What would also help is that, looking online for warm or cool colors. For instance, if you're looking for a blue, look up warm blues, and cool blues. A cool blue would be like a cadet blue, a warm blue would be like a sapphire blue. If you find that, print it. Sewing books are a good place to look.
I badly wanna see her use a warm colored outfit so we can see the difference of how flattering it is to match your undertone. Hope she'll make a video like that.
I don’t know where I saw/learned this color tip, but I’ve never seen it again! The idea is to look at your face in a mirror, in daylight/natural light, then close your eyes and drape your entire face with a color you are interested in. When it’s draped, then open your eyes and quickly pay attention: what do you see first? Your face? Or the color you draped? If you see the color first, it will wear YOU. If you see your face first, the color will flatter. What do you think about this? (It has worked for me, and it allows for such specificity in vetting a color!)
This reminds me of the thing my hairstylist once told me about finding your hair part (esp if you can’t remember when they’ve already sectioned the hair, or if it changes and you’re not sure) she said to close your eyes and tuck your hair behind your ear/brush it out of your face/part it without opening them. Wherever your hand goes is your part and even if you don’t think it is, you’re probably parting your hair here without thinking about it throughout the day anyway. I’m gonna try this tip you shared bc I’m cool toned and very pale (like, get the first foundation ALL THE WAY to the pale side and that’s probably a shade or two too dark for me, as it has been my whole life) so I only ever wear black bc I just can’t see myself in color. I’ve usually used pink and I feel like that’s a terrible choice. I used to wear white too but now I’m pretty sure I look a bit dead. I’ve recently heard that powder blue could be a good one to try for my complexion, so I can use this to check!
@@rainbomg There is an MUA/influencer named John MacLean here on YT who claims to have the palest skin, and he just might! Check out his channel - he might be helpful in finding good complexion products for you! Plus, he is a lot of fun!
@@judithbrighton3040 well, I’ve been watching his videos and I mean, this is everything I’ve ever needed from a beauty RUclipsr and could never find. AMAZIN. THANK YOU! I love him, he is going through every brand I’ve been curious about trying and getting products in the palest shade and doing walk through reviews- it’s like this was made just to make my life easier 💛💛💛
I've found that my skin looks better when I wear the OPPOSITE of my undertone. I have a yellow undertone. I look sickly and almost invisible when I wear beige, some golds, some yellows and reds. My skin looks even, healthy, and peachy, when I wear cool colors blues, teals, greens and cools grays. It's like the cool color makes my warm skin warmer and healthier.
I made a similar observation. My skin is also quite yellow and light. eyes and hair are dark with some gold in them. I thought that yellow, beige and orange were my enemies. Now i realized that this is not true for all of them depending on how 'clear' or 'muddy' they are (i don't know if these age the correct terms). I think the enemy are muddy colours. The clear bold colours also match the contrast of light skin to dark hair. Is your hair dark, too?
Ann G. R. you are confusing sallow skin with warm undertones. You clearly have cool undertones despite sallow skin if the cool tones are flattering and warm colours drain you. If you look terrible in dirty beiges, mustards and orange then you do not have yellow undertone.
@@SueRosalie Thank you for commenting. It is confusing that when trying to identify the undertone, my veins look greenish, and my skin looks much better against gold metal as opposed to silver. So I would guess I have a yellow undertone?
@anng.r.687 your veins are green, and you look best with gold, so that means you are warm undertoned. not necessarily yellow. it is odd you look best in cool tones. maybe you're actually neutral, lol.
@@anng.r.687 you may have olive skin. Usually, olives looks warm (yellow-greenish skin) because they have a lot of yellow in their skins, but they can be cool undertoned (blue + yellow = Green, so, olive). Any ethnicity can be olive, but It is typically asociated with Mediterranean, Latinamerican, Middle East or South Asían ancestry I suggest you to look It Up. Figuring out that I have olive skin has helped me a lot with my colors!
Can you do color combination video ...? How to mix and match cool and warm colors .. and specially for duskier skin tone .. because I am and it will help me a lot 😄😄😄😄 it's a request 😊
Please please please can you do a video focusing on neutral undertones. Everything I can find is warm or cool, but I am very pale and totally neutral (which is strange, I know.) it would just be nice to see a video dedicated to that :)
Kayla Utahna - neutrals can wear either warm or cool colors, individual shades may suite you better than others but you have both warm and cool colors to play with and choose from.
I'm like that too! But not as fair as you. We can't wear colours that are too obviously cool or warm. :-( Like orange and yellow is extremely hard for me to pull off...
Watch Merriam Style's video on neutral undertones and why they don't really exist. You might not stand out dramatically as being either warm or cool, but probability wise, you likely lean ever so slightly warm or cool, not neutral. That being said, warm and cool colors could both still look good on you.
You make this sound so easy! But my brain is like "whaaat??!" Haha. (And I have watched all of your other videos about colours, undertones etc. ) Thank you for continuing to share!
Great video Justine! I've always stayed away from the color yellow because I have cool undertones, but after watching this video I have learned that I should give a cool based yellow a try.
Thank you for mentioning about taking garment to daylight and daylight importance!! My friends always think I'm crazy n blind! I'm not, I just can be a better judge if I see it outside! It looks generally very different! Next time they bother me I'm gonna show them this video.
Lighting is everything. I once bought a garment that seemed to exactly match my warmish skintone in the store’s florescent lighting that turned out to actually be a pale purple in my daylight studio. The undertones of daylight also seems to change drastically with the time of the year and your latitude.
This video reminded me of this puzzle game for the Iphone called "Blendoku" that I used to play all the time. Each puzzle has a bunch of colors that you have to correctly organize by shade.
