If it reads “neutral” on you, you’ve found the right product. Meaning, if it disappears on you, BINGO! Every brand is so different, so you have just proven the reason we all need to try before we buy when at all possible because the ideas of neutral, warm and cool are not the same to every brand.
This! I've come to understand that neutral to me means something more like desaturated, whereas neutral for so many brands seems to mean orange. Warm cool and neutral gets so confusing because it's all relative. When you look at a color it's rarely isolated and usually in comparison to the colors around it.
THIS is the reason I still shop at sephora over drugstore any complexion products. I could read reviews till I'm blue, but it'll never be the same as going in store and trying on the products on my actual skin!! (I'm pale olive btw, a really misunderstood skin tone).
You’re so lucky in America that at least you can send products back and get your money back,in the UK(and elsewhere in the world?)you can’t,when I look at foundation colours my brain just goes to mush and my eyes stop computing which ones match my skin😅
About face is the only foundation I have found that matches my skin and the shade is F2olive. I had no idea lol and I have no less than 30 foundations. @carinaoliveira5850
Right??!!!! A lot of my veins look pinky purple but there are some turquoise-y veins (it depends on the body part the ones on mu thighs are green and the ones on the top of my foot are blue and pinky purple). But my overtone is very golden yellow (im taiwanese) but bc of that i get so confused. Btw my skin is extremely thin and i can see veins over my entire body which sucks bc my sister is scared of looking at veins 😅.
This makes so much sense! As a redhead with pink undertones, makeup counter folks were always confused by my coloring! They either said I was warm because of my hair color or cool because of the pink undertones. And on top of that confusion, I was also too pale for all the makeup levels until brands started expanding in recent years. I really appreciate how you explain it all!
I’m the same. I’m a softer browner redhead and I’m not really cool, but I’m not warm in an orange/yellow way, I’m neutral-warm in a rosy way. It’s a rare thing to find good matches for. My favorite match right now is Haus Labs Fair Rosy concealer
That's so funny. I have mild rosacea so every counter used to color match me to pink foundations. My true undertones on my neck & body are actually golden olive and MAC was the first to tell me I needed NC20. (Lisa Eldridge also says to match your neck/chest not your face). Sadly I spent my early 20s walking around with tomato face on olive body. 🙈
I would LOVE a color theory video specifically on blush!! I have the hardest time figuring out the right amount of saturation/it turns colors I’m not expecting
Yes! Also I highly recommend trying really dark, pigmented blushes and just using a tiny bit. I found out if I use a deep berry purple, it looks amazing... not the bronze or pinks I've been wearing for oh... 35 years?!?
so on the pigment thing, black pigment in makeup is usually black iron oxide (CI 77499). it is a cool toned black and does dilute into a bluish gray! (source: looking at foundation ingredients and also being a watercolor painter who used iron oxide black paint)
I’ve been a makeup artist, off and on, for years, and I have had to guide many people through the fact that what a brand says is neutral or warm, etc, is THEIR version of those tones, and not an absolute measure for all brands.
Cheek swatches~ Another great hack is not looking directly at the swatches but with your peripheral. If it stands out it’s not right, & if it blends into your face it’s a match. I have to do this trick because I can’t see matches on my own skin. I can make a perfect match for other people though! 😂
I found you recently, and I just need to say I have never appreciated a beauty RUclipsr more. Thank you for all the detailed/nuanced info you provide-your videos are the most helpful ever.
I tan super easy and never burn so I always assumed I was warm or neutral based on some of these “tests”. My veins are straight up blue so a “test” said I lean more towards neutral. WELL…all the products I have bought have been too yellow and I’m always so frustrated! I NEVER touched the cooler colors, but turns out I do have a cooler undertone! This just goes to show that a lot of these “tests” are so subjective! My mind is blown! Thank you so much! 🥰😘
I clicked because I am a permanent Makeup Artist as well as a Paramedical Tattooist. And this subject always interests me. One of the best presentations I have seen so far on Undertone. I may just use this for my students too. Interestingly in Permanent makeup, we do work with Blue. We work with Blue, Yellow, Red, Black, and White and we get a myriad of colors from that.
Thank you Kackie!! I finally get it. 🎉 Please keep this content coming. It’s soooo good and no one else explains it as well as you plus you make me laugh.
@Kackie 💕 thank you so much for your knowledge and for sharing❤ question what would you do if you are told that you have a red slash/yellow undertone, you look stunning in a true red, as well as add orange red lipstick; but you have extremely dark under eye circles? I'm trying to find the perfect shade for the color correcting. A lot of times no matter what I'm getting that grey cast. I'm looking at a table with maybe 5 to 6 concealers and they're not working. Help!!!(BTW my foundation is Mack nc45 or Dior 5w).Blessings
I love that your videos are not just testing product, but talking about the science side. Also, I'd love to see you play with your eyebrow shape - maybe something thinner? How does eyebrow shape change your face? I HATE doing eyebrows.
I Agree😢😢😢😢 I am continually in pursuit of finding another company that does custom blend to the excellent degree that they did! I believe that I would pay $100 for a foundation if they'd come back and do it again ‼️ custom blend was so perfect! I'm not just on me, I used to stand in Macy's and watch them do this for countless customers just trying to understand how they did it. My heart was broken when they stopped that.
I think I have come to the conclusion that I have cool undertones with a yellow leaning overtone. Need to test out my theory more but I *think* this leads to products acting similarly on my skin to an olive undertoned person. Your explanation of the wheel was helpful because everything turns orange on me but I think I need more desaturation- not green! Can't wait for the monochromatic video and hope it's coming soon!!
@@kackie Oh shoot did I make this up? I could've sworn you mentioned wanting to create a video on how to achieve monochromatic looks or looks that are in harmony together using the same color family (or something along those lines?)
I’m a watercolorist and I appreciate how you’ve incorporated the color wheel in this process. I have an eye for color and subtlety and yet, the vein test confounds me!
I think what has really helped me understand my undertone, was years of experimenting with makeup when I was a dancer/in theatre. You basically spend a lot of time together with girls in front of mirrors and all playing with each others makeup (sorta lol). I just remember trying something from a friend and knowing right away if it'd work for me or not. When you have others to compare your skin tone and undertones too, it makes it so much easier!
The vein test isn’t helpful at all, especially if you have a bit of a tan. Truly olive skin is a blue undertone + a yellow overtone so by the vein test you’d assume you’re warm, but you’re actually a cool tone who probably needs a neutral foundation. It also varies by skin thickness; if your skin is thinner you’ll see lots of veins of varying colors regardless of your undertone, so that wouldn’t narrow things down!
