Finalllly someone talked about us blue people lol I’m extremely pale and blue and the everything turning yellow/orange struggle is brutal. I wanted a red blush and tried the Nars in Exhibit A in store and it literally looked like Cheeto dust 😂
okay validating. honestly i melted my brain making this video, and i half expected folks to turn up and say, "these are all wrong." HAHA ughh thank you
Fellow blue person! I feel all of this so hard. I am always hunting for a foundation fair enough for me, and they almost always yellow undertone. Even when they claim to be cool toned, I put it on and look like I huffed doritos.
@@kackieyour explanation led to the same colour set it has taken me decades and some wasted $$ to arrive at myself. It’s a fascinating area- yesterday I tried two the two pink Chanel rouge coco baumes from the Spring 2025 collection- ‘raspberry’ & ‘blushing pink’. One quite obviously leaned red while the other leaned mauve. Haven’t seen it as clearly before. Your video was so interesting in light of this. Th you!!
ahhh I was still a little confused because of having olive in the mix but this helped clear it up because I ALWAYS say "everything makes me look like an oompa loompa" :D Cheeto dust. huffed doritos. YES EXACTLY. I NEVER wear orange or even coral in makeup or clothing for this reason [with weird exceptions when I lean in and then I'm usually going more antique gold/bronze or red-orange, and I can't slap it on like I would an easy mauve, I have to work for it lol].
Yes thank you, your videos are such a gift! Literally bringing these cards to Sephora when I swatch :) Whoops logging off now, gotta make Kackie for president 2028 signs
This is the best skin undertone video I have ever seen! Finally, something that makes SENSE. Especially the stuff about going with or against your undertone depending on the product or opacity. All of this seasonal color analysis content coming out has been driving me batty. Also thank you for confirming without a doubt that I am a fair warm olive 😁
@@kackie You seriously have such a knack for communicating really nuanced color theory stuff in an understandable way. I know these types of videos must take a lot of work to create but they are SO helpful and really show your knowledge. Thank you!
This was so incredibly helpful. I learned that I’m blue. I’ve been so confused and frustrated because I kept being told I was cool but nothing looked right.
This light neutral olive does indeed love mauves! Also pretty much every time you try on a shade and it looks stunningly beige on you, I always go for the next cooler shade if available, and it usually works out 😂
Yes- mauve is a good bet for us. I get recs for warm and cool foundations, none are great. Not super green but apparently green enough 😂 At least I have figured out the cooler undertone so that is a positive
@@melliedavis2193 YES! I've basically got Kackie's lips but Alex Anele's complexion xp I literally just tried this Today to confirm but even tho an opaque warm red lip will go traffic cone on me, if I want a Sheer soft red I basically need to use red orange on top of my desaturated blue lips to get to that color. Total opposites!
This is SO GOOD. I'm an olive...and I've never had someone explain to me so clearly why my favorite neutral brown eyelid color looks like burgundy in the pan! The only thing that would improve Kackie's preso is to have pictures of people who are the hue she's discussing. Thank you so much, regardless, Kackie, for your pigment color theory approach to makeup.
Ask your dermatologist to prescribe ivermectin/azelaic acid/metronidazole cream. I’ve had rosacea for YEARS and since using this cream it’s maybe only 10-20% of the redness it used to be. I don’t feel like I NEED foundation, ever. It really is a game changer.
I found that applying some green color corrector (small amount) to my cheeks where most of my redness is, then I was able to focus on swatching things on my jaw and could actually figure out my undertones. The thing that helps me most is “how well does this disappear into my skin” for complexion products. I think if you have that figured out then this type of video for color products will help a lot!
I have fair warm olive skin, but my lip color is quite a cool mauve, which has thrown me off for ages, because what looks good on my lips does not always look good on my cheeks and vice versa. And it makes finding a good lip liner to overline my lips difficult because a lip liner needs to be even more cool toned and pink compared to my lips to compensate for the warm olive skin. It has taken me so long to figure all of this out, and I have a background in arts and color theory like you. You are doing the make up (nerd) community such a service by breaking it all down!
.... I have the exact same problem and haven't connected the dots up until now, thank you for your insight. Finding a nude lipliner is always a struggle for me, all the recommended "nude" browny shades look orange on my lips, even though the same shades look okay on my face, I thought I was going crazy
lol me too I basically have Kackie's lips and Alex Anele's complexion xp I haven't tried very hard tbf but I have not figured out lip liner either. It's wild how it takes nothing for a color to show up on my lips while my cheeks just straight up Eat blush
This!!! I can try a lipstick on my hand and it looks superb. Try it on my lips and it looks polar opposite. This means we have to learn two colour theories. 😂
@kackie Would love a video talking about finding the perfect "Your lips but better" using color theory. I find everything turns bright pink/purple on my lips.
This is just the best breakdown of color theory for makeup I've every seen. Really successfully bridges the gap between classic color theory and applying it to human skin. You're doing God's work out here.
Thanks! Truly, thank you! I'm going to be watching this video and your other color theory videos over and over and over until this information is absorbed. I've loved your other color theory videos, but this one ... chef's kiss. 🦋👩🦰
Wow wow wow! I asked for this a while ago with a great deal of hope but low expectations-I knew you were the only RUclips person who could do this. Thank you thank you!!! From a person who says “everything turns orange on me!! Why why why??” No more. Thanks, sweet Kackie.
Ok this is super helpful but i struggle to figure out what my undertone is. Ive always thought im a cool undertone but when i wear cool eyeshadow, it looks like im dying so that confuses the heck out of me. But seriously Kackie, the time and energy you put in to helping us is one of a kind. Im so glad i found your channel! ❤
This is very cool and useful for me as someone with a confusing cool olive undertone. One thing I especially struggle with is trying to do monochromatic looks because different parts of my face seem to have different levels of color and saturation (cool brows, olive skin, warmer lips). So when I gather up all my same-colored makeup and put it on my face, it ends up looking mismatched. If you plan to cover this topic at some point in the future, I sure would love some tips. Thanks!
@@heatherLcharron Don't mind me, I'll just be over here in the corner putting khaki green eyeshadow in my brows to try to get them to end up a normal non-orange color.
Wow, this comment just hit so hard for me! I think I'm a fair cool olive and have my blush and eyeshadow pretty much figured out but my dang lips just mess everything up! After seeing this video and all the comments I realize that my lips have a pretty strong blue undertone and I struggle so hard to find just the right color to "mix" with my natural lip color to get the result I'm looking for. So like someone else said, I'm going to have to do makeup calculus to get my face and lips to coordinate! Whew, I'm exhausted!
I'm very fair with green-blue undertones and it took me sooooo long to figure what looks good on me, and what foundation products i needed. In practice that means I need desaturation first, because most products with any 'skintone' pigment WILL turn pink or orange on me, and it also means that most drugstore items won't work. Second, I try to limit the coverage and actual areas of coverage as much as possible, in order to harmonize to my skin tone and neck (which is even lighter/translucent than my face). My cheeks can be very colourful and will turn a bright fuchsia pinkish purple, and my lips do have some mauve/purple coloring as well, that's why I think I have blue undertones, not only olive. I really appreciate what you said about the blue undertones; I have a lot of pewter and cool purples in my collection, ,which makes sense. It also explains why I never got into the 2016 warm eyeshadow looks; they looked like I smeared orange stuff all over my face! My favourite eyelook is a taupe/cool brown base with silver/champagne shimmer, that looks killer with my light blue/grey eyes as well. Thank you Kackie for your in depth, clear and organized overview on this topic!! I often have to do my own makeup for stage/TV/daytime glam etc and knowing this information makes me feel so confident and excited in doing my makeup!!!
This was the most helpful video I’ve EVER seen on pale olive undertones. I have misspent so much money over the years trying to find makeup for my green winter skin. Thank you so much for the bronzer and blush examples - it’s so helpful!! ❤
Extremely pale olive undertone person here and you completely read me, lol. Bright purples can look totally natural on me, and yellows make me look absolutely alien and ill. Also, to be able to wear reds because they compliment my eyes; I've found mauve-y reds are my best friend, it does not make me look sick 🙂
I made myself a color card using the technique in the “finding your best red lip” video, and it is practically identical to the one you posted here. You are giving us such useful and consistent tools-thank you!
I’m a light medium olive and the tartelette in bloom palette is one I’ve had for years and continue to go back to anytime I don’t want to think. The formula is great and the colors seem to always look good no matter what season or how much of a tan I have!!
