Confused about SKIN TONE? Here's all you need to know.
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- čas přidán 16. 02. 2023
- Let's admit it - finding and understanding our skin tones is a struggle for all of us. In this video I explain WHY finding your skin tone gets so confusing, how we should be looking at skin tone, and what REALLY matters when it comes to finding the right colours!
Celebrity examples include: Beyonce, Cate Blanchett, Blake Lively, Emma Stone and Rihanna.
This video is PART 2 of my Personal Colours & Skin Tone series.
Here are the Topics for PARTS 1 & 3:
- Part 1: Seasonal Colours - Why is finding your season SO confusing?
- Part 3: Olive Skin - What does it REALLY mean to have olive skin?
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I need someone to look at me and just tell me what my skin tone is 😩
I know - it's not easy to find out for yourself 😩 I've gone through lots of trials and errors myself to really understand it!
Same girl.
When the adults in my life said you'll have to figure some things out on your own, this is not what I expected 😭😅
Me too
I think I have olive skin
Same!
Mind blown. This is the first video I've watched that actually addressed skin tone vs. color season in this way (i.e. Beyonce being cool but Autumn, RiRi being warm but winter). It makes so much more sense now. My skin is undoubtedly warm but wearing yellow makes me look sallow. Thank you!! P.S. really looking forward to your olive video!
Thank you for the lovely comment ❤️ I’m so glad you found this content helpful!!! 🥰
Yes that part really illustrated what I have always thought but could not articulate. Thank you.
1000% agree with this comment and sentiment! I also have more yellow in my skin and find neutral warm foundation works best, but wearing most warm colors makes me look too yellow. Thanks!
@@michelleoliver7063 I use neutral warm foundation too! It was so confusing before I saw this video!
YES! That was the first time I understood why my skin looks warm but I look better in winter colors. This video and the other 2 ones are SO GOOD.
I do think it is far better not to try and categorise yourself too strongly. The colours im good in tend to be true and deep, but the quality of the light each day can change what would be my better option.
Agreed - confining yourself into a specific season is what confuses a lot of people! It's more about how your skin tone reacts to the different characteristics of colour :)
I think value & saturation is sometimes more important than whether a color is classified as warm or cool. Color is very comparative so you can have warmer/cooler versions of any color depending on what's added to it. Both white & grey can cool down a warm color for instance. So can black. You might not like bright orange or fuscia or red on yourself but be able to wear many shades of pink, peach, coral, rose or salmon all of which are versions of the red/orange color range.
Definitely agree! I have a video on seasonal colours (czcams.com/video/BdMk_CZIGnU/video.html ) that explains that exact concept of how temperature is not everything about what suits you best. For me, because bright colours overwhelm me both orange and fuchsia end up looking kinda strange lol.
Thank you for actually illustrating the white vs cream on yourself. There’s such a huge difference between seeing photos of glammed up celebrities and then seeing people actually colour draping themselves in their videos. Not many people seem to do that and it’s soooo helpful.
I would love to see a video where you talk through some of the other things you’ve discussed and illustrate on yourself.
Also what you said about Emma Stone and Rhianna wearing the opposite temp to their skin tone for balance was fascinating,I’ve never heard that before but it makes so much sense!
Love your channel ❤
Thanks for the comment! I actually have a few shorts that compare if I look good in warm vs cool / light vs dark / bright vs muted colours so you should check them out ☺
As an asian with warm undertone I never understood why warm season colors made me look bad but cool season colors harmonised with my look.. i was so confused until u explained it between Beyoncé n Rihanna.. it just blew my mind.. thank u so much
You're welcome! Yeah warm skin doesn't mean warm season!! Glad it was helpful for you ❤
I had previously typed myself as a true autumn and can pull off _some_ soft autumn colors, but dark autumn generally looks too heavy on me. Then I felt like some summer colors also work, as long as they're muted and not pastel. With your explanation of clarity and chroma, it seems clear to me that colors with added grey and black tend to work, regardless of the temperature. But not crazy amount of grey as when the color starts looking muddy, it brings out too much yellow in me.
Sounds like you have a pretty wide colour spectrum ranging from soft summer to true autumn! As long as you know which characteristic affects you the most that alone can help you so much even without knowing your exact season. In fact, confining yourself into one specific season can make you more confused!
There are a lot of videos in which people claim Emma Stone is NOT a spring and has been miscategorized by the public because of the dyed red hair and bright blue eyes. That's the thing about using celebrities as examples - they wear so much makeup and hair dye and the lighting of the photos is usually carefully selected so you never know what they're actually like without all that stuff.
