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.
lol I wanted to buy a cool pink blush once (bc I already had multiple other warm tone pink blushes).... And the sales assistant refused to give me the cool tone pink because I'm warm tone?! I just love to play with color, it was so dumb
Omg. I grew up as a tomboy, outdoor girlie. Now that I'm in my mid-30s, I have been watching your videos for about a year trying to get makeup/color theory, and the topography reference finally made everything click! Using the cool tones in the valleys (eye crease, cheek indention, chin) and warmth in the mid ranges (eyelids, cheeks, lips) and highlight in the mountain peaks (brow bone, cupid's bow, cheek bone) defines the landscape!!! Thank you!!! Gahhhh!! 🤯 Who doesn't want to look like a beautiful mountain side?
Nobody puts Kackie in a box .I absolutely love when you do videos that are so informative like this opening up the world of color theory another great video 😊
Same!! One of my artist friends who still does makeup but doesn't enjoy beauty YT anymore loved the contrast video I sent her. It appealed EXACTLY to her sensibilities & I'm excited to see how she likes this one! This is exactly my shit.
As a super neutral pale olive skin toned girlie, most of the products that are marketed as cool still look warm on me (because they tend to lean pink which looks warm compared to the green in my skin) and the warm toned products also look warm on me (because they tend to lean orange which still looks warm compared to the green in my skin) lol but i still use both warm and cool tones in my makeup regularly. I like both its just about finding tones that look harmonious with the green and not too harsh but both cool and warm work.
I constantly use that Terri Tomlinson flesh tone color wheel in your thumbnail 🥰 so useful! Aside - as a medium saturated warm olive I need golden warmth otherwise an item will still read cool and muddy or pulls freaking pink 😣 So YESSS it is all relative ! Both to what it’s next to (potentially contrasting) as well as what it’s on top of (potentially neutralizing). Great topic
@@addiem4387 Are you olive toned? I'm warm olive (lots of yellow and some green), but I don't want to add more green to my face. So I feel that bronzers that have more red (not orange), almost like a sunburn, or cool like a contour, look best. The Jour bronzer literally looks like face when I naturally tan. No weird undertones. They have very light to dark shades to choose from.
Hi Kackie- In the last year, I have rediscovered makeup with the help of my teenage daughter. She introduced me to beauty TH-cam and I now love learning tips and tricks to deal with the wisdom that has appeared on my face. I was listening to this video while doing laundry and had an epiphany. I immediately started playing with relatively warm and cool tone eyeshadows to create depth on my hooded eyes. Sharing your knowledge of color was a game changer for me. I can’t wait to get some warm and cool tone concealers to see if I can disguise the bags under my eyes. On another note, I’ve heard you mention some of the annoying short form content that is out there. I love having you and others keep me company while doing my mundane daily tasks. I learn so much from the long form videos…and they give me some good laughs too. Thank you and keep making them..I will keep watching.
Thank you for doing this bc I’m soooo sick of hearing “you need to wear cool tones to bring out your blah blah blah, etc…” bc as a neutral it confuses the hellll out of me! I love your color theory lessons. ❤
Neutral here, too - complexion products are easier because I can see when something is too bright, too saturated, etc. But as far as colour cosmetics? I've just had to experiment. My lifelong strat: Put something on that I enjoy the shade of, determine if it throws off the balance of my face in a way that is distinctly not appealing or editorial, knock some off the list, then try shades I'm not drawn to & find they almost exclusively look like trash as I expected, lmao. Warm tones are the most confusing - I can wear a warm red or coral but copper or warm brown makes me look jaundiced.
@@ZijnShayatanica the only thing I’ve nailed down is that I absolutely cannot do a bold lip. I have tried a million times and I 100% look like I’m playing in my mother’s makeup every single time. Anything beyond a sheer tint is so unflattering.
@@jodieguess3002 Oh man, same for the most part! I can do a black lip every so often, but I think mine is just w/ the size & shape of my lips pulling all attention away from my other features & making them look smaller. 🥲
Please keep being my makeup art teacher! The contrast video was so helpful because it helped me understand why sometimes I finish my makeup and then get up and look at a far away mirror and suddenly feel like all my makeup disappeared off my face. As I'm learning to understand and see color better, this concept of layering tones to bridge the gap is becoming increasingly helpful.
❤Art Math… too bad my family 🙄and the guys who work in the paint store 🙄…are not as interested in my color theory, and how different light exposures affect color, why that beautiful apricot swatch turns green in an east facing room🤷♀️👩🎨🎨.
"Finishing the chord progression even if you can't hear the notes" GIRL! poetry!!!! Im loving these theory videos! I kind of already knew that color is relative, but hearing it spelled out is so helpful. Also that if a color doesn't seem to work on my face it's because i need to pair it with other things thatll bridge the gap between it and the colors native to my face. I'm going to have to experiment with this. I have the Mini Glam and I almost never wear it because, while it's neutral on other people, on me it pulls quite swampy olive green. I'll have to try pairing it with products that make that olive tone more at home on my features.
So valuable! Thank you. I liked how you emphasized “coolness” and “warmth” is relative to yours and everyone’s own skin tone. Opens the world of makeup for everyone.
I’m a high school art teacher who teaches color theory using the primary colors in warm and cool with black and white that’s it and I teach them to create 99 flesh tones!!!!! I just found your channel and love it!!!! ❤🎉
Fellow art student/MUA of times of yorn. Long ago yorn! As a direct result, I most definitely know about color temperature. This drove some on a certain, and quite possibly the most famous, beauty blog absolutely BONKERS when in the comment section I would refer to, IDK, "warm blue, purple or silver" and "cool orange, yellow or gold". Yet, color temperature DOES exist! So, apparently, I am not off my rocker or color blind. As far as what I wear? Anything I please. My skin's undertone is cool neutral with olive overtones and lighter end of true (not 20 years ago notion of) medium. The one thing that I have noticed is that when I go too far in either temperature, especially cold blues, silvers (eyeshadows) or very yellow-orange or yellow-brown (lipstick, bronzer), I look unwell. Your video felt very validating, super informative and explained it extremely well to any who may not get it.
LOVED THIS ! Keep this content up Kackie ! You truly have the eye for this type of stuff and it makes your content very valuable and stand out from the others. We need more of this insightful library part of your brain 😂❤️
What you see about your eyes trained is also the case for haircolorists 😉 I see the blue in ash tones, the purple in pearl tones, and sometimes the pink in copper tones (when it's close to the actual metal color) 😊 Definitely the best teaching video about makeup colors and how they are relative to each other 😍 Love your laugh, it's powerful 🥰
Thank you for this!! Foundation is the ONLY thing that looks better when it matches your undertones. I LOVE adding warmer tones to my cool undertone depending on what look I am going for. Understanding undertones and balance was such fun and changed how I view color and making sure that what I put on my face actually accentuated me instead of clashing. But I have to say that understanding that I have no business with warm orange or red tones was probably the best part. I just wanted to wear what was popular, but it did not flatter me at all.
I disagree. I believe you when you say that warm tones look better to you on your cool skin tone, but the idea that “foundation is the ONLY thing that looks better when it matches your undertone” is categorically false. I’m cool toned and I can barely pull off a lot of neutral shades of different colors, because they look too warm against my skintone and they take over my face in a unflattering way. Here’s the thing: cool/neutral/warm is only one aspect of your complexion that determines what sort of colors you will work best for you. There’s also whether you are light/medium/dark, and most importantly for this conversation, where you fall in the soft-to-bright spectrum. Some people’s complexions, like mine, don’t handle a lot of contrast well. I look best with colors that exist at about my level of coolness, are no more than a shade lighter than my skin or a shade darker than my hair, and are neither saturated or super grey. If you look better in warm tones than cool, I suspect your complexion thrives with some level of contrast which is awesome, but definitely not a universal experience for us cool tones peeps!
