Your colour analysis is the only one that ever made sense to me. I found using different greens really helped me to identify my undertone (warm and delicate, olive).
One of the things that I find most direct and coherent about your color system is that you don't say that "everyone has a purple" or "everyone has a blue" or "there's a cool yellow for winters" -- if you've added enough yellow to make a blue "warm" then it's not blue anymore!
Your comment made me think about something. So are all purples cool? I've heard people talk about warm purples or cool purples. The same thing goes for all the colors.
I totally agree with you on "everyone has a yellow" being nonsense. Even though there are degrees of warmth and coolness, yellow will always be a warm colour.
I 100% agree that the goal of colour analysis is to find what looks best with your skin, not your hair. I find your explanations very cogent. I'm definitely Team Orange. However, I have embraced my age and stopped colouring my hair. It is now a warm grey. And I'm thinking my skin tone is less bright than it used to be. What are your thoughts about one's best colours possibly changing as we age? What have you seen in your clients? Would love to see a video with your perspective (and visual examples of this).
I was sure of color analysis and thought with all the charts and information carefully researched through so many color analyist, but the more I see the small things that make everyone different I am not confined their is a true box to place someone. Red heads do not just fit in warm palettes perfectly for instance I seen a documentary with Nicole Kidman the perfect couple and look how beautiful she looks in a pastel blue dress!! The more I study it, the more confused I am!! I know that I have olive skin tone myself and it can really shake things up and a lot of colors actually make me look I’ll!! I look better and more alive in winter or cool clothes but gold jewelry looks best on me and it melts into my skin! I can wear fall colors and they look good on me and I think it is because I am a soft natural!
Hi Merriam, I’m warm and delicate with light olive skin and also high contrast and soft classic. I get compliments when I wear green and it’s my favourite colour to wear, but I’ve found that I also enjoy wearing navy, even though it’s not one of my colours. I’m not sure if it’s because I’m high contrast or soft classic but I feel a bit more put together and polished in this colour. If you have any insights as to why this may be I’d love to hear them. I’ve had my colours and body typing done with you previously but am unsure of what my style essence is. Is there a way I could book just an essence appointment with you? I’ve watched videos on essences and am still slightly confused about them so I would love some help with this 💙
I know you are an incredible artist! 👩🎨 Your line drawings with the different outfits for the David Kibbe body types are amazing and have really helped me to see the nuances between the types! And I liked the teddy bears 🐻 too since it gave a different perspective. But I'm having such a hard time with understanding your Artistic License 🎨 color analysis. And I'm sure that you've had a lot of color theory. If dealing with the Munsell color system, where you have Chroma, Hue, and Value, how can you eliminate a color characteristic? Back in the 80s and 90s when we were all doing Color Me Beautiful, I noticed something was still off. They emphasized Hue and Value but were missing the concept of Chroma. So when I learned Kathryn Kalisz's Sci/Art system with the 12 seasons it clicked that we need to include all 3 color characteristics. And looking at 3 levels of each was a good minimum to cover all of the people: HUE - warm, neutral warm, neutral cool, cool VALUE - light, medium, dark CHROMA - bright, medium, soft So I could see expanding the system to get more nuanced but it's almost not worth it bc it confuses people and they can't find their colors in the stores as it is... especially the poor Springs. So in Artistic License why did you choose to emphasize Hue and Chroma and drop Value? That is actually the most important characteristic for yourself as a Dark (VALUE) Winter. You gals look great in high contrast pastels (LIGHT) and your deep (DARK) colors. I always say Dark Winters and Dark Autumns can rock the black like no one else! I realize this is a beginner video but I was hoping to understand your perspective better. I feel like you're the artist and seeing something I'm not. Did you have a different system in the color theory that you learned? I don't see how you can reduce a system below the 3 color characteristics. Would you consider a video on that? Thanks 😊
Sorry for the confusion! I don't drop value at all. It's just the easiest for people to understand so I don't talk about it much. I believe I have a video called how to find your contrast levels (or how to find your color type part 2) where I do discuss value. And for my consults I always include value as well.
