If I put on a red lip, I think I look amazing. I put on a nude lip, and my lips disappear. So I try to do natural makeup and I look like a sick Victorian child. So thank you for this video, I thought I was doing something wrong
Im absolutely the opposite. If i put on too much makeup i instantly look like a dated Pamela Anderson, in the worst way possible. Its just too much contrast. I look much better with a beachy, beigy, nude type of look.
Same with me, I work really hard at creating these natural looks, walk out the door and look like a chalk faced sick kid. Now I finally understand why!
Painters are the most amazing and talented makeup artists because they really have an understanding of things like THIS, that most of us do not. Appreciate this video more than you know. I’d love to see this in a series, where you pull your artistry talent into applying it to makeup.
I quite agree! I would be lovely to learn bore about the main principles, and not always have to "trial and error" again and again to stumble onto something that works, but you don't really know why, and how to utilise it in other areas. A helpful shortcut.
That feeling when you click on a video by a creator you've never seen before because they have a very alternative vibe and you think they're going to be super down to Earth, but then they pull out the Prada concealer. LOL. Really enjoyed your take on makeup! I don't think I've ever seen anyone take an artistic approach to makeup--which is crazy because makeup is such an artistic thing!
if you like an artistic approach to makeup, you might also want to check out Alexandra Anele, who also was a painter who now applies her skills to makeup!
If I could give this 1000 thumbs up I would! This is the 30 minute explanation for what took me over a year to figure out on my own - namely, I'm low contrast (right now it's super obvious but I was MYSTIFIED) and can't wear high contrast without looking super, duper made up and glam. Love it, need it, want more!
Agree. I’ve never seen someone do a video talking and teaching about this and when you understand it, it helps tremendously. This woman is definitely a girls girl. She gets it! Lol💕
Same!! I'm very pale (too pale for most foundations aimed at Western markets until recently), level 10 blonde hair, very light blue eyes. I only truly figured it out when I decided to dye by hair and brows to a dark brown and noticed the black eyelash extensions that always looked clownish on me before looked "normal" while the brown ones I used to get totally disappeared. And then it clicked. But this video was still so helpful with showing how to adjust the midtones and gradients. I've been to makeup artists who don't understand this as well as this video does! 🙀
WHY HAS THIS CHANGED MY LIFE! I've never been able to pull off red lipstick but I just mixed two together (a darkish nude and a tiny bit of red in the center) and I'm sitting here in my pajamas looking cool af
Different types of red lipstick 💄 it's about finding the right shade..a blue red suits most . You also have to consider your skin undertones. Your foundation being your base. If it is wrong your lip colors are wrong
This is one of those concepts that's so intuitive that you can leverage it accidentally, but it needs to be explained in depth before you can leverage it purposefully. For myself, I'm thinking of my "everyday" glasses with their dark, bold rim balancing out the low contrast of my bleached hair and tan skin. With my natural black hair, i automatically revert to subtler clear glasses, to balance the high contrast of my hair and skin.
It’s funny because I used to wear black frames as a dark brunette/very fair neutral skin tone girl. Now as a balayaged blonde fair skinned girl, I wear a lot of gold rims and get compliments all the time. I never really considered why it looked better. It just did.
Frames really do have such an effect on contrast and makeup choices! Dark hair, fair skin, high contrast. Black frames and I can only wear cooler tones and low contrast lips. Bright tortoiseshell frames and it has to be almost bare skin and a bold rusty warm lip.
@@BeautyAndHerBeasts Not really, it depends how dark her hair originally was and how light she has bleached it and how tan her skin is, tan skin and medium-dark blonde adjacents like honey blonde would usually have very low contrast. It won't become high contrast until your hair is nearing very very blonde/white (and even then won't be as high contrast as a deep skin tone with the same hair or a pale girl with black hair). Like zendaya in the challengers red carpet she has much lower contrast. Dark hair also comes in loads of shades and there are people with black or black adjacent hair who have tan skin but are definitely high contrast, like zendaya with jet black hair. And contrast also goes higher when there one part is cool and the other is warm. I have fair skin and dark hair but I am olive/ ashen both in hair and skin so I have lower contrast than my friend with very similar depth but very "clear" contrasty colours, warm skin and cool hair. So in general it's better not to give blanket statements.
I think part of the reason this has never clicked for me is that I'm pretty neutral contrast- naturally medium blonde hair, dark green eyes, but very pale pale lips. My brow girl always asks if I want to go "bold (cooler and darker)" or "subtle (redder and lighter)" and I shift back and forth based on how blonde I am at the time, I've never understood why! These videos are amazing.
Bobbi Brown has long advocated this "double blush" technique that "fills in the distance." Whatever is "nude" on you, your-cheeks-but-better tone, then a pop of a brighter shade on top as an accent. Thanks for this detailed exploration; contrast explains why I look "formal" really easily with very little actual products if the contrast is too marked. That Beckham Cinnamon Kajal is perfection itself, isn't it?
Bobbie Brown est une artiste française de formation. Pour moi, elle est minimaliste et ses produits mettent l’accent sur un bel aspect naturel, en mettant l’accent sur une seule couleur. Elle a maintenant près de soixante-dix ans et continue d'innover. je vais chercher si Kackie a discuté de Miracle Balm. Les gens semblent aimer ou détester ce produit. je l'adore, comme j'aime la plupart des produits Bobbie Brown.
When I got serious about sun protection, my hair darkened and my skin got paler. I couldn't figure out why my dusty rose and mauve makeup started looking muddy and unnatural. When I finally tried on bright lipstick, I was joking around, and was so surprised that it worked!
I use different lipstick in summer when my skin is darker, for sure 😊 Purplish lipsticks don't go well with my tan. I also don't darken my eyebrows cause I love the low contrast summer look, and I wear more summer palette pastel clothes, they look nice with my tan. In winter my skin looks a bit sickly and it's harder to find colors that look good on me, I'm still not sure 😅 but I do more contrast
This happened in my early thirties when my lupus was at its worst. I had to relearn how to do my makeup and started using better skin care and now at 40 I’m so glad I did because I get told daily how my skin looks “so young.”
It was wild! I turn not only peachy pinks but neutral pinks into orange colors with my lightish skin and very yellow undertone, but that mauve turning red was indeed wild, and beautiful!
Omg that happens to me, I look like a thunderbird , like they're not my lips never heard anyone else mention that happens to them ..can't wait to watch now 👍
on olive skin tones, everything softer, mauve or even nude lipstick will look brighter, like a magenta or true red, even if the colors were not bright in the first place.
As a high contrast person, I’ve found “natural” or “no makeup” makeup looks worse on me than no makeup at all. But I can slap on a bold lip like I was born that way. Once I figured out the high contrast thing, I gave up buying neutral makeup. Haha
I wear mascara, blush and Ruby woo and I'm good to go. I have dark brown nearly black hair, lashes and brows and pale cool toned skin and neutral colours look awful on me. Nude lipstick makes me look like I have none 😂
I’m the exact opposite!! I’ve always wanted to wear a bold lip or cat eye liner but I always look like a clown. The only makeup that works on me is no makeup makeup
I had my colors and fashion type done by a professional, and believe you would be what is called a 'Dramatic Contrast' type (I have 0%of that!) and the advice for folks with a significant DC component is that they will always look better with some high-contrast makeup on. That without makeup they will look unfinished and not their best. Figuring out personal makeup colors/style really is an individual thing, right? 🙂
As a 60-year-old woman with absolutely no contrast… I cannot thank you enough for this tutorial. It’s really pulled things together for me. I am extremely fair and wear the same foundations shades that you do yet my hair is completely buzzed cut and platinum. This has really helped me thank you thank you thank you.
I'm 56 and was born strawberry blonde. I stopped coloring my hair about 2 years ago and was shocked to find out my hair had naturally turned completely platinum blonde with NO gray streaks. Since then I've really been struggling with makeup!
This was fantastic, and I was so glad to see you follow the line of your cupid's bow. I'm so tired of makeup influencers drawing a straight line right across the top in an effort to get bigger lips!
Right?! Natural Cupid's Bows are very pretty! I like mine and even though my lips aren't the fullest, I feel like its more natural, effortless, and elegant to follow it.
I’m high contrast and my daily makeup look is brows, blush, and red lipstick. I’ve always really struggled with literally any eyeshadow not looking clownish on me. This really helped me understand shades that may contrast well! So helpful!
This is the first time I see your content and this is the first time I've actually understood so many things about makeup. It makes sense that a painter can explain actual theory, which to me makes more sense than all those "season" videos and makeup tutorials.
This was the first makeup video that I watched (and I’ve watched thousands) where I was enthralled from start to finish. I can’t even explain how much i appreciate this video!