Here I am, finally discovering my undertone thanks to your video! I'm 36 and finding the right colors for me has always been a struggle. Now I know that I'm a fair neutral-cool very desaturated olive. I have tried the colours you suggested and they work beautifully. This video is AMAZING, as your whole color theory series. Already printed my chart!! I had never found this informazion before. Your work ieri really valuable.
this was so helpful!! i've felt like i understand the (basic) theory of undertones for a long time and i also have the extra cones that mean i see colors quite well but for some reason i just couldn't figure out practical application. i've trial and error'd my way into finding colors that work for me and seeing them in a convenient palette FINALLY made me confident in what my undertone is!
Thank you for acknowledging my blue undertones, lol! So many makeup companies just don't seem to understand. Please give us blues more advice, really hear for it. I'm also in my sixties now, with graying hair. That's got some challenges too. Really love your take on things.
This was helpful! I am a pale/light cool toned Olive who switches to a warm tone Olive in the summer! I didn't realize why that was happening until your cutaway. Natasha Denona Glam Palette is perfect for cool tone olives---even the gold shimmer is green. It's gorgeous!
@cassandracarlton8955 I will definitely have to check out this palette. I have her "I need a nude" and "my mini dream" both of which are pretty good but the glam always intrigued me. I do find her shadows a bit too pigmented for me though.
@ Is the I Need a Nude Palette a good choice? I’ve been thinking about it a lot. The “blend” shade somehow works great even though it looks like it could be warm on the pan. My fav neutral, and the gold isn’t pigmented enough to change the look. It just brightens it nicely. I felt like the My Dream was very bold, and Glam is easier for an everyday look.
@@tomjones2157 could you please explain why? Im a fair blue that turns blue-green when tan. It seems this palette is pure perfection for me. Why aint it for cool fair olives? Is it non-green enough or not mauve enough to compensate for green?
Holy cow. I’m blue undertone. No one ever has mentioned this and that is why no foundations match me. Thank you so much for explaining this! It all makes sense now!!!! 🎉🎉🎉
Hi @kackie - I tried to open the color cards and they all want me to request access; I think a setting may have gotten bumped. I'm still not sure if I'm a warm olive or cool olive. Everything turns peach (yellow-orange) OR orange on me, am I just neutral olive? Or maybe I have a cool undertone but warm overtone? I tried RMS Hanky Panky and it looked muddy orange-brown on me. I like wearing Milani Merlot Moment but it looks almost salmon on me, which is oddly really pretty, but it's definitely not the "natural rosy flush" that red blush is "supposed" to be? However Essence Lovely Lilac looks bright pink. So I THINK cool but I don't know. I gravitate toward neutral pinks, mauves, and taupes/neutrals.
I'm a cool neutral. I just compared the blush and eye shadows that I own to the color palette and now know why I look so unnatural in makeup even when going for a "natural" look! I'm 52 and still don't know what I'm doing. 🤣 Thank you for helping us out with this. Some of us really need the cheat sheet.
This definitely has me thinking more about my undertone. I always thought i was a pale, cool, pink undertone - but i am not sure if that is just because i am so trasnslucent and i have a natural flush to my cheeks. Things usually turn orange on me, so im wondering if i am more of a cool blue.
This one was harder to follow- but I will definitely need to replay it during makeup play time so that I can pull the things I wasted money on and see why they don't work (along with the things that do work!)
Another rare blue person here! I can confirm that (weirdly) a muted sheer peach blush looks really at home on my skin! I actually use it as a bronzer because anything else looks like I mixed cheddar cheese into my makeup.
I've been so, so hoping you would make this video. And using what I've learned from you about color theory already, I found a way to mix a nude blush for myself. I mean, I've always wanted to wear a nude blush but all the ready-made ones turn orange on me so I've been layering something like RMS Crystal Slipper or Maiden's Blush with something mauve, like RMS Kir Royale and it makes a nude that is like custom-made for me :) It works with drugstore brands, too. What fun!
the way the merit solo shadow in social (soft mauve) is my perfect brown eyeshadow has informed everything about my undertone moving forward, and i would not have understood that if not for your color theory content. bless bless
Scotch/Irish mixed with a big chunck of Cherokee. Light skinned. I either lightly tan or blister. Always walked the "neutral" path. Never really works 100%. From what you said I could be blue or olive. Everything looks too orange, too yellow, too pink. Muted shades help some. Ideas?
KACKIE THIS IS AMAZING THANK YOU SO SO MUCH 😭😭😭 I was having such a hard time because I am a light warm olive and everything turns orange on my face and purple on my lips. I watched all your other videos on colour theory and started using your interactive colour wheel to try and figure things out, and that was immensely helpful. But this video was the icing on the cake. I gasped and had to pause the video to process what you had just said multiple times throughout 😂 absolutely mind blown 🤯 thank you thank you thank you ❤ Over here furiously writing notes on my phone to use whenever I am makeup shopping 🙏🏻🥹
Thank you!!! I am a cool olive light-medium skin tone (I figured this out thanks to you!!!) and I have had a rough time finding the right bronzer. Just ordered the Jones Road bronzer in Dusty Rose and can’t wait to try this out.
@ - it is perfection. It reads as an actual bronze on my skin - not orange and not muddy. The formula is really nice too. It’s pigmented, so I start with a light hand and build from there and it lasts all day. I also use it on my eyes to get a cohesive look. I highly recommend this if you have a cool olive complexion. Game changer.
Fair cool toned redhead with lots of warm freckles 🤪 Very helpful video thank you! I've never found lipstick I truly like so I gravitate to lip oils or balms
I'm a classic ice queen blue silver pale and I never even try anything that isn't in the cool family. I love your explanation about opacity because that really helps open up some possibilities! I never thought about that before. I generally play it so safe because I could end up looking tragically hilarious the moment I venture out of the cool range. Also I'll get in line for your tour. 😂
Kackie!!! I need to watch this entire seies! I'm super fair, autumn. They told me coral lipstick or orange lipsticks are best for me. And I do love coral, habanero, coral reef lipstick colors. But stuff like the natasha denona gold palette almost all goes entirely too orange for me. I'm scared the try the other colors! I need to do dive into this series!
Because after the first of this video, maybe I have an olive undertone?!!?! I'm usually the lightest foundation neutral or warm depending on the brand.
I have a very dominant overtone which is yellow, but my undertone is cool. This makes it super hard to figure out what shades go best because the yellow in my overtone seems to interact with everything! Haalllpp!
@@WendyFTBC What's your natural hair colour? I have some distinct yellow but I'm also cool (I think). But what I'm not is peachy, which I read is the case if you are pink and yellow. The yellow seems to ruin most colours on me. It clashes with icy tones, it makes pink blush go peach, and most foundations and bronzer just go orange on me. I'm even more confused after this video lol.
@1827handmade my hair is medium ash brown. I keep getting told I must be olive, due to the yellowness of my skin, but I am not so sure. Figuring out my best colours is so hard. But this video has helped give me some clarity . I feel a little closer to understanding, I think.
I find this really fun as a person that studied art since 12 years old with a really pasionate painter. I had entire classes thet consisted in the tacher brings an object or a piece of paper of some color and asked us to recreate it exaclty out of only the primary colors
I love you AND my head is exploding! Can’t wait to go back and watch again so I can refine my copious notes!!! And then spend a day in front of the mirror evaluating all these colors!! Thank you for all the time you spent creating all this, and thank you for your enthusiasm.
Dude you are GOOD. When I wear the colors you recommend they look like all is right in the world and I never would have picked them out before. THANK YOU
Pale green olive - you are spot on! I confirm from my personal experience both the part on olives and the remark about the golden undertones that the warm olives can sport autumnal colours. I tend to go very warm for eyeshadow and sometimes lips, and very cool/anti-orange for bronzers. And mauves/dusty roses for blush. I must try the purple hack you mentioned. I never did so as this is not a colour that flatters me (I like all the warm plums and wines, but beetroot and anything violet-adjecent is a no-go). But maybe this is what I need to try next. That and rosy bronzers. Thank you!
I am extremely fair olive, and I own a cool purple lipstick, like the extreme purple you talk about around 15:50 mark. And I think it looks lovely on me and brings golden tones in my skin, even though I am very green-white. And I recently bought another purple lipstick, but it’s dark, muted and is leaning red-purple. And it still looks very good, especially if I apply it in a sheer manner (I am low contrast, so the opaque layer looks too dark and harsh in me).
This was very helpful. So i like you, am a warm neutral but very fair. A lot of "neutral" complextion stuff pulls pink on me. But all these warm eyeshadow palletes look to oorangey. So Mac released a bunch of new and old nude shades. How do we know what to pick? The two shades ive ordered so far are straight up grey or too orangey on me. Is there aby way to do this nude lipstick trend without looking like the walking dead?
