Three signs you have COOL OLIVE skin

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[@ghellag]

Guys, I am telling you - the Full report by Merriam was a life changing for me. I can't recommend it enough! She is such a lovely artist. Thank you, Merriam ❤

[@zamar2158]

It takes blue and yellow to make green. 😂😂😂 The trials and tribulations of olive undertones ( not just skin tone)

[@phoenixiguidez531]

I knew I wasn’t crazy. I’m just cool olive

[@CW-rx2js]

Same here I used to be super confused but later in life I figured it out. Very few ppl truly understand olive skin (cool olive even more so)

[@di3486]

If you are called green your whole life, you know. Warm olives have enough warmth to appear normal😂

[@Tanisha_Bashar]

same!

[@hayze_ablaze]

So you're crazy. This makes us crazy. :D

[@hayze_ablaze]

Can we talk about hair colours along with our cool olive skin tones, (or indeed the same for the warmer types), please?

[@floross-opazo4760]

"the blind leading the blind" 💀 it's so true tho, so much about colour typing didn't make sense to me until I found Merriam. She approaches it like a scientist, and I'm so grateful for this content!!

[@Xana_K]

Se here she is AMAZING! She makes it so much easier to understand. Love her ❤️

[@CathDaddy]

For the record, I will watch any olive video you make 😂 my skin is BAFFLING to me

[@Cicelyize]

Olive being caused by a yellow overtone makes a lot of sense to me. Especially because I change so much when I tan, in the winter my skin is more radiant but summer comes and the yellow overtone enhances +++ and I look super tired and sallow, it’s as if there are two tones in my skin fighting with each other

[@Lucysmom26]

That's fascinating because it's the exact opposite for me. With zero tan I look sallow and tired, every time I have even a light tan everyone is complimenting me, telling me how healthy I look etc. (and they never perceive that it's the tan, they just think I've got a new flattering hairstyle or sth).

[@redroselace9545]

That was spot on explaining omg

[@Cicelyize]

@@Lucysmom26 that’s more of what I hear people report when they tan, they look healthier and overly better- but not me! Maybe my tan comes with excessive yellow tones that do not flatter my clearly cool undertones 🤷‍♀️ ? I’d be great to know if this happens to someone else!

[@cinderling5472]

Omg this is me too. I never understood why a tan didn't complement me so much. I just get kinda green 😂😅

[@Susanasglez]

I'm always thought that I look better when with my winter shade, when I'm tan I look tired and opaque.

[@mimme2294]

This is me. Warm clothing colors make me look washed out. Pastels are the worst. Nude or brownish lipsticks make me look like death warmed over. My skin can look gray in the winter as well. It's a confusing skintone for sure. Thanks for this video, Merriam!! ♥

[@CW-rx2js]

Sameeeee

[@cinderling5472]

Same

[@jennifers1040]

I am the opposite! So what color season is that?😂

[@nicfriary7174]

Merriam I am pretty sure I have ADHD and you're the only person I can watch that I don't have to watch on 2x playback 😅

[@oindrilabhar]

I love this sassy version of Merriam. Keep at it.

[@anapalindromo]

I´m new here, what do you mean? haha

[@pappyone6062]

I’ve been telling people at makeup counters that I am not warm for over 30 years. Cool light olive here too! Everything you say is sooo true about cool olives. I look sallow and dead in warm colors. Put me in a hot cool pink and I glow without any makeup even. Thanks for these informative videos! You’re brilliant!

[@sebumpostmortem]

That' s why foundations in MAC seem to work all the other way compared to the rest of the world😅. A C (for Cool) is an olive since it has green. A W (for Warm) is a pink or orange since they have red. Once they explain the 🟩-🟥, it makes total sense😉. 🧛🏻‍♀️🖤

[@gothikasweb3685]

You are the ONLY person that makes sense in body types and undertones "science" to me! Thank YOU!!!❤❤❤❤

[@eliffify]

Both@allyart

[@gothikasweb3685]

@@eliffify Oh yes! I follow (and love) her too!!!

[@cathwalsh9921]

My yellow skin has fooled me for a while that I’m warm. I’ve had a colour analysis and I’m winter. There are times when I’ve gone pink and white, and I do look really well then. Mostly I look yellow, which does make me look at bit sickly. I look good in purples and royal blue. So, yes. What you’ve said on here makes sense to me and I think I’m a cool and radiant very pale olive. When I was little my Mum had a lipstick. It used to make her look swarthy - darker and more yellow. I checked it out recently, made sure the colour hadn’t been changed, and it was very coral! So I know where I got my colouring from now. I’m the same with that type of colour.

