It's so surprising to me that muted skin tones are more common, because I swear when shopping for clothes there always seems to be an overabundance of bright colors and almost NOTHING warm and delicate. However, I haven't compared this as much with how many people I see who are warm/cool or radiant/delicate. I guess it's possible that popular clothing colors don't match with what people actually look good in.
Being cool and radiant I kind of knew most people are warm. I struggle to find foundation in my skin tone, most are looking too yellow or orange on me. And brands produce what they can sell best.
I have been color typed by Merriam as Warm and Delicate and I love my palette. I really do look best in creams, peaches, and warm greens. I have also been typed as Warm Autumn by other analysts in the 12 season system and I prefer the Warm and Delicate as it is easier to find colors and not stress about the particular shades of color is the best.
Your color typing was a game changer for me. I thought I was warm and delicate and you showed me how I’m really cool, radiant and deep olive. I had been mistyped as warm for years because have brown skin and medium contrast. Now that I can see it myself, my undertones are an almost purple silvery gray! So thank you! I’ve noticed on color typing discussion groups like Reddit, etc, folks who are most confused about their colors are cool, delicate olive types because none of the common tests work for them, look at your veins, what metals look best, do you tan, etc
This all makes sense for me as a warm & bright person…. 😂 I didn’t really believe in color analysis until I saw that my beauty was actually enhanced by certain colors, although I can pull off anything, and have been told I look good even in colors like fuchsia.
I think people get their colors done because its hard to see what you really look like sometimes. It is so easy for me to dress our children because I can see clearly what is flattering but it was always harder to tell for myself.
I love your colour analysis videos. The cool to warm spectrum you described combined with the olive to red spectrum was truly an eye opener for me. I am cool and delicate and have delicately red skin. I find being in these muted categories with medium contrast can make dressing a challenge. For example, try finding a simple muted medium grey top with a bit of red in it that's the right size, cut price and fabric! Especially when everything in the shops seem aimed at cool and radiant. Also, the fact that warm and radiants can wear almost anything and look good makes you feel like fashion caters for the exception. Identifying your skin ubdertone is one thing but applying colour analysis effectively is the next step. I actually enjoy this process because I try to embrace the limitation of a smaller selection of 'best' colours and to be more thoughtful with my purchases and outfit combinations. Thank you!
I'm interested in other regions, especially Korea! Because my husband is Korean and I live here haha. Also, I had you type my mom as a birthday gift a few years ago and she remains SO happy about her clothing choices. Her drawers are not filled with unflattering clothes anymore, so thank you again!! ❤ Another video suggestion: some of your drawings to illustrate men, perhaps? My husband is rounded and it is so hard to find flattering clothes for him here in Korea because many of the styles are very flowy or very boxy.
Hi Merriam, I definitely believe in colour analysis. I was wrongly typed as a winter at a colour draping session many years ago. I have light olive skin and high contrast, so I was put into winter despite the fact that I have warmth to my skin. But the colours recommended looked off on me and I couldn’t figure out why. Thank goodness you helped me to see that I’m actually warm and delicate! The only other person to recognise this was my hairdresser! She always encouraged me to go for slightly warm tones even when I asked her for cool. Which is what I thought I was so it’s what I thought I needed. Needless to say I feel much better in my own colours now ❤ By the way, I think I asked this in a previous video, but now that I know that I’m warm and delicate and soft classic, I was wondering if you could help me with figuring out my essence? 🤔 Thanks!
@@merriamstylethanks so much that would be lovely! I basically would like to know how I can figure out what my essence is, and the kind of clothing recommended for the different essences. A video would be very helpful!❤
Hi! You did my color analysis and I am cool and radiant. I was previously told I was warm and delicate when I wore those colors I looked sick pale and dead lol after you did it I glow and look alive thank you so much by the way my eyes are olive green so that’s why I was previously put in sister warm but it’s the skin that matters you go girl
I just don’t think the seasons method makes much sense, because each season contains both warm and cool colors. But, I really like your system because I think it makes sense and is very logical. Also, it seems very inclusive of all kinds of skin tones.