@@xqueenfrostineCompletely agree! I’m fair with very cool undertone but I’m also muted (desaturated). So cooler tones work best for me. Anything that has warmth to it always looks even warmer on my very cool toned skin and since I’m so muted it shows even more. Like a pink blush - looks like a true pink in the pan, but if it has ANY warmth to it, it’s going to look like a peach or orange depending how much warmth it has in it. But it will not look pink on me. I need a pink that has a blue or purple tone to it in order for it to show up as a true pink on me. Most things labeled as “neutral” shades end up looking warm on me because they aren’t TRUE neutrals. They are neutrals with some warmth to them, which, again, on my very cool toned skin makes it look even warmer and is more noticeable because of my muted skin (so while it may show up as a neutral on someone who maybe isn’t as cool toned as me or maybe has more saturation in their skin). Like, in the video Kackie uses Natasha Denona I Need A Nude palette as her cool toned option and kept describing shades in it as cool toned, even some as really cool toned. But on my very cool toned, muted skin the I Need A Nude palette looked SUPER warm on me (which was so disappointing!). So it was crazy to me to hear her describing any of the shades from that palette as cool toned! 😂😂
@@onewhisper22005 same! I can’t tell you how often I pick up a lipstick or blush that looks so promising in the tube/pan, only to swatch it on the back of my hand only to have it look orange/terracotta on me and make my skin look kinda gray. Colors that are supposedly “universal” like black honey look out of place instead of effortless. And yes, purple tones are where it’s at! They look harmoniously rosy on me.
@@xqueenfrostine completely agree!! It’s happened to me so much with blushes, lipsticks, everything 😂 I saw Moira came out with 10 new shades of their cheek heat cream blushes back in January, but I just saw them recently. They have a shade 11 I Thank You that’s a purple that looks like it might work…in the pan it looks like a cool purple but in swatches it looks more of a berry purple so those are always 50/50 whether it’ll be more of a pinky purple on me or a red if it’s truly more a berry purple. But I can’t swatch it in store so I’m going to have to just try it out lol but they also have some pretty cooler looking pink and dusty pink shades I’m curious about too! I also saw Give Ne Glow has some gorgeous looking mauve and purple toned blushes as well as a couple cool toned bronzers (I’m leaning towards Ocean Drive I think it’s called). Again, I can’t swatch in store and for the life of me cannot find ANY swatches online from real people. So I think I’m just going to have to risk it and get a few! Luckily they aren’t too badly priced and from my experience with their eyeshadows they’re really good at describing shades so I’m hoping it’ll be the same with their blush and bronzer shades. I’m usually more of a liquid/cream blush person, but I heard their powder blush and bronzer formula was good. Just couldn’t find actual swatches lol. So we shall see! It’s just annoying to always have to risk things and so often they don’t work out! I’ve gotten pretty good at eyeing things now that I know what to look for. But it’s still hard sometimes!!
Love this concept! I have a medium deep complexion and have been told for years that I have a warm undertone but most foundations lately have been looking orange on me. When I opt for cool, neutral or even olive they tend to look more skin native. Navigating makeup with this new found knowledge has been challenging since every brand’s idea is what is “neutral” or “olive” or “warm” can differ. I wish brands would just say this is a deep shade with a yellow or pink undertone to make it easier to color match. In the winter I tend to look more gray so I lean into that look more with the makeup and choose purples, mauves, and taupes which look fantastic on me. Thanks Kackie!
I rarely wear makeup because I don’t really know how and it feels wrong when I do, but I have to say I so enjoy your videos. Your enthusiasm is infectious and your knowledge is riveting!
LOVING this color theory series. Both very helpful, and somehow just make me feel less crazy. I'm slightly warm toned but you can tear my mauve and lilac blush/lip products out of my cold, dead hands. The terracotta shades people keep trying to sell me end up looking too orange. They can look amazing, but it takes way more work. The cooler shades kind of combine with my skin to look just healthy and fresh with basically zero effort.
Not wanting to turn your world upside down... but have you considered that you might actually be slightly olive toned? 😬 I thought for most of my life that I was slightly warm / golden, but mauves, purples and berries always looked amazing on me and I was sort of confused by it (Terracotta always pulled super orange on me, too). This past year I figured out that I actually am fair / light olive toned and everything makes so much more sense!
You’re not warm toned if lilac suits you effortlessly! You’re probably olive, which is actually cool but can take some warmth (cool undertone + yellow overtone).
Nope. Definitely warm, lots of red and yellow, but muted. It kind of mixes with my coloring to make a neutral pink. Cool colors in clothing or anything opaque are much more challenging.
@@carinawulff1673 Ok, literally been thinking about this for over a week. And maybe? I have a ton of red in my overtone, so just coming to terms with the fact that I actually have a warm undertone was a huge step. But I might in fact just be ruddy olive? Ruddy olive sounds horrible (or like a great band name), lol, but definitely something to think about.
@@joannapaul1546I know this post is really old, and I'm sorry for replying now. You know what I think might possibly going on is not only do you possibly have a lot of red in your skin that might be coming off this warm, but I have a suspicion that there might be quite a bit of gray in your skin. A lot of the times when I think of individuals with olive skin, I tend to think of either an actual pool, green tint, or I usually think of Gray. You mentioned in an earlier post that you're warm, but you can't wear terracotta, but you can wear lilac. If terracotta looks too warm on you, keep in mind it's more on the warm neutral scale than it is warm. Terracotta is an orange that has more black added to it, and that black helps to desaturate the vividness that you would see in a true orange. Orange that's the reason why when you look at a lot of typical color analysis, terracotta works well for individuals who are true autumns and dark autumns because it's a more softer form of true orange. Someone who can pull off terracotta has coloring that is similar to the color, by that I mean they're worn but they have a little bit of desaturation within their skin that can pull that color off and it doesn't make them look overheated and flushed. Chances are, that red overtone makes it seem like you've got some warmth, but I've got a sneaky suspicion that you probably might suit colors that have gray added to them. When you're looking at a lot of the colors that individuals who can wear terracotta can pull off, those are usually warm colors that have black added to them to darken them. I got a suspicion. You probably need slightly warm colors, but they need to have gray added to them to mute them, make them a little bit more muddy, and to add in some coolness. Also, if you really do look good in a true lilac, then you might want to consider looking into other pinks and purples with a similar color story. And also you might benefit from looking at some of the colors that are usually in the the soft Autumn category, or the soft summer category. Does color analysis? Her name is Jen Thoden, and you might benefit from checking out her color analysis folks on her soft warm categories as well as her soft cool categories. Terracotta and lilac are not only different colors on the temperature spectrum, but they're also different colors on the value spectrum. By that I mean terracotta is darker than lilac, there are equivalent shades within the purple family that are around the same value as terracotta, but I've got a suspicion that there you might find darker colors in general like terracotta possibly a little too intense on you compared to how they would look on someone else, even of the same complexion as you, but with a different level of depth. And when I say intense, it's not a good or a bad thing, rather sometimes colors can look a little harsh against the canvas of our skin, or in my case. For instance, when I wear a lot of light colors, the colors don't match my depth and they actually wash me out out that's why pastels on me look strange.
as a pale cool olive who's now 45 years old, very dark hair and eyes, there are very few things i can actually wear anymore without looking washed out or clown-like. i agree for the most part that anyone can wear whatever they want, and ultimately it's up the wearer on how they feel about how they look. for me personally, i don't want to look like a cadaver or a clown, so i'm exploring the small range of things that actually just make me glow. extremely hard to find, but i do enjoy a challenge.
I just turned 60 and just found you through TH-cam recommendations. This is the second video I have watched. I have always been a “cool girl” - but attracted to warm colors and felt like I just can’t wear them. I am going to try this on my daughter first (a “warm girl”) because I think I will be less judgmental on someone else. PS… YOUR SMILE IS SO BEAUTIFUL AND ENDEARING.
Queen of art math strikes again! ❤ this was perfect Kackie. I hate how prescriptive some advice is. You’re always such a fabulous and down to earth art educator.