The definition of contrast: "your skin tone vs the rest of your features; hair color, brow color, eyelash color, lip color, etc." will help me tremendously! SUPERB CONTENT! Now I can play with more confidence and curiosity. I'm a natural warm redhead (with clear brows and light lashes, dark blue green eyes). At 70, my hair has faded closer to my skin tone and I couldn't figure out why my makeup application has gotten so hit or miss - the fine line between bringing fresh color to the face, but not looking harsh (or glam) in daytime. Thanks for being so concise, bright and making this fun to do.
DUDE I was dark haired for 10+ years and could get away with liquid black winged eyeliner, day time smokey eye, etc. I went back to my natural strawberrish blonde hair and my typical make up DID NOT WORK ANYMORE. At all. I looked so "done up". Eyeliner had to go 2 shades lighter, brows too, eyeshadows became a whole different ball game. It was crazy frustrating! Fantastic video, thank you Kacks MaLacks!
The same i am experiencing right now and i have to say am very sorry about it. With dark hair, i did so many fun eye looks and now only the neutral looks are looking good.
Brown mascara Light Brown line (Occasionally burgundy mascara over brown at night Eye makeup hugely toned down Natural with med taupe in the crease; Ivory highlight - it's easy🙏💜🏴💜🇮🇪💜🇬🇧💜
Another important dimension here is saturation. I'm high contrast (naturally black hair, pale nearly-white skin with a desaturated cool blue-pink undertone) and low saturation. Even a blush like Nars Sex Appeal can and does look clownish on me because even though it's pale, it's at maximum saturation for its white value. The darkest blush in your look here would probably look less clownish on me because it has enough gray/black in it to match my extreme desaturation better. It would be the same with Velvet Ribbon as a lip color. It would look *good* on me because of my high contrast, but it would never look casual and effortless. I'd look like a femme fatale at best and a sexy mime at worst! A color like Chai would probably also be my best bet for French girl look, though it might be deep enough against my skin that it would actually look vampy/goth rather than casual and Cinnamon Red is probably too saturated/warm! There are always so many dimensions of art math to consider when trying to replicate a look; it gets a bit dizzying.
Girl yes I just commented about my high contrast low saturation situationship as well 😂 luckily I love looking vampy so I play into that!! And avoid anything that could possibly go too bright or orange on me, which is basically everything…. I buy all the grey purple browns and grey greens lol and black mascara forever
Yes! This is me too - high contrast but I need that hint of a gray undertone to make it work. I think that’s because my very pale olive undertone actually presents as a little gray? 🤷🏻♀️ But everything you mentioned: yes.
I'm a painter, and I like makeup but your red lip video changed everything for me! Mind blown! I've only ever been confident with eyeshadow, where I think I was painting subconsciously. I've never been able to choose a lip colour and I'm so excited to put together a look! These are masterclass level videos!
This is honestly one of the most useful makeup videos I've ever watched! Just the principles behind it make so much sense. Also that certain colors or types of look aren't inaccessible, but you just have to be strategic to tailor it to your own coloring: mind blowing 🤯 I'm very high contrast (pale skin and dark hair) and cool toned. I remember trying to do the Latte Girl trend and just looking very orange and overdone because that caramel brown is not at home on my skin at all. It took me years to figure out bronzer because I didn't realize that it needed to be either more grey or more rosey to work on me.
Yaaaaas!! I’m a watercolour and pastel artist and the same concepts apply to visual arts and makeup art. It’s colour and value math - I appreciate so much the way you use colour language to help people understand not only what’s working and not but WHY and how to manipulate things based on theory. ❤❤❤
This was genuinely one of the most educational and informative makeup videos I've ever watched, while still being loads of fun! I feel like you can show subscribers how to do a look all day long but teaching them the "art math" as you said, gives them so much more than just that one look.
I don't know what prompted the algorithm to finally send one of your videos my way but your knowledge of blending color and its manipulation just earned you a new subscriber! ❤
Great demo! As a makeup artist, I have changed lives with this concept. It only gets more interesting as we get older and we “need” more colour. Add some grey hair and we have a whole new equation ♥️
This is why I have so much doubts about enrolling in makeup classes and academies…. You’re out here giving MASTERCLASSES FOR FREE this is the tutorial of my dreams. Saw you do the “red lipstick for your skin tone” vid and you’re SUCH A GREAT TEACHER this is EXACTLY the makeup / beauty videos i have been waiting for all my life 😩😩😩
Such a good explaination. As a portrait painter this is intuitive for me . I’ve been ‘teaching people this about makeup for years. It’s the main problem I see with not adjusting your makeup as you age, I’m talking over a decade or more, your ‘ contrast gets closer’ as you age . You have to adjust .
Yes, I'm a little sad about losing my high contrast now that I'm letting my S&P hair go natural these last couple of years. I'm slowly culling my red lipsticks and will keep just a couple for formal events.
This explains SO MUCH. I have figured out through trial and error that I look best in mid-tone/moderate contrast colors because I am basically the color of Cream of Wheat from my hair to my neck, with the exception of my eyes, which are a bright aqua shade. This is also made more complicated in that I naturally have both warm & cool tones in my complexion. Even slightly too high contrast, and I go clownish immediately. And if I swing too low, I am super washed out & look dull. I can pull off a little more contrast on my eyes, but not much. I had always thought I was just playing things too safe or staying in my comfort zone, but maybe I was, intuitively, staying in the range that was truly best for me. I love that your brain works this way & would love to see more color contrast videos for different looks.
I have a naturally high contrast complexion, much like your sister. However, I have been going gray and just letting it happen. This has decreased my contrast some and it has been a struggle to work out what shades now look best with the way I wear makeup. Thanks for explaining "bridging the gap" some in this video. Very helpful. Also, as an aside, my first profession was as a color chemist. So, I really dig when you get in the weeds with color theory.
Okay. Lady. Official, real, lady (I am faux female). I have so many things to say. 1) your background is SO Adhd friendly. THANK YOU. 2) I'm autistic and genuinely DON'T understand makeup. I'm trying. I really am. You got it to get through to me.
This was sooooo helpful to me and clearly demonstrated why high contrast is such a struggle for me, especially as I get older. Now I understand why just the barest lipstick looks like a nice pink or red on my low contrast face, while strong colors strongly applied make me look like a clown! Thank you so much!!
I really love videos like this from you that bring not only the knowledge and art tools to make decisions about how we want to look but also give a Kackie-centered perspective on how YOU interpret a trend or makeup need.
I did my makeup for an event yesterday and binge watching kackie came in clutch because i was like hmm i wonder why my makeup looks weird and then realised my foundation was a bit cool toned and so was my eyeshadow but my blush was PEACH and changing it helped so much ! Thank you for being so entertaining and educational
At first I thought this was going right over my head but by the end? I think I have a good grasp of your point. I’m 53 years old and I really love makeup. My problem is that I don’t really know what my canvas really is. I live very far from Ulta and Sephora so I order online. Other than the “what color are your veins” bullshit. So I don’t wear concealer or foundation because they make me look older! Any suggestions on how to figure out my skin tone? Thanks!
There are a few ways to determine your skin tone, including: Vein color In natural light, look at the color of your veins on your inner wrist: Cool skin tone: Veins appear blue or purple Warm skin tone: Veins appear green or greenish blue Neutral skin tone: Veins are hard to tell if they're green or blue Sun exposure Consider how your skin reacts to the sun: Fair skin tone: Burns easily and doesn't tan Light skin tone: Burns and tans a little Medium skin tone: Tans easily but rarely burns Dark skin tone: Never burns but tans with prolonged exposure Jewelry test Hold a necklace or bracelet against your skin and see which metal makes your skin look healthier: White tee test Wear a plain white T-shirt or dress and look at your face in neutral lighting: Eye color Consider the warm or cool tones in your eye color
Amazing video! It explains a lot. Years ago I bought lipstain in dark plum color, that had terrible reviews, people were saying it was too dark. It was cheap and I liked the color in the tube, but OMG on my lips and my face it looked so natural so effortless. My favorite makeup ever. It brightened my whole complexion, my eyes looked so alive and prominent, and you could´t even see the lipstain , my dark circles disappeared, skintone looked even, magical color, sadly it was LE. Bought many dupes, but nothing came close.
Kackie, this is SO HELPFUL! I have never understood why paler lipsticks didn’t look good on me. The palest I can go where I still look good is Charlotte Tilbury’s candy chic, and I’m a similar skin tone to you. I thought it was maybe because pale lipsticks can sway too orange, but I recently tried a cool toned one and still hated it. I am high contrast! I wouldn’t have thought so because I’m pale and my hair isn’t that dark, but I only really look good in darker lip colours, and lighter eyeliners and eyeshadows just disappear on me. This is fabulous and so helpful!
I remember when Delta Burke bleached her black hair to platinum blonde. Her makeup suddenly looked overdone and clownish, because it was bold and bright to match her dark hair. It didn't work against the lighter hair. What you are saying makes perfect sense!! This is why hot pink dark or vivid red or purple lipsticks look ghastly on me!!