[@sparkleyard]

Your explanations of skin tone and color are by far the most logical and accurate I’ve found. One thing I’ve wondered about is how to understand a “cooler” orange and a “warmer” purple, especially of they still come across as fairly saturated. Who can wear them and why. If they look equally good on someone, what would it suggest?

[@Jennifer_Ann]

In terms of color theory, you cannot make orange that much more cooler, it is a purely warm color. To make colors cooler you add blue to them, that makes orange into brown. Warmer purple you add some red to it. Purples are fairly easy for a lot of neutral people to wear since they fall between warm and cool colors- but purple itself is always a cool color

[@sparkleyard]

Jennifer_Ann yeah I get that skin tones aren’t all just congregated in the center of the color wheel, that we’re all essentially shades and intensities of brown.. but if we look strictly at paint color theory, blue is strictly cool and yellow is strictly farm. I feel like red and green are neutral. If that’s true then orange (yellow +red) is the same degree of warm as purple (blue +red) is cool. And adding more red to either would bring them each closer to a neutralized tone. Does that make sense? I can’t tell if I’m literally fulfilling her “blind leading the blind” comment 😅

[@Cicelyize]

@@sparkleyard yes, that is logical.

[@sherrychopra7591]

You are speaking to ME! Thank you for clarifying, my mind is blown. I finally understand why I'm yellowish but not "warm"!!

[@shaunathornton8032]

I appreciate all the olive skin information. It's true there are a lot of misunderstandings as well as stereotypes about olive skin.

[@beatrizmoraes2310]

Merriam can you make a video like this but warm olive skin? Cause I think I'm cool but I would love a video of the warm just to be sure! You're the best when it comes to olive skin tone, thank you for this!

[@gillespieroad42]

That grey sweater was a great choice, I couldn't put my finger on why the presentation worked, which I suppose is the point!

[@annm.4353]

Not only was this really educational, it was also relaxing! Unintentional ASMR! ❤️🥰

[@jessicagomes4043]

This is me!! We appear yellowish-green with a dash of grey. Silver looks better than golden metals and fuchsia lipstick makes me look like a Simpsons character.

[@mayatenshi]

Your voice is very calming, it helps with my migraine

[@DRE1111]

I can never get enough content about the Olive skin tone. Thanks, Merriam. I believe I am warm and delicate, but there is some mild redness on my face that makes me wonder if I am cool. What do you tell your rosacea clients?

[@ashleycnossen3157]

I'm exactly the same, I'm barely warm and barely olive, and have rosacea. I look better when I cover the red with a green cream and avoid all reds, purples, and blues...the only colors I can seem to wear are neutral greens, browns, yellows, and creams.

[@gmdc1654]

Great topic! Thank you..I’m almost sure I’m cool olive. Can you make a video about where to find good cool olive makeup because it is very hard to find? ❤

[@salomeeeee]

Yes more videos on this topic please! With other examples of cool toned olive celebrities and how to enhance this skin tone, would be much appreciated, thank you!

[@colleencc7]

I was so lucky that 35 years ago, I had a hairdresser who recognized that I was cool olive - long long before anyone else was talking about anything like that at all. I didn’t really understand the “olive” part for a long time, but it saved me a lot of time and probably money because at least I understood that I was cool……makeup consultants at stores continued to try to sell me warm toned products for years until I just stopped listening to their opinion. I’d appreciate hearing more from you about, though, because so many people still seem to assume “olive” means “warm”.

[@dorothyjoanreed585]

Thanks for this- I’m definitely a cool olive. I would get confused when I’d hear you can be neutral olive if you have blue , reddish purple veins which I thought I was. I’m feeling a bit washed out now because I’m allowing my gray/silver hair to come in. Thanks for this video😊

[@zaqwanbadli9697]

I'm a super cool olive, but grays make me look very yellow

[@alyajewellery]

I get terrible shade matches in the UK and great shade matches in Italy. I think it depends on where people are most familiar with olive skin tones. In Italy I’m immediately given a neutral foundation.

