THE BIGGEST MAKEUP SECRET NO ONE TALKS ABOUT
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- čas přidán 9. 06. 2024
- What's the biggest makeup secret that, once you'll see it it will change the way you look at makeup forever???
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Painters are the most amazing and talented makeup artists because they really have an understanding of things like THIS, that most of us do not. Appreciate this video more than you know. I’d love to see this in a series, where you pull your artistry talent into applying it to makeup.
I KNEW she had to be a painter!!! I'm a painter, and contrast is everything.
Just practice u can be amazing too I promise
I quite agree! I would be lovely to learn bore about the main principles, and not always have to "trial and error" again and again to stumble onto something that works, but you don't really know why, and how to utilise it in other areas. A helpful shortcut.
Yes! More videos on contrast ❤ ty
Two more fine artists turned either Makeup CZcamsrs or professional MUAs: Alexandra Anele, and Hindash! Both great at demonstrating this stuff.
If I could give this 1000 thumbs up I would! This is the 30 minute explanation for what took me over a year to figure out on my own - namely, I'm low contrast (right now it's super obvious but I was MYSTIFIED) and can't wear high contrast without looking super, duper made up and glam. Love it, need it, want more!
Well stated! Thank you
Agree. I’ve never seen someone do a video talking and teaching about this and when you understand it, it helps tremendously. This woman is definitely a girls girl. She gets it! Lol💕
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Same!! I'm very pale (too pale for most foundations aimed at Western markets until recently), level 10 blonde hair, very light blue eyes. I only truly figured it out when I decided to dye by hair and brows to a dark brown and noticed the black eyelash extensions that always looked clownish on me before looked "normal" while the brown ones I used to get totally disappeared. And then it clicked. But this video was still so helpful with showing how to adjust the midtones and gradients. I've been to makeup artists who don't understand this as well as this video does! 🙀
Amen! Well said. 1000 stars - gals/people that wear makeup need this info!❤❤❤
If I put on a red lip, I think I look amazing. I put on a nude lip, and my lips disappear. So I try to do natural makeup and I look like a sick Victorian child. So thank you for this video, I thought I was doing something wrong
A sick Victorian child 🤣
Im absolutely the opposite. If i put on too much makeup i instantly look like a dated Pamela Anderson, in the worst way possible. Its just too much contrast. I look much better with a beachy, beigy, nude type of look.
Same with me, I work really hard at creating these natural looks, walk out the door and look like a chalk faced sick kid. Now I finally understand why!
I thought I was doing somthing wrong as well. Nude lip looks ridiculous On mr. Cool red looks amazing. Facinating lol
I look like a sick Victorian child, but that's just my face.
That feeling when you click on a video by a creator you've never seen before because they have a very alternative vibe and you think they're going to be super down to Earth, but then they pull out the Prada concealer. LOL. Really enjoyed your take on makeup! I don't think I've ever seen anyone take an artistic approach to makeup--which is crazy because makeup is such an artistic thing!
THIS 💯
Dumbest makeup video I’ve seen!
if you like an artistic approach to makeup, you might also want to check out Alexandra Anele, who also was a painter who now applies her skills to makeup!
Lisa Eldridge is also very art-oriented when she talks about out makeup.
This is one of those concepts that's so intuitive that you can leverage it accidentally, but it needs to be explained in depth before you can leverage it purposefully.
For myself, I'm thinking of my "everyday" glasses with their dark, bold rim balancing out the low contrast of my bleached hair and tan skin. With my natural black hair, i automatically revert to subtler clear glasses, to balance the high contrast of my hair and skin.
It’s funny because I used to wear black frames as a dark brunette/very fair neutral skin tone girl. Now as a balayaged blonde fair skinned girl, I wear a lot of gold rims and get compliments all the time. I never really considered why it looked better. It just did.
Tan skin/light hair = would be in high contrast to one another.
Tan skin/Dark Hair would be lower contrast to one another.
Frames really do have such an effect on contrast and makeup choices! Dark hair, fair skin, high contrast. Black frames and I can only wear cooler tones and low contrast lips. Bright tortoiseshell frames and it has to be almost bare skin and a bold rusty warm lip.
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Not really, it depends how dark her hair originally was and how light she has bleached it and how tan her skin is, tan skin and medium-dark blonde adjacents like honey blonde would usually have very low contrast. It won't become high contrast until your hair is nearing very very blonde/white (and even then won't be as high contrast as a deep skin tone with the same hair or a pale girl with black hair). Like zendaya in the challengers red carpet she has much lower contrast. Dark hair also comes in loads of shades and there are people with black or black adjacent hair who have tan skin but are definitely high contrast, like zendaya with jet black hair. And contrast also goes higher when there one part is cool and the other is warm. I have fair skin and dark hair but I am olive/ ashen both in hair and skin so I have lower contrast than my friend with very similar depth but very "clear" contrasty colours, warm skin and cool hair. So in general it's better not to give blanket statements.