This has blown my mind! I have always wondered why some girls look so beautiful with such simple makeup, whereas I have to add a lot of depth to really feel like I look special. I even thought maybe those girls are prettier and need less but this explanation is perfect. Im just higher contrast and have very dark hair, eyes, brows, and lips. Thank you so much for this!!!!!
I've always had this theory that some people are "eyes people" and some are "lips people". If my grandma put on a dark red lipstick with no other make up on, she looks amazing; in fact, she cannot go out of the house without her red lips. If I do the same, I look like a freaking clown and my dark circles pop like Madonna's music. Instead, I go for some mascara, maybe some subtle eyeshadows, and I'm done; for the lips, usually just a lip balm, or if I'm feeling more ✨adventurous✨, a gloss. I guess the contrast might be the reasoning behind that theory.
Same! I’ve always thought that too and I’m an “eyes” person. I’m darker than you, but still, I feel like a clown and lots of lip color really ages me. My daughter in the pic with me- doesn’t have on a dark lip here- but she can pull it off in spades. I look ridiculous lol 😂
Okay I am almost 60 yrs old been loving makeup since I was like 14 and thought I knew it all then I watch your video. I learned so much!! I am guessing your background as an artist helped your explanation - it was almost like I was back in art class in college but for my face not a canvas. Your detailed enthusiastic tutorial is so appreciated. It is late I am about to hit shower and bed but can not wait to do my makeup tomorrow with your tips!
I've darkened my hair over the last year or so (which just means: less and less bright highlights) and now i feel like I can "get away" with wearing no makeup at all way easier!
I just found your channel and you have solved an issue I’ve been having for the last 12 years in 10 mins. I used to have very dark natural hair and eyebrows with light/ medium neutral skin. About 12 years ago, I decided to start going lighter, like your sister I start putting light high lights in and kept getting lighter and lighter. I finally decided to see what my gray would look like on me. my gray is basically white around my face so it blends into my skin now. I have been fighting my make up for 12 years and now I know it’s because I went from high contrast to a low contrast and I’m still trying to do my make up as a high contrast and that’s why I feel my make up always looks overdone or just not complementary. Thank you, thank you for sharing your knowledge. You have become a new favorite TH-camr to watch. ❤
Loved this. I would love a demonstration / explanation of how undertones change colours of makeup. For example. Everything turns fluorescent pink on me. Why? You are the Artist With The Answers, clearly. I could ( and have) watched you “get into the weeds” for hours. Thank you! ☺️ ❤
I've learned so much from this channel over the years and this might be the most mind blowing thing. This explains why black eyeliner looks so harsh on me. I have pale brows and eyelashes, light green eyes and medium blonde with some gray streaks in my hair. I have fairly pigmented lips naturally so I always think I look better with a nude lip that softens that harshness! This explains a lot. Also, it's great to see Jackie get some props. I love to see genuine appreciation for other people's skills and not necessarily in a collab which usually has a ratings boosting reason.
I'm so glad this helped connect the dots for you! And god yes I've always loved Jackie. She has the FUNNIEST turn of phrase and is SO talented and smart. Also she's such a Leo. Big fire energy.
This was really helpful. Thank you so much for going into depth on this topic! Would it be possible to also do your sister's makeup so that we can see someone with more high contrast features??
love this!!! for us 50+ folks - as you age, your needs will likely change. I am neutral/warm, very fair, bright redhead with hazel eyes. I am probably mostly low contrast, but when I was younger I could get away with dramatic looks like a stong brow and no mascara, navy eyeliner or a bright orange lip (high contrast against fair skin and bright hair), but as I've gone more gray and my face has aged, these don't look as good. I still need a relatively strong brow and mascara, but if I do a strong lip it looks very costumey. It's like there's both a harshness (eg receding hairlines) and a softening (eyes and jawline) that's a part of aging, so a softer touch (for a lot of folks, not everyone) is more flattering. So interesting...
This really blew my mind. I could never figure out why really casual makeup looks I do go glam so quickly! Now I know it’s because I am low contrast naturally and need to pick colors closer to my skin tone when I want that effortless look. Thank you so much I am so excited to try this!!!!
It's so cool to hear another artist/painter using art terminolgy like edges, contrast, etc & demonstrating saturation & contrast in such a visual comparative way.
You’ve just answered the reason as to why all the make up I try to replicate from influencers doesn’t work for me. I’m pale, with white blonde eyebrows and eyelashes… I always say I have a blank face if I don’t colour my brows and lashes! I’ve now started using brown everything but always wondered why a red lip looked absolutely ridiculous! Well thanks for answering that… thank you 😊
Brilliant explanation! I am getting into my mid-fifties and what I am actually struggling with now is the fact that instead of my hair and eyebrows going gray, they are instead just fading from a dark brown to a more blah-mid tone brown - I am literally changing from a high-contrast complexion and look to a low contrast one and I am trying to figure out how to adjust my usual makeup looks. I was aware that this is what was happening but I didn’t realize that I can kinda get away with both types of looks the way you are showing it. I feel like I am going to have to watch this over a few times to really get the full picture. Thanks for talking about something that I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone else talk about on all the makeup channels!
I’ve always wondered why I need a punchy lip to look “right” WOW! It’s finally clicked!!! I love, love, love this video!!! Thank you so much for making this!!! It’s like a huge lightbulb moment for me!!!
I had my color analysis done a few months ago, and rather than treating it like a set of rules to follow, it really just taught me where on the Munsell Color System my natural color palette is. This video was a really practical demonstration about how to examine a makeup look on another person with a different natural color palette, and normalizing it to your color palette. I found out I'm typed as a Light Spring, also low contrast, and now I know if I want to achieve drama via contrast, I don't have to run as objectively as full a gamut of values (light-dark) or stick to as "pure" of colors as a Bright season (adding white to these pure colors will look more harmonious on me). That being said, "looking harmonious" does not *equate* to "looking good" because the former has a semblance of measurability and the latter allows for the flexibility of context and semantics and human expression and all of these other qualitative things.
The Fleetwood Mac tribute leading up to the nod to Ren & Stimpy just brought life back to my little millennial heart. There is still hope in this world.
So I wasn’t alone, huh? I think about 60% of what I love about Kackie’s Channel could be expressed by the fact that I’m a millennial creative of about the same age (turning 34 in a couple weeks) and the rest is just how much she appeals to the nerdy, social weirdo in me.
this was an EPIC demonstration and even better than i anticipated!!! i have high contrast features and it’s taken me literal ages to figure out exactly what you explained in this 35 minute video!!! ♥️♥️♥️
I’m also a painter and you did such an amazing job of explaining contrast from a skin and makeup POV! In case it helps anyone - your level of contrast can change over time. When I was younger my skin was considered very neutral, and my eyes were a darker brown and my hair and brows were darker, so I was a higher contrast. As an older woman, my skin is now warmer and my eye pigment faded to a hazel green. I lighten my hair to cover gray, and voila, I am now very low (warm) contrast. It took a while to realize my black wardrobe was washing me out and my makeup had to change!!!!
As a fellow low contrast girl, who also absolutely loves the ‘French girl’ look, my go to soft reds are Clinique Angel red (cool), Kosas Deep Talks (cool), Smashbox First time (warm coral red), YSL Nu inattendu (warm deep red), Chanel Bloom Kind and Chanel Brun Affirme (both are deep, warmer reds). Revlon Wine with Everything crème is also a good soft red. Bobbi Brown Crushed lipsticks are perfect for low contrast looks. It’s also not just about color, but finish as well- low contrast complexions don’t always look great with lots of shine or sparkle. Things like super glossy lips and overly shimmery highlights can look out of place on us very easily. Thanks for the awesome video!!
"Are the wings even? NO!! Are we leaving them? YESS!!" Love this and new subscriber, thank you. I always said that when i had bright red hair, i had to tone down my make-up, even red over brown it makes you look warm, so you have to account for that. Nobody would listen to me, but how you have broken it down is impeccable, so thank you. I never say impeccable to anybody. You can check my comments, but it's true here.
This is probably the best makeup video I’ve ever seen, or at least really high up there. I absolutely suck at analyzing my own complexion but you provided so many tools to play with to help me figure out how to adapt things to myself.
Just want to say that I so much appreciate that you are REAL! You aren't full of fillers and surgeries and you don't look fake like every other person on the Internet these days!
Hahahaha thank you I do have filler in my lips. Just for transparency. I had all my teeth crowned for both medical and cosmetic reasons and it made my lips disappear to have big teeth all of a sudden so I've been getting filler since then. But fortunately the results really stick around. I haven't had to get them done in about three years.
I love this explanation, I am in entertainment so when I’m getting ready for work I have to do high-contrast makeup so that it translates to the Jumbotron, but when I am living day-to-day I do low-contrast makeup because I have freckles that blend into my medium hair. The difference a brown vs black mascara can make is truly aura-altering!
More of these videos pllllllease!! Understanding the why behind looks is so so helpful and your art school training I think eeally helps you explain the nuance well!