Fair point, since she is a natural blonde! But there are also people whose natural coloring is not the best suited for them which I think is so true for Emma!
Thank you for using paint as an example. I always had a difficult time figuring out my own skin tone but when you talked about paint, i just thought what colors i would mix for my own skin. I'm an artist and I've done oil painting self portrait of myself before so that definitely helped! I am only a touch bit more red than blue but a LOT of yellow 😅 don't know why I've never thought about it like that. thank you again!
I'm glad the paint example helped! :D
I really wish there were demonstrations throughout all the information! Any chance you'll be adding to your 3 part series with demos???
LOVE YOUR CONTENT🩷
Thank you so much for the comment! It's a good point - I'll need to think about how I can incorporate demos into my videos!
That orange fuchsia test is hilarious -- I've always tried to figure it out because both colors look good on me, and I wear them both as lipstick. But my shade of orange is more bright, clear and coral in tone. I think this is because I am a bright spring but kind of neutral in skin tone. What I really need in color is a pop that makes me look and feel more alive and vibrant. Otherwise I feel kind of grey and invisible.
You’re probably the type that doesn’t get impacted by how warm or cool a colour is! For you it’s the brightness of the colour that matters regardless of temperature! I explain a little more about this in my seasonal colours video so if you’re interested def check it out! 🥰
Sounds like its the brightness doing it with both; have you trialled colours from bright spring against your skin, cheap tee shirts may do it?!
Yeah, the orange vs fuchsia - most people (probably) won't look that good in either, while Bright Springs are going to look good in both ;D I'm on the fence about it, as both seem to suit in some degree; I believe I'm a Dark (Deep) season, even though my colouring isn't dark per se. But the pure white vs ivory test is so clear - pure white is absolutely horrible! ;) (Though to my knowledge, only True Winters look good in pure white...?) Black always, always looks better than white or grey. Light lipsticks are horrible too, although I can't do *too* dark lipsticks either (which I assume points to Dark Autumn rather than Dark Winter, but not 100% sure). We are always advised to stay away from black, which to me is counter-intuitive and annoying, as black simply looks way better on me than 99.99% of colours!!
Hearing you reword the wheel to spectrum just rearranged something in my brain and everything just clicked! Like someone else commented, this quite possibly the most sensible explanation of skin tone variation that I have seen. (I have gone through these videos and have taken numerous colour theory classes over many years now, it took me a while to realize colour primaries and temperatures come through differently in light vs paint vs skin) Grateful for your videos! 🙏🏽
Amazing - I'm so glad the video was helpful! I was hoping that the spectrum analogy clicked with people, and it did! :)
Totally agree about "neutral" skin tone, that's really confusing, or rather, people use it in a very confusing way! ;) No one is truly "neutral", at the end of the day, but most pepole seem to believe they are.
Yes!! So interesting to me. I have alot of yellow in my skin and many think I'm a warm season, but cooler colors look so much better on me. Now I can see why, makes sense. Thank you thank you!!! Undertone doesn't necessarily equal season, spot on❤
Thank you for the comment! I’m glad to hear you resonate with my explanations 🥰❤️
These videos are mind blowing. I self-categorized myself as a dark winter. Cool toned deep colors usually go better on me. But I can wear true winter colors as well as long as they are not too light. And I can also pull off some warm leaning dark autumn colors as long as they are not obviously orange and they are deep enough. I still prefer wearing dark berry tones but deep bordeoux is not that bad as well. I also don't like too muted grayish colors, I need some saturation. As for lipsticks, I can wear bold colors, they don't make me look vampy or goth. But again, I can't wear dark but muted colors. I can't wear nude colors as well. Even my everyday shade is Maybelline Vinyl Ink in Witty and I saw lots of youtubers categorizing that lipstick as dark or bold.
Wow. Finally - a real, agenda-free discussion about colour! I was born a copper redhead and was always told I was a warm autumn... Now I'm in my 50s and my hair is more strawberry blonde, heading towards white, I've been agonising over how different my skin looks with my hair and my clothes... and what I'm SUPPOSED to wear. After watching this I feel like I can relax and trust what I reach for the most in my closet - what I know looks and feels good! Thank you! 😊
Yes - trust your eyes! In the end how you feel in what you wear is the most important ☺️
Graying from red tones really changes your colors up. I can no longer wear mustard or deep forest green well. But , I can wear other colors I couldn't before 😊.
@@tabbieedwards4195 - the timing of your message is amazing. I was looking at these colours in my wardrobe just the other day while I was trying to decide what to wear - and the mustard, especially, just doesn't feel right any more! Thanks!
Wow, this video is golden! I never understood before why some people had warm/cool overtones but needed the opposite temperature to be harmonious, and this makes so much sense!