I think part of the reason this has never clicked for me is that I'm pretty neutral contrast- naturally medium blonde hair, dark green eyes, but very pale pale lips. My brow girl always asks if I want to go "bold (cooler and darker)" or "subtle (redder and lighter)" and I shift back and forth based on how blonde I am at the time, I've never understood why! These videos are amazing.
Bobbi Brown has long advocated this "double blush" technique that "fills in the distance." Whatever is "nude" on you, your-cheeks-but-better tone, then a pop of a brighter shade on top as an accent. Thanks for this detailed exploration; contrast explains why I look "formal" really easily with very little actual products if the contrast is too marked. That Beckham Cinnamon Kajal is perfection itself, isn't it?
I never knew she did that but it's how I wear any more pronounced blusher shade if I don't want to blend for 3 hours lol. Good to know
Oh, that's a very interesting idea. I'll have to try it!
I think that originally came from Kevyn aucoin, not Bobbi Brown.
Oh thank you! That helps!
That’s really interesting. After reading it it felt obvious because that’s what we do with eyeshadow, but it wasn’t obvious at all 😅
Omgosh, the lipstick turning "red" on you was WILD! I doubted my eyes for a few seconds 😂 Beautiful demonstration
Thank you!!
It was wild! I turn not only peachy pinks but neutral pinks into orange colors with my lightish skin and very yellow undertone, but that mauve turning red was indeed wild, and beautiful!
I had to blink and rewatch that a few times because it tripped me out. Painters know their color theory to the max!!!!!
Omg that happens to me, I look like a thunderbird , like they're not my lips never heard anyone else mention that happens to them ..can't wait to watch now 👍
on olive skin tones, everything softer, mauve or even nude lipstick will look brighter, like a magenta or true red, even if the colors were not bright in the first place.
When I got serious about sun protection, my hair darkened and my skin got paler. I couldn't figure out why my dusty rose and mauve makeup started looking muddy and unnatural. When I finally tried on bright lipstick, I was joking around, and was so surprised that it worked!
Omg this is such an exciting revelation!!
I use different lipstick in summer when my skin is darker, for sure 😊 Purplish lipsticks don't go well with my tan. I also don't darken my eyebrows cause I love the low contrast summer look, and I wear more summer palette pastel clothes, they look nice with my tan. In winter my skin looks a bit sickly and it's harder to find colors that look good on me, I'm still not sure 😅 but I do more contrast
This happened in my early thirties when my lupus was at its worst. I had to relearn how to do my makeup and started using better skin care and now at 40 I’m so glad I did because I get told daily how my skin looks “so young.”
‘’JUST a painter.” 😂C’mon, gurl. Understatement of the decade!🌸🐝
Do you ever share your paintings on social media? I'd love to see your work!
@@lindsaybeyerstein7096 she is filming in front of one of her "paintings"
As a 60-year-old woman with absolutely no contrast… I cannot thank you enough for this tutorial. It’s really pulled things together for me. I am extremely fair and wear the same foundations shades that you do yet my hair is completely buzzed cut and platinum. This has really helped me thank you thank you thank you.
The hair sounds awesome. I'm 54 and a med blonde but my hair is starting to gray. I definitely want to go short and platinum or silver soon!
I'm 56 and was born strawberry blonde. I stopped coloring my hair about 2 years ago and was shocked to find out my hair had naturally turned completely platinum blonde with NO gray streaks. Since then I've really been struggling with makeup!
Do you watch Alexandra Anele? Your description of your hair made me think you might like her.
@@serendipity1237I’ll check it out.. thanks
Hello there fellow pale-skinned platinum-hair buzz-cut GenXer 😁!
DUDE I was dark haired for 10+ years and could get away with liquid black winged eyeliner, day time smokey eye, etc. I went back to my natural strawberrish blonde hair and my typical make up DID NOT WORK ANYMORE. At all. I looked sooo "done up". Eyeliner had to go 2 shades lighter/and a touch warmer, brows too, eyeshadows became a whole different ball game. It was crazy frustrating! Fantastic video, thank you Kacks MaLacks!
The same i am experiencing right now and i have to say am very sorry about it. With dark hair, i did so many fun eye looks and now only the neutral looks are looking good.
