Y'ALL! If you do this and find your perfect "red" PLEASE TAG ME on IG! I would love to repost them and have a highlight of the various shades that worked for y'all. Make sure you tell everyone what shade it is! ❤❤❤
I’m not on instagram but after your first contrast video I went on the hunt at Sephora and found NARS Aragon is my red lip! They make it in a lip shine (sort of balmy but more coverage) and a lip gloss. Both look stunning on me as red but look like… rusty chestnut brown in the bullet! ❤
Thank you for doing this! I have actually thought SO much about this over the years, because I try red lips (and bangs, unfortunately) about every five years, and I'm always disappointed. I'm not on insta (for my mentie healf), but my "red" is Charlotte Tilbury Walk of No Shame. I am a fairly light neutral olive, and I cannot wear a true red without it looking like a clown mouth that belongs to someone else. But darn it if Walk of No Shame doesn't read as red on me. I don't really like buying from CT, because she kind of annoys me, but I can't find another shade and formula that works better for me as an occasion lip. I have found other warmish roses, like Lisa Eldridge Enchantment, but too much opacity also isn't good on me. For some reason I have to have a tiny bit of my own lip coming through or, again, it looks like there are wax lips floating on my face.
Also, a pretty solid way to find a lipliner shade - any nifty tricks with concealer or foundation shades you’d like to teach? I struggle so hard to find any that look natural and am perpetually bamboozling employees at Sephora or other makeup stores. Pale desaturated olive with rosacea that distracts and makes people think I’m way more pink than I actually am.
OMG freedom! Who knew my ideal red was freaking orange?! Jones Road Valencia was in my desk drawer (inspired by Scarlet Johansson's lip in Wes Andersen's Asteroid City). Art math suggests my lips are so blue they balance out the orange and we land on red? You're magic. Thank you
So fun! You might know about the stylist David Zyla? Your video made me think about his way to find YOUR RED, which he call your Romantic Color. And It's by pinching the fleshy tip of your fingers, looking at the deepest color of your lips (like you do here) or the color you naturally blush - like if you litteraly pinch your cheek. He explains that different saturations will look good too. So your red can be brick, peppermint pink, strawberry, peach, burned orange, dusty whatever... it's all ''your red''! I love this concept.
OMG this explains so much!!!! I used to buy every red shade from maybelline's matte ink line in Hope of finding MY RED, and one day I bought a slightly more Pink and desaturated shade that has become my favourite red of all times, but when you see the packaging is like Pink lol. Just discovered your channel, YOU ARE AMAZING!!! Subscribed!!!
This problem has been driving me nuts. I bought some glasses with a very pink bit in the frame, but couldn’t understand why they looked red on me, and was going nuts trying to find a lipstick to match. Now I know why this is happening and can reassess my lipsticks, thank you!! 😂
Holy crap! This is exactly what I needed - every single red lipstick I’ve ever tried looks hot pink on me. I am definitely going to try the Picmonkey thing and see if I can FINALLY find my perfect ‘red’. ❤️
This video blew my mind!!! I am only aware of color theory as it pertains to makeup BECAUSE OF YOU!!! I’m here for all of these videos! I’m learning SO MUCH and this is helping me choose better colors! Thank you!!! You’re amazing!
I’m a new subscriber but I am just soooo happy I found your channel. You put out the most helpful, interesting and informative makeup content I’ve ever seen, all with a little bit of chaos mixed in which I live for. Also literally running to procreate to find my perfect beige lip! ❤
I’m going to school right now for graphic design, and you just helped me better understand color theory and “art math”! Thank you! So fun and helpful to see how this applies to makeup and real life. Gonna go try this in Photoshop now!😊
THIS!!! 🎉❤😮 I realised this when i found out I'm muted (cool olive) and now Revlon Rum Raisin and Peripera gloss tint in 02 are my effortless reds , these are better than maroons or dark reds like i thought before!
So excited to watch both new videos. I want to try this so much! I have a blue red, and feel good in it, but am very curious to see what comes out of rhis experiment.
My favorite red lip I ever did on myself (normally I hate wearing red lips) was a dark burgundy liner on the entire lip with a deep berry pink glossy lipstick over the top
This did NOT work for me. I ended up with something identical to my lip color and then something obviously too orange. Used the same photo program and did the same steps, but it didn't turn red on my complexion.
Tried this and my olive complexion is definitely messing it up a little, I ended up that does NOT read as red, but more purple? Even though it's definitely neither. But if I mix in a bit of true red it's pretty perfect so mission sort of accomplished?
This NEEDS to go viral. The number of people it would help!!! I am so excited to try this and to stop wasting money on lip colors that end up being terrible on me!
This is so interesting. Erin Parsons bought Marilyn Monroe’s actual lipsticks and her “signature red lip” wasn’t actually red, it was coral. I wonder if it’s the same thing at play.
That was because of the lighting and the filming. Movie and stage make up are notorious for things being different colors. They still do it today. Look at BTS shots from films and look in particular at clothing. Screen worn outfits are often NOT the color they appear on screen.
After watching that video, I ventured into buying some coral/orange lipsticks and voila! I found my ideal "red" lipstick shade. I don't have the exact one Erin said is the closest to Marylin's but I have Revlon 895 Poppy and I think it is close enough :)
Ok this explains why every single lipstick looks completely different on me than other people or the online swatches. This is absolutely amazing and I’ve never seen anyone address this!!
