Right??!!!! A lot of my veins look pinky purple but there are some turquoise-y veins (it depends on the body part the ones on mu thighs are green and the ones on the top of my foot are blue and pinky purple). But my overtone is very golden yellow (im taiwanese) but bc of that i get so confused. Btw my skin is extremely thin and i can see veins over my entire body which sucks bc my sister is scared of looking at veins 😅.
If it reads “neutral” on you, you’ve found the right product. Meaning, if it disappears on you, BINGO! Every brand is so different, so you have just proven the reason we all need to try before we buy when at all possible because the ideas of neutral, warm and cool are not the same to every brand.
This! I've come to understand that neutral to me means something more like desaturated, whereas neutral for so many brands seems to mean orange. Warm cool and neutral gets so confusing because it's all relative. When you look at a color it's rarely isolated and usually in comparison to the colors around it.
THIS is the reason I still shop at sephora over drugstore any complexion products. I could read reviews till I'm blue, but it'll never be the same as going in store and trying on the products on my actual skin!! (I'm pale olive btw, a really misunderstood skin tone).
You’re so lucky in America that at least you can send products back and get your money back,in the UK(and elsewhere in the world?)you can’t,when I look at foundation colours my brain just goes to mush and my eyes stop computing which ones match my skin😅
About face is the only foundation I have found that matches my skin and the shade is F2olive. I had no idea lol and I have no less than 30 foundations. @carinaoliveira5850
I’ve been a makeup artist, off and on, for years, and I have had to guide many people through the fact that what a brand says is neutral or warm, etc, is THEIR version of those tones, and not an absolute measure for all brands.
I would LOVE a color theory video specifically on blush!! I have the hardest time figuring out the right amount of saturation/it turns colors I’m not expecting
Yes! Also I highly recommend trying really dark, pigmented blushes and just using a tiny bit. I found out if I use a deep berry purple, it looks amazing... not the bronze or pinks I've been wearing for oh... 35 years?!?
so on the pigment thing, black pigment in makeup is usually black iron oxide (CI 77499). it is a cool toned black and does dilute into a bluish gray! (source: looking at foundation ingredients and also being a watercolor painter who used iron oxide black paint)
This makes so much sense! As a redhead with pink undertones, makeup counter folks were always confused by my coloring! They either said I was warm because of my hair color or cool because of the pink undertones. And on top of that confusion, I was also too pale for all the makeup levels until brands started expanding in recent years. I really appreciate how you explain it all!
I’m the same. I’m a softer browner redhead and I’m not really cool, but I’m not warm in an orange/yellow way, I’m neutral-warm in a rosy way. It’s a rare thing to find good matches for. My favorite match right now is Haus Labs Fair Rosy concealer
That's so funny. I have mild rosacea so every counter used to color match me to pink foundations. My true undertones on my neck & body are actually golden olive and MAC was the first to tell me I needed NC20. (Lisa Eldridge also says to match your neck/chest not your face). Sadly I spent my early 20s walking around with tomato face on olive body. 🙈
Same!! Everyday Minerals used to make my perfect shade - Olive Fair - and they stopped making it... I was so gutted. Kat Von D had a Lock-it foundation shade that was almost the same but that foundation made my face a goopy greaseball inside of an hour LOL. Mac studio fix powder in C2 is "close" but it does go a bit more yellow than what I need and is still a trifle too dark, but at least it never made me a total greaseball LOL. This vid helps explain a LOT though and gives me more hope that I'll be able to find a closer shade, especially with the expansion into lighter skintones that so many brands are doing now. :D
I found you recently, and I just need to say I have never appreciated a beauty TH-camr more. Thank you for all the detailed/nuanced info you provide-your videos are the most helpful ever.
Hey y'all - just for clarity: the awesome color wheel used in this video is The Flesh Tone Color Wheel(R) by Terri Tomlinson Makeup Training Academy, not my own.
I’m a watercolorist and I appreciate how you’ve incorporated the color wheel in this process. I have an eye for color and subtlety and yet, the vein test confounds me!
I think what has really helped me understand my undertone, was years of experimenting with makeup when I was a dancer/in theatre. You basically spend a lot of time together with girls in front of mirrors and all playing with each others makeup (sorta lol). I just remember trying something from a friend and knowing right away if it'd work for me or not. When you have others to compare your skin tone and undertones too, it makes it so much easier!
The vein test isn’t helpful at all, especially if you have a bit of a tan. Truly olive skin is a blue undertone + a yellow overtone so by the vein test you’d assume you’re warm, but you’re actually a cool tone who probably needs a neutral foundation. It also varies by skin thickness; if your skin is thinner you’ll see lots of veins of varying colors regardless of your undertone, so that wouldn’t narrow things down!
Same! The vein test just does not work for me, but I'm not sure how much of it is due to just assessing the color, or the knowledge that my vein is blue beneath my skin... On the one hand (not literally) my veins appear blue to me, so I would expect to have cool tones in my skin, right? I'm also super pale. BUT, my perfect foundation shade, is definitely a peachy undertone with yellow overtone, just a very very pale shade (specifically, NYX Total Control dropper foundation in the shade Vanilla. NOT any of their other lines shade vanilla though, the rest are super dark). Normal Ivory shades turn orange on me, light ivory sometimes turns orange, and other times is too cool and turns grey, but used to be my shade in high school way back when. It really is all relative 😩
I clicked because I am a permanent Makeup Artist as well as a Paramedical Tattooist. And this subject always interests me. One of the best presentations I have seen so far on Undertone. I may just use this for my students too. Interestingly in Permanent makeup, we do work with Blue. We work with Blue, Yellow, Red, Black, and White and we get a myriad of colors from that.
Thank you Kackie!! I finally get it. 🎉 Please keep this content coming. It’s soooo good and no one else explains it as well as you plus you make me laugh.
@Kackie 💕 thank you so much for your knowledge and for sharing❤ question what would you do if you are told that you have a red slash/yellow undertone, you look stunning in a true red, as well as add orange red lipstick; but you have extremely dark under eye circles? I'm trying to find the perfect shade for the color correcting. A lot of times no matter what I'm getting that grey cast. I'm looking at a table with maybe 5 to 6 concealers and they're not working. Help!!!(BTW my foundation is Mack nc45 or Dior 5w).Blessings
You are THE makeup channel I was hoping to find. Color wheel, matching hair tones to accessories, attention to detail in order the fully embrace our own colors and physical personality, I absolutely love your work and enthusiasm and passion, you’re like a makeup geek (and I mean it as a major compliment). Much love !
I'm like 90% sure I'm a cool olive, and have blue veins by my wrist and green down my arm. I'm on watching this video for the second time, and its so helpful. I really appreciate this whole view point from an Artist/painters view. It's so refreshing. I think ive watched all of the your videos in this series so far.