Do you think the huda beauty icy nude palette is a good one for desaturated olive undertones? (I cant tell my overtone or if i lean warm, cool or neutral… i just know im an olive undertone and most things either turn ashy/grey on me accentuatating my hyperpigmentation orrrr i turn dark/orange) i am a medium skintone. Purchased the makeup by mario new moonlight seduction and the mattes are NOT translating well on my eyes… all look grey and ashy which was SOOO heartbreaking considering i cant even return it 😞 reaaaaallyyy need eyeshadow palette recommendations!!! PLEASE HELPPPP Kackieeee 😭🙏🏽
Pink is such a difficult colour to base these things on indeed. Most of the time I can see warmth or coolness fine, but I personally do have a hard time distinguishing between those pinks that are light reds and those bright lighter pinks that lean more purple. Rewatching as we speak to gain more understanding of exactly where warm neutral and golden differ
Brilliant - and thank you for mentioning the cool olive undertone and the blues ❤ The undertone cards are so helpful! Now I know why the lightest grays and some lilacs completely disappear on my eyes, and why many of the warmer tones just turn to mud on my cheeks. At 59 I feel like I finally 'get it'!
Thank you so much for this video!!🤗 I’m a 1 year new makeup wearer and have wasted $1,000+ on makeup that I’ll never wear cos it just doesn’t look right! Most Sephora & Ulta employees weren’t getting the correct undertone. I’ve been warm, cool, neutral, peach, golden and olive depending which employee was color matching me. Warm and peach foundations turned orange, neutral foundations turned pink, too golden foundations were just too yellow and if it was too olive it looked gray. A Sephora employee finally correctly determined my deep tan skin has a golden overtone with neutral leaning warm, olive undertones. I now have some great foundation matches. Now I’m looking for blush, bronzers and eyeshadow palettes. Your recommendations are the most solid start I’ve had yet. Thank you!!
Loved this video…when I tried to get to my color card…I get. Message from google that I have to be approved and will get an email. So far I have not …and have t experienced that before…thoughts? 😊
I am a very fair cool olive. Even ABH latte turns bright orange in me. My lifes dream is something that looks like a neutral beige blush. Purple or mauve usually appear pink, because my skin is very desaturated. Any recs?
Seriously thank you for this video. I ‘think’ I’m that rare cool (blue) undertone (18.12) but still olive - is that possible? I have strawberry blonde hair and blue eyes. Already just 0.17% of the population, so no one is thinking of me when they make products! Fair skin with some freckles, rarely tan - I just don’t bother. As I’ve got older I’ve definitely found I’m getting redness in my cheeks, which is making things way harder. I always knew I was cool toned but am always finding ‘cool’ foundations way too pink. I’ve started wearing a green primer and it does help a bit. A few weeks ago I got given a sample of Lisa Eldridge’s skin tint in T5, it looked green, but surprise - it virtually disappeared on my skin. T6 (neutral) also just about worked but i didn’t get a sample to try in natural light. T1 and T3 were both too pink (cool) and way too pale, even though I’m super fair. I can wear bright pinks but anything warm just makes me look ill, especially eyeshadow. I normally reach for greys, silvers and cool browns, mauves - does that all make sense? I still feel confused making the right choices, are my freckles bringing a warmer (maybe more neutral) tone to my skin….ufffff so hard! But I really appreciate your content so much, no one else seems to be explaining this sh*t, just merrily slapping yellow foundation on and changing/hiding the colour of their skin!
I wear shade 6 and as a fair neutral that leans cool olive, it is perfection. She fairly recently came out with 6.5 which is an even more olive in undertone. ❤
@@katieharris7219 Thank you, very helpful! I have it in my basket but I'm finding my skin needs to be super perfect to use the LE skin tint though, its gorgeous but it grabs onto every bit of texture and dryness. I just tried the Elf Soft Galm Satin Foundation in 20 Light Cool and its a great match for me and super forgiving on any texture. A win for 7€!
So many people get this so wrong! I am a very pale-skinned, auburn-haired person with light blue-gray eyes. Everyone has always said a redhead has to be warm, and also that blue eyes need copper and orange and warm browns to pop. Well, those copper warms make my blue eyes look dead! I absolutely cannot wear the colors that are prescribed for blue eyes. My best eye colors are grays and silvers and blue-toned purples and cool mauves. I can't do basically any "nudes" on the lips , and many nudes and even ones they call "pinky nudes" look peach. I think I have a pink undertone?
Redheads are often cool pink! But you sound VERY cool, possibly towards blue. The pink turning peach on your lips means that your skin's undertone is exaggerating the orange tones in the lipstick (since they're next to each other visually), and blue would be the culprit there!
Excellent video! I was born a strawberry blonde, then my hair turned brunette which was my natural color I grew up with. I’m now 64, I lighted my hair to blonde about 20 years ago. I’ve been told I’m a cool tone. Estée Lauder Double Wear Fresco is my color. I have blue eyes, and on the color wheel the opposite is orange, which really does make blue eyes pop. To me orange is not cool toned though, but I do get a spray tan, but it rarely lasts on my face, because a lot of products cause a spray tan to fade. The rest of me is slightly tanned, Not a crazy dark tan. I find that burgundy eyeliner or eyeshadow works really well with blue eyes. It almost makes my eyes look turquoise. There is a single brown eye shadow from Maybelline that is called Cool Cocoa, which I wear that a lot. I absolutely love makeup, but wear less than I use to, but I still love it!!! ❤❤
I am so happy I found your channel! Whew! I have a lot of learning to do. I am super excited to watch all of your videos!! I have a lot of catching up to do 😊
Thanks - this has been very helpful. The best I can figure is that I’m a cool-to-neutral olive. Wearing nothing, I look yellow or green. I finally found one foundation that actually matches me - Dior 3 Cool Rosy. Everything else that’s really close still pulls yellow/orange. I’m kind of thrilled with the current trend of lavender cosmetics because that really evens out my makeup. I use the NARS lavender liquid blush to “fix” some of my other foundations. My bed eyeshadows are gray - toned blues and purples with periwinkle being the best. But almost all other eyeshadows turn bright peach. Sigh.
We're skin twins!!! I knew I was a fair neutral that leaned cool, but I have since discovered that I'm neutral leaning cool olive. That was the missing piece and it makes so much since because my dad is Irish (cool/fair) and my Italian mother was olive. I've found the best foundation matches for me are Asian brands that tend to look very grey out of the bottle (generally shade 21 is usually a good one) and also Lisa Eldridge, particularly the shade 6 in her skin tint. Perfection! ❤ I've been on the lavender/purple train for a few years now, but only recently realized WHY it looked so damn good! I'm thrilled to see so many more easily accessible options out there! It's no longer so hard to find that magical unicorn on these makeup streets. Yes!!! ❤❤❤
Loved this Masterclass on undertones! You’re so concise and it completely makes sense! As a neutral olive that leans warm but just barely, this was so helpful! Thanks Kackie!! ❤️
Thank you, Kackie! Finding make up as a muted cool olive has felt like a cruel game my entire life. Your videos have empowered me to decode the mystery of why seemingly random colors I've found over the years work for me. And I say empowered because your approach provides a foundation that you can expand on. Using ideas from your red lipstick video and this video, I put some photos of makeup swatches (on a neutral background) in shades that work for me into a photo editor and added blue-green... All the mauves are turning a lovely beige blush and now I know why! Looking forward to branching out into more colors that work with confidence now. 🤩🤩🤩
I think I’ve wrapped my head around the fact that I’m cool and desaturated. Might also lean towards those people who can pull off brighter pinks? I’m good at distinguishing warm from cool when it comes to pictures, but figuring out what shade something is once it gets on my face is a struggle for some reason. I love the harmonious looks you do but can’t figure it out myself! Gonna have to watch this video a few times and maybe have a few swatch parties… and maybe take some notes 🤓
Desaturated squad!! I call it the "everything turns BRIGHT" undertone, even a truly neutral hue can just look so *color* if it's not a more extreme tint/shade
@@trishhykes5574 the closest to nude I've ever found is light taupes - I've used eyeshadows + brow powders before discovering k-beauty contours which are less pigmented/easier to build. But the undertone of the taupe (ex rosey) will show as "rosey nude" pulls on the average person Like Kackie said, thinking about how much brown "base pigment" the color needs to show up as true on our skintone
As soon as you mentioned the lip colors, it made sense to me- I have to lean purple, even as a fairly light white woman because a lot of things go orange on me! Ugh.
