HOW TO FIND YOUR SKIN UNDERTONE | Artistic License

[@lafandenuel5605]

I once tried a lime yellow summer dress. When I looked at myself in the mirror I knew what I would look like 10 days after I died. I looked so gray I got scared I was sick. I'm quite pale as well. So I guess I'm not warm warm. That's something

[@artemischen4086]

I think if you have very pale skin, warm bright color will look bad on you no matter if you're warm or cool.

[@Iden_Elihio_1999]

Just because you are pale does not mean you are automatically cool ......

[@lilypond5158]

@@artemischen4086Emma Stone looks good in a yellow dress, and she's pearly pale

[@JishinimaTidehoshi]

@@lilypond5158 AGREE!

[@glitter7777]

@@artemischen4086 yeah but you can wear more muted warm colors if you’re a pale warm undertone. Dark or pale has nothing to do with undertones. A misconception

[@kaitlananderson4302]

A video comparing warm-delicate and cool-delicate would be soooo helpful.

[@naninuna7440]

I just know I'm delicate but that's all I'm still trying to figure it out 😭

[@winteraustin1198]

Me too

[@starminoui]

Merriam, did you get a new camera or lighting? The quality looks great!

[@vienna5953]

The peach vs pink trick was super helpful, definitely think I'm a warm and delicate. Looking forward to your other videos on this topic!

[@NoticeMeSenpaiii]

What are your favorite colors to wear as a warm and delicate? I'm confused af and could use all the help I can get 😭

[@sarahlelievre6391]

"This little quiz is designed EXTREMELY PRECISELY" hahaha loved that moment, I believe you

[@merriamstyle]

lol thank you! :p

[@nuageceleste3554]

I really feel the kind of fabric you wear is really important as it influences the way the colour behaves. Tremendously complex subject, enjoying your take on it Merriam.

[@di3486]

My life has been changed since I found out that I am warm and delicate. Even even category has a spectrum. My warm and delicates cannot be that warm undertoned or I start looking dead, for example: I can’t use terracota but I can use salmon pink. Wonderful work as usual Merriam. I love your new setup and mic!

[@NoticeMeSenpaiii]

How do blues and teals look on you? Your example sounds a little like me, and I'm trying to figure out my coloring. It's super confusing, so I'm obviously delicate but... cool or warm? No idea 🤷‍♀️

[@di3486]

Notice Me Senpai Blue doesn’t suit me at all, the only one that I can kind of use is Navy blue. You could be like me that you are just so close to the neutral that is incredibly confusing.

[@bethanyday3471]

@@di3486 I guess I am that thing she said doesn't exist. every color looks good on me. atleast when it is clothes. the only color i have seen not look good on me was a hair color and is was that real yellow/golden blonde. pale blonde looked good though. green, blue, pink, red and orange hair looked good though. and i look amazing in both dusty grey, black and gold or orange. pale green and lime green both seem to fit really well as well. so i just choose my favorite colors to wear.

[@jette7331]

Hi Merriam! I have a request - would you please consider organising your videos into playlists? For example I'd like to find playlists of the basic information about body geometry and skin undertones, but it's hard to find them among all your other videos that are more nitty-gritty going into specifics.

[@gix2lee]

It would help to have these pictures NEXT to each other when you’re comparing/contrasting. It’s really hard to see what you’re trying to convey.

[@irieprendygal]

This is the first time that I understand a video on undertones. Thank you!!

[@anareyes5411]

really, the more info i find, the more videos I watch, the more confused I get about my undertone. I switched over the years from warm to cool, considered olive, now warm and delicated, no talking about finding the right foundation. i just don´t use make up beyond mascara and red lipstick. please help!!!