Sooooooo unfair... I hate basically all the warm colors... All of them! Can't stand nothing bright, yellowish, golden... Orange is fruit not a garment Collor! 🤣🤣😭 Have to accept... My clothes will make me pale 😭🤣🤣🤣
@@little_moth yeah... but that wouldnt be light collors? Im more of the deep and dark in collor preference... light collors tend to make me feel naked... its really a problem to me this warm x cold thing... really doesnt fit my personality :(
Could you make a video on how to style warm/cool tone outfits? A trend is pastel colours but I feel like I just end up wearing pink and yellow as a warm tone girl.
Check out "Is your red the same as my red?" by VSauce. Very interesting chanel on youtube. The video explains that every person perceives exact the same colour differently and why.
You're amazing - you give such helpful and practical advice for those of us who are not knowledgeable about these things. And you do it all so pleasantly and warmly - love your smile! XO
Excellent video as always! :) And as always I'm having my afternoon coffee while watching this wonderful video. Thanks Justine! It's really useful to know how to choose the right colors. :)
Hi Justine, thanks for another fantastic video. Many years ago, in college, I took a class in color theory - and since then, I've given a lot more thought to color in general and more specifically to color combining. It's so interesting. I really enjoyed and appreciated this video...as always, so good and informative. You're a wonderful teacher, Justine. Thx again, xo, Sue
Dear Justine! First of all I'm sorry for my English...I really like your videos. One of my favourite when you gave advices for Sierra ( Curvy body type). You're designer and stylist and create smart videos. Especially not just for rich people. It's nice for me, because I'm not be able to purchase big brands. In my opinion is that our soul the most important thing in our life but we can express our soul with our outfit as well. Thank you so much! 🌷
Justine please do a more detailed video on undertones...please!! For all i learned from your video about undertone..i realized that knkwing one's undertone is the most essential when it comes to dressing oneself. I look more dark when i wear solid pink or solid yellow...whereas solid red or solid blue makes me glow.. I wonder what i am when it comes to undertone..for all my research and venture to find a foundation according to my skintone and undertone i understand that i am neutral but a little bit on the warm side.
This could relate more to the 16 seasons model which features other colour scales (chroma and light/dark) rather than just the hue. It could be because you're a clear season so you suit mostly contrasting, intense colours. I'm a clear spring (bright and warm) and I seem to suit the same colours you mentioned so I would recommend checking that out if you haven't already :)
Who are the 59 people who down voted this?! I’m so thankful for you and your channel to help me learn how to dress better and feel better. Thank you, Justine!
The explanation was very clear. Thank you very much. Yet I still need to train my eyes to recognise the colours before I'm confident enough to tell it's warm or cool. For this training, I played a colour recognition game on the mobile. By the way, the shopping centres in Australia rarely have windows for clothes shops. Need a pair of eagle eyes to quickly tell if a colour is warm or cool. 😂
take the watercolors they have for schoolchildren and try to match colors. you will be surprised. One can mix brown for instance, but a nice chestnut brown (not a dark muddy mixture if you did not wash your brush our properly) is not easy to achieve. You will need lots of yellow. Or of course in a paint program like gimp ;) I did some paintings (mixing colors) and later tried to mix colors for funiture (DiY) - that really trains your sense of color.
This and your warm /cool toned video really helped me in my wardrobe curating. I finally feel like I have a minimalist closet that I love and its all because I now know and can tell the difference between cool and warm and shop smarter. THANK YOU
Great video, thank you Justine! But what about the hair? If for example the undertone of your hair is a different than the undertone of your skin, how to proceed?
Irina Dudar good point. I have natural white/gray hairs starting to sprout around my golden blonde hair and I feel it may be changing my warmer hair tone to a cooler and I think my skin is on the warmer side.
So if we were to classify what you were wearing in this video for reference, you have a warm undertone so you're wearing a a warm toned sweater (this one I'm not so sure about), and a warm undertone red lipstick, and the pop of contrasting undertone is from your silver, cool toned earrings. Your natural hair color also seems to have golden hues so it complements your complexion. Can anyone else confirm these? I'm trying to get better at figuring out undertones, and I don't think Justine has mentioned her own undertone in these videos before. Edit: I went back to her first undertone video and she did say she has orange tones and has a warm undertone, so strike that last sentence.
My solution to this entire problem is to wear only whites, blacks and reds. :D my skintone is neutral-warm though, so most colours look okay on me anyway, but I don't really ever wear any.
I read this comment and felt that someone else feeling like me...in some part of the world...and then I saw the name..fellow Indian...we are all always miserable before tests and exams.. lol...:)
Hey Justine! I am a fan of your lip color collection..I am not a fan of orange shade but in this video, apart from your excellent content, your lip color also stands out! As lip colors can majorly affect your look and you seem to have an excellent taste of it, I would like to suggest you to make a video on how to choose lip colors or how to use them as a efficient tool in dressing up. I would love to know how you choose your pallete as I love all of them. ❤
Watched your undertone videos and several other videos about color match. Now I got my answers on why some of my favorite garments didn't actually looks good on me 😔 Nevermind, time for a better shopping experiences. Thanks for your clear explanations.
So I just looked at my closet -it's all navy blue, grey, black, and purple. Thank you for this video it is food for thought. I can only remember one time someone complimented on an outfit years ago and it was olive green. I will be on the hunt for better colors!
Very well done! There’s a very interesting free game (for Android and iOS...easier played on a tablet form) called Blendoku that deals with the relationship of color. It’s both fun and addictive and forces the player to think of color as perhaps never before. As one plays the game, the subtleties of color become more apparent. It might be helpful. I enjoy it as an artist....and find the higher levels challenging!
It's an interesting coincidence. Today I was arranging my colored pencils according to the color wheel and fell upon your video. You helped me a lot. Thanks it was a great video!
Thank you for another fun and informative video! I loved seeing the color progressions. I’ve been playing with paints to help me learn more about color for my hobbies spinning and knitting, and am starting to feel more confident in seeing things like undertones. Hadn’t thought about how it could help me clothing shopping. Unfortunately many if not most clothing stores here in the US lack access to daylight, unless you don’t mind setting off the theft alarms at the door. 😂 Daylight would be so helpful!