I’ve been binging your videos and aside from the beauty content, which is phenomenal, you’re an extremely great communicator. I feel like you’re made for public speaking. This video is brilliant and so helpful. Does contrast also encompass the prominence of your features? For example, I’m Asian and have a flatter face (small eyes, non-prominent nose bridge, etc) so I assume I’m low contrast? The smallest amount of makeup looks so glam on me
A few years ago when colour analysis (clothes) was stumping me, I watched an Aly Art video that explained about contrast and my mind was blown! This video is having the same effect but for makeup, and art!
I love this! One of the most interesting tutorials I've seen in awhile! And so applicable as a higher contrast (dark hair, pale face, pink undertones) that is aging into lower contrast (grey-white hair, still pale and pinkish). Colors look different on me now
I've known about contrast for forever and never thought to consciously apply that knowledge to my makeup! There was this disconnect in my mind for some reason! I knew my looks easily turned too glam and looked like I was trying way too hard, but I had a hard time toning it down without looking too low-contrast and ghostly. Thank you so much for this video! Definitely subbed!
a few years ago, I was rocking light brown hair. After, I decided to stick to my natural, near-black hair. I noticed the makeup, which I've curated and labelled as "flattering on me", started looking not as good. I just had the realization now that it's the contrast. Dang. Amazing video! Thank you!
Thank you. Lovely demonstration! I used to take whatever lipstick was too high/low contrast, the wrong color and put it on the appropriate part of my lips for the shade it was then blend it with another lipstick or two for shade or highlight needed in the other parts. AND/OR set it with an eyeshadow or so that is the right color and maybe he same as I am using on my eyes at the moment. That's fun to do, too. Custom makeup without custom makeup pricing.
Fantastic 👏🏼 you have taught me SO MUCH about color theory, low/high contrast, makeup art math, and many other things and I can wholeheartedly say that it has taken my enjoyment of makeup to the next level (and I already loved it!) and given me so much more confidence in applying makeup to MY face. You're the bestest, keep it coming! ❤🙏🏼
The addition of the "Log" song was epic.🥰 So, in an attempt to give my medium blonde hair a slight red tint, accidentally dyed it a terracotta red. I went from low contrast to high overnight, and had to completely change my makeup. My usual makeup was invisible. Twas quite the adventure!
Great demonstration! It also serves as an illustration of the effect that high versus low contrast can have as a woman ages. Generally, I'd say low contrast suits more older women more often, whether they are or used to be high contrast. Age has a way of gentling down one's face and lower contrast looks more refined. That said, a light touch with high contrast makeup can definitely suit older women on some occasions!
Yes, yes, yes, yes, YES!!! For me, personally, any & every lip color looks more flattering on me when I add a hint of Revlon’s Just Bitten Kissable Balm Stain in Sweetheart to the inside of my lips, and a touch on the center of my bottom lip. It’s the perfect contrast, for me. 👌🏼 The balancing act!
IT FINALLY MAKES SENSE!! I am a very typical French girl and I am so damn high contrast 😂 pale with very dark brown hair, no wonder why the red lip is the thing that works best on me! Funny enough, I always felt the need to add nude or pink with my a dark brown eye look and I could never explain why - but how you approach it makes total sense now as to why I was doing it! And finally - the hair story is so real - back when I dried my hair super blond I had to change my wardrobe colours, and the red or pink lip looked completely different, I had to use different shades. Thank you for sharing your knowledge ❤
Thank you so much for explaining this and showing that YOU CAN HAVE BROWN HAIR, EYEBROWS AND EYES and STILL BE A LOW CONTRAST COMPLEXION! I’ve always struggled with this; having darker hair and wondering why higher contrast makeup looks way “too much” on me. I lost my hair (alopecia) a couple years ago and whenever I put a brunette wig on (especially the darker ones), I feel the need to darken my brows cause they just disappear. Any contrast seems so glam on me. I find myself gravitating toward dusty colored lips always. This info is so helpful, it will influence the way I think about makeup and choose products to help fit my desired look.
thank you for this super comprehensive and scientific perspective!!! i've always known i need high contrast because the contrast in my complexion is quite extreme like your sisters-- i'm also a light olive, and with my natural hair i can pull off black lipstick with no other makeup LOL. But, I either wear a high contrast look or no makeup at all because lighter colors and lower contrast things look worse than not wearing makeup. I think the skills you showed are so amazing, and I am excited to apply some of these techniques to see if I can figure out a way to do a lighter lip-- I've always wanted to do a violet/lavender lip and I can never figure it out!
I think I finally understand why I do my makeup differently and pick different colours in the winter when I’m paler than the snow outside versus the summertime when I get tanned
Brilliant! Truly, I recently read an article that said if you haven't changed up ur makeup game in the last 5 yrs, you prolly are making yourself look older than you are. It floored me & I've been catching up on techniques since. This was a great tutorial, I love that it applies fundamental art theory to face "painting'. Can't wait to see more of your content!
I was intrigued by the title of this video and I admit I thought it would be clickbait but it's not:) This is a great explanation on contrast and understanding contrast in make up choices. I'd love to see more videos on the concept either further explaining it or reiterating the basics explained here.
This is so helpful!!! I always felt so discouraged when I would try a bold red and felt so silly wearing it, and now I understand why. I wonder if this is why I always like more sheer lipsticks on me more than high coverage formulas
I’ve noticed this a lot with opacity. My sister and I have pretty much the same shade of skin, but hers is much more opaque than mine. Like whole milk vs skim milk. Her skin is a gorgeous creamy pink and mine is more of a translucent blue 😂 She can get away with higher coverage and much brighter colors than I can!
If I put on a red lip, I think I look amazing. I put on a nude lip, and my lips disappear. So I try to do natural makeup and I look like a sick Victorian child. So thank you for this video, I thought I was doing something wrong
A sick Victorian child 🤣
Im absolutely the opposite. If i put on too much makeup i instantly look like a dated Pamela Anderson, in the worst way possible. Its just too much contrast. I look much better with a beachy, beigy, nude type of look.
Same with me, I work really hard at creating these natural looks, walk out the door and look like a chalk faced sick kid. Now I finally understand why!
I thought I was doing somthing wrong as well. Nude lip looks ridiculous On mr. Cool red looks amazing. Facinating lol
I look like a sick Victorian child, but that's just my face.
Painters are the most amazing and talented makeup artists because they really have an understanding of things like THIS, that most of us do not. Appreciate this video more than you know. I’d love to see this in a series, where you pull your artistry talent into applying it to makeup.
I KNEW she had to be a painter!!! I'm a painter, and contrast is everything.
Just practice u can be amazing too I promise
I quite agree! I would be lovely to learn bore about the main principles, and not always have to "trial and error" again and again to stumble onto something that works, but you don't really know why, and how to utilise it in other areas. A helpful shortcut.
Yes! More videos on contrast ❤ ty
Two more fine artists turned either Makeup TH-camrs or professional MUAs: Alexandra Anele, and Hindash! Both great at demonstrating this stuff.
That feeling when you click on a video by a creator you've never seen before because they have a very alternative vibe and you think they're going to be super down to Earth, but then they pull out the Prada concealer. LOL. Really enjoyed your take on makeup! I don't think I've ever seen anyone take an artistic approach to makeup--which is crazy because makeup is such an artistic thing!
THIS 💯
Dumbest makeup video I’ve seen!
if you like an artistic approach to makeup, you might also want to check out Alexandra Anele, who also was a painter who now applies her skills to makeup!
Lisa Eldridge is also very art-oriented when she talks about out makeup.
You’d probably like Alexandra Anele (something like that) as well then
If I could give this 1000 thumbs up I would! This is the 30 minute explanation for what took me over a year to figure out on my own - namely, I'm low contrast (right now it's super obvious but I was MYSTIFIED) and can't wear high contrast without looking super, duper made up and glam. Love it, need it, want more!
Well stated! Thank you
Agree. I’ve never seen someone do a video talking and teaching about this and when you understand it, it helps tremendously. This woman is definitely a girls girl. She gets it! Lol💕
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Same!! I'm very pale (too pale for most foundations aimed at Western markets until recently), level 10 blonde hair, very light blue eyes. I only truly figured it out when I decided to dye by hair and brows to a dark brown and noticed the black eyelash extensions that always looked clownish on me before looked "normal" while the brown ones I used to get totally disappeared. And then it clicked. But this video was still so helpful with showing how to adjust the midtones and gradients. I've been to makeup artists who don't understand this as well as this video does! 🙀
Amen! Well said. 1000 stars - gals/people that wear makeup need this info!❤❤❤
WHY HAS THIS CHANGED MY LIFE! I've never been able to pull off red lipstick but I just mixed two together (a darkish nude and a tiny bit of red in the center) and I'm sitting here in my pajamas looking cool af
That's awesome!
