Im just more and more confused. I loved your video on olive skin and i strongly feel i am olive (have been called sickly my whole life and no foundation ever suited me before i started mixing with blue and green), but i am as Pale as julianne Moore (my legs and feet look like a wax doll!) and my eyes are hazel with a warm ring, my hair kinda ashy in some light and Golden in other. I feel beautiful in navy and olive, but is having a hard time with most colors. Terracotta and colors like that CAN be pretty but also too dominant. But I dont feel cool colors always fit me that well either... i tend to Fall for jewel tones but feel awful in brown hues (except maybe a very neutral taupe?) my lips look good in rosewood kinda colors, and peach and pink blush look awful BUT everybody tell me that copper hair looks good on me? Jen Thoden and Merriam Style here om youtube borh concluded from a photo that i am soft and warm, but I never put on yellow, orange, red, ugh! I feel in my heart that they are wrong. My heritage is part Danish / part french. I would love to send you some photos if you are curious or need a video on the palest of the olive skin tones - if I AM olive that is! this video was lovely, now i bingewatch you! 😆
Thank you so much for watching! :) I can totally relate to being thrown off by the complexities of coloring and color theory and it's something that only works when you do it perfectly for you. I'm not familiar with either Merriam Style or Jen Thoden so I don't know the methods they use to color type but I will say that unless you've had an in-person consultation in natural light it's impossible to diagnose someone through just a picture. Our own biases and even the color settings on our computers, phones and in our houses can alter how accurately we can diagnose color. For those reasons I personally don't offer digital consultations and I do think that warm is thrown around a little too often in most color theories. In my experience very few people are actually warm and it's much more likely that you are olive :) The copper hair is what really convinced me because I've yet to meet someone with olive skin that doesn't look amazing in copper. If you haven't tried it yet, you may love copper eyeliner or shadow as well. The reason it works so well is because copper is most composed of red and red is across from green on the color wheel - making them perfect together. Also, the purpose of color casting and typing when it comes to makeup and clothes is to make everything look harmonious so unless you truly have a warm undertone, warm colors will just exaggerate the yellow you have in your skin and can push things too far in an unnatural direction. I know for me, when I'm pale the yellow in my skin becomes very noticeable and if I wear warm or yellow based colors on top of that I look jaundiced and the discoloration in my skin becomes more apparent and I look very unbalanced. When I wear cooler colors though, the yellow recedes into natural territory and I look alive and healthy. I hope that helps and please do come back and share anything else you learn xx :)
Audrey Coyne thank you sooooooo much for taking time to reply Audrey! I am actually quite relieved to her you say those things about my coloring, and I do really think I am olive now! But now what? 😊 Do we olive skins fit into a color season? Soft summer? Soft autumn maybe? I still Pick a little here and there from all seasons, ha! 😊 Have a LOVELY day and thanks again ❤️
@@jose11032 you are so welcome! In my experience, you can use seasonal color analysis as a starting point but I don't think it works perfectly for anyone and especially with olive skin you really do have a little more flexibility depending on how your skin looks throughout the year and how yellow, green or grey it looks in different lighting coupled with the warmth or coolness in your eyes and hair. For example, by traditional seasonal color analysis I am a deep winter and many of those colors work for me and my olive skin year-round (deep, cool hues like burgundy - not maroon which is brown based - navy and black). They balance out my yellow and make me look so much healthier and alive! The actor Henry Golding is a great example of this. At first glance many people cast him as warm but he's actually olive and in Crazy Rich Asians they dress him exclusively in cool color which make him look luxe and sophisticated to suit his character whereas in the movie The Gentlemen his character is less refined so they dress him exclusively in warm colors which we subconsciously read as off - lending to his character. So cool and helpful to find your own color palette and the message you want to convey. Also, I know for me when I'm more tan and less obviously yellow, I like some warmer colors from deep autumn as well, especially when they're anchored with perfect makeup - anything too warm always makes me look sickly without makeup though. Since olive skin is usually lacking in any natural flush due to the green which counteracts red, I find that anything too muted doesn't really work for olives but that's all a matter of personal preference and what you like to see yourself in. I know some olives that enjoy playing with makeup so much that they wear almost exclusively muted softer colors and since most of us wear makeup, we can bring life and warmth into our complexions through that, rather than just relying on our clothes. I know that's definitely the case for me and as long as my makeup is perfect for my olive skin, I can wear so many more colors without feeling out of place. I also find that when I'm paler and more yellow, I can borrow some cooler, lighter colors from the summer palette - my beloved wedgwood blue comes from the summer palette :) It's all so fun really and I think that seasonal color analysis should only be used as a starting point and then you can go from there and let your individuality shine xx
@jose11032 I think the easiest test is to test if clear white or ivory white fits better to you. My skin is quite yellow, so ivory white looks more harmonious and elegant on me. Clear white makes me look sick and cheap. I also like the paper test, thatt Audrey Coney recommends in the beginning. Have never heard of it before. Does your skin look more yellow or more rose against a piece of paper?
Thank you for this video. Wearing the “right” colors for you makes all the difference. I’m a deep autumn. If I hold winter or summer colors up to my face, I look like I’m sick, or exhausted.
Dear Audrey, thank you. Yes, I have found this theory so helpful. I was colour-analyzed as a "Summer" many, many years ago and cannot count the times it has made shopping for both clothes and make-up so easy. I am now in my late 50s and my hair is turning silvery, and still my Summer palette is so flattering, although I have turned from a Soft Summer into a Cool Summer.
I have olive skin (light) and this is the first time I've heard anyone discuss it. Wow. No wonder I never wear yellow! Thank you so much! Everything was spot on except I'd like to hear a little more about chromo, specifically the differences between rich, saturated, and muted. I'd really like to be able to better parse this out better and make use of this great tool! BTW, my color analysis completely flipped when I let my gray hair grow out (it had been a rich medium brown). I went from a deep Autumn (or so I was told) to light Summer (which years ago a different colorist has labeled me). Apparently, I'm not the only one who finds all this a bit tricky!
I've tried this SO HARD but I just can't find a season that "fits me". I have individual colours that look great and I can identify them... I just wish there was a tool like this for me, it would make things so easy. 😌
I did this progressively over a few years and no jokes, i now only own either black or navy blue clothes (except for old tshirts on days idgaf about my looks LOL). Realised these are the best colors on me especially navy blue. NEVER disappointed now whenever i buy navy blue clothes
I got into SCA a few years ago and it's made watching videos on youtube from style bloggers a little like pulling teeth at times! This is the first video from a style blogger I've ever seen that depicts this topic accurately. Especially because a lot of people assume that lighter skin tones are always cool and darker skin tones are always warm! I saw a video on this where the vlogger used a model who was very obviously a light spring as an example of someone who was cool toned, demonstrated she didn't look good in warm tones by using a warm tone that was much too rich for her, and then proved she was cool toned by using a warm-toned aqua blue. I was internally screaming! I love what you say about how even if you don't use it in your style - which you don't have to at all! there are lots of winter colors I dislike and i'm constantly trying to find ways to style colors i know don't flatter me - it changes and enriches the way you see the world. I love that about color theory!
Orange n peach make me look grey... Does that mean I am olive??? I am a dusky skin Indian and I am REALLY confused with all these undertone stuff. Trying to figure out for the past few years 😭
Same lol. People have the idea that more darker our skin is the more "warmer" we become which is truly wrong. Actually...most people who have darker skin tones have cool undertones and don't look so good with warmer colours. I'm olive toned myself and when i wear anything yellowish, orange, red....i don't look as good as when i wear blue, purple etc
Tip for people who find orange washes them out: choose its closest opposite - purple! Any purple-based reds, pinks or nudes will look great on you and give you a golden glow.
i find it super helpful because I want to limit the amount of colors in my wardrobe, I saw a woman that wears only black, and I thought that's so convenient, but black is not for me. I'm thinking of choosing just two or three colors, four at the most.
Thanks Audrey. This really does work. My friend and I are polar opposites when it comes to clothing colors and you really can tell the difference. Lip color can actually clash if your dress is a vibrant berry color too.
I know that I'm an autumn (light to medium skin with strong yellow undertones, medium brown hair with golden undertones, and medium brown eyes with golden undertones), I just don't know what type of autumn I am. Earth tones look good on me, duh I'm an autumn. Dark and medium shades of warm toned colors look the best on me. Muted colors (both warm tones and neutrals) looks good on me. Any shade of blue looks good on me. And even though a true black (which is a winter color) looks good on me, a brown based black looks even better. Warm whites suits me the best. And I avoid cool tones. What I am having trouble with are bright colors; sometimes they work, but most of the time they don't. I am hoping that knowing what autumn I am will help me understand what bright colors look the best on me, if any bright colors work for me. maybe the ones that I though looked good, were only average on me and I should just stick with what I know make me look my best.