I think I have come to the conclusion that I have cool undertones with a yellow leaning overtone. Need to test out my theory more but I *think* this leads to products acting similarly on my skin to an olive undertoned person. Your explanation of the wheel was helpful because everything turns orange on me but I think I need more desaturation- not green! Can't wait for the monochromatic video and hope it's coming soon!!
@@kackie Oh shoot did I make this up? I could've sworn you mentioned wanting to create a video on how to achieve monochromatic looks or looks that are in harmony together using the same color family (or something along those lines?)
I’ve watched sooooo many videos trying to understand color theory. The way you explained it was absolutely perfect! I actually feel like I have a decent understanding now, I never thought about disregarding the brand labels/naming when trying to determine my tones, this helped a lot!!
I tan super easy and never burn so I always assumed I was warm or neutral based on some of these “tests”. My veins are straight up blue so a “test” said I lean more towards neutral. WELL…all the products I have bought have been too yellow and I’m always so frustrated! I NEVER touched the cooler colors, but turns out I do have a cooler undertone! This just goes to show that a lot of these “tests” are so subjective! My mind is blown! Thank you so much! 🥰😘
I Agree😢😢😢😢 I am continually in pursuit of finding another company that does custom blend to the excellent degree that they did! I believe that I would pay $100 for a foundation if they'd come back and do it again ‼️ custom blend was so perfect! I'm not just on me, I used to stand in Macy's and watch them do this for countless customers just trying to understand how they did it. My heart was broken when they stopped that.
I loved Calyx. ❤ Additionally, I, too, was a blue/red. It has been hard to find makeup that works with my skin tone. I am going to try the Dior line. Thanks so much for your advice and explanation.
Girl, I hardly ever comment on videos, but you are such a joy and your art background has given you such a wonderful outlook on color theory with makeup that I just HAD to take a moment to thank you. You literally break things down in a way i can understand, always adding visual learning tools and I'm just so grateful for the way you have helped me train my eye to look at things with this baseline understanding of color. It has helped me in many areas, not just makeup. On top of the knowledge and wonderful training, your personality just glows. You always make me laugh just by being you and it's delightful. You have combined education for color theory and how it influences makeup, with your bubbly spirit: it's like a fresh glass of lemonade on a hot summer day. I guess I'm just saying thank you for being you. You 🪨 Abigail Ruth 🐝
I watched twice, and listened once while driving my son to school lol. I think I will watch again. This is such an amazing and helpful video. Yes, the confusion with different brand is really easy to fall into. Add the seasonal analysis (I let that go!) thing, and WHOA! I am going to focus purely on my undertones and how the shades looks on me. It helps to understand why everything goes orange on me. I love your interactive color wheel! Thank you!
I have rosacea so I always just assumed I have a pink undertone, but I finally realized I’m actually fairly neutral and your under and over tune vein test made it make so much sense!
No question, this is the most educational and best video on undertone and overtone on the entire internet, and I've watched it three times today, and literally taken notes like a college student. However! Your girl is visually impaired and her visual field can only process one color at a time, which makes this still really difficult for her to do. I can match colors, identify one color after the other and identify if they're the same or different, but comparing two at once is not something I can do. I have never, ever found a decent foundation or concealer match in all my life, and I have typically chalked it up to the struggles of my disability, but even other people experienced with matching makeup struggle with me. Here's what I know for sure: stupid bright hot pink looks really normal on me, olive green eyeshadow turns brown, warm browns turn traffic cone orange, and that seasonal color analysis lady said I have a cool undertone and I'm a winter or whatever nonsense. Lots of foundations leave a weird yellow cast on me, but cool toned foundations look really off as well.
Fantastic video! As a neutral-cool-olive I've resorted to just buying the fairest cool shade a brand offers and add green myself with a NYX pro fix stick. Since doing that I can get my perfect shade 90% of the time
its so crazy that the tower 28 concealer in BU goes so gray on you, cuz it looks wayyy to peachy on me (very fair w cool under&overtones)!! color theory rly is wild
I love that your videos are not just testing product, but talking about the science side. Also, I'd love to see you play with your eyebrow shape - maybe something thinner? How does eyebrow shape change your face? I HATE doing eyebrows.
Thank you very much, Kackie! Love your color theory videos! A trick for anyone out there trying to find out if they're olive. Get a primary red powder product (blush or eyeshadow) (it has to be a true primary red, neither cool not warm), apply it on your cheeks. If you turn green, congrats! You've made it to the Olive Club! 😜😂
@tomjones2157 speaking for myself, I can look green when contrasted with the wrong red and pink tones and also the wrong orange tones. There are variants of those colours that are complimentary to my skin, but they're typically very specific shades like cooler, deeper corals and darker, muted oranges - almost like a cool-toned rust. The first thing I do while shopping for clothes is put my hand against the item to see whether my skin looks normal or - better yet - richer, green in an unpleasant way, or completely washed out.
Cheek swatches~ Another great hack is not looking directly at the swatches but with your peripheral. If it stands out it’s not right, & if it blends into your face it’s a match. I have to do this trick because I can’t see matches on my own skin. I can make a perfect match for other people though! 😂
Thank you for explaining the undertones and the overtones which not many sales make up reps are aware of. I think being neutral is far more difficult to match than being a true warm or true cool. Keep up the good work and keep educating us with your lovely and lovely passion and personality.🎉❤
This was so incredibly helpful and validating! For years people kept telling me I was cool because I have pink cheeks and that’s all they notice, but I always looked gray with makeup! As soon as I started moving to neutral, I looked alive again. You have a talent for explaining/teaching things!
Thanks again Kackie! I have very fair translucent skin with lots of freckles. I have such a hard time with this. This is a huge help! Freakin' amazing. I could listen to you talk about color all day.
Very interesting. I may have to watch this again. I think I've got it, but watching it one more time may solidify it in my mind. Thank you for sharing 🧡 😊
DUDE. THIS IS SO RIDICULOUSLY HELPFUL, ALL FREAKIN' CAPS! Thank you! Now we just have to figure out how to swatch store samples without getting face ebola. (That's a thing, right?) 😁
Thank you so much for this video! As a POC I’ve really struggled finding the right foundation. I can’t tell you just how much money I’ve wasted 😢 Your explanation is the first one that really explains and illustrates the differences as well as how to choose what’s best suits. Thank you Thank you 🥺
2.5 yrs in on my beauty journey and this is the first time I have actually felt like I might be beginning to understand undertone! Cool is blue, warm is yellow. I think next time I swatch for foundation I will actually be able to find a match now with your tips!! Thanks Kackie!!