Same! The vein test just does not work for me, but I'm not sure how much of it is due to just assessing the color, or the knowledge that my vein is blue beneath my skin... On the one hand (not literally) my veins appear blue to me, so I would expect to have cool tones in my skin, right? I'm also super pale. BUT, my perfect foundation shade, is definitely a peachy undertone with yellow overtone, just a very very pale shade (specifically, NYX Total Control dropper foundation in the shade Vanilla. NOT any of their other lines shade vanilla though, the rest are super dark). Normal Ivory shades turn orange on me, light ivory sometimes turns orange, and other times is too cool and turns grey, but used to be my shade in high school way back when. It really is all relative 😩
Thank you very much, Kackie! Love your color theory videos! A trick for anyone out there trying to find out if they're olive. Get a primary red powder product (blush or eyeshadow) (it has to be a true primary red, neither cool not warm), apply it on your cheeks. If you turn green, congrats! You've made it to the Olive Club! 😜😂
I'm like 90% sure I'm a cool olive, and have blue veins by my wrist and green down my arm. I'm on watching this video for the second time, and its so helpful. I really appreciate this whole view point from an Artist/painters view. It's so refreshing. I think ive watched all of the your videos in this series so far.
I love this series but I cat help to write this: the light around us changes the way we perceive colour. Light in fx Spain is much, much warmer (with a yellow) hue than in Scandinavia where it has a cooler and more white tone. If i take a picture next to a window in Spain today and then a picture next to a window in Denmark tomorrow, my skin´s warm undertone is way more pronounced in Spain. In Spain whenever I take pictures and analyse the hex colours, I´m a warm/true autumn with some dark Autumn tones. In Denmark, I´m a dark autumn. That´s in the Summer time. When Winter comes and light in Scandinavia turns grey, whenever I take a picture and analyse the hex colours, I´m a dark Autumn with some Dark Winter tones, which means light turns my otherwise very warm tones to some neutral or even cold tones. And it´s not just about the tan changing my tone and how that can affect the way we perceived undertone. If in the middle of the Winter, i take a trip to Thailand, I look like a golden goddess, the day I set a foot in Copenhagen airport, I look more neutral. So outdoor light has also an effect.
Thank you for explaining the undertones and the overtones which not many sales make up reps are aware of. I think being neutral is far more difficult to match than being a true warm or true cool. Keep up the good work and keep educating us with your lovely and lovely passion and personality.🎉❤
No question, this is the most educational and best video on undertone and overtone on the entire internet, and I've watched it three times today, and literally taken notes like a college student. However! Your girl is visually impaired and her visual field can only process one color at a time, which makes this still really difficult for her to do. I can match colors, identify one color after the other and identify if they're the same or different, but comparing two at once is not something I can do. I have never, ever found a decent foundation or concealer match in all my life, and I have typically chalked it up to the struggles of my disability, but even other people experienced with matching makeup struggle with me. Here's what I know for sure: stupid bright hot pink looks really normal on me, olive green eyeshadow turns brown, warm browns turn traffic cone orange, and that seasonal color analysis lady said I have a cool undertone and I'm a winter or whatever nonsense. Lots of foundations leave a weird yellow cast on me, but cool toned foundations look really off as well.
I watched twice, and listened once while driving my son to school lol. I think I will watch again. This is such an amazing and helpful video. Yes, the confusion with different brand is really easy to fall into. Add the seasonal analysis (I let that go!) thing, and WHOA! I am going to focus purely on my undertones and how the shades looks on me. It helps to understand why everything goes orange on me. I love your interactive color wheel! Thank you!
DUDE. THIS IS SO RIDICULOUSLY HELPFUL, ALL FREAKIN' CAPS! Thank you! Now we just have to figure out how to swatch store samples without getting face ebola. (That's a thing, right?) 😁
its so crazy that the tower 28 concealer in BU goes so gray on you, cuz it looks wayyy to peachy on me (very fair w cool under&overtones)!! color theory rly is wild
2.5 yrs in on my beauty journey and this is the first time I have actually felt like I might be beginning to understand undertone! Cool is blue, warm is yellow. I think next time I swatch for foundation I will actually be able to find a match now with your tips!! Thanks Kackie!!
Fantastic video! As a neutral-cool-olive I've resorted to just buying the fairest cool shade a brand offers and add green myself with a NYX pro fix stick. Since doing that I can get my perfect shade 90% of the time
Thank you so much for this video! As a POC I’ve really struggled finding the right foundation. I can’t tell you just how much money I’ve wasted 😢 Your explanation is the first one that really explains and illustrates the differences as well as how to choose what’s best suits. Thank you Thank you 🥺
This was so incredibly helpful and validating! For years people kept telling me I was cool because I have pink cheeks and that’s all they notice, but I always looked gray with makeup! As soon as I started moving to neutral, I looked alive again. You have a talent for explaining/teaching things!
Very interesting. I may have to watch this again. I think I've got it, but watching it one more time may solidify it in my mind. Thank you for sharing 🧡 😊
Thank you for mentioning how so many brands assume "cool" means red/rosey. i am so tired of things being salmon pink when if you look at comments online most people leaning cool need a touch of purple/blue or even grey in their complexion products
Thankfully I figured out my oliveness a couple of years ago. I’ve saved sooooooo many returns! Sadly poor naming of shades and shitty online swatches still resulted in some fails
The swatches and shade names are all just completely absurd. Finding out Mac uses NC to denote warm products and NW for cool (not warm and not cool) was SUCH a betrayal because suddenly my complete inability to find any kind of match made sense haha
Thank you so much!!! I can’t tell you how long I’ve tried to figure this out but none of the info ever fully explained what wasn’t working for me or why. This was such an amazing deep dive and I feel SO much more equipped to figure out what colors are better for me! Thank you again.
i love this video . i always think it’s wild that there are complete lines of products that I can’t try because they don’t have shades for me as a neutral olive black girl. I can’t wear any of the Kosas concealers or any of that most recent NARS foundation that was so popular because they are all yellow . I’ve been ride or die with the Dior backstage line because there are several shades that i can wear . I always end up having to buy two concealers either because there is always one thats too light and too dark but only one of them matches my undertone or neither of them match my undertone . i think that issue also comes from some brands not having many intermediate shades the deeper you go . i just be needing a little shade in the middle lol
Yeah you really are in an underserved skin tone area. It's a shame. I always try to keep an eye out for lines with a lot of Olive offerings, and the Tom ford ones seem to!
Hey y'all - just for clarity: the awesome color wheel used in this video is The Flesh Tone Color Wheel(R) by Terri Tomlinson Makeup Training Academy, not my own.
Thanks again Kackie! I have very fair translucent skin with lots of freckles. I have such a hard time with this. This is a huge help! Freakin' amazing. I could listen to you talk about color all day.