Fun video! I like it and I think your advice is spot-on. As for me, I’ve tried every self-guided color analysis in the book and always come up empty-handed. I even tried to use the reverse route: identify colors that make me look and feel my best, and then see what categories they fall into. Instead of an “aha!” moment, I found out that all the colors that look good on me are what’s known as “universal” colors; that is, colors anyone can wear (think burgundy, true blue, that one mid-toned, neutral pink that doesn’t really have a name). In fact, I am so neutral that I ONLY can wear the universal colors. What’s hilarious about this is that I’m also neutral in every other way: politically fairly neutral (I agree with different points from different sides), religiously neutral...in every argument I’m the neutral one, the one who can argue both sides, the mediator. It seems neutrality is my destiny. 😂🤣
I've been loving this topic in your videos, as I've never thought about this before. I'm going to pay more attention to this factor and try to figure out what I am :) Thanks heaps
Omg. I'm a deep winter too! This was so helpful. I would always look at those color theory notions and be confused about where I fit in it. I didn't really understand why I often gravitate towards blues.This is especilly helpful for bold or nude lipsticks.
Thank you Audrey for your video. I would like to comment my case so it might help others. I am Spanish: dark brown hair and eyes and very yellow face fair/medium. Since yellow is normally related to warm tones I did not understand why I am so much a winter colour person. I perfect winter I would say. And that is because yellow can be cool as straw is. So I always put on foundations with yellow undertone that matches my face but I wear clothes for a winter person. I hope this helps. It took me a while to understand and it makes such a difference to know!!
I feel like I’m impossible. I cannot tell what color undertone I am. My skin is yellow/greenish and quite fair. It looks neutral but some parts look olive. I got matched with Mac NW 18 a long time ago. And more recently a Neutral Ivory in another shade. Either way if the seasonal color analysis is based on Warm VS Cool without factoring in neutral I guess I won’t fit into it either way.
Hi, sounds like you’re neutral with slightly warm undertones. In that instance, I believe you would have low chroma which is dominant which would put you into the “soft” category for one of the seasons. Possibly soft autumn or soft spring due to your slightly warm undertones? Could also be soft summer or winter as you said you’re a bit olive and now that I’ve found out olive is actually cool, it’s blown my mind!
Your olive video is awesome! My skin is pale, but has a lot of color in it, if that makes sense. I determined that I'm not olive, but neutral-warm. I'm still stuck between Deep autumn and Bright Spring. My eyes are basically black, my hair is dark neutral brown. Deep autumn is good but too muted, Bright spring is good, but some of the colors are too bright. I guess I'll make my own palette😆
wow, I am so late to this video, but much needed. I noticed my skin is much brighter and lively when I am in the shadow of my bathroom. Once I turn on those yellow light bulbs, my skin looks yellow, mucky and really dark. My face also ends up looking a lot more brown than my hands. When the lights are off with only daylight coming in, my face and hands look the same. I don't understand this.
Well i know I'm a dark for sure. Probably leaning for more of a cool tone. Not sure since i heard blue viens equal cool, and green equal warm. My wrist viens look bluish with tiny purple ones too.
In another video could you show examples of colours that don’t compliment your olive skin? Especially because both white and off-white seem to suit you very well, and I often notice you wear gold jewellery with cool colours.
I've tried figuring out my undertone based on the colour of my veins in the wrist and find mostly purple (cool) and some green (warm) veins which suggests that I'm neutral. I love and wear lots of cool colours because warm colours (yellow, orange, warm pink) just don't suit me. However, my skin does appear yellow since I'm Asian which has me a bit confused...
One of my brother's girlfriends did this for me when I was a teenager. According to her, I am a dark spring (strawberry hair,dark blue-green eyes). It's been useful information, but I can usually get away with wearing black and/or white.
@virginiasanchis1717 , I don't remember. I was twelve at the time. Last year, I was looking for info on it and found nothing. The best I can figure us that my eyes are a darker blue/green and my hair was a more coppery color so they thought I was a borderline Autumn.
It's very confusing for me because I am very pale so I think I am a neutral with a little bit of a yellow overtone int he winter, and when I get some sun, I have more of an orange overtone. I have dark brown hair, I think with a bit of red in it, because when I lighten it, it goes a bit orange and I need a toner. I have hazel eyes, and then the colors that look best on me are Navy blue, jet black, red, and some greys. White can look ok. I don't look good in faded clothing, so I think I may be clear or deep. I'm still confused on my undertone though :( apparently neutral usually swing warm or cool, and I just can't tell. I'll have to go to a fabric store and start holding colors up lol
Thank you Audrey for this tutorial. After many attempts to self analyse I still can’t work out my seasonal colour. I seem to have contradictory colours to the guidelines for each group. Cool fair skin tone, light to medium tone strawberry red hair, brown eyes.....I look better in clear colours rather than muted colours. Advice welcome 🙏🏻
saammmy7, thank you for your advice. I like wearing reds, corals, brighter pinks. I think greens & navy suit me but I don’t wear them often. Doesn’t Spring have warm undertones, I’m definitely a cool undertone.
I feel like being olive isn't really always cool. Because some olives have more yellow than blue, do they not? Either way, it's confusing, because I look good in ivory and not in white (which is the trait of a warm skin tone) but I can't wear any pastels that have a lot of gray in them. I look great in jewel tones, but of course I look better in darker reds. So difficult.
I looked into it a while ago and I’m a deep Autumn. However, recently I heard of the Dressing your Truth system by Carol Tuttle. It’s an interesting concept but I’m not sure about it myself.
Laura Maskell such a good question and one I’m not entirely sure about. I was actually chatting to someone on Instagram about this and it seems like most of your colors will stay the same since your undertone never changes but you may prefer softer or bolder versions of them. There is a great blog I found that discussed this in more detail here :) www.style-yourself-confident.com/autumn-coloring-with-grey-hair.html
I am also in that category. I'm quite sure I am still a winter. But I know that some colours that used to look great on me , no longer do. Like black for example. I loved wearing black and white, and purple and black. But alas those days are over!! Lol. Adjustments have to be made. I have read that substituting navy for black is a good idea as black is harsh against older skin. Thanks for the link Audrey. I will have a look.
Louise McElhill I’m in the same boat. Used to have very dark brown almost black hair and loved jewel tones with black as my neutral. Now with white/grey hair and paler skin, I’ve ditched most of my black and moved towards softer colors. I’m somewhere between a soft summer and soft autumn.
My dad used to be a spring type he has very light blue eyes and was a very light almost blond redhead. I really think it depends because my dad's hair is pure white now.... It think for cool types it will be the same like when they were younger. But for warm types I am not entirely sure. But I think it depends I am a warm type for sure. I took a course to become a colour and style analyst (and passed 😊)when I hide my hair in a white scarf all of a sudden am a summer type(cool type)??? While I am for sure a warm type because of my hair?????
I came on here to mention the same concerns. I've always been a warm undertone, but as I gray I feel like I need more saturated color or I'll appear washed out. I use to love to wear mustard, but it just doesn't feel good on anymore and neither does brown. Now I stick to muted oranges, teals, and spicy colors. Muted is key, and no pastels.
I have dark brown/ black hair and brown eyes. I have light skin color. I used to look good with cool colors when I was younger. Now I don’t know. I am not sure if I am warm because when I wear pastel colors I look yellow. My veins look turquoise and purple in the natural day light (under the sun) I am definitely not cool but I am stuck between warm and neutral....which one am I ? Btw I don’t like how grey looks on me.
How would white paper make the skin look pinkish or yellowisch???? Skin is skin, white paper, yellow paper or other stuff next to my skin doesn't make it look any different. It still looks like ... skin. I don't get the paper test.
I have medium skin tone with more neutral to warm olive undertone and with black eyes and my hair is naturally black but now I have coloured it deep brown.. So which color pallete should i be? I am kinda confused
You can try to watch more videos on personal colour/seasonal colour analysis by korean youtubers! Seasonal colour analysis is very very popular in korea and many might assume asians have warm undertone but it is not true! If you are unable to identify your undertone, you probably fall in the summer or spring range which is neutral with a little hint of cool/warm.