I would love it if you’d do a color video on redheads! I’m cool undertones (blue veins and pink/red) and very fair skin with freckles. My hair is very close to Amy Adams hair color. I don’t always feel cool colors work for me. For example paler yellows look awful with my hair. Neutral colors work best like whites, blacks, beige, gray, navy, and dark green or emerald. Also golden yellows, browns, dark reds simply because they compliment my hair color and freckles best. I feel like this skin hair combination can make fashion more challenging. Any tips for us ginger girls? 😊
Thank you! I've struggled with this as I have warm olive skin. Some greens and blues make me look sick while khaki and emerald are great. Mystery solved! I'll rewatch your previous video for the colour app you recommended as I'm picking up a few pieces for a trip to Asia and I'm sure the photos will turn out great! 💖
lllovesalll i've always struggled with the same thing! People always tell me that olive tones shouldn't wear green. But i find that olive green clothes actually look really good on me!
Glad I'm not the only one! Earth tones generally are better than bright pure colours, which used to sadden me but I've found it's easy to create a sophisticated colour palette with the earthier and muted tones vs brights.
I appreciate your colour videos, even though I NEVER am able to follow them! I find colour theory very confusing, even with tons of examples (I've seen all your other colour videos). I enjoy watching them even though I know that I won't be able to apply them just yet :)
Whats about olive under tone? i think i have that under tone my skin look yellowish,greenish any geyish also when i tan i look orange lol, ive tryed to find which colors look good on me but I only have been told that light blue looks great on me and i think mint green doesnot look good on me
Depends. Pure white and pure black suits everyone, but they can be too cold or warm. I can't give you information about grey because I'm not sure about it, but I can confirm about the other two
Nice video, even though I hope I can recognize warm and cool color :D I personally think my undertone is cool, but I love golden eyeshadows and jewellery and actually don't think it looks bad. I'm definitely not neutral, most of the yellows and reds look just horrible at me :D And we always have a fight about that green or blue color. Is it green, or blue? I always say green, my mom says blue, dad agrees with me on green, some of my friends say blue, some of them green... These are the most stupid arguments you can have with anyone, since you can't win. Just why? :D
Love all these color palettes videos but I will be very honest and say I am totally confused about colors. No matter what video I watch, I am lost unless we are talking about the basic colors. So wish I could get it! That’s why I stick to white & blue color, I never mess it up 😋 but none the less, great video Justine! 👍
You would laugh to see the different things I have tried Justine! haha! The only one I get is blue but don’t mix another color in the blue because then I’m lost.
May I suggest playing with water colors or acrylic paints? I find I’m having an easier time since I played with the three basics red, yellow, blue paints just trying to combine dabs of them to get other colors. It helped me see the color wheel around me and was fun playtime too. 🙂
Me too. I am also totally confused. For example, if I add to blue some red, I get warm blue. But on the other hand, if I add to red some blue, I will get cold red. But cold red is still warmer than warm blue!? I don't understand.
Thanks, Justine! I finally get it! I have a warm undertone, I have finally decided. But unfortunately most of my Jewelry is silver. I just like silver much better than gold. I don't care as long as the clothing I wear is well suited, a bit of silver accent is fine with me. Is there such thing as "warm/neutral" as in, mostly warm but a bit of cool in the right place/ way works?
Hi Justine, very nice video, I noticed your undertone is cool one, and you are wearing green today. Can you explain how you did you choose the green, thank you, good luck with your activity!
Thank you for the tip of wearing the opposite color value for pop and keeping it away from your face. It is the difference of you wearing the clothes or the clothes wearing you. I notice that adds often have the clothes wearing the person. Bien sir a sales technique. 😊
Can we have some example outfits for cool and warmed toned skin? Seeing examples is always helpful to me. Thank you so much for taking us deeper into the science of color!
Love the information I just hope next time just show one or two examples with clothes and colors...the color palettes were great but I need to see it on clothes too. Thank you for all you do...you have helped me a lot.
Justine I love your videos! They are so smart and helpful. Over the last year my wardrobe has gotten a bit un-organised but with the help of videos like this i’m able to slim down what suits me, what doesn’t and I’ve been able to make it much easier to find pieces that match each other giving my more freedom with my clothes. Thank you so much :)
As always, very interesting and useful! I have determined I have a warm skin tone and understand what colours go with it. Weirdly, I have clothes in, apparently, cool colours I think/people have commented look good on my me... I am so confused haha
Amii L that is SO me! Peach makes me look super ill while light pink makes me look more awake. I have had a hard time finding out my under tone but your comment made me realize thaf I'm cool toned. Thank you (even though it wasn't the intention, lol) 🌸
My mom, older sister, and I got color draped on my sister's 16th birthday, I was 11, so I've known my "colors" a long time. But this is super helpful to understand it deeper thank you! I want to ask, it looks like you have cool undertones, and your sweater trends towards a cool green in this video. But your lips look like a more orange red to me. Is it just my screen, or did you break your own rule and do that for a pop of color? You lips often look "warmer" to me?!? Tell us your secrets please :):):)
Bonjour, I have enjoyed watching your videos. I loved watching French women in Paris over the years and tried to follow a simplistic yet stylish classic look since I had worked in fashion. Now my hair is turning bright white, am mixed Oriental and 80 years old. Do I need to change colors at my age. Merci
I’d love to see a video about olive undertones as well! Also, in the case of a person with predominantly yellow, warm toned skin and a person with predominantly orange, cool toned skin, would wearing yellows and blues respectively still look good on them?
I'm so intrigued by your example of a warm blue! I always thought of a warm blue being greenish, like indigo, and therefore a cool blue as having purple undertones! Am I wrong? (Great video, as always!)