Always a highly intelligent class from this girl. I couldn’t click on this any faster. As soon as Kackie makes a video I make a cup of copy and enjoy the show ❤
I have a cool olive undertone & have found that mixing blue pigment into a neutral/neutral-cool toned foundation typically gets me a nice grayish hue that works better for my skin!
Kackie, you're so cool and smart and you make me feel like I have extra cones in my eyes. I'm almost positive I do not, but I truly appreciate your knowledge in color theory and ability to explain in such simple ways.
Thank you so much!!! I can’t tell you how long I’ve tried to figure this out but none of the info ever fully explained what wasn’t working for me or why. This was such an amazing deep dive and I feel SO much more equipped to figure out what colors are better for me! Thank you again.
i love this video . i always think it’s wild that there are complete lines of products that I can’t try because they don’t have shades for me as a neutral olive black girl. I can’t wear any of the Kosas concealers or any of that most recent NARS foundation that was so popular because they are all yellow . I’ve been ride or die with the Dior backstage line because there are several shades that i can wear . I always end up having to buy two concealers either because there is always one thats too light and too dark but only one of them matches my undertone or neither of them match my undertone . i think that issue also comes from some brands not having many intermediate shades the deeper you go . i just be needing a little shade in the middle lol
Yeah you really are in an underserved skin tone area. It's a shame. I always try to keep an eye out for lines with a lot of Olive offerings, and the Tom ford ones seem to!
I was able to find the yellow and the blue foundation mixing pigments at Ulta Beauty today and I added blue to my foundation, and it was a perfect match! I tried the yellow a little, but that started going in a different direction lol! Thank you so much for this tip!!!
I just discovered your channel Kackie I haven’t explored all your previous videos yet but the color theory is what hooked me for sure! So helpful and needed, buying cosmetics can be so overwhelming, love your channel!
Thankfully I figured out my oliveness a couple of years ago. I’ve saved sooooooo many returns! Sadly poor naming of shades and shitty online swatches still resulted in some fails
The swatches and shade names are all just completely absurd. Finding out Mac uses NC to denote warm products and NW for cool (not warm and not cool) was SUCH a betrayal because suddenly my complete inability to find any kind of match made sense haha
OMG! I've seen so many videos on color matching, but you are the only one who has explained the nuances of our skin color, how to identify it and then match it! Thank you , keep doing these type of videos, nobody explains these concepts like you do.
I love this series but I cat help to write this: the light around us changes the way we perceive colour. Light in fx Spain is much, much warmer (with a yellow) hue than in Scandinavia where it has a cooler and more white tone. If i take a picture next to a window in Spain today and then a picture next to a window in Denmark tomorrow, my skin´s warm undertone is way more pronounced in Spain. In Spain whenever I take pictures and analyse the hex colours, I´m a warm/true autumn with some dark Autumn tones. In Denmark, I´m a dark autumn. That´s in the Summer time. When Winter comes and light in Scandinavia turns grey, whenever I take a picture and analyse the hex colours, I´m a dark Autumn with some Dark Winter tones, which means light turns my otherwise very warm tones to some neutral or even cold tones. And it´s not just about the tan changing my tone and how that can affect the way we perceived undertone. If in the middle of the Winter, i take a trip to Thailand, I look like a golden goddess, the day I set a foot in Copenhagen airport, I look more neutral. So outdoor light has also an effect.
I LOVE THIS. So so so useful and mind-blowing. Also, thank you sm for: 'it's not about saying you can't wear certain colours, it's about understanding how to make certain colours WORK FOR YOU' ❤
This is such a well done video, and the undertone wheel, everything! I hope you get 100 M views. ALL MY LIFE IVE HAD CHEETO FOUNDATION, I can finally figure out how to get one that matches. Thank you!
I’m still confused about overtone but I’ll watch again. The swatching on your cheek was very helpful and enlightening. I won’t be buying complexion products on line anymore. I somehow always choose colours that turn orange. So now I know that if it says nude it’s not my nude. I always stay away from colours that look warm because I really look orange in those
This is such a helpful video Kackie, thanks so much! You make your videos such a fab combination of educational/helpful and fun to watch. And you’ve got a real talent for distilling things that you have a lot of knowledge about into really digestible and understandable info for those of us who aren’t as skilled or in the know. You make makeup so much more accessible for everyone, chuffed I found your channel 😊
This is great, ngl the "do you see what you see" part showing how to swatch things is the most helpful, bc while i can see *some* of the colors the shade is "turning" into, i cannot see most of them lol. just "it looks off".. unfortunatelly vein diagnosing is telling me "yup, thats certainly. a color.", i think both in this and the swatching section is just telling me i can trick my eyes into seeing whatever color im supposed to be seeing
This video is so helpful. I struggle with undertone and shade. This video will help me decide where to go when things are grey, too peach, or too yellow. I think I'm a warm leaning neutral, but like you said, every brand has its own interpretation.
This is honestly the most helpful makeup video I have watched in my whole life. I finally figured out today that my undertone is olive when every single person has told me it's yellow but my foundations keep turning orange.
This was fun! Thank you, I am going to play around with this and I did the colour wheel you made. It further confirmed what I knew and my mother always said - olive. Which we know ye olde Reddit is a lifesaver for!
Base (primary)colors are very misunderstood. In my color theory classes where we made color wheels the primary red & blue actually had to be mixed to achieve. It isn't just any old red or blue & anytime you mix a cool shade with a warm shade you will get a desaturated color aka mud. For any screen & printer the primaries are Black, Magenta, Cyan & Yellow. I've known some painters who have a very limited palette of Black, White, Yellow & a Red vs others who have a 16 shade palette. I always liked having some secondary & tertiary shades in my palette because every time you add another color to the admixture it becomes desaturated. Once that happens you can't bring it back without a lot of effort (& paint) It's also easier to match if there are less shades involved since you might not make the same exact orange or purple or green admixture again. I found it helpful to have the consistency in a premade secondary shade & a premade earth shade (yellow orche, burnt sienna, raw umber) But I would change my palette depending on subject matter (portrait vs landscape for example) I don't know when this pink=cool thing started but it's very misleading. Most likely if you are caucasian & fair, there will be visible pink in your skin. Doesn't make you "cool skintoned." My veins are purple, blue & turquoise so that was never any help. I have noticed that many fair foundations make me look grey so I usually err on the side of warm & go a smidge darker than I think I am. I would add that when swatching to use your jaw or neck since the redness of your cheeks could throw off the results of the swatches :) For most Fair folks, we're just happy to find a concealer that is pale enough & can't be too picky about the undertone (I prefer a peachy undertone & often use a corrector as my concealer)
I am an olive undertone with zero pink/red in my skin and have to put green and a smidge of yellow color corrector mixed into a pale yellow foundation to match my body. However, my neck and chest are a translucent blue/grey and if I match my face to my neck I have a gaunt white/blue/grey face in comparison to my very green/yellow body. I dont want to bring my foundation down to my neck because it settles into lines and gets separated and splotchy through the day. I have to lightly self tan my neck and chest to fix the issue and have everything harmonized. Merriam style here on youtube has a fantastic color theory called artistic license and talks about the skin and what colors flatter the most and is very interesting.