Although I have to admit that I still don't understand why the opposite happens, like how many people have their overtone and undertone matched.
I read a comment of someone saying that this happens with people with more neutral-leaning tones, but I see quite a few extremes of warm/cool overtones matching their undertone (specially irl).
I'd love to see more content on that!💗
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll add it to my list and see what I can come up with :)
Thank you so much. This has reinforced what I was observing in many ways, especially that colours with white added work far better on me than colours with grey or black added. It's not as simple as just "muting" the colour: it matters what you mute it with.
It's so true - there are people who can wear pastels (+white) or dark (+black) colours very well but not muted colour with added grey!
This was interesting! I am convinced I do have warm undertones (even though I may just be ornery because I look like s typical light summer) so I thought maybe I'm light spring, but I like how you said you might not look BEST in colors that are the same as your skin tone. Because my face tends to look reddish or even orangey sometimes and I just tested some colors and the coral makes my whole face just look orangey but the cool blue canceled that out a lot and you could see my individual features much better. Love your videos!
Thank you for the comment!! I know it can get quite confusing and I tried my best to explain that over generalization is what’s confusing people the most! Glad you find my videos helpful and I hope you continue to ❤️❤️❤️
I know what you mean. For me, I love the concept of cool color or muted cool(summer) but since I am warm undertone, they prolly don't look as good on me.
Love your videos, your always happy and explain things so well, thank you so much.❤
Aaaaaaah you’re amazing!! Nobody’s every explained it like you do! Keep up the amazing content ❤
Thank you so much for the compliment! Will do my best to keep making useful content ❤️❤️❤️
This is the best video on the topic I've ever seen! Thank you!
Thank you so much for the compliment - I'm glad you found the video informative!
Wow, I don't think I've ever commented on a video before but your channel is amazing, talk about a hidden gem!!! Thank you so much for taking the time and effort to make these incredibly helpful and informative videos! Do you by any chance do virtual consultations? You are clearly incredibly experienced and skilled, having your expertise on an individual level would be amazing!! ❤❤❤
Thank you so much for taking the time to leave a comment!! I’m glad you find my content helpful ❤️❤️
As for consultations, I’m in the process of setting up a website for 1:1 virtual consultations soon! Colour analysis and skin tone can get a little tricky via photos because of different lighting and such, so for now the consultations will focus on hair/makeup recommendations based on your proportions. Ideally I’d like to find a way to provide colour consulting as well eventually!! ☺️
@@stylemejenn Congratulations, that sounds amazing!!! Wishing you all the luck with continuing to grow your channel and setting up your website! Once its up i'll make sure to be first in line!!! 🥰
@@alexandriachapa908 thank you so much 🙏 will let you know once it’s up and running! 😀
woww this is high quality content!! Thank you for this video!!
Thank you so much - glad you found it helpful! ❤️
Thanks so much, this was illuminating!🌟
You are so welcome! ❤️❤️❤️
OMG color series!🥳🎉🎉🎉I'll comment first, then watch and re-comment again :)
Aww thank you!! Let me know if you have any questions about the content after you watch them! ☺️
this finally made sense. I always went for the warm colours but when discovering the season i was confused bc my attributes (my hair and skin) are more ashy. But wearing cool colours would make me look sick, while warm colours light me up and fit me like a glove. But also, since i am "supposed" to be a deep autumn (i have high contrast), i was not supposed to wear more mellow colours although i have always reached for creams and beiges and never looked bad on them. So i always thought maybe i am a soft autumn (but obvs i didn't fit the description so back to deep autumn!). Thanks to this video i see that my skin can handle more ashy/muted/mellow colours bc it just evens out my high contrast. On the other hand, when i wear proper deep autumn colours, although they look good on me, i feel like my clothes are SCREAMING, if that makes sense 😅
I'm glad the video was helpful and provided you with some clarity!!
Such a good video! I have watched it several times, as it has so many details. Thank you!!
I'm glad you found the video informative and helpful! ❤
Incredibly informative! Thank you 😊
Im glad you found the video helpful! :D
I have to watch it again 🙆 lots of info 💅 thank you!
So glad you found it helpful! 😊❤️
That's really interesting to learn the seasonal colors were created by an artist! I am an artist myself and I always think about what clothes and background will look best with a person's features and I usually start my portrait paintings with a straight wash of a color like pink for a cool tone and then build up with flesh tones, so it really does function as an 'under' tone. With Olive, I'll actually go in with a greenish color which can start of looking strange but it looks good when it is all done!
