Low Contrast Looks for Bright Seasons (Artistic License Color System)
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- čas přidán 21. 06. 2018
- Hi Guys! Here I discuss how a bright season can achieve a low contrast look (this isn't 12-season, but four season color analysis--by bright I mean spring (warm and bright) and summer (cool and bright))!
Hope you enjoy!
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I’m so glad to see you type Nicole Kidman as cool toned! I remember being so surprised seeing that she is often typed as a Spring after watching Moulin Rouge and seeing how stunning she is in soft white, silver and cool red!
Ikr, the problem with regular seasonal coloring system is that they take into account the hair ND eyes colors, so just because of her blonde yellowish hair (dyed btw) they put her in Spring. Same happens with redheads, they're always mistyped just because of the hair and don't give af about skin color which is supposed to be the most important factor
Your videos are so helpful. I would’ve never thought that orange would be low contrast against my skin. I’m True Spring though, so it makes sense.
Thanks! Could you do the reverse video: high contrast looks for muted seasons?
Yes, please :o)
You have an interesting take on the seasonal colour analysis, plus your voice is soothing :)
Keep making vids please
haha, thanks for the compliment on my voice! The plan is definitely to make more videos!! Let me know if you have something that you'd like to see in a video. :)
Hi Merriam! Love this video. :)
Last time you classified me as a cool and bright, but I couldn't get why those really cool and bright jewel colours felt like too much for me. I now understand that it is definitely because the value was too high! Colours like cobalt blue and fushia look so much better on me when their value is diminished slightly, but the chroma is kept somewhat high. The result is a lovely middle valued luminous blue or purple that looks like it is glowing, which is perfect for how light my skin is. I seem to be able to pull off any colour as long as it has a brightening, luminous, glowy quality. Colours like cornflower blue, vibrant lavender, optic white, which are all cool, but also a high chroma coral, which is warmer, or a glowing peachy colour. It seems as though as long as the chroma is high and the value lower, it looks good.
I think that the luminosity of skin can be diminished by bright and cool colours if they are too DARK or too TRUE, i.e., their chroma and value are too high. For example, I have an auebergine coat that I find a bit too dark and drags me a down, even though it is a cool and bright colour. I think humans are too delicate to pull off colours that are artificially too high in chroma - like fushia or cobalt blue. While Zooey Dechanel looks quite radiant in those colours, I still find that she suits slightly lower value, high chroma colours more. I think she can get away with the high chroma because she's also high contrast with her skin and hair (like me), but just looking at the skin, I think she suits a very vibrant cornflower blue, over the cobalt blue.
So even though I'm classified as cool and bright, jewel colours like royal blue or cobalt or fushia or emerald green etc are too high in value for my skin.
What I find very very interesting is that I really can't tell a difference between gold and silver on my skin, as long as it has a luminous quality. This is something I'd love if you could cover! It seems that for my skin tone, the hue matters less than the chroma and value, and quality of luminosity. For example, pure silver (not mixed with other silver metals), makes my skin look like it's glowing like the moon. But, so does 24 carat yellow gold if it is super shiny and luminous. On the other hand, if I wear a vintage looking metal with the worn out/matte look, no matter the temperature, it drags me down. The same happens with make up - luminous blush, whether it's plum or peach, suits me, but the second you put a muted bronzer on, or worse, no blush, I look like I've contracted a disease!! What do you call this quality? It seems like I am bright and cool in general, but I can also pull off warm colours given luminosity, high chroma, and lower value?
I wonder if you're a Romantic? that could be why the colors look prettier softened. Sometimes rosy skin tones can also pull off peach so that could be another element. Sometimes people look for different things than what I look for when it comes to colors against their skin. I say wear what works for you, and there's always a reason why something looks great. I can definitely see cornflower blue looking beautiful on a cool and radiant romantic or soft classic.
@@merriamstyle Yes!!!! According to Kibbe, I am a romantic. :) That makes a lot of sense, and great guess! Thanks for all the effort in your videos, I enjoy listening to your theories on long walks and it's so interesting and relaxing. Your system makes a lot of sense to me - it's very logical and I appreciate that! Classic INTJ. I'm an ENFP, so I get you. :)
@@sayuritube I love ENFPs!! Thank you for leaving such a great comment, they make my day.
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bit complicated...lots of consultants say Navy is better than black for Summer..
Do you have any opinion on who looks their best in tints and shades? Adding grey to a pure color mutes the color. Does adding black or white also mute the color? Would a person’s skin value influence whether the person looks good in tints or shades?
Sunniva Meyer That’s a really good question. I want to know too!
Love this question. Was it ever addressed? In the DYT system by Carol Tuttle she has for types that fit into categories; tints, tones, shades, hues. It seems to work really great. I think I’m cool and muted, I’m still trying to figure it out but if I was I would just choose softer hues rather then go into tones.