So when I wear muted light blue (sort of like your sweater with a touch more grey) I hate the way I look. Any idea why? I’m definitely light olive like you
I think I am a neutral warm olive, is that possible? I feel yellowish and sometimes green and I look good with silver jewelry but I look awful with blue and navy. I think I classify as deep autumn: my undertone is neutral/warm, my hair is ashy brown and my eyes are warm brown....... I feel lost sos
Lauren Jane Lloyd I just found another video and it said summer! I’m a cool, light, summer. Maybe a muted chroma?? I guess I could do bright colors too....
wish you had a video for olive skin type only! Indeed no one talks about it and i have always been struggling understanding my undertones. Now i know why and surprisingly i might not be the only one!
Dear Audrey, watching your video I just realise that I am the same like u, deep winter, and all of my previous choices of clothes and make up's tones were wrong. Thanks a lot for a knowledge! ) Best regards from Moscow, Russia)
hmm I dont know, i think this type of colour theory only works with certain ethnicities.I have very typical east asian appearance, which is jet black hair, almost black eye but I have neutral (or tend to be cool) undertone.
FINALLY someone who understands a neutral/cool undertone for olive skin! That last bit about makeup rang so true with me. I’m of Asian descent and everyone automatically assumes I have a yellow undertone. I have a natural knack for colors (runs in my family with designers and artists, considered art school at the recommendation of art teachers), and knew I didn’t have a yellow undertone. But makeup salesperson matches me to yellow makeup. No. I don’t have a definite pink undertone but I look so much better in pinky foundations than the yellow ones. Neutral is the way to go, but many neutral toned foundations have a greyish tint, which is disappointing. Years ago, I met one older lady at a Bloomingdales who helped me find a bronzer that was labeled for blondes. She told me to ignore the labels and go with what compliments my skin. She was right, and she gave me the confidence to tell cursory makeup counter ppl to find me the neutral and cool options. I should try the white paper test and look up the chroma influence.
my father was medium olive (Italian) and looked good in navy, black, burgundy. Brown was terrible on him. my son is olive and if he wears green he looks green 😂
@@toric9518 Yes!! My boyfriend is Italian and he is drawn to navy, dark reds, black, bottle greens and I always wondered why, because I thought olive was warm but now I'm looking at his pics and my mind is blown lol. And in fact these colours look so nice against his skin :D I'm a soft autumn so the colours he wears wouldn't suit me at all, but somehow we still look complementary when we go out.
I have a medium skin with warm neutral olive undertone ! I have a lot of yellow in my skin , hint of grey & green , I don’t look good in silver jewelry or baby pink & pastel clothes ! I’m still discovering what am I 😂 but I kinda have a general idea now !
This is some education. Also, having such a pleasant and calm voice makes one just keep listening to you and keep watching your videos. I am a new subscriber of urs. ;-)
Ziia Zoozoo thank you it helps . I like your calm voice but I think you laugh a lot in an unnecessary way! Watch your video and you will see . But ...cool you look like a wonderful , good person !, looking forward to seeing more of your videos .
Having olive skin with yellow overtone, I had been confused with this for years until I started learning water painting! I always thought I had warm skin tone because I’m yellow. But somehow coral lipsticks which supposedly compliment warm skin can wash me out , and coral blushes and brown eyeshadows always make me look muddy. Instead I found Taupe and grey always work on my eyelids, and mauve blushes actually works the best on my cheeks. Once I practiced color mixing and started training my eyes to detect the hues, I totally see the “green” in my skin,. Everything suddenly makes sense now!
cherriercheung So I am super confused , now. I also thought that I was a warm/autumn because my skin seems yellow. But now I don’t know if yellow is actually my under or over tone. I might have olive undertones...🤯
I love color theory! It has prevented me from spending money on things that are ultimately unflattering. If there’s a color that you love but doesn’t complement your complexion you can wear a small amount away from your face, like a bracelet or pair of shoes. I made a pair of sleep shorts in a Liberty print in muted pastels because I love them but they’re my worst colors! (I’m a deep autumn.)
This is great! As a “medium dark” african-American woman I find it especially challenging to find colors that work in my skin tone as well as my overall lifestyle. Having recently decided to take a more scientific approach, content like this is timely and very informative! On a more personal note, I love the way I look, as do others, in very deep hues of blues, pinks and green! I find myself really stepping away from all black outfits now as they do NOTHING for me! Really enjoying this journey of self discovery! This video is a welcome aid!
Fancy Schmancy, I love black, greys, and blues. I’m also sort of “medium dark” as well. I’m not sure about my season, but I was told I’m neutral with a pinch of warmth. My hair is a sort of medium dark auburn naturally, and my brown eyes have a darker ring on the outside. My mom always told me I could wear all colors, but they aren’t me. Turquoise is the one color we both like on me. It’s probably the most complimentary to my skin. I’ve even painted a wall in my living room this color. Hehe!
I'm also olive, but very yellow (noticably yellow when I'm tanned, less so when I'm pale). And it took me a long time to learn all this too. I use Nars Gobi which their website describes as "yellow" undertones, but yet I'm olive and very neutral although I think I lean cool. I was confused for so long on how yellow meant cool. Every thing everywhere reads as if yellow is warm. But I'm glad Audrey mentioned overtones too. I don't know if I'm still confused a little, however I was finally a few days ago able to "see" visibly the green cast in my skin. And now I can't unsee it! It's sooo nice to finally understand :)
there are people who have almost neutral coloring or they have cold skin but warm hair or vica versa, it also applies more to the lights skinned people.
@@julijakeit - I think I have a neutral undertone, but the thing to remember is that all color "temperature" is relative. So I look yellow next to my cool-toned sister (same hair and eye color), but next to someone really golden, I'll read cool. Oddly, I have cousins with very cool, very pink complexions and that very fiery orange hair. This is a complicated subject!
Another way to determine your undertone is to use jewelry. Yellow gold looks good on warm undertones and white gold or silver looks good on cool undertones. Hope this was helpful.
Thank you, Audrey, for validating for me that olive toned skin is, indeed, a cool tone. I had my colors done and they told me that I am a winter, and I absolutely look my best in cool colors. However, makeup counters always want to put me in foundations with a yellow undertone. This makes my face look like an unbaked pie crust. Also, a hairstylist recently suggested that I add a red tint to my medium brown hair. I think that red hair is very pretty but would clash badly with nearly my entire wardrobe, and I look sickly and drab in warm autumn colors. So thank you again for the tip on olive skin tone being cool. As far as I know, you’re the only person who’s mentioned that, and I have read a lot of books and watched a lot of videos on color theory. With gratitude.
Just watched this for the second time as I am currently working on my winter wardrobe. Starting to get chilly here in Seattle! You are definitely my go to for excellent fashion and beauty information. I learned that I am an olive undertone and a deep winter season from your video. But I never realized that olive is cool and now it makes so much sense to me. I have always loved "autumn colors" browns, golds, russets, beiges but had a hard time wearing them. With your video I have discovered that I can still wear these colors but my browns should be cooler, black-brown, ash brown, my russets more bronze than rust and my beiges more taupe, "greige". Thank you for always providing thoughtful, helpful information! Since following your channel I have eliminated so many of my shopping mistakes. Love what you do!!
Audrey, you hit the nail on the head regarding foundations. I'm also a dark winter, neutral w/warm golden overtones. I've been mismatched so many times with foundations that are too yellow, orange, or oxidizes as such. From one of your older vids, I created my color palette only to discover all the colors I love fell in line with dark winter. It has made building my capsule a breeze. Shopping is more intentional now that I stick to my palette. Bonus, I look less yellow now in strong jewel tones.
I agree! Everytime I walk into a makeup store to get foundation or concealer, the sales assistances always try and match me to the overly yellow shades. They automatically assume cause I am brown that I am warm toned. Is there any foundations you recommend?
You are a lovely, soft spoken lady and it is such a pleasure listening to you. Also, I have finally found my colour pallet/ season (clear autumn). Thank you so much!
I used to sew most of my clothes, wool lined suits, linen coordinates, silk blouses... they would fit and hang beautifully, but just always missed the mark. Then I had my colors done and was shocked. I love soft heathered summer colors, but they didn’t love me. I’m a winter and winter colors seemed garishly bright or boringly bland like light gray-ugh-elementary school uniform. Well, I changed my makeup and started wearing my colors and the compliments started pouring in. I couldn’t believe how much better I looked. I took my packet of colors to the store and to prove they couldn’t be right tried on clothes in the ugliest colors in my pallet. The first day I tried on the ugliest light gray blouse, and bought it! That was 40 years ago. I never went back.