I have learned to use an extremely thin layer of foundation so that it buffs out closer to my skin tone. I’m very green/grey yellow with a hint of pink. I can match fabulously when I’m suntanned but my pale skin has never seen a proper shade match lol.
I have the same issue lol I'm EXTREMELY olive undertoned and my overtone is a yellow-orange (basically golden) shade, which means when i tan i LITERALLY get a GRAY overall shade, no one believes me until they see me after actually tanning, so, basically i look like a corpse, if i don't tan i'm pale af and if i do i get gray 🥲
Thank you for the overtone explanation! It was the missing piece of my puzzle, and explains why I feel like I need different colors after I have been in the sun.
This is great. I was taught to put a swatch on the cheek bottom and bring it under the jaw bone to fine which one disappears the most. However, your using the cheek only seemed to work well also.
Thank you for the comprehensive video! I have never had any concealer or foundation look pink on me, but I struggle with a lot of things turning yellow on me. I cannot understand how I used to believe I have a warm undertone.
This was so so helpful. I feel like I need to see this theory like 15 times for it to sink in my brain but it is an amazing start to my understanding. Thanks for the science. It’s just super awesome to use your degree to help us!
Thank you. Just tested 2 foundations yesterday. Looked good in store, but was a lovely orange stripe when I got home. I'll be checking out the interactive colour wheel now.
Your wheel was really useful to find my undertone!! I have used so much makeup that looks orange on me, I just want to throw everything away now!! Thank you ❤
This was really helpful! A video that would be great is if you could review different makeup lines and whether they run cool or warm or neutral since you have access to so much makeup. Recently was excited about Selena’s rare beauty and did buy it but it does read very yellow on me. Also, the metal jewelry test will depend on our changing hair color in terms of what looks good.
Wow this is the best and most needed information I've seen so far on getting the make up look natural. This is a painters spproach to colour. Very much needed. Most people have ndver had the opportunity to study this. Thank you SO much!!!☺️🇨🇦💖
Ok wow - this finally gelled for me with the vein test and overtone vs undertone. And so important to drive home that brands and their versions of neutral, etc., shouldn't be the definitive guide. Excellent explainer!
I love how you look at color. My veins, like yours are purple/teal. My natural hair color is a darker ash blonde, but my natural highlights from the sun are golden. I truly can wear both silver and gold with no obvious difference. Waaaaaay back in the 80s I was told I was a golden summer from the color analyst (and that category doesn’t even exist now). I say I’m cool neutral for my skin tone.
Terrific content, Kackie 👏. It took Natasha Denona concealers to make me appreciate a brand’s commitment to matching u/t’s. I am also a neutral, but with greater depth than yours. I have N2, N3 and N4 in Denona and studied them very carefully to determine the differences and the impact they had on my complexion. Yeah, I’m obsessed with colour too. N3 is the closest I have ever had in a face product. If she had a 2.5, with the same u/t as 3, I would be in heaven. The nifty thing about the shades are the tweaks.. N2 is more has a titch more yellow, N3 has more red, and N4 has more pink (duller, grayer). They are all neutrals, but with subtle differences. I can wear all of them, but use N3 as a foundation by sheering it out with a wet sponge and a very moist base and using just as needed.
This is brilliant and it’s SO nice to see a fellow visual artist talk about color theory and how they mix. I just finished a painting the other day and to make a vibrant green shade, I mixed black with yellow - the same that would happen in creating an olive-toned foundation. Thank you Kackie for this informative and entertaining video! 💕
This is the first time I see someone consider both colors on the veins. Thank you!!!
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Right??!!!! A lot of my veins look pinky purple but there are some turquoise-y veins (it depends on the body part the ones on mu thighs are green and the ones on the top of my foot are blue and pinky purple). But my overtone is very golden yellow (im taiwanese) but bc of that i get so confused. Btw my skin is extremely thin and i can see veins over my entire body which sucks bc my sister is scared of looking at veins 😅.
Natasha Denona did it years ago.
@@catrice1296oh my gosh! Yes! My veins are purple and turquoise!!!
Me too. I was always confused because I had two sets of colors.
If it reads “neutral” on you, you’ve found the right product. Meaning, if it disappears on you, BINGO! Every brand is so different, so you have just proven the reason we all need to try before we buy when at all possible because the ideas of neutral, warm and cool are not the same to every brand.
This! I've come to understand that neutral to me means something more like desaturated, whereas neutral for so many brands seems to mean orange. Warm cool and neutral gets so confusing because it's all relative. When you look at a color it's rarely isolated and usually in comparison to the colors around it.
THIS is the reason I still shop at sephora over drugstore any complexion products. I could read reviews till I'm blue, but it'll never be the same as going in store and trying on the products on my actual skin!! (I'm pale olive btw, a really misunderstood skin tone).
You’re so lucky in America that at least you can send products back and get your money back,in the UK(and elsewhere in the world?)you can’t,when I look at foundation colours my brain just goes to mush and my eyes stop computing which ones match my skin😅
About face is the only foundation I have found that matches my skin and the shade is F2olive. I had no idea lol and I have no less than 30 foundations. @carinaoliveira5850
@@carinaoliveira5850my undertone is also olive. I’m fair olive. So I undertand the struggle 😒
I’ve been a makeup artist, off and on, for years, and I have had to guide many people through the fact that what a brand says is neutral or warm, etc, is THEIR version of those tones, and not an absolute measure for all brands.
"It's all relative" is freeing for me but very frustrating for some people. Like a moving target.
Hello! Could you help me? My perfect match is Givenchy 2n120. Does it lean cool or warm?
I would LOVE a color theory video specifically on blush!! I have the hardest time figuring out the right amount of saturation/it turns colors I’m not expecting
Omg same.
Absolutely, I need this, too! I struggle so hard with finding the right blush colour for me!
Second this!!!
Yes! Also I highly recommend trying really dark, pigmented blushes and just using a tiny bit. I found out if I use a deep berry purple, it looks amazing... not the bronze or pinks I've been wearing for oh... 35 years?!?
Same!
The tip of going up or down a level to exaggerate the undertone while swatching is SO HELPFUL!