Same, same, same! I have only recently started trying to wear lipstick (in my early 50’s) and I was getting so very frustrated because everything I try turns out completely different on me! This is absolutely life changing for me and I thank you so much! ❤
Thank you for mentioning that olive skin tones make everything weirder. Having pale olive skin changes everything, I wonder if this would actually work for me! I used to wear peach because I liked it and every time I would see myself in a mirror in public I’d be like, oh girl you’ve never looked worse. And now I know I’m cool toned bright winter it has changed everything. Shopping is easier, I cleaned out my closet, I realized why peach blush never worked for me along with all bronzers (which are warm tone by nature), and started shopping Korean makeup which is has an actual selection of pale olive makeup like contour that actually blends seamlessly with my skin. It’s incredible.
Hi, I’m also a cool toned pale olive, high contrast winter. I’ve recently found Korean skincare products which I love. Could you please share the brand or store you’re getting your Korean makeup from? I’d love to try them as I’m struggling to find my colours in the usual western brands.
@@CuriousChar oh of course! Most notably Etude. The two tone Etude contour is chef’s kiss. The first time I used it I literally thought it wasn’t working because it complemented my skin tone so well and I was used to looking muddy from using bronzer as contour (a crime I know haha) or something super cool tone but also way too dark like the Kat Von D contour. I get most my recommendations come from Alexandra Anele. It’s been a game changer watching TH-camr with the same skin tone as me. She will even take all of her best olive foundations and swatch them all on her face at once to show the difference, it’s incredible.
Yep! As an ( warm) olive person on the mute autumn spectrum, I struggled for a long time with finding colors for my complexion. Warm colors like Oranges, deep browns and bright reds seemed too harsh on me. Corals were too pale or bright, did not blend. So of course, my next thought was, maybe I'm cool tone? ... No. Purples and cool pinks (bright winter colors or light summer colors) did not blend with my complexion and were too pale/ washed me out and just did not look right. No colors looked the same on me even if I saw someone the same shade as me (but different undertones) use it. All these brown girls who used purple and it showed pink on them or the ones that wore oranges and it looked more red/not as bright on me... Turns out that colors that show pink on me are... Calm warm colors like muted beige tones or pinky beiges, the ones that other brown girls would define as 'dusty'/'ashy'. It's very interesting how undertones work.
I love these art math vids. To me this one was so clear and fun and very useful. Trying it tmrw... Then probably going to go down a Sephora rabbit hole of adding and deleting colours on my wish list😅
🤯 Ruby slippers moment … just went through the steps and realized that first “reads red on me” color is a very close match for the lipstick I think of as “nude plus” and carry with me always. The one I can throw on with little or no other makeup and feel put together but not clownish. In other words, Fairy Godmother Kackie just showed me I’m already a French Girl.
The right shade of red to wear close to your face is the best thing you can do when not having time fir makeup and/or not feeling very well. It will work wonders. (scarves are easy for that!)
This has my mind completely blown. This type of content scratches an itch in my brain and answers questions that I never even knew to ask. Science and math are subjects that I always understood and truly enjoy. Art has never been my strong suit, but I enjoy being creative and makeup has always been an outlet for me to just have fun with different colors, textures, etc. Now I get to combine science, art, math and makeup and put some more thoughtfulness behind my creativity. Thank you Kackie!!!
Exactly how I felt about this video! I'd love more ways to play with colour theory and photo tools like this for people like me that are not "naturals" when it comes to understanding colour but can do so with a bit of tech help.
Yep! My perfect red is actually a fuchsia. I need some purple in my red. Bite Beauty made a lipstick in the Mulberry that was absolutely perfect for me (RIP). The new Ilia lip crayons have 2 that are really similar: blue note and night bloom.
Same here. I've been gravitating to fuchsia in lieu of red since high school, and now I know why. And I'm not surprised, because I'm very pale and have a bluish undertone. Also, I have Bite Mulberry and really need to wear that more often.
You look like a strawberry blonde, as am I and I don’t know why purple lipstick works so well on me but I saw a makeup video with Julianne Moore and she said she has always been told peaches work well on redheads but she prefers purple. I feel like oranges look pretty but make my teeth look brown. The purple seems to make my blue eyes pop
THIS WAS WILD AND SO HELPFUL. omg thank you so much for this. as someone who cant picture things in my mind the idea of just trusting the computer is great!
Wait! Your best 'red' generated by the photo editor looked like a deep but desaturated rosy-mauve (with the highest contrast colour being in the coral family). Consequently, I expected you to apply lip products matching this colour/colour family to test your hypothesis. But you ended up applying lip products that looked peachy and rusty orange/deeper terracotta (which look like variations of your 'perfect' beige)... Yet, after application, these colours looked reddish on you... This is the part that confuses me. What about trying lip products with colours that are the shade of the editor-generated rosy-mauve, aka your hypothesised 'best red'? Would that still look red on you? I am trying to understand whether finding the colour matching my most saturated part of the lip (what you showed in the very beginning) would still work for finding my perfect red. I hope that makes sense...