Man as a light neutral olive person, bronzer has to be the most difficult category by farrrr. Unless it’s summer. The over tone gets more golden like you said and things are more forgiving but stilllll. I feel like this has become my personality at this point 😂
Omg I think our skin tones are EXTREMELY similar and I’m on the same journey! What’s the best you’ve found? I’ve mainly been using Glossier sail or Makeup by Mario skin enhancer in light medium, just because they’re so so sheer they’re more forgiving, with like a v desaturated blush on top.
@ so currently I’m at my lightest because it’s winter and Im going between a few.. Lorac contour palette (6 pan) and I use the lightest most cool tone shade but it pulls very neutral on my skin and doubles as a brontour and then when I get more color in the warmer months I use that and the medium tone. The darkest color only gets mostly on my eyes or really close to my hair line for depth. And then the highlighting shades are hardly used so when I repurchase I think I will purchase the trio palette that only has the light medium and one highlight. The middle shade in the KvD shading palette is very close to the lightest in my Lorac palette and they show up about the same on my skin The one size trio contour/bronze in fair. I’m not quite fair but this palette still works phenomenally. The color is really neutral on me and saturated enough that I can use it sheer or built up for more definition. Highly recommend Cream has been the toughest to find something that works so I am currently on the search for that. But two I’m making work are the shade clay in the merit bronzer stick because it’s so sheer, it’s works. I use it on the days I want more glow and warmth. And then the shade desert in my Danessa Myricks groundwork palette has by far been the most natural looking brontour on my skin but not ideal for daily use because of the pan size unfortunately. But it’s perfectly neutral with that green in it. I hope she sells refills one day. Or a big pan of it 😆 hope that helps!! 🥰
Okay Kackie I KNEW there was a reason I’ve been obsessing over collecting cool baby pink blushes and lip products lately LOL. I’m light-medium cool olive 💖
Long time subscriber saying THANK YOU! Thank you for being you. Thank you for making these videos that have changed the way I do my makeup. My family thinks I had work done to my face because I look so good 😊 I’ve just being doing my makeup differently. I adore your honesty and your aesthetic. Keep on keeping on. You’re a gem 💎
Im very golden and have to be careful everything doesn't turn orange on me. I actually like cool colors because they turn more neutral (or even warmer than expected) against my skintone. Thank you for this and your padt education. Its helped me tremendously!💜💜💜
Me too! I’m pretty light in tone, and so many of the “bronzers” on the market give Donald Trump on me. Lip colors on others pull warmer on me so all the nudes people rave about don’t look the same on me.
@BlushingAshley exactly! I'm in the tan category and tan golden brown easy. I hate orange and yellows typically because they make me look jaundice. It's taken me years (I'm 55) to figure this out....and thanks to Kackie I'm understanding and selecting better colors. She helped me figure out my daughter is olive, which took forever to find her a foundation match, but About Face has a perfect match for her. I love this type of content... helps us help ourselves! 💜💜💜
I love how over the last few years, people are actually understanding what an olive undertone is! Yes it is green! For so long, I felt like anyone who was naturally tan was deemed “olive.” I saw one woman a few years ago call herself olive, when she has one of the most gorgeous, unique clay-red skin tones I’ve ever seen. It was the literal opposite of olive
I'm fair with a pink undertone, THIS explains why people blush turns pink on me. Also why pink blush turns kinda peachy. I have basically no understanding of the color wheel other than the color opposite of the one you choose cancels your original color out 😆. I've always wondered why, ty so much for answering that. Ty so much for sharing this, may God bless 💙💙
I saw a creator (makeupbymonica) using a green colour corrector to desaturate blush and foundation. I wonder would that work on all colours for makeup?
So, I've diagnosed myself as neutral skewing warm. I'm a natural blue-eye redhead but in photos of myself with my apple-blossom cheeked daughter, I look quite golden. Next to a South Asian friend, I appear to be the apple-blossom! I suspect a peach undertone, and colors (in makeup and clothing) can be too cool or too warm. My hair has faded, and that doesn't change my undertone but it does change my contrast. I'd class myself as a Muted/Soft Autumn but of course, I can wear many Soft Summer shades too. Lately, in makeup, I want a good match for foundation, but am leaning toward cooler tones in lip and eye makeup. My teeth look better with blue-leaning lip treatments, and same with eyes, though at my age, with makeup, less is definitely more. Enjoy your applied color theory work! Thank you!
My first blush was a bright fuchsia pink recommended by a sales associate in bareminerals. My mom was shocked such a bright color looked natural...now know it's thanks to those cool olive undertones
What if you are a neutral olive that leans cool towards the blue side? Some peaches look awesome on me and some don’t. Love bright pink and fuchsia and berries.
Found this video, watched it … noticed there’s an actual BRAIN behind the makeup talk. Awesome! Happily clicked the subscribe button. Love the way you explain stuff, love the science of color. Greetings from a cool-toned olive ghost from Germany
Finalllly someone talked about us blue people lol I’m extremely pale and blue and the everything turning yellow/orange struggle is brutal. I wanted a red blush and tried the Nars in Exhibit A in store and it literally looked like Cheeto dust 😂
okay validating. honestly i melted my brain making this video, and i half expected folks to turn up and say, "these are all wrong." HAHA ughh thank you
Fellow blue person! I feel all of this so hard. I am always hunting for a foundation fair enough for me, and they almost always yellow undertone. Even when they claim to be cool toned, I put it on and look like I huffed doritos.
Me too. And yet, if I wore those eyeshadows, my blue-green eyes look dull! Can't win :(
@@kackieyour explanation led to the same colour set it has taken me decades and some wasted $$ to arrive at myself. It’s a fascinating area- yesterday I tried two the two pink Chanel rouge coco baumes from the Spring 2025 collection- ‘raspberry’ & ‘blushing pink’. One quite obviously leaned red while the other leaned mauve. Haven’t seen it as clearly before. Your video was so interesting in light of this. Th you!!
ahhh I was still a little confused because of having olive in the mix but this helped clear it up because I ALWAYS say "everything makes me look like an oompa loompa" :D Cheeto dust. huffed doritos. YES EXACTLY. I NEVER wear orange or even coral in makeup or clothing for this reason [with weird exceptions when I lean in and then I'm usually going more antique gold/bronze or red-orange, and I can't slap it on like I would an easy mauve, I have to work for it lol].
Please go on tour so you can diagnose all of our undertones IRL 😂
I could spend all day on one person
@ that’s the VIP ticket!
To this comment, my only reply is a classic and iconic’ come to Brazil’. 😂 I’ll queue at the website to buy tickets
@@kackieOr?? Or?? Could you do this virtually? I would pay you for your time and betting so many would. ❤
The Kackie Color Theory Tour…. I’m co-signing this!!
OH MY DEAR GOD. This is hands down the most valuable undertone video on the internets, you’re amazing 🙌🏼😭
Thank you SO much for taking the time to make the undertone cards and the interactive color wheel; AND not charge for them.
Information to the people!!!
Yes thank you, your videos are such a gift! Literally bringing these cards to Sephora when I swatch :) Whoops logging off now, gotta make Kackie for president 2028 signs
I'm a cool / neutral olive and you described my skin and what makeup I gravitate towards perfectly! No one has ever done that before. Thank you!
Same girl!!
Same 😂🩵💚
I am the same!
Same here!!
cool olive girls, unite!
Olive representation, we love to see it!!!! ❤🎉
This is the best skin undertone video I have ever seen! Finally, something that makes SENSE. Especially the stuff about going with or against your undertone depending on the product or opacity. All of this seasonal color analysis content coming out has been driving me batty. Also thank you for confirming without a doubt that I am a fair warm olive 😁
🥹🥹🥹 I can't tell you how happy this makes me.
I’m a light warm olive and my favorite “against undertone” is rare beauty red blush ❤
@ That shade looks beautiful!
@@kackie You seriously have such a knack for communicating really nuanced color theory stuff in an understandable way. I know these types of videos must take a lot of work to create but they are SO helpful and really show your knowledge. Thank you!
This was so incredibly helpful. I learned that I’m blue. I’ve been so confused and frustrated because I kept being told I was cool but nothing looked right.
As a pale cool blue undertone, I really appreciate this! One of my favorite 'party tricks' is showing people how weird colors turn on me.
Omg yes me and Rebecca my super green friend, it's so fun to swatch side by side and watch everything do something inexplicable on her skin 😂
@@kackieI love Rebecca the super green 😂
This light neutral olive does indeed love mauves! Also pretty much every time you try on a shade and it looks stunningly beige on you, I always go for the next cooler shade if available, and it usually works out 😂
I do the same when I'm shopping for my olive friends!!
