What are WARM and COOL Colors?
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With this video I finally see the light at the end of the tunnel, called "Color Analysis"... Yes, in theory, I get what they say about undertone that makes it cool or warm, but when I look at my customers - this theory doesn't really work! This video makes so much sense to me! Thank you, Merriam! Subscribed! Thumbs up and on I go to your next video!!!
The what-looks-good threshold is so much higher when I have no makeup.
Ha ha so true. And even more true as I get older!
That’s actually the best way to find your best colors. I always thought I had a really red face that needed a lot of makeup, but in my best colors I look more even.
This is so great! I love all the subjects you cover, but your videos on color analysis are always the most interesting to me.
Another video that answers so many questions I’ve had about undertones. I find all the topics in your channel to be so educational. Thank you!
Thank you for this! I have cool skin undertones and strawberry blonde hair and because of the hair, most colour analysts would classify me as warm (spring), but I am definitely not. One analyst even told me it wasn't possible to have "warm" hair and cool skin undertones, but that is my natural colouring and I think that many redheads are classified wrongly.
I agree! Hair color alone doesn't decide your coloring or color typing would be super easy! I have what appears to be ash brown hair and blue eyes (with a yellow centre) and was told it was impossible to be warm! But my skin has a bright yellow undertone which makes my hair look ashy by contrast. My hair is actually golden brown. I had yellow blonde hair as a child.
No wonder some analysts recommend covering everything but your face in neutral gray drapes before starting the color draping process.
I agree with this commenter. I have blue grey eyes, cool tones and a warm hair colour. I stick to muted cool browns and light cool lemon yellow, nothing with a vibrancy but muted and soft colours mainly from summer but I pinch some tones from spring and autumn. The theory is broken for people with cool tones and warm features and vice versa.
I'm a winter and yet my veins appear green. What I found out over the years is that warm colors make my skin tone look reddish and my features appear quite harsh. Especially when I'd wear orange or yellow (the horror! :D). For winter IMO it is a good rule to test how black suits you. It is often said only winter types can wear black really well. I enjoy your channel, BTW - thank for you videos!
And if black is to harsh try a medium or dark grey.
Omg yellow and orange make me cringe.
I'm a winter with green veins as well.
I have the same issue I have green veins and my skin tone is a tan brown when I wear orange I look just like the shade and green makes me look sick as the green in my skin tone pops up more. I can't wear white or beige it looks horrible on me. The winter shades look better and the brown in the autumn line up. I'm mixed and it's impossible to find what shade I fall into this color theory. I dyed my hair black and I mix foundations to get the correct shade but it can turn ashy quickly.
The whole “if u have these coloured veins u are this season” is all bs by the way because the colour of your skin undertone doesnt affect the colour of your veins much.
Life-changing!! This clears up SO MUCH!!
Great videos two days in a row!
Awesome! Thank you. I love your videos. Keep them coming! You are AMAZING!!!
Another excellent video Merriam! I would love to know about the "Best Neutrals" for each season. I've watched your "Best Whites." So I hope to see more about your Artistic Color License.
Please talk more about warm and muted undertones and also th SN body type in ur next videos 🙏🌸
YES!
Super interesting - thank you Merriam.
So well explained as usual! Great picture examples!
OMG!!! Now I finally understand. Thank you so much
I'm studying art and colour at the moment and this video has helped me enormously in understanding.
Ahah, I get it now. Thanks Merriam, I definitely have yellow undertones!
I personally do not think yellow is necessarily warm. There are warm yellows (ie Gold) and cool yellows (ie Lemon), I believe a person with a cool yellow undertone will look better in different colours from a person with a warm yellow undertone.
Amanda De Silva Hi ! She actually talked about that in an other video. In her theory, you can have yellow that are cooler than other yellow, like lemon is cooler than gold, but they are still warm colors (compared to all the colors.
Also I don’t think someone can have a cool yellow based skin tones because skin tones is made out of red, blue, yellow with more or less black and white according to the depth of the skin. If you have more blue than yellow you have cool undertone and if you have more yellow than blue you are warm undertone.
I think her theory is simpler than most other color analysis theory.
But it’s not that easy to see if a skin tone has more blue or more yellow especially if the skin tone is close to neutral or if the skin is quite deep.
@@katemaconeil7087 ahhh I see, thanks Kate! I think I've seen people with cooler yellow skin tones, though I'm not sure, it's just a guess.
Amanda De Silva but add yellow to a color and it warms
@@gardeniawatercolors7158 Yes that's true in theory but that is not my point. I am saying its too simplified to group cooler yellows and warmer yellows together. A person with cooler yellow undertones will look different (compared to an extremely warm person) wearing the warmest coloured clothing.
Though I get that this video is meant to be simple.
@@Amanda-ke8gt according to this theory that yellow that you mention could be a warm delicate undertone or it could be a cool undertone which looks quite dark but it's cool underneath. Maybe if you watch her video about color analysis you ll make up a better conclusion
This videos helped me understand color theory much better, thank you.
You are absolutely correct. I am a deep winter (at least imo) but not particularly pale and if I wear a yellow, peach, or tan shirt people will be asking me all day if I'm feeling well! It will wash me out so much I look sickly. Cools can't get away with certain shades next to our face without it looking harsh.
Though, my veins do appear blue to me. I don't get that part, because I KNOW I have to be a cool undertone.
Hi, this was very informative! I'd love to see something on shades of brown--cool browns, warm browns, muted browns, etc. and who can wear what. I think my skin tone leans cool, but I get compliments when I wear certain shades of brown and it's really confusing!
YukiTombo You’re right! It’s all about the ‘shade’ of brown. You just have to try them on.
Great video! I think this makes perfect sense - it confuses me that this confuses people but as a very pale person with very cool undertones I now understand that this is probably a bigger issue for me than it is for most people. Clothes with yellow-tending colours are a dealbreaker even if they otherwise are perfect because they make me look like a ghost, I haven't been able to explain why I never ever wear orange or yellow but thanks to you I now can!
Thank you!
Here's Julianne Moore (cool and pale) looking a bit ghostly in a yellow-greenish color:
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And here she is wearing a royal blue and I think she looks great, even in daylight when lighting can be a bit harsh, the color still looks nice on her:
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Yes, stay away from anything orange, warm red, yellow, lime green. Focus on the cool colors that have more blue than yellow! :)
Amazing! as always!