[@ruthie_rosario]

I have every struggle you’ve listed. When I would get color matched throughout the years, I was always told I was warm by countless people. Only once was I told that I was cooltoned when an employee at Sephora used that tool they use to scan your face, neck, and chest to find foundations in whatever specific brand. All warm foundations made me look too orange or too yellow, but cool toned foundation were too pink-red on me. It did not matter how light or dark I went. I’m glad loreal redid their foundation with green pigments because I can get away with wearing w4 during the fall at least. Anyway, I assume that when employees at those makeup places who offer to color match you for foundation, if they see someone with obviously brown skin, they will immediately label you as warm toned. I never understood why I always looked horrible in the shades they chose for me, and it did not matter in the method I applied it, what I used prior to foundation (or lack thereof), or the tool that I used for application. It just looked wrong, but they always insisted I was warm. It was just so odd to think I was warm toned since I never look good in 14k gold jewelry unless I get tanned from being outdoors in the summer, yet I never look very well in silver either, but the silver color seemed to look more bearable on me. When it comes to jewelry, I believe I look better in that tarnished silver color or bronze jewelry. I really love how bronze looks on me, and I get complimented more when I wear my bronze toned jewelry. However, when I get very tan in the summer, I can pull off 14k gold jewelry with no problem. However, white gold looks more acceptable on me year round. All that being said, I found your video very useful of coming to the final conclusion that I am indeed cool olive. Thank you so much. 🩷💜

[@SarahRachael8575]

Thank you! This is so helpful!

[@mahinnnadiamoinkus3648]

Girl thank you 🙏 I’m a cool olive and so many people tell me I’m warm toned, and I especially look yellow next to people that aren’t olive and have cool skin tone. I realized that my skin is kind of yellow dominant but that doesn’t mean I’m warm toned.

[@user_justsomeone]

I really like those videos . For so long I was trying to realize on what colours I look good , and even though that I lean to cool something was missing . But here we are now! Also you are very cute!!

[@reneecrotty6910]

Charlotte Tilbury has a warm toned lipstick for her which is my favourite called Amazing Amal. it’s warm. It works amazing for me.

[@CW-rx2js]

Thank you for this ❤ This is me... I know that there are cool olives that exist, but in my case it was very confusing because I look yellow on the surface... Like my skin tone has yellow in it but underneath that is a lot of blue and pink undertones. So overall I look green because green is a mix of blue and yellow and therefore Olive. However, because of the yellow on the top, many people just assumed I was a warm olive. However, the colors that flatter me are muted cool blue, green, burgundy etc... I only realized this much later in life... When I wear warm colors It looks doesn't look bad but it looks as if it is sitting on top of me, it's not in harmony with me. In short, I think I am neutral to cool, although not very very cool

[@JC-yc8wg]

Im pretty sure I'm a warm olive. I can wear cool colors too, but nothing very cool such as true blues, blueish purples/pinks. I can't wear super warm colors either, so I must be "warm and delicate". Some of my best colors are: (always soft and deep)persimmon, mustard, burgandy/maroon, teal and neutral olive green etc. But, I look like death warmed over in bright/pure oranges and yellows/yellow-greens. But, never just assume that your cool or warm because your olive. I wore the wrong cool colors for years before I watched Merriam's olive skin videos. I am so very grateful that finally us olives have a color artist that thinks out of the box!! Thank you Merriam !❤

[@drugstore999cowgrl]

A lot ppl doing colour matching will just assume a tan/brown/person of colour is warm. I’m pretty pale and obviously olive but have been constantly told I’m warm because I’m mixed race. I fuckin knew I was a cool tone!!!! thank u 🙏🏻 ❤

[@cinderling5472]

Definitely interested in a longer video!! Yes please 🙏🙏🙏

[@ginadelfina5887]

Loved it. I don’t have an olive skin tone, I just love how logically you explain everything.

[@manichispanic5234]

I feel like I'm cool colored in the winter but once I tan I look better in warm colors. But I have always looked better in silver. I think I'm just straight up neutral. My eyes are hazel I have green and brown and yellow in them, although my makeup tends to lean towards warmth. I should go try some cool colors, see what that does

[@emilyk7851]

cool! id be really curious to hear about how olive skin affects intensity. ive been typed as a winter but am unsure whether the strong colors really do look good on me

[@sylviegrandmaison2735]

I do have the full report and always go back to it…very good🎉

[@waterbearer4627]

We love the passion and the insight! Another video where I'm learning to train my eye to know how to recognise cool olive.