Kackie - I will never be able to properly express my gratification for your color theory lessons. This video is going into my favorites. (I feel like most of your videos belong there!) The way you explain color theory with visual representation helps me ‘get it.’ Thank you! I have blue eyes and I know brown and coppers look great on me but, I LOVE purple eyeshadow. I’m going to wear my purple eyeshadow and nobody is going to stop me! 😂
I found this very interesting - intellectually stimulating alongside being aesthetically pleasing. The contrast theory was absolutely brilliant - I have discovered my most favourable look - low contrast it is for me! 💕💕💕
YES! Im not familiar with color theory, but ive always gravitated to "deeper cool toned" eyeshadows even tho I think I have warm undertones (i have tan skin, ELDW 4w1) . I like deep steely grays, blues, olives, plums, and graphites, against my dark brown eyes. I detest any reds because it makes my eyes look tired. I feel like my dark brown eyes get "lost" against warm toned "neutral color" eyeshadows : mochas, browns, tans, russets, etc. We can learn so much from YTers with an actual art background. Ive learned so much from you and Alex Anele!
I love these tones on my brown eyes too, but I always halo it with a tiny bit of warmth to blend well into my skin tone and pop those cool tone colors more. ❤
You are cool toned then. The general color of your skin is not an undertone. As kackie said, you have to look past the colors that make up the majority and look at what’s left. If these cooler colors harmonize with you then that means you are part of that color family.
Olive girly here. My skin tone is adamantly warm but I look best in cooler tones. Cool grayish contours become rosy blushes on me. Red based warm browns are my bedroom eyes. And just checking in that yes Glossier Swept is what I needed, a green bronzer that turns into a pink blush on my stupid face.
OLIVE SKIN IS VOODOO lol if you'll pardon any implications of coopting that term. Olive skin alchemizes colors. You are SUCH a good example of how it's just not. that. simple!
considering that more people in the world likely have olive undertones than don't (eg if we don't just use folks with Western European ancestry as the template) it's kind of amazing that makeup hasn't caught up to this.
This video is such a perfect example of why I love you so much! Beauty TH-cam is not dead. Keep doing your thing! Also, your DayQuil videos give me life 😂
Love your science of color videos! (I recall standing in my office looking at a "creative solution" from the design team and asking, "Do they know NOTHING about color?!")
Go Kackie! 😊 yes to matching the temperature of everything! yes to 'empowered by tools not restricted by rules'! The most helpful thing for me to understand (as a neutral/warm undertone very fair skinned person who can't do a lot of eye makeup looks bc of shape of eyes/balance of facial features, etc) is the 6 attribute system - light/deep, warm/cool, soft/clear. It's about adjusting - if I'm wearing a lot of black, I want to increase the contrast in my face to match the intense contrast of the clothes against my skin. And bc I have low saturation, I need to use shades that look high contrast on me but might be lower contrast on other folks (I learned that from you Kackie! :D)
Thank God i came across this video. I cant begin to tell you how stressful shopping for makeup has been for a person with OCD. Makeup is supposed to be fun, not stressful.
The chaos that is Kackie combined with the superb knowledge that is also Kackie is what I need! The video on high/low contrast and this one were saved before I watched them! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and teaching us to step our makeup game. I know that I’ve learned so much from you, so thank you! 💕
Omg thank you!!! I have always thought it so strange when someone uses cool colors for eyeshadow (such as cool purples) and then applies a warm coral lip color. Just looks so OFF to me!
after taking college level art classes a whole year, i think this is the video that actually made me understand how color works in relation to each other 😅 your videos are super helpful
I am a makeup newbie at 24...I am just quite recently starting my makeup journey as I am finally free from my skin condition (acne) and learning how to work with my rosacea. And I've been SO confused, lol. My concealer is a cool blue vs my skin, and thanks to your video, I think I might need a warm blue concealer vs my skin, cause when my rosacea flares up, is more of a pale pink vs intense red. New subscriber, cause I also don't like the discourse of having to do THIS or THAT and OPTIONS is a beautiful thing. You are quite funny too, so totally had to subscribe.
I'm getting my personal color analysis done soon, and I'm excited 😆I love that you're emphasizing it's about what you want to wear. I think learning my color will help with finding what flatters versus what might not look as good. That being said, I'll never give up purple cause it's my favorite color 🤣
Thanks for this! I love cool toned blush..but I like to throw on warmer blush. RMS in Hanky Panky looks warmer on me. I also try a neutral foundation to take out the pink in my fair skin and it looks fine; matches my neck.
This is such a fun throwback for me, because you did a video back during clean routine 2019 (I think it was around that time) demonstrating a warm toned side and a cool toned look on your face and it taught me SO MUCH! That video has lived in my brain rent free since then, and I refer back to it all the time! I think the point you were making back then was that although you could wear both, you preferred the warm toned look. Baby Kackie❤
I think matching undertones might be flattering when you’re Young ! I have cool undertones but the older i get i need to go neutral or even slightly peachy in my base products, otherwise i look like a stone! When it comes to the temperature in my blushes or eyeshadows - for as long as you keep the value level in check ( look at a natural contrast of your face) you cannot go wrong really - whether you feel Coral or pink, blue or green 😊
Okay the cool sending something back/creating shadow and warmth sending things forward, and how that relates to all of the makeup on different features looking believable?! You are freaking BLOWING MY MIND KACKIE! You’re breaking my brain! I can’t believe nobody told me this before! The cool inner corner! I feel like I somewhat instinctively knew this somewhat but not to this level!
This is a really awesome video. I love beauty space content creators taking on these broader issues. In my opinion, videos like this and also ones like Kelly Gooch’s Makeup Musings, for example, are a great addition to the beauty space. Personally, I find makeup videos fascinating not just for product reviews, but for artistic, series psychological, even sociological reasons. Keep the videos coming!!!! ❤️❤️❤️
This explains how I know what looks right but maybe not why. I go back and forth between cooler neutral and warmer neutral, similar to what you did, depending on what colors I'm wearing. I never feel as if I'm wearing the wrong color.
You’re slowly hammering into my brain to think like a color theorist and it’s finally starting to sink in….love it! Thanks, Kackie!! Please keep these videos up. They’re wildly interesting. 🎨😘
Yes!!! Yes!!! Keep the colour theory, art math content coming!!!! I was getting a bit defensive thinking "no I'm definitely cool toned and struggle with warm tones" until I heard those fundamental words.... it's all relative to your skin tone. Now I'm thinking....yes, bridging the gap from my skin to a truly orange blush is probably not going to work BUT using a neutral or slightly warm coral shade will probably give me the result I'm looking for because it's super warm relative to my skin tone. Yeah?
Being a cool skin tone.....I LOVE warm colors for my eye makeup. Opposite my blue eyes, an orange/brown/rust makes my eyes so much more attractive. I believe it is all trial and error and when you look in the mirror and go..."I look healthy and glowy today", THEN you know you are on the right track to colors that work for YOU!! This channel has been helping me discover this recently with the tips and tricks with Kackie's blush trick.
As someone thats been putting myself in boxes with makeup, THANK YOU for this video. As long as colors dont make me look sick (Im pretty fair) or not match my whole look, I'll try it
Omggg this is what I've been needing to hear!!!! I have so been guilty of putting myself in an undertone box lately! I am a cool leaning neutral and was upset by how a few warmer lipsticks I have were looking on me (that I used to LOVE! but to my eyes they were starting to give tomato sauce mouth vibes...but now that I'm hearing what you're saying I bet it was because of the colors they were hanging out beside). As a result of that, I've gone the complete opposite way and only used uber cool toned colors, and guess what, sometimes it's giving CORPSE ! And yes, I blame tiktok for making me think this way!! I've been trying out a warmer lip color (Fuller Fig by Clinique) and have been LOVING IT but felt like I was breaking the rules and wearing something I shouldn't!! Thank you for giving us permission to roam and be creative and not just stay in our boxes Kackie
you explained warm and cool shades sooooo much better than i did that time i got in an argument on reddit because people think beauty influencers don’t even know what warm and cool colors are.
So I agree you can wear whatever colors you want! But I have a warm undertone. The Natasha Denona “I need a Nude” palette is gorgeous but more cool toned. It does make me look kinda dead. Vs the golden palette makes me look more alive. Orangey peach blush looks like a neutral on me. Purpley pink blush definitely stands out more and doesn’t look as natural. Just depends on what you are going for! Side note, makeup is a good way to tell if you are warm or cool. If neutral makeup (eyeshadow, blush, lipstick) tends to turn purple on you, you’re probably warm. If it turns orange on you, you’re probably cool.