Brown mascara
Light Brown line
(Occasionally burgundy
mascara over brown at night
Eye makeup hugely toned down
Natural with med taupe
in the crease; Ivory highlight
- it's easy🙏💜🏴💜🇮🇪💜🇬🇧💜
@@BangtanBangtanBusan yeah i know but thats not a fun creative look in my eyes, it's kinda boring
Another important dimension here is saturation. I'm high contrast (naturally black hair, pale nearly-white skin with a desaturated cool blue-pink undertone) and low saturation. Even a blush like Nars Sex Appeal can and does look clownish on me because even though it's pale, it's at maximum saturation for its white value. The darkest blush in your look here would probably look less clownish on me because it has enough gray/black in it to match my extreme desaturation better. It would be the same with Velvet Ribbon as a lip color. It would look *good* on me because of my high contrast, but it would never look casual and effortless. I'd look like a femme fatale at best and a sexy mime at worst! A color like Chai would probably also be my best bet for French girl look, though it might be deep enough against my skin that it would actually look vampy/goth rather than casual and Cinnamon Red is probably too saturated/warm! There are always so many dimensions of art math to consider when trying to replicate a look; it gets a bit dizzying.
I keep reading this comment back, this is so interesting to me!
Girl yes I just commented about my high contrast low saturation situationship as well 😂 luckily I love looking vampy so I play into that!! And avoid anything that could possibly go too bright or orange on me, which is basically everything…. I buy all the grey purple browns and grey greens lol and black mascara forever
Yes! This is me too - high contrast but I need that hint of a gray undertone to make it work. I think that’s because my very pale olive undertone actually presents as a little gray? 🤷🏻♀️ But everything you mentioned: yes.
OMG saturation next!
Love! Video 2: saturation! Video 3: contrast and saturation!
I’m high contrast and my daily makeup look is brows, blush, and red lipstick. I’ve always really struggled with literally any eyeshadow not looking clownish on me. This really helped me understand shades that may contrast well! So helpful!
So happy to help!
Same! Eyeshadow always looks extra on me in not a flattering way.
love this!!! for us 50+ folks - as you age, your needs will likely change. I am neutral/warm, very fair, bright redhead with hazel eyes. I am probably mostly low contrast, but when I was younger I could get away with dramatic looks like a stong brow and no mascara, navy eyeliner or a bright orange lip (high contrast against fair skin and bright hair), but as I've gone more gray and my face has aged, these don't look as good. I still need a relatively strong brow and mascara, but if I do a strong lip it looks very costumey. It's like there's both a harshness (eg receding hairlines) and a softening (eyes and jawline) that's a part of aging, so a softer touch (for a lot of folks, not everyone) is more flattering. So interesting...
In my late 30s I’m already having to adjust the level of contrast I choose for makeup!
Yaaaaas!! I’m a watercolour and pastel artist and the same concepts apply to visual arts and makeup art. It’s colour and value math - I appreciate so much the way you use colour language to help people understand not only what’s working and not but WHY and how to manipulate things based on theory. ❤❤❤
As a high contrast person, I’ve found “natural” or “no makeup” makeup looks worse on me than no makeup at all. But I can slap on a bold lip like I was born that way. Once I figured out the high contrast thing, I gave up buying neutral makeup. Haha
I wear mascara, blush and Ruby woo and I'm good to go. I have dark brown nearly black hair, lashes and brows and pale cool toned skin and neutral colours look awful on me. Nude lipstick makes me look like I have none 😂
This was the first makeup video that I watched (and I’ve watched thousands) where I was enthralled from start to finish. I can’t even explain how much i appreciate this video!
Omg THANK YOU
You're humble too :) & a great natural teacher
This was fantastic, and I was so glad to see you follow the line of your cupid's bow. I'm so tired of makeup influencers drawing a straight line right across the top in an effort to get bigger lips!
Hahaha I've tried it before and it looks silly on me!
This is the first time I see your content and this is the first time I've actually understood so many things about makeup. It makes sense that a painter can explain actual theory, which to me makes more sense than all those "season" videos and makeup tutorials.
This is honestly one of the most useful makeup videos I've ever watched! Just the principles behind it make so much sense. Also that certain colors or types of look aren't inaccessible, but you just have to be strategic to tailor it to your own coloring: mind blowing 🤯
I'm very high contrast (pale skin and dark hair) and cool toned. I remember trying to do the Latte Girl trend and just looking very orange and overdone because that caramel brown is not at home on my skin at all. It took me years to figure out bronzer because I didn't realize that it needed to be either more grey or more rosey to work on me.