[@MakeupartistKendra]

Girl I hear you! When it comes to foundation: forget skin tone categories all together (eg warm, cool, neutral). They honestly do NOT serve you in choosing a foundation. Instead, you only want to look for your UNDERTONE. What is the dominant color? AND then you need to see if you need any color correction. Because that’s what you need to match. I wrote an incredibly detailed post about this. If you’re interested go check it out: www.kendrapowell.com/blog/the-ultimate-guide-to-the-best-looking-foundation ❤️

[@hannaharnett4316]

The 1b test helped me finally solve my undertone mystery! I have a lot of redness in my face so that often left me confused, and the usual 12 seasons system either typed me as a soft summer or a soft autumn. Every foundation I own has to be “neutral” undertone or I look too yellow or too pink. This video cleared up so much confusion, I’m absolutely warm and delicate. It makes sense in retrospect! I always get complimented more when I wear muted reds, olive greens, creams, etc. Thank you so much, Merriam!

[@Colzmon]

Im obsessed with these videos now, lol. I swear so many “aha” moments.

[@egeerdem410]

Look at you with all the upgraded gear and quality, this looks great!

[@chelseacristoffor]

I'm an olive skin tone, trying to figure out if I'm muted cool or muted warm, but I have a question slightly different from this: Aside from just figuring out which color you are, what if you're a muted warm but you've always gravitated towards muted cool colors? What if the cool colors are some of your favorites to wear? Personally, I'm aware that warm tones might melt more into my skin, but I actually hate the way they look and they are just not part of my artistic aesthetic. How do you balance your artistic preference in color with the colors that naturally flatter you, especially if they are completely opposite from each other? Would love a video on how a muted cool could successfully wear some muted warms, or how a muted warm could successfully wear muted cools, how a bright could successfully pull off something more muted etc. Maybe it's just wearing cool colors that have a warm overcast, etc.? Would love your thoughts on this. Would hate to wear colors I don't actually enjoy just because they "look good on me."

[@soleilsmith1130]

Maybe some color blocking?

[@willowmallow]

So glad you have created a separate video for gold overtones with blue undertones. I have olive skin so have exactly that mix. It is frustrating as most people consistently talk about “warm“ and don’t distinguish between a golden warmth (olive skin) and a peach warmth. It makes a massive difference in terms of what colours suit. A long time ago I was classified by Colour Me Beautiful as a deep winter. However I have recently found out that olive skin is a forth undertone and so is in its own category! - and best suits the warmer end of deep winter and the cooler end of deep autumn colours. It’s been a revelation!

[@litatorres7438]

Suggestion: video about red toned skin and what colors they suit best

[@modernaristocracy3641]

Red is neutral so it depends whether they’re warm or cool.

[@Poeticdyme]

You are the GOAT of skin color theory!

[@kareng.7773]

First of all, you hair suits you amazingly here imo!!! I think I'm more on the cool and radiant side but I feel like the brightest shade of some colors are too bright and a shade darker/lighter but not muted is better on me.

[@IncantationSadness]

This greyish effect is so real! I'm doing some dance classes and to do that I had to borrow a brown skirt, so there I was, with a 'good' color on top and a 'bad' one on the bottom. And when I let my arms fall to my sides it was very visible how my hands and part of my arm were greyish compared to the upper rest. I'm practicing to find out skin undertones it's been a while, so I'm getting better each month, but every time I watch some of your videos I feel as if I learn much faster! You do know how to explain what you are seeing

[@hathor9777]

Thanks to you, I have learned I'm a cool radiant olive skin tone. Your videos are just so on point with everything, and they make more sense than any other resource I've read. Thank you so much for the clarity!!!!

[@merriamstyle]

yay I'm so happy I could help.

[@diabolique5325]

Hi Merriam. Please consider “bone structures and scarfs”. Love you.

[@SpidermaninTimeOut]

Better quality video! Love it. I’m cool but can wear gold and silver jewelry . Cool Radiant always works for me.

[@lvs6775]

Great video! As always, I love that you give us all the tools we need to figure things out for ourselves even though you offer these services. Your color videos make so much sense. Also, you look great in this video!

[@merriamstyle]

aw thank you!!

[@marinahoffmann2734]

Warm and delicate here. All my life I thought I was a cool type, but draping the muted colours and doing fotos in different lighting, revisiting the fotos over and over, solved it. This cleared the mysteries I had about what suited me. The vein test, gold silver test, 4 seasons etc made me believe I was cool.