We must have the same phone. Sadly, all screens look different. I saw what I would describe as a cool, pinky brown, then she tried peachy/ rusty lipsticks and the first one did not look red at all to me, each lipstick as she went along looked a bit redder, but sort of brick red. They did, however, all flatter her complexion beautifully. However, I feel even less able to find nice lipsticks now... Except by choosing shades very similar to ones that have worked in the past. Personally (hello, fellow pale olive complexions) I have completely given up on pinks of any kind, I have a deep 'dirty pinky peach' that is neutral enough to be wearable, and every other lipstick I wear is some shade of berry (Revlon black cherry, vampire kiss, MAC Dark Side, NYX Fat oil in That's Chic or That's Major, the latter leans to pink, but the sheerness makes it okay).
Im the same and always used graoe juice by maybelline which looked mauve on me and everyone asked where i got it..sadly they discontinued the colour and ive spent a foryune trying to replicate the shade! The swatch, even on my hand looked identical but not on my lips. I thkught i was mad..now i understand❤@carolesmall-diop2333
I think you're missing the part about saturation If you back and watch the part at 3:04 to 3:18 or so, you'll see how she arrived at the more orangey colour: you take the first colour and THEN you max out the saturation without changing anything else(also in the photo editor). She didn't change anything else about the colour except the saturation and that was the colour it turned out, so that's how she ended up there. The first colour would make a good lipsticks shade but it wouldn't make a "red" because the saturation isn't high enough.
Is It possibile that to me It turns out to be a bright red (I put the slider on red and then the max saturation on)? My Natural tone Is burgundy @@xiola
Na, on my phone none of the tones in her lip looked red. They looked really really great on her, but it's just not a red tone and my brain didn't perceive it as red, more like a sort of earthy orange.
I’ve been absolutely loving all the art math videos lately, I cannot wait to play around and figure out my perfect nude that won’t give me the dreaded “corpse lips”! Thank you thank you!!! 😊 And, as a literal girl raised in France who has never been able to pull off the effortless French girl look, I now understand that my essence likely factors heavily into that too because I can’t pull off all of those frilly French girl clothes either! Love videos like this that make me rethink things in helpful ways!
This explains how I stumbled into my perfect red by complete accident. I ordered a ColourPop lip tint in A-Go-Go which is described (and shown) as *a sheer rosy pink*. I really wanted it for those *no makeup* makeup days so imagine my surprise when I put it on and it morphed into a saturated watermelon red color that I NEVER would have chosen to try. And it looked amazing! I wear it almost every day now. Off to try that computer trick.
This channel has quickly became my comfort channel and one of the few things that keep getting me curious and excited since i haven’t been doing great lately. I learn mind blowing stuff from you and I can’t believe how quickly it changed how i look at things. Thank you, really. You’re doing great ❤❤
I have been searching so long for a red and spent so much money to only check them in the trash. I'm blonde, blue eyed, but not the same coloring of Taylor Swift!! Thank you so much!!!!
GAME CHANGER! This made so much click for me. Between this video, the contrast, undertone, and saturation ones I'm figuring out why I tend to like certain colors on me better versus others. I think I'm a high contrast girlie on the neutral cooler side, and I tend to wear vampy lips. So, when summer rolls around, I feel lost with colors becuase they all feel too warm and usually end up going for blotted down versions of my vampy shades to lighten things up. This may also be becuase I'm olive and although I'm pale, my complexion tends to go more yellow in the summer sun. I would love if you addressed olive tones, becuase it seems like a wild card. It's so hard to find shades, especially when shopping online.
so true! I discovered recently that my best beige/brown everyday lip colour is a PURPLE. In fact, all my best lip colours are some version of PURPLE. So I threw out a ton of "brown " lipsticks and i couldn't be happier. Now, less than 5% of readymade lipsticks out there are PURPLE -- but now that I know, I will never go back to all those pinks reds and browns ! BTW I also discovered that my best foundation is a whitish pink and my best contour colour is a plain yellow with a breath of grey. Seriously. Every other foundation, no matter how "cool" it seems, turns hideous ORANGE on my skin. So I mix my own now in a little dish everyday. I always said I couldn't be bothered to do that, but seeing the result, it's so worth it!
Interesting! I love purple as lip color, but to me it acts more as red / bold lip color. I wonder if you know your undertone? (This color theory on makeup thing is so fascinating)
@@MA-2020 yes my undertone (as you would expect) is cool. It's complicated by my having a lot of natural rosiness/flushing on my cheeks, nose and chin. The blush I use is the palest pastel baby pink that is made; as anything darker on me looks like clown patches. I am sure the makeup consultants in the shops think I'm mad when I go in asking for these products.
Purple is my favorite lip color. I discovered a beautiful raisin-plum-brown which is just my IDEAL dark lip. I haven't tried to get a red yet, but I need to try it, now.
I’m in school to study color and this is such a cool application/example of the contextual nature of color - what a color looks like in some isolated setting can seem so unrelated to how it looks with a particular background or surround
This recent series of videos you've made on contrast and color theory are MIND BLOWING!!! I can't believe nobody has taught me this before. I'd love more, endlessly more, ART MATH. And does this mean that I can do the same thing with blush by color picking my cheek colour??
Just checking: did you mean to upload two videos on the same day at about the same time? It just doesn't seem like your usual schedule, so I wanted to give you a heads up in case it was a mistake. If not, just ignore 😊
I had the same thought! But if you watch the other video first, she addresses that she’s uploaded 2 videos today that are related on color theory… So it seems intentional 🙂
I have pretty pigmented lips and I’m always so frustrated, I try any of these “ nude” or “everyday” lip sticks and they just look BROWN and make me look dead! I tried it and the slider was almost all the way magenta. I don’t have a problem with red or berry, but finding a natural looking tone has been a bear. Color theory is really wild😂
Oh I'm giving the side eye to my very unused red lipsticks that I put on once or tried on and ended up taking them off like... "so it wasn't your fault... it was mine."