I just love colour theory! My aha-moment was when I bought two red lipsticks from the same brand - MACs Ruby Woo (cool) and Lady Danger (warm). Until that moment I'd always thought that I had a warm undertone, but no matter how I tried Lady Danger ALWAYS made me look like a clown while Ruby Woo turns me in to a femme fatale ☺️ No more warm colours for me!
Hi Justine! I love your channel! It is clear how much work and effort you put into making each video. One of my favorite series was the one of fabrics. I learned so much! I was hoping you could put together a video on which fabrics work together. I was wondering, for example, if you think linen and silk could work together. Maybe if they are the same color? Thanks and congratulations on reaching 300+K subscribers!
Dear Justine, thank you for this video on color theory! No matter how long or what angle from you talk about this subject, you always make it interesting and informative. My other favorites are your series about fashion, fashion drawing and the French perspective on fashion and life. I absolutely love all of these videos, they help me to feel balanced (and I have them downloaded and saved to watch FOREVER! :-) Your work is a great inspiration for me and as it looks by the number of your subscribers to many others. Keep it up, please! Thank you!
This was one of the best informational pieces on colour I have seen. After 65 years I am considering how colour affects me both emotionally and physically for the first time and need all the help I can get. Thank you!
YES I THINK I LEARN SOMETHING BUT I DONT KNOW WHAT .AHAH WELL : I NOTIES SOMETHING;, YOU SAID THAT YOUR DONT SHOULD WEERING ORANGE . YOU DONT HAVE CLOTHES ORANGE ,RIGHT ??? BUT YOU HAVE ORANGE LIPSTICK .How can you explane that ? thank you very much...i want for many years to see video likE this.
Hello dear, Please tell me, I take undertone test from 3 steps, now I checked that my undertone 70% is green, & 30% is blue..so should I wear 70% warm &mix it 30% blue undertone color for warring ? Thank you very much, Waiting for your reply.
Hi Justine! Is that bright beautiful “cobalt blue” cool or warm? I’m Indian - so I think I’m warm toned, but I just LOVE wearing blue. Thanks for your advice
This concept also applies to when you’re looking for paint colors for your home. Also, my closet is full of gray! LOL I guess I could use a little color :-) thanks for your video.
I have a quick fabric question! I found this dress from Everlane (The Japanese GoWeave Short-Sleeve A-Line Dress.... Phew, mouthfull), and it says that its made of triacetate. What kind of fabric is this? Will it be a nice fabric, or just a plastic feeling synthetic one? I don't think I have ever found a label on something saying that... Help? I remember acetate from your fabric guide videos, and not really in a good way. So cheap and all.
So, I'm a little confused. Not about your explanations, they are wonderful, but about my own undertone. I think I have a warm undertone, however, I look terrible in yellow and yellow-greens. They make my skin look jaundiced and sickly. How could that be? I do know that I look best in jewel-tones- reds, purples, blues, and some greens. Am I missing something in your explanation? Thank you!
I grasped your warm and cool colors. However, using the color analyzer..it says my color is Light Gray...what are my complimentary colors? What colors should I wear? Thank you.
I've never been able to figure out if I am warm or cool skin toned...at least now I now I am instinctively drawn to the warm cool colors..I don't what that means but it's a start!
It would be nice if online clothing stores specified if a garment is overall cool or warm since it is hard to rely on monitors.
Omg yes
Thats an amazing idea!
Kettlewell does this!
What would also help is that, looking online for warm or cool colors. For instance, if you're looking for a blue, look up warm blues, and cool blues. A cool blue would be like a cadet blue, a warm blue would be like a sapphire blue. If you find that, print it. Sewing books are a good place to look.
YES!
Speaking of colors, this green looks wonderful on you.
Agreed! It makes her eyes pop! 🤩
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I am sure her closet is well thought out! She always looks great! :)
I badly wanna see her use a warm colored outfit so we can see the difference of how flattering it is to match your undertone. Hope she'll make a video like that.
Agree with you. Black looks you sick
I don’t know where I saw/learned this color tip, but I’ve never seen it again! The idea is to look at your face in a mirror, in daylight/natural light, then close your eyes and drape your entire face with a color you are interested in. When it’s draped, then open your eyes and quickly pay attention: what do you see first? Your face? Or the color you draped? If you see the color first, it will wear YOU. If you see your face first, the color will flatter. What do you think about this? (It has worked for me, and it allows for such specificity in vetting a color!)
Brilliant advice!!! Will try with my things tomorrow. Thanks a lot!!!
This reminds me of the thing my hairstylist once told me about finding your hair part (esp if you can’t remember when they’ve already sectioned the hair, or if it changes and you’re not sure) she said to close your eyes and tuck your hair behind your ear/brush it out of your face/part it without opening them. Wherever your hand goes is your part and even if you don’t think it is, you’re probably parting your hair here without thinking about it throughout the day anyway.
I’m gonna try this tip you shared bc I’m cool toned and very pale (like, get the first foundation ALL THE WAY to the pale side and that’s probably a shade or two too dark for me, as it has been my whole life) so I only ever wear black bc I just can’t see myself in color. I’ve usually used pink and I feel like that’s a terrible choice. I used to wear white too but now I’m pretty sure I look a bit dead. I’ve recently heard that powder blue could be a good one to try for my complexion, so I can use this to check!
@@rainbomg There is an MUA/influencer named John MacLean here on YT who claims to have the palest skin, and he just might! Check out his channel - he might be helpful in finding good complexion products for you! Plus, he is a lot of fun!
@@judithbrighton3040 well, I’ve been watching his videos and I mean, this is everything I’ve ever needed from a beauty RUclipsr and could never find. AMAZIN. THANK YOU! I love him, he is going through every brand I’ve been curious about trying and getting products in the palest shade and doing walk through reviews- it’s like this was made just to make my life easier 💛💛💛
I have heard that many times on line by colour specialists. I think that's the right way.
I love blues and greens but I’m a warmer neutral. Sea green and turquoise are my favourite colours but I look the best in red and pink. The struggle.