I'm so glad you left this comment! It's so helpful to understand the challenges of every skin tone.
I totally relate to the bronzer thing!! I just never wear it unless I want to contour with some greige
Such a good explaination. As a portrait painter this is intuitive for me . I’ve been ‘teaching people this about makeup for years. It’s the main problem I see with not adjusting your makeup as you age, I’m talking over a decade or more, your ‘ contrast gets closer’ as you age . You have to adjust .
Yes, I'm a little sad about losing my high contrast now that I'm letting my S&P hair go natural these last couple of years. I'm slowly culling my red lipsticks and will keep just a couple for formal events.
@@carolmelancon or change the formula of the red lipsticks to a stain, good balm or semi sheer lip. Might be a nice ‘softer’ option :)
I remember when Delta Burke bleached her black hair to platinum blonde. Her makeup suddenly looked overdone and clownish, because it was bold and bright to match her dark hair. It didn't work against the lighter hair. What you are saying makes perfect sense!! This is why hot pink dark or vivid red or purple lipsticks look ghastly on me!!
Contrast is everything. In more than makeup. I'm obsessed
It’s what makes the Pixies so great! quiet LOUD quiet. Sunshine/rain etc❤
I've darkened my hair over the last year or so (which just means: less and less bright highlights) and now i feel like I can "get away" with wearing no makeup at all way easier!
I have a naturally high contrast complexion, much like your sister. However, I have been going gray and just letting it happen. This has decreased my contrast some and it has been a struggle to work out what shades now look best with the way I wear makeup. Thanks for explaining "bridging the gap" some in this video. Very helpful.
Also, as an aside, my first profession was as a color chemist. So, I really dig when you get in the weeds with color theory.
I'm a painter, and I like makeup but your red lip video changed everything for me! Mind blown! I've only ever been confident with eyeshadow, where I think I was painting subconsciously. I've never been able to choose a lip colour and I'm so excited to put together a look!
These are masterclass level videos!
This explains SO MUCH. I have figured out through trial and error that I look best in mid-tone/moderate contrast colors because I am basically the color of Cream of Wheat from my hair to my neck, with the exception of my eyes, which are a bright aqua shade. This is also made more complicated in that I naturally have both warm & cool tones in my complexion. Even slightly too high contrast, and I go clownish immediately. And if I swing too low, I am super washed out & look dull. I can pull off a little more contrast on my eyes, but not much. I had always thought I was just playing things too safe or staying in my comfort zone, but maybe I was, intuitively, staying in the range that was truly best for me. I love that your brain works this way & would love to see more color contrast videos for different looks.
This was genuinely one of the most educational and informative makeup videos I've ever watched, while still being loads of fun! I feel like you can show subscribers how to do a look all day long but teaching them the "art math" as you said, gives them so much more than just that one look.
This may be one of my favorite art math sessions ever!!!
Kackie, this is SO HELPFUL! I have never understood why paler lipsticks didn’t look good on me. The palest I can go where I still look good is Charlotte Tilbury’s candy chic, and I’m a similar skin tone to you. I thought it was maybe because pale lipsticks can sway too orange, but I recently tried a cool toned one and still hated it. I am high contrast! I wouldn’t have thought so because I’m pale and my hair isn’t that dark, but I only really look good in darker lip colours, and lighter eyeliners and eyeshadows just disappear on me. This is fabulous and so helpful!
Girl yes 🙌🏼 it took me absolutely forever to figure out why as a pale girl I look best in shades like pillow talk medium instead of light. Here we go!
The Fleetwood Mac tribute leading up to the nod to Ren & Stimpy just brought life back to my little millennial heart. There is still hope in this world.
Came here to say the same thing ❤❤❤
So I wasn’t alone, huh?
I think about 60% of what I love about Kackie’s Channel could be expressed by the fact that I’m a millennial creative of about the same age (turning 34 in a couple weeks) and the rest is just how much she appeals to the nerdy, social weirdo in me.
Apparently, the lyrics to the log jingle have been taking up space in my brain for 30 years…I sang along lol
Great demo! As a makeup artist, I have changed lives with this concept. It only gets more interesting as we get older and we “need” more colour. Add some grey hair and we have a whole new equation ♥️
Your videos are so entertaining, but more than that, they are educational and so smart.
I did my makeup for an event yesterday and binge watching kackie came in clutch because i was like hmm i wonder why my makeup looks weird and then realised my foundation was a bit cool toned and so was my eyeshadow but my blush was PEACH and changing it helped so much ! Thank you for being so entertaining and educational
omg that I have this impact is...so fulfilling thank you
@@kackie 🥰🥰💖 ofc!