Base (primary)colors are very misunderstood. In my color theory classes where we made color wheels the primary red & blue actually had to be mixed to achieve. It isn't just any old red or blue & anytime you mix a cool shade with a warm shade you will get a desaturated color aka mud. For any screen & printer the primaries are Black, Magenta, Cyan & Yellow. I've known some painters who have a very limited palette of Black, White, Yellow & a Red vs others who have a 16 shade palette. I always liked having some secondary & tertiary shades in my palette because every time you add another color to the admixture it becomes desaturated. Once that happens you can't bring it back without a lot of effort (& paint) It's also easier to match if there are less shades involved since you might not make the same exact orange or purple or green admixture again. I found it helpful to have the consistency in a premade secondary shade & a premade earth shade (yellow orche, burnt sienna, raw umber) But I would change my palette depending on subject matter (portrait vs landscape for example) I don't know when this pink=cool thing started but it's very misleading. Most likely if you are caucasian & fair, there will be visible pink in your skin. Doesn't make you "cool skintoned." My veins are purple, blue & turquoise so that was never any help. I have noticed that many fair foundations make me look grey so I usually err on the side of warm & go a smidge darker than I think I am. I would add that when swatching to use your jaw or neck since the redness of your cheeks could throw off the results of the swatches :) For most Fair folks, we're just happy to find a concealer that is pale enough & can't be too picky about the undertone (I prefer a peachy undertone & often use a corrector as my concealer)
I am an olive undertone with zero pink/red in my skin and have to put green and a smidge of yellow color corrector mixed into a pale yellow foundation to match my body. However, my neck and chest are a translucent blue/grey and if I match my face to my neck I have a gaunt white/blue/grey face in comparison to my very green/yellow body. I dont want to bring my foundation down to my neck because it settles into lines and gets separated and splotchy through the day. I have to lightly self tan my neck and chest to fix the issue and have everything harmonized. Merriam style here on youtube has a fantastic color theory called artistic license and talks about the skin and what colors flatter the most and is very interesting.
I have learned to use an extremely thin layer of foundation so that it buffs out closer to my skin tone. I’m very green/grey yellow with a hint of pink. I can match fabulously when I’m suntanned but my pale skin has never seen a proper shade match lol.
I have the same issue lol I'm EXTREMELY olive undertoned and my overtone is a yellow-orange (basically golden) shade, which means when i tan i LITERALLY get a GRAY overall shade, no one believes me until they see me after actually tanning, so, basically i look like a corpse, if i don't tan i'm pale af and if i do i get gray 🥲
OMG! I've seen so many videos on color matching, but you are the only one who has explained the nuances of our skin color, how to identify it and then match it! Thank you , keep doing these type of videos, nobody explains these concepts like you do.
I’m still confused about overtone but I’ll watch again. The swatching on your cheek was very helpful and enlightening. I won’t be buying complexion products on line anymore. I somehow always choose colours that turn orange. So now I know that if it says nude it’s not my nude. I always stay away from colours that look warm because I really look orange in those
This video is so helpful. I struggle with undertone and shade. This video will help me decide where to go when things are grey, too peach, or too yellow. I think I'm a warm leaning neutral, but like you said, every brand has its own interpretation.
Kackie, you're so cool and smart and you make me feel like I have extra cones in my eyes. I'm almost positive I do not, but I truly appreciate your knowledge in color theory and ability to explain in such simple ways.
Always a highly intelligent class from this girl. I couldn’t click on this any faster. As soon as Kackie makes a video I make a cup of copy and enjoy the show ❤
Someone made a comment that they had a hard time identifying the color of their veins. I'm in the same boat!! Sometimes I think they are blue, then sometimes they look purple and sometimes have a slight greenish tinge. Kackie, do you think that this might mean that I am neutral? Or maybe it is just changing overtones based on the season/sun exposure? I wanted to let you know that i really enjoyed this video and thank you so much for your fresh and insightful approach to explaining to us all. This video was as enlightening to me as the finding your perfect red lip which was mind-blowing. Thank you so much and you have such a wonderful way of explaining complicated things! ❤
Question re: oxidation. For a long time (but not so much recently), it seemed like RUclipsrs would say “this formula oxidized on me” meaning that it turned yellowish after it was on for a bit. But could a lot of it just been a bad color match? Or, conversely, if we try your swatch experiment with our own collections, do you think it might be good to leave them on for awhile to see what happens once they dry down and mix with our own personal skin chemistry & the air? Excellent video! I always enjoy your artist’s twist on makeup colors. Thanks!
I LOVE THIS. So so so useful and mind-blowing. Also, thank you sm for: 'it's not about saying you can't wear certain colours, it's about understanding how to make certain colours WORK FOR YOU' ❤
Thank you. Just tested 2 foundations yesterday. Looked good in store, but was a lovely orange stripe when I got home. I'll be checking out the interactive colour wheel now.
Your wheel was really useful to find my undertone!! I have used so much makeup that looks orange on me, I just want to throw everything away now!! Thank you ❤
Terrific content, Kackie 👏. It took Natasha Denona concealers to make me appreciate a brand’s commitment to matching u/t’s. I am also a neutral, but with greater depth than yours. I have N2, N3 and N4 in Denona and studied them very carefully to determine the differences and the impact they had on my complexion. Yeah, I’m obsessed with colour too. N3 is the closest I have ever had in a face product. If she had a 2.5, with the same u/t as 3, I would be in heaven. The nifty thing about the shades are the tweaks.. N2 is more has a titch more yellow, N3 has more red, and N4 has more pink (duller, grayer). They are all neutrals, but with subtle differences. I can wear all of them, but use N3 as a foundation by sheering it out with a wet sponge and a very moist base and using just as needed.
Thank you for the overtone explanation! It was the missing piece of my puzzle, and explains why I feel like I need different colors after I have been in the sun.
Thank you for the comprehensive video! I have never had any concealer or foundation look pink on me, but I struggle with a lot of things turning yellow on me. I cannot understand how I used to believe I have a warm undertone.
Ok wow - this finally gelled for me with the vein test and overtone vs undertone. And so important to drive home that brands and their versions of neutral, etc., shouldn't be the definitive guide. Excellent explainer!
This was so so helpful. I feel like I need to see this theory like 15 times for it to sink in my brain but it is an amazing start to my understanding. Thanks for the science. It’s just super awesome to use your degree to help us!
This is brilliant and it’s SO nice to see a fellow visual artist talk about color theory and how they mix. I just finished a painting the other day and to make a vibrant green shade, I mixed black with yellow - the same that would happen in creating an olive-toned foundation. Thank you Kackie for this informative and entertaining video! 💕
You are literally describing my skin with the olive undertone that gets more golden with a tan. It has been INFURIATING trying to find the right shade. lol. I just found that I’m a light olive this year. 🤦🏼♀️
Great video! Like you my veins are teal but i think I'm neutral leaning slightly cool. Your color wheel tool is pretty interesting! I've got a favorite neutral lipstick that after it starts wearing off turns my lips a bit orange. Your color wheel says I'm green blue, which tracks!
