HOW TO FIND YOUR PERFECT RED LIP *works every time*

The makeup world is SATURATED with methods to find your perfect red lip. Today I'm going to show you WHY you haven't found it yet, and how to get the right red for you (and beige, pink, anything else for that matter!)
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0:00 - Intro
1:04 - Photo Editor Demo
6:08 - Applying my perfect "reds"
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[@kackie]

Y'ALL! If you do this and find your perfect "red" PLEASE TAG ME on IG! I would love to repost them and have a highlight of the various shades that worked for y'all. Make sure you tell everyone what shade it is! ❤❤❤

[@tharzanne]

I'm unable to tag you on ig

[@lindsaykill1702]

I’m not on instagram but after your first contrast video I went on the hunt at Sephora and found NARS Aragon is my red lip! They make it in a lip shine (sort of balmy but more coverage) and a lip gloss. Both look stunning on me as red but look like… rusty chestnut brown in the bullet! ❤

[@annemarson4144]

Thank you for doing this! I have actually thought SO much about this over the years, because I try red lips (and bangs, unfortunately) about every five years, and I'm always disappointed. I'm not on insta (for my mentie healf), but my "red" is Charlotte Tilbury Walk of No Shame. I am a fairly light neutral olive, and I cannot wear a true red without it looking like a clown mouth that belongs to someone else. But darn it if Walk of No Shame doesn't read as red on me. I don't really like buying from CT, because she kind of annoys me, but I can't find another shade and formula that works better for me as an occasion lip. I have found other warmish roses, like Lisa Eldridge Enchantment, but too much opacity also isn't good on me. For some reason I have to have a tiny bit of my own lip coming through or, again, it looks like there are wax lips floating on my face.

[@muscleandhate]

Hey Kackie have you ever heard the theory that Marilyn's famous red lipstick was actually orange?!

[@spontaneousun]

Also, a pretty solid way to find a lipliner shade - any nifty tricks with concealer or foundation shades you’d like to teach? I struggle so hard to find any that look natural and am perpetually bamboozling employees at Sephora or other makeup stores. Pale desaturated olive with rosacea that distracts and makes people think I’m way more pink than I actually am.

[@anneliesefreiny3432]

The one in which Kackie explains why it’s so hard to trust swatches and swatch photos. At least now I know I’m not an idiot. 🤣

[@kackie]

You're not!!!

[@klindsay311]

This NEEDS to go viral. The number of people it would help!!! I am so excited to try this and to stop wasting money on lip colors that end up being terrible on me!

[@Sky-Child]

You are SO clever. Trying this 🎉

[@madyfredriksz850]

This is the highest value makeup video I’ve watched in a long time! Your videos have become masterclasses and I’m loving it!

[@bags_books_and_bowwows]

🤯 Ruby slippers moment … just went through the steps and realized that first “reads red on me” color is a very close match for the lipstick I think of as “nude plus” and carry with me always. The one I can throw on with little or no other makeup and feel put together but not clownish. In other words, Fairy Godmother Kackie just showed me I’m already a French Girl.

[@Currentlyabroad]

in all of my YEARS watching yt videos about makeup, i truly believe this is single-handedly the most useful EASY one by far thank you!!!

[@ottercat7]

Two Kackie videos at the same time??? Oh I am LIVING for it

[@yamilletrivas8041]

YES!!! I am feeling spoiled as hell!!!! ❤

[@nikolasincorporated]

THE WAY I JUST SHOUTED AT THE SCREEN WHEN THE COLOR LITERALLY CHANGED BEFORE MY EYES 👏

[@jensiej4590]

OMG freedom! Who knew my ideal red was freaking orange?! Jones Road Valencia was in my desk drawer (inspired by Scarlet Johansson's lip in Wes Andersen's Asteroid City). Art math suggests my lips are so blue they balance out the orange and we land on red? You're magic. Thank you

[@racheldaniels7858]

I love these art math vids. To me this one was so clear and fun and very useful. Trying it tmrw... Then probably going to go down a Sephora rabbit hole of adding and deleting colours on my wish list😅

[@kimberlygiagnacovo8984]

This has my mind completely blown. This type of content scratches an itch in my brain and answers questions that I never even knew to ask. Science and math are subjects that I always understood and truly enjoy. Art has never been my strong suit, but I enjoy being creative and makeup has always been an outlet for me to just have fun with different colors, textures, etc. Now I get to combine science, art, math and makeup and put some more thoughtfulness behind my creativity. Thank you Kackie!!!