🎯 yes! I've been told I'm a "Winter", or "Neutral", or "BrightSpring"... 😂 I have golden brown eyes, used to have dark warm brown hair (now going grey), and medium light golden skin. I think of myself as a "Deep Autumn" (Warm & Bright) and look best in teal, plum, olive or dark greens, deep warm reds... and I wear black with gold. I saw a new study done by a university in UK which concluded that skintone counts less than eye color(⁉️) in the *public perception* of color preferences, light eyes correlating to blues/grey, and dark brown eyes correlating to warm reds. While this seems to comport with my personal coloring, I think you are an example of the exception to this perception. You always look your best in black & white in my opinion.
I did find one color that would convince anyone of the validity of color theory, on me it's a muted light "warm mauve", it looks peach just like my skin until you see it directly against my face, and then I go blue-grey! It's quite pronounced, and very confusing. Kind of like that dress illusion or the color cube, the brain color corrects if it detects a shadow, or something... 🧐
I live in a small city in Mexico and here I usually see neutral skin tones (warm and cool) but one day I was shopping and I saw a woman with very bright cool skin tone and she was wearing a yellow top. Her skin literally seem to be blue and I immediately remembered your videos.
Can you do a color analysis on Trinny Woodall? She claims to be neutral and seems to suit light and muted, but also wears super bright colors and looks good. You can watch in tons of her videos.
@@Bubbles-od2tv Maybe. But also lots of black and white that doesn’t suit delicate tones. Or jewel tones that actually look great in cool and delicate.
@@di3486 Yes, i'm a Soft Summer and i've been looking out for muted colors too, and it's not easy. I'm already picky about the cut and style, and now adding muted colors in the mix makes it so hard. I think Free People have some muted colors but their style doesn't usually appeal to me
Im quite certainly warm and radiant, but gray is not the only color that looks bad on me. For a long time, I mostly only wanted to wear dark muted colors, because 1. it’s nice to disappear, and 2. because in some cases, those colors are good on me, due to their depth (I have very contrasty eyes and eyebrows). Maybe the olive undertones I have also limit the bright colors that work on me. So it took a while to realize that vibrant colors can do good things. Lighter colors generally don’t work, which means most yellows and grassy green are off the table. Any kind of magenta/raspberry is an abomination, and so are purpley blues, even though thy are so pretty. But somehow, very deep eggplant colors seem to work, even though they are right in between those two areas of the color wheel. I don’t know why, but you've said this too. My best colors are probably tomato red, deep turquoise, pumpkin orange, forest green, rust, orange brown, creamy white, and yellowy black. In the 12 season system, I guess I’m a deep autumn, but I think bright spring could be appropriate too because vibrancy and depth are both important. Anyways, I suppose I have a narrower range for a warm radiant person.
Dear Merriam, thank you for the great video! I am cool and bright and I like to tan a lot (most Russians do), does the very tanned skin changes anything? Thank you.
Hi, would you please consider talking about which types look best in, and also which types CAN pull off long hair? And I mean very long, like waist length or at least rib length. What confuses me is I see women online and in real life with really long hair and it seems it looks good on so many girls but it seems like not all of them are the same body type. Just wondering how that’s possible or if maybe I just don’t have a trained eye and it’s all a specific type. Or maybe it just doesn’t look flat out BAD so I think think it looks good…I’m not sure. Would love some help/opinions on this from anyone
I definitely feel warm tones are more common. There's far more warm toned foundation colors compared to cool colors. I was draped as a winter by HOC in person. I had my skin tone analyzed by a make up artist to help with choosing foundations and she said I'm neutral. I'd be curious to see what your thoughts are. I may have to do a consultation with you. The winter make up feels clownish to me.
I was curious as to why my skin looks so apparently blue/cool when I wear overtly cool colors. It confused me and made me think maybe I’m not cool but then how could my skin have that appearance if the colors weren’t there. I think maybe they were just bright winter type cool colors maybe.
