HOW TO FIND YOUR SKIN UNDERTONE LIKE A PRO
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- Hi! 🙂
In this video I share my knowledge on how to find your skin undertone like a professional image consultant would (you're not neutral undertone btw), some color theory and four season colour analysis. I learned these techniques and tips through professional courses I did with professional image consultants, books I've read and extensive research that I've done for years. If you struggled finding your skin undertone and haven't been able to tell, I think these techniques will definitely help you.
Although I don't practice image consulting, I have so much knowledge of it and I needed a venue to share all the things I know as I really enjoy helping other people find harmony in their image and look their best.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro & My credentials
01:27 Tools you'll need
02:56 How to tell your skin undertone
06:00 About Neutral Undertones
07:00 Color Theory
08:52 Seasonal Color Analysis
This is the fabric that I talked and used in the video:
Lamé fabric (silver and gold) - amzn.to/3btlUI7
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro & My credentials
01:27 Tools you'll need
02:56 How to tell your skin undertone
06:00 About Neutral Undertones
07:00 Color Theory
08:52 Seasonal Color Analysis
Silver compliments you better.
Your skin looked lighter with the silver than the gold.
😄@@victoriataylor5584 you're correct :) I am a cold undertone!
They are called laugh lines.
@@MikaelaCarrizo olive undertone, I believe?
First time I see a RUclipsr start by stating their credentials. You're incredible!
Thank you :) I am still learning also, I don't work as an image consultant or offer services at the moment but I have a few years of knowledge that I like sharing. It's important to know where I studied too because every approach is different and I kind of mix and match a bit of everything.
Wow! I've always been color matched as neutral when I get my foundations, but after trying the gold and silver colors around my face, the gold immediately highlighted my acne scars while the silver brought out the pink hidden away in my skin. I'm also olive.
Oh wow 1000% the silver brightens you up so much. Are you a dark winter? That is what I'm thinking I am after watching these kids of videos 100000 times
Yes I am!
This is amazing. Please keep making videos. This is really great information delivered in a very clear way.Thank you! I could see infinite potential for content with your subject knowledge diving deep on dressing for each of the 12 seasons. You touched on it briefly in the Autumn and the Summer video, but I feel there's soooooo much more to learn about building a wardrobe that is compatible with one's natural skin tone. We have a dark autumn, a true autumn, and a true summer in the family. I'd love to learn how to select just the right fabric colors when I sew for each of us.
This was such a helpful video!! Thank you so much!! Binging all of your videos now haha
this was really fun to watch and your explanations and knowledge was really in depth. Thank You.
great video as you explain everything so well
I bought these yesterday. I'm very close to neutral so it was hard to determine until I turned the pics into b&w. Then my friend and I could determine that the gold looked better. Odd, I know, but it worked. I looked lighter and brighter with the gold but my face darkened down with the silver.
I don't think the gold looked terrible on you, but it WAS very distracting and was definitely the first thing I saw. The silver just matched you seemlessly 😌
Yes exactly. In many color analysis videos I’ve seen they say that if you notice the color first before you then it’s not your match. It could also be that your coloring is more muted. But in her case the gold was not only distracting but made parts of her face look unflattering.
Interesting I liked the gold!!
You were right about the neutral tones! Some may look good in both but you always lean towards one more than the other
Your videos are so good. I have to revisit them because it’s a complex topic - but the more I learn the more I can see how well you explain everything
Wow, thank you!
Que bueno encontrarte por aquí, ya quiero ver tus otros Videos, me dijeron que era 'True Winter', ya lo acepté...al principio fue difícil!
I genuinely can’t tell which looks better for me… I’m either dark winter or dark autumn, I always thought I was winter because yellow clothes make me look ill, but my hair definitely has red undertones implying I am warm. I tend to wear burgundy, dark jewel tones, and black
Hi. Burgundy & maroon are bluish reds (cool). Bordeux is a yellowish red (warm). If you look good in maroon, jewel tones & black, most likely you're a winter.