Yesss. It was through makeup that I finally understood just how cool toned I am! I knew gold jewelry made me look ill, but makeup…practically all makeup looks bright orange on me, lol.
Thank you for this video. I'm 54 years old and still don't think I know my undertone. I thought cool but now I think I'm a cool olive. If there is such a thing. I do have slight rosacea so maybe the olive tone calms my redness down. Still learning every day. I'm going to watch this back again. So much information. Love your videos. Have been watching for years. ❤
I have cool skintone, and warms make me look like I have dirt on my face. Anythjng in a beautiful warm autumn range? Lol, I look like I am about to go to the hospital. Maybe this works for people that aren't heavily on one side?
These are good points. I love pinks and I have pinkish pale skin, but I dislike how pink makeup extenuates my redness if I don't properly control it through skincare or foundation. I love peach and orange eyeshadow, I'm glad someone didn't tell me to never wear orange anything and that I'm a whatever season bc I've been able to find shades of peach, orange, and gold that brightens my blue eyes without the fabled "unfitting color" effect I'm always being warned about
OK, I'm probably the only 83-year old artist and TH-camr watching your video. I love the way you make any color work for you. My only complaint is that I had a tough time trying to figure out the names of your products. I looked at your list but still had to be a detective figuring out who made Georgia. Interesting as an artist I never consciously thought is it warm or cool it was did it work. Same with makeup now. I hate the way yellow toned makeup looks on my face. Never could figure out i my veins were blue or green they just were something. But I instinctively lean towards cool. Anyway, you're lots of fun.
This was both such. a helpful and fun video to watch. Thank you for showing us that we can wear whatever colour we like but the tones and temperature are what make things work.
Sometimes mixing temperatures can result in such beautiful color harmonies. One of my favorite things to do is a coral almost monochrome makeup, and then switch it up in the lips by using a bright-ish mauve!
I recently realized this about interior design, too! The most special looking rooms often intentionally include a cool or warm statement piece or accents in an otherwise predominantly opposite designed room!
Loving the color theory. I have always struggled with foundation and concealer matching. Recently I gave up on finding the perfect match and have just started mixing to create the perfect match. I must lean warm because cream shirts look 100% better on me And the only pinks salmon and corals. I am trying to step out of my safety net of mauve. I wonder if I could pull off your coral nail polish. lol.. it is gorgeous ❤
Hi, thank you for explaining the difference between cool tones and warm tones, the lesson I learned was to know how to use them, which makes all the difference in the world, I love grey tones, or silver, , most people donot like grey ( this is what I heard), Im a fan of grey eye shadow, , definitely will try it out , thank you
Excellent information! I now know why my cool eyeshadow always looks wrong on me, because my face is always warm.....my experiments will begin!! Thank you
Thank you. This is so informative. You are sooooo right. Words just needed to be added to the confusing concept of colortheory. I think people mix it up due to the colors in clothings. Some people look better in yellow or orange than other people. Go out and play with colors , everyone !!
What a difference 😮 between your videos and other make up influencers..such a intelligent woman , beautiful, artistic soul ...Im so glad that I find you ... greetings from Greece❤
The way I think of it for makeup is True Yellow as the most warm, and blue violet as being the most cool on a linear scale, and of course, there are exceptions.
I really wish make up companies would focus on blue in their cool toned foundation shades rather than pink. I can't handle any warmth but I don't have much pink either so I end up looking like I smeared Pepto bismal on my face.
Thanks for the interesting video Kackie. I'm not even remotely close to being a makeup artist, but I mix my makeup tones all the time too. I love using a copper toned eyeshadow with a navy blue eyeliner. It totally makes green blue eyes pop! I also have a neutral warm undertone, and I apply cool blush/lipstick when ever I want to wear cool toned clothing. Otherwise, many cool colors would clash with my golden skin. It's like magic, I can turn my deep autumn complexion into a deep winter by only changing my lipstick/blush. Makeup is so much fun !!
My mind is blown - finally, I understand why some mornings my eyes look so small and others, they don't - mixing my tones between face and EYES! You've taught an old dog new tricks. I love it! Please, more colour theory (math art) for faces! Thank you, thank you. So glad I've found your channel. Yep, I've subbed, liked and shared. take care.
Killing it with these videos. I love watching these types of videos from you. More colour theory I say! I also find it helpful as we are skin twins, but I have higher contrast so last week’s video was awesome!
Omg! This is the first time watching a video of yours. I noticed in the beginning that you used the colors originating from CMY color wheel!!! I really love seeing this talked about in the beauty space every chance possible. The beauty industry seems behind when it comes color theory. Please keep talking about it wherever you can!
Absolutely agree with you. Never understood the nonsense of only warm or cool tones, as if it was one or the other. I’ve been doing everything and anything in between, as long as I feel like it and it looks good. Btw, you’re delightfully entertaining along with being informative and helpful. Kudos. ❤
TikTok is....not my jam to say the least. I'm also stubborn and take being told "no, don't do that" as a challenge😏 Your videos are unlocking the real reason I love makeup so much! Your contrast video kind of blew my mind to say the least. It explained so much and now my brain is seeking out more than just "that's a pretty blush". Now I'm seeking out "how can I make that pretty blush work for me".
My eye color changed and that has totally made it necessary to rethink the colors I use and how things look on me I love seeing something that reinforces my thought that as long as it suits you it’s fair game in terms of colors being cool or warm
Oh my GOODNESS this video is just everything I didn’t know that I wanted to hear. I have been absolutely obsessed with color seasons and I’m confusing myself because I can wear warm tones and cool tones and now I feel free because I know you’re right and you HAVE opened up my conundrum. I am empowered! Thank you for this artistic science!
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 once asked for a cool tone brown and was told all browns are warm. I just walked away.
Lol, cocoa brown called and it wants it's money back 😂
lol I wanted to buy a cool pink blush once (bc I already had multiple other warm tone pink blushes).... And the sales assistant refused to give me the cool tone pink because I'm warm tone?! I just love to play with color, it was so dumb
@@andij605 I love to mix cool and warm! My two fav palettes to mix are Bronze and Love by ND. They go so well together!
Me too haha
@@andij605 That's a whole level of psycho. Just give people what they ask for. If they like it, love it.
Omg. I grew up as a tomboy, outdoor girlie. Now that I'm in my mid-30s, I have been watching your videos for about a year trying to get makeup/color theory, and the topography reference finally made everything click! Using the cool tones in the valleys (eye crease, cheek indention, chin) and warmth in the mid ranges (eyelids, cheeks, lips) and highlight in the mountain peaks (brow bone, cupid's bow, cheek bone) defines the landscape!!! Thank you!!! Gahhhh!! 🤯 Who doesn't want to look like a beautiful mountain side?
😭😭😭 I have goosebumps. Thank you for getting my weird logic ❤️ from one tomboy to another
Nobody puts Kackie in a box .I absolutely love when you do videos that are so informative like this opening up the world of color theory another great video 😊
🥰🥰🥰 thank you!
Same!! One of my artist friends who still does makeup but doesn't enjoy beauty YT anymore loved the contrast video I sent her. It appealed EXACTLY to her sensibilities & I'm excited to see how she likes this one! This is exactly my shit.
Gosh I’m a big fan of her words. So helpful
14:37 "Such a cool toned purple- I'm hungry- put it in the inner corner"
WE LOVE THE CHAOS IN OUR MASTER CLASSES. 😂🤣
I was dearly hoping someone else had noticed this gem too!
As a super neutral pale olive skin toned girlie, most of the products that are marketed as cool still look warm on me (because they tend to lean pink which looks warm compared to the green in my skin) and the warm toned products also look warm on me (because they tend to lean orange which still looks warm compared to the green in my skin) lol but i still use both warm and cool tones in my makeup regularly. I like both its just about finding tones that look harmonious with the green and not too harsh but both cool and warm work.
YES THIS!!!
Do you have a bronzer rec?? I am sooo stuck and tired of looking too warm on my face even tho my body is tanned 😭
I constantly use that Terri Tomlinson flesh tone color wheel in your thumbnail 🥰 so useful!