[@adrianamolina5595]

Thank you for this test🙆‍♀️💕 Also you look really good in this video! Love you

[@queenanhle1258]

BEEN CONFUSED my whole life until I found you. and yes, I am a warm and delicate

[@coquelicot9455]

THANK YOU, this is the best quiz I tried so far! I've always "felt" I have warm undertone but having very dark brown hair and eyes with no gold in them I don't really fit the usual description... the orange vs. magenta test made it look so obvious, what a relief! ❤

[@JW-uq9yt]

I watched this one again and again and I finds it helps me a lot!

[@Anita-silver]

When you address light and dark colors could you address hair and skin lightening as we age?

[@merriamstyle]

I address hair lightening/darkening briefly, but I already recorded that video so maybe in the future I need to make a video about aging and color analysis.

[@Anita-silver]

I would LOVE that! Thanks.

[@EmmaLemmon]

Yes please! I'm growing out my grey hair and I'm not sure it suits my warm and muted skin tone...

[@rosyblooms3352]

Oh wow... I tried the orange and magenta fabric. The orange made my skin look grayish alright. So another confirmation that I have a cool undertone. I have always thought I was warm cos I'm Asian 🤯 Thank you Merriam! Love your videos 💟

[@vivetkah]

Ethnicity doesn’t have anything to do with determining cool vs warm undertones.

[@lananhnguyenngoc6769]

Thanks to all your video i have figured out that I’m actually olive, warm and delicate. It has confused me tremendously since I have always felt like nothing works on me. People have always asked if I’m ok because I have always appeared to be greenish and sickly. I’m glad that you invest in the microphone because your voice is so soft sometimes I cannot hear you well. It’s also very soothing to hear you speak. ^^

[@natalieyork956]

You are brilliant. Seriously smart, well thought out and detailed. 💓

[@mmmlextacy]

Your hair looks amazing here! So shiny

[@afunctional-space]

Hurray for a new video! Your color system has completely changed how I dress myself, with wonderful results. It's both easier and more accurate than any other color system I've encountered. Thank you!

[@becciblue6556]

This is now my absolute favourite video on understanding what colours suit you!!!

[@notbroken4342]

It took me ages to work out that I am warm and delicate, or in 12 seasons a Light Spring. Everything you say about warm and delicate is something I experienced. Online many people think I am cool because some photos make me look cooler.

[@TheGreeneBead]

I'm still a bit confused, even after watching a bunch of your videos. I can't tell if I'm a cool and delicate, or a warm and muted. There's colors from both that either look really great against my skin, or totally wash me out. I'm also a "pale olive", so lots of colors even within the same family can both wash me out or look absolutely fantastic. Mila Kunis's colors (from your olive video) work, *except* the top and 2nd to last colors- those make me look pale and washed out. Optic white actually does work for me (brings out the more tanned, olive tones), but ivorys make me look sickly. Brighter, mid-blues work fantastic, but so do deep Navys. Its so confusing, haha. *editing to add that I also look great wearing Silver, Gold and Rose Gold. The yellow gold can't be too bright, though, it needs to be a darker yellow.

[@sofiaa8505]

Could you make a video about how kibbe body types change whenever they do certain workouts such as cardio vs weight training?

[@Laura-vs6fs]

I find your videos amazing and your color theory to be the only one that is 100% accurate yet also the easiest one I have ever seen. I always knew I was warm, since my skin has a strong yellow undertone, but sometimes warm and bright colors made me look weird. I kind of got the memo I was muted, while taking a more detailed version of the 12 seasons test, where I was a toasted autumn and the autumn category was supposed to be warm, dark and muted, but I never knew why they put redheads in this category and some colors that are cool as the best colors lol Now I know what was wrong with the theory, yet it was accurate for describing me as I have dark brown hair with orange undertones, that sometimes looks almost very dark, sometimes pretty light towards the ends, but in some lights looks mousy, which indicates that it's warm and muted. Same with my eye color and my skin is yellow and fair

[@estherwilliams7005]

I have auburn hair so I am neutral, but I think I lean to the warm side. Definitely the 1b test helped me the most. I think I look better in peach than in a cool baby pink. The orange VS fuschia didn't really help me. It's think it's hard to tell for yourself. I see the celebrity photos and it makes sense, I second guess myself when it comes to what looks good on me.