I have ALWAYS known I see more shades and tones than other people, especially watching ppl color match online. This has been so so validating for me! Before I even clicked on the video my eyes went to the two neutral shades that matched you the best, imagine my surprise when I was right :) I was yelling like I was watching Dora the explorer or something like “that’s yellow! That’s perfect! That’s gray!”. I’ve never met someone who sees color the same way I do, I definitely believe we have extra cones. Anyways thank you!
You must have some my cones - I can barely see the difference at all 😄I can never see the 'grey' even when it's pointed out. Nor could I see the pink in those shades. One pointed out as yellow I thought looked peachy. I've pretty much given up...
Really appreciate this and wish I had it like 15 years ago. I’ve always known I was olive, but up until a year ago I didn’t start applying color theory to my makeup. I still can’t find any base products that match my skin, and most things look coral or orange on me. I did recently join the olive subreddit as well 😂
This so much addresses my problem. My skin is cool. There has never been a cool that is TOO cool for me. I can wear the pink, I can wear the blue, depending on the time of year. My problem is ORANGE. Sometimes the color code will say COOL LIGHT but it will have the tiniest bit of ORANGE in it. Ugh!!!! And that shows up on my skin starkly and makes me look like a freak.
This was fun! Thank you, I am going to play around with this and I did the colour wheel you made. It further confirmed what I knew and my mother always said - olive. Which we know ye olde Reddit is a lifesaver for!
I have a cool olive undertone & have found that mixing blue pigment into a neutral/neutral-cool toned foundation typically gets me a nice grayish hue that works better for my skin!
If you ever come with your own makeup brand, I will be your faithful customer forever ♾️ finally I’ve found someone that actually understands about colours and how to apply! Thank you ❤
I love how you look at color. My veins, like yours are purple/teal. My natural hair color is a darker ash blonde, but my natural highlights from the sun are golden. I truly can wear both silver and gold with no obvious difference. Waaaaaay back in the 80s I was told I was a golden summer from the color analyst (and that category doesn’t even exist now). I say I’m cool neutral for my skin tone.
Wow this is the best and most needed information I've seen so far on getting the make up look natural. This is a painters spproach to colour. Very much needed. Most people have ndver had the opportunity to study this. Thank you SO much!!!☺️🇨🇦💖
So interesting, everything makes me yellow and I learned by experience that I gravitate towards cool toned foundations and blushes, like using blush as bronzer, blush as transition eyeshadow too. And here it is confirmed by color theory. Plus even pastel cool pink clothing look best on me.
The video Ive been searching my whole life for 😂😂 As a hairstylist this makes so much sense, I’m such a color wheel nerd, this visual and break down is the best for my brain. Thank you So much for the breakdown 😘😘
I’m neutral skewing peach/warm, but find that for lip and eye colors, cool tones are better. For lips, my teeth are a natural white but an orangey lip makes them look yellower, whereas cool nude or mauve whitens them up. Temp isn’t as important on my eyes, but I do prefer taupes and cool neutrals, likely because at my age now, I’m actually contouring my eyes, rather than adding color. Also, with age, I’m now pretty low-contrast which is also a new wrinkle - pun intended. And that changes a lot. Enjoyed this, and a few new tumblers dropped for me in my years-long effort to crack the color code! Cheers!
This helped me Kacki! I swatched what I had around and wow, once the shades are all sitting on the face and then rewatching the section of the video w all the colors on K's face at the same time really helped me start to distinguish they gray fm yellow fm pink in the swatches. Any great ideas about what to do with brand new foundation and concealer that doesn't work for your face colors?! Agh hate throwing away $$! 🙈
FINALLY SOMEONE SAYS IT ABOUT THE JEWELRY! I am more towards the warm side and I NEVER liked seeing me with golden jewellery. Even clothes wise, I look and FEEL better with cooler tones.
My mother thinks I'm a winter but I've long understood that I look better in warm tones. And YES! Almost every lipstick turns magenta on me. LOVE this...finally a color analysis that makes sense.
My veins are bright teal, everything turns orange on me, now I know why I hate bronzer and this is straight up the most enlightening video on this subject I have ever seen. Many, many thanks
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If it reads “neutral” on you, you’ve found the right product. Meaning, if it disappears on you, BINGO! Every brand is so different, so you have just proven the reason we all need to try before we buy when at all possible because the ideas of neutral, warm and cool are not the same to every brand.
This! I've come to understand that neutral to me means something more like desaturated, whereas neutral for so many brands seems to mean orange. Warm cool and neutral gets so confusing because it's all relative. When you look at a color it's rarely isolated and usually in comparison to the colors around it.
THIS is the reason I still shop at sephora over drugstore any complexion products. I could read reviews till I'm blue, but it'll never be the same as going in store and trying on the products on my actual skin!! (I'm pale olive btw, a really misunderstood skin tone).
You’re so lucky in America that at least you can send products back and get your money back,in the UK(and elsewhere in the world?)you can’t,when I look at foundation colours my brain just goes to mush and my eyes stop computing which ones match my skin😅
About face is the only foundation I have found that matches my skin and the shade is F2olive. I had no idea lol and I have no less than 30 foundations. @carinaoliveira5850
@@carinaoliveira5850my undertone is also olive. I’m fair olive. So I undertand the struggle 😒
This is the first time I see someone consider both colors on the veins. Thank you!!!
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Right??!!!! A lot of my veins look pinky purple but there are some turquoise-y veins (it depends on the body part the ones on mu thighs are green and the ones on the top of my foot are blue and pinky purple). But my overtone is very golden yellow (im taiwanese) but bc of that i get so confused. Btw my skin is extremely thin and i can see veins over my entire body which sucks bc my sister is scared of looking at veins 😅.
Natasha Denona did it years ago.
This makes so much sense! As a redhead with pink undertones, makeup counter folks were always confused by my coloring! They either said I was warm because of my hair color or cool because of the pink undertones. And on top of that confusion, I was also too pale for all the makeup levels until brands started expanding in recent years. I really appreciate how you explain it all!
Too pale is so real
I am a cool read head as well. Finding foundation is a huge feat
I’m the same. I’m a softer browner redhead and I’m not really cool, but I’m not warm in an orange/yellow way, I’m neutral-warm in a rosy way. It’s a rare thing to find good matches for. My favorite match right now is Haus Labs Fair Rosy concealer
@ Thank you for that tip! It’s helpful (and oddly comforting) to hear from others in the same boat!