I second this as a fellow light neutral olive person lol
Ohhh nice tip! I am going to try this!
@@shelleyeatz I third this!
Yes- mauve is a good bet for us. I get recs for warm and cool foundations, none are great. Not super green but apparently green enough 😂
At least I have figured out the cooler undertone so that is a positive
I’m a green person with purple blue lips- the struggle is real. Takes make-up calculus to figure out what a lip color will look like on me
This is me
I think this is me, too - my eyelids also are purple
BTW Kackie has another video about how to find your lip shade using color theory and a photo editor and it WORKS!
@@melliedavis2193 YES! I've basically got Kackie's lips but Alex Anele's complexion xp I literally just tried this Today to confirm but even tho an opaque warm red lip will go traffic cone on me, if I want a Sheer soft red I basically need to use red orange on top of my desaturated blue lips to get to that color. Total opposites!
My party trick is putting a deep brown gloss on my pigmented mauve lips and watching it turn a mid-rosy brown.
This is SO GOOD. I'm an olive...and I've never had someone explain to me so clearly why my favorite neutral brown eyelid color looks like burgundy in the pan! The only thing that would improve Kackie's preso is to have pictures of people who are the hue she's discussing. Thank you so much, regardless, Kackie, for your pigment color theory approach to makeup.
I was thinking the same! I'd love to see these tested on real people! or show us celebrities.
My rosacea obscures a lot for me. I wish somebody could just look at me and say "you are this. Wear this." lol
Feeling this. Redness is just making bronzer and blush redundant for me.
Ask your dermatologist to prescribe ivermectin/azelaic acid/metronidazole cream. I’ve had rosacea for YEARS and since using this cream it’s maybe only 10-20% of the redness it used to be. I don’t feel like I NEED foundation, ever. It really is a game changer.
I found that applying some green color corrector (small amount) to my cheeks where most of my redness is, then I was able to focus on swatching things on my jaw and could actually figure out my undertones. The thing that helps me most is “how well does this disappear into my skin” for complexion products. I think if you have that figured out then this type of video for color products will help a lot!
Ivermectin!
@@fbmbassist I swear to god it works.
This was super helpful! Would you do a follow up to this video shopping your stash & recommending products for different skin tones/undertones?
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Yeah and I was thinking about making shoppable pages for each undertone to make it really easy.
BUT THATS ANOTHER HUGE UNDERTAKING 😂
This would be FANTASTIC!!
I have fair warm olive skin, but my lip color is quite a cool mauve, which has thrown me off for ages, because what looks good on my lips does not always look good on my cheeks and vice versa. And it makes finding a good lip liner to overline my lips difficult because a lip liner needs to be even more cool toned and pink compared to my lips to compensate for the warm olive skin. It has taken me so long to figure all of this out, and I have a background in arts and color theory like you. You are doing the make up (nerd) community such a service by breaking it all down!
Thank you! I have translucent purpley lips too. What does lip color typically do on you when it's misbehaving color wise?
.... I have the exact same problem and haven't connected the dots up until now, thank you for your insight. Finding a nude lipliner is always a struggle for me, all the recommended "nude" browny shades look orange on my lips, even though the same shades look okay on my face, I thought I was going crazy
lol me too I basically have Kackie's lips and Alex Anele's complexion xp I haven't tried very hard tbf but I have not figured out lip liner either. It's wild how it takes nothing for a color to show up on my lips while my cheeks just straight up Eat blush
This!!! I can try a lipstick on my hand and it looks superb. Try it on my lips and it looks polar opposite. This means we have to learn two colour theories. 😂
@kackie Would love a video talking about finding the perfect "Your lips but better" using color theory. I find everything turns bright pink/purple on my lips.
This is just the best breakdown of color theory for makeup I've every seen. Really successfully bridges the gap between classic color theory and applying it to human skin. You're doing God's work out here.
It's so complicated but this helped. I would love to see images to give examples of the undertones - with and without makeup.
Thanks! Truly, thank you! I'm going to be watching this video and your other color theory videos over and over and over until this information is absorbed. I've loved your other color theory videos, but this one ... chef's kiss. 🦋👩🦰
WOW 🥹🥹🥹 thank you so much!
Wow wow wow! I asked for this a while ago with a great deal of hope but low expectations-I knew you were the only RUclips person who could do this. Thank you thank you!!! From a person who says “everything turns orange on me!! Why why why??” No more. Thanks, sweet Kackie.
Happy to do this! It needed to exist!
Ok this is super helpful but i struggle to figure out what my undertone is. Ive always thought im a cool undertone but when i wear cool eyeshadow, it looks like im dying so that confuses the heck out of me. But seriously Kackie, the time and energy you put in to helping us is one of a kind. Im so glad i found your channel! ❤
This is very cool and useful for me as someone with a confusing cool olive undertone. One thing I especially struggle with is trying to do monochromatic looks because different parts of my face seem to have different levels of color and saturation (cool brows, olive skin, warmer lips). So when I gather up all my same-colored makeup and put it on my face, it ends up looking mismatched. If you plan to cover this topic at some point in the future, I sure would love some tips. Thanks!
@@daylightsleeptight reading this thread made me realize how many fellow cool olives there are in this community ! ❤️
@@heatherLcharron Don't mind me, I'll just be over here in the corner putting khaki green eyeshadow in my brows to try to get them to end up a normal non-orange color.
@@daylightsleeptight 🤣
YESSSS this please!! I love monochrome looks but CANNOT figure out how to do it!
Wow, this comment just hit so hard for me! I think I'm a fair cool olive and have my blush and eyeshadow pretty much figured out but my dang lips just mess everything up! After seeing this video and all the comments I realize that my lips have a pretty strong blue undertone and I struggle so hard to find just the right color to "mix" with my natural lip color to get the result I'm looking for. So like someone else said, I'm going to have to do makeup calculus to get my face and lips to coordinate! Whew, I'm exhausted!
I'm very fair with green-blue undertones and it took me sooooo long to figure what looks good on me, and what foundation products i needed. In practice that means I need desaturation first, because most products with any 'skintone' pigment WILL turn pink or orange on me, and it also means that most drugstore items won't work. Second, I try to limit the coverage and actual areas of coverage as much as possible, in order to harmonize to my skin tone and neck (which is even lighter/translucent than my face). My cheeks can be very colourful and will turn a bright fuchsia pinkish purple, and my lips do have some mauve/purple coloring as well, that's why I think I have blue undertones, not only olive.
I really appreciate what you said about the blue undertones; I have a lot of pewter and cool purples in my collection, ,which makes sense. It also explains why I never got into the 2016 warm eyeshadow looks; they looked like I smeared orange stuff all over my face!
My favourite eyelook is a taupe/cool brown base with silver/champagne shimmer, that looks killer with my light blue/grey eyes as well.
Thank you Kackie for your in depth, clear and organized overview on this topic!! I often have to do my own makeup for stage/TV/daytime glam etc and knowing this information makes me feel so confident and excited in doing my makeup!!!
@@musicirene revlon has some great desaturated undertones, also k-beauty! ❤️the struggle is real.
This is the REAL and IN-DEPTH color theory for makeup that the world has needed!!! YESS Kacki you are a goddess for creating all this!!
Oh you are a color genius and such a pleasant person too! I'm incredibly glad to have found your channel today. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!
i take the mcat tomorrow and this is an excellent way to unwind before!!!!! ♥️
good luck!!! you got this!
Good luck! 🤞
As a doc that has been watching Kacks for years, you’re making the right choice! Good luck!🍀
Good luck! I’m emergency and I love what I do-Kackie is a great way to stimulate the other half of my brain!
Good luck baddy!
This was the most helpful video I’ve EVER seen on pale olive undertones. I have misspent so much money over the years trying to find makeup for my green winter skin. Thank you so much for the bronzer and blush examples - it’s so helpful!! ❤
🥹 it means the world to me that you found it helpful
Extremely pale olive undertone person here and you completely read me, lol. Bright purples can look totally natural on me, and yellows make me look absolutely alien and ill. Also, to be able to wear reds because they compliment my eyes; I've found mauve-y reds are my best friend, it does not make me look sick 🙂
I made myself a color card using the technique in the “finding your best red lip” video, and it is practically identical to the one you posted here. You are giving us such useful and consistent tools-thank you!
I did this too! Kackies version has more nuance and variation than mine though.
