Does SELF TANNER Change Undertone? | A Color Analyst Explains

[@Chipshot2000]

Merriam, you look great today! Hair and background enhance your look!

[@vina]

I just have to say this is the best background so far, it looks perfection ❤😊 soothing colors and your skin shines lovely with them😊

[@cheentzia]

my fake tan takes me from warm and delicate olive to a warm and radiant and less olive :) i can tell bc i can wear more saturated lipstick than usual whenever i'm in full fake tan mode

[@HeidiMR]

I don’t use self tanners but still enjoyed watching the video 😁 I’m getting more confident in determining whether a color is warm or cool.

[@Fierie333]

I’m quite rosy / pale, probably cool leaning, but tan suprisingly well. When I use self tanner, I become more warmer. It’s actually really fun to play with that, colors and makeup.

[@DesArtandInk]

We're twins 😊

[@moneycreatestaste]

we can layer in water colour, and some oil painters build up translucent layers - artist that work with glazes do sometimes paint the blue beneath the red! Skin is translucent, with so many factors it's very hard to pin down. When we make portraits we have to forget what we think a skin tone is - it's always complex and individual. The quality and strength of light change how much subsurface scattering we see . I do find the colour groupings Merriam uses (cool delicate, warm delicate etc) to be useful as a starting point for understanding how to paint a new sitter, to know which colour stories harmonise and contrast. These videos have helped me understand what to look out for and I'm very grateful they are here for us! through this channel I started to understand my skin tone (I love colour but had difficulty branching out of wearing all black because so many colours didn't sit right) I think I'm very pale cool delicate/warm delicate depending on how tan.

[@tetyanalove6186]

You are so right about tanning, generally I have a neutral skin tone leaning cool, very light. In my teen years I was often looking blue, and hated my complexion wholeheartedly. I tried to tan as much as possible- and that way became so much warmer, to the point when wearing orange was fine with my yellowed - burnt from the sun hair. Nowadays I steer away from sunbathing

[@JohannaJalonen]

Thanks! I just realized that I’m cool/neutral olive toned as a dark winter (and I’ll never wear fake tan again) 🤝

[@AbstractMindsThinkAlike]

You have lovely hair!

[@Elparker28]

I’ve seen a lot of your videos and found them helpful but this one really helped something click about the undertone being a combination of factors. I still don’t know mine. I always thought it was cool because my foundation match is usually a cool one but that’s also normally the lightest or second lightest there is 😵‍💫. I think I am going to go for the color analysis. I get varied answers based on draping photos and I think I’m pretty neutral but not sure which way I lean.

[@SnugEmsCats]

I'm very fair Soft Summer and use a small amount of self tanner in the summertime. I like that it hides some of my imperfections,, my skin is so fair that you can see the blue veins in some areas. It's so difficult to find a good match but I think the one I use changes my typing to a Soft Autumn which isn't too bad. I wish there were a self tanner that acted more as a concealer that matches your skin tone but that's probably not possible for all shades.

[@merriamstyle]

It may be worth looking into cool toned self tanners if you're interested in that. They have more of a cocoa kind of look rather than a golden look (kind of like Jennifer Aniston's tan). I heard about their existence a long time ago and I don't remember specific names, only that they are out there. But if you are interested it could be worth looking around on Reddit to see if anyone has found one.

[@SnugEmsCats]

​@@merriamstyle Thank you for the response! I did a quick Google search before buying mine and bondisands was said to be cool but it was still slightly off. I'll try soft summer reddit and see if there are more suggestions there. 🙂 P.S. Thank you for all of the excellent content. You've really been a tremendous help, especially the video where you explain how to take elements/inspiration from different places and make it a cohesive style. 🌟🏆👍

[@notaclue822]

How interesting. Thanks. I think a natural suntan makes me look way better, but probably the same colour but intensified. I've got olive skin and quite a bit of pigment....medium at least. My heritage is half Slavic. I considered spray tan on my legs but really I tan alright.

[@ninalu6901]

Does using beta carotene change skin undertone as well?

[@Angel-Number444]

I would like to see a video where you type ice spice. I feel like in different photos her undertone appears different each time. I can’t tell if she’s cool or warm.

[@sophiab.282]

self tan always makes me look super yellow or orange and i rather not look jaundiced haha. ive seen how pretty a tan can look on others but I wont tan in the sun though, thats too damaging so i rather stay pale.

[@Lizziee247]

How do i change from natural medium warm tone to olive ?

[@bojanab409]

Maybe it's the language making the confusion,skin UNDERtone implying the color is underneath, plus advices to look at the veins implying it's something under the skin

[@somayahalharbi-z6t]

hi i have a light beige skin tone and have yellow in it thats mean iam warm and delicate undertone?

[@JasminDolly]

Hey im new to color analysis and i wanna know if its possible to ve warm and rosy? (I think im warm and radiant possibly not so sure about that yet. But i have really rosy cheeks. Im half black by the way)

[@alliepenaherrera1976]

Hi! Not who you asked but I've watched enough of her videos to answer. You can be both warm and rosy based on her system. Think of warm v. cool as yellow and blue, then red v. green runs perpendicular to that axis as rosy and olive. I hope that's helpful!

[@merriamstyle]

yes you can! usually this can look peachy.