Winter (cool) often has warm golden or red undertones in the hair and the usual answer is that your hair is truly an ash tone, but ash toned winter hair is easy to get a "suntan" and that's the color of your sun-tanned hair. True! I learned this from Carole Jackson, the originator of "Color Me Beautiful"
@@silvameaferam5441 every infographics I saw about deep winter showed dark hair with no red or golden hues in it. Nice to see that there are some nuances that were not mentioned.👍🏽
I’m having the exact same problem. Yellow and warm tones make me look sick but I do have warm brown eyes and dark brown-almost black hair that has red-ish lowlights when in the sun. I can’t even figure out my undertone, because I think I’m neutral/olive 🥲
@@valentinaconstantina
Same here except my hair is light brown with red-ish when in the sun, warm brown eyes but can’t figure out my undertone and don’t wear yellow/orange/bright red/bright green. If I do a free Color analysis on an app with my picture it turns out either deep winter or autumn.. which is still confusing as to which undertone my skin is
I can't stop looking at you with the silver, it's so beautiful
I can see how your skin looks yellow with gold. That happens to me and I know is not what I want to embrace. Very useful, thank you 💖
Glad it was helpful!♥
When I first had my colours done I was told I am Summer flowing into spring. Someone here said that had changed. I have a tan now 'cause I moved from UK to Australia. I used to have porcelain skin, now I have a light tan. I lost the filofax with my best colours, even then I can't find anything that looks good on me. Anyway I know I have little contrast so that narrows it down to Summer or spring LOL. I already knew I was one of those haha. I really like your videos, especially when you show a celebrity in the different hues and colours.
Thanks to your video, i have found(perhap) my season colour is. I have warm undertone, and have low contract of my skin and my hair, eyebow colour
Thank you! I can finally go find my dream wardrobe!
I watch many people to determine my undertone and try to get more knowledge. I found you the best
Oh my! Thank you so much for the compliment. I promise I'll upload more color theory videos soon :)
Merriam Style is better
Buying these asap as this is something I’ve wanted and needed to know for 3 decades now! Exciting. Glad you aren’t basing it off the veins as that always confused me.
I can't figure out if my veins are blue or green! They change inside and outside, warm or cold day..
Why did I think you looked better with the gold reflection lol maybe this is why I find it so hard to find my own undertone
Oh no! Not at all haha. Maybe because you like the color gold? Or gold hue?
The gold light on my skin gives me shadows makes it look greenish and yellowish/sickly . You notice the blemishes way more and the white in my eyes isn’t as white and with silver. Look at my chin! And below my eyebrows! Doesn’t look great at all with gold!
Try to point those things out on your own skin too, have patience. You’ll notice it :)
I do too. I think the gold looks a 100 times better. Your skin looks more smooth and bright with the gold. Gold makes your eyes stand out a lot more than the silver.. If you look at the color of the lips they look a lot more pink on the gold side. I think you look washed out with the silver.. And I think you look a little bit washed out in the whole video because you are wearing white. So I’m confused.
@@Sofia-jb6bc tbh I think all this is more about personal preference. If you think you look better with gold tones over silver than go ahead with that, but if you think you look better with silver then do that. It's not as scientific as it seems IMO lol It's mostly just a way to sell more clothes and makeup anyways
I also thought gold looks better on you 😅
And I actually prefer cooler colors in general.
@@MikaelaCarrizoI still don't see it haha maybe it looks different in real life than on screen, but from the video, I think your skin looks so even and luminous in the gold reflection and the whites of your eyes are so bright. I generally prefer silver to gold so idk
Venía mirando videos tuyos y me daba la sensación de que serías Argentina, (más allá de tu excelente inglés), y ahora lo acabo de corroborar ❤❤
Very good video, well structured and nicely explained.
For myself, I basically asked a professional to judge it for me, though when I did it at 25 I got a different result to "best colors" than what I got at 40. Both went for winter, but the first one said to go for the bright version and avoid the dark version, while the second one determined that the dark version of a cold colour is best for me.
Thanks for sharing!