I already have my perfect red, which is rather orange and I never understood why it's red on me until I watched your video. This is such a valuable resource. I showed this video to my boyfriend who isn't interested in makeup but likes to draw, and even he got so delighted when that coral turned into red on your lips. Bravo!
Ive always known that most lip shades look wrong on me. Pinks look red, mauve looks red, nude looks peachy, coral looks orange and brown looks spicy/brick red. Until now I didnt know why, thought it was my ph or skin chemistry or something. Very frustrating! I can wear very neutral/cool red which doesnt look too bad, but usually its too much contrast for me.
Very cool concept. I wish I wasn't colorblind! LOL!! I have worn red for decades! I'd love to see you do this with, gasp, drugstore affordable lipstick.
This was so informative and helpful. But more than anything, you are just an UTTER DELIGHT to learn from and to watch. Thanks for the giggles and the rad info!
I bought Merit Court, and WHOA it looks so red and bright on me. I had considered buying Vermillion or one of their brighter ones, but I’m so glad didn’t!
That’s one I keep deliberating over as it seems a muted, brick red. My colouring is soft autumn and I keep thinking it would look like it’s not too out of place on my face 😂
Art math for all the reds that I've bought that are NOT my perfect red, Alex Anele's trick of using a neutral (compared to you face and the red) brown lip liner makes it look so much more native. NYX moonwalk is my cool and NYX Nude Truffle is my warm. I'm excited to use this to find a red that doesn't require a brown lip!
Hm, those are red shades. For most of us you can’t just pull off any super red-roses red and look good. This is an option to find your red, that will actually good on you, not get the same red as “classic” or whatever you have seen in movies and not make you a clown. I defo look like one with bright red 😅
This is soooo COOL and I replayed it so many time just to see your reaction everytime you try on a "red" shade HAHAHAHA! What a GREAT laugh you have! Oh..I'm also using this theory on my skin to find my best clothing colours. Not sure if it works but I think so 😂
Hi Kackie, Fellow painter here! I just want to make sure I’m understanding the background theory correctly. We have three dimensions of color: hue, value, saturation. The one thing you hold constant here is the value of your lip color. You manipulate hue-e.g. when you pick red or beige. And you can manipulate saturation to your liking. But the one dimension that won’t change is the original value of your lip color. Did I understand that correctly? And that relates, I think, to your point in the previous video that being high or low contrast matters-e.g. presumably, if you have deeper lip color, you are higher contrast. This method does require having some independent sense about which hue to select-e.g. which red will be flattering on you (a warmer or cooler red). Is this right? V Cool!
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Y'ALL! If you do this and find your perfect "red" PLEASE TAG ME on IG! I would love to repost them and have a highlight of the various shades that worked for y'all. Make sure you tell everyone what shade it is! ❤❤❤
I'm unable to tag you on ig
I’m not on instagram but after your first contrast video I went on the hunt at Sephora and found NARS Aragon is my red lip! They make it in a lip shine (sort of balmy but more coverage) and a lip gloss. Both look stunning on me as red but look like… rusty chestnut brown in the bullet! ❤
Thank you for doing this! I have actually thought SO much about this over the years, because I try red lips (and bangs, unfortunately) about every five years, and I'm always disappointed. I'm not on insta (for my mentie healf), but my "red" is Charlotte Tilbury Walk of No Shame. I am a fairly light neutral olive, and I cannot wear a true red without it looking like a clown mouth that belongs to someone else. But darn it if Walk of No Shame doesn't read as red on me. I don't really like buying from CT, because she kind of annoys me, but I can't find another shade and formula that works better for me as an occasion lip. I have found other warmish roses, like Lisa Eldridge Enchantment, but too much opacity also isn't good on me. For some reason I have to have a tiny bit of my own lip coming through or, again, it looks like there are wax lips floating on my face.
Hey Kackie have you ever heard the theory that Marilyn's famous red lipstick was actually orange?!
Also, a pretty solid way to find a lipliner shade - any nifty tricks with concealer or foundation shades you’d like to teach? I struggle so hard to find any that look natural and am perpetually bamboozling employees at Sephora or other makeup stores. Pale desaturated olive with rosacea that distracts and makes people think I’m way more pink than I actually am.
The one in which Kackie explains why it’s so hard to trust swatches and swatch photos. At least now I know I’m not an idiot. 🤣
You're not!!!
I literally had to reset my Sephora wish list after watching this series 😂
in all of my YEARS watching yt videos about makeup, i truly believe this is single-handedly the most useful EASY one by far
thank you!!!
OMG freedom! Who knew my ideal red was freaking orange?! Jones Road Valencia was in my desk drawer (inspired by Scarlet Johansson's lip in Wes Andersen's Asteroid City). Art math suggests my lips are so blue they balance out the orange and we land on red? You're magic. Thank you
This is actually the case for Marilyn Monroe. Her classic red lip is actually orange. :)
Two Kackie videos at the same time??? Oh I am LIVING for it
YES!!! I am feeling spoiled as hell!!!! ❤
So fun! You might know about the stylist David Zyla? Your video made me think about his way to find YOUR RED, which he call your Romantic Color. And It's by pinching the fleshy tip of your fingers, looking at the deepest color of your lips (like you do here) or the color you naturally blush - like if you litteraly pinch your cheek. He explains that different saturations will look good too. So your red can be brick, peppermint pink, strawberry, peach, burned orange, dusty whatever... it's all ''your red''! I love this concept.