[@arankawerlein]

Undertone doesn’t change. When we read undertone it is created by our blood under our skin. When you get a tan (regardless of fake or real) it can make reading someone’s undertone harder and it could happen that we mistaken them into a neighbooring palatette, we can mistaken a true winter as a bright winter or a dark winter etc or a bright winter as a bright spring, but it still will be at the same quadrant and that is why it is requested you not have any fresh tanning any kinds or even anything including lotion/lip balm etc on the face when a client shows up for color analysis as it can create light bouncing on skin.. and people even with oilier skin sometimes need a “colorless” powder applicatiin during reading. But true undertone never changes. And using undertone interchangeably with overtone is not correct. There is a reason for their separation. Most color analysis systems use undertone and that is why people keep jumping seasons even from a hair color change.. our true season never changes not even when we gray. As we age not just our hair but our skin has less pigmentation in it and even then once finding someone’s true season it never changes but with overtones clients could be all over the palette from any changes.

[@vivellaz]

Very interesting comment and makes sense. I was classified as a deep winter 30 years ago, but when I have my silver roots tinted dark, the hairdresser always tends to add red to my hair saying I have 'warm' skin. My skin is a neutral olive, with visible green showing at my neck, and my veins are some light green, some more blue. I never quite know what to do. I have dark brown eyes with a blue border around them and the blue border only appeared about 10 years ago. I wish it was less complicated. Especially buying face foundation is a nightmare, all too pink, too orange or too yellow. I end up adding a chartreuse food colouring to foundations to make them more greenish neutral, or colour correcting drops. I do feel I can wear true red lipsticks as well as deep orange ones, so I get very confused as most colours suit me except for tans and mustards. If I am really a deep winter maybe I should let the silver hair grow out and go platinum. Do you think colour matching is different now to what it was many years ago, and that it might be worth doing again? The system used at that time was called Colour Me Beautiful.

[@arankawerlein]

@@vivellaz color me beautiful still exists but they also somewhat changed over from 4 season to 12/16 seasons depending on the person. However what they do is quite different from what I or even Merriam does. We focus on the skin and then look at other charactereristics. Color me Beautiful used to place people into the season from the 4 per their hair/eye colors. If you do not feel home in your current said season I would recommend a new reading not because you changed but because 30 years ago they only used the 4 seasons and they misplaced people all the time we have about 2/3 of population in neutrals and only about 1/3 if that who is true season so imagine 2/3 being places mostly to the wrong places because some characteristics matched into it but they couldn’t use most colors from those seasons.. you could contact Merriam (since it’s her page here :-)) I’m not totally familiar with how she does her color analysis other than what she shared and I haven’t seen all her videos. The system I’m in only does color analysis in person in a controlled setting. Hair covered in neutral gray, wearing the same neutral gray cape (both the client and me) and using 5000W light to have the same light during the whole reading. And also have a neutral backdrop. Regarding foundation you could also mix two or more together and play with the tones like in art class with you being the canvas to get your most desired result. :-)

[@vivellaz]

@@arankawerlein Thank you so much for your considerate reply, I do appreciate it very much and it was very thoughtful of you to explain.

[@arankawerlein]

The reason we say that undertone is created from under the skin is actually because of science (physics/quantum-physics, chemistry and biology). In every cell of the human body there is light and color beyond the human spectrum, beyond our wildest imagination. There is also movement, as light streams into the cell from outside the body and from every other part of the body..and as light goes out from the cell into the body and beyond the body. In our cells is nucleus that is vibrating in harmony to the body. We are literally transmitting waves of color and vibratyto everyone and everything around us. It’s like a genetic fingerprint. So when you say our overtone can change you literally saying our genetic had been altered and I’m no geneticist but I do not think a spray tan is capable of doing that sorry🙈😂. It sounds funny when you think about it. So what happens is that we misread their tone which is why we say it changes their overtone. As its name suggests it is over why? Because it is over on top of the skin. Just like when you wear a certain color it changes your overtone because the light reflects of of your skin differently because..well because of color sience. Think of Johannes Itten’s work and his term called -> SIMULTANEOUS CONTRAST (there is a great book by him called -> Itten- The Elements of Color- Highly recommend :-) Hope it helps, with Love, A

[@arankawerlein]

Adding as I’m still listening: when someone changes their -> OVERTONE by spray then or make up they aren’t going to look coherent and harmonious in the color palette that they had been switched over because of their overtone change. Why? Because their hair didn’y change.. their eye didn’y change. Now they can try to correct with make up.. and hair coloring.. but it will never quite will be as if they were wearing their own colors. So essentially you would have to wear a contact lense which changes your eye color to the same direction and a hair color that changes you towards the same direction to be able to have a completely harmonious coherent look. It can pass but it will never ever be as your true colors. And to your statement to that nothing magical (or whatever word you used) going on under the skin AURA, now we have a scientific term coined for it theough research they call it your -> BIOFIELD. Anything that matches to your own biofield will make your feel truly home. And you will look your very best in. And I often see even through my own example (I was placed a while back into a wrong season) and eventho I had embraced that season I never quiite felt myself since. The moment I was draped in my right colors I started crying. It felt like someone took weights of off me (as I was placed in a much more muted and heavier season then who I truly am -for reference I was placed as True Autumn while I am a Bright Winter.. That catharsis that you feel when you see yourself in all your glory is nothing to compare.. it’s like a rebirth! And I strongly feel until one truly experience that they can not comprehend/understand it fully. I saw it on clients. They lighten up, the life in their eyes it’s like you had found their soul and connected with that. It’s such a profound experience that I can not put into words. (Side note: if someone eat a lot of carrots their overtone can change because they literally turn in color..but that’s all just overtone there is a difference which I was trying to explain) With Love, A