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Wow, you’re so good!
so on the pigment thing, black pigment in makeup is usually black iron oxide (CI 77499). it is a cool toned black and does dilute into a bluish gray!
(source: looking at foundation ingredients and also being a watercolor painter who used iron oxide black paint)
This makes so much sense! As a redhead with pink undertones, makeup counter folks were always confused by my coloring! They either said I was warm because of my hair color or cool because of the pink undertones. And on top of that confusion, I was also too pale for all the makeup levels until brands started expanding in recent years. I really appreciate how you explain it all!
Too pale is so real
I am a cool read head as well. Finding foundation is a huge feat
I’m the same. I’m a softer browner redhead and I’m not really cool, but I’m not warm in an orange/yellow way, I’m neutral-warm in a rosy way. It’s a rare thing to find good matches for. My favorite match right now is Haus Labs Fair Rosy concealer
@ Thank you for that tip! It’s helpful (and oddly comforting) to hear from others in the same boat!
That's so funny. I have mild rosacea so every counter used to color match me to pink foundations. My true undertones on my neck & body are actually golden olive and MAC was the first to tell me I needed NC20. (Lisa Eldridge also says to match your neck/chest not your face). Sadly I spent my early 20s walking around with tomato face on olive body. 🙈
Its helpful to see all the shades lined up like that. It makes it really easy to see when they arent suitable.
Omg this is FASCINATING I need to swatch all my concealers and foundations on my jaw to see what happens, I might finally figure it all out.
My thoughts exactly!
I love watching color analysis videos like im not already painfully aware im an olive who will be buying the lightest shade
Same, I'm impressed that at least this person knows we exist despite also knowing she's not one of us
Same!! Everyday Minerals used to make my perfect shade - Olive Fair - and they stopped making it... I was so gutted. Kat Von D had a Lock-it foundation shade that was almost the same but that foundation made my face a goopy greaseball inside of an hour LOL. Mac studio fix powder in C2 is "close" but it does go a bit more yellow than what I need and is still a trifle too dark, but at least it never made me a total greaseball LOL. This vid helps explain a LOT though and gives me more hope that I'll be able to find a closer shade, especially with the expansion into lighter skintones that so many brands are doing now. :D
I found you recently, and I just need to say I have never appreciated a beauty TH-camr more. Thank you for all the detailed/nuanced info you provide-your videos are the most helpful ever.
This! Is the most amazing and wonderful compliment I can receive. Being helpful is what I aspire to most so thank you.
Hey y'all - just for clarity: the awesome color wheel used in this video is The Flesh Tone Color Wheel(R) by Terri Tomlinson Makeup Training Academy, not my own.
I’m a watercolorist and I appreciate how you’ve incorporated the color wheel in this process. I have an eye for color and subtlety and yet, the vein test confounds me!
I think what has really helped me understand my undertone, was years of experimenting with makeup when I was a dancer/in theatre. You basically spend a lot of time together with girls in front of mirrors and all playing with each others makeup (sorta lol). I just remember trying something from a friend and knowing right away if it'd work for me or not. When you have others to compare your skin tone and undertones too, it makes it so much easier!
The vein test isn’t helpful at all, especially if you have a bit of a tan. Truly olive skin is a blue undertone + a yellow overtone so by the vein test you’d assume you’re warm, but you’re actually a cool tone who probably needs a neutral foundation.
It also varies by skin thickness; if your skin is thinner you’ll see lots of veins of varying colors regardless of your undertone, so that wouldn’t narrow things down!
Same but my skin is translucent yet my veins are super deep.
Same! The vein test just does not work for me, but I'm not sure how much of it is due to just assessing the color, or the knowledge that my vein is blue beneath my skin... On the one hand (not literally) my veins appear blue to me, so I would expect to have cool tones in my skin, right? I'm also super pale. BUT, my perfect foundation shade, is definitely a peachy undertone with yellow overtone, just a very very pale shade (specifically, NYX Total Control dropper foundation in the shade Vanilla. NOT any of their other lines shade vanilla though, the rest are super dark). Normal Ivory shades turn orange on me, light ivory sometimes turns orange, and other times is too cool and turns grey, but used to be my shade in high school way back when. It really is all relative 😩
I clicked because I am a permanent Makeup Artist as well as a Paramedical Tattooist. And this subject always interests me. One of the best presentations I have seen so far on Undertone. I may just use this for my students too. Interestingly in Permanent makeup, we do work with Blue. We work with Blue, Yellow, Red, Black, and White and we get a myriad of colors from that.
Thank you Kackie!! I finally get it. 🎉 Please keep this content coming. It’s soooo good and no one else explains it as well as you plus you make me laugh.
YOU ARE SO SWEET thank you!!
@Kackie 💕 thank you so much for your knowledge and for sharing❤ question what would you do if you are told that you have a red slash/yellow undertone, you look stunning in a true red, as well as add orange red lipstick; but you have extremely dark under eye circles? I'm trying to find the perfect shade for the color correcting. A lot of times no matter what I'm getting that grey cast. I'm looking at a table with maybe 5 to 6 concealers and they're not working. Help!!!(BTW my foundation is Mack nc45 or Dior 5w).Blessings
You are THE makeup channel I was hoping to find. Color wheel, matching hair tones to accessories, attention to detail in order the fully embrace our own colors and physical personality, I absolutely love your work and enthusiasm and passion, you’re like a makeup geek (and I mean it as a major compliment). Much love !
I swear all makeup companies are convinced my skin tone is 'old grey elephant' tho, because that's what they all make me look like
Sometimes 1 too light , or just a side note ❤ and I don't eat much carbs .niacin and vit C helps skin tone
Or mix 1 color up if you are cool tone ...
Try adding some blush while you’re mixing the foundation or concealer-!
I'm like 90% sure I'm a cool olive, and have blue veins by my wrist and green down my arm. I'm on watching this video for the second time, and its so helpful. I really appreciate this whole view point from an Artist/painters view. It's so refreshing. I think ive watched all of the your videos in this series so far.
I think I have come to the conclusion that I have cool undertones with a yellow leaning overtone. Need to test out my theory more but I *think* this leads to products acting similarly on my skin to an olive undertoned person. Your explanation of the wheel was helpful because everything turns orange on me but I think I need more desaturation- not green! Can't wait for the monochromatic video and hope it's coming soon!!
Monochromatic?
@@kackie Oh shoot did I make this up? I could've sworn you mentioned wanting to create a video on how to achieve monochromatic looks or looks that are in harmony together using the same color family (or something along those lines?)
I’ve watched sooooo many videos trying to understand color theory. The way you explained it was absolutely perfect! I actually feel like I have a decent understanding now, I never thought about disregarding the brand labels/naming when trying to determine my tones, this helped a lot!!