...my warm coworkers laughed at me when I told them I look dead in yellow 😂😭 Then they asked why I wear black all the time, so I told them "because it's harder to look natural in my best color- royal blue" Then they laughed at me a second time 😭 So I held up a yellow shirt to my face and they sayed "eeeewwwww that's terrible " Then they laughed at me againnnnnnn 😭
The color analysis is not that much about undertone or skin tone, but about the colors that look better on a person, that could be opposite to the skin tone. The worst thing is when color analysts are recommending makeup😵💫 These people often don’t have any idea about any makeup techniques and it is almost always a fail😮💨
My sister has always had very dark hair, blue/grey eyes, but very fair skin. She would burn in the sun, but it would never turn into a tan. I'm no expert, by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm sure she is cool, but just don't know if that means radiant or delicate. 🤔
Omg my best friend its a warm and radiant I think, she can wear every colour and looks fine, she has golden skin tone and tan very quickly, and she always say exatly the same what you hearing from people warm and radiant : I can wear every colour what I want 😂
If this was true that warm skin tones only look yellow in cool tone colours then why do i look grey in most cool colours ? You talk about Olive skin tones but im pale warm olive and i look grey in cool colours and come alive in warm colours (im DA) i can understand your theory on true warm types but when you throw olive in the mix it changes things. Olive is neutral so if your undertone is warm you will be warm neutral . If you're pale olive however , like myself you may not have a green hue but a blue/grey cast instead because the yellow pigment is greatly decreased until melanin is increased through tanning , increasing the yellow pigment , yellow and blue make green, The grey/blue hue then becomes a green hue. Now when i wear cool colours with increased melanin im going to look yellow because there is enough yellow pigment present.
hm I will have to think about this. Maybe it has something to do with being warm and delicate too, and if you have certain surface tones to your skin certain colors may bring those out. I've also seen some cool people look yellowish but not in a 'golden' way but maybe in an unflattering way in certain colors. I think these are surface tones to the skin that happen to be brought out and are more specific to the person potentially. It sounds like you're saying you tan warmer. And also potentially like you are pretty light if you don't tan. This sounds like you may even be changing undertones because you may be light enough to be cool and delicate, but as you build your warm melanin, you will become warm. This isn't exclusively an olive thing. I'd be curious what you think about my video about the lightest skin tones always being cool, I think it's called the lightest skin tones or something similar. Now that I think more on it, that sounds like the most likely thing from your comment alone. As in, in your specific situation, you look gray in warm colors when you're lighter because *you are cool when you're lighter*. And then you get warmer as you tan bc your pigment is warm.
I can relate to this commenter, I also find that I look gray in cool colors. Not yellow. And I also have olive undertones. But I don’t think the olive-ness makes me more neutral, or delicate. It just means that cool colors like magenta look very bad on me, while vibrant warm colors are my best. You can actually see yellowy-greens in my skin. It’s a warm olive. I believe I am warm and radiant. Not delicate. Maybe this person has a similar thing.
What hair colors you would advice for a winter - bright and cool, brunette with starting graying hair? Please advise! Thank you. Will highlights or balyage look good for winter type?
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It's so surprising to me that muted skin tones are more common, because I swear when shopping for clothes there always seems to be an overabundance of bright colors and almost NOTHING warm and delicate. However, I haven't compared this as much with how many people I see who are warm/cool or radiant/delicate. I guess it's possible that popular clothing colors don't match with what people actually look good in.
most of the clothing out there is cool colours. Or warm and radiant. rarely warm and muted
Being cool and radiant I kind of knew most people are warm. I struggle to find foundation in my skin tone, most are looking too yellow or orange on me. And brands produce what they can sell best.
I have been color typed by Merriam as Warm and Delicate and I love my palette. I really do look best in creams, peaches, and warm greens. I have also been typed as Warm Autumn by other analysts in the 12 season system and I prefer the Warm and Delicate as it is easier to find colors and not stress about the particular shades of color is the best.