It would seem to me that if yellow & blue make green (olive), then most olive skin would be primarily neutral & could lean more cool or warm in a gradient fashion since skin tone is rather complex & may fall within a range. I’ve really found that dynamic to be true for me as I’m olive but NOT w/a 100% neutral skin tone. Anything cool looks horrible on me BUT I can do many muted, neutral tones in my clothing & makeup, especially if they’re warmer, & sometimes deeper.
This is me as well! Olive skin can definitely lean cool or warm. Not all olive skin tones are cool. I’m close to neutral but lean slightly warm and have an olive skin tone.
*Sigh* Even the twelve season version simply doesn't work for me. I have dark blonde hair with natural golden/strawberry tones and light, green eyes. But my skin is super cool, nearly dead white, with the coolest blue-pink undertone possible. I think that vivid jewel tones and dark colours look good on me, while almost all most pale colours and neutrals (except warm cream) wash me out. Yellow and orange and coral-reds make me look jaundiced. But maybe I'm totally wrong and I'm walking around looking awful all the time, who knows?
According to Carole Jackson's book Color Me Beautiful, all four seasons are divided into cool and warm... Summer and Winter are cool, and Spring and Autumn are warm.
I am neutral but lean slightly cool/pink. There are others that can be neutral but lean slightly warm. Neutral leaning slightly cool looks best in muted cool colors. Neutral leaning slightly warm look good in muted warm colors.
Some constructive criticism here. It’s common in color analysis to use hair and eye color to help decide if you are cool or warm. While sometimes it can help, it’s not always accurate. Someone could have warm eyes and hair but have cool skin or vice versa. What you want to look at is the skin itself. Merriam Style has a fantastic channel on color analysis and she has done several case studies on different celebrities. For example, Cate Blanchett is typed as a Summer here (cool) when on Merriam’s channel she is typed as “warm and delicate,” which simply means warm and muted. Someone like Cate doesn’t look great in bright warm colors so she is automatically typed as cool. When in fact she looks best in soft warm colors. Merriam has a video explaining this. Also, while some olive skin tones are cool, not all of them are! Someone like Kim Kardashian has a cool olive skin tone while Aishwarya Rai has a warm olive skin tone. It’s a spectrum. Hope this didn’t come across as too critical, this is just something I’m really interested in.
I learned my colors back in 1982 (I'm a summer), and I have rarely wavered. I do have a few black items because I need them for work, still cool, but I only buy my colors, so I know I will always look good, even when I'm tired or not feeling well.
You are in the middle which means you can dwell into both warmer and cooler colours but the extreme ends of these won't look good. What I mean by extreme ends, is the very bright but cool colours (think bright blue) and the very warm and deep colours (think rust and mustard). Somewhere in the middle of both cool and warm is good.
I am a very odd deep autumn. Looking at me it seems like I would be a soft autumn, and for a while I believed that was what I was (blond hair, fair skin) but I realized that when I would go shopping I never liked the soft autumn colors when I tried them on. Instead, I was always buying dark autumn colors because they looked best. One day I looked at a list of deep autumn colors and realized that all the colors on the list were ones that looked good on me, and I had received compliments when I wore them. My hair is now a darker blond than it was when I was born, but even when I was younger I look back at photos and realize I looked best with the deep autumn colors.
I was color-matched years ago. I was draped with a bright white fabric and I looked fine. Then came the yellow tone white and in a few seconds my complexion looked muddy - I looked like death warmed over. It was so obvious that I’m cool. I was identified as a Winter (as I had thought). I guess now I’m a Light Winter. But I’m drawn to colors that don’t flatter me, especially in the fall, like olive green, etc. although I steer clear. TFS
Discovering I was a deep autumn was the most enlightening thing for me. Learn your palette and you'll always look and feel great. Also makes the wardrobe SO much easier.
What about NEUTRAL. I believe I’m a true neutral 🙄 which category do I fall into? I’m light, neutral, deep,clear. During summers I feel like I’m on the warmer side and I turn pink in the winter. And similar things happen depending on the color I choose to wear.
Black women, you’re not all Autumns and Winters! Honestly, I think Beyoncé isn’t an Autumn, but a Spring. Her skin is warm and her features are bright (not at all muted, which is a defining characteristic of Autumns). Please type yourselves and don’t automatically assume you’re an Autumn because you’re a “light-skinned warm toned Black person” or as a winter because you’re a “dark-skinned Black person.” Black people are represented in all seasons. You might be a True Spring or a Summer tone. ☺️
Help! I'm half British and half Italian, my skin from my neck down is light olive and tans very easily - but my face is pale. I have dark brown hair at the root but it becomes very warm/darkest brown Auburn, due to the sun, at the mid-ends. I have a mixture of blue and green veins and blue eyes. I also have a small amount of freckles on my nose even in winter, but get more in summer. Please can someone tell me what I am I'm so confused! 🥺
Thank you so much! Now I understant a lot more about my "oliveness" haha. It's true, no one talks about it that much and it appears to be a warm skin colour because of the yellow but I've always naturally more gravitated around cool colours.
Thank you Audrey! The video was very informative and helpful! I have black hair and light skin with a olive hue. I had similar experience as you did... I didn't know I have cool undertone until one day my mom told me that silver jewelries look much better on me than the golden ones... It's good to know that I'm not the only olive girl struggled with undertone identification... :)
I actually found out there has been an update, and there are 16 seasons total so far to cover the full spectrum of colors. Deep winter has a soft winter, light spring has a soft spring, soft summer has a deep summer, soft autumn has a autumn. I found I was neither a clear or a deep winter since I am a muted with gray, I was labeled as a soft winter which is between a deep and cool winter.
Im just more and more confused. I loved your video on olive skin and i strongly feel i am olive (have been called sickly my whole life and no foundation ever suited me before i started mixing with blue and green), but i am as Pale as julianne Moore (my legs and feet look like a wax doll!) and my eyes are hazel with a warm ring, my hair kinda ashy in some light and Golden in other. I feel beautiful in navy and olive, but is having a hard time with most colors. Terracotta and colors like that CAN be pretty but also too dominant. But I dont feel cool colors always fit me that well either... i tend to Fall for jewel tones but feel awful in brown hues (except maybe a very neutral taupe?) my lips look good in rosewood kinda colors, and peach and pink blush look awful BUT everybody tell me that copper hair looks good on me? Jen Thoden and Merriam Style here om youtube borh concluded from a photo that i am soft and warm, but I never put on yellow, orange, red, ugh! I feel in my heart that they are wrong. My heritage is part Danish / part french. I would love to send you some photos if you are curious or need a video on the palest of the olive skin tones - if I AM olive that is! this video was lovely, now i bingewatch you! 😆
Thank you so much for watching! :) I can totally relate to being thrown off by the complexities of coloring and color theory and it's something that only works when you do it perfectly for you. I'm not familiar with either Merriam Style or Jen Thoden so I don't know the methods they use to color type but I will say that unless you've had an in-person consultation in natural light it's impossible to diagnose someone through just a picture. Our own biases and even the color settings on our computers, phones and in our houses can alter how accurately we can diagnose color. For those reasons I personally don't offer digital consultations and I do think that warm is thrown around a little too often in most color theories. In my experience very few people are actually warm and it's much more likely that you are olive :) The copper hair is what really convinced me because I've yet to meet someone with olive skin that doesn't look amazing in copper. If you haven't tried it yet, you may love copper eyeliner or shadow as well. The reason it works so well is because copper is most composed of red and red is across from green on the color wheel - making them perfect together. Also, the purpose of color casting and typing when it comes to makeup and clothes is to make everything look harmonious so unless you truly have a warm undertone, warm colors will just exaggerate the yellow you have in your skin and can push things too far in an unnatural direction. I know for me, when I'm pale the yellow in my skin becomes very noticeable and if I wear warm or yellow based colors on top of that I look jaundiced and the discoloration in my skin becomes more apparent and I look very unbalanced. When I wear cooler colors though, the yellow recedes into natural territory and I look alive and healthy. I hope that helps and please do come back and share anything else you learn xx :)
Audrey Coyne thank you sooooooo much for taking time to reply Audrey! I am actually quite relieved to her you say those things about my coloring, and I do really think I am olive now! But now what? 😊 Do we olive skins fit into a color season? Soft summer? Soft autumn maybe? I still Pick a little here and there from all seasons, ha! 😊 Have a LOVELY day and thanks again ❤️
@@jose11032 you are so welcome! In my experience, you can use seasonal color analysis as a starting point but I don't think it works perfectly for anyone and especially with olive skin you really do have a little more flexibility depending on how your skin looks throughout the year and how yellow, green or grey it looks in different lighting coupled with the warmth or coolness in your eyes and hair. For example, by traditional seasonal color analysis I am a deep winter and many of those colors work for me and my olive skin year-round (deep, cool hues like burgundy - not maroon which is brown based - navy and black). They balance out my yellow and make me look so much healthier and alive! The actor Henry Golding is a great example of this. At first glance many people cast him as warm but he's actually olive and in Crazy Rich Asians they dress him exclusively in cool color which make him look luxe and sophisticated to suit his character whereas in the movie The Gentlemen his character is less refined so they dress him exclusively in warm colors which we subconsciously read as off - lending to his character. So cool and helpful to find your own color palette and the message you want to convey. Also, I know for me when I'm more tan and less obviously yellow, I like some warmer colors from deep autumn as well, especially when they're anchored with perfect makeup - anything too warm always makes me look sickly without makeup though. Since olive skin is usually lacking in any natural flush due to the green which counteracts red, I find that anything too muted doesn't really work for olives but that's all a matter of personal preference and what you like to see yourself in. I know some olives that enjoy playing with makeup so much that they wear almost exclusively muted softer colors and since most of us wear makeup, we can bring life and warmth into our complexions through that, rather than just relying on our clothes. I know that's definitely the case for me and as long as my makeup is perfect for my olive skin, I can wear so many more colors without feeling out of place. I also find that when I'm paler and more yellow, I can borrow some cooler, lighter colors from the summer palette - my beloved wedgwood blue comes from the summer palette :) It's all so fun really and I think that seasonal color analysis should only be used as a starting point and then you can go from there and let your individuality shine xx
@jose11032 I think the easiest test is to test if clear white or ivory white fits better to you. My skin is quite yellow, so ivory white looks more harmonious and elegant on me. Clear white makes me look sick and cheap.