These visuals are fantastic, Kackie! I can tell you worked hard on them ❤
🥹🥹🥹 thank you 😭
I’m a light medium olive and the tartelette in bloom palette is one I’ve had for years and continue to go back to anytime I don’t want to think. The formula is great and the colors seem to always look good no matter what season or how much of a tan I have!!
Yes! It was my bridal palette and I suck at makeup but it was beautiful
I'm fair olive and that pallet is literally all orange on me, except for the ivory and smoked shade in the first row. I hate it.
I neeeever hear anyone mention us cool olives!! I'm so excited.
Here I am, finally discovering my undertone thanks to your video! I'm 36 and finding the right colors for me has always been a struggle. Now I know that I'm a fair neutral-cool very desaturated olive. I have tried the colours you suggested and they work beautifully. This video is AMAZING, as your whole color theory series. Already printed my chart!! I had never found this informazion before. Your work ieri really valuable.
this was so helpful!! i've felt like i understand the (basic) theory of undertones for a long time and i also have the extra cones that mean i see colors quite well but for some reason i just couldn't figure out practical application. i've trial and error'd my way into finding colors that work for me and seeing them in a convenient palette FINALLY made me confident in what my undertone is!
Thank you for acknowledging my blue undertones, lol! So many makeup companies just don't seem to understand. Please give us blues more advice, really hear for it. I'm also in my sixties now, with graying hair. That's got some challenges too. Really love your take on things.
This was helpful! I am a pale/light cool toned Olive who switches to a warm tone Olive in the summer! I didn't realize why that was happening until your cutaway. Natasha Denona Glam Palette is perfect for cool tone olives---even the gold shimmer is green. It's gorgeous!
Maybe this is what I am too. All of her shadow looks great on me.
@cassandracarlton8955 I will definitely have to check out this palette. I have her "I need a nude" and "my mini dream" both of which are pretty good but the glam always intrigued me. I do find her shadows a bit too pigmented for me though.
@ Is the I Need a Nude Palette a good choice? I’ve been thinking about it a lot. The “blend” shade somehow works great even though it looks like it could be warm on the pan. My fav neutral, and the gold isn’t pigmented enough to change the look. It just brightens it nicely. I felt like the My Dream was very bold, and Glam is easier for an everyday look.
@cassandracarlton8955 not if you're Fair Olive. Otherwise, sure
@@tomjones2157 could you please explain why?
Im a fair blue that turns blue-green when tan. It seems this palette is pure perfection for me.
Why aint it for cool fair olives? Is it non-green enough or not mauve enough to compensate for green?
Holy cow. I’m blue undertone. No one ever has mentioned this and that is why no foundations match me. Thank you so much for explaining this! It all makes sense now!!!! 🎉🎉🎉
Ok, well, this is absolute magic. I love this video so much! Thank you for breaking this down!!
Hi @kackie - I tried to open the color cards and they all want me to request access; I think a setting may have gotten bumped.
I'm still not sure if I'm a warm olive or cool olive. Everything turns peach (yellow-orange) OR orange on me, am I just neutral olive? Or maybe I have a cool undertone but warm overtone? I tried RMS Hanky Panky and it looked muddy orange-brown on me. I like wearing Milani Merlot Moment but it looks almost salmon on me, which is oddly really pretty, but it's definitely not the "natural rosy flush" that red blush is "supposed" to be? However Essence Lovely Lilac looks bright pink. So I THINK cool but I don't know. I gravitate toward neutral pinks, mauves, and taupes/neutrals.
I'm a cool neutral. I just compared the blush and eye shadows that I own to the color palette and now know why I look so unnatural in makeup even when going for a "natural" look!
I'm 52 and still don't know what I'm doing. 🤣 Thank you for helping us out with this. Some of us really need the cheat sheet.
This definitely has me thinking more about my undertone. I always thought i was a pale, cool, pink undertone - but i am not sure if that is just because i am so trasnslucent and i have a natural flush to my cheeks. Things usually turn orange on me, so im wondering if i am more of a cool blue.
If your profile pic is you, you are definitely cool, and orange is not on the menu.
This one was harder to follow- but I will definitely need to replay it during makeup play time so that I can pull the things I wasted money on and see why they don't work (along with the things that do work!)
DO use the time stamps. It's a lot.
As a certified green person this is so helpful!!!! Would die to see you collab with Nicolette and deep dive on olive undertones
Literally thought of this while watching! From another certified green person
Another rare blue person here! I can confirm that (weirdly) a muted sheer peach blush looks really at home on my skin! I actually use it as a bronzer because anything else looks like I mixed cheddar cheese into my makeup.
Thank you so much Kackie! These tools are extremely helpful. ❤
I've been so, so hoping you would make this video. And using what I've learned from you about color theory already, I found a way to mix a nude blush for myself. I mean, I've always wanted to wear a nude blush but all the ready-made ones turn orange on me so I've been layering something like RMS Crystal Slipper or Maiden's Blush with something mauve, like RMS Kir Royale and it makes a nude that is like custom-made for me :) It works with drugstore brands, too. What fun!
OMG I CAN PICTURE IT! I adore this for you! Thank you for sharing 🥹🥹🥹
the way the merit solo shadow in social (soft mauve) is my perfect brown eyeshadow has informed everything about my undertone moving forward, and i would not have understood that if not for your color theory content. bless bless
Scotch/Irish mixed with a big chunck of Cherokee. Light skinned. I either lightly tan or blister. Always walked the "neutral" path. Never really works 100%. From what you said I could be blue or olive. Everything looks too orange, too yellow, too pink. Muted shades help some. Ideas?
Very similar make up for me, and same issues… I’m so lost!
KACKIE THIS IS AMAZING THANK YOU SO SO MUCH 😭😭😭 I was having such a hard time because I am a light warm olive and everything turns orange on my face and purple on my lips. I watched all your other videos on colour theory and started using your interactive colour wheel to try and figure things out, and that was immensely helpful. But this video was the icing on the cake. I gasped and had to pause the video to process what you had just said multiple times throughout 😂 absolutely mind blown 🤯 thank you thank you thank you ❤ Over here furiously writing notes on my phone to use whenever I am makeup shopping 🙏🏻🥹
Thank you!!! I am a cool olive light-medium skin tone (I figured this out thanks to you!!!) and I have had a rough time finding the right bronzer. Just ordered the Jones Road bronzer in Dusty Rose and can’t wait to try this out.
How is it??
@ - it is perfection. It reads as an actual bronze on my skin - not orange and not muddy. The formula is really nice too. It’s pigmented, so I start with a light hand and build from there and it lasts all day. I also use it on my eyes to get a cohesive look. I highly recommend this if you have a cool olive complexion. Game changer.
@ Hooray!! Thanks for taking the time to respond!
@ - you’re very welcome!
Fair cool toned redhead with lots of warm freckles 🤪 Very helpful video thank you! I've never found lipstick I truly like so I gravitate to lip oils or balms
I'm a classic ice queen blue silver pale and I never even try anything that isn't in the cool family. I love your explanation about opacity because that really helps open up some possibilities! I never thought about that before. I generally play it so safe because I could end up looking tragically hilarious the moment I venture out of the cool range. Also I'll get in line for your tour. 😂
Kackie!!! I need to watch this entire seies! I'm super fair, autumn. They told me coral lipstick or orange lipsticks are best for me. And I do love coral, habanero, coral reef lipstick colors. But stuff like the natasha denona gold palette almost all goes entirely too orange for me. I'm scared the try the other colors! I need to do dive into this series!
Because after the first of this video, maybe I have an olive undertone?!!?! I'm usually the lightest foundation neutral or warm depending on the brand.
Kackie, this was amazing. So effing helpful. You have no idea!
Wowowowow thank you Kackie. Good god this is helpful and I've never seen anything quite like it. You are so talented. Thank you!
holy shit i might have blue undertone?! i always assumed cool olive but it was never quiteee right. thank you so much for the info!!
Of course!!
Me too!! My mind is completely blown! I didn't even know blue undertone was a thing and have been so so frustrated trying to figure myself out!
I have a very dominant overtone which is yellow, but my undertone is cool. This makes it super hard to figure out what shades go best because the yellow in my overtone seems to interact with everything!
Haalllpp!
@@WendyFTBC What's your natural hair colour? I have some distinct yellow but I'm also cool (I think). But what I'm not is peachy, which I read is the case if you are pink and yellow. The yellow seems to ruin most colours on me. It clashes with icy tones, it makes pink blush go peach, and most foundations and bronzer just go orange on me. I'm even more confused after this video lol.