Your color typing was a game changer for me. I thought I was warm and delicate and you showed me how I’m really cool, radiant and deep olive. I had been mistyped as warm for years because have brown skin and medium contrast. Now that I can see it myself, my undertones are an almost purple silvery gray! So thank you!
I’ve noticed on color typing discussion groups like Reddit, etc, folks who are most confused about their colors are cool, delicate olive types because none of the common tests work for them, look at your veins, what metals look best, do you tan, etc
@67Neisha Really interesting . I´m happy for you 😊, Merriam really knows her job 🤗.
lol I love what you said about warm and radiant! too funny!
This all makes sense for me as a warm & bright person…. 😂 I didn’t really believe in color analysis until I saw that my beauty was actually enhanced by certain colors, although I can pull off anything, and have been told I look good even in colors like fuchsia.
As a cool olive, I envy you lol
That’s cool. Im pretty sure I’m warm and radiant, but fuchsia is a definite no. Maybe it has to do with having olive tones.
@@calliope6623 it’s really not my best color… however bright colors on me will always be more flattering than muted. Even if they are cool & bright.
"Warm can handle cool" was definitely an eye-opening thing for me!
I'm also warm and bright and have to agree!
I think people get their colors done because its hard to see what you really look like sometimes. It is so easy for me to dress our children because I can see clearly what is flattering but it was always harder to tell for myself.
this is so true
I love your colour analysis videos. The cool to warm spectrum you described combined with the olive to red spectrum was truly an eye opener for me. I am cool and delicate and have delicately red skin. I find being in these muted categories with medium contrast can make dressing a challenge. For example, try finding a simple muted medium grey top with a bit of red in it that's the right size, cut price and fabric! Especially when everything in the shops seem aimed at cool and radiant. Also, the fact that warm and radiants can wear almost anything and look good makes you feel like fashion caters for the exception. Identifying your skin ubdertone is one thing but applying colour analysis effectively is the next step. I actually enjoy this process because I try to embrace the limitation of a smaller selection of 'best' colours and to be more thoughtful with my purchases and outfit combinations. Thank you!
I'm interested in other regions, especially Korea! Because my husband is Korean and I live here haha.
Also, I had you type my mom as a birthday gift a few years ago and she remains SO happy about her clothing choices. Her drawers are not filled with unflattering clothes anymore, so thank you again!! ❤
Another video suggestion: some of your drawings to illustrate men, perhaps? My husband is rounded and it is so hard to find flattering clothes for him here in Korea because many of the styles are very flowy or very boxy.
Hi Merriam, I definitely believe in colour analysis. I was wrongly typed as a winter at a colour draping session many years ago. I have light olive skin and high contrast, so I was put into winter despite the fact that I have warmth to my skin. But the colours recommended looked off on me and I couldn’t figure out why. Thank goodness you helped me to see that I’m actually warm and delicate! The only other person to recognise this was my hairdresser! She always encouraged me to go for slightly warm tones even when I asked her for cool. Which is what I thought I was so it’s what I thought I needed. Needless to say I feel much better in my own colours now ❤ By the way, I think I asked this in a previous video, but now that I know that I’m warm and delicate and soft classic, I was wondering if you could help me with figuring out my essence? 🤔 Thanks!
I'm happy warm and delicate is resonating with you.
@@merriamstylethanks so much that would be lovely! I basically would like to know how I can figure out what my essence is, and the kind of clothing recommended for the different essences. A video would be very helpful!❤
If you are not a winter, then what season are you? I also have trouble with finding my season
@@sarutucigash Merriam typed me as a warm and delicate in an analysis consultation, but I’m not sure what the closest seasonal type to that would be?
Hi! You did my color analysis and I am cool and radiant. I was previously told I was warm and delicate when I wore those colors I looked sick pale and dead lol after you did it I glow and look alive thank you so much by the way my eyes are olive green so that’s why I was previously put in sister warm but it’s the skin that matters you go girl
aw I'm so happy to hear this thank you for such a kind and nice comment.
Same! Merriam helped me so much!