Aside - as a medium saturated warm olive I need golden warmth otherwise an item will still read cool and muddy or pulls freaking pink 😣
So YESSS it is all relative ! Both to what it’s next to (potentially contrasting) as well as what it’s on top of (potentially neutralizing).
Great topic
Same here. 😊 I have sometimes problem to buy f.e. a warmleaning nude lipstick. They all turn pink. I need to go with warm brown or orange.😅
@@addiem4387 Are you olive toned? I'm warm olive (lots of yellow and some green), but I don't want to add more green to my face. So I feel that bronzers that have more red (not orange), almost like a sunburn, or cool like a contour, look best. The Jour bronzer literally looks like face when I naturally tan. No weird undertones. They have very light to dark shades to choose from.
HAHAHAHA not me using the lip gloss as the hourglass concealer image
Oh I’m glad you saw this 😂😂😂
We knew what you meant. 😊
Hey, you did enough thinking to get through this video. You can be forgiven for having a colossal brain fart. 😂🤣
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Hi Kackie- In the last year, I have rediscovered makeup with the help of my teenage daughter. She introduced me to beauty TH-cam and I now love learning tips and tricks to deal with the wisdom that has appeared on my face. I was listening to this video while doing laundry and had an epiphany. I immediately started playing with relatively warm and cool tone eyeshadows to create depth on my hooded eyes. Sharing your knowledge of color was a game changer for me. I can’t wait to get some warm and cool tone concealers to see if I can disguise the bags under my eyes.
On another note, I’ve heard you mention some of the annoying short form content that is out there. I love having you and others keep me company while doing my mundane daily tasks. I learn so much from the long form videos…and they give me some good laughs too. Thank you and keep making them..I will keep watching.
Thank you for doing this bc I’m soooo sick of hearing “you need to wear cool tones to bring out your blah blah blah, etc…” bc as a neutral it confuses the hellll out of me! I love your color theory lessons. ❤
EXACTLY!!!!
Seconded!
Neutral here, too - complexion products are easier because I can see when something is too bright, too saturated, etc. But as far as colour cosmetics? I've just had to experiment.
My lifelong strat: Put something on that I enjoy the shade of, determine if it throws off the balance of my face in a way that is distinctly not appealing or editorial, knock some off the list, then try shades I'm not drawn to & find they almost exclusively look like trash as I expected, lmao. Warm tones are the most confusing - I can wear a warm red or coral but copper or warm brown makes me look jaundiced.
@@ZijnShayatanica the only thing I’ve nailed down is that I absolutely cannot do a bold lip. I have tried a million times and I 100% look like I’m playing in my mother’s makeup every single time. Anything beyond a sheer tint is so unflattering.
@@jodieguess3002 Oh man, same for the most part! I can do a black lip every so often, but I think mine is just w/ the size & shape of my lips pulling all attention away from my other features & making them look smaller. 🥲
Please keep being my makeup art teacher! The contrast video was so helpful because it helped me understand why sometimes I finish my makeup and then get up and look at a far away mirror and suddenly feel like all my makeup disappeared off my face. As I'm learning to understand and see color better, this concept of layering tones to bridge the gap is becoming increasingly helpful.
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❤Art Math… too bad my family 🙄and the guys who work in the paint store 🙄…are not as interested in my color theory, and how different light exposures affect color, why that beautiful apricot swatch turns green in an east facing room🤷♀️👩🎨🎨.
"Finishing the chord progression even if you can't hear the notes" GIRL! poetry!!!!
Im loving these theory videos! I kind of already knew that color is relative, but hearing it spelled out is so helpful. Also that if a color doesn't seem to work on my face it's because i need to pair it with other things thatll bridge the gap between it and the colors native to my face.
I'm going to have to experiment with this. I have the Mini Glam and I almost never wear it because, while it's neutral on other people, on me it pulls quite swampy olive green. I'll have to try pairing it with products that make that olive tone more at home on my features.
While my eyes are definitely brown and not hazel, I love swampy olive on them! Haha. Shifts them chocolate versus topsoil.
So valuable! Thank you. I liked how you emphasized “coolness” and “warmth” is relative to yours and everyone’s own skin tone. Opens the world of makeup for everyone.
I think people are a lot smarter and able to handle a lot more nuanced info than TikTok gives us credit for. The details are so important!
@@kackieAbsolutely ! You’re doing a great service for everyone.
I’m a high school art teacher who teaches color theory using the primary colors in warm and cool with black and white that’s it and I teach them to create 99 flesh tones!!!!! I just found your channel and love it!!!! ❤🎉
Fellow art student/MUA of times of yorn. Long ago yorn! As a direct result, I most definitely know about color temperature. This drove some on a certain, and quite possibly the most famous, beauty blog absolutely BONKERS when in the comment section I would refer to, IDK, "warm blue, purple or silver" and "cool orange, yellow or gold". Yet, color temperature DOES exist! So, apparently, I am not off my rocker or color blind.
As far as what I wear? Anything I please. My skin's undertone is cool neutral with olive overtones and lighter end of true (not 20 years ago notion of) medium. The one thing that I have noticed is that when I go too far in either temperature, especially cold blues, silvers (eyeshadows) or very yellow-orange or yellow-brown (lipstick, bronzer), I look unwell.
Your video felt very validating, super informative and explained it extremely well to any who may not get it.
The mid tone blending feels like the KEY here to make any color work. I adore the artist take on makeup
LOVED THIS ! Keep this content up Kackie ! You truly have the eye for this type of stuff and it makes your content very valuable and stand out from the others. We need more of this insightful library part of your brain 😂❤️
THANK YOU!!!
What you see about your eyes trained is also the case for haircolorists 😉
I see the blue in ash tones, the purple in pearl tones, and sometimes the pink in copper tones (when it's close to the actual metal color) 😊
Definitely the best teaching video about makeup colors and how they are relative to each other 😍
Love your laugh, it's powerful 🥰
Thank you for this!! Foundation is the ONLY thing that looks better when it matches your undertones. I LOVE adding warmer tones to my cool undertone depending on what look I am going for. Understanding undertones and balance was such fun and changed how I view color and making sure that what I put on my face actually accentuated me instead of clashing. But I have to say that understanding that I have no business with warm orange or red tones was probably the best part. I just wanted to wear what was popular, but it did not flatter me at all.
Omg this 😭😭😭 you get me
I disagree. I believe you when you say that warm tones look better to you on your cool skin tone, but the idea that “foundation is the ONLY thing that looks better when it matches your undertone” is categorically false. I’m cool toned and I can barely pull off a lot of neutral shades of different colors, because they look too warm against my skintone and they take over my face in a unflattering way.
Here’s the thing: cool/neutral/warm is only one aspect of your complexion that determines what sort of colors you will work best for you. There’s also whether you are light/medium/dark, and most importantly for this conversation, where you fall in the soft-to-bright spectrum. Some people’s complexions, like mine, don’t handle a lot of contrast well. I look best with colors that exist at about my level of coolness, are no more than a shade lighter than my skin or a shade darker than my hair, and are neither saturated or super grey. If you look better in warm tones than cool, I suspect your complexion thrives with some level of contrast which is awesome, but definitely not a universal experience for us cool tones peeps!
@@xqueenfrostineCompletely agree! I’m fair with very cool undertone but I’m also muted (desaturated). So cooler tones work best for me. Anything that has warmth to it always looks even warmer on my very cool toned skin and since I’m so muted it shows even more. Like a pink blush - looks like a true pink in the pan, but if it has ANY warmth to it, it’s going to look like a peach or orange depending how much warmth it has in it. But it will not look pink on me. I need a pink that has a blue or purple tone to it in order for it to show up as a true pink on me. Most things labeled as “neutral” shades end up looking warm on me because they aren’t TRUE neutrals. They are neutrals with some warmth to them, which, again, on my very cool toned skin makes it look even warmer and is more noticeable because of my muted skin (so while it may show up as a neutral on someone who maybe isn’t as cool toned as me or maybe has more saturation in their skin). Like, in the video Kackie uses Natasha Denona I Need A Nude palette as her cool toned option and kept describing shades in it as cool toned, even some as really cool toned. But on my very cool toned, muted skin the I Need A Nude palette looked SUPER warm on me (which was so disappointing!). So it was crazy to me to hear her describing any of the shades from that palette as cool toned! 😂😂
@@onewhisper22005 same! I can’t tell you how often I pick up a lipstick or blush that looks so promising in the tube/pan, only to swatch it on the back of my hand only to have it look orange/terracotta on me and make my skin look kinda gray. Colors that are supposedly “universal” like black honey look out of place instead of effortless.