On the first two photos of the actress her skin is two different colors due to camera lighting. Yellowish in one photo and grayish in the other.. you need to find a picture with similar coloring where the camera lighting isn't affecting her skin color
I am fairly sure the reason Nicole does wear warm colors is that stylists see red hair and think warm...it is the hottest warm hair color so they are swayed by that...taking her skin out of the equation altogether her hair DOES look amazing against warm colors and better than against cool colors but her SKIN looks best in cool colors, so I agree with you. Often I read about matching eye color for a signature color...I have a warm skin tone, warm blonde hair and bright tourquoise eyes. In head shots I look my best in some version of the color turquoise (the greener the better) because it makes my eyes pop. In overall shots I look my best in warm colors like coral. Those are my two favorite accent colors. For neutrals I look my best in warm camel tones to a saddle tan color because they mimic my hair, my largest feature since it is long (besides my skin). I do really look my amazing best in overall coral color thank goodness that color has been in style for several years now so I can find dresses, tops etc all in coral. I then wear it with luggage tan accessories, camels znd lighter warm brown. I try to never wear pure black or pure white...flesh colored shoes look best on me and my flesh color is a warm lightish camel. Cool toned taupes and grey look awful on me.
I hate warm colors with passion and yet I'm afraid I am a "delicate warm" undertone. Do you see my problem?
Yes I do! But the good news is warm undertones generally look better in their 'worst colors' than cool people do in their worst colors (life isn't fair). But, you could still incorporate just some warmer muted colors near your face, and wear blue, etc, away from your face if you'd like to, and that warmer color near your face will make your face light up. :)
@@merriamstyle The funny thing is, as I kept thinking more and more about it and just couldn't get it out of my head, I started trying to wear some warms I have (beige, brown and such) and I did actually love how I felt in them, sort of effortless. I wear lots of dark/bright blue and I realized that I use it to hide myself. So thank you!
Same here I'm either warm and vibrant or warm and delicate but I can't stand warm colors at all except for red which I love.
I'm a vibrant warm but the only warm colors I like are red, olive green, turquoise, cool beige and yellow gold jewelry
Yeah I hate warm colors too but luckily for me I am pretty sure I have a cool and muted undertone and it is also great since my favorite color is purple and I am not a fan of wearing bright colors ......
I love bright colors for different purposes, maybe for jewelry but not for wearing them ......
Sooo yeah ........
This is fascinating! I agree with your analysis of what colors look best on Nicole at 8:45, but I would argue that the colors she is wearing, even the cool "flattering" ones, are too dark, because she has so little contrast in her personal coloring! Can you say more about personal contrast and how it affects what values of colors look best on people? Love, love, love you and your channel!
She does have very light skin and hair, but somehow I actually think that the darker and more saturated jewel tones look the best on her. I think that her skin, eyes, and hair all have a clarity and intensity to them in terms of color, even though they are similarly light.
Thank you for this content Merriam. Based upon my personal experience with the Blue Base/Yellow Base color system and other personal color analysis systems, I feel the cool/warm determination of an individual's skin is ground zero for personal color analysis. It takes precedence over chroma and value as the most important first step. For those interested with this concept they can consider doing further research into Robert Dorr, an artist who was the first to observe that colors can be categorized into these two distinct color spectrums (in 1928), and that all colors within a particular spectrum are harmonious. He observed that all individuals had either a cool or warm undertone to their skin and appeared most harmonious wearing colors from the corresponding spectrum they resonated with.
Hi Kathleen, thank you for your comment! I agree, warm/cool (or yellow/blue) balance is the first and most important step to color analysis! That's why I wanted to get this out there and clarify it on my channel before I add more videos talking about chroma and other aspects of color. If a person finds their warm/cool balance, I really believe they'd be about 70 if not 80% to looking their personal best!
Hi Kathleen, I'm trying to email you but for some reason it's not going through. Do you happen to have another email address you could email me from so that I could try emailing you on that one? I drafted a long response to send to you but having trouble sending it.
you are correct
@@merriamstyleyou do know turquoise is a yellow based blue.
It's bad enough that warm toned people don't have very many colors to work with.
Thank you for these videos! As a redhead its been quite challenging for me! I was typed Bright Spring (hated bright colours at that point), ended up buying pretty much all bright warm colours lol (mainly wear black, white & red now - which makes sense I guess as they are bold and bright/sorta neutral). I have always hated blue, green & purple but warm/earthy versions aren't so unappealing. I thought I could even get away with bright rust & clear greys. Turns out I just live my home life with warm light all around me as much as possible to try to get away with it. Guess I will have to come to peace with magenta & lime - but as a 37 year old Flamboyant Gamine I also feel too much like a doll or youth in these colours :( I'm never giving up my gold jewellery though! (I honestly think silver looks harsh & cold on me). Anyway, maybe I will book a consult, as it looks like I need to throw away half my wardrobe - Lines are ok, but colour still so wrong lol
all redheads are the warm seasons. Black and white are the worst colours for you. You may be a warm autumn.
That’s a common misconception, if you like Merriam’s videos she’s got an older video about redheads but I know other people have said the same. Some redheads have a cool skin undertone and have contrast between the warmth of their hair and the coolness of their skin. I live somewhere with a lot of redheads and to me this seems to match reality better than the idea that redheads must be a warm season, or even must be autumn which is another thing I’ve heard. Imo redheads can be any season!
Love it. Great examples. Can you do something similar using someone with more olive looking such as nazanin Boniadi, please!
Perfect! Thanks a lot
Super helpful! This explains a lot! I knew I looked good in Red but my favorite colors are all blues, so I felt pretty bummed out until I saw this thing and realized that not all reds are "warm". Now my life makes sense!
I can still like blue XD
Also, I'm curious: would you mind doing a thing about kibbe body types and how they look on guys? I'm tryna figure out my boyfriend's type and I know guys already have a slightly different bone structure from women so I'm confused. I think he's a dramatic? But he could be a gamine?
Eh
Incredible videos! I am still quite confused with Kibbe and Color Analysis on myself. I had seen your videos and Aly's for a while now and I think I can identify this better on other people but not on myself. I would love to get a consult but I am underage, so maybe in the near future I'll get to have one! Love your videos they are super informative and interesting!