"Are the wings even? NO!!
Are we leaving them? YESS!!"
Love this and new subscriber, thank you.
I always said that when i had bright red hair, i had to tone down my make-up, even red over brown it makes you look warm, so you have to account for that.
Nobody would listen to me, but how you have broken it down is impeccable, so thank you.
I never say impeccable to anybody. You can check my comments, but it's true here.
Words can’t explain how much I needed this today
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I really love videos like this from you that bring not only the knowledge and art tools to make decisions about how we want to look but also give a Kackie-centered perspective on how YOU interpret a trend or makeup need.
Gosh thank you SO much this means the world to me!!
This is so valuable for my brain that needs visual side by side. Thank you, Kackie! 🙌
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I’ve always wondered why I need a punchy lip to look “right” WOW! It’s finally clicked!!!
I love, love, love this video!!! Thank you so much for making this!!! It’s like a huge lightbulb moment for me!!!
WHY HAS THIS CHANGED MY LIFE! I've never been able to pull off red lipstick but I just mixed two together (a darkish nude and a tiny bit of red in the center) and I'm sitting here in my pajamas looking cool af
Yes, yes, yes, yes, YES!!!
For me, personally, any & every lip color looks more flattering on me when I add a hint of Revlon’s Just Bitten Kissable Balm Stain in Sweetheart to the inside of my lips, and a touch on the center of my bottom lip.
It’s the perfect contrast, for me. 👌🏼 The balancing act!
This is why I have so much doubts about enrolling in makeup classes and academies….
You’re out here giving MASTERCLASSES FOR FREE
this is the tutorial of my dreams. Saw you do the “red lipstick for your skin tone” vid and you’re SUCH A GREAT TEACHER this is EXACTLY the makeup / beauty videos i have been waiting for all my life 😩😩😩
This is so helpful, and explains so much of why I can sometimes wear something, but other times it makes me look incredibly washed out. 💚
I watched this while having morning coffee and I think I need to watch again when I am more awake! What a great video. Thank you!
videos like this reminding me why i was drawn to yours and Hannah's channel ❤
“That’s not an insult, it’s just accurate”. Perfection
This has blown my mind!
I have always wondered why some girls look so beautiful with such simple makeup, whereas I have to add a lot of depth to really feel like I look special.
I even thought maybe those girls are prettier and need less but this explanation is perfect. Im just higher contrast and have very dark hair, eyes, brows, and lips.
Thank you so much for this!!!!!
I had my color analysis done a few months ago, and rather than treating it like a set of rules to follow, it really just taught me where on the Munsell Color System my natural color palette is. This video was a really practical demonstration about how to examine a makeup look on another person with a different natural color palette, and normalizing it to your color palette. I found out I'm typed as a Light Spring, also low contrast, and now I know if I want to achieve drama via contrast, I don't have to run as objectively as full a gamut of values (light-dark) or stick to as "pure" of colors as a Bright season (adding white to these pure colors will look more harmonious on me). That being said, "looking harmonious" does not *equate* to "looking good" because the former has a semblance of measurability and the latter allows for the flexibility of context and semantics and human expression and all of these other qualitative things.
I’ve noticed this a lot with opacity. My sister and I have pretty much the same shade of skin, but hers is much more opaque than mine. Like whole milk vs skim milk. Her skin is a gorgeous creamy pink and mine is more of a translucent blue 😂 She can get away with higher coverage and much brighter colors than I can!
Interesting. Makes sense.
3:16 this made so much sense to me. i look great wearing black lipstick (and really contrast-y eye looks) and it doesn’t seem that out there for me.
i finally understand contrast in makeup after like a decade 😭 tysm
The way you explained this concept was absolute perfection and made so much sense to me. Thank you for this!!!!
I loved this! So helpful to see side by side. You’re right- the high contrast side doesn’t even look “bad” it just looks very effort full lol
I've never sat through a 30 minute makeup video until this very moment. I feel like I just learned SO much about the makeup that I've owned for ages and have been too afraid to use 😂 Thank you ❤
The definition of contrast: "your skin tone vs the rest of your features; hair color, brow color, eyelash color, lip color, etc." will help me tremendously! SUPERB CONTENT! Now I can play with more confidence and curiosity. I'm a natural warm redhead (with clear brows and light lashes, dark blue green eyes). At 70, my hair has faded closer to my skin tone and I couldn't figure out why my makeup application has gotten so hit or miss - the fine line between bringing fresh color to the face, but not looking harsh (or glam) in daytime. Thanks for being so concise, bright and making this fun to do.