I also like the paper test, thatt Audrey Coney recommends in the beginning. Have never heard of it before. Does your skin look more yellow or more rose against a piece of paper?
Maybe these video of Merriam Style could be helpful for you: "No such thing as a neutral undertone" and "Golden overtones with cool undertones".
Thank you for this video. Wearing the “right” colors for you makes all the difference. I’m a deep autumn. If I hold winter or summer colors up to my face, I look like I’m sick, or exhausted.
Yes I had my colours done when I was a teenager and 40 + years later it makes shopping and packing and dressing very easy
Dear Audrey, thank you. Yes, I have found this theory so helpful. I was colour-analyzed as a "Summer" many, many years ago and cannot count the times it has made shopping for both clothes and make-up so easy.
I am now in my late 50s and my hair is turning silvery, and still my Summer palette is so flattering, although I have turned from a Soft Summer into a Cool Summer.
I have olive skin (light) and this is the first time I've heard anyone discuss it. Wow. No wonder I never wear yellow! Thank you so much! Everything was spot on except I'd like to hear a little more about chromo, specifically the differences between rich, saturated, and muted. I'd really like to be able to better parse this out better and make use of this great tool! BTW, my color analysis completely flipped when I let my gray hair grow out (it had been a rich medium brown). I went from a deep Autumn (or so I was told) to light Summer (which years ago a different colorist has labeled me). Apparently, I'm not the only one who finds all this a bit tricky!
I've tried this SO HARD but I just can't find a season that "fits me". I have individual colours that look great and I can identify them... I just wish there was a tool like this for me, it would make things so easy. 😌
If I declutter my wardrobe according to this color theory, I will be left with only a black top and a legging XD
Scarves can really help if you don't want to start over or start with tops
I did this progressively over a few years and no jokes, i now only own either black or navy blue clothes (except for old tshirts on days idgaf about my looks LOL). Realised these are the best colors on me especially navy blue. NEVER disappointed now whenever i buy navy blue clothes
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I love the blue sweater on you. I really enjoyed this video. Thank you for the lesson & the update to color theory. Cheers 😉🌺
I got into SCA a few years ago and it's made watching videos on youtube from style bloggers a little like pulling teeth at times! This is the first video from a style blogger I've ever seen that depicts this topic accurately. Especially because a lot of people assume that lighter skin tones are always cool and darker skin tones are always warm! I saw a video on this where the vlogger used a model who was very obviously a light spring as an example of someone who was cool toned, demonstrated she didn't look good in warm tones by using a warm tone that was much too rich for her, and then proved she was cool toned by using a warm-toned aqua blue. I was internally screaming! I love what you say about how even if you don't use it in your style - which you don't have to at all! there are lots of winter colors I dislike and i'm constantly trying to find ways to style colors i know don't flatter me - it changes and enriches the way you see the world. I love that about color theory!
THANK YOU!!! Im olive toned. I always wondered why I looked crap in any peachy, orangy colored lip color, because I thought I was warm. I get it now.
Saaame!
Same here even though I’m pale I have the same issue
Orange n peach make me look grey... Does that mean I am olive??? I am a dusky skin Indian and I am REALLY confused with all these undertone stuff. Trying to figure out for the past few years 😭
Same lol. People have the idea that more darker our skin is the more "warmer" we become which is truly wrong. Actually...most people who have darker skin tones have cool undertones and don't look so good with warmer colours. I'm olive toned myself and when i wear anything yellowish, orange, red....i don't look as good as when i wear blue, purple etc
Tip for people who find orange washes them out: choose its closest opposite - purple! Any purple-based reds, pinks or nudes will look great on you and give you a golden glow.
thank u so much for the olive skin update ,it really did clear a lot of confusion
Thank you for the info, you present it in a gentle nice way. I am actually looking to find out what my season is.
i find it super helpful because I want to limit the amount of colors in my wardrobe, I saw a woman that wears only black, and I thought that's so convenient, but black is not for me. I'm thinking of choosing just two or three colors, four at the most.
Thanks Audrey. This really does work. My friend and I are polar opposites when it comes to clothing colors and you really can tell the difference. Lip color can actually clash if your dress is a vibrant berry color too.
I know that I'm an autumn (light to medium skin with strong yellow undertones, medium brown hair with golden undertones, and medium brown eyes with golden undertones), I just don't know what type of autumn I am.
Earth tones look good on me, duh I'm an autumn. Dark and medium shades of warm toned colors look the best on me. Muted colors (both warm tones and neutrals) looks good on me. Any shade of blue looks good on me. And even though a true black (which is a winter color) looks good on me, a brown based black looks even better. Warm whites suits me the best. And I avoid cool tones. What I am having trouble with are bright colors; sometimes they work, but most of the time they don't. I am hoping that knowing what autumn I am will help me understand what bright colors look the best on me, if any bright colors work for me. maybe the ones that I though looked good, were only average on me and I should just stick with what I know make me look my best.
Your description sounds like you could be a Deep Autumn (1/12)
Fun video! I like it and I think your advice is spot-on. As for me, I’ve tried every self-guided color analysis in the book and always come up empty-handed. I even tried to use the reverse route: identify colors that make me look and feel my best, and then see what categories they fall into. Instead of an “aha!” moment, I found out that all the colors that look good on me are what’s known as “universal” colors; that is, colors anyone can wear (think burgundy, true blue, that one mid-toned, neutral pink that doesn’t really have a name). In fact, I am so neutral that I ONLY can wear the universal colors. What’s hilarious about this is that I’m also neutral in every other way: politically fairly neutral (I agree with different points from different sides), religiously neutral...in every argument I’m the neutral one, the one who can argue both sides, the mediator. It seems neutrality is my destiny. 😂🤣
I've been loving this topic in your videos, as I've never thought about this before. I'm going to pay more attention to this factor and try to figure out what I am :) Thanks heaps
Omg. I'm a deep winter too! This was so helpful. I would always look at those color theory notions and be confused about where I fit in it. I didn't really understand why I often gravitate towards blues.This is especilly helpful for bold or nude lipsticks.
Such a great video! Exceptional editing and great information! Beautifully done!
Thank you Audrey..this video finally clarifies my skin tone for me...
Hello from Charleston! I noticed Legare St in the background when you were modeling on the street 😊
Thank you Audrey for your video. I would like to comment my case so it might help others. I am Spanish: dark brown hair and eyes and very yellow face fair/medium. Since yellow is normally related to warm tones I did not understand why I am so much a winter colour person. I perfect winter I would say. And that is because yellow can be cool as straw is. So I always put on foundations with yellow undertone that matches my face but I wear clothes for a winter person. I hope this helps. It took me a while to understand and it makes such a difference to know!!
I feel like I’m impossible. I cannot tell what color undertone I am. My skin is yellow/greenish and quite fair. It looks neutral but some parts look olive. I got matched with Mac NW 18 a long time ago. And more recently a Neutral Ivory in another shade. Either way if the seasonal color analysis is based on Warm VS Cool without factoring in neutral I guess I won’t fit into it either way.
