Color analysis MYTHS that I know you're believing....

[@angelinab.5917]

I’ve seen mainstream color analysis videos where they type all redheads as springs. Thank you for being here to clear up all of our common color misconceptions! You are truly brilliant.

[@annalynn9325]

I was draped and analyzed as a winter in the 1980s! But THE most helpful advice I have had on choosing the best colors for me was Merriam’s “cool and muted” and that is how I finally understood why, despite being high contrast, the typical winter color palate totally overwhelmed me

[@dahliaherrod4301]

I'm glad I watched the video. You typed me as a cool and brilliant SN with dynamic contrast which I assumed meant high contrast but I didn't know that on your spectrum dynamic tops high contrast. It helps put things in perspective for me. Merriam I don't see many videos from you on essences or soft naturals so I'd love to hear you discuss how body features and/or essence effects colors. I love getting into the science of it all. My analytical brain likes making sense of underlying principles. Helps me know how to apply it in real life.

[@chesshaterrr]

"there are so many ways to be wrong" LMAO

[@linabelmonte5154]

Love this line 😂😂😂

[@pajamamama5965]

This is really helpful thank you! I feel sorry for people who want to wear all the colors because it's scientifically impossible to look good in all of them. It's true that it helps to wear our flattering colors near our face. In my experience I just can't wear my worst colors at all. I'm a bright winter and olive green, pumpkin orange, and mustard make me look horrible. I've tried wearing them on my bottom half, and I still look bad even with my perfect color near my face. With matching eye color, I have a daughter with Hazel eyes who is a winter. I've noticed that she looks good with a cool Olive color that has more blue in it, although her eyes are more of a warm Olive green that does not look good with her skin tone. When she wears the cool Olive it looks like she's matching her eyes ironically. It's still not one of her best colors but she's youthful and can pull it off. I think the older we get the more important it is to wear our best colors.

[@Cedarrouge]

Yes I'm very similar, an olive winter with warm hazel eyes !

[@gamergirlmars]

I can't wear my eye color (gray) unless it's like, near black black. I feel like people blend in with the walls when they try too hard to match their features. I know I do. That's my gripe with trying to wear summery colors. So I think people need to realize wearing your eye color or skin color in an article of clothing should *harmonize* but not match! That's a gripe of mine. I love to accessorize with hair bows or headbands etc to try to keep colors that work near my face. One of my favorite tricks!

[@allie3482]

I feel like a lot of POC are labeled as Dark Autumn. However I do think many POC look good in bright yellow or red despite being labeled as a Dark Autumn like Solange. Color analysis has ways alluded me because many of the bright clothing colors look good on darker complexions versus the Dark Autumn muted colors. However when it comes to the make up it doesn’t work the same imo.

[@ashleycnossen3157]

Black women can be any of the seasons

[@dahliaherrod4301]

Nah some black and brown people look terrible in yellow. If a person has a strong cool coloring, yellow and orange-red is NOT her friend. Look at Zoe Kravitz and her mother Lisa Bonet. Do you ever see them wear yellow or orange-red? Nope!

[@An-kw3ec]

I've seen darker people who are obviously cool toned, they usually have a lot of grey undertones to their skin, especially lips, but deeper cool skintones are the ones to have more blue instead of pink like fair skin, so their coolness comes from the light reflecting over darker pigment. When they have red undertones it usually makes them warm, because brown+red makes a warm brown. Thats the opposite of light skin, where red makes skin cool toned. Im quite pale, but my skin is pink, i only have a blue hue in certain light conditions like cloudy day. Girls like Anok Yai always reflect a lot of blue from their skin.

[@ashleycnossen3157]

@@An-kw3ec Fair and dark people can be cool and pink/red or warm and pink/red. There are warm and cool pinks and reds. What makes a skin tone warm is the amount of yellow compared to blue.