It's so cool to hear another artist/painter using art terminolgy like edges, contrast, etc & demonstrating saturation & contrast in such a visual comparative way.
When you started singing the log song I freaking lost it! I love you and your chaos, it’s perfect. Never change!
Girl, please do more of this!! I’m so nerding out because I looove this stuff.
You're so right about the two lipsticks side by side, that's wild! Thanks for the tutorial on high and low contrast, I had never thought of this angle
Woah that is such a grown-up approach to make-up. I have kind of started to understand this intuitively by myself, but everything just clicked in place in my mind thanks to your explanation. Thank you so much, Kackie!
Okay I am almost 60 yrs old been loving makeup since I was like 14 and thought I knew it all then I watch your video. I learned so much!! I am guessing your background as an artist helped your explanation - it was almost like I was back in art class in college but for my face not a canvas. Your detailed enthusiastic tutorial is so appreciated. It is late I am about to hit shower and bed but can not wait to do my makeup tomorrow with your tips!
My choices for color cosmetics really changed when I stopped dying my hair. As a young kid until my mid 30s, I had a deep auburn hair color. (carrot red at birth) I always chose a deep auburn shade to cover my greys and I wore more desaturated looks with a warm lean. Now that I'm older, my natural hair color is less red, and more dark brown. Add to that, the white that I have coming in makes me more high contrast. Those warm tones I used to love don't work as well. When I'm wearing a black top, I can pull off a red like Velvet Ribbon at full opacity and it looks smashing. On days that I'm wearing lighter shades (beige, light blue, pale peach) I need makeup with lower contrast like the Lisa Eldridge Baume Embrace in the lightest shade Meet Cute. It's taken me a long time to learn this, but I'm so glad I did. Thanks for explaining it so in depth! Loved this video.
@thelipstickgal - fellow redhead here - I follow you and I didn't know that you used to be a redhead! that explains so much (Ive been trying to figure out how your skin kind of leans warm/neutral but you can carry all these strong lip colors that I can't!). I would say I'm more of a true autumn with my medium auburn/bright hair and neutral/warm skin (I have a fair amount of yellow but makeup that's too warm just looks orangey on me). My natural color is now more of a grey/brown/white mix but it just doesn't look great with my skin, makes it look too sallow and washed out. So I'm waiting to go full white/grey before I transition and then will have to think about a way to add warm highlights.
I appreciate this educational video. I never liked high glam makeup on me and now I know why. Thanks for teaching me how to subtlety achieve it if I want to.
Yaaaaas, Kackie! This might be the most important beauty video I have ever seen. Thank you so much! Your chanel is just one of my few favorites 🥰
I always had hard time with red liquid lipstick. It always gave me clown makeup face. The best way to wear a red lip for me is always wearing it like lip stain from bullet lipstick dabbed a little bit. It somehow looks glamorous and effortless at the same time.
See im the opposite. If i do that it just looks like a drank some red gatorade as a kid (and not in a good way). I look much better with a very defined red lip, kinda like Taylor Swift i guess.
Maybe you have double lip line?!
@@doeeyes2 Yes makes total sense 😍. It can be so beautiful on some people.
This really blew my mind. I could never figure out why really casual makeup looks I do go glam so quickly! Now I know it’s because I am low contrast naturally and need to pick colors closer to my skin tone when I want that effortless look. Thank you so much I am so excited to try this!!!!
Thanks for this! This summary helped me soooo much. I was getting lost.
I’m also a painter and you did such an amazing job of explaining contrast from a skin and makeup POV! In case it helps anyone - your level of contrast can change over time. When I was younger my skin was considered very neutral, and my eyes were a darker brown and my hair and brows were darker, so I was a higher contrast. As an older woman, my skin is now warmer and my eye pigment faded to a hazel green. I lighten my hair to cover gray, and voila, I am now very low (warm) contrast. It took a while to realize my black wardrobe was washing me out and my makeup had to change!!!!
Amazing video! It explains a lot. Years ago I bought lipstain in dark plum color, that had terrible reviews, people were saying it was too dark. It was cheap and I liked the color in the tube, but OMG on my lips and my face it looked so natural so effortless. My favorite makeup ever. It brightened my whole complexion, my eyes looked so alive and prominent, and you could´t even see the lipstain , my dark circles disappeared, skintone looked even, magical color, sadly it was LE. Bought many dupes, but nothing came close.