Light berry, apparently. Thanks, I'll try it!
I have a palette from Zyla and my red works in clothes but not in lipstick. I turn the color very very pink when I put it on my lips.
OMG this explains so much!!!! I used to buy every red shade from maybelline's matte ink line in Hope of finding MY RED, and one day I bought a slightly more Pink and desaturated shade that has become my favourite red of all times, but when you see the packaging is like Pink lol. Just discovered your channel, YOU ARE AMAZING!!! Subscribed!!!
This problem has been driving me nuts. I bought some glasses with a very pink bit in the frame, but couldn’t understand why they looked red on me, and was going nuts trying to find a lipstick to match. Now I know why this is happening and can reassess my lipsticks, thank you!! 😂
Holy crap! This is exactly what I needed - every single red lipstick I’ve ever tried looks hot pink on me. I am definitely going to try the Picmonkey thing and see if I can FINALLY find my perfect ‘red’. ❤️
This video blew my mind!!! I am only aware of color theory as it pertains to makeup BECAUSE OF YOU!!! I’m here for all of these videos! I’m learning SO MUCH and this is helping me choose better colors! Thank you!!! You’re amazing!
Your color theory videos are more helpful than any how-to makeup video on the internet! ❤🙌🏽
I’m a new subscriber but I am just soooo happy I found your channel. You put out the most helpful, interesting and informative makeup content I’ve ever seen, all with a little bit of chaos mixed in which I live for. Also literally running to procreate to find my perfect beige lip! ❤
I’m going to school right now for graphic design, and you just helped me better understand color theory and “art math”! Thank you! So fun and helpful to see how this applies to makeup and real life. Gonna go try this in Photoshop now!😊
Dude. What. So fascinating.
Love watching people geek out over stuff that fascinates them!! Super helpful…gonna try it out😊
this is insane!!! all my lipsticks are within the range i was just playing with and red red never looks good on me! now i know why!!!
THIS!!! 🎉❤😮
I realised this when i found out I'm muted (cool olive) and now Revlon Rum Raisin and Peripera gloss tint in 02 are my effortless reds , these are better than maroons or dark reds like i thought before!
omg picmonkey that is a THROWBACK!!!!
Fascinating ! Thank you Kackie. I personnally loved the very last one on you. Stunning ! Love from Paris ❤❤❤❤❤❤
So excited to watch both new videos.
I want to try this so much! I have a blue red, and feel good in it, but am very curious to see what comes out of rhis experiment.
Brilliant!!!!! I'm guessing this would work with blush? Maybe? Please do a blush one!! These videos are priceless and thank you!
Cool process!
This is kickass! Why hasn't it blown up yet?
WTF 🤯 thank you for sharing Kackie!! This is SO helpful!!!!!
Great information. Do you have other brand/color recommendations in addition to these?
My favorite red lip I ever did on myself (normally I hate wearing red lips) was a dark burgundy liner on the entire lip with a deep berry pink glossy lipstick over the top
Omg I think I'm in love with you 😂❤ love your passion!!
I found that Charlotte tilbury wall of no shame is a great lipstick that looks red on medium olive skin!
Wow! That LE lipstick does the same thing on me! Everything that went red on you goes red on me. Now I know I know.😊❤
You are such a color nerd and I love it so much ❤😂🥰🥰🥰
Mind blown! Olive girl here
For a total dummy like me - I'd love to see you do one night how to choose your foundation colour ( esp for when you're buying online )
This did NOT work for me. I ended up with something identical to my lip color and then something obviously too orange. Used the same photo program and did the same steps, but it didn't turn red on my complexion.
Can you do this on other apps? ❤❤❤
Your videos are freaking awesome thanks Kackie 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍💜✌🏻🌻
Even as a fine art graduate, this is complete sorcery to me!
It’s like a fricking magic trick, wow!
This is super helpful!! Me and my Swiss cheese memory will probably not remember but that’s for another day
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My best red is orange. It turns red on me. Coral turns pink. Pink turns purple. It's like my face eats any hint of warmth in makeup.
Girl you're so cute!!!
Side note, today’s look with the various “red” lipsticks was the perfect French minimalist look. 😊
Tried this and my olive complexion is definitely messing it up a little, I ended up that does NOT read as red, but more purple? Even though it's definitely neither. But if I mix in a bit of true red it's pretty perfect so mission sort of accomplished?
😂 might be equal parts this video and my "rich vs hollow" video?
It’s magical
What program did you use? Srry if i missed it
Does anyone know an app for mobile phone which can do it?
Very cool. I’m going to try this! But will it work with nipple color? 😅
This NEEDS to go viral. The number of people it would help!!! I am so excited to try this and to stop wasting money on lip colors that end up being terrible on me!
You are SO clever.
Trying this 🎉
This is so interesting. Erin Parsons bought Marilyn Monroe’s actual lipsticks and her “signature red lip” wasn’t actually red, it was coral. I wonder if it’s the same thing at play.