Different types of red lipstick 💄 it's about finding the right shade..a blue red suits most . You also have to consider your skin undertones. Your foundation being your base. If it is wrong your lip colors are wrong
This is one of those concepts that's so intuitive that you can leverage it accidentally, but it needs to be explained in depth before you can leverage it purposefully.
For myself, I'm thinking of my "everyday" glasses with their dark, bold rim balancing out the low contrast of my bleached hair and tan skin. With my natural black hair, i automatically revert to subtler clear glasses, to balance the high contrast of my hair and skin.
It’s funny because I used to wear black frames as a dark brunette/very fair neutral skin tone girl. Now as a balayaged blonde fair skinned girl, I wear a lot of gold rims and get compliments all the time. I never really considered why it looked better. It just did.
Tan skin/light hair = would be in high contrast to one another.
Tan skin/Dark Hair would be lower contrast to one another.
Frames really do have such an effect on contrast and makeup choices! Dark hair, fair skin, high contrast. Black frames and I can only wear cooler tones and low contrast lips. Bright tortoiseshell frames and it has to be almost bare skin and a bold rusty warm lip.
@@BeautyAndHerBeasts
Not really, it depends how dark her hair originally was and how light she has bleached it and how tan her skin is, tan skin and medium-dark blonde adjacents like honey blonde would usually have very low contrast. It won't become high contrast until your hair is nearing very very blonde/white (and even then won't be as high contrast as a deep skin tone with the same hair or a pale girl with black hair). Like zendaya in the challengers red carpet she has much lower contrast. Dark hair also comes in loads of shades and there are people with black or black adjacent hair who have tan skin but are definitely high contrast, like zendaya with jet black hair. And contrast also goes higher when there one part is cool and the other is warm. I have fair skin and dark hair but I am olive/ ashen both in hair and skin so I have lower contrast than my friend with very similar depth but very "clear" contrasty colours, warm skin and cool hair. So in general it's better not to give blanket statements.
I think part of the reason this has never clicked for me is that I'm pretty neutral contrast- naturally medium blonde hair, dark green eyes, but very pale pale lips. My brow girl always asks if I want to go "bold (cooler and darker)" or "subtle (redder and lighter)" and I shift back and forth based on how blonde I am at the time, I've never understood why! These videos are amazing.
Bobbi Brown has long advocated this "double blush" technique that "fills in the distance." Whatever is "nude" on you, your-cheeks-but-better tone, then a pop of a brighter shade on top as an accent. Thanks for this detailed exploration; contrast explains why I look "formal" really easily with very little actual products if the contrast is too marked. That Beckham Cinnamon Kajal is perfection itself, isn't it?
I never knew she did that but it's how I wear any more pronounced blusher shade if I don't want to blend for 3 hours lol. Good to know
Oh, that's a very interesting idea. I'll have to try it!
Oh thank you! That helps!
That’s really interesting. After reading it it felt obvious because that’s what we do with eyeshadow, but it wasn’t obvious at all 😅
Bobbie Brown est une artiste française de formation.
Pour moi, elle est minimaliste et ses produits mettent l’accent sur un bel aspect naturel, en mettant l’accent sur une seule couleur.
Elle a maintenant près de soixante-dix ans et continue d'innover.
je vais chercher si Kackie a discuté de Miracle Balm. Les gens semblent aimer ou détester ce produit.
je l'adore, comme j'aime la plupart des produits Bobbie Brown.
When I got serious about sun protection, my hair darkened and my skin got paler. I couldn't figure out why my dusty rose and mauve makeup started looking muddy and unnatural. When I finally tried on bright lipstick, I was joking around, and was so surprised that it worked!
Omg this is such an exciting revelation!!
I use different lipstick in summer when my skin is darker, for sure 😊 Purplish lipsticks don't go well with my tan. I also don't darken my eyebrows cause I love the low contrast summer look, and I wear more summer palette pastel clothes, they look nice with my tan. In winter my skin looks a bit sickly and it's harder to find colors that look good on me, I'm still not sure 😅 but I do more contrast
This happened in my early thirties when my lupus was at its worst. I had to relearn how to do my makeup and started using better skin care and now at 40 I’m so glad I did because I get told daily how my skin looks “so young.”
Omgosh, the lipstick turning "red" on you was WILD! I doubted my eyes for a few seconds 😂 Beautiful demonstration
Thank you!!
It was wild! I turn not only peachy pinks but neutral pinks into orange colors with my lightish skin and very yellow undertone, but that mauve turning red was indeed wild, and beautiful!
I had to blink and rewatch that a few times because it tripped me out. Painters know their color theory to the max!!!!!
Omg that happens to me, I look like a thunderbird , like they're not my lips never heard anyone else mention that happens to them ..can't wait to watch now 👍
on olive skin tones, everything softer, mauve or even nude lipstick will look brighter, like a magenta or true red, even if the colors were not bright in the first place.
As a high contrast person, I’ve found “natural” or “no makeup” makeup looks worse on me than no makeup at all. But I can slap on a bold lip like I was born that way. Once I figured out the high contrast thing, I gave up buying neutral makeup. Haha
I wear mascara, blush and Ruby woo and I'm good to go. I have dark brown nearly black hair, lashes and brows and pale cool toned skin and neutral colours look awful on me. Nude lipstick makes me look like I have none 😂
Same! Neutral makeup makes me look like a corpse! I love her layering of the blush idea- I have trouble finding blush that works well.
I’m the exact opposite!! I’ve always wanted to wear a bold lip or cat eye liner but I always look like a clown. The only makeup that works on me is no makeup makeup
I had my colors and fashion type done by a professional, and believe you would be what is called a 'Dramatic Contrast' type (I have 0%of that!) and the advice for folks with a significant DC component is that they will always look better with some high-contrast makeup on. That without makeup they will look unfinished and not their best. Figuring out personal makeup colors/style really is an individual thing, right? 🙂
@@EH23831 ..same here. 100% agree.
As a 60-year-old woman with absolutely no contrast… I cannot thank you enough for this tutorial. It’s really pulled things together for me. I am extremely fair and wear the same foundations shades that you do yet my hair is completely buzzed cut and platinum. This has really helped me thank you thank you thank you.
The hair sounds awesome. I'm 54 and a med blonde but my hair is starting to gray. I definitely want to go short and platinum or silver soon!
I'm 56 and was born strawberry blonde. I stopped coloring my hair about 2 years ago and was shocked to find out my hair had naturally turned completely platinum blonde with NO gray streaks. Since then I've really been struggling with makeup!
Do you watch Alexandra Anele? Your description of your hair made me think you might like her.
@@serendipity1237I’ll check it out.. thanks
Hello there fellow pale-skinned platinum-hair buzz-cut GenXer 😁!
This was fantastic, and I was so glad to see you follow the line of your cupid's bow. I'm so tired of makeup influencers drawing a straight line right across the top in an effort to get bigger lips!
Hahaha I've tried it before and it looks silly on me!
Right?! Natural Cupid's Bows are very pretty! I like mine and even though my lips aren't the fullest, I feel like its more natural, effortless, and elegant to follow it.
I’m high contrast and my daily makeup look is brows, blush, and red lipstick. I’ve always really struggled with literally any eyeshadow not looking clownish on me. This really helped me understand shades that may contrast well! So helpful!
So happy to help!
Same! Eyeshadow always looks extra on me in not a flattering way.
This is the first time I see your content and this is the first time I've actually understood so many things about makeup. It makes sense that a painter can explain actual theory, which to me makes more sense than all those "season" videos and makeup tutorials.
This was the first makeup video that I watched (and I’ve watched thousands) where I was enthralled from start to finish. I can’t even explain how much i appreciate this video!
Omg THANK YOU
You're humble too :) & a great natural teacher
OMG. SAME.
The definition of contrast: "your skin tone vs the rest of your features; hair color, brow color, eyelash color, lip color, etc." will help me tremendously! SUPERB CONTENT! Now I can play with more confidence and curiosity. I'm a natural warm redhead (with clear brows and light lashes, dark blue green eyes). At 70, my hair has faded closer to my skin tone and I couldn't figure out why my makeup application has gotten so hit or miss - the fine line between bringing fresh color to the face, but not looking harsh (or glam) in daytime. Thanks for being so concise, bright and making this fun to do.
‘’JUST a painter.” 😂C’mon, gurl. Understatement of the decade!🌸🐝
Do you ever share your paintings on social media? I'd love to see your work!
@@lindsaybeyerstein7096 she is filming in front of one of her "paintings"
@@AhriFoxling quotation marks??
DUDE I was dark haired for 10+ years and could get away with liquid black winged eyeliner, day time smokey eye, etc. I went back to my natural strawberrish blonde hair and my typical make up DID NOT WORK ANYMORE. At all. I looked so "done up". Eyeliner had to go 2 shades lighter, brows too, eyeshadows became a whole different ball game. It was crazy frustrating! Fantastic video, thank you Kacks MaLacks!