[@vivetkah]

There’s no such thing as neutral that would cancel you out. It’s a cosmetic myth. People are warm or cool.

[@edj7234]

Great video - looking forward to part 2

[@fabe6435]

I'm so glad I discovered you. I have olive skin and lean towards warm delicate.

[@dianal1679]

It's so nice to have you back! I really enjoyed this video and how clearly you articulated everything. Can't wait to colour drape tomorrow (even though, I'm 95% sure I'm warm and delicate).

[@oliviaon]

Do you have any recommendations or guidelines for picking out foundations according to the 4 season undertones? That would be so helpful. Thank you and love your videos.

[@zahrazar9974]

I love your explanation. I've found i'm warm & delicate.

[@aylalg]

Thank you very much for your super informative videos!!! They've really been a game changer for me, color and style type wise. I look forward to the next one! I have warm, radiant and dark skin and I have noticed that the color's depth really matters and allows me to wear some dark, cool and radiant colors...

[@burgermister7580]

I'm 57.May I say you are getting prettier as your getting older

[@raynedrop3434]

Excellent info! So helpful and well presented. I’m learning so much to bring out my best self. Thank you! 🙏

[@GalacticEgg]

Your decor even suits you! Amazing talent :)

[@LS-kt8ql]

I'm confused, too :D. I think I have bluish veins rather than greenish ones, but when I try out the colours, I am probably warm and delicate. I can't really tell that much of a difference between tomato red and a radiant blue, but I have the feeling a rusty red is really nice. Telling a difference between pink and peach - also not that easy :D. Also, I am pretty light skinned, but have a good deal of red/pink in my skin.

[@Zusie]

It would be helpful to have a short video that clearly defines radiant vs delicate.

[@PamelaHill]

Your videos are so helpful!! I would love to see a video on hair color for the different undertones and olive tones. I’m pretty clearly cool and bright/radiant and olive. But I have some inconsistencies. I clearly look better in royal blue, royal purple, and fuchsia. However, I don’t look great in white, although I do look worse in light grey, so that’s that. But with jewelry it’s confusing. Anyway, you would think that means that cool tones for my hair work better, but actually, warm golden tones look better in my hair than ash. Ashy highlights look awful. Maybe the cool/warm tone spectrum is different for hair?

[@louisar4227]

Wow, this video brought it all together. I’m a warm and radiant olive tone. Bright Orange looks great and magenta does not. All muted colors do nothing for me. I’ve always looked best in whites, bright true or orangey-reds, and kelly green (I get more common in green than any other color).

[@truegritcouture]

Wonderful! Can't wait for Part 2 😊

[@lunagrace2872]

Hello, could you address how thin skin can effect how hard to find your undertone. I’ve notice with myself and other. That thick skin is easier to read since this skin is much more even tone in color. While time Skin seems to much harder, since you see more distracting color like vain, reddens, and other skin pigmentation all over the body. Which in my case is harder to see the main undertone.

[@AdelleRamcharan]

Hm, I think I am warm delicate. Thanks for the informative vid! I eagerly await part 2!

[@kottemauskewitz900]

Loved this video, can't wait for the next one!!!

[@cherryblossom7442]

I'm warm delicate but still watching this video because it's so entertaining XD btw i love this look on you, you look so cute

[@dracsor]

I always love the way you explain things. I wish there were the same kind of theory about undertone for foundations. I'm cool radiant and I pick cool toned foundation with pink undertone. But most of the time foundations shades are described as: neutral with cool undertone. I always ask myself if this kind of shade matches better the cool delicate. If a shade has peach undertone they are for warm delicate? Very confusing. What about neutral with warm undertone?

[@sophie1766]

I'm a warm tone - yellowish skin (and gold-blonde hair), but I always have difficulties to decide whether I'm bright or muted. Isn't there something in between? Could you maybe talk about the "inbetweenies" sometime? Love your videos! :-)

[@starminoui]

Sophie Yes, there is a spectrum! I’m warm and delicate. I can’t wear colors that are too muted because I have high contrast (hair and skin).