This was a question I had for some years now. Thank you for sharing your insights both about your clients and about population in streets.
I just don’t think the seasons method makes much sense, because each season contains both warm and cool colors. But, I really like your system because I think it makes sense and is very logical. Also, it seems very inclusive of all kinds of skin tones.
🎯 yes!
I've been told I'm a "Winter", or "Neutral", or "BrightSpring"... 😂
I have golden brown eyes, used to have dark warm brown hair (now going grey), and medium light golden skin. I think of myself as a "Deep Autumn" (Warm & Bright) and look best in teal, plum, olive or dark greens, deep warm reds... and I wear black with gold.
I saw a new study done by a university in UK which concluded that skintone counts less than eye color(⁉️) in the *public perception* of color preferences, light eyes correlating to blues/grey, and dark brown eyes correlating to warm reds. While this seems to comport with my personal coloring, I think you are an example of the exception to this perception. You always look your best in black & white in my opinion.
I did find one color that would convince anyone of the validity of color theory, on me it's a muted light "warm mauve", it looks peach just like my skin until you see it directly against my face, and then I go blue-grey! It's quite pronounced, and very confusing. Kind of like that dress illusion or the color cube, the brain color corrects if it detects a shadow, or something... 🧐
I live in a small city in Mexico and here I usually see neutral skin tones (warm and cool) but one day I was shopping and I saw a woman with very bright cool skin tone and she was wearing a yellow top. Her skin literally seem to be blue and I immediately remembered your videos.
Can you do a color analysis on Trinny Woodall? She claims to be neutral and seems to suit light and muted, but also wears super bright colors and looks good. You can watch in tons of her videos.
I am neutral and I look good in many colors. Thanks ❤
The clothing market caters more to warm people and very cool people, even though muted would be more common? That’s so crazy.
Because muted colors look washed out and don’t catch the eye. That’s my guess
@@Bubbles-od2tv Maybe. But also lots of black and white that doesn’t suit delicate tones. Or jewel tones that actually look great in cool and delicate.
@@di3486 Yes, i'm a Soft Summer and i've been looking out for muted colors too, and it's not easy. I'm already picky about the cut and style, and now adding muted colors in the mix makes it so hard. I think Free People have some muted colors but their style doesn't usually appeal to me
Im quite certainly warm and radiant, but gray is not the only color that looks bad on me. For a long time, I mostly only wanted to wear dark muted colors, because 1. it’s nice to disappear, and 2. because in some cases, those colors are good on me, due to their depth (I have very contrasty eyes and eyebrows). Maybe the olive undertones I have also limit the bright colors that work on me. So it took a while to realize that vibrant colors can do good things. Lighter colors generally don’t work, which means most yellows and grassy green are off the table. Any kind of magenta/raspberry is an abomination, and so are purpley blues, even though thy are so pretty. But somehow, very deep eggplant colors seem to work, even though they are right in between those two areas of the color wheel. I don’t know why, but you've said this too. My best colors are probably tomato red, deep turquoise, pumpkin orange, forest green, rust, orange brown, creamy white, and yellowy black. In the 12 season system, I guess I’m a deep autumn, but I think bright spring could be appropriate too because vibrancy and depth are both important. Anyways, I suppose I have a narrower range for a warm radiant person.
Dear Merriam, thank you for the great video! I am cool and bright and I like to tan a lot (most Russians do), does the very tanned skin changes anything? Thank you.
Hi, would you please consider talking about which types look best in, and also which types CAN pull off long hair? And I mean very long, like waist length or at least rib length. What confuses me is I see women online and in real life with really long hair and it seems it looks good on so many girls but it seems like not all of them are the same body type. Just wondering how that’s possible or if maybe I just don’t have a trained eye and it’s all a specific type. Or maybe it just doesn’t look flat out BAD so I think think it looks good…I’m not sure. Would love some help/opinions on this from anyone
I definitely feel warm tones are more common. There's far more warm toned foundation colors compared to cool colors. I was draped as a winter by HOC in person. I had my skin tone analyzed by a make up artist to help with choosing foundations and she said I'm neutral. I'd be curious to see what your thoughts are. I may have to do a consultation with you. The winter make up feels clownish to me.