Wear what you love, nothing can beat the inner glow:)
Oh, such a cute comment :)
turquoise and sea green have some yellow in them.
At 58 yrs old I finally am shopping for my skin tone. Took a lot of years to get it. Thumbs up because this was so helpful. You made it simple.
Thanks 😊💛
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This is completely unrelated to the video 😅. But your skin looks great 👍
Never too late for a woman to look fabulous. Get it! ❤️
Me too at 43..
I've found that my skin looks better when I wear the OPPOSITE of my undertone. I have a yellow undertone. I look sickly and almost invisible when I wear beige, some golds, some yellows and reds. My skin looks even, healthy, and peachy, when I wear cool colors blues, teals, greens and cools grays. It's like the cool color makes my warm skin warmer and healthier.
I made a similar observation. My skin is also quite yellow and light. eyes and hair are dark with some gold in them. I thought that yellow, beige and orange were my enemies. Now i realized that this is not true for all of them depending on how 'clear' or 'muddy' they are (i don't know if these age the correct terms). I think the enemy are muddy colours. The clear bold colours also match the contrast of light skin to dark hair. Is your hair dark, too?
Ann G. R. you are confusing sallow skin with warm undertones. You clearly have cool undertones despite sallow skin if the cool tones are flattering and warm colours drain you. If you look terrible in dirty beiges, mustards and orange then you do not have yellow undertone.
@@SueRosalie Thank you for commenting. It is confusing that when trying to identify the undertone, my veins look greenish, and my skin looks much better against gold metal as opposed to silver. So I would guess I have a yellow undertone?
@anng.r.687 your veins are green, and you look best with gold, so that means you are warm undertoned. not necessarily yellow.
it is odd you look best in cool tones. maybe you're actually neutral, lol.
@@anng.r.687 you may have olive skin. Usually, olives looks warm (yellow-greenish skin) because they have a lot of yellow in their skins, but they can be cool undertoned (blue + yellow = Green, so, olive). Any ethnicity can be olive, but It is typically asociated with Mediterranean, Latinamerican, Middle East or South Asían ancestry
I suggest you to look It Up. Figuring out that I have olive skin has helped me a lot with my colors!
Could you please give us an example for the outfit with the contrasting popping colour? It would even make a nice video :) Thank you!
gabriellabaka She actually did it in this video! Her top is cool toned and the lipstick is a bright red/Orange! I think it is a perfect example.
I'm such a huge fan of the forest green jumper and the reddish-orange lip, it looks wonderful!
Can you do color combination video ...? How to mix and match cool and warm colors .. and specially for duskier skin tone .. because I am and it will help me a lot 😄😄😄😄 it's a request 😊
Thank you so much for the link!
Please please please can you do a video focusing on neutral undertones. Everything I can find is warm or cool, but I am very pale and totally neutral (which is strange, I know.) it would just be nice to see a video dedicated to that :)
Kayla Utahna - neutrals can wear either warm or cool colors, individual shades may suite you better than others but you have both warm and cool colors to play with and choose from.
I'm like that too! But not as fair as you.
We can't wear colours that are too obviously cool or warm. :-( Like orange and yellow is extremely hard for me to pull off...
I am with you! I am also neutral.
@@cathhl2440 agree! I find that you can do warm or cool but not to the extreme otherwise it will not look good.
Watch Merriam Style's video on neutral undertones and why they don't really exist. You might not stand out dramatically as being either warm or cool, but probability wise, you likely lean ever so slightly warm or cool, not neutral. That being said, warm and cool colors could both still look good on you.
You make this sound so easy! But my brain is like "whaaat??!" Haha. (And I have watched all of your other videos about colours, undertones etc. ) Thank you for continuing to share!
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Same 😭💔
I am with you. I still don't get it.
This jumper 😍. It really brings out the colour of your eyes x
Great video Justine! I've always stayed away from the color yellow because I have cool undertones, but after watching this video I have learned that I should give a cool based yellow a try.
I can see how this is gonna go down in real life
me: hmm... does this shirt contain more sun, or more sky...
friend: *backs away slowly*
Thank you for mentioning about taking garment to daylight and daylight importance!! My friends always think I'm crazy n blind! I'm not, I just can be a better judge if I see it outside! It looks generally very different! Next time they bother me I'm gonna show them this video.
Lighting is everything. I once bought a garment that seemed to exactly match my warmish skintone in the store’s florescent lighting that turned out to actually be a pale purple in my daylight studio. The undertones of daylight also seems to change drastically with the time of the year and your latitude.
This video reminded me of this puzzle game for the Iphone called "Blendoku" that I used to play all the time. Each puzzle has a bunch of colors that you have to correctly organize by shade.
Sooooooo unfair... I hate basically all the warm colors... All of them! Can't stand nothing bright, yellowish, golden... Orange is fruit not a garment Collor! 🤣🤣😭
Have to accept... My clothes will make me pale 😭🤣🤣🤣
What about cream warm doesn't necessarily mean bright
@@little_moth yeah... but that wouldnt be light collors? Im more of the deep and dark in collor preference... light collors tend to make me feel naked... its really a problem to me this warm x cold thing... really doesnt fit my personality :(
Could you make a video on how to style warm/cool tone outfits? A trend is pastel colours but I feel like I just end up wearing pink and yellow as a warm tone girl.
Nia L yes yes yes!!!
If I may suggest....avoid following trends as they do not suit everyone...instead invest in what suits you best and you will always look good!
Justine!!! One more elegantly structured, crisp video!! Love you!
Check out "Is your red the same as my red?" by VSauce. Very interesting chanel on youtube.
The video explains that every person perceives exact the same colour differently and why.
Aselle Janie that may be so, but since all colors are relative to each other, the relationship and relativity should be the same when comparing.
No. For example, a person with protanopea would disagree.