Yes it’s developed by an artist! It can get quite specific (I think there are systems that use up to 24 seasons now) and if you’re interested you should definitely look into the details of the different seasons - they’re subtle differences to some but I personally think wearing the right colors makes a huge difference so I’m sure it would work the same for paintings! 🥰
@@stylemejenn I have some characters I've developed and I try to think about the subtle differences for each! The chroma/clarity and saturation make a HUGE difference!
Thank you for helping me understand - I am definitely a winter, but I don't look as good in blues and while I can pull off both dark and light colors, summer palette looks very off on me, even though I'm undoubtedly cool toned. Some light warm shades actually look great on me! Weirdly enough neon and bright orange. So I'm probably borrowing from spring, meaning I'm a bright winter to bright spring.
Thank you for the practical tips & tests❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
Glad you found the tips helpful! ❤️🥰
Great video!
I just took different colored clothes (even towels and bedsheets lol), made a bunch of photos of holding them under my collarbones in natural lighting, printed them all next to each other on A4 paper and checked the ones I like the most. 😅
Jen, thanks so much for these practical and clever tips that save us from struggling 😅👍🏻 Could you continue these series with more visual examples? By the way, do you make professional colour analysis? Love from Turkey💕
Hello!! Thank you for the comment - I’m so glad you found the videos helpful!
I’ll be opening up virtual consultations pretty soon but more so for face shapes / proportions for hairstyle and makeup suggestions, not for colour. With colour analysis I find virtual consultations become difficult because of different lighting and such. Perhaps in the future I’ll figure out a way to provide accurate colour consultations virtually 🥰❤️ thank you for the interest!!
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I have a warm skin tone, but tend to look better in summer colors, so that was always confusing to me. This video definitely helped.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you, Jean. I confess that I became irate just yesterday with a self-styled expert who typed me as a "summer" just because my "fingertips flushed burgundy" when I pressed them a little bit! I TOTALLY DETEST THE SUMMER PALETTE with its namby-pamby baby girl pinks and baby boy blues! (I don't like navy blue either!) Looking forward to discovering more sub-categories!
Thank you for the compliment! ❤️ looking at fingertips is a first I’ve heard 😅 Summers are on the delicate side but you can also have a wide range of spectrum as a summer too and you don’t need to stick to pastels!! I do plan on making more videos about sub categories ❤️❤️❤️
This explanation has helped me SO MUCH!
I'm glad! More skin tone videos coming soon too :D
Great video! I completely understand now! I have a warm skin tone that looks better in cool colors 😀
Thank you - I'm glad you found the video helpful! 😀
This was the best video on this topic that I watched!
Aw that’s so sweet! Glad you liked the video ❤️
You’re my new favorite stylish. This is the BEST video I’ve watched on the matter
Thank you so much for the sweet compliment!!
Wow Never have I seen this Explained so Clearly before, I need to grab a notebook and take note!
Thank you so much! Glad to hear you found the video informative :) Feel free to leave any questions in the comments and I'll compile them into a follow up vid!
lol, my closet is 80% blue (my favorite color), white, black and some reds... totally dark winter colors, but I guess I look too dark in these... my most feared colors for years make me look best... the mustard yellow and warm browns
I guess I have that "grayness" to my skin that I heard some places that is very well balanced out by autumn colors...
bright colors are too much, pastel colors and grey make me feel like a piece of cardboard
I just bought a full collection of neutral to warm slightly muted lipsticks (closer to brown/brick rather than closer to gray)
Your skin tone is absolutely gorgeous ❤
Thank you so much ❤️❤️❤️ it’s the tan haha without it I am strict sallow olive 😆
Very helpful! Useful tips
The hangar method is amazing, I cannot recommend it and its equivalents enough! I don't hang my clothes, but when organizing folded clothes based on how often I wear them, I noticed I prioritized dark colors first, then bright, then cool. Finding out I'm a Deep Winter was mostly an excuse to do away with all the pastels and champagnes I already had bunched up at the bottom of my stacks.
Exactly! The colors you prioritize can tell you a lot even if you don't know your season :)
Great information. You help me a lot. I had two independent colour analisis which gave different reaults. I think your tips helps me choose rights colours specturum
I’m glad you found the video helpful!
Hi Jenn! I saw an excellent video that used the colour of your veins to tell.
If I remember correctly, you look at the veins on the inside of wrist.
Veins are naturally blue.
A yellow (warm) skin tone will have a greenish looking vein.(more carotene? )
A blue (cool) will be purplish (cool skin tones have more capillaries and red to them).
I think the olive tones were a kharki.
This was on Justine Leconte fashion channel.