Thank you!! I’m happy you’re liking the videos! I always say the hardest person to type is yourself. It’s so hard to be objective about yourself because we see ourselves so often and we have so many biases. With others though it can be a lot easier.
And yes of course you’d have to be over 18 to book a consult (I feel like there must be laws but it’s also my policy)! If you haven’t figured it out by then I can definitely help out. :)
Great video! I learned so much. I believe I'm a true winter, with vibrant cool undertones. Trying to find my perfect hair color
@@merriamstyle thankyou! I have very dark ash brown hair naturally, green eyes and pink undertones(very fair). Pretty positive I'm a true winter, brighter saturated cool colors seem to look best on me. Thanks for the advice❤
Your videos are so amazing! I'm not sure how to tell if I am warm or cool though! I've tried comparing pictures of myself and I have no idea. What do you suggest?
Thank you for the video.
I think that the whole concept or theory of color when applied to people is that unless an analyst is personally in possession of the person's specifics, it is very difficult to ascertain a person's color by analyzing pictures. The variables introduced with pictures are obvious. The light, exposure, the background, the quality of the pictures etc. in addition to the ever-changing public looks of people like Nicole Kidman. They change their hair color, have cosmetic procedures, wear different shades of foundation, have fake tans, etc. This is what may be contributing to the confusion, in my opinion. It is a constant moving target! :)
I think a lot of pale skinned people confuse their tone as cool, including me until I wore a silver dress one time and realized I needed to do some researching....And I also have such pale transparent skin that my veins look blue. BUT my skin does have a distinct yellowness when I even get just a little sun, and I’ve always looked better in warm colors!
Mikaela Yeah, I wish my undertone was easy to figure out. I look great in some cool and warm colors but I seem to be split evenly between the two, because I also look terrible in some from both sides. Generic undertone advice isn’t very helpful, every pale person is extremely cool by those standards. I’m always recommended those ‘icy’ colors....which make me look dead, lol.
@@jessierasberry3082 Could you be olive undertone? Like muted "neutral" undertone? I think she said olives are cool or warm, but are harder to figure which as they are more balanced.
Tom Jones Possibly, maybe a very light olive tone? I’m quite pale so it’s tricky. I am muted for sure, I think I lean very slightly warm, but it’s VERY slight! Most warm toned examples analysts use are tanned people wearing bronzer which makes it even harder to tell, lol.
@@jessierasberry3082 Yes color anaylsts should be more inclusive. I have very very pale skin, mid brown hair and blue eyes, which made a color me beautiful analyst claim I was "definitely" winter. But everyone said those winter shades made me look pale and sickly. Someone said try spring shades and they totally work. My skin has a bright yellow undertone and blue eyes have a yellow ring around them, and I was golden blonde up to my teens. I think they should add in a pale option so we don't get mis-typed. Also they should mention the difference between soft muted and bright skintones too, that's more important than people think!
correct. The two lightest Fitzpatrick Phototypes can be any of the four seasons. In fact they're mostly springs, summers and autumns.
My veins look both blue and green. On the back of my hand I have a blue vein and a green vein, on my wrist I have a blue vein and a green vein, on my neck I have a vein showing, part of it is blue and part green. So what am I? Can't figure out by the life of me. I love all the cool colors, can't stand the warm tones.
I am also both. Skin color is not on sided. There is only a dominante color. I am a neutral/olive skin tone. So I usually can pull off both spectrums, as long as color ranges stay close to the neutral, center of the color spectrum.
vein colour is meaningless, ignore it. You have to determine your undertone. Which is more flattering to your face, white, or cream and oyster?
I have blue and green veins too,and i also can't stand colors that are shown in warm tones. Did you figure out how this works now?
@@SueRosalie I can't tell. I am drawn to cool colors
@@habibasalamat2826 did not. Just figured I am a neutral
Nicole has fiery red hair! She is definitely warm. The yellow-green dress looks amzing on her. She looks tan to you because of different lighting.
I'm not sure if Nicole is warm but I also liked both yellow-green dresses the most on her. However, blue looked better than yellow or red.
To me first the green on the left (least amount of blue) and in the next picture the green on the right (with least yellow) looked the best on Nicole. The Blue was also fine but in my opinion the worst colors where the purple/pink, yellow and red ones. The yellow tones made her look a bit ill. As soon as there was red in the dress, both cool or warm, this emphasized the red in her cheeks. Also it seems that yellow and red color made her hair look dull.
Edit: I also want to say that I enjoyed watching this video and I like that you think about new aspects in color theory that are commonly ignored.
I’ve recently learned that the veins test it’s highly inaccurate. Also, Nicole Kidman has been categorized as spring, which is warm. Is she natural red hair?
No, she’s naturally blonde. However, I 100% agree that she IS Spring. I think the poster is enchanted with how different NK’s coloring is than her own. In every cool toned picture, all I see are huge fake black eyelashes and her skin looking vampiric by contrast. She GLOWS in Spring colors. I think it’s ridiculous to even consider her cool.
My skin is more tan and I think I get confused because I'm unsure whether jewel tones stand make my skin stand out more because of the contrast or because i'm actually cool skinned? There aren't really any colours that make my skin look bad but I've been told items from brown/greys to very cool jewel greens flatter my skin. but i think that's my issue with recognising what flatters skin as well, your videos are fantastic!
Hey! I've been looking for a comment like that haha
I am quite tan and no colors look "bad" on me, they just give a different vibe that I can like, so I was very confused. And when I globally look at the clothes I have the colors are really all over the place x)
What always used to confuse me are the colors that are usually recommended for certain color types. Eg. some pinks and purples for autumns appear rather cool to me and I mostly think they don't look too good on autumns but they are on their color chart. In classic color analysis I am a summer (in your system I'd be a winter, I think) and I feel like especially those colors I'm talking about look good on me even though they shouldn't if we go by the regular system. I am not completely into your system, probably I'm way too biased by some of the regular systems but what you said in this video makes a lot of sense to me. Even a friend of mine who has been taught color analysis always wonders about me wearing certain colors and looking good in them like "how is this possible, we were taught that you should look awful in that" etc. I think a lot of the ways color has been perceived is not really suitable for color analysis at all. Color has its own language and it changes from field to field. What's right in graphic design might be wrong when coloring hair or choosing your best colors. Very interesting video and topic imho :)
Thank you for your comment! Very interesting that you say that. In my system, an 'autumn' would not wear purple (and people may kill me for it since that's sort of a well accepted 'autumn' (warm) color). Purple is in fact cool if we take cool to mean blue-based. A lot of stuff in color analysis is extremely inconsistent, so I'm trying to bring consistency to it and get rid of all that. Some pinks are also cool (of course). As a warm undertone, one would wear peach, not a cool pink. I suspect that for you, my future videos may make sense too. I hope you stay tuned and maybe I can gain your trust. :) I also do NOT have color analysis training because I simply can't handle the kinds of things that are said in 'color analysis'--they are inconsistent at best, and false at worst!!!!