[@sophie1766]

@@starminoui I literally don't have any contrast, but I still look good in deeper colours, i.e. black too. Might that be, because warm types can get away with more colors? I just feel, all the very soft as well as the very bright warm colors are a little off on me and make me look more yellow/sick than I am. I find it confusing, so I just trust my eyes. I.e. neither peach nor bright orange suit me - but coral looks great.

[@marydrozdova]

I really liked this test, it's so structural and interesting. But for me clothes is comlicated, I "learned" my appearance when I tried differend colors of lipstick. I undersrood I need cool and dark lipsticks

[@TheKonnoisseur11]

That first pink matched her skin too much and made her disappear lol

[@dashemsukmawa5288]

Can you do a video on what hair colour to choose based on their undertone 🤗

[@jared9362]

hey a guy here, as I'm in the process of figuring out my style, i came across your videos to see what color would look best on me, i believe I am warm and radiant. so thanks for that. Are there any videos you can make for men?

[@mkim4091]

I'd love to see one for men

[@raniaqueen110]

Thank you for your video. I look good in magenta and orange. Also pink and peach. I look good in brighter colors, but also soft. My best color is Red. and look best in champagne gold instead of yellow or white gold. In foundation I have to buy neutral tones, I cant do warm I cant do cool. Sometimes I have to mix the two. I feel so confused. I cant even figure out if Im warm or cool.

[@Hsama1004]

I love your videos about coloring! Thank you so much! With you, I learned I'm warm and delicate and I have light olive skin tone. So I finally understand why cool and bright colors never worked for me. You change my life! Thank you! ❤

[@Sabinex5]

Great video!

[@Pera152]

This was really helpful. I thought I was cool undertoned but I could hardly tell. I didnt get it when I looked good with peach color I thought it was because I have a muted undertone. Anyways unless something blows my mind and changes it I found my undertone. Thank you

[@afanofthem2734]

This is crazy, I did the test and I look GRAY in magenta. Thanks for this amazing video!

[@sophierosebisou8420]

I’m new to your channel and watching your videos, trying to learn color analysis, the “Artistic License” theory. When you use terms interchangeably, it got confusing. I’m assuming bright colors are “radiant” in type and muted colors are “delicate” in type? Undertone Types: WARM & bright/radiant or WARM & muted/delicate or COOL & bright/radiant or COOL & muted/ delicate (Is this the Artistic License version of the four seasons). I’ll check to see if I missed a previous video that clarifies this. I try to follow your links to recommendations of previous videos. If you can organize playlists of color videos in ordered it may help us newcomers to your channel! Your tips are great! The orange/magenta test really helped after the blue/yellow/brown/grey test were indistinguishable for me. I am so excited to learn more!🥰

[@Ginnfyoknd]

I’ve been watching your videos for a while and they’re really professional. One thing I cannot understand regarding myself is that my best makeup colors are different from my best clothing colors. For reference, I’m an olive undertone and my skin is pale to light, I have hazel eyes and wear teal hair color. So, the thing is, best colors on my eyes are warm and muted, like peach or warm pink, and cool colors make me look weird (also olive green has the same effect somehow). As for clothes, I look my best in cool colors like cool gray, violet, dark cool reds, teal and so on. I guess my face can’t be warm if my body is cool or vice versa, but it kinda is?

[@vivetkah]

Eye color and hair color is separate from skin undertones.

[@khadijafitzpatrick8840]

What kind of light bulbs should i get for my house/make up mirror if I have warm undertones???

[@sarahlelievre6391]

I only wear black and I'm confined alone... time to learn photoshop I guess. Thanks Merriam!

[@laurenterry8331]

This helped me so much as I always get told by my mum I have olive skin. But I always think I’m to pale and must be yellow toned but watching your videos.. it’s appears I might be cool olive not sure which though the veins on my wrist are a mixed of blue and green. But thank you so much it explains why I look ill in most bright colours. Please keep educating us pale olive people :) .