Such fun stuff to experiment with.
3 yrs late, butt....I just looked this up: Color tint- white is added to pure color, color shade- black is added to pure color, color tone- any neutral/grey scale is added. (Tints and and shades are included in tones.)
I am exactly looking to wear low contrast colors as I am cool radiant. But I still don’t get how to find bright colors that are low contrast. For example Kidman in the light pinky dress - how can I tell that’s actually a bright color and not a muted pink? Same with Keyes - her dress looks like a muted purple to me. I thought all muted colors are only for delicate ppl?
hammypie I think of muted colours as having a hint of grey/brown to them, so that dress Nicole Kidman was pale and soft but it didn’t have an element of grey/brown so it isn’t muted
@@yourcherryybomb Indeed. Muted= grey or brown added to it. The pinkpurple dress looks like bright, pure violet with then a ton of optic white (which is also cool & radiant) added to it.
Good video! I have a question, is deep dark skin, black hair, and dark brown eyes a high or low contrast? I think it's low contrast because it's all the same block color (dark-dark-dark) but from what I read, it could be high contrast because the sclera in the eyes (white) is still contrasting to the skin, when the teeth is showing it could be considered as high contrast too(?) Also they say if the skin highlight is bright and seems like reflecting light it could be high contrast because they would look good wearing white. What do you think?
You have probably already found the answer, but in case somebody else is wondering, it does seem like very deep skin = high contrast. Merriam mentions it, for example, in a video called Two Ladies, Same Best Colors
Very! Intresting! How can you test this on yourself? I have thought I was muted but Now I think I am bright. Comfusing ;-)
I have a draping video if you want to check it out! But I didn't mention in the video if you look the same in blue and yellow, then you are most likely muted/delicate, and you would just test cream/peach (for warm muted), and placid blue/cool gray (for cool muted).
Hi! Do you have any tips for high contrast looks for delicate seasons? 😊
Hey, can you do a low contrast look if you have a high contrast look? Dark hair, light but cool skin? I love low contrasts looks but my hair is super dark!
Being sure I’m getting it. Low contrast for cool/bright people means having the chroma, value and temperature the same as skin tone? Or the same as undertone? It must be skin tone, because undertone is typically blue veins (cool) or green veins (warm) and a few people have both.
Do you have any tips on how to identify skin value?
hmmm, well I'd say the black and white photo is the best tip. If you want to see if something is the same value/how different the value is of a garment against your skin. The black and white photo is the best approach. In general though, we can naturally tell value--it's just how light or dark something is. So if your skin is super light--low value. And then draping colored fabrics and taking black and white photos will give you an intuition for which colors are very close to your skin tone.
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Quick question. Is Ms. Oprah Bright Spring or True Spring?
Where can I find more information/imagery on this topic?
Umm, for this one (how to achieve low contrast vs high contrast looks for the bright vs muted seasons), I think nowhere? People have other ideas I'm sure, but I don't think it's this one. It's my personal idea on color analysis/what I noticed. But I'm making a website bare with me!!!
Truthisbeauty website, or 12Blueprints. Pretty sure Alicia Keys is not a summer, though a spring.
Those are all 12 season which is different from this. I believe the 12 season system to be simply wrong on a lot of key points in color analysis. Alicia Keys is cool and bright (in my system I call this summer). She may seem to be a challenging example because of her deeper skin tone, but she isn’t challenging to color analyze at all. For more info on her, you can watch my ethnicity and color analysis video. Alicia Keys is not warm. And thinking she’s warm most likely comes from a misunderstanding of deeper skin tones (I talk about all of that in my ethnicity and color analysis video, I hope you’ll check it out to see what I mean).
Additionally, I’ve not seen the idea discussed in this video discussed anywhere else at all-definitely not in this way.
What points of color analysis do you disagree with? Because from what you said, the 12 season system comes down to the same thing; categorizing people into seasons depending on their coloring and their chroma and value levels.
- I'm also aware that deeper skin tones can be both cool and warm.
Thank you for your reply.
Mm so my bright red dress could look low contrast on me...
I confuse value and Chroma...
they're definitely confusing it's not just you! For example, a magenta/fuchsia looks much darker than it actually is (take a photo of someone wearing it if you're curious and make it black and white). but at the end of the day, it's about the perceived darkness anyway. :)
@@merriamstyle oh, ok... I thought it was a matter of added White /Black(value) vs Grey(Chroma) to the color... So what you described the Chroma, right?
You're mixing up summer and winter. Summer is cool and muted, winter is cool and vivid.
Not according to Merriams color analysis system, she has a different one that she created. Summer is cool and bright in that one and winter is cool and muted.