That's so funny. I have mild rosacea so every counter used to color match me to pink foundations. My true undertones on my neck & body are actually golden olive and MAC was the first to tell me I needed NC20. (Lisa Eldridge also says to match your neck/chest not your face). Sadly I spent my early 20s walking around with tomato face on olive body. 🙈
Omg this is FASCINATING I need to swatch all my concealers and foundations on my jaw to see what happens, I might finally figure it all out.
My thoughts exactly!
I would LOVE a color theory video specifically on blush!! I have the hardest time figuring out the right amount of saturation/it turns colors I’m not expecting
Omg same.
Absolutely, I need this, too! I struggle so hard with finding the right blush colour for me!
Second this!!!
Yes! Also I highly recommend trying really dark, pigmented blushes and just using a tiny bit. I found out if I use a deep berry purple, it looks amazing... not the bronze or pinks I've been wearing for oh... 35 years?!?
Same!
so on the pigment thing, black pigment in makeup is usually black iron oxide (CI 77499). it is a cool toned black and does dilute into a bluish gray!
(source: looking at foundation ingredients and also being a watercolor painter who used iron oxide black paint)
I’ve been a makeup artist, off and on, for years, and I have had to guide many people through the fact that what a brand says is neutral or warm, etc, is THEIR version of those tones, and not an absolute measure for all brands.
"It's all relative" is freeing for me but very frustrating for some people. Like a moving target.
Hello! Could you help me? My perfect match is Givenchy 2n120. Does it lean cool or warm?
I love watching color analysis videos like im not already painfully aware im an olive who will be buying the lightest shade
Cheek swatches~ Another great hack is not looking directly at the swatches but with your peripheral. If it stands out it’s not right, & if it blends into your face it’s a match.
I have to do this trick because I can’t see matches on my own skin. I can make a perfect match for other people though! 😂
The tip of going up or down a level to exaggerate the undertone while swatching is SO HELPFUL!
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Its helpful to see all the shades lined up like that. It makes it really easy to see when they arent suitable.
I found you recently, and I just need to say I have never appreciated a beauty RUclipsr more. Thank you for all the detailed/nuanced info you provide-your videos are the most helpful ever.
This! Is the most amazing and wonderful compliment I can receive. Being helpful is what I aspire to most so thank you.
I tan super easy and never burn so I always assumed I was warm or neutral based on some of these “tests”. My veins are straight up blue so a “test” said I lean more towards neutral. WELL…all the products I have bought have been too yellow and I’m always so frustrated! I NEVER touched the cooler colors, but turns out I do have a cooler undertone! This just goes to show that a lot of these “tests” are so subjective! My mind is blown! Thank you so much! 🥰😘
I clicked because I am a permanent Makeup Artist as well as a Paramedical Tattooist. And this subject always interests me. One of the best presentations I have seen so far on Undertone. I may just use this for my students too. Interestingly in Permanent makeup, we do work with Blue. We work with Blue, Yellow, Red, Black, and White and we get a myriad of colors from that.
Thank you Kackie!! I finally get it. 🎉 Please keep this content coming. It’s soooo good and no one else explains it as well as you plus you make me laugh.
YOU ARE SO SWEET thank you!!
@Kackie 💕 thank you so much for your knowledge and for sharing❤ question what would you do if you are told that you have a red slash/yellow undertone, you look stunning in a true red, as well as add orange red lipstick; but you have extremely dark under eye circles? I'm trying to find the perfect shade for the color correcting. A lot of times no matter what I'm getting that grey cast. I'm looking at a table with maybe 5 to 6 concealers and they're not working. Help!!!(BTW my foundation is Mack nc45 or Dior 5w).Blessings
I love that your videos are not just testing product, but talking about the science side. Also, I'd love to see you play with your eyebrow shape - maybe something thinner? How does eyebrow shape change your face? I HATE doing eyebrows.
This takes me WAY back to Prescriptives - I was told I was blue/red which explains my issues finding a "nude" lipstick 30 years later!
I honestly can’t believe that hasn’t come back in some way. The match was perfection.
I Agree😢😢😢😢 I am continually in pursuit of finding another company that does custom blend to the excellent degree that they did! I believe that I would pay $100 for a foundation if they'd come back and do it again ‼️ custom blend was so perfect! I'm not just on me, I used to stand in Macy's and watch them do this for countless customers just trying to understand how they did it. My heart was broken when they stopped that.
I think I have come to the conclusion that I have cool undertones with a yellow leaning overtone. Need to test out my theory more but I *think* this leads to products acting similarly on my skin to an olive undertoned person. Your explanation of the wheel was helpful because everything turns orange on me but I think I need more desaturation- not green! Can't wait for the monochromatic video and hope it's coming soon!!
Monochromatic?
@@kackie Oh shoot did I make this up? I could've sworn you mentioned wanting to create a video on how to achieve monochromatic looks or looks that are in harmony together using the same color family (or something along those lines?)
I’m a watercolorist and I appreciate how you’ve incorporated the color wheel in this process. I have an eye for color and subtlety and yet, the vein test confounds me!
I think what has really helped me understand my undertone, was years of experimenting with makeup when I was a dancer/in theatre. You basically spend a lot of time together with girls in front of mirrors and all playing with each others makeup (sorta lol). I just remember trying something from a friend and knowing right away if it'd work for me or not. When you have others to compare your skin tone and undertones too, it makes it so much easier!
The vein test isn’t helpful at all, especially if you have a bit of a tan. Truly olive skin is a blue undertone + a yellow overtone so by the vein test you’d assume you’re warm, but you’re actually a cool tone who probably needs a neutral foundation.
It also varies by skin thickness; if your skin is thinner you’ll see lots of veins of varying colors regardless of your undertone, so that wouldn’t narrow things down!
Same but my skin is translucent yet my veins are super deep.
Same! The vein test just does not work for me, but I'm not sure how much of it is due to just assessing the color, or the knowledge that my vein is blue beneath my skin... On the one hand (not literally) my veins appear blue to me, so I would expect to have cool tones in my skin, right? I'm also super pale. BUT, my perfect foundation shade, is definitely a peachy undertone with yellow overtone, just a very very pale shade (specifically, NYX Total Control dropper foundation in the shade Vanilla. NOT any of their other lines shade vanilla though, the rest are super dark). Normal Ivory shades turn orange on me, light ivory sometimes turns orange, and other times is too cool and turns grey, but used to be my shade in high school way back when. It really is all relative 😩
Thank you very much, Kackie! Love your color theory videos! A trick for anyone out there trying to find out if they're olive. Get a primary red powder product (blush or eyeshadow) (it has to be a true primary red, neither cool not warm), apply it on your cheeks. If you turn green, congrats! You've made it to the Olive Club! 😜😂
(Sadly, I just looked at some swatches of Vieve L1 elsewhere online, and they look quite yellowy orange on paler skin.)