[@Noblesseobligebeauty]

Hi ! New subbie here ! Looove your content , so unique . Could you please do a video for women that are top heavy with thin legs ? I have two friends of mine that are that body shape and they always ask me what they should wear . They are both the same but one is small chested and the other one is extremely big chested . Can’t find anything online . Thank you, Giada

[@gallagrrr]

You're always right, Merriam!! I think you really hit the nail on the head when you describe her as giving a LEMON yellow cast. It's true that yellow is a "warm" color, but as a painter we always describe a "lemon yellow" as a cooler yellow--ie it leans more toward green than to orange. That warm red lip isn't terrible on her because ultimately it's not so much a color clash but rather that emphasizing lemon yellow is not super flattering when it comes to skin! The cooler reds, as you mentioned, help her look more pink and alive. Love your videos!!

[@africandaisy.3]

I just love listening to you! Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[@heart12361]

Merriam, please do more videos on the olive skin, especially on the pale cool olive delicate as compared to the pale cool olive radiant. I'm still confused about that. Sometimes my skintone has a murky, browny (and definitely greenish) tinge to it and I think that I'm a pale cool olive delicate. But I don't gravitate to those more muted colors and I can't do a nude makeup look. It just makes me look blah. But yet sometimes I thing I'm pale cool olive radiant because the colors that seem to make my face light up are the jewel tones and in makeup, I need those fuschia, magenta blushes to make me look alive. But again...I have that murky, brownish tinge underneath my skin, so am I olive delicate??? It's just so confusing. More videos on this subject would be greatly appreciated.

[@alishea7]

Im looking to get back into the Fashion World. I have an Associates in Fashion Design and 8 years of Experience in Fashion Forward Retail.

[@vivianlee1538]

Perfect ❤❤❤ A big thank you I am an asian and i am yellow and a bit on tan . Now i know i am olive cool. Love you❤❤❤

[@beeraeutiful]

Perfect timing. I have been considering I may be a cool olive... can't wait to see what you have to say!

[@kaitlinroth7555]

just the video i hoped for! it's fun to see more of your sass/passion come through in this vid. my favorite channel! ❤

[@ami7mina]

What I learned is if you're a cool olive, you must not wear anything colorful. It must always be subdued or pale, faded. with a cool tinge. I've never seen Merriam wear anything colorful. A bit boring, yes.tbh. BUT.. to be fair, her skin SHINES.

[@thehardercandy]

As a cool olive I loveeeee these videos... So informative. Thank you.

[@ChromoFlow]

I think this video is exactly what I needed to see. I've been so confused about my skintone for the longest time! I have that strangely yellow look when wearing reds, so its possible I'm a cool olive as well. I've been told my whole life I'm warm, but when I wear peach I look strangely green!

[@cathwalsh9921]

That sounds like me

[@hjtres7261]

I love your passion! That's why I keep coming back and watching. ❤

[@jennifers1040]

I am so lost. As a redhead with blue eyes, freckles but CAN tan because of my Sicilian mom I don't know where I land.

[@INTJelisaqueen]

She says redheads are NEVER olive. If you can tan you’re probably warm and look good with true autumn palette.

[@Cicelyize]

Yes. This is me, I think. Definitely my best in cool colours and warmer tones make me look tired. Cool red lips look best. SA always give me orange foundation 3 tones darker than my skin. And shape shifting- I don’t look good when I tan as I am soo yellow/ sallow. I didnt like gold a few years back but now I like gold that’s not too yellow, and I like neutral leaning slightly warm make up tones (pink/rosy/tan) vs super cool make up that looks too much and garish. I think this is because of too much contrast on my overtones not looking good.

[@Carina_Rose]

I thought it was interesting that in the picture of her with the warm lipstick she had big bright bold silver earrings on. And in the second picture where she had the cool lipstick it looked like she was wearing gold earrings with pearls.

[@shay4264]

Love this! This video helped me make sense of why I looked so lemony yellow when I wear warm colours. I was fooled into thinking I was really warm toned but was confused because I look best in vibrant cool colours like fuchsia, royal blue and burgundy (and when i wear those, i don't look remotely yellow). Olive skin is just to baffling and it took me ages to realize i was even olive at all until a friend who was a pure warm tone put her arm up against mine and said "girl! you are GREEN that's why" when i complained about not finding decent foundation matches. One of the banes of my existence is looking like a corpse when I wear nude lip colours that don't have enough red in them (I'm looking at you peachy nudes!) and mauves looking waaaay too bright pink

[@KaliKali-hv9bt]

Yay!!!!!!!!!! Another Merriam video❤❤❤

[@PurpleGold.]