[@Xana_K]

Awesome video! I have a really hard time. I think I'm very pale olive but I also am quite gothy in my sense of style, what do I do if I kinda instinctively like the grey skin look and mistake that for what actually looks good on me? I feel like I can wear both cool/warm and delicate colours. Some days I look very yellow but other days I don't. I can't wear gold and yet I love purples on me despite that my skin has this weird yellow to it. Yet yellow foundation is too yellow and even neutral foundation is still off ! That's why I concluded with olive XD

[@terrible1736]

Did you ever figure it out?? I feel the same way!

[@Iden_Elihio_1999]

You have no idea how happy I was to finally get another undertone vid from you 😃😃😃 You are glowing in this vid by the way 😁

[@lifeofthepardee]

I enjoy your videos and find your explanations and examples very helpful when I look at other people! I am still confused for myself! I seem to look good in orange only when I am tanned and I think Iook about the same in pale pink and peach (but neither thrills me). I think I am neutral-warm (warm and delicate?) and olive but I like how I look in navy, black, and wine which I thought were cool?

[@milica8979]

Based on what you just described, you're probably right in assuming that you're warm and delicate and also olive. I also used to think some of my best colors were navy, black and wine, and I will still wear them and look quite good in them. It's probably because of our contrast (I also have a dynamic body type in addition to high contrast, so I can handle most dark colors in general) .

[@starminoui]

Carol Pardee We have kinda similar coloring and I consider myself warm and delicate. People with warm skin tones have an easier time looking good in cool colors; cool toned people struggle with warm colors. That’s part of the reason cool colors can look good. You are also medium to high contrast. Black will tie in nicely with your dark hair. Warm toned person with blue eyes may have an easier time wearing blue even if it’s a cool color because it picks up on their natural features. Finally, I think I’m olive and I don’t look amazing in pale pink or peach. Since you have high contrast, those colors will wash you out. I’d suggest dusty pink/mauve (muted cool) and terracotta (muted warm), that should help.

[@vivetkah]

Peach goes well with warm undertones only. Warm undertones can handle wearing cool colors better than vice versa. But they’re not their best colors.

[@vivetkah]

Bring olive doesn’t mean anything. It’s either cool or warm undertones.

[@lifeofthepardee]

@@starminoui i do like terracotta for me. Thanks!

[@qwertzuiop7578]

I didn't even have to try on a piece of clothing for question 1a. I've got a jumper that is magenta and even though it's actually not my style I love it... Now I understand why, it's just fitting my cool undertone. Thanks for the video!

[@brodd13]

I think I'm warm and delicate, as both orange and magenta make me look weird. I love the way peach looks on me, while pink makes me look dead. However, there are certain shades of blue that I think I look amazing in, so this is where I get confused.

[@anjsen8542]

Love your videos. You really have a keen eye and artistic sense. Keep up the good work

[@renesagahon4477]

Excellent. This is a science. And you’ve nailed it!

[@kamilam.3476]

Can you say why we use magenta but not blue color? I thought that whith blue it would be more easy because it is the most cold color. I'm curious why is it magenta?

[@nuageceleste3554]

Kamila M. yes! I look best in all blues but fushia /magenta somehow manages to wash me out almost as much as orange. It’s very hard to find a system that works, it’s very intuitive.

[@Hasna256]

I think that's maybe because blue is easier than magenta to wear for warm toned skin, so blue might be misleading to see a difference while magenta is more obvious.

[@DarknesssThereAndNothingMore]

Me subbing because I realize I have no clue which skin tone I am other than olive 🫒 and didn’t even know you could be radiant or delicate or warm or cool 🤷🏻‍♀️ 👁👄👁 thanks Merriam 🙏

[@chautran4086]

As a knitter and crocheter, it's difficult to find yarn colors (even most neutral colors) for warm and delicate.

[@p.b.4464]

Great video, thank you! I'm dying to know what happens if you get your 1a answer but then do 1b!

[@somebodysomeone1536]

Great video! I will do some tests but i am pretty sure i am warm and vibrant because i look good in orangy reds, even tho my hair is dark ashy. Never liked how peach colors look on me, its like i disappear, you cant tell where my skin starts and where it ends.