The same i am experiencing right now and i have to say am very sorry about it. With dark hair, i did so many fun eye looks and now only the neutral looks are looking good.
Brown mascara
Light Brown line
(Occasionally burgundy
mascara over brown at night
Eye makeup hugely toned down
Natural with med taupe
in the crease; Ivory highlight
- it's easy🙏💜🏴💜🇮🇪💜🇬🇧💜
@@BangtanBangtanBusan yeah i know but thats not a fun creative look in my eyes, it's kinda boring
@@greezly25THIS!!! Neutrals look better on me but I vastly prefer a vampy or edgy look 😭😭😭
Another important dimension here is saturation. I'm high contrast (naturally black hair, pale nearly-white skin with a desaturated cool blue-pink undertone) and low saturation. Even a blush like Nars Sex Appeal can and does look clownish on me because even though it's pale, it's at maximum saturation for its white value. The darkest blush in your look here would probably look less clownish on me because it has enough gray/black in it to match my extreme desaturation better. It would be the same with Velvet Ribbon as a lip color. It would look *good* on me because of my high contrast, but it would never look casual and effortless. I'd look like a femme fatale at best and a sexy mime at worst! A color like Chai would probably also be my best bet for French girl look, though it might be deep enough against my skin that it would actually look vampy/goth rather than casual and Cinnamon Red is probably too saturated/warm! There are always so many dimensions of art math to consider when trying to replicate a look; it gets a bit dizzying.
I keep reading this comment back, this is so interesting to me!
Girl yes I just commented about my high contrast low saturation situationship as well 😂 luckily I love looking vampy so I play into that!! And avoid anything that could possibly go too bright or orange on me, which is basically everything…. I buy all the grey purple browns and grey greens lol and black mascara forever
Yes! This is me too - high contrast but I need that hint of a gray undertone to make it work. I think that’s because my very pale olive undertone actually presents as a little gray? 🤷🏻♀️ But everything you mentioned: yes.
OMG saturation next!
Love! Video 2: saturation! Video 3: contrast and saturation!
I'm a painter, and I like makeup but your red lip video changed everything for me! Mind blown! I've only ever been confident with eyeshadow, where I think I was painting subconsciously. I've never been able to choose a lip colour and I'm so excited to put together a look!
These are masterclass level videos!
This is honestly one of the most useful makeup videos I've ever watched! Just the principles behind it make so much sense. Also that certain colors or types of look aren't inaccessible, but you just have to be strategic to tailor it to your own coloring: mind blowing 🤯
I'm very high contrast (pale skin and dark hair) and cool toned. I remember trying to do the Latte Girl trend and just looking very orange and overdone because that caramel brown is not at home on my skin at all. It took me years to figure out bronzer because I didn't realize that it needed to be either more grey or more rosey to work on me.
I'm so glad you left this comment! It's so helpful to understand the challenges of every skin tone.
I totally relate to the bronzer thing!! I just never wear it unless I want to contour with some greige
I’m still lost but I’m sleep deprived whilst watching.
Yaaaaas!! I’m a watercolour and pastel artist and the same concepts apply to visual arts and makeup art. It’s colour and value math - I appreciate so much the way you use colour language to help people understand not only what’s working and not but WHY and how to manipulate things based on theory. ❤❤❤
This was genuinely one of the most educational and informative makeup videos I've ever watched, while still being loads of fun! I feel like you can show subscribers how to do a look all day long but teaching them the "art math" as you said, gives them so much more than just that one look.
I don't know what prompted the algorithm to finally send one of your videos my way but your knowledge of blending color and its manipulation just earned you a new subscriber! ❤
Well thank you!!!
Same, girl. Same!!
Same!
Great demo! As a makeup artist, I have changed lives with this concept. It only gets more interesting as we get older and we “need” more colour. Add some grey hair and we have a whole new equation ♥️
This is why I have so much doubts about enrolling in makeup classes and academies….
You’re out here giving MASTERCLASSES FOR FREE
this is the tutorial of my dreams. Saw you do the “red lipstick for your skin tone” vid and you’re SUCH A GREAT TEACHER this is EXACTLY the makeup / beauty videos i have been waiting for all my life 😩😩😩
Such a good explaination. As a portrait painter this is intuitive for me . I’ve been ‘teaching people this about makeup for years. It’s the main problem I see with not adjusting your makeup as you age, I’m talking over a decade or more, your ‘ contrast gets closer’ as you age . You have to adjust .
Yes, I'm a little sad about losing my high contrast now that I'm letting my S&P hair go natural these last couple of years. I'm slowly culling my red lipsticks and will keep just a couple for formal events.
@@carolmelancon or change the formula of the red lipsticks to a stain, good balm or semi sheer lip. Might be a nice ‘softer’ option :)
This explains SO MUCH. I have figured out through trial and error that I look best in mid-tone/moderate contrast colors because I am basically the color of Cream of Wheat from my hair to my neck, with the exception of my eyes, which are a bright aqua shade. This is also made more complicated in that I naturally have both warm & cool tones in my complexion. Even slightly too high contrast, and I go clownish immediately. And if I swing too low, I am super washed out & look dull. I can pull off a little more contrast on my eyes, but not much. I had always thought I was just playing things too safe or staying in my comfort zone, but maybe I was, intuitively, staying in the range that was truly best for me. I love that your brain works this way & would love to see more color contrast videos for different looks.
I have a naturally high contrast complexion, much like your sister. However, I have been going gray and just letting it happen. This has decreased my contrast some and it has been a struggle to work out what shades now look best with the way I wear makeup. Thanks for explaining "bridging the gap" some in this video. Very helpful.
Also, as an aside, my first profession was as a color chemist. So, I really dig when you get in the weeds with color theory.
Okay. Lady. Official, real, lady (I am faux female).
I have so many things to say.
1) your background is SO Adhd friendly. THANK YOU.
2) I'm autistic and genuinely DON'T understand makeup. I'm trying. I really am. You got it to get through to me.
This was sooooo helpful to me and clearly demonstrated why high contrast is such a struggle for me, especially as I get older. Now I understand why just the barest lipstick looks like a nice pink or red on my low contrast face, while strong colors strongly applied make me look like a clown! Thank you so much!!
I really love videos like this from you that bring not only the knowledge and art tools to make decisions about how we want to look but also give a Kackie-centered perspective on how YOU interpret a trend or makeup need.
Gosh thank you SO much this means the world to me!!
I did my makeup for an event yesterday and binge watching kackie came in clutch because i was like hmm i wonder why my makeup looks weird and then realised my foundation was a bit cool toned and so was my eyeshadow but my blush was PEACH and changing it helped so much ! Thank you for being so entertaining and educational
omg that I have this impact is...so fulfilling thank you
@@kackie 🥰🥰💖 ofc!
At first I thought this was going right over my head but by the end? I think I have a good grasp of your point. I’m 53 years old and I really love makeup. My problem is that I don’t really know what my canvas really is. I live very far from Ulta and Sephora so I order online. Other than the “what color are your veins” bullshit. So I don’t wear concealer or foundation because they make me look older! Any suggestions on how to figure out my skin tone? Thanks!
There are a few ways to determine your skin tone, including:
Vein color
In natural light, look at the color of your veins on your inner wrist:
Cool skin tone: Veins appear blue or purple
Warm skin tone: Veins appear green or greenish blue
Neutral skin tone: Veins are hard to tell if they're green or blue
Sun exposure
Consider how your skin reacts to the sun:
Fair skin tone: Burns easily and doesn't tan
Light skin tone: Burns and tans a little
Medium skin tone: Tans easily but rarely burns
Dark skin tone: Never burns but tans with prolonged exposure
Jewelry test
Hold a necklace or bracelet against your skin and see which metal makes your skin look healthier:
White tee test
Wear a plain white T-shirt or dress and look at your face in neutral lighting:
Eye color
Consider the warm or cool tones in your eye color
Amazing video! It explains a lot. Years ago I bought lipstain in dark plum color, that had terrible reviews, people were saying it was too dark. It was cheap and I liked the color in the tube, but OMG on my lips and my face it looked so natural so effortless. My favorite makeup ever. It brightened my whole complexion, my eyes looked so alive and prominent, and you could´t even see the lipstain , my dark circles disappeared, skintone looked even, magical color, sadly it was LE. Bought many dupes, but nothing came close.
Omg I just remembered I had the same with a lipstick I wore in college! It was discontinued and I missed it for years after
Kackie, this is SO HELPFUL! I have never understood why paler lipsticks didn’t look good on me. The palest I can go where I still look good is Charlotte Tilbury’s candy chic, and I’m a similar skin tone to you. I thought it was maybe because pale lipsticks can sway too orange, but I recently tried a cool toned one and still hated it. I am high contrast! I wouldn’t have thought so because I’m pale and my hair isn’t that dark, but I only really look good in darker lip colours, and lighter eyeliners and eyeshadows just disappear on me. This is fabulous and so helpful!