It’s so true about the shape shifting. And even though I own a lot of jewellery I still prefer to wear yellow gold. Just because I come from poverty and now that I have resources, it gives me more to work with when expressing myself. For me, gold looks luxurious and silver looks cheap in my eyes but I think it’s just more to do with the past of being a have not. After watching this I’ve learned two things: start embracing silver jewellery and throw out all my warm toned lipsticks and lip liners. Just makes me look like I have jaundice. Also, cool blush from now on. You’re a lifesaver!

[@cathwalsh9921]

Could sell the gold and get white gold or platinum? Then you have the colour but also the feeling of it being luxurious.

[@PurpleGold.]

@@cathwalsh9921 I value the pieces I have though. They all have meaning. So I’ve started buying white gold here and there. A few pieces will suffice. But cheers for your feedback.

[@cathwalsh9921]

@@PurpleGold. I know what you mean. I have gold pieces that were my Mum’s.

[@cadaver6665]

Hi Merriam! Your insight is something else! I would truly appreciate if you could go through colour analysis for people with extremely light pigmentation at some point. I am sure many dark-skinned people have the same struggles, if not worse, on finding information that can be easily applied to them. I have been trying to find out the reason behind colours that the usual charts recommend for me are different than my real life experience on what looks good on me (both based on compliments and my own feeling). I feel like people online have constantly typed me as cool toned because I am -extremely- pale, but somehow I am not so sure of it.

[@e.l.2734]

I can see it now! Very interesting, thanks for sharing all that.

[@Lucysmom26]

I was well into my 30s before realizing I was olive. To this day, it's confusing (not the olive part, I'm definitely olive, but what type of olive specifically). I'm very fair, and have spent my life being typed as 'cool/pink' by SAs and then looking like total hell in whatever they've specifically recommended, lol. I'd say my natural skin looks - and this is a word people shy away from because it has a negative connotation which, sure, true, but in my case it's just true - sallow. The most flattering colours on me are a very dark and saturated navy/ink blue and true neutral saturated red. Both blue-reds AND orange-reds look awful. I also look good in saturated peacock. Most colours look like hell on me. Most blushes and lipcolours also look like hell. Purple blush can be extremely flattering and natural looking, or terrible and clown-like. I also don't fit neatly into any of the colour seasons, although I think I'm some kind of winter, possibly dark winter. Yikes. About to go check out your other videos now...thank you for the good info on this, it's surprising it's still so little-known!

[@KaliKali-hv9bt]

Yes! I’m interested and need your video❤❤

[@Angel-Number444]

Can you do a video of sighs that you are a radiant undertone 😭

[@vtcs1963]

I actually paid for a professional color analysis to learn this about my skin. Thanks for acknowledging we exist lol!! I’m also fair which makes me a true outlier.

[@lansvance4870]

I have no clue what tones I have. All I know is I look great in red, purple, dark berry and yellow based deep browns. I am pale but a pale neutral yellow. I have made my peace with this subject ❤😅

[@claudialupper]

Same here. It's too confusing. All I know is that I look best in saturated colors, especially tomato red, forest green, royal blue, navy blue, or bright coral. So contradictory. My best lipstick is L'Oreal British Red. I thought I was cool olive, but nope, I am too pale to be cool olive. Who knows? I give up. Just going to stick with my red lipstick and bright colors because they take years off me. Pastels look hideous on me, so sad because they fit my personality better.

[@Lilah_Ninigigun_Belet-Eanna]

I'm a Soft Summer or Cool Winter (not sure! 🤔) with cool olive skin. I swatched my favourite foundations on white paper and it looks lemon yellow for sure 🍋 I also have a grey overcast in my eyes/skin/hair, very ashy. Rose gold camoflages into my skin, yellow gold make me look sick with jaundice but bright silver/brushed metals are my go-to. Amal Clooney's new blonde highlight makeover looks surprisingly youthful. When I tried going warm blond, it looked bloody awful. Platinum looked ok though but will always stay brunette tbh...

[@michelagirotto6184]

WoW there's a lot of difference between soft summer and cool winter 😅 By your photo alone I would guess bright winter.