[@scemat]

Exactly how I felt about this video! I'd love more ways to play with colour theory and photo tools like this for people like me that are not "naturals" when it comes to understanding colour but can do so with a bit of tech help.

[@tjay816]

I have been searching so long for a red and spent so much money to only check them in the trash. I'm blonde, blue eyed, but not the same coloring of Taylor Swift!! Thank you so much!!!!

[@coolcat020]

THIS WAS WILD AND SO HELPFUL. omg thank you so much for this. as someone who cant picture things in my mind the idea of just trusting the computer is great!

[@TheUmbrella20]

This is the best KZbin video I've ever seen. How does this apply to blush and bronzers, etc??

[@niki20072]

I need this too. Especially the blush. Please please do blush like this!

[@randis7785]

Ok this explains why every single lipstick looks completely different on me than other people or the online swatches. This is absolutely amazing and I’ve never seen anyone address this!!

[@kackie]

🥹🥹🥹

[@niki20072]

Same, same, same! I have only recently started trying to wear lipstick (in my early 50’s) and I was getting so very frustrated because everything I try turns out completely different on me! This is absolutely life changing for me and I thank you so much! ❤

[@mistybarham6077]

I have literally never commented on a KZbin video, but your art math/makeup mash up is absolutely addicting. I love it so much.

[@cyn229]

I’ve been absolutely loving all the art math videos lately, I cannot wait to play around and figure out my perfect nude that won’t give me the dreaded “corpse lips”! Thank you thank you!!! 😊 And, as a literal girl raised in France who has never been able to pull off the effortless French girl look, I now understand that my essence likely factors heavily into that too because I can’t pull off all of those frilly French girl clothes either! Love videos like this that make me rethink things in helpful ways!

[@nathaliemaullin6590]

Moi Aussie!

[@Sleipnirseight]

Holy crap this technique feels revolutionary. It's actually objective and takes all the guesswork out. Gonna go hit up my Photoshop this afternoon!!!

[@sofie.h]

I’m in school to study color and this is such a cool application/example of the contextual nature of color - what a color looks like in some isolated setting can seem so unrelated to how it looks with a particular background or surround

[@augustmoonrae5407]

Yep! My perfect red is actually a fuchsia. I need some purple in my red. Bite Beauty made a lipstick in the Mulberry that was absolutely perfect for me (RIP). The new Ilia lip crayons have 2 that are really similar: blue note and night bloom.

[@BinaBecker]

Same here. I've been gravitating to fuchsia in lieu of red since high school, and now I know why. And I'm not surprised, because I'm very pale and have a bluish undertone. Also, I have Bite Mulberry and really need to wear that more often.

[@kackie]

Omg y'all tag meeeee I wanna see

[@Pangaea83]

You look like a strawberry blonde, as am I and I don’t know why purple lipstick works so well on me but I saw a makeup video with Julianne Moore and she said she has always been told peaches work well on redheads but she prefers purple. I feel like oranges look pretty but make my teeth look brown. The purple seems to make my blue eyes pop

[@Pangaea83]

Merit fashion looks pretty on me and maybe would work for you😊

[@augustmoonrae5407]

@@Pangaea83 no I am not strawberry at all 😂

[@piamater3]

This channel has quickly became my comfort channel and one of the few things that keep getting me curious and excited since i haven’t been doing great lately. I learn mind blowing stuff from you and I can’t believe how quickly it changed how i look at things. Thank you, really. You’re doing great ❤❤

[@a24-45]

so true! I discovered recently that my best beige/brown everyday lip colour is a PURPLE. In fact, all my best lip colours are some version of PURPLE. So I threw out a ton of "brown " lipsticks and i couldn't be happier. Now, less than 5% of readymade lipsticks out there are PURPLE -- but now that I know, I will never go back to all those pinks reds and browns ! BTW I also discovered that my best foundation is a whitish pink and my best contour colour is a plain yellow with a breath of grey. Seriously. Every other foundation, no matter how "cool" it seems, turns hideous ORANGE on my skin. So I mix my own now in a little dish everyday. I always said I couldn't be bothered to do that, but seeing the result, it's so worth it!