Girl yes 🙌🏼 it took me absolutely forever to figure out why as a pale girl I look best in shades like pillow talk medium instead of light. Here we go!
Yes, fair skinned here, but possibly higher contrast than I realised.
I remember when Delta Burke bleached her black hair to platinum blonde. Her makeup suddenly looked overdone and clownish, because it was bold and bright to match her dark hair. It didn't work against the lighter hair. What you are saying makes perfect sense!! This is why hot pink dark or vivid red or purple lipsticks look ghastly on me!!
Talk about a stunning woman. Deltas skin is porcelain. I know what you speak of re: her blond.
This has blown my mind!
I have always wondered why some girls look so beautiful with such simple makeup, whereas I have to add a lot of depth to really feel like I look special.
I even thought maybe those girls are prettier and need less but this explanation is perfect. Im just higher contrast and have very dark hair, eyes, brows, and lips.
Thank you so much for this!!!!!
I've always had this theory that some people are "eyes people" and some are "lips people". If my grandma put on a dark red lipstick with no other make up on, she looks amazing; in fact, she cannot go out of the house without her red lips. If I do the same, I look like a freaking clown and my dark circles pop like Madonna's music. Instead, I go for some mascara, maybe some subtle eyeshadows, and I'm done; for the lips, usually just a lip balm, or if I'm feeling more ✨adventurous✨, a gloss. I guess the contrast might be the reasoning behind that theory.
Same! I’ve always thought that too and I’m an “eyes” person. I’m darker than you, but still, I feel like a clown and lots of lip color really ages me.
My daughter in the pic with me- doesn’t have on a dark lip here- but she can pull it off in spades. I look ridiculous lol 😂
I watched this while having morning coffee and I think I need to watch again when I am more awake! What a great video. Thank you!
Your videos are so entertaining, but more than that, they are educational and so smart.
Okay I am almost 60 yrs old been loving makeup since I was like 14 and thought I knew it all then I watch your video. I learned so much!! I am guessing your background as an artist helped your explanation - it was almost like I was back in art class in college but for my face not a canvas. Your detailed enthusiastic tutorial is so appreciated. It is late I am about to hit shower and bed but can not wait to do my makeup tomorrow with your tips!
I've darkened my hair over the last year or so (which just means: less and less bright highlights) and now i feel like I can "get away" with wearing no makeup at all way easier!
I just found your channel and you have solved an issue I’ve been having for the last 12 years in 10 mins. I used to have very dark natural hair and eyebrows with light/ medium neutral skin. About 12 years ago, I decided to start going lighter, like your sister I start putting light high lights in and kept getting lighter and lighter. I finally decided to see what my gray would look like on me. my gray is basically white around my face so it blends into my skin now. I have been fighting my make up for 12 years and now I know it’s because I went from high contrast to a low contrast and I’m still trying to do my make up as a high contrast and that’s why I feel my make up always looks overdone or just not complementary. Thank you, thank you for sharing your knowledge. You have become a new favorite TH-camr to watch. ❤
Loved this. I would love a demonstration / explanation of how undertones change colours of makeup. For example. Everything turns fluorescent pink on me. Why? You are the Artist With The Answers, clearly. I could ( and have) watched you “get into the weeds” for hours. Thank you! ☺️ ❤
Do you have a green/olive undertone? :) pink against green really pops!
I've learned so much from this channel over the years and this might be the most mind blowing thing. This explains why black eyeliner looks so harsh on me. I have pale brows and eyelashes, light green eyes and medium blonde with some gray streaks in my hair. I have fairly pigmented lips naturally so I always think I look better with a nude lip that softens that harshness! This explains a lot. Also, it's great to see Jackie get some props. I love to see genuine appreciation for other people's skills and not necessarily in a collab which usually has a ratings boosting reason.
I'm so glad this helped connect the dots for you! And god yes I've always loved Jackie. She has the FUNNIEST turn of phrase and is SO talented and smart. Also she's such a Leo. Big fire energy.
This was really helpful. Thank you so much for going into depth on this topic! Would it be possible to also do your sister's makeup so that we can see someone with more high contrast features??
This is so helpful, and explains so much of why I can sometimes wear something, but other times it makes me look incredibly washed out. 💚
This is so valuable for my brain that needs visual side by side. Thank you, Kackie! 🙌
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love this!!! for us 50+ folks - as you age, your needs will likely change. I am neutral/warm, very fair, bright redhead with hazel eyes. I am probably mostly low contrast, but when I was younger I could get away with dramatic looks like a stong brow and no mascara, navy eyeliner or a bright orange lip (high contrast against fair skin and bright hair), but as I've gone more gray and my face has aged, these don't look as good. I still need a relatively strong brow and mascara, but if I do a strong lip it looks very costumey. It's like there's both a harshness (eg receding hairlines) and a softening (eyes and jawline) that's a part of aging, so a softer touch (for a lot of folks, not everyone) is more flattering. So interesting...
In my late 30s I’m already having to adjust the level of contrast I choose for makeup!
Same here. Did you try Charlotte Tilbury pillow talk eyeshadow and lip combined with a standout color eyeliner on the waterlines? Works for me.
Redheads are stunning! Lucky you.😊
So not a fan of the receding hairline situation. I thank God I was born with a bunch of big hair so I still have some left up there.😊
This really blew my mind. I could never figure out why really casual makeup looks I do go glam so quickly! Now I know it’s because I am low contrast naturally and need to pick colors closer to my skin tone when I want that effortless look. Thank you so much I am so excited to try this!!!!
Thanks for this! This summary helped me soooo much. I was getting lost.
Girl, please do more of this!! I’m so nerding out because I looove this stuff.
It's so cool to hear another artist/painter using art terminolgy like edges, contrast, etc & demonstrating saturation & contrast in such a visual comparative way.
Contrast is everything. In more than makeup. I'm obsessed
It’s what makes the Pixies so great! quiet LOUD quiet. Sunshine/rain etc❤
You’ve just answered the reason as to why all the make up I try to replicate from influencers doesn’t work for me. I’m pale, with white blonde eyebrows and eyelashes… I always say I have a blank face if I don’t colour my brows and lashes! I’ve now started using brown everything but always wondered why a red lip looked absolutely ridiculous! Well thanks for answering that… thank you 😊
Brilliant explanation! I am getting into my mid-fifties and what I am actually struggling with now is the fact that instead of my hair and eyebrows going gray, they are instead just fading from a dark brown to a more blah-mid tone brown - I am literally changing from a high-contrast complexion and look to a low contrast one and I am trying to figure out how to adjust my usual makeup looks. I was aware that this is what was happening but I didn’t realize that I can kinda get away with both types of looks the way you are showing it. I feel like I am going to have to watch this over a few times to really get the full picture. Thanks for talking about something that I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone else talk about on all the makeup channels!
I’ve always wondered why I need a punchy lip to look “right” WOW! It’s finally clicked!!!
I love, love, love this video!!! Thank you so much for making this!!! It’s like a huge lightbulb moment for me!!!
I had my color analysis done a few months ago, and rather than treating it like a set of rules to follow, it really just taught me where on the Munsell Color System my natural color palette is. This video was a really practical demonstration about how to examine a makeup look on another person with a different natural color palette, and normalizing it to your color palette. I found out I'm typed as a Light Spring, also low contrast, and now I know if I want to achieve drama via contrast, I don't have to run as objectively as full a gamut of values (light-dark) or stick to as "pure" of colors as a Bright season (adding white to these pure colors will look more harmonious on me). That being said, "looking harmonious" does not *equate* to "looking good" because the former has a semblance of measurability and the latter allows for the flexibility of context and semantics and human expression and all of these other qualitative things.
The Fleetwood Mac tribute leading up to the nod to Ren & Stimpy just brought life back to my little millennial heart. There is still hope in this world.
Came here to say the same thing ❤❤❤
So I wasn’t alone, huh?
I think about 60% of what I love about Kackie’s Channel could be expressed by the fact that I’m a millennial creative of about the same age (turning 34 in a couple weeks) and the rest is just how much she appeals to the nerdy, social weirdo in me.
Apparently, the lyrics to the log jingle have been taking up space in my brain for 30 years…I sang along lol
Same, same!! 🪵💜
this was an EPIC demonstration and even better than i anticipated!!! i have high contrast features and it’s taken me literal ages to figure out exactly what you explained in this 35 minute video!!! ♥️♥️♥️
I’m also a painter and you did such an amazing job of explaining contrast from a skin and makeup POV! In case it helps anyone - your level of contrast can change over time. When I was younger my skin was considered very neutral, and my eyes were a darker brown and my hair and brows were darker, so I was a higher contrast. As an older woman, my skin is now warmer and my eye pigment faded to a hazel green. I lighten my hair to cover gray, and voila, I am now very low (warm) contrast. It took a while to realize my black wardrobe was washing me out and my makeup had to change!!!!