@1827handmade my hair is medium ash brown. I keep getting told I must be olive, due to the yellowness of my skin, but I am not so sure. Figuring out my best colours is so hard. But this video has helped give me some clarity . I feel a little closer to understanding, I think.
I find this really fun as a person that studied art since 12 years old with a really pasionate painter. I had entire classes thet consisted in the tacher brings an object or a piece of paper of some color and asked us to recreate it exaclty out of only the primary colors
I love you AND my head is exploding! Can’t wait to go back and watch again so I can refine my copious notes!!! And then spend a day in front of the mirror evaluating all these colors!! Thank you for all the time you spent creating all this, and thank you for your enthusiasm.
🥹🥹🥹 thank you for your enthusiasm! ❤
Dude you are GOOD. When I wear the colors you recommend they look like all is right in the world and I never would have picked them out before. THANK YOU
Pale green olive - you are spot on! I confirm from my personal experience both the part on olives and the remark about the golden undertones that the warm olives can sport autumnal colours. I tend to go very warm for eyeshadow and sometimes lips, and very cool/anti-orange for bronzers. And mauves/dusty roses for blush.
I must try the purple hack you mentioned. I never did so as this is not a colour that flatters me (I like all the warm plums and wines, but beetroot and anything violet-adjecent is a no-go). But maybe this is what I need to try next. That and rosy bronzers.
Thank you!
I am extremely fair olive, and I own a cool purple lipstick, like the extreme purple you talk about around 15:50 mark. And I think it looks lovely on me and brings golden tones in my skin, even though I am very green-white. And I recently bought another purple lipstick, but it’s dark, muted and is leaning red-purple. And it still looks very good, especially if I apply it in a sheer manner (I am low contrast, so the opaque layer looks too dark and harsh in me).
This was very helpful. So i like you, am a warm neutral but very fair. A lot of "neutral" complextion stuff pulls pink on me. But all these warm eyeshadow palletes look to oorangey. So Mac released a bunch of new and old nude shades. How do we know what to pick? The two shades ive ordered so far are straight up grey or too orangey on me. Is there aby way to do this nude lipstick trend without looking like the walking dead?
Do you think the huda beauty icy nude palette is a good one for desaturated olive undertones? (I cant tell my overtone or if i lean warm, cool or neutral… i just know im an olive undertone and most things either turn ashy/grey on me accentuatating my hyperpigmentation orrrr i turn dark/orange) i am a medium skintone. Purchased the makeup by mario new moonlight seduction and the mattes are NOT translating well on my eyes… all look grey and ashy which was SOOO heartbreaking considering i cant even return it 😞 reaaaaallyyy need eyeshadow palette recommendations!!! PLEASE HELPPPP Kackieeee 😭🙏🏽
Oh goodness...mind blowing...human skin is absolutely divine.
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Pink is such a difficult colour to base these things on indeed. Most of the time I can see warmth or coolness fine, but I personally do have a hard time distinguishing between those pinks that are light reds and those bright lighter pinks that lean more purple. Rewatching as we speak to gain more understanding of exactly where warm neutral and golden differ
Is there a neutral leaning golden tone? I’ve always been told I have neutral leaning slightly warm skin, but so many things turn straight gray on me.
Brilliant - and thank you for mentioning the cool olive undertone and the blues ❤ The undertone cards are so helpful! Now I know why the lightest grays and some lilacs completely disappear on my eyes, and why many of the warmer tones just turn to mud on my cheeks. At 59 I feel like I finally 'get it'!
Thank you so much for this video!!🤗 I’m a 1 year new makeup wearer and have wasted $1,000+ on makeup that I’ll never wear cos it just doesn’t look right!
Most Sephora & Ulta employees weren’t getting the correct undertone. I’ve been warm, cool, neutral, peach, golden and olive depending which employee was color matching me. Warm and peach foundations turned orange, neutral foundations turned pink, too golden foundations were just too yellow and if it was too olive it looked gray. A Sephora employee finally correctly determined my deep tan skin has a golden overtone with neutral leaning warm, olive undertones. I now have some great foundation matches. Now I’m looking for blush, bronzers and eyeshadow palettes. Your recommendations are the most solid start I’ve had yet. Thank you!!
Yay!!! I have fair olive and can’t thank you enough for making this video!
Thank you for talking about the difference between sheer and opaque makeup when it comes to color theory!
Loved this video…when I tried to get to my color card…I get. Message from google that I have to be approved and will get an email. So far I have not …and have t experienced that before…thoughts? 😊
I am a very fair cool olive. Even ABH latte turns bright orange in me. My lifes dream is something that looks like a neutral beige blush. Purple or mauve usually appear pink, because my skin is very desaturated. Any recs?
Seriously thank you for this video. I ‘think’ I’m that rare cool (blue) undertone (18.12) but still olive - is that possible? I have strawberry blonde hair and blue eyes. Already just 0.17% of the population, so no one is thinking of me when they make products! Fair skin with some freckles, rarely tan - I just don’t bother. As I’ve got older I’ve definitely found I’m getting redness in my cheeks, which is making things way harder. I always knew I was cool toned but am always finding ‘cool’ foundations way too pink. I’ve started wearing a green primer and it does help a bit. A few weeks ago I got given a sample of Lisa Eldridge’s skin tint in T5, it looked green, but surprise - it virtually disappeared on my skin. T6 (neutral) also just about worked but i didn’t get a sample to try in natural light. T1 and T3 were both too pink (cool) and way too pale, even though I’m super fair. I can wear bright pinks but anything warm just makes me look ill, especially eyeshadow. I normally reach for greys, silvers and cool browns, mauves - does that all make sense? I still feel confused making the right choices, are my freckles bringing a warmer (maybe more neutral) tone to my skin….ufffff so hard! But I really appreciate your content so much, no one else seems to be explaining this sh*t, just merrily slapping yellow foundation on and changing/hiding the colour of their skin!
I wear shade 6 and as a fair neutral that leans cool olive, it is perfection. She fairly recently came out with 6.5 which is an even more olive in undertone. ❤
@@katieharris7219 Thank you, very helpful! I have it in my basket but I'm finding my skin needs to be super perfect to use the LE skin tint though, its gorgeous but it grabs onto every bit of texture and dryness. I just tried the Elf Soft Galm Satin Foundation in 20 Light Cool and its a great match for me and super forgiving on any texture. A win for 7€!
Another amazing tutorial!! Thank you Kackie!!
So many people get this so wrong! I am a very pale-skinned, auburn-haired person with light blue-gray eyes. Everyone has always said a redhead has to be warm, and also that blue eyes need copper and orange and warm browns to pop. Well, those copper warms make my blue eyes look dead! I absolutely cannot wear the colors that are prescribed for blue eyes. My best eye colors are grays and silvers and blue-toned purples and cool mauves. I can't do basically any "nudes" on the lips , and many nudes and even ones they call "pinky nudes" look peach. I think I have a pink undertone?
Redheads are often cool pink! But you sound VERY cool, possibly towards blue. The pink turning peach on your lips means that your skin's undertone is exaggerating the orange tones in the lipstick (since they're next to each other visually), and blue would be the culprit there!
Thank you!
Excellent video! I was born a strawberry blonde, then my hair turned brunette which was my natural color I grew up with. I’m now 64, I lighted my hair to blonde about 20 years ago. I’ve been told I’m a cool tone. Estée Lauder Double Wear Fresco is my color. I have blue eyes, and on the color wheel the opposite is orange, which really does make blue eyes pop. To me orange is not cool toned though, but I do get a spray tan, but it rarely lasts on my face, because a lot of products cause a spray tan to fade. The rest of me is slightly tanned, Not a crazy dark tan. I find that burgundy eyeliner or eyeshadow works really well with blue eyes. It almost makes my eyes look turquoise. There is a single brown eye shadow from Maybelline that is called Cool Cocoa, which I wear that a lot. I absolutely love makeup, but wear less than I use to, but I still love it!!! ❤❤
I am so happy I found your channel! Whew! I have a lot of learning to do. I am super excited to watch all of your videos!! I have a lot of catching up to do 😊
Thanks - this has been very helpful. The best I can figure is that I’m a cool-to-neutral olive. Wearing nothing, I look yellow or green. I finally found one foundation that actually matches me - Dior 3 Cool Rosy. Everything else that’s really close still pulls yellow/orange. I’m kind of thrilled with the current trend of lavender cosmetics because that really evens out my makeup. I use the NARS lavender liquid blush to “fix” some of my other foundations. My bed eyeshadows are gray - toned blues and purples with periwinkle being the best. But almost all other eyeshadows turn bright peach. Sigh.