I was curious as to why my skin looks so apparently blue/cool when I wear overtly cool colors. It confused me and made me think maybe I’m not cool but then how could my skin have that appearance if the colors weren’t there. I think maybe they were just bright winter type cool colors maybe.
...my warm coworkers laughed at me when I told them I look dead in yellow 😂😭
Then they asked why I wear black all the time, so I told them "because it's harder to look natural in my best color- royal blue"
Then they laughed at me a second time 😭
So I held up a yellow shirt to my face and they sayed "eeeewwwww that's terrible "
Then they laughed at me againnnnnnn 😭
The color analysis is not that much about undertone or skin tone, but about the colors that look better on a person, that could be opposite to the skin tone. The worst thing is when color analysts are recommending makeup😵💫 These people often don’t have any idea about any makeup techniques and it is almost always a fail😮💨
great video baby! yes I agree cool undertone people definitely know that some colours dont work for them
thank you Saadet, hope you're doing well!
My sister has always had very dark hair, blue/grey eyes, but very fair skin. She would burn in the sun, but it would never turn into a tan. I'm no expert, by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm sure she is cool, but just don't know if that means radiant or delicate. 🤔
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Omg my best friend its a warm and radiant I think, she can wear every colour and looks fine, she has golden skin tone and tan very quickly, and she always say exatly the same what you hearing from people warm and radiant : I can wear every colour what I want 😂
You typed me as warm and radiant....i am very confused because i am not sure warm are my best colors lol....even more confused
Please email me for stuff like this because I could have missed a youtube comment! I have the email addresses listed on my contact page on my website.
If this was true that warm skin tones only look yellow in cool tone colours then why do i look grey in most cool colours ? You talk about Olive skin tones but im pale warm olive and i look grey in cool colours and come alive in warm colours (im DA) i can understand your theory on true warm types but when you throw olive in the mix it changes things. Olive is neutral so if your undertone is warm you will be warm neutral . If you're pale olive however , like myself you may not have a green hue but a blue/grey cast instead because the yellow pigment is greatly decreased until melanin is increased through tanning , increasing the yellow pigment , yellow and blue make green, The grey/blue hue then becomes a green hue. Now when i wear cool colours with increased melanin im going to look yellow because there is enough yellow pigment present.
hm I will have to think about this. Maybe it has something to do with being warm and delicate too, and if you have certain surface tones to your skin certain colors may bring those out. I've also seen some cool people look yellowish but not in a 'golden' way but maybe in an unflattering way in certain colors. I think these are surface tones to the skin that happen to be brought out and are more specific to the person potentially.
It sounds like you're saying you tan warmer. And also potentially like you are pretty light if you don't tan. This sounds like you may even be changing undertones because you may be light enough to be cool and delicate, but as you build your warm melanin, you will become warm. This isn't exclusively an olive thing. I'd be curious what you think about my video about the lightest skin tones always being cool, I think it's called the lightest skin tones or something similar.
Now that I think more on it, that sounds like the most likely thing from your comment alone. As in, in your specific situation, you look gray in warm colors when you're lighter because *you are cool when you're lighter*. And then you get warmer as you tan bc your pigment is warm.
I can relate to this commenter, I also find that I look gray in cool colors. Not yellow. And I also have olive undertones. But I don’t think the olive-ness makes me more neutral, or delicate. It just means that cool colors like magenta look very bad on me, while vibrant warm colors are my best. You can actually see yellowy-greens in my skin. It’s a warm olive. I believe I am warm and radiant. Not delicate. Maybe this person has a similar thing.
What hair colors you would advice for a winter - bright and cool, brunette with starting graying hair? Please advise! Thank you. Will highlights or balyage look good for winter type?
Haven't watched the video yet, but I bet it's cool and muted
Yeah.. "Just wear what you want" lol. SOrry but I don´t want to look like a corpse..