I'm not a fan of the vein test because I think it can be confusing! I have both blue and green veins and I have olive skin lol
Why do I enjoy the little three claps she does so much. I don’t really know what it signifies but it always makes me feel happy
Hahaha I got rid of that a while ago but maybe I need to bring it back! :D
Thank you very much for this video and many others on colour analysis! I kept telling the colour analyst who did my analysis that when I go full warm with makeup or clothes, I start looking very sick and odd because there is waaaaay too much warmth in my face then (I have a lot of yellow). While when I use cool colours of blush, lipstick and clothes, my tones look very balanced, fresh, I look rested. She said that’s totally impossible and in order to look good I have to be wearing only warm toned makeup 😂 i think she was not aware of the balancing effect which you mention here. But this totally explains my case!
I"m glad you found the video helpful! :)
Finally a logical take on skintones! You got a new subscriber!
Glad you like the logical take! Thank you for the sub ❤❤❤
I was skeptical of clicking on these videos because of the amount of repeated misinformation on most videos but you were an awesome surprise
You are too sweet! :)
I really like the content of your videos, but I'm getting irritated by the overuse of sound effects, especially because they are too loud compared to your voice.
Thank you for the feedback! I've been hearing similar feedback so I'm working on toning it down on the effects :)
The fuschia versus orange test wouldn't work for me because I think I look equally good in both. However if I wear white and cream I can tell I look better in white than cream. Because I don't look good in lighter colours at all so I'm more likely to recognise when something looks bad. I know black isn't flattering on me either. I can wear brights, and darks too, as long as they aren't black. I think I've figured out that I've always been right when it comes to avoiding pastels. Value or light/darkness seems to matter more on me than either temperature or clarity. I have range with both clarity and temperature but not so much with Value. That's actually extremely helpful to understand! I've always been confused because i think I look equally good in, say, cobalt blue, which is a 'spring' colour. As I do in a mid tone dusty blue. So I could never figure out if I was spring or summer. I can get away with both of those colours because neither of them are too light or too dark. And the biggest thing that confused me was that according to seasonal colour analysis I'm pretty sure I'm technically a Summer but all those pale pinks and blues look dreadful on me.
Your videos are great!
Thank you for always being so supportive ❤️❤️❤️ fyi I haven’t forgotten the topic you requested for Meghan Markle - just trying to get some of these previously planned topics out of the way first!! 🙃
Love the little laughter clip...its soon great😂❤
I always wondered why I was a winter but with a fair warm skin tone. I look best I bright to deep colours (more bright) and black or pure white - no real pastels and no muddy grey shades. I was classed as a deep winter in my 20s but feel warm skin tone has warmed with age and the bright to jewel tones look best. So glad 2023 brights are back 😁
You are the opposite from me! For me bright tones really don’t work and I’m easily overshadowed by brights 😅 I’m heavily leaning towards soft/muted!
Thank you so much!!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
You're so welcome! ❤
Thank you!
You are welcome! ❤️
Enjoy your content so very much! Just facts no mush😄
Thank you so much - glad you like the style of my videos! 😎
im a pale olive (confirmed and verified) when i tan, its a mix between deep and warm but i have little redness/pink. very neutral slight yellow tint skin when pale. hate me or love me, olive skin is warm. my hair is a mix between cool and warm. In some pictures depending on the lighting, its light brown with clear golden strands. In other cases, it is deep and dark, little chestnut present (the brown is not an autumn color brown, more neutral). After going through trial and error for YEARS i am a bright spring.
Two key things here: 1) skin tone is still important and one should know it; 2) something that I realised after this video - one should also know the composition of the colour behind their skin tone. For example, I am on the cooler side, with a clearly pink undertone (so blue + red) and I never liked pink. Started wearing it recently because it is propagated everywhere as the perfect colour for summers - only to realise why I always disliked it. It just does not work - either blends with my skin and then you can barely notice my features or overwhelems me (if I go for too bright for a summer colour). However, I noticed that I look great in blues, lavenders, greens and greys - link to blue in my pink undertone + bordaux or capuccino and brownish colours - link to red in my pink undertone. Can't speak for everyone, but feel the same will likely happen to those with olive skin - some will be leaning towards green (blue and yellow), some more to the orange side (yellow and red), so may need to adjust their colour depending on that.