I wondered about that myself. I think I’m an autumn, and I kind of suspect that they stuck the purples and pinks in there because they felt like we aught to have something from that part of the color wheel. But I fully believe in understanding rules so that you can break them. If I hadn’t gone down this color analysis rabbit hole, I wouldn’t have discovered how well I can pull off orange and tomato red. I was a bit scared of bright colors. But also, whatever anybody says about the color seasons, black looks undeniably good on me. And silver jewelry does stand out from my skin, but in a way that I often find very bad arse. Because the thing is, colors that harmonize with your skin are great, but colors from the opposite end of the color wheel are not the bad guy. They are just complementary colors. So there’s a million ways that they might have a place on you. It’s like composing a song starting with one chord. You could build off of that chord creating a melody in a major scale, and make something lovely, or you could go in an unexpected direction and create a song that has some tension, and also come up with something good… if you’re a music person haha
Also, I am a painter so when I got into this whole thing, I went to my studio and painted a color wheel. I figured out for myself that green and red, opposites, form the axis of warm and cool. Green, because it has equal parts yellow and blue, and red because it has neither. But blue and yellow are not on opposite ends of the wheel. If you draw a line on the color wheel that is perpendicular to this red/green axis, that line will go from yellow orange to its own opposite, blue-violet. Which leads me to the conclusion that in a way, those are the two “polar” colors, the most warm and the most cool relative to everything else. Which would explain why yellow, especially if it has a little bit of white in it, can feel almost cool, because it is at tension with a color that is warmer than itself.
Amazing analysis as always! I don't understand why I look good in warm neutral eyeshadows but bad in warm muted coloured clothes? Especially when the colour is earthy yellow, it looks awful on me, why?
Thank you for this! I was always told my skin was olive so my veins had to be green, but they're clearly blue, and most recommended colours for olive skin don't look good on me. This made a lot more sense. At least now I know why I intuitively make the colour choices I make :D
There are cool olives, as well as those who have teal veins, in addition to a few whose veins that look like more than one color. Good luck with figuring this out.
What do you do about skin with red or pink undertones along with yellow?
Loving your videos! I don’t have an artistic cell in my body though! There are 15 colors for each season. Are these the only color swatches you provide with a consult? Many of us have no eye for color so when you change the shade by adding white or black, and the color is still warm or cool, we become confused. We would be locked in by matching that exact color you digitally provide printed by our printer on our paper at home. Would texture of fabric change the perceived color? How would us less color knowledgeable people determine if a color is warm, cool with clear or muted quality if it varies from any of your 15 color samples?Is there a resource that could analyze the amount of yellow, blue or gray and label it like an app or program? I apologize for my ignorance and I thank you for your patience with any response. If it doesn’t exist, isn’t it a great idea for an app?
Excellent analysis of Nicole Kidman!
no it's not
Any of the colors in the middle, whether they are warmer or cooler, that look best on her ARE DARKER. She looks best in higher contrast, more chroma colors, I think.
But Nicole Kidman is a spring 🤔
And the vein test is very inaccurate, since there is an undertone (blue and yellow) and the tone of the skin (yellow or pink). They mix into yellow warm, olive, peach, pink and yellow cool (blue undertone, yellow tone of the skin).
Yes I agree with this. The yellow vs blue is too simplified for me.
Nicole may appear to be a spring in some of the photos where she has a spray tan (in which case, she would be a spring because the unnatural pigment is warmer now, and so she would look better in warmer colors with that spray tan). This video was meant to be simple, it's a start to building an understanding. Not an entire system!
yes, i have blue veins but when next to other people my actual skin looks distinctly yellow in comparison, though i am fairly pale (ish) i do tan well. i think i am a cool tone though, i look awful in orange, not so bad in a dark khaki green though which confuses me as that is warm? x
@@mooglewhale you sound like me gold, yellow, organge look hideous on me I had a colour analysis and i was told i suited cooler colours but my best are ones like khaki (cooler khaki you can get warm and cool), burgundy, reds and purples more to the cooler side. My veins are blue but also slightly green and theres alot of yellowness to my skin. Hope it helps.
@@gemima.876it sounds like you're simply a muted cool undertone, which is winter in Merriam's system.
I hope I am a winter bc I just lobe dark muted cool colors
I want to be deep winter badly but I might be deep autumn 😭😢 you see I have dark brown almost black hair and my veins appear blue green and my eyes are brown. I am light but I do get dark if I spend the whole summer going to the beach. But if I avoid the sun the I am pretty pale. I look best in rose gold jewelry than others.
Interesting Stuff according to this color theories I would be deep Autumn as well and I refuse lol I rather wear the "wrong" colors lol my veins are blue green as well but my skin has yellow and is not pink but I don't feel I'm warm at all
Is it possible to be cool and radiant but also delicate/not muted?
I am asking because I seem to not fall under any of the four categories
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Hi, great videos, thank you Merriam I am definitely warm and vibrant but I get a lot of compliments wearing red and wearing blues sky blue royal blue how can that be?
you are probably a bright spring
I think i am warm but it's a bit weird because when i drape orange and purple, orange makes me look more alive but what looks better than either orange OR pink is orange AND pink together, like there is a noticeable jump. And i seem to look much better in patterned fabrics in mid or darker tones with two or more colours, even in some cool tones (without black or white in any huge amounts, eg daisies on a black background isn't flattering) than in any plain colours. I do have a mix of vein colours - the central ones look purple fading into blue and the ones on either side look a bit more green but the skin is thicker there. And i have a noticeably green tinge to my skin if you put me next to people with regular cool or warm undertones. But i also have developed rosacea so superficial facial redness is an issue too. I'm so confused lol.