And yes, purple tones are where it’s at! They look harmoniously rosy on me.
@@xqueenfrostine completely agree!! It’s happened to me so much with blushes, lipsticks, everything 😂 I saw Moira came out with 10 new shades of their cheek heat cream blushes back in January, but I just saw them recently. They have a shade 11 I Thank You that’s a purple that looks like it might work…in the pan it looks like a cool purple but in swatches it looks more of a berry purple so those are always 50/50 whether it’ll be more of a pinky purple on me or a red if it’s truly more a berry purple. But I can’t swatch it in store so I’m going to have to just try it out lol but they also have some pretty cooler looking pink and dusty pink shades I’m curious about too! I also saw Give Ne Glow has some gorgeous looking mauve and purple toned blushes as well as a couple cool toned bronzers (I’m leaning towards Ocean Drive I think it’s called). Again, I can’t swatch in store and for the life of me cannot find ANY swatches online from real people. So I think I’m just going to have to risk it and get a few! Luckily they aren’t too badly priced and from my experience with their eyeshadows they’re really good at describing shades so I’m hoping it’ll be the same with their blush and bronzer shades. I’m usually more of a liquid/cream blush person, but I heard their powder blush and bronzer formula was good. Just couldn’t find actual swatches lol. So we shall see! It’s just annoying to always have to risk things and so often they don’t work out! I’ve gotten pretty good at eyeing things now that I know what to look for. But it’s still hard sometimes!!
Love this concept! I have a medium deep complexion and have been told for years that I have a warm undertone but most foundations lately have been looking orange on me. When I opt for cool, neutral or even olive they tend to look more skin native. Navigating makeup with this new found knowledge has been challenging since every brand’s idea is what is “neutral” or “olive” or “warm” can differ. I wish brands would just say this is a deep shade with a yellow or pink undertone to make it easier to color match. In the winter I tend to look more gray so I lean into that look more with the makeup and choose purples, mauves, and taupes which look fantastic on me. Thanks Kackie!
I rarely wear makeup because I don’t really know how and it feels wrong when I do, but I have to say I so enjoy your videos. Your enthusiasm is infectious and your knowledge is riveting!
Me too but love her
LOVING this color theory series. Both very helpful, and somehow just make me feel less crazy. I'm slightly warm toned but you can tear my mauve and lilac blush/lip products out of my cold, dead hands. The terracotta shades people keep trying to sell me end up looking too orange. They can look amazing, but it takes way more work. The cooler shades kind of combine with my skin to look just healthy and fresh with basically zero effort.
Not wanting to turn your world upside down... but have you considered that you might actually be slightly olive toned? 😬 I thought for most of my life that I was slightly warm / golden, but mauves, purples and berries always looked amazing on me and I was sort of confused by it (Terracotta always pulled super orange on me, too). This past year I figured out that I actually am fair / light olive toned and everything makes so much more sense!
You’re not warm toned if lilac suits you effortlessly! You’re probably olive, which is actually cool but can take some warmth (cool undertone + yellow overtone).
Nope. Definitely warm, lots of red and yellow, but muted. It kind of mixes with my coloring to make a neutral pink. Cool colors in clothing or anything opaque are much more challenging.
@@carinawulff1673 Ok, literally been thinking about this for over a week. And maybe? I have a ton of red in my overtone, so just coming to terms with the fact that I actually have a warm undertone was a huge step. But I might in fact just be ruddy olive? Ruddy olive sounds horrible (or like a great band name), lol, but definitely something to think about.
@@joannapaul1546I know this post is really old, and I'm sorry for replying now. You know what I think might possibly going on is not only do you possibly have a lot of red in your skin that might be coming off this warm, but I have a suspicion that there might be quite a bit of gray in your skin. A lot of the times when I think of individuals with olive skin, I tend to think of either an actual pool, green tint, or I usually think of Gray. You mentioned in an earlier post that you're warm, but you can't wear terracotta, but you can wear lilac. If terracotta looks too warm on you, keep in mind it's more on the warm neutral scale than it is warm. Terracotta is an orange that has more black added to it, and that black helps to desaturate the vividness that you would see in a true orange. Orange that's the reason why when you look at a lot of typical color analysis, terracotta works well for individuals who are true autumns and dark autumns because it's a more softer form of true orange. Someone who can pull off terracotta has coloring that is similar to the color, by that I mean they're worn but they have a little bit of desaturation within their skin that can pull that color off and it doesn't make them look overheated and flushed. Chances are, that red overtone makes it seem like you've got some warmth, but I've got a sneaky suspicion that you probably might suit colors that have gray added to them. When you're looking at a lot of the colors that individuals who can wear terracotta can pull off, those are usually warm colors that have black added to them to darken them. I got a suspicion. You probably need slightly warm colors, but they need to have gray added to them to mute them, make them a little bit more muddy, and to add in some coolness. Also, if you really do look good in a true lilac, then you might want to consider looking into other pinks and purples with a similar color story. And also you might benefit from looking at some of the colors that are usually in the the soft Autumn category, or the soft summer category. Does color analysis? Her name is Jen Thoden, and you might benefit from checking out her color analysis folks on her soft warm categories as well as her soft cool categories. Terracotta and lilac are not only different colors on the temperature spectrum, but they're also different colors on the value spectrum. By that I mean terracotta is darker than lilac, there are equivalent shades within the purple family that are around the same value as terracotta, but I've got a suspicion that there you might find darker colors in general like terracotta possibly a little too intense on you compared to how they would look on someone else, even of the same complexion as you, but with a different level of depth. And when I say intense, it's not a good or a bad thing, rather sometimes colors can look a little harsh against the canvas of our skin, or in my case. For instance, when I wear a lot of light colors, the colors don't match my depth and they actually wash me out out that's why pastels on me look strange.
as a pale cool olive who's now 45 years old, very dark hair and eyes, there are very few things i can actually wear anymore without looking washed out or clown-like. i agree for the most part that anyone can wear whatever they want, and ultimately it's up the wearer on how they feel about how they look. for me personally, i don't want to look like a cadaver or a clown, so i'm exploring the small range of things that actually just make me glow. extremely hard to find, but i do enjoy a challenge.
I just turned 60 and just found you through TH-cam recommendations. This is the second video I have watched. I have always been a “cool girl” - but attracted to warm colors and felt like I just can’t wear them. I am going to try this on my daughter first (a “warm girl”) because I think I will be less judgmental on someone else. PS… YOUR SMILE IS SO BEAUTIFUL AND ENDEARING.
First the video about contrast, now this, you are spoiling us :D
Queen of art math strikes again! ❤ this was perfect Kackie. I hate how prescriptive some advice is. You’re always such a fabulous and down to earth art educator.
Kackie - I will never be able to properly express my gratification for your color theory lessons. This video is going into my favorites. (I feel like most of your videos belong there!) The way you explain color theory with visual representation helps me ‘get it.’ Thank you! I have blue eyes and I know brown and coppers look great on me but, I LOVE purple eyeshadow. I’m going to wear my purple eyeshadow and nobody is going to stop me! 😂
Same lol.
I found this very interesting - intellectually stimulating alongside being aesthetically pleasing. The contrast theory was absolutely brilliant - I have discovered my most favourable look - low contrast it is for me! 💕💕💕
YES! Im not familiar with color theory, but ive always gravitated to "deeper cool toned" eyeshadows even tho I think I have warm undertones (i have tan skin, ELDW 4w1) . I like deep steely grays, blues, olives, plums, and graphites, against my dark brown eyes. I detest any reds because it makes my eyes look tired. I feel like my dark brown eyes get "lost" against warm toned "neutral color" eyeshadows : mochas, browns, tans, russets, etc.
We can learn so much from YTers with an actual art background. Ive learned so much from you and Alex Anele!