Finally, reflecting on example at 9:21, hard to tell which option would be right for Kate, because in these photos light affects how her skin looks. In the first example, her skin is too pink, so the outfit from the second example would work better in that lighting. Meanwhile, the blue from the first example is too bright for summer anyway so I would not go with that at all. This is to explain that I also started to pay attention to the light when planning my wardobe for certain events. For example, I know that yellow light will make my grey outfit look a bit more purple, which still works, because my skin will become more orangey (pink undertone + yellow light)
Waaa I'm bingeing all your videos
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this channel is a revelation to me😭😭
Thanks for the comment!! Glad to hear you like my content 🥰❤️
My profile pic is literally at the end of autumn and I classified myself as deep autumn. I guess that speaks for itself. However, it is also sunset that makes my skin tone yellow in the pic, I am actually cool toned neutral. But I think I am also deep winter or can pull off that pallet easily. This makes sense tho as the warm tones neutralize the cooler tones in my skin. My skin tone is cool neutral(I can tan an go warmer tho). So interesting and helpful!
In regards to the colors we reach for. I am always reaching for black because things get muddy and dirty over here. I have plenty of gray pajamas but the clothes i like just dont come in grey, so I get black. I cannot keep white clothes free of coffee stains. So what I reach for doesnt directly speak to what colors suit me the best but definitely hints to but is also affected by environment.
I totally agree with that! Every time I buy / wear white I am full of regrets lol
On the contrary, I think you would look beautiful in fuchsia 🤷♀️ but I’m not the pro!
See, I just confirmed my lack of awareness on this topic… I chose the bright white for you before you placed the check mark on the ivory. 😂🤦♀️🤷♀️ how can I know my skin tone if I can’t even agree with the professional?! Help!!!
I’ve actually been getting mixed comments! And I personally think I can wear both white and ivory because temperature wise I’m quite tolerant to both sides - for me it’s the brightness and depth that matters more 😄
Love this video! Totally unrelated, but could you share where you got your shirt from? I love the red shade and the stripes!
The shirt is from a random store in Korea from YEARS ago! I loved the color so I've kept it for a long time ❤
Yes! My skin is so obviously yellow, yet I look ill in yellows, golds and browns!
The thing is each color can be warm or cool. You can have a warm red and a cool red. Same for blue and so on. Like the lipstick thing
Omg i think i got it, thank you so much ! I am a beige skin tone. After playing with some colors on 50% opacity with a drawing app, i can see that i have a purple base undertone with red and yellow pigments, which causes my natural contour to look orange, my highlighted skin to look gray, and my under eye skin to look purplish red 🫠 i thought i would never figure these colors out !
Interesting way to find the base undertone! Thanks for sharing
@@stylemejenn No, Thank You! ☺️ Your style of explaining has helped me so much, I'm a cool undertone where as I thought I was Olive, and I've been using the wrong foundation and wondering why it still wasn't working and turning my under eyes gray 😅
There is an undertone and overtone. I have a slightly yellow overtone (gives a sort of peachy color), but cool undertone because I am flattered by colors that lean cool. Trying to match my overtone makes me look more sallow.
Very helpful. Thx
You're welcome! ❤
An old trick was to try on the Rimmel lipstick-Heather shimmer cool tones suit it, warm tones don't.
You have a delightful way of explain theories and make it very clear and reasonable. Im a fan already. But can I make a comment?? The autofocus of your camera its a little bit hurtful. ...Just a comment.. cause English is not my first language so me trying to focus on your lips and face to fully understand you hurts my eyes. But your content is really valuable. Bravo!!
Thank you for the feedback!! ❤️
I'm warm skin tone with dark winter
Jen, I must say your content is high quality!! Loving it!
I have a question, I feel that I have a lot of yellow in my skin and so orange and yellow usually don’t bring the best in me, but also I receive complements when wearing reds. And I don’t understand what that tells me. (Also I look good in fuscia). Can you give me an insight? Love from Brazil!
Hi!! Thank you so much for the compliment - so glad you’re finding my content informative!
It’s a little difficult for me to give you accurate recommendations just based on a description, so keep in mind this is a general reco ❤️ From the sounds of it, you might have a warm skin tone but warm colours like orange and yellow might bring out too much yellow from your skin.
Red is actually “technically” considered a neutral colour because it’s neither yellow- or blue-based (this is pure red I’m talking about), but depending on what shade of red you’re wearing it could be leaning towards warm (if there is yellow mixed in the red) or cool (if there is blue added).
If you look good in Fuchsia it’s usually a good indicator that you look good in cool (and probably bright) colours, so see if you get more compliments when you wear cooler reds more so than warmer reds, and that would indicate that you look better with cool colours!
If you haven’t taken a look at my colour analysis video yet (czcams.com/video/BdMk_CZIGnU/video.html), I explain how to distinguish warm vs cool colours for different shades of reds in that video as well 😊
Hope that helps!! Let me know if you have any other questions 🥰❤️
@@stylemejenn Thank you so much!! And I have watched lot of similar content here on CZcams but I found your videos bring new information and perspective! Thank you sooo much!