Have you tried my color draping video? You may be a muted undertone (close to neutral, but still either slightly warm or slightly cool). The orange and pink combo makes me think that maybe the eye mixes it into a more ‘neutral’ (not too yellow based and not too blue based) color and it looks more harmonious. Also black and optic white can look harsh on muted undertones. How does gray look on you? How about brown?
@@merriamstyle both look decent in a mid-deep tone, very light shades look horrrible on their own, i think brown is better in a mid-deep tone but light brown worse than light grey?! Maybe the particular tones i've tried are a bit funky. Thank you for replying! I think i need to get some more proper draping colours. Muted might make sense. Muted plum and blue-grey or green-grey seem pretty decent on me. But bright orange seems definitely better than bright pink. And teals are good. I think i have watched the vid you recommend but i'll watch it again!
This is the issue I'm having too.
If you look green compared to others it sounds as though you’re an olive complexion, and what you’re saying about patterns and orange and pink makes me think you do better with high contrast.
I'm yellow brown and I look great in cool silver a d faded denim colors! Everyone says so!
it means you have cool undertones. Disregard your overtones which may be olive, a tan, or ruddiness, or freckles or whatever.
Hello, love your video. I was wondering if i was cool undertone. I wear great purple, pink, green and red, like every shade of them (bright, light, dark, deep but not the colors that are too "invisible", i fade in them). I can still wear red going a bit orange (coral looks great on me) and same with green going yellow. Maybe I'm more neutral leaning cool? But pure yellow and orange, hell no, i look terrible. I look my best in pink and purple. Because i learn that some people with blue undertone don't look quite good in red for example, they may be cooler (xD) than me
Please make more videos 📹 thanks
I have similar coloring to Nicole Kidman...natural strawberry hair and very fair skin and blue eyes and have always been told i have to be warm because of the reddish hair.
all redheads are one of the warm seasons, including Nicole who insists on wearing black (for Winters only) and ageing herself
by definition redheads read warm in every sense. There are two main types of melanin in our hair: eumelanin and pheomelanin. Eumelanin is also known as the brown-black pigment, whereas pheomelanin is known as the red-orange pigment. People with red hair have much more pheomelanin, people with dark hair have higher levels of eumelanin than pheomelanin, and blonde hair is due to low amounts of both pigments.
But the warm tones are flattering for you? I'm a dark winter with reddish black-brown hair, and i know that i'm not a dark autumn because i look awful in colors like orange, mustard and golden jewelry
My skin has different undertones in different places. I have to be really careful where and how I wear certain colors haha
it's your face that counts. How do the colours flatter your face when draped in it
Great video !
What about Browns ? Are they neutral ?
Because they are mixtures of complementary colors so they can have the same amount of blue and yellow.
Good question! Just like skin (which is nothing more than brown, with some white added to it), browns can be warm or cool. Imagine you mix red, blue, and yellow to make brown. If you add a bit more blue than yellow to that brown, then it would be cool. If you add a bit more yellow, then it would be warm. If the ratio of value added by blue and yellow equal each other, then it would be a neutral brown. :)
Hi Merriam! I’m a bit confused and I hope you can help address my question in a future video. My face pic is in my profile picture so you can see what I look like. My mother’s favorite color - on me - was yellow and so during my childhood I only had yellow dresses. I however dislike the color yellow. I don’t like wearing it and I feel like it washes me out. Other people do compliment me on it though. My favorite / *power color* is royal blue. I love wearing it and I *feel* fabulous in it, but I’m not sure if I’m a “cool” undertone because I’m Eastern Indian with some mix of Portuguese and Iranian. I did watch your ethnicity video and I would say that my skin tone and natural hair color is similar to Aishwarya. If I am a warm, can I still wear my favorite blues? Or should I transition to warmer hues? Most of my favorite clothes are cobalt, royal blue, navy, gray, black, pure white (cream looks ugly on me) & only one particular shade of red. Appreciate your guidance!! 🙏🏼😇
you are most likely one of the Winters
What creates the blue based skin vs the yellow based skin? I wonder.
Im warm leaning. And my boyfriend is cool leaning. But we're both muted :).
genetics
At 10:21, I think it’s possible that the reason why the three on the left are more amazing is that they are deep, jewel tones. Those seem to suit her (winter thing). Maybe the purple and fuchsia would be just as great if they were darker, and if the second to the right was more saturated. That one is a little more of a dusty, almost grayish purple.
Likewise, with the warm toned dresses, I would say that all of them are not good in terms of actual color. If anything, I think orange is generally the worst for cool tones. I think what is making the ones on the outside a little better for her is the darkness/saturation factor. Those colors are not as pale, so maybe they are a better match for the intensity and contrast of her skin.
Also, thanks for clearing up the warm/cool thing. Your explanation is good. I think that a lot of people believe that red is an inherently warm color, because of its association with heat and fire. I used to believe that myself, and would be very confused when they talked about warm and cool in color theory classes in art school. But in color terms, red is neutral, like green. Green is neutral because it has equal amounts of yellow and blue, and true red is also nut teal in warmth, because it has neither.
How can you teach us so much in a 12-minute video? I don't know if you're gonna see it because this video is a little old, but I wanted to know if you have any recommendations on what to read or what classes to take so I can have the necessary tools to work as a personal color analyst. I'm searching for someone to teach me here in my country, but every one I find I have a hard time trusting them. Their explanations don't make much sense to me and they appear to be biased by what is considered beautiful, or better, "beautiful and elegant" instead of what actually looks good on someone, so they bend all the concepts until they can say that the person who's not following the norm looks terrible.
I have a question about red and green
I think your approach is very smart.
What I wonder: why do I wear most greens well but reds are quite difficult???
I do wear yellow if its not bright well and blue is just always bad, if its not teal or a warmer dark soft navy. Im thinking Im delicate warm.
Shouldnt I wear reds well too? When greens work so well?
Have you considered other factors, such as value and chroma? Depending on the green vs the red that you tried, it could be that not really the red and the green being a problem, but how deep/light and how bright/muted they are that affect you.