You are sooo so good in this video Kackie! Thank you! I love learning new things. Going deeper than just watching makeup being applied. You are a very good teacher and I learned quite a bit which I love😘
More of these videos pllllllease!! Understanding the why behind looks is so so helpful and your art school training I think eeally helps you explain the nuance well!
this was an EPIC demonstration and even better than i anticipated!!! i have high contrast features and it’s taken me literal ages to figure out exactly what you explained in this 35 minute video!!! ♥️♥️♥️
This is fantastic and I understand what you're saying. It's definitely the reason why all those Violette FR colours just looked clownish on me, and I own practically all of them. I'm going to try and up the contrast on myself!!
Yeah, basing everything on your skin tone doesn't always work. I am VERY fair/light with dark blonde/light brown hair & hazel eyes & I was always frustrated because using pale blushes & lipcolors (& even eyeshadow) did nothing for me or washed me out completely. Some of it was because lighter shades are often too cool but mostlly it was because I can take medium depth & saturation. I am not hight contrast or low, I am goldilocks--can't be too light/dark, can't be too bright/muted has to be just right in the middle. Same goes for warm/cool. Contrast is very important.
You sound a lot like me, very medium😀
I think I'm the same. Very fair, hazel eyes, blonde. The most at-home blush color on my skin was always a reddish-pink or deep coral. But I recently went from my natural blonde (kind of warm honey blonde) to a pale icy bleach blonde in order to go ombre pastel pink and lilac and fuchsia... and now I can't easily wear my favorite blush shades. I need very cool toned pinks and purples (Dior pink instead of my coral, haus labs purple... need the new Dior lilac). And more cool toned eyeshadow. All my old favorites got tossed aside for the natasha denona mini love palette, which didn't look like "me" in the pan, but it's PERFECT. And also, I've bought SO MUCH BLUSH. 😂🖤
THANK YOU! You have solved such an issue I have had for probably years! I knew that brighter, stronger colors look best on me and I gravitated toward them, but wanting to be more natural (nude lips, beige blush) just washed me out and I was frustrated. I now know why (and possibly how to incorporated more desaturated colors). Such valuable information in this video. I can’t thank you enough!
🥹🥹🥹 making useful content gives me so much purpose. Thank you!!
This is a masterclass in colour and contrast! Thank you for sharing this ❤
This makes so much sense, something I have subconsciously adapted to, having low contrast skintone and hair etc. I need soft definition and soft warm colours, finding harsh and cool colours like black look like clown makeup on me.
I’m super low contrast (fair skin, hair, and eyes with small features on a round face) and love low contrast complimentary makeup in the mirror…then get candidly photographed somewhere and I look like a peach blob with no definition. You mentioned that for events it’s better to go more firmly in the direction of accentuating contrast, but in these day to day photo situations I’m not sure what to do. I also tend to feel better with stronger brows and lips even though I’m low contrast, because it makes me feel like I actually HAVE features, lol.
I don't know what prompted the algorithm to finally send one of your videos my way but your knowledge of blending color and its manipulation just earned you a new subscriber! ❤
Well thank you!!!
Same, girl. Same!!
Same!
I love the concept of this video/discussion/demo; it made many things click for me! A painting hack that I've learned when trying to make a color palette harmonious in an artwork is to apply an underpainting (in other words, paint the canvas all one color before you start to paint objects in the foreground); the color of the underpainting will peak through as a pure pigment in some places, and show through light washes of paint in other spots creating 'agreement' among colors throughout the piece. In addition, while mixing pigments to use in said painting, if you're struggling to create colors on your palette that are cohesive (or in agreement visually with one another), you can try to mix in color used for your underpainting to bring multiple tones back towards the center, resulting in a harmonious palette. This applies to makeup because you can think about your skin tone as your underpainting color. My complexion and features are low contrast - and I am most comfortable wearing low-contrast makeup. Therefore, if I want to use a bright, high-contrast blush shade and make it 'work' for me, then I'll mix in a small amount of my foundation on the back of my hand (for liquid/cream formulations) or apply a semi-translucent skin-toned powder over the top (for powder formulations). I love a red lip, but I'm not always feeling brave enough to wear my lipsticks at full saturation; this concept of using your 'underpainting' color can be applied here too, either by blotting (to allow your natural lip color to show through) or by applying a semi-transparent skin-toned powder over top (this is my favorite method because it also sets and mattifies slippy formulas and makes them last longer).
This was really helpful. Thank you so much for going into depth on this topic! Would it be possible to also do your sister's makeup so that we can see someone with more high contrast features??
You are brilliant! They way I gasped when you started to use the lighter concealers and I could see where you were going. Immediate sub!