[@safrica229]

OMG A KACKIE DOUBLE-FEATURE!! Thanks Kackie!!! I need this red lip video so bad

[@Oliveaceous]

GAME CHANGER! This made so much click for me. Between this video, the contrast, undertone, and saturation ones I'm figuring out why I tend to like certain colors on me better versus others. I think I'm a high contrast girlie on the neutral cooler side, and I tend to wear vampy lips. So, when summer rolls around, I feel lost with colors becuase they all feel too warm and usually end up going for blotted down versions of my vampy shades to lighten things up. This may also be becuase I'm olive and although I'm pale, my complexion tends to go more yellow in the summer sun. I would love if you addressed olive tones, becuase it seems like a wild card. It's so hard to find shades, especially when shopping online.

[@becominghumanagain]

I love all your art math videos. This is so bleeping helpful. I was a math math major and am art math dumb lol. THANK YOU!

[@gardenia77]

This is so helpful for someone like me who can't ever identify cool and warm is less obvious colors.

[@SarahMcAshan]

WOW! Affair looks red on you?!?! my goodness I have to try this. Thanks for this, fascinating. Our visual system is an absolute gas, isn't it.

[@naominoursebeauty]

This is probably the best video you have ever made. Okay, not probably, it is! This whole series of color theory in makeup artistry is everything! I just can't get enough. I've watched each of these videos two to three times already. This series needs to blow up KZbin!

[@user-mj1vy8wy4e]

This recent series of videos you've made on contrast and color theory are MIND BLOWING!!! I can't believe nobody has taught me this before. I'd love more, endlessly more, ART MATH. And does this mean that I can do the same thing with blush by color picking my cheek colour??

[@kimfeddema6302]

This is actually SO helpful. I struggled for YEARS as a super pale desaturated neutral-yellow freckle face to find a red i could wear because every. Single. One. Looks hot pink on me. Will try this immediately.

[@ECMKAD]

This explains how I stumbled into my perfect red by complete accident. I ordered a ColourPop lip tint in A-Go-Go which is described (and shown) as *a sheer rosy pink*. I really wanted it for those *no makeup* makeup days so imagine my surprise when I put it on and it morphed into a saturated watermelon red color that I NEVER would have chosen to try. And it looked amazing! I wear it almost every day now. Off to try that computer trick.

[@Mandaxx25]

This is excellent. Thank you so much. As a redhead, it's been sooooo hard to find a red that flatters my skin tone. I'm neutral and suit any colour but red has always been challenging.

[@ennanitsua]

Omg I'm doing this with my skin to get clothing colors, too. I've never known what looks good on me, so this is unbelievably helpful!

[@fluteteachermarcie6283]

I bought Merit Court, and WHOA it looks so red and bright on me. I had considered buying Vermillion or one of their brighter ones, but I’m so glad didn’t!

[@tallisinwonderland4724]

That’s one I keep deliberating over as it seems a muted, brick red. My colouring is soft autumn and I keep thinking it would look like it’s not too out of place on my face 😂

[@spontaneousun]

One of the best makeup videos or color theory videos I’ve watched! Your artmath skills and teaching abilities are *chef’s kiss*.

[@blanq.kanvas]

Dude. What. So fascinating.

[@CrankyGrandma]

This makes so much sense. I know from getting my colors done (by someone who knows what they are doing) that my skin tone affects how other colors look on me, plus the other colors affect how my skin looks. Black brings out red cheeks (not in a good way) but put me in a golden tan and the red goes away. One color WILL affect other color.

[@amandablack5053]

Man, I have been loving your videos lately. Here for the art nerd content!!

[@jessicaflores170]

This video blew my mind!!! I am only aware of color theory as it pertains to makeup BECAUSE OF YOU!!! I’m here for all of these videos! I’m learning SO MUCH and this is helping me choose better colors! Thank you!!! You’re amazing!

[@EmilySimpson723]

Why am I literally tearing up about it your delighted laughter

[@cari4163]

This was so informative and helpful. But more than anything, you are just an UTTER DELIGHT to learn from and to watch. Thanks for the giggles and the rad info!

[@lalafunnys]

i am in LOVE with your gleeful little laughs and manic energy...immediately following! 🥰

[@emmafoley8987]

Art math for all the reds that I've bought that are NOT my perfect red, Alex Anele's trick of using a neutral (compared to you face and the red) brown lip liner makes it look so much more native. NYX moonwalk is my cool and NYX Nude Truffle is my warm. I'm excited to use this to find a red that doesn't require a brown lip!