I love these tones on my brown eyes too, but I always halo it with a tiny bit of warmth to blend well into my skin tone and pop those cool tone colors more. ❤
You are cool toned then. The general color of your skin is not an undertone. As kackie said, you have to look past the colors that make up the majority and look at what’s left. If these cooler colors harmonize with you then that means you are part of that color family.
Olive girly here. My skin tone is adamantly warm but I look best in cooler tones. Cool grayish contours become rosy blushes on me. Red based warm browns are my bedroom eyes. And just checking in that yes Glossier Swept is what I needed, a green bronzer that turns into a pink blush on my stupid face.
OLIVE SKIN IS VOODOO lol if you'll pardon any implications of coopting that term. Olive skin alchemizes colors. You are SUCH a good example of how it's just not. that. simple!
Same!
considering that more people in the world likely have olive undertones than don't (eg if we don't just use folks with Western European ancestry as the template) it's kind of amazing that makeup hasn't caught up to this.
discovered that I'm olive when green eyeshadows were the only colors that looked like themselves on my skin.
Olive can be cool or warm that’s why! Green is a cool color but someone can have a warm overtone
This video is such a perfect example of why I love you so much! Beauty TH-cam is not dead. Keep doing your thing! Also, your DayQuil videos give me life 😂
Love your science of color videos! (I recall standing in my office looking at a "creative solution" from the design team and asking, "Do they know NOTHING about color?!")
Kackie bringing clarity to the makeup world and reminding us that its actually an art 🙇
Go Kackie! 😊 yes to matching the temperature of everything! yes to 'empowered by tools not restricted by rules'! The most helpful thing for me to understand (as a neutral/warm undertone very fair skinned person who can't do a lot of eye makeup looks bc of shape of eyes/balance of facial features, etc) is the 6 attribute system - light/deep, warm/cool, soft/clear. It's about adjusting - if I'm wearing a lot of black, I want to increase the contrast in my face to match the intense contrast of the clothes against my skin. And bc I have low saturation, I need to use shades that look high contrast on me but might be lower contrast on other folks (I learned that from you Kackie! :D)
Thank God i came across this video. I cant begin to tell you how stressful shopping for makeup has been for a person with OCD. Makeup is supposed to be fun, not stressful.
The chaos that is Kackie combined with the superb knowledge that is also Kackie is what I need! The video on high/low contrast and this one were saved before I watched them! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and teaching us to step our makeup game. I know that I’ve learned so much from you, so thank you! 💕
Omg thank you!!! I have always thought it so strange when someone uses cool colors for eyeshadow (such as cool purples) and then applies a warm coral lip color. Just looks so OFF to me!
after taking college level art classes a whole year, i think this is the video that actually made me understand how color works in relation to each other 😅 your videos are super helpful
You’re amazing. I’ve never heard of bridging the gap and I’m now realizing why sometimes I get frustrated by my blush 😘
I am a makeup newbie at 24...I am just quite recently starting my makeup journey as I am finally free from my skin condition (acne) and learning how to work with my rosacea. And I've been SO confused, lol. My concealer is a cool blue vs my skin, and thanks to your video, I think I might need a warm blue concealer vs my skin, cause when my rosacea flares up, is more of a pale pink vs intense red. New subscriber, cause I also don't like the discourse of having to do THIS or THAT and OPTIONS is a beautiful thing. You are quite funny too, so totally had to subscribe.
Love these last two color optimization videos aaaand the Ren and Stimpy references 💯🙌🏽
I'm getting my personal color analysis done soon, and I'm excited 😆I love that you're emphasizing it's about what you want to wear. I think learning my color will help with finding what flatters versus what might not look as good. That being said, I'll never give up purple cause it's my favorite color 🤣
Thanks for this! I love cool toned blush..but I like to throw on warmer blush. RMS in Hanky Panky looks warmer on me. I also try a neutral foundation to take out the pink in my fair skin and it looks fine; matches my neck.
I absolutely ❤ this so much! Thank you so much for asserting that makeup has no rules, I have always lived by this.
Holy crap - this was so helpful and informative - I’m looking at my makeup in a whole new light. Thank you for putting this video together!
Omg I'm SO GLAD 🥹🥹🥹
This is such a fun throwback for me, because you did a video back during clean routine 2019 (I think it was around that time) demonstrating a warm toned side and a cool toned look on your face and it taught me SO MUCH! That video has lived in my brain rent free since then, and I refer back to it all the time! I think the point you were making back then was that although you could wear both, you preferred the warm toned look. Baby Kackie❤
Makeup Theory of Relativity. So glad you addressed & demo'ed this!
I look super off and separated with warm blush or lipstick, and sick and tear-stained with warm eyeshadows. This doesn't work for everybody.
I think matching undertones might be flattering when you’re Young ! I have cool undertones but the older i get i need to go neutral or even slightly peachy in my base products, otherwise i look like a stone! When it comes to the temperature in my blushes or eyeshadows - for as long as you keep the value level in check ( look at a natural contrast of your face) you cannot go wrong really - whether you feel Coral or pink, blue or green 😊
This makes me want to reorganize my makeup into warm and cool kits so i can just pick one and know the blush wont clash with the eye, etc.
Okay the cool sending something back/creating shadow and warmth sending things forward, and how that relates to all of the makeup on different features looking believable?! You are freaking BLOWING MY MIND KACKIE! You’re breaking my brain! I can’t believe nobody told me this before! The cool inner corner! I feel like I somewhat instinctively knew this somewhat but not to this level!
I love your artist perspective on makeup. I watched one of the videos recently and thought, “She’s talking about color value!!” 😊😊
Obsessed. You kept me glued to the screen on this one. Such a refreshing video. Please do more like this! ❤
This is a really awesome video. I love beauty space content creators taking on these broader issues. In my opinion, videos like this and also ones like Kelly Gooch’s Makeup Musings, for example, are a great addition to the beauty space. Personally, I find makeup videos fascinating not just for product reviews, but for artistic, series psychological, even sociological reasons. Keep the videos coming!!!! ❤️❤️❤️
This explains how I know what looks right but maybe not why. I go back and forth between cooler neutral and warmer neutral, similar to what you did, depending on what colors I'm wearing. I never feel as if I'm wearing the wrong color.
You’re slowly hammering into my brain to think like a color theorist and it’s finally starting to sink in….love it! Thanks, Kackie!! Please keep these videos up. They’re wildly interesting. 🎨😘
Yes!!! Yes!!! Keep the colour theory, art math content coming!!!!
I was getting a bit defensive thinking "no I'm definitely cool toned and struggle with warm tones" until I heard those fundamental words.... it's all relative to your skin tone.
Now I'm thinking....yes, bridging the gap from my skin to a truly orange blush is probably not going to work BUT using a neutral or slightly warm coral shade will probably give me the result I'm looking for because it's super warm relative to my skin tone. Yeah?
So happy you’re loving the Dreamsticks. ❤
Being a cool skin tone.....I LOVE warm colors for my eye makeup. Opposite my blue eyes, an orange/brown/rust makes my eyes so much more attractive. I believe it is all trial and error and when you look in the mirror and go..."I look healthy and glowy today", THEN you know you are on the right track to colors that work for YOU!! This channel has been helping me discover this recently with the tips and tricks with Kackie's blush trick.
Me too! Using gold, yellow, and orange around my eyes makes them look so bright and blue.
Love this video as well as your contrast video. Keep talking about these topics please 😊
I’m also a neutral tone & can get away with any hair colour, this video is super inspiring 🙏💓thank you
As someone thats been putting myself in boxes with makeup, THANK YOU for this video. As long as colors dont make me look sick (Im pretty fair) or not match my whole look, I'll try it
Omggg this is what I've been needing to hear!!!! I have so been guilty of putting myself in an undertone box lately! I am a cool leaning neutral and was upset by how a few warmer lipsticks I have were looking on me (that I used to LOVE! but to my eyes they were starting to give tomato sauce mouth vibes...but now that I'm hearing what you're saying I bet it was because of the colors they were hanging out beside). As a result of that, I've gone the complete opposite way and only used uber cool toned colors, and guess what, sometimes it's giving CORPSE ! And yes, I blame tiktok for making me think this way!! I've been trying out a warmer lip color (Fuller Fig by Clinique) and have been LOVING IT but felt like I was breaking the rules and wearing something I shouldn't!! Thank you for giving us permission to roam and be creative and not just stay in our boxes Kackie
you explained warm and cool shades sooooo much better than i did that time i got in an argument on reddit because people think beauty influencers don’t even know what warm and cool colors are.