I'm like 90% sure I'm a cool olive, and have blue veins by my wrist and green down my arm. I'm on watching this video for the second time, and its so helpful. I really appreciate this whole view point from an Artist/painters view. It's so refreshing. I think ive watched all of the your videos in this series so far.
THANK YOU for explaining 'overtone' and 'undertone', I'd never heard that before and it explains SO MUCH
I love this series but I cat help to write this: the light around us changes the way we perceive colour.
Light in fx Spain is much, much warmer (with a yellow) hue than in Scandinavia where it has a cooler and more white tone. If i take a picture next to a window in Spain today and then a picture next to a window in Denmark tomorrow, my skin´s warm undertone is way more pronounced in Spain.
In Spain whenever I take pictures and analyse the hex colours, I´m a warm/true autumn with some dark Autumn tones. In Denmark, I´m a dark autumn. That´s in the Summer time. When Winter comes and light in Scandinavia turns grey, whenever I take a picture and analyse the hex colours, I´m a dark Autumn with some Dark Winter tones, which means light turns my otherwise very warm tones to some neutral or even cold tones.
And it´s not just about the tan changing my tone and how that can affect the way we perceived undertone. If in the middle of the Winter, i take a trip to Thailand, I look like a golden goddess, the day I set a foot in Copenhagen airport, I look more neutral. So outdoor light has also an effect.
This is the most useful video on undertones I have ever seen. More of this content, please, please, please.
Ok, need a follow up on how to implement the "needs" in color cosmetics, especially blush and lipstick in that green-ish part of the wheel.
That color wheel is fantastic!! Thank you!!
Thank you for explaining the undertones and the overtones which not many sales make up reps are aware of. I think being neutral is far more difficult to match than being a true warm or true cool. Keep up the good work and keep educating us with your lovely and lovely passion and personality.🎉❤
No question, this is the most educational and best video on undertone and overtone on the entire internet, and I've watched it three times today, and literally taken notes like a college student. However! Your girl is visually impaired and her visual field can only process one color at a time, which makes this still really difficult for her to do. I can match colors, identify one color after the other and identify if they're the same or different, but comparing two at once is not something I can do. I have never, ever found a decent foundation or concealer match in all my life, and I have typically chalked it up to the struggles of my disability, but even other people experienced with matching makeup struggle with me. Here's what I know for sure: stupid bright hot pink looks really normal on me, olive green eyeshadow turns brown, warm browns turn traffic cone orange, and that seasonal color analysis lady said I have a cool undertone and I'm a winter or whatever nonsense. Lots of foundations leave a weird yellow cast on me, but cool toned foundations look really off as well.
I watched twice, and listened once while driving my son to school lol. I think I will watch again. This is such an amazing and helpful video. Yes, the confusion with different brand is really easy to fall into. Add the seasonal analysis (I let that go!) thing, and WHOA! I am going to focus purely on my undertones and how the shades looks on me. It helps to understand why everything goes orange on me. I love your interactive color wheel! Thank you!
🙏🙏🙏. Showing this to Sephora salesperson when buying my next foundation
This part right here 5:40 really blew my mind. I might actually find a lipstick that works on me now🎉
DUDE. THIS IS SO RIDICULOUSLY HELPFUL, ALL FREAKIN' CAPS! Thank you!
Now we just have to figure out how to swatch store samples without getting face ebola. (That's a thing, right?) 😁
I love it when Kackie paints colours on her face. No idea why. Just do. 😊
its so crazy that the tower 28 concealer in BU goes so gray on you, cuz it looks wayyy to peachy on me (very fair w cool under&overtones)!! color theory rly is wild
2.5 yrs in on my beauty journey and this is the first time I have actually felt like I might be beginning to understand undertone! Cool is blue, warm is yellow. I think next time I swatch for foundation I will actually be able to find a match now with your tips!! Thanks Kackie!!
Fantastic video! As a neutral-cool-olive I've resorted to just buying the fairest cool shade a brand offers and add green myself with a NYX pro fix stick. Since doing that I can get my perfect shade 90% of the time
Thank you so much for this video! As a POC I’ve really struggled finding the right foundation. I can’t tell you just how much money I’ve wasted 😢 Your explanation is the first one that really explains and illustrates the differences as well as how to choose what’s best suits. Thank you Thank you 🥺
This was so incredibly helpful and validating! For years people kept telling me I was cool because I have pink cheeks and that’s all they notice, but I always looked gray with makeup! As soon as I started moving to neutral, I looked alive again. You have a talent for explaining/teaching things!
Very interesting. I may have to watch this again. I think I've got it, but watching it one more time may solidify it in my mind.
Thank you for sharing 🧡 😊
Thank you for mentioning how so many brands assume "cool" means red/rosey. i am so tired of things being salmon pink when if you look at comments online most people leaning cool need a touch of purple/blue or even grey in their complexion products
And I’m pink/rosy but I’m more neutral-warm than cool lol
Thankfully I figured out my oliveness a couple of years ago. I’ve saved sooooooo many returns! Sadly poor naming of shades and shitty online swatches still resulted in some fails
The swatches and shade names are all just completely absurd. Finding out Mac uses NC to denote warm products and NW for cool (not warm and not cool) was SUCH a betrayal because suddenly my complete inability to find any kind of match made sense haha
Thank you so much!!! I can’t tell you how long I’ve tried to figure this out but none of the info ever fully explained what wasn’t working for me or why. This was such an amazing deep dive and I feel SO much more equipped to figure out what colors are better for me! Thank you again.
i love this video . i always think it’s wild that there are complete lines of products that I can’t try because they don’t have shades for me as a neutral olive black girl. I can’t wear any of the Kosas concealers or any of that most recent NARS foundation that was so popular because they are all yellow . I’ve been ride or die with the Dior backstage line because there are several shades that i can wear . I always end up having to buy two concealers either because there is always one thats too light and too dark but only one of them matches my undertone or neither of them match my undertone . i think that issue also comes from some brands not having many intermediate shades the deeper you go . i just be needing a little shade in the middle lol
Yeah you really are in an underserved skin tone area. It's a shame. I always try to keep an eye out for lines with a lot of Olive offerings, and the Tom ford ones seem to!
Hey y'all - just for clarity: the awesome color wheel used in this video is The Flesh Tone Color Wheel(R) by Terri Tomlinson Makeup Training Academy, not my own.
And bought every tube I found. Also keep it coming for older skin with set-in wrinkles (60). Thanks for all you do!
Thanks again Kackie! I have very fair translucent skin with lots of freckles. I have such a hard time with this. This is a huge help! Freakin' amazing. I could listen to you talk about color all day.