This is the most useful video on undertones I have ever seen. More of this content, please, please, please.
Ok, need a follow up on how to implement the "needs" in color cosmetics, especially blush and lipstick in that green-ish part of the wheel.
THANK YOU for explaining 'overtone' and 'undertone', I'd never heard that before and it explains SO MUCH
I tan super easy and never burn so I always assumed I was warm or neutral based on some of these “tests”. My veins are straight up blue so a “test” said I lean more towards neutral. WELL…all the products I have bought have been too yellow and I’m always so frustrated! I NEVER touched the cooler colors, but turns out I do have a cooler undertone! This just goes to show that a lot of these “tests” are so subjective! My mind is blown! Thank you so much! 🥰😘
This takes me WAY back to Prescriptives - I was told I was blue/red which explains my issues finding a "nude" lipstick 30 years later!
I honestly can’t believe that hasn’t come back in some way. The match was perfection.
I Agree😢😢😢😢 I am continually in pursuit of finding another company that does custom blend to the excellent degree that they did! I believe that I would pay $100 for a foundation if they'd come back and do it again ‼️ custom blend was so perfect! I'm not just on me, I used to stand in Macy's and watch them do this for countless customers just trying to understand how they did it. My heart was broken when they stopped that.
Yessss Prescriptives that was so genius at the time, loved their fragrance Calyx too remember that?
I loved Calyx. ❤ Additionally, I, too, was a blue/red. It has been hard to find makeup that works with my skin tone. I am going to try the Dior line. Thanks so much for your advice and explanation.
Girl, I hardly ever comment on videos, but you are such a joy and your art background has given you such a wonderful outlook on color theory with makeup that I just HAD to take a moment to thank you. You literally break things down in a way i can understand, always adding visual learning tools and I'm just so grateful for the way you have helped me train my eye to look at things with this baseline understanding of color. It has helped me in many areas, not just makeup. On top of the knowledge and wonderful training, your personality just glows. You always make me laugh just by being you and it's delightful. You have combined education for color theory and how it influences makeup, with your bubbly spirit: it's like a fresh glass of lemonade on a hot summer day. I guess I'm just saying thank you for being you. You 🪨
Abigail Ruth 🐝
I watched twice, and listened once while driving my son to school lol. I think I will watch again. This is such an amazing and helpful video. Yes, the confusion with different brand is really easy to fall into. Add the seasonal analysis (I let that go!) thing, and WHOA! I am going to focus purely on my undertones and how the shades looks on me. It helps to understand why everything goes orange on me. I love your interactive color wheel! Thank you!
I have rosacea so I always just assumed I have a pink undertone, but I finally realized I’m actually fairly neutral and your under and over tune vein test made it make so much sense!
No question, this is the most educational and best video on undertone and overtone on the entire internet, and I've watched it three times today, and literally taken notes like a college student. However! Your girl is visually impaired and her visual field can only process one color at a time, which makes this still really difficult for her to do. I can match colors, identify one color after the other and identify if they're the same or different, but comparing two at once is not something I can do. I have never, ever found a decent foundation or concealer match in all my life, and I have typically chalked it up to the struggles of my disability, but even other people experienced with matching makeup struggle with me. Here's what I know for sure: stupid bright hot pink looks really normal on me, olive green eyeshadow turns brown, warm browns turn traffic cone orange, and that seasonal color analysis lady said I have a cool undertone and I'm a winter or whatever nonsense. Lots of foundations leave a weird yellow cast on me, but cool toned foundations look really off as well.
Fantastic video! As a neutral-cool-olive I've resorted to just buying the fairest cool shade a brand offers and add green myself with a NYX pro fix stick. Since doing that I can get my perfect shade 90% of the time
its so crazy that the tower 28 concealer in BU goes so gray on you, cuz it looks wayyy to peachy on me (very fair w cool under&overtones)!! color theory rly is wild
I love that your videos are not just testing product, but talking about the science side. Also, I'd love to see you play with your eyebrow shape - maybe something thinner? How does eyebrow shape change your face? I HATE doing eyebrows.
That color wheel is fantastic!! Thank you!!
🙏🙏🙏. Showing this to Sephora salesperson when buying my next foundation
Thank you very much, Kackie! Love your color theory videos! A trick for anyone out there trying to find out if they're olive. Get a primary red powder product (blush or eyeshadow) (it has to be a true primary red, neither cool not warm), apply it on your cheeks. If you turn green, congrats! You've made it to the Olive Club! 😜😂
(Sadly, I just looked at some swatches of Vieve L1 elsewhere online, and they look quite yellowy orange on paler skin.)
What about if you turn green when you put orange on?
@tomjones2157 speaking for myself, I can look green when contrasted with the wrong red and pink tones and also the wrong orange tones. There are variants of those colours that are complimentary to my skin, but they're typically very specific shades like cooler, deeper corals and darker, muted oranges - almost like a cool-toned rust. The first thing I do while shopping for clothes is put my hand against the item to see whether my skin looks normal or - better yet - richer, green in an unpleasant way, or completely washed out.
Cheek swatches~ Another great hack is not looking directly at the swatches but with your peripheral. If it stands out it’s not right, & if it blends into your face it’s a match.
I have to do this trick because I can’t see matches on my own skin. I can make a perfect match for other people though! 😂
Thank you for explaining the undertones and the overtones which not many sales make up reps are aware of. I think being neutral is far more difficult to match than being a true warm or true cool. Keep up the good work and keep educating us with your lovely and lovely passion and personality.🎉❤
This was so incredibly helpful and validating! For years people kept telling me I was cool because I have pink cheeks and that’s all they notice, but I always looked gray with makeup! As soon as I started moving to neutral, I looked alive again. You have a talent for explaining/teaching things!
I love it when Kackie paints colours on her face. No idea why. Just do. 😊
Thanks again Kackie! I have very fair translucent skin with lots of freckles. I have such a hard time with this. This is a huge help! Freakin' amazing. I could listen to you talk about color all day.
Very interesting. I may have to watch this again. I think I've got it, but watching it one more time may solidify it in my mind.
Thank you for sharing 🧡 😊
DUDE. THIS IS SO RIDICULOUSLY HELPFUL, ALL FREAKIN' CAPS! Thank you!
Now we just have to figure out how to swatch store samples without getting face ebola. (That's a thing, right?) 😁
Thank you so much for this video! As a POC I’ve really struggled finding the right foundation. I can’t tell you just how much money I’ve wasted 😢 Your explanation is the first one that really explains and illustrates the differences as well as how to choose what’s best suits. Thank you Thank you 🥺
2.5 yrs in on my beauty journey and this is the first time I have actually felt like I might be beginning to understand undertone! Cool is blue, warm is yellow. I think next time I swatch for foundation I will actually be able to find a match now with your tips!! Thanks Kackie!!
