some spring colors. I gave up on foundation years ago. I use concealer blended out well and some powder foundation on occasion. I would rather my own skin show though. Then everything pull , pink, yellow, or ashy on me.
Oh my gosh, this is the best video idea ever. Thank you so much.
Love this video and your scale idea is great
I love that you are going to use the cool to warm meter going forward. What a wonderful idea! I love those beautiful warm looks on you! Unfortunately, they just don’t look good on me. I tend to lean more towards the cool toned and neutral pallets. Great video! Thank you! 😃
This method makes a lot of sense. I bought Stone Cold Fox and that’s taupe palette thinking they would be super cool toned. They really aren’t. There’s cool tones in SCFx but there’s a good bit of neutrals that’s warm leaning. That’s Tuape is neutral/warm for my preferences too.
My number 1 is definitely the Tarte tartelette clay matte palette. They are on the cool side but warm enough for my neutral to warm undertones. My favorite when it comes to the small one is the Dior 5 couleurs Soft Cashmere palette. 😍
Awe, you're so dedicated to us, your viewers. So thoughtful. I love watching your videos. Your care and kindness just ooze through all your videos... and your cheeky personality too hehe! Thank you for always creating fantastic content. Cheers! ❤️
Thank you for this. It was very informative!
Absolutely brilliant idea! I really love this scale concept! You could do the same with blushes! Maybe a top 10 😉
That ABH rose metals is such a good one! It’s in my top favorite palettes too!
I love Tarlette in Bloom. Perfect go to palette. I can dress it up or keep it matte.
Loved the scale and the reminders of palettes I have not pulled in a long time...
Love this video! So helpful!
Favorite video so far since joining your channel ❤️
So informative thank you! Can you do a video explaining the undertones of concealer? I'm trying to find a new on for my newly aging skin and I'm having a hard time. Idk if I'm getting the wrong color or formulation or both.
Great idea 💡 ranking the palettes. Love this
Excellent video! I'm sure it will be very helpful for a lot of people. You actually get the cool/warm thing!
Oh, and yes, I heard a squeak or two!
Absolutely agree with alll your picks! Empowered is my favorite neutral palette!
Love this video thanks now I need to find best pink pallet combo
I'm a person of cool tones and I've struggled a lot to find palettes with predominantly cool colors, especially here in Brazil. I saw that Huda Beauty is gonna launch Matte Cool but the brand isn’t available here so I will have to import it.
I like the idea of a cool/warm spectrum rating. Brilliant 👏
Great ranking and very handy scale!
Great video idea! I love cool and warm neutrals alike. I think the Sydney Grace Enduring Love palette is a nice cool neutral option.
Hey Mandy! This rating scheme is genius! I finally understand why I really don't like several of my eyeshadow palettes; I belong on the cool side of the spectrum, and I'm going to blame store lighting. Fortunately for me the few high-end palettes I have are smaller ones and all cool tones that I always love. All the rest have a few cool tones in them that I might use, and they're all drugstore priced, so no big deal when it comes time to toss kits that are only half used. You really hit it out of the park with this idea! Thank you for giving such good examples - you're a teacher at heart!
Love this neutral ranking! I’m a neutral lover! Tartlette in Bloom was my first high end palette to figure out what I like, just like you suggested. Used up entire pans in that palette, and I recently got one of the new LA Girl 4 Play quads, and I LOVE the buildable and easy to blend formula!
I have a hard enough time to distinguishing warm vs. cold let alone seeing the black or white in colors. Thank you!
Same.. 😂
Thanks Mandy. Love your new color scale ~ very helpful. Can you share what color/brand of nail polish you were wearing? 😊
My favourite neutral palette would be off your chart! It would be all greys/silvers which is more flattering with my cool toned skin/silver-blonde hair than even the coolest palette you mentioned. ps: your hair is *everything*!! 💕
I love this video idea! Thanks for sharing.
You look beautiful today... the whole look is perfect
This was a great video. I learned a lot
Thx I hope you keep this up bought 2 Natasha Denona pallette way to warm
Yes!! I love this.
Great job, Mandy! Thank you!!!
Great information! I would love to see how you use cool, neutral and warm together.