Hi Merriam, I was just curious why it was you designed the warm/cool test to be orange/magenta instead of yellow/blue, since the balance of warm/cool is what we're looking for, it would seem more intuitive to me to do yellow/blue. Is it because yellow/blue are too extreme?
Since it's only a warm and cool test, we have to take into account warm and delicate. Warm and delicate will often look better in blue than in bright yellow, and this will throw everything off. The reason why they look better in blue than in yellow isn't because they are cool, it's because bright yellow or golden yellow is far too warm on them and will make them look less warm (more gray) as a contrast. So this would confuse the test. In reality, WD looks wonderful in soft peaches, creams, so they are indeed warm. Just not warm enough for the test to be yellow vs blue.
Hi Merriam I'm warm and delicate but Im not sure if I'm a soft autumn or a light spring, as they are so similar. I suit both in terms of make up and the colours I wear. I also think it's down to personal preference and I just prefer to wear fresh colours of light spring :)
Hey Merriam greetings from Czech republic, i would like to do your analysis. Do you offer this service for guys with, body, face and color typology? I love your videos❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Hi Merrium, Thank you for your honest and insightful videos. I would greatly appreciate it if you could shed some light on my personal dilema. I believe i am neutral, leaning cool. I look great in clear magenta, blues, and greens, however, not all cool shades look good, and some warm shades make me look sallow.I can also wear peach but look a little washed out. I have tangent eyes (cool blue and yellow) brown hair with natural golden highligts. I feel like even though my skin looks cool that the very cool shades such as electric blue look great with my eyes, yet dont work with my hair. My hair looks different colours according to the clothes i wear, sometimes ashy, or brown leaning golden/red. Warm colours make me look muddy and yellow and sometimes ill looking. I wonder if you can offer some direction with this?
Hi Merriam, I was typed by you as neutral, leaning cool with deep contrast and muted. Could you possibly post color palettes that would flatter me. I was only given a few choices. Thank you!
Hi Merriam, thank you for your videos. I appreciate your simple, clear approach! You recently did a full report for me and I like seeing how my body type affects my coloring. I’m having fun playing around with colors. I’m going to try testing orange and magenta because another analyst said I’m a soft autumn but you said cool and delicate. You briefly mentioned olive versus rosy in this video and in others. Do you usually add that distinction in your full report? I don’t see a mention in mine but am thinking I’m rosy.
I agree with you about Rihanna. I saw a recent photo of her where her long hair was black and she wore a black dress and black sandals - the photo showed how the dress wasn't in harmony with her skintone.
There’s alot I love about your artistic license system. I like the simplicity of the colors. Finding exact color shades is mind boggling especially when you’re plus sized and have more limited options to begin with. I love you take bone structure into account. It definitely explains why a lot of people can wear a broader range of colors or don’t fit perfectly into the 12 season system. My only concern is the dichotomy between bright and muted. When I did your warm & cool test(first with bright orange & fuchsia then soft versions), peach was my best color. But when I compared peach to a medium chroma orange it’s clear peach actually washes me out. It’s also why every time people suggested any autumn season the colors made my features look flat and dull. In your system, is it impossible for a neutral warm to have medium chroma???
it is possible to have medium chroma since it's a spectrum. but i haven't found it helpful to differentiate like that. from my clients, I've found that, if some are warm and delicate, but their bone structure suggests bright colors (like if you are a theatrical romantic or a gamine or something like that), then pastels like peaches can sometimes wash them out. I also haven't found it to be practically useful to type someone as medium chroma because in reality, when you're thinking about buying a blouse, you are considering tons of practical factors like price, whether or not you like it, the fit, the quality, the lines, the occasion and how often you'll wear it.....so at that point, all things considered, I found that people aren't considering whether or not it's exactly the right chroma. so long as it's close enough, it tends to look great and the other factors are far more important.