Another theory of mine is it could be due to how much red you have on your skin. A person skin is a mix of red, blue, yellow, black or white. Then we have green being the color that has both blue and yellow, whereas red has no blue and yellow. They are also opposite on the spectrum and cancel each other out. Depending on how much red your skin has that adding more red may pull more red out of your skin and make it looks too red and imbalance, whereas green helps neutralize some of that red and make your skin looks overall more balance.
I know this is an older video but I'm learning and this is so helpful. What I noticed was that she seemed to be dressing in possibly soft autumn/ muted, warm colors and it wasn't working. Maybe she is a spring or something not muted?
I think she is likely one of the Springs. She is a natural redhead.
She is. The problem about those dresses is that they are muted, and Nicole has a bright coloration
I love your videos, but i don't agree with this one. Especially with what you say about the purple dress on Nicole (purple/violet is red+blue and this purple has more red than blue, so it's a warmer shade ant that's why she looks so good in it, a cooler would be a typical amethyst or iris shade - though it's hard to explain without a photo, cause there are different varieties and types of iris and amethysts). I also think that the magenta dress is the worst one for her. I agree, however, that the yellow(ish) dresses are not a good option for her, not sure why 'cause in my opinion she's warm, but from my experience as a colour analyst, pale people very seldom look good in yellow, no matter what the shade is. Anyway, I hope you'll keep posting your videos often, i find them very inspiring even if i sometimes disagree ;)
Thank you for your comment! Do you think Nicole looks good in the warm red dress? Very interesting that you didn't like the magenta on her--I thought it looked pretty good and that her skin tone looked even-toned. Also, red may be warm in color theory, but in color analysis, it's neutral because it's not yellow based or blue based. I did touch on this in the video, so there are no warm purples. There are 'less cool' purples. But there aren't any warm ones.
@@merriamstyle Thank you for replying! I don't really like Nicole in the warm red dress, but because it looks too bright for her, whearas the magenta in my opinion is both too bright and too cool and this is why I like it the least. I'm not convinced about the theory that "red is neutral" because, for example, I am a very cool type and the only red that doesn't look too warm on me is red with a very strong blue undertone, which on warmer people looks like pink. Regarding the purples, I agree that no purple will ever be as warm as any orange, but can still be warm enough to look amazing on warm types. The same with blue - if it has a hint of red (cornflower/ultramarine) or yellow (turquoise) it will usually look great on warm types. By the way, unfortunately, I have noticed it doesn't work the other way round for cool types and they usually cannot find a good shade of yellow, I suppose this is because you can add a lot of black/white/red or yellow to blue and thus create thousands of different shades of it and yellow is much less "flexible" and you cannot play around with it as much as you can with blue or green. Sorry for the long answer, but I can discuss colours 24/7 ;)
@@tigrinha83 thank you for this comment! like you, i am cool, and 'true' red is too warm for me, and blue with yellow added just looks terrible. the color might not be warm per se, but there's just too much yellow in it to be flattering. also same with purples, there are some that are just too warm on me. there is the theory, and then there is how it actually works for the individual when the garments are up against their skin.
I had a similar opinion when watching the video. As someone with cool skin undertone all kinds of reds are too warm for me, even pinks or reddish purples. I can only wear them within a mixture of other colors that balance the effect.
Thanks for your videos that I just discovered. I don't agree with Nicole Kidman: I clearly see her as warm-toned (probably spring). The light, transparent skin and the reddish hair clearly speak for me. I see this confirmed in the selection with the colored clothes: I find the royal blue terrible about her. Overwhelming, garish, far too dominant. On the other hand, I think the brass-moss green one is beautiful. Likewise the dull green. The petrol-colored (teal, also warm-toned) I think the color temperature is ok, but it is too dark. I don't think all the pieces in purple, aubergine or pink are beautiful. For the warm selection: the ice-yellow one is cool and in my opinion unfavorable. In contrast, the other four are beautiful! So we don't see the same thing. :-)
yes you are right, and all natural redheads like Nicole are always one of the warm seasons.
@Merriam Style according to your system I am definetely warm&delicate yet I look soooo much better with cool colored lipstics and nail polishes. Cool red lipstics and warm purple nail polishes are my favorites. And with orangey lipstick I look ill and pasty yellow. I am wondering your thoughts about this, thank you! And any other comment would be welcome of course
All my lipstics are mauves, soft pinks, dark pinks, reds and dark reds. Aside from orange lipstics, I look horrible with cold fusia pink lipstics as well. ALSO I have a burgundy/bordeaux colored blouse that I look amazing in, its even my favorite one! I am starting to think that I mıght be really neutral after all.
if orangey lipsticks look bad you have cool undertones. You're probably a summer or a cool winter subtype
I'm still unsure if im cool and muted or warm and muted. I call my skin olive, green-ashy cast to it very hard to get foundation to suit me. I see yellow but also blue. I get most compliments when I wear; military green, rosy pink, yellowish brown but also charcoal grey. It makes no sense to me. My worst colours are bright jewel tones like royal blue and bright orange.
I have the same doubt, I wish it wasn't so confusing!
I think I am a neutral skin colour. Icy baby blue and emerald green looks the best on me paired with gold jewelry but mustard yellow and bright red also looks equally as good paired with silver jewelry. I have blue eyes, pale skin, and a dark brown, golden/copper colour hair, almost auburn but more gold. Some of my veins are blue and others are green. Do I sound like a neutral?
ignore veins, and there are no neutral undertones. Everyone veers more toward one side or another.
@@SueRosalie I have studied design and colour theory in post secondary so this should be easy for me to identify. I believe I am as close to a true neutral as possible, my skin base is cool with warm red flushed tones throughout. My hair is warm and my eyes cool. A true 50/50.
So is there such a thing as a blue for people with yellow undertones? Obviously some blues are warmer than others but I have trouble determining the difference between a warm blue and a cool bluish green. Or are all blues just considered cool and should only be worn by people with cool blue undertones?
blue is the only primary colour that is fundamentally cool. But blues can have some yellow added that makes them warmer. WarmER not warm. If you look at the palettes for Spring and Autumn you will see there are some blues and greens. Compare them next to the blues and greens for Summer and Winter and you will note the difference. Just keep training your eye to see undertones by comparing colours.