I believe it would show as red on screen because of the camera
Yes, because the camera tecnology at that time PLUS the coral lips color AND her skin tone made it look red. 😊
That was because of the lighting and the filming. Movie and stage make up are notorious for things being different colors. They still do it today. Look at BTS shots from films and look in particular at clothing. Screen worn outfits are often NOT the color they appear on screen.
After watching that video, I ventured into buying some coral/orange lipsticks and voila! I found my ideal "red" lipstick shade. I don't have the exact one Erin said is the closest to Marylin's but I have Revlon 895 Poppy and I think it is close enough :)
Interesting! I’ve heard Marilyn’s coloring was bright spring, so coral / orange-toned red would make sense.
This is the highest value makeup video I’ve watched in a long time! Your videos have become masterclasses and I’m loving it!
Ok this explains why every single lipstick looks completely different on me than other people or the online swatches. This is absolutely amazing and I’ve never seen anyone address this!!
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Same, same, same! I have only recently started trying to wear lipstick (in my early 50’s) and I was getting so very frustrated because everything I try turns out completely different on me! This is absolutely life changing for me and I thank you so much! ❤
Thank you for mentioning that olive skin tones make everything weirder. Having pale olive skin changes everything, I wonder if this would actually work for me! I used to wear peach because I liked it and every time I would see myself in a mirror in public I’d be like, oh girl you’ve never looked worse. And now I know I’m cool toned bright winter it has changed everything. Shopping is easier, I cleaned out my closet, I realized why peach blush never worked for me along with all bronzers (which are warm tone by nature), and started shopping Korean makeup which is has an actual selection of pale olive makeup like contour that actually blends seamlessly with my skin. It’s incredible.
Hi, I’m also a cool toned pale olive, high contrast winter. I’ve recently found Korean skincare products which I love. Could you please share the brand or store you’re getting your Korean makeup from? I’d love to try them as I’m struggling to find my colours in the usual western brands.
@@CuriousChar oh of course! Most notably Etude. The two tone Etude contour is chef’s kiss. The first time I used it I literally thought it wasn’t working because it complemented my skin tone so well and I was used to looking muddy from using bronzer as contour (a crime I know haha) or something super cool tone but also way too dark like the Kat Von D contour. I get most my recommendations come from Alexandra Anele. It’s been a game changer watching TH-camr with the same skin tone as me. She will even take all of her best olive foundations and swatch them all on her face at once to show the difference, it’s incredible.
Woah.. what?! You can be a cool-toned olive? I swear they never ever suggest that in most guides. 😭
Yep! As an ( warm) olive person on the mute autumn spectrum, I struggled for a long time with finding colors for my complexion.
Warm colors like Oranges, deep browns and bright reds seemed too harsh on me. Corals were too pale or bright, did not blend.
So of course, my next thought was, maybe I'm cool tone? ... No. Purples and cool pinks (bright winter colors or light summer colors) did not blend with my complexion and were too pale/ washed me out and just did not look right.
No colors looked the same on me even if I saw someone the same shade as me (but different undertones) use it. All these brown girls who used purple and it showed pink on them or the ones that wore oranges and it looked more red/not as bright on me...
Turns out that colors that show pink on me are... Calm warm colors like muted beige tones or pinky beiges, the ones that other brown girls would define as 'dusty'/'ashy'.
It's very interesting how undertones work.
And yeah, I also only get Korean autumn warm products because on the western side everything is too dark or orange 😅
When you got to "and if you have olive undertones, it's even WEIRDER--"
I felt that in my little green soul.
I love these art math vids. To me this one was so clear and fun and very useful. Trying it tmrw... Then probably going to go down a Sephora rabbit hole of adding and deleting colours on my wish list😅
🤯 Ruby slippers moment … just went through the steps and realized that first “reads red on me” color is a very close match for the lipstick I think of as “nude plus” and carry with me always. The one I can throw on with little or no other makeup and feel put together but not clownish.
In other words, Fairy Godmother Kackie just showed me I’m already a French Girl.
The right shade of red to wear close to your face is the best thing you can do when not having time fir makeup and/or not feeling very well. It will work wonders. (scarves are easy for that!)
This is the best TH-cam video I've ever seen. How does this apply to blush and bronzers, etc??
I need this too. Especially the blush. Please please do blush like this!
Wow! Interesting!!! Yess
This has my mind completely blown. This type of content scratches an itch in my brain and answers questions that I never even knew to ask. Science and math are subjects that I always understood and truly enjoy. Art has never been my strong suit, but I enjoy being creative and makeup has always been an outlet for me to just have fun with different colors, textures, etc. Now I get to combine science, art, math and makeup and put some more thoughtfulness behind my creativity. Thank you Kackie!!!
Exactly how I felt about this video! I'd love more ways to play with colour theory and photo tools like this for people like me that are not "naturals" when it comes to understanding colour but can do so with a bit of tech help.
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Oh! This explains why most purple eyeshadow looks grey on me, and why greens turn bluish
Yep! My perfect red is actually a fuchsia. I need some purple in my red. Bite Beauty made a lipstick in the Mulberry that was absolutely perfect for me (RIP). The new Ilia lip crayons have 2 that are really similar: blue note and night bloom.
Same here. I've been gravitating to fuchsia in lieu of red since high school, and now I know why. And I'm not surprised, because I'm very pale and have a bluish undertone. Also, I have Bite Mulberry and really need to wear that more often.