I'm cool, radiant and rosy, this mix is throwing people off. Right in the alley of the "neutral" skin tone, because, "red is warm", right? so why the cool colors look so good? Let's say I prefer shopping on my own, I understand what suits me better. They sometimes even propose mustard stuff to me... Your system makes so much more sense, I'm glad I found your videos. ^__^
So in this system Red and Green are neutral on the warm/cool axis. It's actually really easy and better than other systems IMO. It's just a quadrant with yellow to blue horizontal and red and green perpendicular to that.
The thing is I’m cool toned, but I have natural gold red hair and it seems to clash with everything as it’s so warm tone. I tend to stick to greens blues because some colors I still feel iffy on.
I really love your videos and agree with everything you are saying! But one note I might have is that I really noticed in the comparison photos between julianne moore and oprah differences in lighting more than anything. As I watch your other videos, I know you take into account lighting, but I think for the purpose of this video it might be misleading. Both photos where each person looked better had significantly better lighting. In oprah's case, it was warm bright stage lighting that complimented her skin, whereas the whole photo on the left looked cool toned and in blue daylight, which might have dulled her skin down. Same in the case of julianne, her bad photo was this really down dreary lighting and she just looked so tired (my guess is for the effect of mood for whatever movie she was in for that photo), though I agree her colored shirt also doesn't help. But the better photo also seemed to have clearer brighter lighting, which reflected well off her skin. Just something I noticed with these two examples?
Hi Merriam, I've been typed by you as warm and radiant. I was born blonde and have kept that color till this age. I was watching a clothing stylist who said the colors you wear depend on the coloring of your hair. What do you think about this? Such black can only look good on dark haired women. I know it's not in my color scheme, but sometimes I still do like it for a color that's not close to my face. Great video as usual!
I think there's an old video from merriam that discusses this - she said that a blonde can easily wear black clothes if you balance it out by wearing black sunglasses, eye-liner, a black hat, etc
In Merriam's previous videos, she says that depth/lightness is a separate aspect you can apply to the colour seasons (you can lighten or darken the recommended colours in your palette if needed). The undertone is the more important part of getting a flattering colour than how light or dark it is
@@neon.neutral i think ur right, bright is thé hue with no add to thé color, but the deapth /délicat IS actually adding, a dark or grey. To make a Shade or a tone
I got a color analysis from House of colour and they told me I was a winter so am supposed to look good in magenta and other bright colors but I look horrible in it. My bone structure is pretty crazy and sharpish but I bet I'm olive. The lady did look confused when doing the color draping and almost categorized me as a summer.
I'm pretty sure that I'm a cool and delicate olive but look good in more saturated cool muted colours because of high contrast and soft gamine. Also look good in khaki, probably because I'm olive. This test only confuses me because I don't look too bad in peach and I don't look good in soft pink.
I got a type and color analysis from you. It was so worth the money!
I'm so happy to hear that! Thank you for your comment.
Can we get one online too?
Your colour analysis is the only one that ever made sense to me. I found using different greens really helped me to identify my undertone (warm and delicate, olive).
that's a great idea!
One of the things that I find most direct and coherent about your color system is that you don't say that "everyone has a purple" or "everyone has a blue" or "there's a cool yellow for winters" -- if you've added enough yellow to make a blue "warm" then it's not blue anymore!
Your comment made me think about something. So are all purples cool? I've heard people talk about warm purples or cool purples. The same thing goes for all the colors.
Im so happy to find your channel. ❤love your style.thank you
I totally agree with you on "everyone has a yellow" being nonsense. Even though there are degrees of warmth and coolness, yellow will always be a warm colour.
I 100% agree that the goal of colour analysis is to find what looks best with your skin, not your hair. I find your explanations very cogent. I'm definitely Team Orange. However, I have embraced my age and stopped colouring my hair. It is now a warm grey. And I'm thinking my skin tone is less bright than it used to be. What are your thoughts about one's best colours possibly changing as we age? What have you seen in your clients? Would love to see a video with your perspective (and visual examples of this).