I know sometimes different professionals have different opinions, I believe that we naturally are aware of the colors that look best on us, we should try different ones and observe which ones are right.
Which colors do you think suit you best?
I had stayed away from the dark red, dark green, dark blue all my life because I assumed they didn't work for me, but I am just loving them now.
When I stopped dying my hair, my color category changed completely. Did you change your hair color, or move somewhere where you were more tanned/paler?
You should compare how white looks on you versus how black looks on you. Since white is more for bright winters and black is more for deep winters. Whichever one looks best on you could determine which category you are in.
Very interesting. Love your accent too ❤️
Thank you! A mix of all the places I've lived haha
Hello Mikaela, thank you for the video! What about olive skin tone?
You definitely look better in silver. It makes you stand out more than the gold. The gold looks great but it’s almost as if the gold were wearing you and not you wearing it lol. I’ve heard in many color analysis videos that this is an indicator that it might not be your tone.
Thank you so much ❤❤❤❤
Always welcome
I am surprised that you have not discussed olive skin in this video. Olives like me - and you - can get confused because we have a seemingly warm overtone (yellowish). It has taken me a long time to understand that the greenish cast to our skin is created by a blue undertone shining through the yellow (blue plus yellow equals green). I think many, many olives mistype themselves as warm.
A colour analysis friend mistyped me as warm even though she had formal training. In her defence, though, she used the 4 season model and of her 4 options, the muted tones of Autumn were closest- not because i am warm but because I have low chroma and many of the autumn colours are muted. A problem I have always had with the 12 season is that I am too muted for deep winter, but too dark for soft summer. I think there are other colour systems that work better. Personally, I like your colour style by Jen VAX which takes a very logical approach, and it’s based on temperature, value and chroma.
Absolutely! I will address olive skin tones in a separate video, it's hard to fit everything into one video and I don't want to create more confusion.
This video was solely to figure out warm or cool undertones with the fabrics that will bring them out the most.
I have the same “problem” I’m too muted for deep winter when I turn my photo b&w. I definitely do have medium-tan olive skin with black hair and very dark eyes and I test neutral even with silver and gold. I found that no system can really type me although mikaela does an excellent job explaining things. It comes down to individual pieces for me.
@@MikaelaCarrizo I have yellowish skin but some how the deeper shades of blue, violet, magenta flatter me more.
@@MikaelaCarrizo I have yellowish skin but some how the deeper shades of blue, violet, magenta flatter me more.
But you look better with the gold
Can you also use gold and silver paper for this method? Thanks ❤️
U can also use scrapbook sheets from hobby lobby for like $0.15
It’s weird because I thought for the longest time that I was a warm undertone because my skin can look yellow sometimes. But wearing warm colors looks terrible on me. People have said that I pull off black very well so maybe this means I am cool toned after all
i dont think (plain) black determines ur undertone… it aint even a color after all..
@@user-si9gh6vx3ca warm tone wouldn’t look great n black.
You can have sallow / yellow overtones. I do, and I’ve been those as a winter. It was my yellowness (olive?) that was throwing me
Is silver the best for you? I thought you glowed and really stood out against silver. Gorgeous!
Wow silver for sure!
Glad you noticed! ❤️
THANK YOU!!! i think i am a dark winter as well. growing up as the tannest in my hispanic family, my fair skinned family really drilled it into my head that i am super freaking dark and that i am a warm skin tone and i need to wear lots of gold jewelry….. when in reality i realized i really am not tanned like that (wasted lots of money on dark foundations and makeup/clothes for darker skinned) when my features are very similar to yours and i consider you light skin. my skin can TAN very dark but naturally my skin is lighter. also yellow and orange looked soooo terrible on me. but i love how navy and black look on me.