I’m a cool toned, low contrast face! Definitely nothing orange, but I can do peach…still learning!
Thank! I think this will definitely help when choosing palletes as well.
So I agree you can wear whatever colors you want! But I have a warm undertone. The Natasha Denona “I need a Nude” palette is gorgeous but more cool toned. It does make me look kinda dead. Vs the golden palette makes me look more alive. Orangey peach blush looks like a neutral on me. Purpley pink blush definitely stands out more and doesn’t look as natural. Just depends on what you are going for!
Side note, makeup is a good way to tell if you are warm or cool. If neutral makeup (eyeshadow, blush, lipstick) tends to turn purple on you, you’re probably warm. If it turns orange on you, you’re probably cool.
That last part. So helpful.
Yesss. It was through makeup that I finally understood just how cool toned I am! I knew gold jewelry made me look ill, but makeup…practically all makeup looks bright orange on me, lol.
Never thought about doing a base neutral blush!! Makes perfect sense like a color wash on your canvas!
Thank you for this video. I'm 54 years old and still don't think I know my undertone. I thought cool but now I think I'm a cool olive. If there is such a thing. I do have slight rosacea so maybe the olive tone calms my redness down. Still learning every day. I'm going to watch this back again. So much information. Love your videos. Have been watching for years. ❤
I have cool skintone, and warms make me look like I have dirt on my face. Anythjng in a beautiful warm autumn range? Lol, I look like I am about to go to the hospital. Maybe this works for people that aren't heavily on one side?
Same. I am that one person on the Zoom call whose skin is so white/blue, it looks almost translucent and glows. Any warmth is like dirt on my face.
Kackie, you are god's gift to makeup wearing humanity. Thank you for your service.
These are good points. I love pinks and I have pinkish pale skin, but I dislike how pink makeup extenuates my redness if I don't properly control it through skincare or foundation. I love peach and orange eyeshadow, I'm glad someone didn't tell me to never wear orange anything and that I'm a whatever season bc I've been able to find shades of peach, orange, and gold that brightens my blue eyes without the fabled "unfitting color" effect I'm always being warned about
I LOVE both on you but the warm makes your brown eyes pop. ❤
You explained why we do the things we do so well ❤️❤️❤️
OK, I'm probably the only 83-year old artist and TH-camr watching your video. I love the way you make any color work for you. My only complaint is that I had a tough time trying to figure out the names of your products. I looked at your list but still had to be a detective figuring out who made Georgia. Interesting as an artist I never consciously thought is it warm or cool it was did it work. Same with makeup now. I hate the way yellow toned makeup looks on my face. Never could figure out i my veins were blue or green they just were something. But I instinctively lean towards cool. Anyway, you're lots of fun.
I’m 21 and i also struggled haha
Girl I’m 42 with the soul of a 120 year old, you’re in great company here I am sure! ♥️🥂
This was both such. a helpful and fun video to watch. Thank you for showing us that we can wear whatever colour we like but the tones and temperature are what make things work.
Love this! Would you do the same type of video for different colored eyes to what enhances the uniqueness of that color?
Thank you! Oh my...I love you channel. Just found you and anyone who smashes the lies is another of my heroes.
This is a fantastic video! So many applications to other art mediums. Best color theory class I’ve had
Yay for Color Theory Weeds! I love it when you take us there. ❤
Is this a new myth-busting face-split series?
Maybe!
I'M HERE FOR IT.
Me TOO
Sometimes mixing temperatures can result in such beautiful color harmonies. One of my favorite things to do is a coral almost monochrome makeup, and then switch it up in the lips by using a bright-ish mauve!
I recently realized this about interior design, too! The most special looking rooms often intentionally include a cool or warm statement piece or accents in an otherwise predominantly opposite designed room!
Loving the color theory. I have always struggled with foundation and concealer matching. Recently I gave up on finding the perfect match and have just started mixing to create the perfect match. I must lean warm because cream shirts look 100% better on me And the only pinks salmon and corals. I am trying to step out of my safety net of mauve. I wonder if I could pull off your coral nail polish. lol.. it is gorgeous ❤
Hi, thank you for explaining the difference between cool tones and warm tones, the lesson I learned was to know how to use them, which makes all the difference in the world, I love grey tones, or silver, , most people donot like grey ( this is what I heard), Im a fan of grey eye shadow, , definitely will try it out , thank you
Excellent information! I now know why my cool eyeshadow always looks wrong on me, because my face is always warm.....my experiments will begin!! Thank you
I can’t decide which looks better. Both are BEAUTIFUL.
Thank you. This is so informative. You are sooooo right. Words just needed to be added to the confusing concept of colortheory. I think people mix it up due to the colors in clothings. Some people look better in yellow or orange than other people. Go out and play with colors , everyone !!
Best, most informative video ever!!
What a difference 😮 between your videos and other make up influencers..such a intelligent woman , beautiful, artistic soul ...Im so glad that I find you ... greetings from Greece❤
The way I think of it for makeup is True Yellow as the most warm, and blue violet as being the most cool on a linear scale, and of course, there are exceptions.
I really wish make up companies would focus on blue in their cool toned foundation shades rather than pink. I can't handle any warmth but I don't have much pink either so I end up looking like I smeared Pepto bismal on my face.
Thank you for saying this. I’m warm undertoned but look great in cool toned lipsticks.
Thanks for the interesting video Kackie. I'm not even remotely close to being a makeup artist, but I mix my makeup tones all the time too. I love using a copper toned eyeshadow with a navy blue eyeliner. It totally makes green blue eyes pop! I also have a neutral warm undertone, and I apply cool blush/lipstick when ever I want to wear cool toned clothing. Otherwise, many cool colors would clash with my golden skin. It's like magic, I can turn my deep autumn complexion into a deep winter by only changing my lipstick/blush. Makeup is so much fun !!
Girl, you need to go viral OMG this is amazing ❤
My mind is blown - finally, I understand why some mornings my eyes look so small and others, they don't - mixing my tones between face and EYES! You've taught an old dog new tricks. I love it! Please, more colour theory (math art) for faces! Thank you, thank you. So glad I've found your channel. Yep, I've subbed, liked and shared. take care.
Killing it with these videos. I love watching these types of videos from you. More colour theory I say! I also find it helpful as we are skin twins, but I have higher contrast so last week’s video was awesome!
Excellent video. Nice to hear some sanity regarding color. Thank you.
Omg! This is the first time watching a video of yours. I noticed in the beginning that you used the colors originating from CMY color wheel!!! I really love seeing this talked about in the beauty space every chance possible. The beauty industry seems behind when it comes color theory. Please keep talking about it wherever you can!
Love this! That's why I can still wear a blush that is "warm" because it's just warm to my skin 😮
Absolutely agree with you. Never understood the nonsense of only warm or cool tones, as if it was one or the other. I’ve been doing everything and anything in between, as long as I feel like it and it looks good. Btw, you’re delightfully entertaining along with being informative and helpful. Kudos. ❤
TikTok is....not my jam to say the least. I'm also stubborn and take being told "no, don't do that" as a challenge😏
Your videos are unlocking the real reason I love makeup so much! Your contrast video kind of blew my mind to say the least. It explained so much and now my brain is seeking out more than just "that's a pretty blush". Now I'm seeking out "how can I make that pretty blush work for me".
My eye color changed and that has totally made it necessary to rethink the colors I use and how things look on me I love seeing something that reinforces my thought that as long as it suits you it’s fair game in terms of colors being cool or warm
Oh my GOODNESS this video is just everything I didn’t know that I wanted to hear. I have been absolutely obsessed with color seasons and I’m confusing myself because I can wear warm tones and cool tones and now I feel free because I know you’re right and you HAVE opened up my conundrum. I am empowered! Thank you for this artistic science!