Yes me too
Yes to Rihanna being warm tone... I'm so relieved I'm not the only one who thinks that..i would love a video about her
Look at how good the blonde looked on her
I was sure of color analysis and thought with all the charts and information carefully researched through so many color analyist, but the more I see the small things that make everyone different I am not confined their is a true box to place someone.
Red heads do not just fit in warm palettes perfectly for instance I seen a documentary with Nicole Kidman the perfect couple and look how beautiful she looks in a pastel blue dress!! The more I study it, the more confused I am!!
I know that I have olive skin tone myself and it can really shake things up and a lot of colors actually make me look I’ll!! I look better and more alive in winter or cool clothes but gold jewelry looks best on me and it melts into my skin! I can wear fall colors and they look good on me and I think it is because I am a soft natural!
Thanks for including more pictures in your analysis this helps a ton!
Your color typing system is genius and I hope it makes the history books someday!
This was very helpful!
This is a great video. Will surely help me when buying clothes!
You know you are cool toned when your wardrobe is filled with blue lol
Hi Merriam, I’m warm and delicate with light olive skin and also high contrast and soft classic. I get compliments when I wear green and it’s my favourite colour to wear, but I’ve found that I also enjoy wearing navy, even though it’s not one of my colours. I’m not sure if it’s because I’m high contrast or soft classic but I feel a bit more put together and polished in this colour. If you have any insights as to why this may be I’d love to hear them. I’ve had my colours and body typing done with you previously but am unsure of what my style essence is. Is there a way I could book just an essence appointment with you? I’ve watched videos on essences and am still slightly confused about them so I would love some help with this 💙
I know you are an incredible artist! 👩🎨 Your line drawings with the different outfits for the David Kibbe body types are amazing and have really helped me to see the nuances between the types! And I liked the teddy bears 🐻 too since it gave a different perspective.
But I'm having such a hard time with understanding your Artistic License 🎨 color analysis. And I'm sure that you've had a lot of color theory.
If dealing with the Munsell color system, where you have Chroma, Hue, and Value, how can you eliminate a color characteristic?
Back in the 80s and 90s when we were all doing Color Me Beautiful, I noticed something was still off. They emphasized Hue and Value but were missing the concept of Chroma.
So when I learned Kathryn Kalisz's Sci/Art system with the 12 seasons it clicked that we need to include all 3 color characteristics. And looking at 3 levels of each was a good minimum to cover all of the people:
HUE - warm, neutral warm, neutral cool, cool
VALUE - light, medium, dark
CHROMA - bright, medium, soft
So I could see expanding the system to get more nuanced but it's almost not worth it bc it confuses people and they can't find their colors in the stores as it is... especially the poor Springs.
So in Artistic License why did you choose to emphasize Hue and Chroma and drop Value? That is actually the most important characteristic for yourself as a Dark (VALUE) Winter. You gals look great in high contrast pastels (LIGHT) and your deep (DARK) colors. I always say Dark Winters and Dark Autumns can rock the black like no one else!
I realize this is a beginner video but I was hoping to understand your perspective better. I feel like you're the artist and seeing something I'm not. Did you have a different system in the color theory that you learned? I don't see how you can reduce a system below the 3 color characteristics. Would you consider a video on that? Thanks 😊
Sorry for the confusion! I don't drop value at all. It's just the easiest for people to understand so I don't talk about it much. I believe I have a video called how to find your contrast levels (or how to find your color type part 2) where I do discuss value. And for my consults I always include value as well.
OK thanks! I'll look for the video.
Hi Merriam, I was just curious why it was you designed the warm/cool test to be orange/magenta instead of yellow/blue, since the balance of warm/cool is what we're looking for, it would seem more intuitive to me to do yellow/blue. Is it because yellow/blue are too extreme?