[@HumanimalChannel]

​@ashleycnossen3157 of course. They seem tonoften be cool toned tho

[@annissagraves3076]

Hey Merriam- thank you so much, I think I finally understand my “warm” and “olive” skin. And you’re so very interesting, I didn’t notice the music people are bitching about. 🤗

[@JohannaJalonen]

Optimal colors are the most important aspect of looking good imo. But you should not limit your creativity because of this. I am referring to makeup with this. For example as a Dark Winter I do not want to wear a strong red or purple lip every day, even If those shades are my best shades. Sometimes I want to tone down and soften a bit, deliberately 🙃

[@stayathomemess]

The eye color thing. My mom has bright blue eyes and ALWAYS wears blue. I don't have the heart to tell her that it makes her look washed out.

[@sleepymermaidariell337]

I’ve been typed as a bright winter once and a soft winter another time, and even though I have dark features, I mostly wear pastels. I have strong ingenue essence and very soft features like in your example. Nice to know that my instincts were right on choosing those colors for myself.

[@BlessYourHeart254]

I’m definitely a case of high-color pink skin not being cool. Having been color analyzed, the professional can see quickly that my “pink” is really peachy pink. She could tell very quickly that I’m warm toned and look terrible in black, white (Winter), and in very pastel baby pink and blue (Summer), but coral lights me up. I’m lucky and can match my eye color, olive green, since I’m warm.

[@HeidiMR]

I’ve been wondering about olive vs rosy and why you didn’t say in my report if I was olive or rosy. I love finding the missing pieces and little gems in your videos. 👏🏻 Wow 96 types! 😆😁 I enjoy the way you think about color typing. Also, love the tip for hazel eyes and a cool skin tone. I’ll be looking for purple to test it out.

[@AbstractMindsThinkAlike]

Do you have the same video, but without the music in the background?

[@Loufi303]

Yes please! Super annoying and i am a fan of Merriam. It adds nothing, just distracts. Unwatchable.😢😢

[@SpintreeBob]

We are not all the same, not in what we look good in....not in what we think others look good in. Viva le difference`

[@HaricharanDasi]

Lmao that's what I do! I wear a bright dupatta on whatever the heck I want to wear

[@SonyaOpritova]

hej Merriam! I don't know how it feels for other people, but I find the music in the background extremely distracting and annoying. You have such a nice calming voice and such constructive videos. I watch every single one because they are so interesting and it is nice to see and hear you. But that music - it adds no value and is terribly distracting.

[@Noblesseobligebeauty]

Hi ! Just a curiousity , did you train to be a color analist in the classical way or did you apply your studies and art background and come up with your own system? Thank you

[@saramsfi]

I love the artistic license method 9️⃣6️⃣🤍🎨👗📐

[@wildeevolution]

Do you ever type people who are neither cool nor warm? I don’t think I look good in any color so I end up wearing only black, gray, denim or a bit off white. I can’t even wear a cool gray or a warm gray. It has to be super neutral. Am I delusional? The only explanation I can come up with is that I’m cool tone but I have liver disease which makes my skin sallow. I look even sicker when I wear yellow or warm colors. The only color I own is shades of warm pink to warm burgundy. I would definitely do a color consult with you if I could!

[@thehalfbloodserb]

Maybe you're a strong olive with a cool and delicate undertone? Merriam has some videos discussing what olive looks like on a cool undertone, giving a "yellow overtone" effect despite not being warm. Alternatively you could possibly lean warm and delicate, since that's the most mistyped/misunderstood colour type, but if you're struggling to find colours you like it's probably the olive and cool combination

[@Cedarrouge]

Are you olive toned? This was me and I was confused for actual years.

[@wildeevolution]

@@thehalfbloodserb Thank you for your suggestions! I know I can’t wear warm colors because I really want to and they always look terrible on me. My skin is simply yellow from my condition so I’m very sure I’m not olive. I will watch her olive videos though and see if they apply to my situation.

[@wildeevolution]

@@Cedarrouge My skin is yellow from my condition but I will watch her olive videos and see if they apply to my situation. Thanks!

[@debless9]

Why is Dakota soft? She's a flamboyant natural.

[@malwinakt]

Soft classic

[@allie3482]

She’s talking about her face / essence

[@JohannaJalonen]

And yes, there are so so much shitty info about style out there 😂

[@Oliiia]

Deep olive will look great on Rachel Weis