Always a highly intelligent class from this girl. I couldn’t click on this any faster. As soon as Kackie makes a video I make a cup of copy and enjoy the show ❤
I see everything, every color you are talking about 😮 Thank you so much for the video ❤️
I have a cool olive undertone & have found that mixing blue pigment into a neutral/neutral-cool toned foundation typically gets me a nice grayish hue that works better for my skin!
Kackie, you're so cool and smart and you make me feel like I have extra cones in my eyes. I'm almost positive I do not, but I truly appreciate your knowledge in color theory and ability to explain in such simple ways.
Thank you so much!!! I can’t tell you how long I’ve tried to figure this out but none of the info ever fully explained what wasn’t working for me or why. This was such an amazing deep dive and I feel SO much more equipped to figure out what colors are better for me! Thank you again.
And bought every tube I found. Also keep it coming for older skin with set-in wrinkles (60). Thanks for all you do!
i love this video . i always think it’s wild that there are complete lines of products that I can’t try because they don’t have shades for me as a neutral olive black girl. I can’t wear any of the Kosas concealers or any of that most recent NARS foundation that was so popular because they are all yellow . I’ve been ride or die with the Dior backstage line because there are several shades that i can wear . I always end up having to buy two concealers either because there is always one thats too light and too dark but only one of them matches my undertone or neither of them match my undertone . i think that issue also comes from some brands not having many intermediate shades the deeper you go . i just be needing a little shade in the middle lol
Yeah you really are in an underserved skin tone area. It's a shame. I always try to keep an eye out for lines with a lot of Olive offerings, and the Tom ford ones seem to!
Saved in my ‘Makeup’ folder here for future reference. Love and respect, Kackie. 💯👌🇨🇦
I’ve watched a lot of these types of videos. Yours is by far the best and the most useful.
I was able to find the yellow and the blue foundation mixing pigments at Ulta Beauty today and I added blue to my foundation, and it was a perfect match! I tried the yellow a little, but that started going in a different direction lol! Thank you so much for this tip!!!
I just discovered your channel Kackie I haven’t explored all your previous videos yet but the color theory is what hooked me for sure! So helpful and needed, buying cosmetics can be so overwhelming, love your channel!
Thankfully I figured out my oliveness a couple of years ago. I’ve saved sooooooo many returns! Sadly poor naming of shades and shitty online swatches still resulted in some fails
The swatches and shade names are all just completely absurd. Finding out Mac uses NC to denote warm products and NW for cool (not warm and not cool) was SUCH a betrayal because suddenly my complete inability to find any kind of match made sense haha
OMG! I've seen so many videos on color matching, but you are the only one who has explained the nuances of our skin color, how to identify it and then match it! Thank you , keep doing these type of videos, nobody explains these concepts like you do.
I love this series but I cat help to write this: the light around us changes the way we perceive colour.
Light in fx Spain is much, much warmer (with a yellow) hue than in Scandinavia where it has a cooler and more white tone. If i take a picture next to a window in Spain today and then a picture next to a window in Denmark tomorrow, my skin´s warm undertone is way more pronounced in Spain.
In Spain whenever I take pictures and analyse the hex colours, I´m a warm/true autumn with some dark Autumn tones. In Denmark, I´m a dark autumn. That´s in the Summer time. When Winter comes and light in Scandinavia turns grey, whenever I take a picture and analyse the hex colours, I´m a dark Autumn with some Dark Winter tones, which means light turns my otherwise very warm tones to some neutral or even cold tones.
And it´s not just about the tan changing my tone and how that can affect the way we perceived undertone. If in the middle of the Winter, i take a trip to Thailand, I look like a golden goddess, the day I set a foot in Copenhagen airport, I look more neutral. So outdoor light has also an effect.
This was the most helpful color video for finding concealer/foundation. THANK YOU SO MUCH! So glad I found your channel.
Sooooooo incredibly helpful! This is the first time I've understood how to find my undertone. Thank you!!!!
You have been able to make easy something difficult; that’s great teaching skill! Thank you very much. Sooo interesting.
Thank you for the color wheel. I am an artist and this makes so much sense to me!
I thought I was crazy thinking every lip stick turn my lips hot pick. Im so glad I found this video!
This video helped SO much finally understanding my undertone!! Thanks a lot! ❤
I feel like I need to take notes. 👀 OK, I love the approach of just swatching on the face. 👍👍
I LOVE THIS. So so so useful and mind-blowing. Also, thank you sm for: 'it's not about saying you can't wear certain colours, it's about understanding how to make certain colours WORK FOR YOU' ❤
Wow, that's a really great channel! I just came here accidently and I'm really impressed by your explanations! 👏😊
This is such a well done video, and the undertone wheel, everything! I hope you get 100 M views. ALL MY LIFE IVE HAD CHEETO FOUNDATION, I can finally figure out how to get one that matches. Thank you!
I’m still confused about overtone but I’ll watch again. The swatching on your cheek was very helpful and enlightening. I won’t be buying complexion products on line anymore. I somehow always choose colours that turn orange. So now I know that if it says nude it’s not my nude. I always stay away from colours that look warm because I really look orange in those
This is such a helpful video Kackie, thanks so much! You make your videos such a fab combination of educational/helpful and fun to watch. And you’ve got a real talent for distilling things that you have a lot of knowledge about into really digestible and understandable info for those of us who aren’t as skilled or in the know. You make makeup so much more accessible for everyone, chuffed I found your channel 😊
This is great, ngl the "do you see what you see" part showing how to swatch things is the most helpful, bc while i can see *some* of the colors the shade is "turning" into, i cannot see most of them lol. just "it looks off".. unfortunatelly vein diagnosing is telling me "yup, thats certainly. a color.", i think both in this and the swatching section is just telling me i can trick my eyes into seeing whatever color im supposed to be seeing
This video is so helpful. I struggle with undertone and shade. This video will help me decide where to go when things are grey, too peach, or too yellow. I think I'm a warm leaning neutral, but like you said, every brand has its own interpretation.
This is honestly the most helpful makeup video I have watched in my whole life. I finally figured out today that my undertone is olive when every single person has told me it's yellow but my foundations keep turning orange.
wow - certainly going to be watching this one more then once down the road :) ty
This was fun! Thank you, I am going to play around with this and I did the colour wheel you made. It further confirmed what I knew and my mother always said - olive. Which we know ye olde Reddit is a lifesaver for!