Hi, sounds like you’re neutral with slightly warm undertones. In that instance, I believe you would have low chroma which is dominant which would put you into the “soft” category for one of the seasons. Possibly soft autumn or soft spring due to your slightly warm undertones? Could also be soft summer or winter as you said you’re a bit olive and now that I’ve found out olive is actually cool, it’s blown my mind!
Your olive video is awesome! My skin is pale, but has a lot of color in it, if that makes sense. I determined that I'm not olive, but neutral-warm. I'm still stuck between Deep autumn and Bright Spring. My eyes are basically black, my hair is dark neutral brown. Deep autumn is good but too muted, Bright spring is good, but some of the colors are too bright. I guess I'll make my own palette😆
wow, I am so late to this video, but much needed. I noticed my skin is much brighter and lively when I am in the shadow of my bathroom. Once I turn on those yellow light bulbs, my skin looks yellow, mucky and really dark. My face also ends up looking a lot more brown than my hands. When the lights are off with only daylight coming in, my face and hands look the same. I don't understand this.
How to determine if I'm soft summer or cool summer? I'm summer for sure and not light summer.
Well i know I'm a dark for sure. Probably leaning for more of a cool tone. Not sure since i heard blue viens equal cool, and green equal warm. My wrist viens look bluish with tiny purple ones too.
You could talk about the seasons and hair colors. What colors can we change in each season?
I'm so glad I'm a summer 😃 it's all my favorite colors anyway
In another video could you show examples of colours that don’t compliment your olive skin? Especially because both white and off-white seem to suit you very well, and I often notice you wear gold jewellery with cool colours.
I've tried figuring out my undertone based on the colour of my veins in the wrist and find mostly purple (cool) and some green (warm) veins which suggests that I'm neutral. I love and wear lots of cool colours because warm colours (yellow, orange, warm pink) just don't suit me. However, my skin does appear yellow since I'm Asian which has me a bit confused...
One of my brother's girlfriends did this for me when I was a teenager. According to her, I am a dark spring (strawberry hair,dark blue-green eyes). It's been useful information, but I can usually get away with wearing black and/or white.
Never hear of "Dark" Spring and I'm a colorist! What theory is that?
@virginiasanchis1717 , I don't remember. I was twelve at the time. Last year, I was looking for info on it and found nothing. The best I can figure us that my eyes are a darker blue/green and my hair was a more coppery color so they thought I was a borderline Autumn.
Audrey, please do a more thorough video on olive skin and make-up.
i have amber to hazel eyes fair to pale skin with yellow tint blue purple veins light to dark brown hairs whats my undertone
Thanks for the video,
I think I’m a Cool Spring type, interesting to know
It's very confusing for me because I am very pale so I think I am a neutral with a little bit of a yellow overtone int he winter, and when I get some sun, I have more of an orange overtone. I have dark brown hair, I think with a bit of red in it, because when I lighten it, it goes a bit orange and I need a toner. I have hazel eyes, and then the colors that look best on me are Navy blue, jet black, red, and some greys. White can look ok. I don't look good in faded clothing, so I think I may be clear or deep. I'm still confused on my undertone though :( apparently neutral usually swing warm or cool, and I just can't tell. I'll have to go to a fabric store and start holding colors up lol
Thank you Audrey for this tutorial. After many attempts to self analyse I still can’t work out my seasonal colour. I seem to have contradictory colours to the guidelines for each group. Cool fair skin tone, light to medium tone strawberry red hair, brown eyes.....I look better in clear colours rather than muted colours. Advice welcome 🙏🏻
Off the top of my head I'd guess you're a spring. Do you like wearing light green, coral or blues leaning towards turquoise?
saammmy7, thank you for your advice. I like wearing reds, corals, brighter pinks. I think greens & navy suit me but I don’t wear them often. Doesn’t Spring have warm undertones, I’m definitely a cool undertone.
I feel like being olive isn't really always cool. Because some olives have more yellow than blue, do they not? Either way, it's confusing, because I look good in ivory and not in white (which is the trait of a warm skin tone) but I can't wear any pastels that have a lot of gray in them. I look great in jewel tones, but of course I look better in darker reds. So difficult.
I looked into it a while ago and I’m a deep Autumn. However, recently I heard of the Dressing your Truth system by Carol Tuttle. It’s an interesting concept but I’m not sure about it myself.
What happens when a person goes gray?
Laura Maskell such a good question and one I’m not entirely sure about. I was actually chatting to someone on Instagram about this and it seems like most of your colors will stay the same since your undertone never changes but you may prefer softer or bolder versions of them. There is a great blog I found that discussed this in more detail here :) www.style-yourself-confident.com/autumn-coloring-with-grey-hair.html
I am also in that category. I'm quite sure I am still a winter. But I know that some colours that used to look great on me , no longer do. Like black for example. I loved wearing black and white, and purple and black. But alas those days are over!! Lol. Adjustments have to be made. I have read that substituting navy for black is a good idea as black is harsh against older skin.
Thanks for the link Audrey. I will have a look.
Louise McElhill I’m in the same boat. Used to have very dark brown almost black hair and loved jewel tones with black as my neutral. Now with white/grey hair and paler skin, I’ve ditched most of my black and moved towards softer colors. I’m somewhere between a soft summer and soft autumn.
My dad used to be a spring type he has very light blue eyes and was a very light almost blond redhead. I really think it depends because my dad's hair is pure white now....
It think for cool types it will be the same like when they were younger.
But for warm types I am not entirely sure. But I think it depends I am a warm type for sure. I took a course to become a colour and style analyst (and passed 😊)when I hide my hair in a white scarf all of a sudden am a summer type(cool type)???
While I am for sure a warm type because of my hair?????
I came on here to mention the same concerns. I've always been a warm undertone, but as I gray I feel like I need more saturated color or I'll appear washed out. I use to love to wear mustard, but it just doesn't feel good on anymore and neither does brown. Now I stick to muted oranges, teals, and spicy colors. Muted is key, and no pastels.
Would black and white be considered neutral? By neutral, I mean would those two colors work on all types of seasonal color?
I'm a deep winter too! How do you wear so much camel? I look awful in camel as a deep winter!
It's the same with me too.
I'm a classic cool winter.
There are so many colors in this group that make us shine - forget the color beige. ;-)
I have the same issue!!
I am pretty sure i am Olive, because next to very pale people i look almost green :D
I have dark brown/ black hair and brown eyes.
I have light skin color.
I used to look good with cool colors when I was younger.
Now I don’t know.
I am not sure if I am warm because when I wear pastel colors I look yellow.
My veins look turquoise and purple in the natural day light (under the sun)
I am definitely not cool but I am stuck between warm and neutral....which one am I ?
Btw I don’t like how grey looks on me.
I just stick with black white dark gray and dark blue and get on with it.
you are an adorable lady! thank you for sharing xxx
How would white paper make the skin look pinkish or yellowisch????
Skin is skin, white paper, yellow paper or other stuff next to my skin doesn't make it look any different. It still looks like ... skin.
I don't get the paper test.
I have medium skin tone with more neutral to warm olive undertone and with black eyes and my hair is naturally black but now I have coloured it deep brown.. So which color pallete should i be? I am kinda confused
This is very interesting but I really have trouble understanding the undertones. I can't determine whether I'm cool or warm or maybe neutral?
You can try to watch more videos on personal colour/seasonal colour analysis by korean youtubers! Seasonal colour analysis is very very popular in korea and many might assume asians have warm undertone but it is not true! If you are unable to identify your undertone, you probably fall in the summer or spring range which is neutral with a little hint of cool/warm.
Could you recommend some bloggers/ stars who are soft summer/ autumn? I am between these 2 seasons and would like to be able to compare.
So when I wear muted light blue (sort of like your sweater with a touch more grey) I hate the way I look. Any idea why? I’m definitely light olive like you
I think I am a neutral warm olive, is that possible? I feel yellowish and sometimes green and I look good with silver jewelry but I look awful with blue and navy.
I think I classify as deep autumn: my undertone is neutral/warm, my hair is ashy brown and my eyes are warm brown....... I feel lost sos
Can anyone help me? I have no idea what my season is.
Red hair
Blue eyes
Light skin
I know I’m cool undertone.
Kelly Moore I would guess Summer!
Lauren Jane Lloyd I just found another video and it said summer! I’m a cool, light, summer. Maybe a muted chroma?? I guess I could do bright colors too....
Another beautiful video ... as always perfectly articulated and exampled ... Very helpful ... Thank you !!!