[@keldarawlings332]

I immediately went and did this and its so true! I then rifled through my lipstick collection and tried on the ones that matched the colours. They were the most used shades, in most cases, and the ones that I have found always look flattering on me. I now have a range of photos in my phone that I will use when choosing lipsticks, from playing with those pic monkey colours. Very handy!

[@Criticalbeauty411]

Thank you so much for this!!!!! I have an entire shelf full of lipstick that I hate because I have such a hard time finding colors that work for me! I’m going to need to watch this a few times to really get it, but this gives me hope! 💗 I’m also really excited that I don’t have to give up on red!!

[@lexislome1250]

This explains why all my favorite shades are ones I didn't think I would like at first...so much mental space has been opened up now that this makes sense so thank you haha

[@arielts06]

Your color theory videos are more helpful than any how-to makeup video on the internet! ❤🙌🏽

[@sarahisafruitcake]

I am LOVING these videos!! Keep them coming!

[@RainyJae_]

I’m a new subscriber but I am just soooo happy I found your channel. You put out the most helpful, interesting and informative makeup content I’ve ever seen, all with a little bit of chaos mixed in which I live for. Also literally running to procreate to find my perfect beige lip! ❤

[@unposhnails3366]

OMG where has this been all my life?! Going to go download this program right now. As a scientist this really appeals to me.

[@kackie]

LMK how it goes!!!

[@stephaniemichelle441]

KZbin just recommended this video/channel to me and I’m so grateful. I love your energy and overall vibe. Immediately subscribed ❤

[@specialdale6008]

I really really REALLY appreciate the value of your content, THANK YOU for making it freely available. 🙏🙏🙏

[@abbyehrenstein2550]

Kackie you’re so close to 100k! I’m so excited for you!

[@MsAmelia65]

Best videos ever! I am loving learning more about color theory! It really is so cool and fascinating!❤

[@PerfectPinkiePants]

I'm so glad I stumbled upon this video! This application of color theory is so useful OMG I definitely need to try this out. Thank you so much!

[@nadeelou]

This is INCREDIBLE, thank you!!

[@flyersgirl929]

Kackie, this is you GREATEST video. Combining colour theory and makeup 👌👌👌✨✨✨

[@jessiecarter4227]

This was SO COOL! I would love an art math vid on if there's a similar way to find good bridging-the-gap blush shades, for when you want to fill in the difference between your skin tone and a pop of colour shade. Love your work 💗🎨

[@retrogradepink]

This might be the most informative makeup video ever created.

[@LoesCoco]

Thank you, I am having so much fun trying this out for myself!

[@AnneAndersonFoxiepaws]

This is brilliant Kackie! I just had to subscribe because you are so entertaining and knowledgeable!

[@kendralynn2490]

The force with which my jaw hit the floor...... 😮😮😮 This was too much fun.

[@kackie]

Ugh the desired effect. This thrills me!!!

[@tbear8839]

Kackie you are a maestro of beauty KZbin! This was FANTASTIC. Thank you so much for doing what you do.

[@SurfingFamily]

Fascinating ! Thank you Kackie. I personnally loved the very last one on you. Stunning ! Love from Paris ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@christiedc5]

this was such a fun video! I wonder if we can apply this same logic with finding our ideal blush shades, bronzer shades, etc. 👀

[@PoisonPearHFX]

You're on a roll with the colour theory hot tips!! So good

[@northwoodfalls1403]

Outstanding. I’m shook. And very excited. Thank you!

[@MusingOnBeauty]

OMG this is MINDBLOWING

[@Pigletina]

Congrats on 100k Kackie!!!

[@marien168]

Love love!!! This is just what I needed 🎉🙌💄

[@luisacarneiro9367]

One of the best educational makeup videos I have watched ❤

[@OrbitalMoonB52]

Love watching people geek out over stuff that fascinates them!! Super helpful…gonna try it out😊

[@themoodylibrarian]

OHMYGOD. I recently bought the new Westman Atelier blush in garconne (a brownish mauve on my very very fair olive cool complexion) and I thought heck, why not put it on my lips as well and it turned into the most perfect berry red color on my very pigmented cool toned lips! I just did the color pick thing and it literally looks like this exact blush shade! This is wild.😂 I loved every second of this video! Thank youuuu!