This is amazinf
I hadnt really thought about how eyebrows affect contrast, I have dark hair and medium eyes, but my eye brows are also lighter/medium (very thin so they appear lighter than they are). I wonder if that means I'd have a lower contrast after all, even though my hair is a deep brown
You definitely have a cool undertone 😁
Hey. I'm a dark brown but reddish. I'm saturated. Idk m confused. White & silver doesn't suit me i think, makes me look darker . But that maybe a psychological conditioning. Yellow just feels odd
I have natural grey hair and colour my brows dark brown. So what category would i be in.? Sue
I'm going to try the shiny lame fabric technique. I've been pretty lost-ish because I lean more toward the middle as far as warm or cool, but it's hard for me to figure out if I lean more cool or warm. I have warmer color freckles, my hair pulls red, but my hair is also more of a medium brown, and wearing grey ends up making me look like I could be a true summer, despite my realization that my favorite photos of me skin-wise all have bright spring colors.
I thought for a long time that I was a winter just because of my dark brown eyes and light skin (which variant of dark brown it is, chocolate, etc, I'm not sure), but the whites are bright against the iris. My eyebrows and hair have less contrast (I have to fill in my eyebrows if I want to see them better), and if I wear muted/darkish/brown colored lipstick I look sick. A brighter, warmer-neutral pink and I look healthy. Cool brights make my skin brighter, but so do bright warms like an orange. I always got complimented on the more of what I thought was a bright jewel toned blue, so I thought I was cool. I didn't realize I actually looked more vibrant in that orange color. That orange isn't on any of the winter palettes. The cool brights have more of that "standing in front of me" vs coexisting with the color effect despite them not making my skin sickly or ruddy. Autumn colors also make me look sick and drawn out though, despite being warm.
All my photos in the past have me wearing makeup though, in one level or another so it'll be interesting to try these lame fabric colors in the indirect light along with the colors I've singled out from looking through my photos over the years.
I know this is super random but I read your reply (the first sentence to be honest) I was like ????Why is she calling Mikaela's advised fabrics lame... but then I kept watcing the video and started laughing at my own mistake haha
Silver
Hello Mikaela, I've been binge watching this content and the Personal Color Analysis video you created. I have a gold and silver light reflector so I tried this skin tone test but dear I'm still torn on my skin tone.
When I tried silver fabric, my skin looked yellowish and lines were visible. While in gold fabric, my skin looked bright and pinkish. And in gold fabric, the smile lines and under eye bags weren't noticeable. I'm just weirded that my skin appeared opposite to the fabrics like in silver I looked yellowish and in gold I looked bright and pinkish.
Anyway, thank you Mikaela for the videos you create about personal color analysis. I highly appreciate your content. Much love from Philippines!
If you looked bright and pinkish in the gold, I think you are warm undertone. Silver is making you look yellowish / dull then it's not flattering your natural skin tone. I think you have warm undertones!
@@MikaelaCarrizo Thanks for replying to my comment, Mikaela. Yeah, I kind of getting it now 😅 that it's because I have warm undertones. Anyway, I'm excited for your new contents. Gonna watch it today.
I am trying to figure myself out. Question, when you refer to hair color, dyed or natural? I have fair skin, naturally very very dark hair almost black, yet blonde almost invisible eyebrows and hazel (lots of green) eyes. I dye my hair lighter. So when we are figuring out contrast do we go by natural or dyed? If I don't take my natural hair color into account, I'd say I am in harmony.
Silver looks so much better
I am a little confused if i’m on the dark winter or dark autumn…
ok so I don't have the money to buy that gold and silver fabric, however I do have a yellow/mustard t-shirt and a cool red shirt. My mom always says bright colors like the cool red/pink/green look good on me, and tbh the warm clothes like yellow and orange make me look more yellowish that I already am. Also, when I bought a warm red lipstick my skin look dull, I looked washed out! I have dark hair and eyes, and high contrast and I get tanned easily, help 😭
We can use utensils like a round and flat dish.
very well explained upload more quality videos please mikaela
Thank you so much!
I will! I’m on it :) Being a student and having time to edit videos is a hassle but I’m trying to film, edit and upload as many as I can!
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What if the type of gold makes a difference? The very yellow golds look bad and but a kind of champagne gold looks better? Would that be more of a muted warm situation?