We're skin twins!!! I knew I was a fair neutral that leaned cool, but I have since discovered that I'm neutral leaning cool olive. That was the missing piece and it makes so much since because my dad is Irish (cool/fair) and my Italian mother was olive. I've found the best foundation matches for me are Asian brands that tend to look very grey out of the bottle (generally shade 21 is usually a good one) and also Lisa Eldridge, particularly the shade 6 in her skin tint. Perfection! ❤ I've been on the lavender/purple train for a few years now, but only recently realized WHY it looked so damn good! I'm thrilled to see so many more easily accessible options out there! It's no longer so hard to find that magical unicorn on these makeup streets. Yes!!! ❤❤❤
Loved this Masterclass on undertones! You’re so concise and it completely makes sense! As a neutral olive that leans warm but just barely, this was so helpful! Thanks Kackie!! ❤️
Thank you, Kackie! Finding make up as a muted cool olive has felt like a cruel game my entire life. Your videos have empowered me to decode the mystery of why seemingly random colors I've found over the years work for me. And I say empowered because your approach provides a foundation that you can expand on. Using ideas from your red lipstick video and this video, I put some photos of makeup swatches (on a neutral background) in shades that work for me into a photo editor and added blue-green... All the mauves are turning a lovely beige blush and now I know why! Looking forward to branching out into more colors that work with confidence now. 🤩🤩🤩
Mind blown! I will have to try this as a fellow cool olive.
I think I’ve wrapped my head around the fact that I’m cool and desaturated. Might also lean towards those people who can pull off brighter pinks? I’m good at distinguishing warm from cool when it comes to pictures, but figuring out what shade something is once it gets on my face is a struggle for some reason. I love the harmonious looks you do but can’t figure it out myself! Gonna have to watch this video a few times and maybe have a few swatch parties… and maybe take some notes 🤓
Desaturated squad!! I call it the "everything turns BRIGHT" undertone, even a truly neutral hue can just look so *color* if it's not a more extreme tint/shade
@rivkashapiro8119 wait yes this is me!! Have you had any luck finding an actual nude blush? I’ve been hunting for so long!
@@trishhykes5574 the closest to nude I've ever found is light taupes - I've used eyeshadows + brow powders before discovering k-beauty contours which are less pigmented/easier to build. But the undertone of the taupe (ex rosey) will show as "rosey nude" pulls on the average person
Like Kackie said, thinking about how much brown "base pigment" the color needs to show up as true on our skintone
As soon as you mentioned the lip colors, it made sense to me- I have to lean purple, even as a fairly light white woman because a lot of things go orange on me! Ugh.
I adore you for this, thank you for putting in all of this effort!
Blue and especially teal eyeshadows which I so want to wear turn taupey grey on me. Does that mean I need a more green shade or a yellow base?
Man as a light neutral olive person, bronzer has to be the most difficult category by farrrr. Unless it’s summer. The over tone gets more golden like you said and things are more forgiving but stilllll. I feel like this has become my personality at this point 😂
Omg I think our skin tones are EXTREMELY similar and I’m on the same journey! What’s the best you’ve found? I’ve mainly been using Glossier sail or Makeup by Mario skin enhancer in light medium, just because they’re so so sheer they’re more forgiving, with like a v desaturated blush on top.
@ so currently I’m at my lightest because it’s winter and Im going between a few..
Lorac contour palette (6 pan) and I use the lightest most cool tone shade but it pulls very neutral on my skin and doubles as a brontour and then when I get more color in the warmer months I use that and the medium tone. The darkest color only gets mostly on my eyes or really close to my hair line for depth. And then the highlighting shades are hardly used so when I repurchase I think I will purchase the trio palette that only has the light medium and one highlight.
The middle shade in the KvD shading palette is very close to the lightest in my Lorac palette and they show up about the same on my skin
The one size trio contour/bronze in fair. I’m not quite fair but this palette still works phenomenally. The color is really neutral on me and saturated enough that I can use it sheer or built up for more definition. Highly recommend
Cream has been the toughest to find something that works so I am currently on the search for that. But two I’m making work are the shade clay in the merit bronzer stick because it’s so sheer, it’s works. I use it on the days I want more glow and warmth.
And then the shade desert in my Danessa Myricks groundwork palette has by far been the most natural looking brontour on my skin but not ideal for daily use because of the pan size unfortunately. But it’s perfectly neutral with that green in it. I hope she sells refills one day. Or a big pan of it 😆 hope that helps!! 🥰
@ oh yeah I really need to try sail!! And I’ve contemplate on makeup by Mario but in store I’m just unsure…. 🤔
@@Kori-Barrenger try out the phytosurgence bronzers. They're ammmaaaaazing!
@ that’s another brand I’ve meaning to try tooo! Yes I will!! Do they have longevity???
Such a helpful video. It would be lovely to see a video of tinted sunscreens with the same premise. Fair olive + tinted sunscreen = Oompa Loompa.
I've been trying a bunch lately actually just to do a roundup
🎉❤🎉 PERFECT!
Okay Kackie I KNEW there was a reason I’ve been obsessing over collecting cool baby pink blushes and lip products lately LOL. I’m light-medium cool olive 💖
AWW! 🥹🥹🥹
Long time subscriber saying THANK YOU! Thank you for being you. Thank you for making these videos that have changed the way I do my makeup. My family thinks I had work done to my face because I look so good 😊 I’ve just being doing my makeup differently. I adore your honesty and your aesthetic. Keep on keeping on. You’re a gem 💎
Thank you!!! Omg they think you got work done that's hilarious and incredible!! 😂❤❤
Im very golden and have to be careful everything doesn't turn orange on me. I actually like cool colors because they turn more neutral (or even warmer than expected) against my skintone. Thank you for this and your padt education. Its helped me tremendously!💜💜💜
Me too! I’m pretty light in tone, and so many of the “bronzers” on the market give Donald Trump on me. Lip colors on others pull warmer on me so all the nudes people rave about don’t look the same on me.
@BlushingAshley exactly! I'm in the tan category and tan golden brown easy. I hate orange and yellows typically because they make me look jaundice. It's taken me years (I'm 55) to figure this out....and thanks to Kackie I'm understanding and selecting better colors. She helped me figure out my daughter is olive, which took forever to find her a foundation match, but About Face has a perfect match for her. I love this type of content... helps us help ourselves! 💜💜💜
I love how over the last few years, people are actually understanding what an olive undertone is! Yes it is green! For so long, I felt like anyone who was naturally tan was deemed “olive.” I saw one woman a few years ago call herself olive, when she has one of the most gorgeous, unique clay-red skin tones I’ve ever seen. It was the literal opposite of olive
Jeepers this is impressive Kackie!!!
I'm fair with a pink undertone, THIS explains why people blush turns pink on me. Also why pink blush turns kinda peachy. I have basically no understanding of the color wheel other than the color opposite of the one you choose cancels your original color out 😆. I've always wondered why, ty so much for answering that. Ty so much for sharing this, may God bless 💙💙
Thank you again for the wonderful lesson ❤
I did it all and came up with my red, purplish pink, and natural nude colors! You are amazing!
I saw a creator (makeupbymonica) using a green colour corrector to desaturate blush and foundation. I wonder would that work on all colours for makeup?
So, I've diagnosed myself as neutral skewing warm. I'm a natural blue-eye redhead but in photos of myself with my apple-blossom cheeked daughter, I look quite golden. Next to a South Asian friend, I appear to be the apple-blossom! I suspect a peach undertone, and colors (in makeup and clothing) can be too cool or too warm. My hair has faded, and that doesn't change my undertone but it does change my contrast. I'd class myself as a Muted/Soft Autumn but of course, I can wear many Soft Summer shades too. Lately, in makeup, I want a good match for foundation, but am leaning toward cooler tones in lip and eye makeup. My teeth look better with blue-leaning lip treatments, and same with eyes, though at my age, with makeup, less is definitely more. Enjoy your applied color theory work! Thank you!
My first blush was a bright fuchsia pink recommended by a sales associate in bareminerals. My mom was shocked such a bright color looked natural...now know it's thanks to those cool olive undertones
Thank you! It is confirming my choices when selecting shades. I am a fair warm olive, so yes, it’s been a journey!
What if you are a neutral olive that leans cool towards the blue side? Some peaches look awesome on me and some don’t. Love bright pink and fuchsia and berries.
Found this video, watched it … noticed there’s an actual BRAIN behind the makeup talk. Awesome! Happily clicked the subscribe button.
Love the way you explain stuff, love the science of color.
Greetings from a cool-toned olive ghost from Germany