[@DarkwaveMistress]

I've always hated how red looks on me. I'm trying this. I think I might finally find my red 😂

[@sarahgalatea]

Fascinated with these color theory videos! Would love more and more hahahah one thing that I always noticed is that a color that I hate on clothing, salmon pink, is what it works well on me on my blush because it's so close to my skin tone.

[@kmthampi]

Kackie you are awesome! Your videos are the best out there. Thank you so much!

[@alisonchandler5333]

This is so cool! I can't wait to try this. 😍

[@kathleenkaffeine8696]

this rings so true. I have a Revlon lipstick called "blushing nude" that is supposed to be nude, but I swear looks red on me. Stone Rose from CT, which is orange, also pulls like a red on me. Really appreciate you sharing your wisdom!

[@laurenlieberman-so9rn]

I’m going to school right now for graphic design, and you just helped me better understand color theory and “art math”! Thank you! So fun and helpful to see how this applies to makeup and real life. Gonna go try this in Photoshop now!😊

[@A_Amazi]

Thank you!! I LOVE a red on me, but after my favorite was discontinued I haven’t been able to replicate it. Def trying this!!

[@gingerhalo123]

This series is gold

[@katehamilton7796]

this is why you're channel is AWESOME.

[@leaflaurel]

So glad you did this!! I've run into this issue for years where certain colors just look purple on me. I thought it was my lip pigmentation until I used the NARS virtual swatch thing, and a color turned purple even though it was just a digital overlay. Didn't occur to me until then that it was just how my skin contrasts. It's so cool to know that you can reverse engineer it!

[@Cicelyize]

This is brilliant. THANK YOU. You are awesome. I now know why a specific rosy purplish burgundy lip product I have is what suits me best and looks like a natural red on me. It’s the darkest colour of my dark purple-rosy lips .

[@Hobbesnevie]

SO helpful, thank you! Color theory IS fascinating, can help so much when choosing clothes, decor, nail color too.

[@anindependentmaven4267]

I did this on multiple photos as I was worried I might not be picking up the ‘right’ initial colour. Did both lips and skin for funsies and got the same colours over and over again. Truly magic!

[@hannahgiza1992]

So excited! 😊

[@luciepaul1270]

Kackie that was so entertaining, I enjoyed watching you. I doubt that I would go to that much trouble to find a True Red Lipstick, but thanks for showing us how! 😊

[@darcio90]

This is cool. I did wonder why when I increased saturation on certain pictures I've taken of myself and my lips certainly turn an almost very true red in some of these instances. I feel like this is like the microscope version of this concept. I'm so intrigued.

[@megwysatta7393]

The RMS absolutely turns RED on you. Love this vid. Explains a lot.

[@zarateskiran6832]

What a lightbulb moment! Can I keep clicking the like button and the likes just keep going up! That's how perfect this is.

[@minervarose7664]

This is fascinating 🤩 would have loved to see the true red colour on you as well!

[@kackie]

Look at the contrast video!

[@clrulli]

Hi Kackie, Fellow painter here! I just want to make sure I’m understanding the background theory correctly. We have three dimensions of color: hue, value, saturation. The one thing you hold constant here is the value of your lip color. You manipulate hue-e.g. when you pick red or beige. And you can manipulate saturation to your liking. But the one dimension that won’t change is the original value of your lip color. Did I understand that correctly? And that relates, I think, to your point in the previous video that being high or low contrast matters-e.g. presumably, if you have deeper lip color, you are higher contrast. This method does require having some independent sense about which hue to select-e.g. which red will be flattering on you (a warmer or cooler red). Is this right? V Cool!

[@serendipity1237]

You deserve some kind of award for this. I am RUNNING to try this out.

[@exo_lumi]

Wow !! 🤯 This technique will save me so much money in the future, genius!

[@user-wf9yr5kn9s]

I usually need to watch videos over to get it to sink in .. THIS one I got the first time!!! Soooo freakin excited to use this!!! Bless you darlin!

[@thunderstorm0826]

You are so cool! I’m not into makeup but I might as well get into it, this is fascinating.

[@nosila8578]

This is amazing!!!

[@LovinColt]

Love this! I gave it a go and then raided my liplick stash and found a lot of my faves were on the list! I'll def use this when shopping for lip color in the future! I've bought so many shades in the past that just look horrible on me 😅

[@mariky]

Love this! You are on fire!❤