My skin is light with very olive undertone (i was told that i was cool undertone) but, i always have to edit the temperature of my pictures and make them cooler. However i look beter with the silver fabric! My best foundations are neutral to low that green undertone of my skin. HELP!
I find sometimes if I use tanner with my brown eyes and brown hair the contrast changes. I look good in both and I feel I’m very neutral maybe slightly more cool toned when I’m not tan and slightly warmer with the tan. I also wear blonde wigs a lot then I also feel the contrast changes as well. Makes it confusing to figure out
What about the older ladies who have gray hair? Can you explain how that changes your colours as you go gray?
I wondered where I could find those fabric samples and a few minutes later I realized that I have satin pillowcases in both colors: silver and gold.What luck!
I put the silver one first, then the gold one over it, and every time I removed the gold one, I was amazed at the difference between the two colors on me.
The gold color automatically cast a glow on my face which looked fresher and shadowless. When i took the gold away, a huge shadow would appear under my chin and i looked like a dead man in the face.
Gloomy face, gray and full of shadows.Yuck!
Given that there is such a difference, I assume that I have a warm undertone of the skin. And I have fair skin and dark hair and eyebrows (apx. level 3, brown to black, leaning more towards black but soft not pure black and I always had problems when I would lighten my hair because I have red pigment in my hair so any color would turn brassy) and eyes that are a mixture of green and brown - I am 99% sure that I fall under the dark autumn.
And it just so happened that half of my wardrobe is in those earthy, natural colors because I've been drawn to those colors lately and I think they look good on me. Autumn is also my favorite season.I love its colors.🍂🍁 Right behind it is the spring in which I was born and whose colors I will occasionally jump into even though I don't belong there (because I don't have low contrast). 😁
I think that a peach shade would suit my complexion, for example salmon, even though I've been running away from it my whole life haha.
Out of all the youtube channels on this topic that I have reviewed so far - you did the best job and thank you!
Now I just need to find the right shade of foundation which has always been a problem for me.
Would gold and silver satin pillowcases work, or would they not be reflective enough?
Work fine
yes theyre called Lamé too
is Gold and Silver Foils good tools for determing my skintone?
yes!
Not sure if this is another way to judge, but I basically think I'm warm because grey-based eyeshadows make me look dead, whereas brown or gold do not.
That's a great indicator!
I’m completely the opposite 😄 and I know what you mean
I have hEDS, so my season changes based on the lighting because our skin is translucent, not just pale. :/ Where we goin? So I know my season. Lol I don't like gold, but Im thinking it looks OK on me, especially rose gold. I feel more confident with rose gold tones, but not nude. Nudes and pale pinks make me look ill. I cannot wear foundation. Mineral Veil (translucent) is literally all I can wear without it being super obvious. BB creams in light can be OK, but still obviously a different color.
Could you please write me the authors and the names of the books you show at the beginning of this video. Thank you!
Can you tell me the name of the books ??
Hey Mikaela. Can I ask a question please?... I'm a dark winter (the same as you). I love my colours - but I live in Spain and don't want to wear too much black (it's hot 80% of the year) Plus before discovering my colours, I lived in black and now I'm a bit sick of it. Can I wear dark winter colours and have tan / brown shoes, belt and hangbag?... Would that look off?... It just feels more summery, laid-back beach style to me... But I'm learning all this - so asking you the expert : ) xx
Shoes and belts are quite far from the face, it should be fine to wear any colour you want. Also dark brown IS in the recommended colours palette for deep winter type.
@@cb9825 Not on any of the websites I've seen - and I've worked with 3 different stylists. Where have you seen a brown is good for a deep winter?...
A bit late to the party but what about gray/ pewter colour accessories or metallic like silver or grey metallic?
@@cathwalsh9921That's ok - thanks for your suggestion
Could your undertones change when tan?
NO! You can add/subtract colors but your undertone will always stay the same.
i have pale skin, dark brown eyes and chestnut brown hair.
but is a vein test accurate?