You're amazing - you give such helpful and practical advice for those of us who are not knowledgeable about these things. And you do it all so pleasantly and warmly - love your smile! XO
Excellent video as always! :) And as always I'm having my afternoon coffee while watching this wonderful video. Thanks Justine! It's really useful to know how to choose the right colors. :)
Enjoy your coffee!
I'm just finding this 3 years later, but thank you!
Hi Justine, thanks for another fantastic video. Many years ago, in college, I took a class in color theory - and since then, I've given a lot more thought to color in general and more specifically to color combining. It's so interesting. I really enjoyed and appreciated this video...as always, so good and informative. You're a wonderful teacher, Justine. Thx again, xo, Sue
I love these videos! Your advice is always so clear and helpful.
Rosie B true!!!
When you compared the two colours, my mind was blown! Fantastic idea to compare - thank you Justine!
Dear Justine!
First of all I'm sorry for my English...I really like your videos. One of my favourite when you gave advices for Sierra ( Curvy body type). You're designer and stylist and create smart videos. Especially not just for rich people. It's nice for me, because I'm not be able to purchase big brands. In my opinion is that our soul the most important thing in our life but we can express our soul with our outfit as well.
Thank you so much! 🌷
I always learn something new from you, Justine. Je te remercie de m'enseigner la mode :-).
Justine please do a more detailed video on undertones...please!! For all i learned from your video about undertone..i realized that knkwing one's undertone is the most essential when it comes to dressing oneself. I look more dark when i wear solid pink or solid yellow...whereas solid red or solid blue makes me glow.. I wonder what i am when it comes to undertone..for all my research and venture to find a foundation according to my skintone and undertone i understand that i am neutral but a little bit on the warm side.
This could relate more to the 16 seasons model which features other colour scales (chroma and light/dark) rather than just the hue. It could be because you're a clear season so you suit mostly contrasting, intense colours. I'm a clear spring (bright and warm) and I seem to suit the same colours you mentioned so I would recommend checking that out if you haven't already :)
Who are the 59 people who down voted this?! I’m so thankful for you and your channel to help me learn how to dress better and feel better. Thank you, Justine!
My eyes and brain hurt.... in a good way 😄 Good video, Justine. Thanks for sharing
Justine: I'm hooked. Thanks for such a generous approach to fashion advice.
The explanation was very clear. Thank you very much.
Yet I still need to train my eyes to recognise the colours before I'm confident enough to tell it's warm or cool. For this training, I played a colour recognition game on the mobile.
By the way, the shopping centres in Australia rarely have windows for clothes shops. Need a pair of eagle eyes to quickly tell if a colour is warm or cool. 😂
take the watercolors they have for schoolchildren and try to match colors. you will be surprised. One can mix brown for instance, but a nice chestnut brown (not a dark muddy mixture if you did not wash your brush our properly) is not easy to achieve. You will need lots of yellow.
Or of course in a paint program like gimp ;)
I did some paintings (mixing colors) and later tried to mix colors for funiture (DiY) - that really trains your sense of color.
This and your warm /cool toned video really helped me in my wardrobe curating. I finally feel like I have a minimalist closet that I love and its all because I now know and can tell the difference between cool and warm and shop smarter. THANK YOU
Great video, thank you Justine! But what about the hair? If for example the undertone of your hair is a different than the undertone of your skin, how to proceed?
Irina Dudar good point. I have natural white/gray hairs starting to sprout around my golden blonde hair and I feel it may be changing my warmer hair tone to a cooler and I think my skin is on the warmer side.
So if we were to classify what you were wearing in this video for reference, you have a warm undertone so you're wearing a a warm toned sweater (this one I'm not so sure about), and a warm undertone red lipstick, and the pop of contrasting undertone is from your silver, cool toned earrings. Your natural hair color also seems to have golden hues so it complements your complexion. Can anyone else confirm these? I'm trying to get better at figuring out undertones, and I don't think Justine has mentioned her own undertone in these videos before.
Edit: I went back to her first undertone video and she did say she has orange tones and has a warm undertone, so strike that last sentence.
your videos are always so helpful, thank you for teaching us all those fashion hacks! ♥
What skin tone do you have Justine? I would guess cool? Thanks fo a wonderful video 👍
My solution to this entire problem is to wear only whites, blacks and reds. :D my skintone is neutral-warm though, so most colours look okay on me anyway, but I don't really ever wear any.
That works too 😅
I was depressed as i have a test tomorrow but your smile makes me so happy
I read this comment and felt that someone else feeling like me...in some part of the world...and then I saw the name..fellow Indian...we are all always miserable before tests and exams.. lol...:)
I have been watching your videos for awhile, never disappointed
Hey Justine! I am a fan of your lip color collection..I am not a fan of orange shade but in this video, apart from your excellent content, your lip color also stands out! As lip colors can majorly affect your look and you seem to have an excellent taste of it, I would like to suggest you to make a video on how to choose lip colors or how to use them as a efficient tool in dressing up. I would love to know how you choose your pallete as I love all of them. ❤
Your tips and ideas helped me to change my lifestyle in healthy way. Love you so much.😘😘
And you are not wearing Red nailpaint.
I know, right? It's a mini revolution 🤣😅
Watched your undertone videos and several other videos about color match. Now I got my answers on why some of my favorite garments didn't actually looks good on me 😔 Nevermind, time for a better shopping experiences. Thanks for your clear explanations.
So I just looked at my closet -it's all navy blue, grey, black, and purple. Thank you for this video it is food for thought. I can only remember one time someone complimented on an outfit years ago and it was olive green. I will be on the hunt for better colors!
this was actually the best explanation of undertones and color wheel i've ever heard!
Very well done! There’s a very interesting free game (for Android and iOS...easier played on a tablet form) called Blendoku that deals with the relationship of color. It’s both fun and addictive and forces the player to think of color as perhaps never before. As one plays the game, the subtleties of color become more apparent. It might be helpful. I enjoy it as an artist....and find the higher levels challenging!