Base (primary)colors are very misunderstood. In my color theory classes where we made color wheels the primary red & blue actually had to be mixed to achieve. It isn't just any old red or blue & anytime you mix a cool shade with a warm shade you will get a desaturated color aka mud. For any screen & printer the primaries are Black, Magenta, Cyan & Yellow. I've known some painters who have a very limited palette of Black, White, Yellow & a Red vs others who have a 16 shade palette. I always liked having some secondary & tertiary shades in my palette because every time you add another color to the admixture it becomes desaturated. Once that happens you can't bring it back without a lot of effort (& paint) It's also easier to match if there are less shades involved since you might not make the same exact orange or purple or green admixture again. I found it helpful to have the consistency in a premade secondary shade & a premade earth shade (yellow orche, burnt sienna, raw umber) But I would change my palette depending on subject matter (portrait vs landscape for example) I don't know when this pink=cool thing started but it's very misleading. Most likely if you are caucasian & fair, there will be visible pink in your skin. Doesn't make you "cool skintoned." My veins are purple, blue & turquoise so that was never any help. I have noticed that many fair foundations make me look grey so I usually err on the side of warm & go a smidge darker than I think I am. I would add that when swatching to use your jaw or neck since the redness of your cheeks could throw off the results of the swatches :) For most Fair folks, we're just happy to find a concealer that is pale enough & can't be too picky about the undertone (I prefer a peachy undertone & often use a corrector as my concealer)
This is interesting! And the point you make about cheek color throwing it off a bit seems so obvious but I never thought of it.
I am an olive undertone with zero pink/red in my skin and have to put green and a smidge of yellow color corrector mixed into a pale yellow foundation to match my body. However, my neck and chest are a translucent blue/grey and if I match my face to my neck I have a gaunt white/blue/grey face in comparison to my very green/yellow body. I dont want to bring my foundation down to my neck because it settles into lines and gets separated and splotchy through the day. I have to lightly self tan my neck and chest to fix the issue and have everything harmonized. Merriam style here on youtube has a fantastic color theory called artistic license and talks about the skin and what colors flatter the most and is very interesting.
I have learned to use an extremely thin layer of foundation so that it buffs out closer to my skin tone. I’m very green/grey yellow with a hint of pink. I can match fabulously when I’m suntanned but my pale skin has never seen a proper shade match lol.
I have the same issue lol
I'm EXTREMELY olive undertoned and my overtone is a yellow-orange (basically golden) shade, which means when i tan i LITERALLY get a GRAY overall shade, no one believes me until they see me after actually tanning, so, basically i look like a corpse, if i don't tan i'm pale af and if i do i get gray 🥲
Thank you for the overtone explanation! It was the missing piece of my puzzle, and explains why I feel like I need different colors after I have been in the sun.
This is great. I was taught to put a swatch on the cheek bottom and bring it under the jaw bone to fine which one disappears the most. However, your using the cheek only seemed to work well also.
I was so confused by the vein test! Thanks for breaking down what it means if you have multiple colours going on there.
Thank you for the comprehensive video! I have never had any concealer or foundation look pink on me, but I struggle with a lot of things turning yellow on me. I cannot understand how I used to believe I have a warm undertone.
This was so so helpful. I feel like I need to see this theory like 15 times for it to sink in my brain but it is an amazing start to my understanding. Thanks for the science. It’s just super awesome to use your degree to help us!
Related, this is why I now 100% understand why the merit beauty solo shadow in social (a "soft mauve") is my perfect brown eye shadow.
Thank you. Just tested 2 foundations yesterday. Looked good in store, but was a lovely orange stripe when I got home. I'll be checking out the interactive colour wheel now.
Your hands are SO pretty. Love the green polish on you. I wear dark green and love it. p
Love all your color theory videos!! Your unique perspective is beyond refreshing and I always learn so much ❤
Your wheel was really useful to find my undertone!! I have used so much makeup that looks orange on me, I just want to throw everything away now!! Thank you ❤
This is fascinating!! Can you do the concealer swatches demo on a couple other different skin tones? I think it will really help demonstrate. TY!!😊
This was really helpful! A video that would be great is if you could review different makeup lines and whether they run cool or warm or neutral since you have access to so much makeup. Recently was excited about Selena’s rare beauty and did buy it but it does read very yellow on me. Also, the metal jewelry test will depend on our changing hair color in terms of what looks good.
I am so happy that my algorithm brought me here, this is so informative and logical, which to me, it's empowering. Thanks Kacki
Wow this is the best and most needed information I've
seen so far on getting the make up look natural.
This is a painters spproach to colour.
Very much needed. Most people have ndver had the opportunity to study this. Thank you SO much!!!☺️🇨🇦💖
Ok wow - this finally gelled for me with the vein test and overtone vs undertone. And so important to drive home that brands and their versions of neutral, etc., shouldn't be the definitive guide. Excellent explainer!
Honestly one of the most helpful videos about this.
this is the first time I've heard 'turquoise' as a vein color - so so helpful!
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Just found your chanel wow this is the first time that i can understand my undertones ,thank thank ,thank you . Definitely a new subbie . X
Just how casually the phrase "the sweet meat" was thrown in without any hesitation or acknowledgement 😂
I love how you look at color. My veins, like yours are purple/teal. My natural hair color is a darker ash blonde, but my natural highlights from the sun are golden. I truly can wear both silver and gold with no obvious difference. Waaaaaay back in the 80s I was told I was a golden summer from the color analyst (and that category doesn’t even exist now). I say I’m cool neutral for my skin tone.
Terrific content, Kackie 👏. It took Natasha Denona concealers to make me appreciate a brand’s commitment to matching u/t’s. I am also a neutral, but with greater depth than yours. I have N2, N3 and N4 in Denona and studied them very carefully to determine the differences and the impact they had on my complexion. Yeah, I’m obsessed with colour too. N3 is the closest I have ever had in a face product. If she had a 2.5, with the same u/t as 3, I would be in heaven. The nifty thing about the shades are the tweaks.. N2 is more has a titch more yellow, N3 has more red, and N4 has more pink (duller, grayer). They are all neutrals, but with subtle differences. I can wear all of them, but use N3 as a foundation by sheering it out with a wet sponge and a very moist base and using just as needed.
This is so fascinating.
THANK YOU for doing this video! It makes so much more sense to me visually than anything else ever has!
This is brilliant and it’s SO nice to see a fellow visual artist talk about color theory and how they mix. I just finished a painting the other day and to make a vibrant green shade, I mixed black with yellow - the same that would happen in creating an olive-toned foundation. Thank you Kackie for this informative and entertaining video! 💕
Wow yes!! This is so lovely thank you for sharing and for being here!
@@kackie 🩵💕
I found this fascinating! For my foundation I've gravitated towards neutrals and that tends to work best on me, now I see why.