[@michelagirotto6184]

My choices would be between bright/true winter and true summer. Please discard soft summer, you look very contrasted. 😅

[@Lilah_Ninigigun_Belet-Eanna]

@@michelagirotto6184 I thought Soft Summer as my eyes up close are very cloudy/muddy grey-silver blue-khaki, whereas I've read that Winters have very clear bright eyes. My skin/hair also has a very strong grey overcast and is quite ashy.

[@michelagirotto6184]

@@Lilah_Ninigigun_Belet-Eanna Every summer season can have muddy eyes... But soft summer means low contrast between their features, and you have a lot of contrast... Dark Brown hair, bright skin, light blue eyes... Definetily not a soft summer 😅

[@Lilah_Ninigigun_Belet-Eanna]

@@michelagirotto6184 Hmm, I might be Cool/True Summer or Cool/True Winter then...🤔

[@user-wt5if6rx8m]

Merriam, but why won't reds work that well for the hair color? Do you think it's a matter of proportion? As in, a lipstick is just a little bit compared to hair all around your face

[@raylin2057]

Thanks for the video!

[@Xana_K]

Omg I love this!!!! I'm confused about what I am tbh, I feel like I'm soooo pale that I just can't tell, some days I think I look yellow, other days I think I look really pink :( I don't know if I'm just neutral maybe? Olive did cross my mind but pale olive almost never crops up, so I guess it would be really awesome to learn about very pale olive skin? I end up feeling like all colours look crap regardless of what do and I revert back to black always for everything 😂😂😂

[@ashleycnossen3157]

Me too. I'm warm but very close to neutral and slightly olive with rosacea. Almost nothing looks good on me

[@Jchandler821]

This has been so helpful for me, especially as I start a new career at almost 45 years old. I'm told I look like Amal Clooney all the time. Is she cool and muted or cool and radiant in your opinion?

[@ieusrvt4]

Can you please do a video on how to pick colours for daily wear, events or bright colours in general for the cool and delicate palette? Also, how does olive skin in a colour palette ( ex. I'm cool and delicate and olive) vs someone who isn't olive in the same palette differ?

[@Iden_Elihio_1999]

This is me bro .... I am 100% sure I have a cool undertone and 99% of people on reddit agree but in certain lights I look yellowish and it sometimes bothered me but this vid makes me feel better ......

[@dinaramadan3416]

I started to follow you. I am benefitting a lot. But confused ofcourse.

[@darlamerrill8052]

I luved this and I've wondered about all of these things with my own olive cool skintone and I feel like smacking those people down , the 1s that think they know something just because they've heard it somewhere else!! They are playing the expert without the research or the deep complex thought that goes into figuring things out. They don't come close to your explanations.😅🎉❤

[@sebumpostmortem]

As an *olive OIL* (olives come in lime green, eggplant or even glazed black😅, we are like the top quality oil) skinned person, being able to shapeshift is a total win, personally. Having military green eyes and chestnut brown hair, I can make the yellow dots pop, leave my hair dry so the oranginess shines and become warm and lovely or make my iris lean to grey, wet and slick my hair until it' s almost black and be a cold bish. Let' s be honest, I' m a MUA, I assume it helps a bit🫣... 🧛🏻‍♀️🖤

[@madgesticm]

I love your videos Merriam, and with each one I learn something new. And this one was a perfect one for me, so thank you :) I was wondering if you could do a video about hair colour change when we age. I notice most women tend to go for lighter colour, or blonde as they age so that the roots aren't as visible. What do you think about that, is it really flattering for every type? x

[@Mrskess]

I don’t understand how Kim K is olive. She looks red/pink?? Also there are some cool olive people who are very obviously cool olive as they have that grey green look to their skin. From your videos, I now think I’m probably cool olive even though high I have some yellow to my skin.

[@lansvance4870]

I think Kim K looks cool and bright red.

[@aquarianwarrior77]

I think about this topic all the time! A warm olive who ponders wearing cooler foundation to be able to wear royal blue etc

[@merriamstyle]

would not recommend unless you want to put the foundation all over your body as well. what will happen to your neck, arms, hands, etc!!

[@aquarianwarrior77]

@@merriamstyle it’s so true…maybe for a long sleeve dress or sweater lol

[@cwednesday]

I hope you don't mind this feedback but I'm a photographer and I'm hoping it's helpful. You clearly have a great eye for color, and are very good at what you do, but I'm wondering if you could have a professional help you with your lighting setup. The color temp needs to be adjusted and the diffused light isn't the most flattering. You're also a little out of focus.