@@historiasdanena you are so welcome!! I hope you continue to enjoy my content ❤️❤️❤️
For years I thought I was a neutral skin tone and only recently discovered I am a peach! You are correct that this is a very confusing area and I sometimes see influencers applying foundations that are completely the wrong shade with the mistaken notion that applying it heavily will compensate for the mismatch. To me the singular most important part of makeup is getting the foundation to be a perfect (or near perfect) match, otherwise it throws everything else off. I sometimes feel like Don Quixote in my quest for the perfect match.
Lol love the Don Quixte analogy! I actually find that using LESS foundation makes it easier to match to the skin tone even if the foundation color is not a true match. You're right - caking on more product doesn't compensate for the mismatch. It's actually the opposite!
Yes, because I have a slightly yellow tone to my neutral warm skin, I always got sold orange toned foundation, or at least two warm. In fact I need one with pink and just a bit of yellow added, too pink and it goes the other way and looks too cool, ashy toned. I can't tell you the number of foundations I have given to friends or thrown away over the years. I found in the end, having a proper colour analysis one to one and then understanding it myself, was better than all the false/dodgey training that make up consultants get and try to pass on with very little real understanding!
@@trishagoodwin4069 I agree with you and had to start relying on my own knowledge about shade and undertone since most SAs know very little. Maybe you are also a peach undertone? Pink+ yellow = peach
I am ivory, rather than peach, but an ivory with very slightly yellow mix. I find Lancome Teint Miracle in shade 02 Lys Rose is about the only shade right for me, although it says rose in the description, it is weevery slightly warm. If I go any warmer, it sits as yellow stain on the skin, any cooler and it looks like a pink splodge, it has to be a very neutral shade, right in the middle between warm and cool and very light toned too. @@virginiav.1172
Your video is suuuper helpful! Though I can't seem to decide if I'm warm, cool, or even olive!
I know I pull of cool tone clothes very well. I can wear clothes with added black or white, better black than white but added white is never a problem. Never gray. Gray makes me look sick. Muted colors also makes me look weird. I can never wear those famous brick and mauve lipstick. Peach and pink looks good on me. And cool red. I look better in fuschia than orange. But still I don't know either what my season is or what my skin tone is lol😅 may be I need to find a local expert to help me out with it.
Based on what you explained, I think you know enough about yourself! If you want you can get analyzed by a professional, but the best thing is to know what your worst colour families so you're already there. Maybe just get your skin tone tested to find out if you're warm or cool so you know which shade to choose for your makeup!
I look good in every color 💅
You go girl ❤️❤️❤️
Hi! Thanks for explaining skin tone in a different way and debunking some myths! Is there an objective way to determine clear vs muted (chroma)? It seems like temperature and hue are easier to differentiate, but to me I have a hard time determining if someone looks more clear or muted? TIA😊
I think the best way to see if you look better in bright/clear vs muted is to see if wearing a bright color is wearing you, instead of the other way around! I have a Short video on how to check if you look better in bright or muted colors using lipstick shades, so definitely check that out! ❤️
@@stylemejenn thanks so much☺️I will definitely take a look at that video…I was so focused on the color series videos that I overlooked that one!
OMG All the color analysts claim beyonce is warm but she looks pink bare faced,her recent platinum blonde just solidified what I already noticed.
Plus her foundation ads always listed her wearing loreal true match in C6.
Not to mention she used a lot of bronzer and tanner in the past
Lastly,every woc know the color 27 braiding hair is cool toned ,which is similar to Beyonces blonde shade
My whole wardobe is black and white with some colors. I have 3 green, 1-2 blues, 1 pink and 3 burgundy colors. The rest is neutral lol. For lipstick method. I always look good with darker colors always. Brighter colors look horrid.
Sounds like my wardrobe lol (minus the pink)!
One day I bought a copper nail polish because I thought that it's a unique color and it's very beautiful. Usually I wore dark blue or turquoise. Oh boy... what a mistake that was. The first time I applied it on my nails it immediatelly looked ugly and my skin looked sick. I had to clean it off. So maybe the technique with different lipstick colors can be applied to different nail polish colors as well.
That' a good point - I definitely find that with nail colours as well! But I think sometimes the colour of your hand could be different from the colour of your face due to sun exposure or other external factors, so I'd be cautious of that ❤
Ha! I have several fuchsia tops (no orange though) but not a single solid white piece of clothing in my closet.
Lol you must really look great in bright colours 😍
I don’t have white or Ivory clothing but I do have a used pillow case and a clean one. 😅
TOO FUNNY LOL!
thanks for these tips the most 1st step to check my undertoned was very confusing me by my veins lol, i still not get it that is green or blue =))) + 1 purple for sure.