When the colour suits you it's make ur skin more fair.... Like blk... Dark blue... Dark green...some wat dark clour so which are they warm or cool???
You always make me go gaga:):)😘😘😘🤗👏👏👏
You're great, Justine! Thank you for the helpful video, keep it up! :)) #notificationsquad
Hey! 🤗😘
It's an interesting coincidence. Today I was arranging my colored pencils according to the color wheel and fell upon your video. You helped me a lot. Thanks it was a great video!
Thank you for another fun and informative video! I loved seeing the color progressions. I’ve been playing with paints to help me learn more about color for my hobbies spinning and knitting, and am starting to feel more confident in seeing things like undertones. Hadn’t thought about how it could help me clothing shopping. Unfortunately many if not most clothing stores here in the US lack access to daylight, unless you don’t mind setting off the theft alarms at the door. 😂 Daylight would be so helpful!
I would love it if you’d do a color video on redheads! I’m cool undertones (blue veins and pink/red) and very fair skin with freckles. My hair is very close to Amy Adams hair color. I don’t always feel cool colors work for me. For example paler yellows look awful with my hair. Neutral colors work best like whites, blacks, beige, gray, navy, and dark green or emerald. Also golden yellows, browns, dark reds simply because they compliment my hair color and freckles best. I feel like this skin hair combination can make fashion more challenging. Any tips for us ginger girls? 😊
Thank you! I've struggled with this as I have warm olive skin. Some greens and blues make me look sick while khaki and emerald are great. Mystery solved! I'll rewatch your previous video for the colour app you recommended as I'm picking up a few pieces for a trip to Asia and I'm sure the photos will turn out great! 💖
lllovesalll i've always struggled with the same thing! People always tell me that olive tones shouldn't wear green. But i find that olive green clothes actually look really good on me!
IIILovesalll, & Jane Doe, my mom has olive skin too, and she looks great in green, particularly olive toned greens@
Glad I'm not the only one! Earth tones generally are better than bright pure colours, which used to sadden me but I've found it's easy to create a sophisticated colour palette with the earthier and muted tones vs brights.
Thank you for doing this video ( I know there was a similar old one). This is a great start to my Sunday :)
Alexandra Fetisova in Vietnam it's Monday already :(. Enjoy your Sunday =)))
I appreciate your colour videos, even though I NEVER am able to follow them! I find colour theory very confusing, even with tons of examples (I've seen all your other colour videos). I enjoy watching them even though I know that I won't be able to apply them just yet :)
Whats about olive under tone? i think i have that under tone my skin look yellowish,greenish any geyish also when i tan i look orange lol, ive tryed to find which colors look good on me but I only have been told that light blue looks great on me and i think mint green doesnot look good on me
How about black, white and grey? That's honestly 99% of my wardrobe 😅 Can any person wear them? I feel grey doesn't do me much favor but...
Depends. Pure white and pure black suits everyone, but they can be too cold or warm. I can't give you information about grey because I'm not sure about it, but I can confirm about the other two
Nice video, even though I hope I can recognize warm and cool color :D I personally think my undertone is cool, but I love golden eyeshadows and jewellery and actually don't think it looks bad. I'm definitely not neutral, most of the yellows and reds look just horrible at me :D
And we always have a fight about that green or blue color. Is it green, or blue? I always say green, my mom says blue, dad agrees with me on green, some of my friends say blue, some of them green... These are the most stupid arguments you can have with anyone, since you can't win. Just why? :D
Thanks Justine...another quality video 😍
Thank you for always interesting inspiring tips. You’re a legend.
Love all these color palettes videos but I will be very honest and say I am totally confused about colors. No matter what video I watch, I am lost unless we are talking about the basic colors. So wish I could get it! That’s why I stick to white & blue color, I never mess it up 😋 but none the less, great video Justine! 👍
It is a matter of practice 😊. Try by comparison, it is easier!
You would laugh to see the different things I have tried Justine! haha! The only one I get is blue but don’t mix another color in the blue because then I’m lost.
May I suggest playing with water colors or acrylic paints? I find I’m having an easier time since I played with the three basics red, yellow, blue paints just trying to combine dabs of them to get other colors. It helped me see the color wheel around me and was fun playtime too. 🙂
That’s a great idea! I shall try that. Thank you Sabrina!
Me too. I am also totally confused. For example, if I add to blue some red, I get warm blue. But on the other hand, if I add to red some blue, I will get cold red. But cold red is still warmer than warm blue!? I don't understand.
Waitng for This video is too good ,I love it😍
Please do hosiery next my dear
Justine
I’m a hair colorist
I love the way you share your information
Thank you
Great demonstration
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Thanks, Justine! I finally get it! I have a warm undertone, I have finally decided. But unfortunately most of my Jewelry is silver. I just like silver much better than gold. I don't care as long as the clothing I wear is well suited, a bit of silver accent is fine with me. Is there such thing as "warm/neutral" as in, mostly warm but a bit of cool in the right place/ way works?
Hi Justine, very nice video, I noticed your undertone is cool one, and you are wearing green today. Can you explain how you did you choose the green, thank you, good luck with your activity!
The green of her pullover is a cool one
Thank you for the tip of wearing the opposite color value for pop and keeping it away from your face. It is the difference of you wearing the clothes or the clothes wearing you. I notice that adds often have the clothes wearing the person. Bien sir a sales technique. 😊
Mary Stawarz Of a mother
What does the clothes wearing the person mean?
Can we have some example outfits for cool and warmed toned skin? Seeing examples is always helpful to me.
Thank you so much for taking us deeper into the science of color!
Love the information I just hope next time just show one or two examples with clothes and colors...the color palettes were great but I need to see it on clothes too. Thank you for all you do...you have helped me a lot.