[@merriamstyle]

Thank you so much for this feedback. I'm not set up to get a photographer to help out right now (I film late at night because that's when my children sleep), but I will consider this in the future.

[@cwednesday]

@@merriamstyle I totally understand. Keep getting your content out there. It doesn't have to be perfect. I recently bought some Releno LED lights on Amazon (2 of them) to create a cheap lighting video setup for someone. You could play around with something like that. They have adjustable color temp and you could model your face a little. Or not! :)

[@merriamstyle]

@@cwednesday thank you!

[@ainakunigelyte]

hey! After I watched all your videos on olive skin, I cannot still figure out if I am warm or cool olive, you mostly addressed them separately but not comparing how to decide, could you give some strategies how to tell?:)

[@ayalashoshani986]

She has a great video that explains how to tell the difference, I can't remember what it's called, but this is the method she presented there: 1. Examine how your face looks next to a pure orange color, then examine how your face looks next to a pure blue color. If your face looks better with orange - your are probably warm olive. If you look better with blue, your are probably cold olive. If both colors look fine on you, even good, and neither one looks definitely better than the other, then move on to the next step. (Miriam emphasized that there is no point in continuing to the second step if you received an answer in step 1). 2. drape a cool baby pink fabric next to your face, then try warm peachy pink fabric. Which of them looks better on you and your skin will be in harmony with it? If the baby pink - you are a "cold and delicate olive" and if the peach - you are a warm and delicate olive. This method is the only one that helped me finally realize that I am a warm and delicate olive, because the baby pink is so opposite to my skin tone, it really highlights all the yellow in my skin. On the other hand, the peach doesn't do that for me, hence it suits and flatters me better.

[@merriamstyle]

thank you ayalashoshani.

[@cathwalsh9921]

@@ayalashoshani986very succinct! That makes sense to me.

[@lemmings6516]

Merriem :D you have such capricorn vibes :D i love it. Are you by any chance born in Dec-jan?

[@monikapaar863]

Olive skintone is for people with dark features eg mediterranean, I thought. I am rather fair, but have also a yellow overtone and cool undertone and great problems finding my colors. Maybe I am north european Olive...😮

[@Lucysmom26]

This is what I always, thought. That olive skintone was specifically in the middle of the fair-deep spectrum, that it was literally impossible for a fair-skinned or a deeper skin-toned person to be olive. Not true, and as soon as I figured that out so much immediately made sense 9especially my struggle to find a foundation that worked and wasn't either too pink or too orange).

[@sebumpostmortem]

Alexandra Anele has the answer😉✨

[@Jkjoannaki]

Bruh I'm greek and olive toned, I'm the winter I'm pale af n0 on Estee lauder. If we avoid the sun and wear sunscreen we are pale af. The difference is because we have A LOT of sun here, if someone's not careful and wear sunscreen etc, they'll be much darker. Before I started obsessing with skin ca, in the summer I'd be literally n8 Estee, I looked like a different race, people would think I'm Romani

[@anapalindromo]

What about having a cool olive skin tone with a warm color hair?

[@ashleycnossen3157]

So funny, I have warm olive skin with cool hair! Haha

[@anapalindromo]

@@ashleycnossen3157 and it's your natural hair? I guess the way we're born is just beautiful, but not necessarily bring us the best accordingly with our style. And I think different tones can goes well!

[@ashleycnossen3157]

​@@anapalindromoYes naturally cool brown. It made me really confused at the beginning. I've found I like it when I'm wearing my colors, the wrong colors highlight the contrast too much

[@Taichientaoyin]

I just had put my top on and noticed my unflattering yellow tones then I went to youtube and found this video.

[@M_T_Gr8]

Is there such a thing as a true neutral?

[@Mrskess]

Also what do you think about “olive” is being a overtone? Is it overtone or undertone?

[@katitadeb]

Having watched Merriam's videos for many years: olive is neither, is just another factor, undertones are either warm(yellow) or cool (blue), and both can be either pink/red or olive/green. In photo editing the magenta/green spectrum is named tint, while blue/yellow is temperature, we'll something similar happens with skincolor.