I feel like I never can decide what colors I should be wearing. I think I am all over the place. I think because my skin is fair and cool but I have some freckles that are more warm not the gray kind. My eyes are dark brown. Then my hair is dark ashy blonde but there’s definitely warmth to my hair. I feel like grayed down tones feel very natural to me but bright color’s definitely brighten me up and don’t necessarily look drastic on me. 😂 I can say that an ivory that has a hint of yellow looks awful on me but an ivory that has mostly yellow looks nice and white doesn’t necessarily look bad and when I feel like I want to balance myself out neutralize everything that works too 😂. It’s not a color that looks flattering on me but does work if that makes sense.
It makes sense! I feel like with whites especially they go well with lots of outfits and are very versatile, so even though I know I look better in ivory than white, I have several white items in my wardrobe! Honestly, avoiding even just the absolute worst colours can improve your style drastically!
I can’t tell if my skin is yellow or red
Bright fusia and bright orange both look gorgeous on me. I say I'm a true neutral would that be correct? And most of all of my foundations that I use that match perfect are neutral as well. :)
Hanger trick-- genus 👍
Glad you liked it! My friend shared with me a while ago and it's helped me simplify my wardrobe by A LOT!
I have pinks toned but I have blue/purple veins with some green. I don’t burn but don’t tan easily either. Please someone tell me what I am. I feel like I look good in grey blues and cool colors
I still am not sure what I am 😮
the color of your top is one of my best colors and i'm a soft summer. are you a soft autumn? i wear soft autumn colors well
Thanks Gabriella! Soft Autumn / Soft Summer colors are too muted for me actually - I need a bit more depth and contrast than that. I'd say I lean closest to Soft Winter in the 16 seasons system :)
This post will probaby get buried, but I took multiple photos of my face (complexion) in different strengths of natural light. I then took digital swatches of my skin, had about 20+ swatches. I then used a digital colour mixer to find out the percentage of red, yellow, blue in my skin. My result across all samples was 14% yellow, 14% red, and 14% blue, and a varying amount of grey or white depending on the lighting. Does this mean I have a neutral undertone? I compared my swatches to swatches from people who have warm and cool undertones, but my swatches honestly look green next to theirs. I can wear autumn and summer colours equally well, but I look awful in any colour that is too bright.
Interesting - Not sure if the digital color mixer would be able to tell you your undertone since I've never tried, but I'm sure it's more accurate than the eye lol! Sounds like you could be somewhere around the Soft Autumn / Soft Summer palette for your color season
Using all these tips, I always come out as a soft autumn, however, the greens within that pallet dont tend to look great, my mum even says that the vivid bright, ever so slightly blue leaning greens suit me best, so that confuses me.
I think there are specific color groups that may be more or less suitable for you in general as well :)
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I have warm overtone but no-makeup makeup look, brown *warm* based makeup doesn't look good on me. In wardrobe, earthy tones, - aside from neutrals like beige and taupe - browns, especially warm browns, if that makes sense, doesn't look good on me. I don't think I look good in hot pinks, but sometimes I think I can handle it depends on the fabric and pattern I guess, pastel pink I think I can handle. But as for orange, I'm not sure tho but I think I can handle.. but nope, not neon green, not light green, not pastel green if that's a thing - although there was a time, I wore a green dress on a banquet, it's light but not very in your face bright green - and that I can handle, I think. Guess I'm more sensitive to clarity (or not) than I'm sensitive to temperature or value. But STILL not sure tho. Bec lipstick, RED lipstick, COOL RED lipstick looks good on me than NUDES or brown based lippies. So I guess, John Kitchener STYLE ESSENCE makes a lot of sense than just plain boxing yourself in seasonal colours
BTW: I have always identify as a deep winter. but maybe I am a bright winter. BUT I dunno. STILL.
Can you do the same type of video but with light medium plus skin tones..those are hard to tell apart.
Hi! Thanks for the suggestion - I've also been asked to do one specifically for darker skins. Let me add these to my topics list!
I’m so confused! Beyoncé was hard to follow. She’s cool but she looks good in warm! I always feel like I’m neutral or olive but then people tell me now you’re warm olive. Next to warm people I look olive and ashy but next to cool people I look yellowish. I think I’m a deep autumn and I look great in muted jewel tones. The white and cream test doesn’t work on me either 😢
If the white / cream test is confusing it could also just mean that you're not too sensitive to the temperature of the colors - for example Deep Autumns can borrow colors from Deep Winters since what matters the most for these types of the value / depth of the colors rather than temperature!