I recommend looking into Dressing Your Truth, it’s truly life changing
What about red hair? I'm always confused as to what category it's in!
Amazing!
are there any books on this?
wish you had a video for olive skin type only! Indeed no one talks about it and i have always been struggling understanding my undertones. Now i know why and surprisingly i might not be the only one!
Dear Audrey, watching your video I just realise that I am the same like u, deep winter, and all of my previous choices of clothes and make up's tones were wrong. Thanks a lot for a knowledge! ) Best regards from Moscow, Russia)
hmm I dont know, i think this type of colour theory only works with certain ethnicities.I have very typical east asian appearance, which is jet black hair, almost black eye but I have neutral (or tend to be cool) undertone.
I determined I have a cool undertone and could wear deep winter colors, then I turned gray. Now it's confusing.
FINALLY someone who understands a neutral/cool undertone for olive skin!
That last bit about makeup rang so true with me. I’m of Asian descent and everyone automatically assumes I have a yellow undertone. I have a natural knack for colors (runs in my family with designers and artists, considered art school at the recommendation of art teachers), and knew I didn’t have a yellow undertone. But makeup salesperson matches me to yellow makeup. No. I don’t have a definite pink undertone but I look so much better in pinky foundations than the yellow ones. Neutral is the way to go, but many neutral toned foundations have a greyish tint, which is disappointing. Years ago, I met one older lady at a Bloomingdales who helped me find a bronzer that was labeled for blondes. She told me to ignore the labels and go with what compliments my skin. She was right, and she gave me the confidence to tell cursory makeup counter ppl to find me the neutral and cool options.
I should try the white paper test and look up the chroma influence.
Your light blue sweater is a beautiful color on you!
Someone just told me... OLIVE SKIN IS COOL TONED AND MY LIFE HAS CHANGED.
I think my Olive is cool because I receive more compliments when I wear silver jewelry
my father was medium olive (Italian) and looked good in navy, black, burgundy. Brown was terrible on him. my son is olive and if he wears green he looks green 😂
@@toric9518 Yes!! My boyfriend is Italian and he is drawn to navy, dark reds, black, bottle greens and I always wondered why, because I thought olive was warm but now I'm looking at his pics and my mind is blown lol. And in fact these colours look so nice against his skin :D I'm a soft autumn so the colours he wears wouldn't suit me at all, but somehow we still look complementary when we go out.
Maybe anything with added blue would be complimentary.
Happy exploring =)
I have a medium skin with warm neutral olive undertone !
I have a lot of yellow in my skin , hint of grey & green , I don’t look good in silver jewelry or baby pink & pastel clothes !
I’m still discovering what am I 😂 but I kinda have a general idea now !
This is some education. Also, having such a pleasant and calm voice makes one just keep listening to you and keep watching your videos.
I am a new subscriber of urs. ;-)
Ziia Zoozoo Same here :)
Ziia Zoozoo thank you it helps . I like your calm voice but I think you laugh a lot in an unnecessary way! Watch your video and you will see . But ...cool you look like a wonderful , good person !, looking forward to seeing more of your videos .
Having olive skin with yellow overtone, I had been confused with this for years until I started learning water painting! I always thought I had warm skin tone because I’m yellow. But somehow coral lipsticks which supposedly compliment warm skin can wash me out , and coral blushes and brown eyeshadows always make me look muddy. Instead I found Taupe and grey always work on my eyelids, and mauve blushes actually works the best on my cheeks. Once I practiced color mixing and started training my eyes to detect the hues, I totally see the “green” in my skin,. Everything suddenly makes sense now!
cherriercheung you just made this more interesting but I’m still lost. I love joe mixing colors helped you figure it out.
How did you train your eyes?
Check out ruclips.net/video/hw_ie8PUXGI/видео.html for more details. She explains in details the cool/warm undertones.
cherriercheung So I am super confused , now. I also thought that I was a warm/autumn because my skin seems yellow. But now I don’t know if yellow is actually my under or over tone. I might have olive undertones...🤯
Same!! I’m so lost
I love color theory! It has prevented me from spending money on things that are ultimately unflattering. If there’s a color that you love but doesn’t complement your complexion you can wear a small amount away from your face, like a bracelet or pair of shoes. I made a pair of sleep shorts in a Liberty print in muted pastels because I love them but they’re my worst colors! (I’m a deep autumn.)
This is great! As a “medium dark” african-American woman I find it especially challenging to find colors that work in my skin tone as well as my overall lifestyle. Having recently decided to take a more scientific approach, content like this is timely and very informative! On a more personal note, I love the way I look, as do others, in very deep hues of blues, pinks and green! I find myself really stepping away from all black outfits now as they do NOTHING for me! Really enjoying this journey of self discovery! This video is a welcome aid!
Fancy Schmancy, I love black, greys, and blues. I’m also sort of “medium dark” as well. I’m not sure about my season, but I was told I’m neutral with a pinch of warmth. My hair is a sort of medium dark auburn naturally, and my brown eyes have a darker ring on the outside. My mom always told me I could wear all colors, but they aren’t me. Turquoise is the one color we both like on me. It’s probably the most complimentary to my skin. I’ve even painted a wall in my living room this color. Hehe!
it got upgraded to twelve so why don't we call them months?
Along the Lane this is a really good idea!
Along the Lane It wouldn't work globally.... Opposite for Northern and Summer hemisphere
Makes me sad how the people on the northern hemisphere completely ignore us in the south when it comes to fashion and seasons.
Enhriimaa Tsagaantsooj I don’t think it’s intentional, just didn’t realise that it would be different for us
I've seen them listed that way, and it all made way more sense to me.
Helping me realize olive skin is cool....that is a game changer. That has made me confused for years - especially when it came to buying makeup.
I'm also olive, but very yellow (noticably yellow when I'm tanned, less so when I'm pale).
And it took me a long time to learn all this too. I use Nars Gobi which their website describes as "yellow" undertones, but yet I'm olive and very neutral although I think I lean cool.
I was confused for so long on how yellow meant cool. Every thing everywhere reads as if yellow is warm.
But I'm glad Audrey mentioned overtones too. I don't know if I'm still confused a little, however I was finally a few days ago able to "see" visibly the green cast in my skin. And now I can't unsee it! It's sooo nice to finally understand :)
I wish this theory made sense to me....very confused. :(
there are people who have almost neutral coloring or they have cold skin but warm hair or vica versa, it also applies more to the lights skinned people.
@@julijakeit - I think I have a neutral undertone, but the thing to remember is that all color "temperature" is relative. So I look yellow next to my cool-toned sister (same hair and eye color), but next to someone really golden, I'll read cool. Oddly, I have cousins with very cool, very pink complexions and that very fiery orange hair. This is a complicated subject!
ditto
I've been tryjngbto figure out my season. I've had two makeup reps tell me that Im a neutral. Not sure what to do with that info lol
Judith Brighton I agree and you almost need someone with a degree in color theory to pull it all together.
To my olive folks... I add a little green concealer in my foundation to help it match my skin tone. It’s been a game changer!
Same!
Very interesting and confusing, still don't know what is my season but is ok
Do you look better in pure white or ivory? This comparison helped me determine if I was a deep autumn or deep winter.
meowy so pure white is autumn, while ivory is deep winter ?
@@mountain2816 ivory is warm as autumn, so pure white is winter
Another way to determine your undertone is to use jewelry. Yellow gold looks good on warm undertones and white gold or silver looks good on cool undertones. Hope this was helpful.
You won't know unless you do one! I highly recommend not doing it virtually. All devices alter hues.....
Thank you, Audrey, for validating for me that olive toned skin is, indeed, a cool tone. I had my colors done and they told me that I am a winter, and I absolutely look my best in cool colors. However, makeup counters always want to put me in foundations with a yellow undertone. This makes my face look like an unbaked pie crust. Also, a hairstylist recently suggested that I add a red tint to my medium brown hair. I think that red hair is very pretty but would clash badly with nearly my entire wardrobe, and I look sickly and drab in warm autumn colors. So thank you again for the tip on olive skin tone being cool. As far as I know, you’re the only person who’s mentioned that, and I have read a lot of books and watched a lot of videos on color theory. With gratitude.
Great info, but was waiting to find out what are the power colors for each category😀. Thanks!
Just watched this for the second time as I am currently working on my winter wardrobe. Starting to get chilly here in Seattle! You are definitely my go to for excellent fashion and beauty information. I learned that I am an olive undertone and a deep winter season from your video. But I never realized that olive is cool and now it makes so much sense to me. I have always loved "autumn colors" browns, golds, russets, beiges but had a hard time wearing them. With your video I have discovered that I can still wear these colors but my browns should be cooler, black-brown, ash brown, my russets more bronze than rust and my beiges more taupe, "greige". Thank you for always providing thoughtful, helpful information! Since following your channel I have eliminated so many of my shopping mistakes. Love what you do!!