[@anaelauve8070]

Her skin tone looks a lot like mine 🤔🤔🤔

[@NormieNeko]

I always felt I was a cool tone for almost a decade before I finally allowed other women and female relatives try to help me pick makeup at stores. They all told me I was warm. My sister only buys me stuff an autumn would wear because she's an autumn, and she likes her colors on me. Honestly, it never felt quite right. I recently tried Ulta's makeup apps to find my foundation shades and other makeup. I tried two different window locations during the morning, and it became obvious that the app thought I was neutral even after 2 hours. I'm a real neutral. A neutral medium olive with peach undertones. Neither cool or warm (or rather, I'm both at once). Now I'm annoyed and feel gaslighted by people who tried to help me but wouldn't listen to me. The problem is probably the fact that I'm neither cool or warm, but in-between, so it's probably confusing. I'm still stuck between dark winter and dark autumn. What if I'm wrong about both? I imagine I can play with more variety since I am neutral? I think it's easier to just be cool or warm. I'm not sure.

[@arwenives]

Check check check, all of these.

[@Sam-zy7vj]

Thank you 🥹 finally I understand why I look dead so often

[@basiapijanowska6922]

I have olive skin in cool tone and likę you said both reds look ok and my skin sometime looks yellow and i had an issuse to clasify it

[@SB-xl8lp]

Okay, I'm a natural blonde with fair skin with pink tints on it, a summer. Any warmth in cosmetics makes me look like an Oompah Loompah. These examples are darker women, is it the same for us lighter people? Even though I don't think I've ever looked green...

[@merriamstyle]

What do you mean these examples are darker women? Amal Clooney is one of the lightest skin tones out there.

[@monikapaar863]

She has dark hair and dark eyes, medterranean

[@SB-xl8lp]

@@merriamstyle yes, what Monika said. Amal, to me, is very dark except in her skin tone. I am a blonde of Scandinavian descent, draped as a Summer. I don't think Amal would be a Summer?

[@CW-rx2js]

Hi Merriam- i paid for your report, but before you look i had a question. Iam weaking makeup in many photos- what if the makeup undertone is the wrong one? Will that result in a wrong analysis or can experts make out your real undertone? I know that you asked for multiple photos 20 to 30. That may help but what if all the photos are makeup pictures in daylight?

[@vikterie]

Imo a few clear signs you’re cool olive 1. Contrary to the conventional belief, Very yellow-based foundations like mac looks too yellow compared to your actual skin 2. Orange-based foundations and orange brick bronzers look off on you. The color of our tan isn’t orange 3. Neutral lips work much better than extremely cool pink or extremely hot red/orange shades

[@maddie2638]

can you please talk about cool overtone with warm undertone? my skin is pale olive and i have been typed in-person as having cool skin, but looking better in warm seasons (spring followed by autumn) so i think i must have a warm undertone! i cant find much information on this combo

[@merriamstyle]

I have a video called 'golden overtones with cool undertones' that would explain this. It sounds like you're just warm. I don't believe in this 'overtone' and 'undertone' business.

[@maddie2638]

@@merriamstyle thanks ill check it out. I was confused when they said my skin is pale and cool toned but then typed me as a warm season

[@m.b.ortega544]

Thank you for this deep analysis! Why don't you wear make-up in your videos? Not a critique, just wondering because it strikes me odd that someone that knows so much about color, wouldn't wear make-up.🙂

[@ashleycnossen3157]

She uses herself as an example a lot so I appreciate that we're seeing what her skin really looks like. And I don't see the connection between knowing her stuff and wanting to wear makeup

[@CW-rx2js]

Is it possible to be less cool and not very cool? Like a spectrum- neutral to cool?

[@merriamstyle]

yes that is cool and delicate. please watch my video titled 'the four skin undertones'

[@CW-rx2js]

​​@@merriamstyle thank you Miriam .. I'll check it out 😊

[@iguessitslydia]

If I may give constructive criticism: In your older videos you spoke much more clearly and had a more open presence, in the newer ones I find it harder to listen to you, because it feels like you speak more quiet and almost shy into the microphone. Your content is still great of course and I enjoy it a lot!❤

[@velerina2017]

Or even neutral skin can look both yellow and red?

[@ayalashoshani986]

According to Miriam's method, there really isn't a person in the world with completely neutral skin. skin will always be either cold or warm, it's just a scale, and there are some whose tone is closer to neutral, but it's still not really completely neutral.

[@Pintandoconsandycoronado]

I’m here for the ASMR 😍