Since it's only a warm and cool test, we have to take into account warm and delicate. Warm and delicate will often look better in blue than in bright yellow, and this will throw everything off. The reason why they look better in blue than in yellow isn't because they are cool, it's because bright yellow or golden yellow is far too warm on them and will make them look less warm (more gray) as a contrast. So this would confuse the test. In reality, WD looks wonderful in soft peaches, creams, so they are indeed warm. Just not warm enough for the test to be yellow vs blue.
@@merriamstyle Makes sense. Thanks!
Hi Merriam I'm warm and delicate but Im not sure if I'm a soft autumn or a light spring, as they are so similar. I suit both in terms of make up and the colours I wear. I also think it's down to personal preference and I just prefer to wear fresh colours of light spring :)
Hey Merriam greetings from Czech republic, i would like to do your analysis. Do you offer this service for guys with, body, face and color typology? I love your videos❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Hi Merrium, Thank you for your honest and insightful videos. I would greatly appreciate it if you could shed some light on my personal dilema.
I believe i am neutral, leaning cool. I look great in clear magenta, blues, and greens, however, not all cool shades look good, and some warm shades make me look sallow.I can also wear peach but look a little washed out. I have tangent eyes (cool blue and yellow) brown hair with natural golden highligts. I feel like even though my skin looks cool that the very cool shades such as electric blue look great with my eyes, yet dont work with my hair. My hair looks different colours according to the clothes i wear, sometimes ashy, or brown leaning golden/red. Warm colours make me look muddy and yellow and sometimes ill looking. I wonder if you can offer some direction with this?
Hi Merriam, I was typed by you as neutral, leaning cool with deep contrast and muted. Could you possibly post color palettes that would flatter me. I was only given a few choices. Thank you!
Never mind, I see that you have posted many color palettes for my type! 🎉
Hi Merriam, thank you for your videos. I appreciate your simple, clear approach!
You recently did a full report for me and I like seeing how my body type affects my coloring. I’m having fun playing around with colors. I’m going to try testing orange and magenta because another analyst said I’m a soft autumn but you said cool and delicate.
You briefly mentioned olive versus rosy in this video and in others. Do you usually add that distinction in your full report? I don’t see a mention in mine but am thinking I’m rosy.
I agree with you about Rihanna. I saw a recent photo of her where her long hair was black and she wore a black dress and black sandals - the photo showed how the dress wasn't in harmony with her skintone.
I’m just a terracotta undertoned medium beige chick… I wish I could afford your color analysis
So if we look good in magenta are we cool and radient?
There’s alot I love about your artistic license system. I like the simplicity of the colors. Finding exact color shades is mind boggling especially when you’re plus sized and have more limited options to begin with. I love you take bone structure into account. It definitely explains why a lot of people can wear a broader range of colors or don’t fit perfectly into the 12 season system. My only concern is the dichotomy between bright and muted. When I did your warm & cool test(first with bright orange & fuchsia then soft versions), peach was my best color. But when I compared peach to a medium chroma orange it’s clear peach actually washes me out. It’s also why every time people suggested any autumn season the colors made my features look flat and dull. In your system, is it impossible for a neutral warm to have medium chroma???
it is possible to have medium chroma since it's a spectrum. but i haven't found it helpful to differentiate like that. from my clients, I've found that, if some are warm and delicate, but their bone structure suggests bright colors (like if you are a theatrical romantic or a gamine or something like that), then pastels like peaches can sometimes wash them out.
I also haven't found it to be practically useful to type someone as medium chroma because in reality, when you're thinking about buying a blouse, you are considering tons of practical factors like price, whether or not you like it, the fit, the quality, the lines, the occasion and how often you'll wear it.....so at that point, all things considered, I found that people aren't considering whether or not it's exactly the right chroma. so long as it's close enough, it tends to look great and the other factors are far more important.
I'm cool, radiant and rosy, this mix is throwing people off. Right in the alley of the "neutral" skin tone, because, "red is warm", right? so why the cool colors look so good? Let's say I prefer shopping on my own, I understand what suits me better. They sometimes even propose mustard stuff to me...