Justine I love your videos! They are so smart and helpful. Over the last year my wardrobe has gotten a bit un-organised but with the help of videos like this i’m able to slim down what suits me, what doesn’t and I’ve been able to make it much easier to find pieces that match each other giving my more freedom with my clothes. Thank you so much :)
You are welcome 💋
As always, very interesting and useful! I have determined I have a warm skin tone and understand what colours go with it. Weirdly, I have clothes in, apparently, cool colours I think/people have commented look good on my me... I am so confused haha
Yes! I can't wear peach!!! But i can wear a baby pink 😁
Amii L that is SO me! Peach makes me look super ill while light pink makes me look more awake. I have had a hard time finding out my under tone but your comment made me realize thaf I'm cool toned. Thank you (even though it wasn't the intention, lol) 🌸
Mia Teut awesome! Glad I could help 😁
I can't wear peach too 😆😆😆
My mom, older sister, and I got color draped on my sister's 16th birthday, I was 11, so I've known my "colors" a long time. But this is super helpful to understand it deeper thank you! I want to ask, it looks like you have cool undertones, and your sweater trends towards a cool green in this video. But your lips look like a more orange red to me. Is it just my screen, or did you break your own rule and do that for a pop of color? You lips often look "warmer" to me?!? Tell us your secrets please :):):)
She said mixing cool and warm colours in one look compliments the person’s appearance.
Thanks - so helpful
So... I don't really have to give away my clothes with cool undertones. I just have to wear them far from my face. Thank you :)
All your videos are so great and well done!! There's actually not one video I didn't like or didn't find helpful!! Weiter so:)
Thank you so much, I was just struggling with this! So helpful💕
Bonjour,
I have enjoyed watching your videos. I loved watching French women in Paris over the years and tried to follow a simplistic yet stylish classic look since I had worked in fashion. Now my hair is turning bright white, am mixed Oriental and 80 years old. Do I need to change colors at my age.
Merci
I’d love to see a video about olive undertones as well! Also, in the case of a person with predominantly yellow, warm toned skin and a person with predominantly orange, cool toned skin, would wearing yellows and blues respectively still look good on them?
I'm so intrigued by your example of a warm blue! I always thought of a warm blue being greenish, like indigo, and therefore a cool blue as having purple undertones! Am I wrong? (Great video, as always!)
I just love colour theory! My aha-moment was when I bought two red lipsticks from the same brand - MACs Ruby Woo (cool) and Lady Danger (warm). Until that moment I'd always thought that I had a warm undertone, but no matter how I tried Lady Danger ALWAYS made me look like a clown while Ruby Woo turns me in to a femme fatale ☺️ No more warm colours for me!
Really good tip to compare colours next to each other. I do this sometimes when comparing makeup colours, never thought to do it with clothes!
Hi Justine! I love your channel! It is clear how much work and effort you put into making each video. One of my favorite series was the one of fabrics. I learned so much! I was hoping you could put together a video on which fabrics work together. I was wondering, for example, if you think linen and silk could work together. Maybe if they are the same color? Thanks and congratulations on reaching 300+K subscribers!
Just followed your channel yesterday and I'm all obsessed with your videos now😂👌💜
Dear Justine, thank you for this video on color theory! No matter how long or what angle from you talk about this subject, you always make it interesting and informative. My other favorites are your series about fashion, fashion drawing and the French perspective on fashion and life. I absolutely love all of these videos, they help me to feel balanced (and I have them downloaded and saved to watch FOREVER! :-) Your work is a great inspiration for me and as it looks by the number of your subscribers to many others. Keep it up, please! Thank you!
This was one of the best informational pieces on colour I have seen. After 65 years I am considering how colour affects me both emotionally and physically for the first time and need all the help I can get. Thank you!
I love you and your videos. Thanks for all the time and effort you put into your teaching videos.
YES I THINK I LEARN SOMETHING BUT I DONT KNOW WHAT .AHAH WELL : I NOTIES SOMETHING;, YOU SAID THAT YOUR DONT SHOULD WEERING ORANGE . YOU DONT HAVE CLOTHES ORANGE ,RIGHT ???
BUT YOU HAVE ORANGE LIPSTICK .How can you explane that ? thank you very much...i want for many years to see video likE this.
Hello dear,
Please tell me,
I take undertone test from 3 steps, now I checked that my undertone 70% is green, & 30% is blue..so should I wear 70% warm &mix it 30% blue undertone color for warring ?
Thank you very much,
Waiting for your reply.
Hi Justine! Is that bright beautiful “cobalt blue” cool or warm? I’m Indian - so I think I’m warm toned, but I just LOVE wearing blue. Thanks for your advice
This concept also applies to when you’re looking for paint colors for your home. Also, my closet is full of gray! LOL I guess I could use a little color :-) thanks for your video.
The undertones can make such a difference. Sometimes I can't tell: is this wa rm or cool. Good to know. Have a great week.
I have been binge watching all your video’s in the last 24 hours.
I have a quick fabric question! I found this dress from Everlane (The Japanese GoWeave Short-Sleeve A-Line Dress.... Phew, mouthfull), and it says that its made of triacetate. What kind of fabric is this? Will it be a nice fabric, or just a plastic feeling synthetic one? I don't think I have ever found a label on something saying that... Help? I remember acetate from your fabric guide videos, and not really in a good way. So cheap and all.
So, I'm a little confused. Not about your explanations, they are wonderful, but about my own undertone. I think I have a warm undertone, however, I look terrible in yellow and yellow-greens. They make my skin look jaundiced and sickly. How could that be? I do know that I look best in jewel-tones- reds, purples, blues, and some greens. Am I missing something in your explanation? Thank you!
Thanks Justine for making fashion and styling a fun endeavour! Repeatedly looking forward to your vids.
Thanks 😗
How does one figure out their color tone? I have always struggled to figure it out with make up.
I grasped your warm and cool colors. However, using the color analyzer..it says my color is Light Gray...what are my complimentary colors? What colors should I wear? Thank you.
I've never been able to figure out if I am warm or cool skin toned...at least now I now I am instinctively drawn to the warm cool colors..I don't what that means but it's a start!