What if my veins are purple and blue green, I use NC20 with yellow hints in my skin, high contrast black hair eyes brows with light olive skin. I look horrible in warm clothes lol I tan easily never burn. I look warmer in my skin tone but I hate warmer colors and feel better in cool colors 😵 I'm Latina btw
ignore vein colour. You are most likely winter
I have translucent skin, burn, don't tan, red hair, and green, blue, olive eyes depending on ? Color light, I'm not sure. And I guess I'm cool but I can't figure out my season. Any help?
nope all redheads are the warm seasons
haha i am still so confused. I guess I need to do a photoshoot with all my clothes. I have so many contradictory things. I think im a soft warm undertone but my wardrobe has so many jewel tones and blue colors. ....
there are fabulous jewel like blues and purples in the spring and autumn palettes
For Nicole Kidman, or anyone, I'm not sure sure it has to do with cool and warm colors alone, especially since we've seen that, for some people, those two can change based on tanning. I do. I tan to a golden tone but when I'm not tan, I'm a cool tone. But no matter what, I always look great in tints and terrible in shades, tones, or pure chroma. Nicole doesn't look good in the bright yellow, in my opinion, because it's a tint. She needs more dynamic colors. That's also why I don't agree with color theory because dynamic and bright are not at all correlated. A person with dynamic coloring looks best in shades. A person who has bright coloring looks best in tints. The skin that is "calming" or whatever would, in my opinion, be those who look best in tones and pure colors (I suppose the pure color people would be winters but I'm not sure). One thing I've seen is that the Dressing Your Truth system seems to really work as far as colors, design line, fabric, etc. But it doesn't go quite far enough for body type, which is why I branched out looking for other information, and it's been so fascinating. I'm really enjoying your channel, and you've really helped me learn so much about my body type, but I do think that as far as color, the tints, tones, shades, and pure chroma for four main types of women (who have secondaries that should also be incorporated). For me, as a type 1/4, I lead with an outward movement. I'm a bright, animated woman. The type most often thought of as childish. I laugh when I talk, I bounce up and down, and I clap when I am really excited about something. I'm also Soft Gamine with an Ingenue essence, which perfectly corresponds to my Type 1 nature. I think each of these systems can be very useful. You can try them out and find which one works best for you. All of the bright, animated women in my Type 1 group are so much like me. We all have many traits in common. We tend to start things and not finish them. We love new things and new ideas. Our whole faces light up when we smile. We look great in animated clothing, the ones who look their best wearing pink flamingoes or cherries on our shirts and watermelon earrings. We like things lightweight. If we can feel it, it's coming off as soon as possible! We bounce when we walk. Our anger is short-lived. We're like fireworks that explode and then disappear. We even will put our arms over our heads to rest them and sit with our legs tucked up under or against our bodies. We tend to lack an aura of authority and, because of that, people try to take advantage of us. We thrive on social situations but not always big gatherings. We just can't go long without people contact. I just think people can learn so much about themselves by exploring multiple systems.
When i wear orange my skin looks a bit blue ang reddish but when i wear blue i apper more yellow green especially in mauve what does that mean? Looking in natural daylight I sometimes look really light peanut and sometimes I look like I blushed my body for like a hint.
you have to drape the fabrics next to your face and behind your head, to see the effect it has on your skin and your face overall. Does it turn you sallow? Grey? Does it reflect orange or red onto you? Does is accentuate shadows around your mouth and eyes, does it accentuate blemishes and freckles? Does it make you look tired? Does it make your lips look a healthy pink colour or does it make them grey?
What if you have a hair colour that doesn't match your undertone? For example, my friend has super pale, cool skin with bright orange red hair. What colours would you recommend to someone like that?
I would recommend to always prioritize the skin! In my lily cole style report video I talk a little about her colors and she has a cool undertone and warm red hair. Your friend could also incorporate some warm colors or warm reds away from the face/not where the color would touch the skin directly. For example a blue dress with a peach or orange print. The peach could pick up on the hair but the blue would make your friends skin look good. :)
@@merriamstyle Thank you! It's confusing since I often see posts or diagrams claim that red hair indicates warm undertone despite her (and many other pale redheads) clearly having a cool undertone
Yes! Julianne Moore is cool, as is Lily Cole. The problem is these pale actresses will often have spray tans. But when they don't, you can clearly see their cool undertone:
Julianne moore in blue:
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Julianne moore in yellow:
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lily cole in blue:
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lily cole in yellow:
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@@merriamstyle Both of those blues are bright spring blues, and the yellows are muted yellows on bright skintones. It would help if you stuck to clear and clear, or muted and muted to make your point. I'm spring and suit bright yellow and lime, but I'm so fair that if you put me in muted lime and dirty mustard I look terrible! If you put me in a bright spring blue I look far better than the mustard yellow. This would give a false impression of me suiting cool more, which I do not.
I know I'm super late to this Convo but for anyone else that comes along with this problem, I match my undertone and that makes my hair look more red than orange.
My veins look purple 😳
I was told I look good in bright blue and bright/lemony yellow, am I neutral then?
oh no, you would be warm...maybe warm and delicate or warm and radiant.
Which people can look better with lightened hair??
It depends on the color of the lightened hair. Platinum blonde for cool undertones, and warm yellow blonde for warm undertones. :) Less bright for each if you have a 'muted' skin undertone, which I haven't made a video on yet, but I hope you stay tuned!
NO! Kidman is Radiant in Her Metallic Yellow Green! Why? It has to do with the angles of the her face, her walk, her voice, etc.. Look at how the red post behind easily harmonizes with her coloring , that's what a Pro Color Analyst like myself term, "Most Eye Catching Color scheme" This is a Big Clue to her palette (NO matter the method of Color Analysis employed.) In blue, she tries too hard to carry it off+ this photo shows to much skin for analysis. To "see" pigment in a person takes special training. It's a different way to look at color theory, & quite distinct from paint pigments. I commend Your hard work. ~ All The Best...From a Pioneer who help start the Color Analysis movement back in the day..
it's because she is a natural redhead and all redheads have warm undertones
I believe I am an autumn and I look absolute best in browns (with more red, not less), burnt orange, muted reds, olives, but also navy blue and lilac... Which technically shouldn't look so good on me if this was true, correct?
You’re probably just warm and delicate! If you haven’t watched it already, I have a video called golden overtones with cool undertones that could resonate with you If you’re WD!