Your system makes so much more sense, I'm glad I found your videos. ^__^
Merriam has a video on rosey which explains this
So in this system Red and Green are neutral on the warm/cool axis. It's actually really easy and better than other systems IMO. It's just a quadrant with yellow to blue horizontal and red and green perpendicular to that.
The thing is I’m cool toned, but I have natural gold red hair and it seems to clash with everything as it’s so warm tone. I tend to stick to greens blues because some colors I still feel iffy on.
I feel I look decent in all colors for soft cool but also not all but a few from soft warm. Is that normal ?
I really love your videos and agree with everything you are saying! But one note I might have is that I really noticed in the comparison photos between julianne moore and oprah differences in lighting more than anything. As I watch your other videos, I know you take into account lighting, but I think for the purpose of this video it might be misleading. Both photos where each person looked better had significantly better lighting. In oprah's case, it was warm bright stage lighting that complimented her skin, whereas the whole photo on the left looked cool toned and in blue daylight, which might have dulled her skin down. Same in the case of julianne, her bad photo was this really down dreary lighting and she just looked so tired (my guess is for the effect of mood for whatever movie she was in for that photo), though I agree her colored shirt also doesn't help. But the better photo also seemed to have clearer brighter lighting, which reflected well off her skin. Just something I noticed with these two examples?
Hi Merriam, I've been typed by you as warm and radiant. I was born blonde and have kept that color till this age. I was watching a clothing stylist who said the colors you wear depend on the coloring of your hair. What do you think about this? Such black can only look good on dark haired women. I know it's not in my color scheme, but sometimes I still do like it for a color that's not close to my face. Great video as usual!
I think there's an old video from merriam that discusses this - she said that a blonde can easily wear black clothes if you balance it out by wearing black sunglasses, eye-liner, a black hat, etc
What about deapth / lightnes
Yes aren't we missing a color characteristic? Value is light to dark on the Munsell scale.
@@reneewhittinghill3440 exactly
I think delicate/ bright sort of encompasses that.
In Merriam's previous videos, she says that depth/lightness is a separate aspect you can apply to the colour seasons (you can lighten or darken the recommended colours in your palette if needed). The undertone is the more important part of getting a flattering colour than how light or dark it is
@@neon.neutral i think ur right, bright is thé hue with no add to thé color, but the deapth /délicat IS actually adding, a dark or grey. To make a Shade or a tone
merriam I sent you my photos on your site. will you do analysis video of those?
-Saadet
Rihanna wears her foundation in 320, 340, and supposedly 360 from a comment on her instagram
I got a color analysis from House of colour and they told me I was a winter so am supposed to look good in magenta and other bright colors but I look horrible in it. My bone structure is pretty crazy and sharpish but I bet I'm olive. The lady did look confused when doing the color draping and almost categorized me as a summer.
Sorry you picked HOC, almost all the colour analysis I saw from them are pretty wrong. I would not recommand them.
is it a sign that i don’t own any orange 😂
I'm pretty sure that I'm a cool and delicate olive but look good in more saturated cool muted colours because of high contrast and soft gamine. Also look good in khaki, probably because I'm olive. This test only confuses me because I don't look too bad in peach and I don't look good in soft pink.
@leliakatalnikova7977 muted and delicate is the opposite of high contrast?
@@tomjones2157 nope
What if you don't own ANYTHING that's even close to Magenta? I **hate** pink, so I don't have anything anywhere even close to a pink/Magenta 😅
Buy a cheap scarf or clothing from an op shop!
Maybe you know that ot doesn't flatter you already but maybe test in a store either magenta on the weekend
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Why does denim look good on everyone??🧐
If you are talking about pants they look ok on everyone because they are far from face, but not everyone looks good in denim shirt.
I wear black white pink very well not bright blue and my skin glow with yellow who guess what season i'm😊😅