Base (primary)colors are very misunderstood. In my color theory classes where we made color wheels the primary red & blue actually had to be mixed to achieve. It isn't just any old red or blue & anytime you mix a cool shade with a warm shade you will get a desaturated color aka mud. For any screen & printer the primaries are Black, Magenta, Cyan & Yellow. I've known some painters who have a very limited palette of Black, White, Yellow & a Red vs others who have a 16 shade palette. I always liked having some secondary & tertiary shades in my palette because every time you add another color to the admixture it becomes desaturated. Once that happens you can't bring it back without a lot of effort (& paint) It's also easier to match if there are less shades involved since you might not make the same exact orange or purple or green admixture again. I found it helpful to have the consistency in a premade secondary shade & a premade earth shade (yellow orche, burnt sienna, raw umber) But I would change my palette depending on subject matter (portrait vs landscape for example) I don't know when this pink=cool thing started but it's very misleading. Most likely if you are caucasian & fair, there will be visible pink in your skin. Doesn't make you "cool skintoned." My veins are purple, blue & turquoise so that was never any help. I have noticed that many fair foundations make me look grey so I usually err on the side of warm & go a smidge darker than I think I am. I would add that when swatching to use your jaw or neck since the redness of your cheeks could throw off the results of the swatches :) For most Fair folks, we're just happy to find a concealer that is pale enough & can't be too picky about the undertone (I prefer a peachy undertone & often use a corrector as my concealer)
This is interesting! And the point you make about cheek color throwing it off a bit seems so obvious but I never thought of it.
I am an olive undertone with zero pink/red in my skin and have to put green and a smidge of yellow color corrector mixed into a pale yellow foundation to match my body. However, my neck and chest are a translucent blue/grey and if I match my face to my neck I have a gaunt white/blue/grey face in comparison to my very green/yellow body. I dont want to bring my foundation down to my neck because it settles into lines and gets separated and splotchy through the day. I have to lightly self tan my neck and chest to fix the issue and have everything harmonized. Merriam style here on youtube has a fantastic color theory called artistic license and talks about the skin and what colors flatter the most and is very interesting.
I have learned to use an extremely thin layer of foundation so that it buffs out closer to my skin tone. I’m very green/grey yellow with a hint of pink. I can match fabulously when I’m suntanned but my pale skin has never seen a proper shade match lol.
I have the same issue lol
I'm EXTREMELY olive undertoned and my overtone is a yellow-orange (basically golden) shade, which means when i tan i LITERALLY get a GRAY overall shade, no one believes me until they see me after actually tanning, so, basically i look like a corpse, if i don't tan i'm pale af and if i do i get gray 🥲
Saved in my ‘Makeup’ folder here for future reference. Love and respect, Kackie. 💯👌🇨🇦
OMG! I've seen so many videos on color matching, but you are the only one who has explained the nuances of our skin color, how to identify it and then match it! Thank you , keep doing these type of videos, nobody explains these concepts like you do.
I’m still confused about overtone but I’ll watch again. The swatching on your cheek was very helpful and enlightening. I won’t be buying complexion products on line anymore. I somehow always choose colours that turn orange. So now I know that if it says nude it’s not my nude. I always stay away from colours that look warm because I really look orange in those
Related, this is why I now 100% understand why the merit beauty solo shadow in social (a "soft mauve") is my perfect brown eye shadow.
🤯 this video is SO HELPFUL! Thank you so much for the comparison test. I finally get it!
This video is so helpful. I struggle with undertone and shade. This video will help me decide where to go when things are grey, too peach, or too yellow. I think I'm a warm leaning neutral, but like you said, every brand has its own interpretation.
I swear all makeup companies are convinced my skin tone is 'old grey elephant' tho, because that's what they all make me look like
Sometimes 1 too light , or just a side note ❤ and I don't eat much carbs .niacin and vit C helps skin tone
Or mix 1 color up if you are cool tone ...
Try adding some blush while you’re mixing the foundation or concealer-!
Kackie, you're so cool and smart and you make me feel like I have extra cones in my eyes. I'm almost positive I do not, but I truly appreciate your knowledge in color theory and ability to explain in such simple ways.
Always a highly intelligent class from this girl. I couldn’t click on this any faster. As soon as Kackie makes a video I make a cup of copy and enjoy the show ❤
Someone made a comment that they had a hard time identifying the color of their veins. I'm in the same boat!! Sometimes I think they are blue, then sometimes they look purple and sometimes have a slight greenish tinge. Kackie, do you think that this might mean that I am neutral? Or maybe it is just changing overtones based on the season/sun exposure? I wanted to let you know that i really enjoyed this video and thank you so much for your fresh and insightful approach to explaining to us all. This video was as enlightening to me as the finding your perfect red lip which was mind-blowing. Thank you so much and you have such a wonderful way of explaining complicated things! ❤
I would love to know the answer to this as well.
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Question re: oxidation. For a long time (but not so much recently), it seemed like RUclipsrs would say “this formula oxidized on me” meaning that it turned yellowish after it was on for a bit. But could a lot of it just been a bad color match? Or, conversely, if we try your swatch experiment with our own collections, do you think it might be good to leave them on for awhile to see what happens once they dry down and mix with our own personal skin chemistry & the air?
Excellent video! I always enjoy your artist’s twist on makeup colors. Thanks!
If they oxidize when left out, could applying them on like, a white counter be a good test for that? (Like, to see if they *do* in fact, oxidize?)
I LOVE THIS. So so so useful and mind-blowing. Also, thank you sm for: 'it's not about saying you can't wear certain colours, it's about understanding how to make certain colours WORK FOR YOU' ❤
I feel like I need to take notes. 👀 OK, I love the approach of just swatching on the face. 👍👍
Thank you. Just tested 2 foundations yesterday. Looked good in store, but was a lovely orange stripe when I got home. I'll be checking out the interactive colour wheel now.
Your wheel was really useful to find my undertone!! I have used so much makeup that looks orange on me, I just want to throw everything away now!! Thank you ❤
I found this fascinating! For my foundation I've gravitated towards neutrals and that tends to work best on me, now I see why.
Terrific content, Kackie 👏. It took Natasha Denona concealers to make me appreciate a brand’s commitment to matching u/t’s. I am also a neutral, but with greater depth than yours. I have N2, N3 and N4 in Denona and studied them very carefully to determine the differences and the impact they had on my complexion. Yeah, I’m obsessed with colour too. N3 is the closest I have ever had in a face product. If she had a 2.5, with the same u/t as 3, I would be in heaven. The nifty thing about the shades are the tweaks.. N2 is more has a titch more yellow, N3 has more red, and N4 has more pink (duller, grayer). They are all neutrals, but with subtle differences. I can wear all of them, but use N3 as a foundation by sheering it out with a wet sponge and a very moist base and using just as needed.
This is so fascinating.