I love your tip about blending your blush to your eye shadow. Brilliant
As a fellow low contrast girl, who also absolutely loves the ‘French girl’ look, my go to soft reds are Clinique Angel red (cool), Kosas Deep Talks (cool), Smashbox First time (warm coral red), YSL Nu inattendu (warm deep red), Chanel Bloom Kind and Chanel Brun Affirme (both are deep, warmer reds). Revlon Wine with Everything crème is also a good soft red. Bobbi Brown Crushed lipsticks are perfect for low contrast looks. It’s also not just about color, but finish as well- low contrast complexions don’t always look great with lots of shine or sparkle. Things like super glossy lips and overly shimmery highlights can look out of place on us very easily. Thanks for the awesome video!!
This is probably the best makeup video I’ve ever seen, or at least really high up there. I absolutely suck at analyzing my own complexion but you provided so many tools to play with to help me figure out how to adapt things to myself.
Girl!! The time and thought you put into your videos 👏. This was very helpful!! Loved every minute of it!!!❤❤❤❤
This is something I've totally had a hunch about but never been able to put into words. Thank you for putting the pieces together for us!!! So incredibly helpful!
This was so well done and I love the side by side view!!! Truly amazing in how you explained everything.
OMG 😮 I really can’t unsee contrasts on everyone after your video
And finally it’s an answer for my every year frustration “why my makeup sucks if I get tanned?!” Because I just loose contrast!
I just found your channel! I really appreciate this tutorial! Your explanation makes sense.
And this is the word fm our goddess Kackie…
This is very helpful!! ❤️ Thanks Kackie!!
When I started going grey my eyebrows faded and I almost disappeared. Then I started dyeing my eyebrows and wearing a slightly richer tone of lipstick and suddenly I was back. Still a cool tone lipstick but a deeper shade of rose.
IT FINALLY MAKES SENSE!! I am a very typical French girl and I am so damn high contrast 😂 pale with very dark brown hair, no wonder why the red lip is the thing that works best on me! Funny enough, I always felt the need to add nude or pink with my a dark brown eye look and I could never explain why - but how you approach it makes total sense now as to why I was doing it! And finally - the hair story is so real - back when I dried my hair super blond I had to change my wardrobe colours, and the red or pink lip looked completely different, I had to use different shades. Thank you for sharing your knowledge ❤
loooove this! i’m struggling with my low contrast bc i’m embracing my gray hair… so it’s giving me lighter hair vibes at some angles. it’s been a real pain in the ass tbh. would love more videos like this! 👌
This is so well explained! I've got dark warm skin and cool black hair, and I've never been able to wear a red or magenta lipstick without a liner, I just looked insane, but the other day i mixed up a sort of weird muted brownish brick colour and suddenly that turned into such a natural effortless red on me?! Also love the way a black lipstick matches my eyebrows and hair and is high enough contrast that in comparison any skin blemishes just...disappear
Brilliant explanation! I am getting into my mid-fifties and what I am actually struggling with now is the fact that instead of my hair and eyebrows going gray, they are instead just fading from a dark brown to a more blah-mid tone brown - I am literally changing from a high-contrast complexion and look to a low contrast one and I am trying to figure out how to adjust my usual makeup looks. I was aware that this is what was happening but I didn’t realize that I can kinda get away with both types of looks the way you are showing it. I feel like I am going to have to watch this over a few times to really get the full picture. Thanks for talking about something that I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone else talk about on all the makeup channels!
Fantastic 👏🏼 you have taught me SO MUCH about color theory, low/high contrast, makeup art math, and many other things and I can wholeheartedly say that it has taken my enjoyment of makeup to the next level (and I already loved it!) and given me so much more confidence in applying makeup to MY face. You're the bestest, keep it coming! ❤🙏🏼
Favorite video you’ve done hands down! 🎉 thank you for all of the fantastic info!
This was so fascinating and loved watching!! Ty!
This was so incredibly helpful. I'm a blonde with very pale skin and I dyed my hair jet black. I definitely noticed something wasn't quite right with the makeup I was doing lol. I already see a huge difference after watching this video. I actually used to hate red lipstick on me and now it looks so good! I'm inspired to play with makeup for the first time in a while so thank you so much. (:
I’m adding this video to my favorites! You are so awesome at explaining these things. I wish I could just see it like you do! Thank you! By the way, if you did a eyeshadow collab with any brand, it would sell out in seconds! I love Bella Beaute Bar and Sydney Grace formula. lol
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This makes so much sense! Thank you! ❤