This may be one of my favorite art math sessions ever!!!
As a fellow low contrast girl, who also absolutely loves the ‘French girl’ look, my go to soft reds are Clinique Angel red (cool), Kosas Deep Talks (cool), Smashbox First time (warm coral red), YSL Nu inattendu (warm deep red), Chanel Bloom Kind and Chanel Brun Affirme (both are deep, warmer reds). Revlon Wine with Everything crème is also a good soft red. Bobbi Brown Crushed lipsticks are perfect for low contrast looks. It’s also not just about color, but finish as well- low contrast complexions don’t always look great with lots of shine or sparkle. Things like super glossy lips and overly shimmery highlights can look out of place on us very easily. Thanks for the awesome video!!
That is an excellent point
I loved this! So helpful to see side by side. You’re right- the high contrast side doesn’t even look “bad” it just looks very effort full lol
"Are the wings even? NO!!
Are we leaving them? YESS!!"
Love this and new subscriber, thank you.
I always said that when i had bright red hair, i had to tone down my make-up, even red over brown it makes you look warm, so you have to account for that.
Nobody would listen to me, but how you have broken it down is impeccable, so thank you.
I never say impeccable to anybody. You can check my comments, but it's true here.
Words can’t explain how much I needed this today
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This is probably the best makeup video I’ve ever seen, or at least really high up there. I absolutely suck at analyzing my own complexion but you provided so many tools to play with to help me figure out how to adapt things to myself.
Just want to say that I so much appreciate that you are REAL! You aren't full of fillers and surgeries and you don't look fake like every other person on the Internet these days!
Hahahaha thank you I do have filler in my lips. Just for transparency. I had all my teeth crowned for both medical and cosmetic reasons and it made my lips disappear to have big teeth all of a sudden so I've been getting filler since then. But fortunately the results really stick around. I haven't had to get them done in about three years.
I love this explanation, I am in entertainment so when I’m getting ready for work I have to do high-contrast makeup so that it translates to the Jumbotron, but when I am living day-to-day I do low-contrast makeup because I have freckles that blend into my medium hair. The difference a brown vs black mascara can make is truly aura-altering!
videos like this reminding me why i was drawn to yours and Hannah's channel ❤
More of these videos pllllllease!! Understanding the why behind looks is so so helpful and your art school training I think eeally helps you explain the nuance well!
This has been hands down the most interesting makeup “tutorial” I’ve seen in a very long time. Thank you!
I’ve been binging your videos and aside from the beauty content, which is phenomenal, you’re an extremely great communicator. I feel like you’re made for public speaking.
This video is brilliant and so helpful. Does contrast also encompass the prominence of your features? For example, I’m Asian and have a flatter face (small eyes, non-prominent nose bridge, etc) so I assume I’m low contrast? The smallest amount of makeup looks so glam on me
A few years ago when colour analysis (clothes) was stumping me, I watched an Aly Art video that explained about contrast and my mind was blown! This video is having the same effect but for makeup, and art!
I love this! One of the most interesting tutorials I've seen in awhile! And so applicable as a higher contrast (dark hair, pale face, pink undertones) that is aging into lower contrast (grey-white hair, still pale and pinkish). Colors look different on me now
I've known about contrast for forever and never thought to consciously apply that knowledge to my makeup! There was this disconnect in my mind for some reason! I knew my looks easily turned too glam and looked like I was trying way too hard, but I had a hard time toning it down without looking too low-contrast and ghostly. Thank you so much for this video! Definitely subbed!
You're so right about the two lipsticks side by side, that's wild! Thanks for the tutorial on high and low contrast, I had never thought of this angle
a few years ago, I was rocking light brown hair. After, I decided to stick to my natural, near-black hair. I noticed the makeup, which I've curated and labelled as "flattering on me", started looking not as good. I just had the realization now that it's the contrast. Dang. Amazing video! Thank you!
That 'brown' lip turning red was CRAZY! Such a great video. ❤
Thank you. Lovely demonstration!
I used to take whatever lipstick was too high/low contrast, the wrong color and put it on the appropriate part of my lips for the shade it was then blend it with another lipstick or two for shade or highlight needed in the other parts. AND/OR set it with an eyeshadow or so that is the right color and maybe he same as I am using on my eyes at the moment. That's fun to do, too. Custom makeup without custom makeup pricing.
“That’s not an insult, it’s just accurate”. Perfection
Fantastic 👏🏼 you have taught me SO MUCH about color theory, low/high contrast, makeup art math, and many other things and I can wholeheartedly say that it has taken my enjoyment of makeup to the next level (and I already loved it!) and given me so much more confidence in applying makeup to MY face. You're the bestest, keep it coming! ❤🙏🏼
The way you explained this concept was absolute perfection and made so much sense to me. Thank you for this!!!!
Thank you kackie, this is super helpful for me who's wearing hijab and wearing it in different colours every day
The addition of the "Log" song was epic.🥰 So, in an attempt to give my medium blonde hair a slight red tint, accidentally dyed it a terracotta red. I went from low contrast to high overnight, and had to completely change my makeup. My usual makeup was invisible. Twas quite the adventure!
Great demonstration! It also serves as an illustration of the effect that high versus low contrast can have as a woman ages. Generally, I'd say low contrast suits more older women more often, whether they are or used to be high contrast. Age has a way of gentling down one's face and lower contrast looks more refined. That said, a light touch with high contrast makeup can definitely suit older women on some occasions!
I had Snow White colouring when I was young, so I’ve been really adrift trying to do makeup with my now white hair.
It's the first time I'm hearing about this low-contrast/high-contrast concept. Things make so much more sense now. Thanks!
Yes, yes, yes, yes, YES!!!
For me, personally, any & every lip color looks more flattering on me when I add a hint of Revlon’s Just Bitten Kissable Balm Stain in Sweetheart to the inside of my lips, and a touch on the center of my bottom lip.
It’s the perfect contrast, for me. 👌🏼 The balancing act!
When you started singing the log song I freaking lost it! I love you and your chaos, it’s perfect. Never change!
IT FINALLY MAKES SENSE!! I am a very typical French girl and I am so damn high contrast 😂 pale with very dark brown hair, no wonder why the red lip is the thing that works best on me! Funny enough, I always felt the need to add nude or pink with my a dark brown eye look and I could never explain why - but how you approach it makes total sense now as to why I was doing it! And finally - the hair story is so real - back when I dried my hair super blond I had to change my wardrobe colours, and the red or pink lip looked completely different, I had to use different shades. Thank you for sharing your knowledge ❤
Thank you so much for explaining this and showing that YOU CAN HAVE BROWN HAIR, EYEBROWS AND EYES and STILL BE A LOW CONTRAST COMPLEXION! I’ve always struggled with this; having darker hair and wondering why higher contrast makeup looks way “too much” on me.
I lost my hair (alopecia) a couple years ago and whenever I put a brunette wig on (especially the darker ones), I feel the need to darken my brows cause they just disappear. Any contrast seems so glam on me. I find myself gravitating toward dusty colored lips always. This info is so helpful, it will influence the way I think about makeup and choose products to help fit my desired look.
This is a masterclass in colour and contrast! Thank you for sharing this ❤
thank you for this super comprehensive and scientific perspective!!! i've always known i need high contrast because the contrast in my complexion is quite extreme like your sisters-- i'm also a light olive, and with my natural hair i can pull off black lipstick with no other makeup LOL. But, I either wear a high contrast look or no makeup at all because lighter colors and lower contrast things look worse than not wearing makeup. I think the skills you showed are so amazing, and I am excited to apply some of these techniques to see if I can figure out a way to do a lighter lip-- I've always wanted to do a violet/lavender lip and I can never figure it out!
I think I finally understand why I do my makeup differently and pick different colours in the winter when I’m paler than the snow outside versus the summertime when I get tanned
Brilliant! Truly, I recently read an article that said if you haven't changed up ur makeup game in the last 5 yrs, you prolly are making yourself look older than you are. It floored me & I've been catching up on techniques since. This was a great tutorial, I love that it applies fundamental art theory to face "painting'. Can't wait to see more of your content!
I was intrigued by the title of this video and I admit I thought it would be clickbait but it's not:)
This is a great explanation on contrast and understanding contrast in make up choices.
I'd love to see more videos on the concept either further explaining it or reiterating the basics explained here.
Absolutely!!
This is so helpful!!! I always felt so discouraged when I would try a bold red and felt so silly wearing it, and now I understand why. I wonder if this is why I always like more sheer lipsticks on me more than high coverage formulas
I’ve noticed this a lot with opacity. My sister and I have pretty much the same shade of skin, but hers is much more opaque than mine. Like whole milk vs skim milk. Her skin is a gorgeous creamy pink and mine is more of a translucent blue 😂 She can get away with higher coverage and much brighter colors than I can!
Interesting. Makes sense.
The first makeup video that actually makes sense / adds a level of context and understanding that I needed. Wow, thanks! :)