If my hair is dyed another color, does that mean I can’t figure out my contrast?
Hi, you should base your contrast on your natural hair color & face without makeup. If your hair is colored now, use a pic w/ your natural hair to see your contrast. If you'll do draping, you should cover your hair with white cloth/ towel.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t olive a skin tone and not a undertone. Which you can be pale, light, or medium olive skin tone. My understanding is undertones are cool, warm, or neutral and even neutral leans either more warm or cool. Skin tones being light, olive, medium, dark. I’m learning that I have a neutral undertone that may be cool delicate but my actually skin is light but not pale. I’m lighter than you but not pale either. I beehive my skin tone is olive because I have green/grey cast to my skin. I wear neutral foundation but it’s not perfectly seamless. There’s so much miss information so this gets confusing. Any feedback will be greatly appreciated.
Hi, you're right. Olive is not an undertone. Olive can be warm or cool. Watch Merriam Style - she has good vids on olives.
i heard that if you look better in gray than brown means your undertone is cool and vice versa. is this true?
Possibly but there are both warm grays and cool browns so it might not be 💯 accurate
what about olive undertones? :(
I assume I'm summer or winter because I'm cool toned. Warm colours make me look sick and highlight all my flaws. I just can't figure out if I'm light or dark because my skin is pale, my hair is medium dark but my eyes aren't brown or black. They're green with a hint of blue and a dark circle around the iris.
Finally someone like me 👏🏼 I’ve watched so many video’s trying to figure out what type i am. You should definitely watch her video on the types, if you haven’t already. It helped me a lot.
From the video I gathered that your two main characteristics (the first one is the dominant one and the one you notice first) decide your type. Also I think the main difference between summer and winter is if you’re muted (soft) or bright (contrast). For me it sounds like you have a medium to high contrast which would make you a winter (If you are cool toned and I understood the whole thing correctly). In Addition not everything has to be the way it is described.
So for example:
My Features: Pale skin, a cool undertone, dark hair/eyebrows and blue eyes.
characteristics: I would say my main/dominant one would be the relatively high contrast of my features --> Bright
And the second one would that I’m cool toned.
1. Bright + 2. Cool -> Bright Winter
I hope I didn’t explain anything wrong but that’s what I figured from the videos I watched ☺️
You sound like me but my eyes are grey/blue with a hint of green, dark nary blue rim.
Also can we email u photos so u can help determine plz
I'm a soft summer
Winter - high contrast
Summer - lower contrast
The gold makes your rose cheeks pop, while the gray one makes you more dull.
I'm lucky - any photo with my boyfriend is painfully obvious I am warm. I look like I have jaundice next to his red undertones haha
I can't tell my contrast, I have pale skin, tons of orange freckles in the summer and bright copper hair, very contrasting eyes though. My eyebrows and eyelashes blend in though
You sound like your primary aspect would be bright. I’m wondering if you’re some kind of spring.
@@cathwalsh9921 I think I'm a spring too, after some consideration over the year.
I don’t think anyone is truly a neutral undertone. I think they’re just more muted in their coloring. I guess this is why I have trouble picking out the right foundation shade lol
They're called lamé here too.
After googling I thought so, never sure though haha.
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what if i use aluminum foil and gold reflecting wrapping paper? Is that dumb?
lmao
omg sos argentina?
Siiiiii, cordobesa
I'm think I'm neutral undertones.
I think you’re Neutral but leaning more to silver. You can definitely get away with both silver and gold though!
Very true!
Whait, what? You're cool? But the gold looks so much better on you! It made you glow! While the silver made you look grey. I'm so confused...
Lamait ir Lame لامع in Arabic means shiny, same meaning, cuz history records that friends companions of Prophet Muhammad went to spain wurope all over to spread live peace and the true message of islam🤗👍🏻check it out yourself👜enjoy
Yes tons of Arabic influence on Spanish
You say 'this' a lot. Name the thing instead.
You said not to wear makeup for this test. But aren't you wearing makeup?
Yeah but she's done the test elsewhere. Just a demo
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