@@merriamstyle I just watched it, wow... This could really be it. At a certain point I assumed every season for myself... Thank you. I'll go drape again and when I finish, let you know results. You're good. ^^
@@merriamstyle Did draping with girlfriends and we think you're right. Very cool what you're doing here, this stuff finally makes sense to me!
there are warm dark blues and purples in the autumn palette
If a person wears a bright blue red lipstick and it makes her skin appear yellow also clownish, what season would she be?
most likely a warm!
Thank you! I thought so too
Warm and muted here, so I guess I wont be wearing Black any time soon. 😕
Me too except I'm pale olive. I guess the only way to wear black is to wear a lot of make up to balance it out
Actually If you’re a warm and muted sharpened type, and have darker hair, black can actually look radiant because it provides contrast. Also It won’t look as “bright” if you have darker eyes/hair
Thank you
Can you please comment on cool delicate except teal / green veins
probably cool and delicate olive.
vein colour has nothing to do with undertones, ignore that nonsense.
If you read this comment, have a wonderful day! 😃❤
Thank you you too
Realy enjoy your videos, here ist my opinion.
Let's look at CMYK colorsystem and think of layering the colors, not mixing them, like it is with the skintones. So magenta ist neutral, yellow is warm and cyan ist cool.
Magenta+cyan= Blue/Lilac is neutral-cool
Magenta+yellow= red is neutral-warm
Yellow and cyan= green is neutral.
Get some more layer of one or the over to the color makes it more warm or more cool.
That's why olives, with the green undertones, always lean into neutral, never being fully warm or fully cool.
OMG I am in the process of trying this out! I was able to recreate my skintone! I have a yellow undertone, but I have to test out this on other people's pictures to make sure. It's so cool that we had the same idea!
@@kismorr8238 this process has created my own colorsystem,.. I would like to say more, but I am German and it's late.. I can't wrote what I want to tell this moment :D
magenta is not neutral, it is a mix of red and blue, slightly more red. So it's a slightly warmer purple. The only colour that is neutral is pure white.
I thought I was warm but now I’m thinking a more neutral...green is my best color. I can work with most colors on either side of neutral. I can get away with mote warm than cool, but some cools work well for me. Put me in muted berry colors and I look like I expired an hour ago. I think Kidman looks best in the first neutral-cool green. She looks awful in the pink one.
i have green veins and olive fair skin but look better in cool colors :/ but prefer gold over silver... ahhhhh
vein colour is not relevant to undertone. People with olive skin have cool undertones and are always Winters.
@@SueRosalie Not really. The olive undertone can be cool leading and warm leading, and this can be in every season(Maybe not in the true seasons, but you get my point)
Are there any warm blues? Or are all blues cool?
the warm blues have some yellow in them. See the palettes for autumn and spring.
There IS a such thing as warmer blues, and purples, and
aren't most redheads warm? I am a red head but i color my hair and I choose a cool red.
all of them are
I am very confused. In one video you look your best in certain colours and then in another you look classy in greys, cream and soft neutral colours. I wish I could find a video that makes sense. I find that alot on you tube....I am the only woman thinking this ?
I’m still confused...does your eye color make a difference
only after you've determined your undertone
what if the only colors that look good on you are red and green
that is unlikely
But if we’re talking about warm and cool as relating to human coloring, are we sure it’s useful to apply the same warm-cool definitions used in entirely different fields, such as graphic design? Compared to artists, who work with a practically unlimited number of possible colors as well as ways of combining them, the range of warm-cool that the human skin can express is highly limited. No one wears JUST warm colors (by the general color-theory definition of what a “warm” color is) because no human being contains only warm pigments... orange fake-tanner would not even begin to describe how weird such a hypothetical person would look. Same goes for cool colors: any person who contained only cool pigments would look dead (literally, like a decomposing corpse) or like a character from the movie Avatar.
This is why it's an undertone and not an overtone. Someone with cool undertones doesn't look like they're from avatar....the color of their skin is a slightly cool beige, or cool brown, that's all. And also we're not using the same definition of cool and warm as graphic designers (for more info on this, you can watch my video on, 'is red cool or warm'. In my opinion, it would be easier to do away with cool/warm terminology all together in color analysis, and only go with yellow-based, and blue-based.
You are incorrect about Nicole Kidman. Those intense blues make her look washed out and a little sallow. She is a readhead with warm peaches and cream skin, but very light and quite soft. She is cooler than some warms, so colours too warm for her are too much, but those cools aren't her best either. I would say she is a warm spring. Light, neutral, muted warms make her glow whereas black, blue and hot pink are horrible colours on her
I agree you. These intense dark colors are way too harsh on her. My problem: I see the dress but not Nicole. I would like to see her more in the light muted cooler colors or cool pastels. Her red hair is now mostly ashy(look at the picture in the middle, the other pictures are older).
correct. All redheads are the warm seasons.
So according to this system, if I have a warm undertone, I should not wear navy blue. But I was under the impression that navy blue was a universal color that looks good on everyone. From what I can tell, there are only two universal colors in your system: true red and true green.
I don't believe in universal colors! I think each person looks great in their own blue/yellow balance. For example, I think in the images of Nicole wearing the blue-based colors, she looks great, but doesn't look as good in the green and the magenta as she does in the blue, teal, and purple (those three have the most blue out of the five examples I gave). I don't think true red and true green would be universal colors either, but I guess if I had no idea what someone's undertone was and had never seen them, they would be the safest option, but still, not the best by far, and probably not anyone's best color. If you have that little blue or that little yellow in your skin, you're more likely a muted undertone (a whole other topic), in which case you wouldn't look good in bright pure colors....etc. I could go on forever on this!
@@merriamstyle No universal colors. Very interesting. Thank you for your response. I have watched several of your videos, and I really enjoy your system of color analysis. I am an autumn (muted warm). I have found rust red, golden yellow, and olive green look really good on me. However, I am having trouble coordinating full outfits because those colors are not as easy to work with as other colors (such as navy blue). But I think I am slowly getting better at it.
@@philiplastimosa6874 There are lots of navy blues though. If you are an autumn, a dusky peacock blue (slightly teal leaning) can be really nice. I'm a spring, and I look better in a super bright navy blue.
@@tomjones2157 but would bright navy not be summer (in her system) rather than spring??