Audrey, you hit the nail on the head regarding foundations. I'm also a dark winter, neutral w/warm golden overtones. I've been mismatched so many times with foundations that are too yellow, orange, or oxidizes as such. From one of your older vids, I created my color palette only to discover all the colors I love fell in line with dark winter. It has made building my capsule a breeze. Shopping is more intentional now that I stick to my palette. Bonus, I look less yellow now in strong jewel tones.
I agree! Everytime I walk into a makeup store to get foundation or concealer, the sales assistances always try and match me to the overly yellow shades. They automatically assume cause I am brown that I am warm toned. Is there any foundations you recommend?
You are a lovely, soft spoken lady and it is such a pleasure listening to you. Also, I have finally found my colour pallet/ season (clear autumn). Thank you so much!
In the 12 Seasons theory there is no "Clear" Autumn. Where is that from? I'm interested as a tetrachrome colorist.
I used to sew most of my clothes, wool lined suits, linen coordinates, silk blouses... they would fit and hang beautifully, but just always missed the mark. Then I had my colors done and was shocked. I love soft heathered summer colors, but they didn’t love me. I’m a winter and winter colors seemed garishly bright or boringly bland like light gray-ugh-elementary school uniform. Well, I changed my makeup and started wearing my colors and the compliments started pouring in. I couldn’t believe how much better I looked. I took my packet of colors to the store and to prove they couldn’t be right tried on clothes in the ugliest colors in my pallet. The first day I tried on the ugliest light gray blouse, and bought it! That was 40 years ago. I never went back.
My sister has been into this since the 80’s. She had a huge book on it. She tells me I’m an Autumn. Which happens to b my favorite time of year.
That’s when I was color-matched. I had that book.
It would seem to me that if yellow & blue make green (olive), then most olive skin would be primarily neutral & could lean more cool or warm in a gradient fashion since skin tone is rather complex & may fall within a range. I’ve really found that dynamic to be true for me as I’m olive but NOT w/a 100% neutral skin tone. Anything cool looks horrible on me BUT I can do many muted, neutral tones in my clothing & makeup, especially if they’re warmer, & sometimes deeper.
This is me as well! Olive skin can definitely lean cool or warm. Not all olive skin tones are cool. I’m close to neutral but lean slightly warm and have an olive skin tone.
@@ggr9068 Hey, that’s great…..so glad I’m not alone!😊
*Sigh* Even the twelve season version simply doesn't work for me. I have dark blonde hair with natural golden/strawberry tones and light, green eyes. But my skin is super cool, nearly dead white, with the coolest blue-pink undertone possible. I think that vivid jewel tones and dark colours look good on me, while almost all most pale colours and neutrals (except warm cream) wash me out. Yellow and orange and coral-reds make me look jaundiced. But maybe I'm totally wrong and I'm walking around looking awful all the time, who knows?
According to Carole Jackson's book Color Me Beautiful, all four seasons are divided into cool and warm... Summer and Winter are cool, and Spring and Autumn are warm.
I am neutral but lean slightly cool/pink. There are others that can be neutral but lean slightly warm. Neutral leaning slightly cool looks best in muted cool colors. Neutral leaning slightly warm look good in muted warm colors.
Some constructive criticism here. It’s common in color analysis to use hair and eye color to help decide if you are cool or warm. While sometimes it can help, it’s not always accurate. Someone could have warm eyes and hair but have cool skin or vice versa.
What you want to look at is the skin itself. Merriam Style has a fantastic channel on color analysis and she has done several case studies on different celebrities. For example, Cate Blanchett is typed as a Summer here (cool) when on Merriam’s channel she is typed as “warm and delicate,” which simply means warm and muted. Someone like Cate doesn’t look great in bright warm colors so she is automatically typed as cool. When in fact she looks best in soft warm colors. Merriam has a video explaining this.
Also, while some olive skin tones are cool, not all of them are! Someone like Kim Kardashian has a cool olive skin tone while Aishwarya Rai has a warm olive skin tone. It’s a spectrum.
Hope this didn’t come across as too critical, this is just something I’m really interested in.
Brandi Davis I love the way Merriam explains both Kibbe and colouring. I’m a warm & delicate in her system.
Keapix I love her channel! I’m a soft dramatic and warm and delicate in her system :)
She has the best color typing system I have ever come across. Before finding her channel I had concluded it was all nonsense.
I learned my colors back in 1982 (I'm a summer), and I have rarely wavered. I do have a few black items because I need them for work, still cool, but I only buy my colors, so I know I will always look good, even when I'm tired or not feeling well.
What about neutral skin tone? Does that mean I can bridge spring/autumn colors?
You are in the middle which means you can dwell into both warmer and cooler colours but the extreme ends of these won't look good. What I mean by extreme ends, is the very bright but cool colours (think bright blue) and the very warm and deep colours (think rust and mustard). Somewhere in the middle of both cool and warm is good.
I find 12 seasons system confusing...
Undertone: Neutral, light
Eyes: Deep dark brown
Hair: Light/Medium? I'm dark ash blonde.
I’m the same coloring as you and I still can’t figure it out 😂
Your voice is so soothing, so calming.
I am a very odd deep autumn. Looking at me it seems like I would be a soft autumn, and for a while I believed that was what I was (blond hair, fair skin) but I realized that when I would go shopping I never liked the soft autumn colors when I tried them on. Instead, I was always buying dark autumn colors because they looked best. One day I looked at a list of deep autumn colors and realized that all the colors on the list were ones that looked good on me, and I had received compliments when I wore them. My hair is now a darker blond than it was when I was born, but even when I was younger I look back at photos and realize I looked best with the deep autumn colors.
That’s so interesting, thank you! :) you’re such a lovely person and your way of speaking is so warm and pleasant, it instantly lifted my mood! 🌷
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I was color-matched years ago. I was draped with a bright white fabric and I looked fine. Then came the yellow tone white and in a few seconds my complexion looked muddy - I looked like death warmed over. It was so obvious that I’m cool. I was identified as a Winter (as I had thought). I guess now I’m a Light Winter. But I’m drawn to colors that don’t flatter me, especially in the fall, like olive green, etc. although I steer clear. TFS
Discovering I was a deep autumn was the most enlightening thing for me. Learn your palette and you'll always look and feel great. Also makes the wardrobe SO much easier.
What about NEUTRAL.
I believe I’m a true neutral 🙄 which category do I fall into?
I’m light, neutral, deep,clear.
During summers I feel like I’m on the warmer side and I turn pink in the winter. And similar things happen depending on the color I choose to wear.
Thank you so much for this video and you helped me so much with olive complexion skin line. I enjoyed your video and thank you.
Black women, you’re not all Autumns and Winters! Honestly, I think Beyoncé isn’t an Autumn, but a Spring. Her skin is warm and her features are bright (not at all muted, which is a defining characteristic of Autumns).
Please type yourselves and don’t automatically assume you’re an Autumn because you’re a “light-skinned warm toned Black person” or as a winter because you’re a “dark-skinned Black person.” Black people are represented in all seasons. You might be a True Spring or a Summer tone. ☺️
Help! I'm half British and half Italian, my skin from my neck down is light olive and tans very easily - but my face is pale. I have dark brown hair at the root but it becomes very warm/darkest brown Auburn, due to the sun, at the mid-ends. I have a mixture of blue and green veins and blue eyes. I also have a small amount of freckles on my nose even in winter, but get more in summer. Please can someone tell me what I am I'm so confused! 🥺
Thank you so much! Now I understant a lot more about my "oliveness" haha. It's true, no one talks about it that much and it appears to be a warm skin colour because of the yellow but I've always naturally more gravitated around cool colours.
Thank you Audrey! The video was very informative and helpful! I have black hair and light skin with a olive hue. I had similar experience as you did... I didn't know I have cool undertone until one day my mom told me that silver jewelries look much better on me than the golden ones... It's good to know that I'm not the only olive girl struggled with undertone identification... :)
I actually found out there has been an update, and there are 16 seasons total so far to cover the full spectrum of colors. Deep winter has a soft winter, light spring has a soft spring, soft summer has a deep summer, soft autumn has a autumn. I found I was neither a clear or a deep winter since I am a muted with gray, I was labeled as a soft winter which is between a deep and cool winter.
Zi Yang I have been told I look good in silver (as a Winter), but I have loved yellow gold since I was very young.