Omg y'all tag meeeee I wanna see
You look like a strawberry blonde, as am I and I don’t know why purple lipstick works so well on me but I saw a makeup video with Julianne Moore and she said she has always been told peaches work well on redheads but she prefers purple. I feel like oranges look pretty but make my teeth look brown. The purple seems to make my blue eyes pop
Merit fashion looks pretty on me and maybe would work for you😊
@@Pangaea83 no I am not strawberry at all 😂
THIS WAS WILD AND SO HELPFUL. omg thank you so much for this. as someone who cant picture things in my mind the idea of just trusting the computer is great!
Wait! Your best 'red' generated by the photo editor looked like a deep but desaturated rosy-mauve (with the highest contrast colour being in the coral family). Consequently, I expected you to apply lip products matching this colour/colour family to test your hypothesis. But you ended up applying lip products that looked peachy and rusty orange/deeper terracotta (which look like variations of your 'perfect' beige)... Yet, after application, these colours looked reddish on you... This is the part that confuses me. What about trying lip products with colours that are the shade of the editor-generated rosy-mauve, aka your hypothesised 'best red'? Would that still look red on you? I am trying to understand whether finding the colour matching my most saturated part of the lip (what you showed in the very beginning) would still work for finding my perfect red. I hope that makes sense...
We must have the same phone. Sadly, all screens look different. I saw what I would describe as a cool, pinky brown, then she tried peachy/ rusty lipsticks and the first one did not look red at all to me, each lipstick as she went along looked a bit redder, but sort of brick red. They did, however, all flatter her complexion beautifully. However, I feel even less able to find nice lipsticks now... Except by choosing shades very similar to ones that have worked in the past. Personally (hello, fellow pale olive complexions) I have completely given up on pinks of any kind, I have a deep 'dirty pinky peach' that is neutral enough to be wearable, and every other lipstick I wear is some shade of berry (Revlon black cherry, vampire kiss, MAC Dark Side, NYX Fat oil in That's Chic or That's Major, the latter leans to pink, but the sheerness makes it okay).
Im the same and always used graoe juice by maybelline which looked mauve on me and everyone asked where i got it..sadly they discontinued the colour and ive spent a foryune trying to replicate the shade! The swatch, even on my hand looked identical but not on my lips. I thkught i was mad..now i understand❤@carolesmall-diop2333
I think you're missing the part about saturation If you back and watch the part at 3:04 to 3:18 or so, you'll see how she arrived at the more orangey colour: you take the first colour and THEN you max out the saturation without changing anything else(also in the photo editor). She didn't change anything else about the colour except the saturation and that was the colour it turned out, so that's how she ended up there.
The first colour would make a good lipsticks shade but it wouldn't make a "red" because the saturation isn't high enough.
Is It possibile that to me It turns out to be a bright red (I put the slider on red and then the max saturation on)? My Natural tone Is burgundy @@xiola
Na, on my phone none of the tones in her lip looked red. They looked really really great on her, but it's just not a red tone and my brain didn't perceive it as red, more like a sort of earthy orange.
THE WAY I JUST SHOUTED AT THE SCREEN WHEN THE COLOR LITERALLY CHANGED BEFORE MY EYES 👏
I’ve been absolutely loving all the art math videos lately, I cannot wait to play around and figure out my perfect nude that won’t give me the dreaded “corpse lips”! Thank you thank you!!! 😊
And, as a literal girl raised in France who has never been able to pull off the effortless French girl look, I now understand that my essence likely factors heavily into that too because I can’t pull off all of those frilly French girl clothes either! Love videos like this that make me rethink things in helpful ways!
Moi Aussie!
This explains how I stumbled into my perfect red by complete accident. I ordered a ColourPop lip tint in A-Go-Go which is described (and shown) as *a sheer rosy pink*. I really wanted it for those *no makeup* makeup days so imagine my surprise when I put it on and it morphed into a saturated watermelon red color that I NEVER would have chosen to try. And it looked amazing! I wear it almost every day now. Off to try that computer trick.
I love how genuine and enthusiastic you are about this. No pretense, just real.
Holy crap this technique feels revolutionary. It's actually objective and takes all the guesswork out. Gonna go hit up my Photoshop this afternoon!!!
This channel has quickly became my comfort channel and one of the few things that keep getting me curious and excited since i haven’t been doing great lately. I learn mind blowing stuff from you and I can’t believe how quickly it changed how i look at things. Thank you, really. You’re doing great ❤❤
I have been searching so long for a red and spent so much money to only check them in the trash. I'm blonde, blue eyed, but not the same coloring of Taylor Swift!! Thank you so much!!!!
I have literally never commented on a TH-cam video, but your art math/makeup mash up is absolutely addicting. I love it so much.
OMG A KACKIE DOUBLE-FEATURE!! Thanks Kackie!!! I need this red lip video so bad
GAME CHANGER! This made so much click for me. Between this video, the contrast, undertone, and saturation ones I'm figuring out why I tend to like certain colors on me better versus others. I think I'm a high contrast girlie on the neutral cooler side, and I tend to wear vampy lips. So, when summer rolls around, I feel lost with colors becuase they all feel too warm and usually end up going for blotted down versions of my vampy shades to lighten things up. This may also be becuase I'm olive and although I'm pale, my complexion tends to go more yellow in the summer sun. I would love if you addressed olive tones, becuase it seems like a wild card. It's so hard to find shades, especially when shopping online.