Thank you for the overtone explanation! It was the missing piece of my puzzle, and explains why I feel like I need different colors after I have been in the sun.
wow - certainly going to be watching this one more then once down the road :) ty
You have been able to make easy something difficult; that’s great teaching skill! Thank you very much. Sooo interesting.
Thank you for the comprehensive video! I have never had any concealer or foundation look pink on me, but I struggle with a lot of things turning yellow on me. I cannot understand how I used to believe I have a warm undertone.
This is fascinating!! Can you do the concealer swatches demo on a couple other different skin tones? I think it will really help demonstrate. TY!!😊
Ok wow - this finally gelled for me with the vein test and overtone vs undertone. And so important to drive home that brands and their versions of neutral, etc., shouldn't be the definitive guide. Excellent explainer!
This was so so helpful. I feel like I need to see this theory like 15 times for it to sink in my brain but it is an amazing start to my understanding. Thanks for the science. It’s just super awesome to use your degree to help us!
Oh! I finally understand it. Thanks for taking us to the color wheel. So helpful.
THANK YOU for doing this video! It makes so much more sense to me visually than anything else ever has!
I’ve watched a lot of these types of videos. Yours is by far the best and the most useful.
This is brilliant and it’s SO nice to see a fellow visual artist talk about color theory and how they mix. I just finished a painting the other day and to make a vibrant green shade, I mixed black with yellow - the same that would happen in creating an olive-toned foundation. Thank you Kackie for this informative and entertaining video! 💕
Wow yes!! This is so lovely thank you for sharing and for being here!
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You are literally describing my skin with the olive undertone that gets more golden with a tan. It has been INFURIATING trying to find the right shade. lol. I just found that I’m a light olive this year. 🤦🏼♀️
Great video! Like you my veins are teal but i think I'm neutral leaning slightly cool. Your color wheel tool is pretty interesting! I've got a favorite neutral lipstick that after it starts wearing off turns my lips a bit orange. Your color wheel says I'm green blue, which tracks!
I have ALWAYS known I see more shades and tones than other people, especially watching ppl color match online. This has been so so validating for me! Before I even clicked on the video my eyes went to the two neutral shades that matched you the best, imagine my surprise when I was right :)
I was yelling like I was watching Dora the explorer or something like “that’s yellow! That’s perfect! That’s gray!”. I’ve never met someone who sees color the same way I do, I definitely believe we have extra cones. Anyways thank you!
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You must have some my cones - I can barely see the difference at all 😄I can never see the 'grey' even when it's pointed out. Nor could I see the pink in those shades. One pointed out as yellow I thought looked peachy. I've pretty much given up...
Really appreciate this and wish I had it like 15 years ago. I’ve always known I was olive, but up until a year ago I didn’t start applying color theory to my makeup. I still can’t find any base products that match my skin, and most things look coral or orange on me. I did recently join the olive subreddit as well 😂
This so much addresses my problem. My skin is cool. There has never been a cool that is TOO cool for me. I can wear the pink, I can wear the blue, depending on the time of year. My problem is ORANGE. Sometimes the color code will say COOL LIGHT but it will have the tiniest bit of ORANGE in it. Ugh!!!! And that shows up on my skin starkly and makes me look like a freak.
This was fun! Thank you, I am going to play around with this and I did the colour wheel you made. It further confirmed what I knew and my mother always said - olive. Which we know ye olde Reddit is a lifesaver for!
Next Level understanding unlocked! Many Medium /deep foundations turn way orange on me. So fascinating!
I have a cool olive undertone & have found that mixing blue pigment into a neutral/neutral-cool toned foundation typically gets me a nice grayish hue that works better for my skin!
If you ever come with your own makeup brand, I will be your faithful customer forever ♾️ finally I’ve found someone that actually understands about colours and how to apply! Thank you ❤
I love how you look at color. My veins, like yours are purple/teal. My natural hair color is a darker ash blonde, but my natural highlights from the sun are golden. I truly can wear both silver and gold with no obvious difference. Waaaaaay back in the 80s I was told I was a golden summer from the color analyst (and that category doesn’t even exist now). I say I’m cool neutral for my skin tone.
You seem to have so much fun sharing this knowledge. Thank you so much.
Wow this is the best and most needed information I've
seen so far on getting the make up look natural.
This is a painters spproach to colour.
Very much needed. Most people have ndver had the opportunity to study this. Thank you SO much!!!☺️🇨🇦💖
Oh my gosh , thank you for your videos , how you explain in a way I can actually understand especially with the visuals ! 🎉🎉
So interesting, everything makes me yellow and I learned by experience that I gravitate towards cool toned foundations and blushes, like using blush as bronzer, blush as transition eyeshadow too. And here it is confirmed by color theory. Plus even pastel cool pink clothing look best on me.
The video Ive been searching my whole life for 😂😂
As a hairstylist this makes so much sense, I’m such a color wheel nerd, this visual and break down is the best for my brain. Thank you So much for the breakdown 😘😘
Ohhh I'm so glad!!!
I’m neutral skewing peach/warm, but find that for lip and eye colors, cool tones are better. For lips, my teeth are a natural white but an orangey lip makes them look yellower, whereas cool nude or mauve whitens them up. Temp isn’t as important on my eyes, but I do prefer taupes and cool neutrals, likely because at my age now, I’m actually contouring my eyes, rather than adding color. Also, with age, I’m now pretty low-contrast which is also a new wrinkle - pun intended. And that changes a lot. Enjoyed this, and a few new tumblers dropped for me in my years-long effort to crack the color code! Cheers!
This helped me Kacki! I swatched what I had around and wow, once the shades are all sitting on the face and then rewatching the section of the video w all the colors on K's face at the same time really helped me start to distinguish they gray fm yellow fm pink in the swatches. Any great ideas about what to do with brand new foundation and concealer that doesn't work for your face colors?! Agh hate throwing away $$! 🙈
The color wheel is fantastic ❤💙🩶💜🖤💕thank you!!!
FINALLY SOMEONE SAYS IT ABOUT THE JEWELRY! I am more towards the warm side and I NEVER liked seeing me with golden jewellery. Even clothes wise, I look and FEEL better with cooler tones.
My mother thinks I'm a winter but I've long understood that I look better in warm tones. And YES! Almost every lipstick turns magenta on me. LOVE this...finally a color analysis that makes sense.
Love all your color theory videos!! Your unique perspective is beyond refreshing and I always learn so much ❤
I would love to see more videos like this. Especially with choosing lipstick.
My veins are bright teal, everything turns orange on me, now I know why I hate bronzer and this is straight up the most enlightening video on this subject I have ever seen. Many, many thanks
Omg to unite people with their undertone is so gratifying.
I love this! I'll definitely be swatching in the store!
I am fascinated with colour theory but sometimes struggle, this explanation really worked for me, thank you ❤