[@mcatherine36]

This video was super helpful!! I used to think I had a warmer skin tone for some reason, just based on the thought that the color pink generally looked good on me. It's good to know that I actually have a cooler skin tone because I think magenta looks much better on me than orange! From this test, I think my skin tones are cool and radiant. I was suspecting that I was not muted because I tried on a muted dusty pink, much more muted than the brighter pink colors I had, and noticed that it definitely did not look as good - it kind of dragged me down!

[@rflo162]

Great great explanations.. Thank you for the examples of what you're talking about.

[@carolyngracetoday]

great video! Looking forwward to part 2!

[@merriamstyle]

thank you!!

[@leonine1674]

I'm a warm radiant and I dislike warm and radiant colours in general :-)

[@yellowblue5884]

Very helpful video

[@marc1342-u7l]

this video was so good and informative!! it would be great if you could do a video about chosing a hair color for us that like to dye it. i was wondering as a warm and delicate ,can my hair be too warm toned for me the same way as it works with clothes?

[@tinypuff5217]

If you have an iPhone, I would suggest looking up the app called “iHairstyle.” You can upload a pic of yourself and change both haircolor and even hairstyle. It also includes fantasy colors like hot pink and lavender.

[@elektraeriseros]

Also, did you change your hair? It looks different. Good different, tho! Make no mistake!

[@aimeebarnes9603]

Are there any examples of a very fair person being warm and bright?

[@olitheadeceglie2123]

What a great self-test! I have to thank you again for helping me see I’m cool and radiant. Every time I wear hot pink I get compliments! You made me laugh, but it’s true: Alexis Bledel’s dress DID look bizarre and Photoshopped in. You know what you’re doing-can’t wait for part two!

[@caryljones1450]

Yey a new video! Hey Merriam, your colour analysis videos are so enlightening thank you! I was wondering, in addition to undertone and depth is it possible to identify the level of green or pink in your skin? And if yes, does this affect influence the best colours in your season? Would greens suit olive skins better and pinks suit pink skins better? Or is it best to go for complimentary colours? Also should your hair colour match your undertone or the pink/green in your skin or both to look harmonious? Sorry for opening a can of worms!

[@milica8979]

You should watch Merriam's videos on warm and cool olive skin, she discusses this exact topic in them. :-)

[@caryljones1450]

@@milica8979 yes I've watched the olive skin videos but to me it's still not clear what to do if you have pinkish skin.

[@milica8979]

@@caryljones1450 So from what I understand, the best colors are the same -- they depend on the blue vs. yellow dominance of the undertone. However, people with a red dominance to their skin tone (as opposed to green) basically have less problems because some rosiness always looks healthy on the skin, and they don't look as bad as olive-toned people in their wrong reds and pinks. So, for example, I'm warm and delicate + olive, and like Merriam said, one of my worst colors is an icy pink, it looks completely separate and makes my skin look really bad. If I had more red to my skin, it wouldn't be as hard for me to pull off. Also, if your skin leans red, then you would look better with red hair (or any hair color with red undertones) than someone who has more green to their skin. I hope this helps!

[@16SixteenSaltines]

I tried wearing bright orange and magenta and while from a personal choice aspect I preferred the orange, I don’t think the magenta looked bad on me either. Then I tried the light pink and peach test. I’m gonna be honest I really don’t know which suits me better. Part of the problem is I have a very yellowy olive skin tone on my body and neck but I have a lot of acne scarring on my face and I am also super pale so my face always pulls really pink. It’s hard to tell what actually looks good on me when I have such a contrast of colors going on in my skin tone. I will say though, in makeup I’ve noticed that if a blush or lipstick has any pink in them it pulls way more pink on me than what it looks like in the pan. I’ve bought bronzers before that I use as blush because they show up as slightly pink on me. Same with clothing, if I wear something slightly pink it looks WAY more pink on me than it does on the hanger. I know for sure that I am a muted type rather than a bright type. Does this mean that I am a light warm olive?

[@rosawolke2788]

my problem is quite the opposite - neither pink nor orange really suits me :( I am also a muted type.

[@anushayangala3140]

i love these videos so much

[@whitestrokes]

Maybe a dumb question, but if cool undertones look good in all black, does that mean that warm undertones look good in white.... or is white cool, too?