Omg I'm doing this with my skin to get clothing colors, too. I've never known what looks good on me, so this is unbelievably helpful!
That could be so helpful! Do you select a specific part of the skin? I would like to try!
I love all your art math videos. This is so bleeping helpful. I was a math math major and am art math dumb lol. THANK YOU!
so true! I discovered recently that my best beige/brown everyday lip colour is a PURPLE. In fact, all my best lip colours are some version of PURPLE. So I threw out a ton of "brown " lipsticks and i couldn't be happier. Now, less than 5% of readymade lipsticks out there are PURPLE -- but now that I know, I will never go back to all those pinks reds and browns !
BTW I also discovered that my best foundation is a whitish pink and my best contour colour is a plain yellow with a breath of grey. Seriously. Every other foundation, no matter how "cool" it seems, turns hideous ORANGE on my skin. So I mix my own now in a little dish everyday. I always said I couldn't be bothered to do that, but seeing the result, it's so worth it!
Interesting!
Interesting! I love purple as lip color, but to me it acts more as red / bold lip color. I wonder if you know your undertone? (This color theory on makeup thing is so fascinating)
@@MA-2020 yes my undertone (as you would expect) is cool. It's complicated by my having a lot of natural rosiness/flushing on my cheeks, nose and chin. The blush I use is the palest pastel baby pink that is made; as anything darker on me looks like clown patches. I am sure the makeup consultants in the shops think I'm mad when I go in asking for these products.
Purple is my favorite lip color. I discovered a beautiful raisin-plum-brown which is just my IDEAL dark lip. I haven't tried to get a red yet, but I need to try it, now.
I’m in school to study color and this is such a cool application/example of the contextual nature of color - what a color looks like in some isolated setting can seem so unrelated to how it looks with a particular background or surround
This is so helpful for someone like me who can't ever identify cool and warm is less obvious colors.
This recent series of videos you've made on contrast and color theory are MIND BLOWING!!! I can't believe nobody has taught me this before. I'd love more, endlessly more, ART MATH. And does this mean that I can do the same thing with blush by color picking my cheek colour??
One of the best makeup videos or color theory videos I’ve watched! Your artmath skills and teaching abilities are *chef’s kiss*.
Am I the only one who doesn't see those as "red" when on her? They DO look good, but I don't see red.
Same, it's not really a red lip to me. Just a saturated rusty color
Yeah, but she later said effortlessly French red so I guess this fits.
Just checking: did you mean to upload two videos on the same day at about the same time? It just doesn't seem like your usual schedule, so I wanted to give you a heads up in case it was a mistake. If not, just ignore 😊
Yup
I had the same thought! But if you watch the other video first, she addresses that she’s uploaded 2 videos today that are related on color theory… So it seems intentional 🙂
I have pretty pigmented lips and I’m always so frustrated, I try any of these “ nude” or “everyday” lip sticks and they just look BROWN and make me look dead! I tried it and the slider was almost all the way magenta. I don’t have a problem with red or berry, but finding a natural looking tone has been a bear. Color theory is really wild😂
Why am I literally tearing up about it your delighted laughter
Oh I'm giving the side eye to my very unused red lipsticks that I put on once or tried on and ended up taking them off like... "so it wasn't your fault... it was mine."
Beautiful colours on you - but they are not red? So confusing when you call colours that is obiously not red red?
This is witchcraft! And I need somebody with a better color trained eye to do it for me!
I already have my perfect red, which is rather orange and I never understood why it's red on me until I watched your video. This is such a valuable resource.
I showed this video to my boyfriend who isn't interested in makeup but likes to draw, and even he got so delighted when that coral turned into red on your lips. Bravo!
I've never seen someone else who is as genuinely thrilled by color theory as I am 😂 it's kind of validating, ngl.
Ive always known that most lip shades look wrong on me. Pinks look red, mauve looks red, nude looks peachy, coral looks orange and brown looks spicy/brick red. Until now I didnt know why, thought it was my ph or skin chemistry or something. Very frustrating! I can wear very neutral/cool red which doesnt look too bad, but usually its too much contrast for me.
Very cool concept. I wish I wasn't colorblind! LOL!!
I have worn red for decades! I'd love to see you do this with, gasp, drugstore affordable lipstick.
How do I pull the correct dropper color for two toned lips? My lips are darker on the top lip and especially at the edges
Man, I have been loving your videos lately. Here for the art nerd content!!
Huh. This explains why plums, berries, and winey purples tend tend to look red on my freakishly cool toned face...
This was so informative and helpful. But more than anything, you are just an UTTER DELIGHT to learn from and to watch. Thanks for the giggles and the rad info!
I bought Merit Court, and WHOA it looks so red and bright on me. I had considered buying Vermillion or one of their brighter ones, but I’m so glad didn’t!
That’s one I keep deliberating over as it seems a muted, brick red. My colouring is soft autumn and I keep thinking it would look like it’s not too out of place on my face 😂
Art math for all the reds that I've bought that are NOT my perfect red, Alex Anele's trick of using a neutral (compared to you face and the red) brown lip liner makes it look so much more native. NYX moonwalk is my cool and NYX Nude Truffle is my warm.
I'm excited to use this to find a red that doesn't require a brown lip!
Hmm, appreciate your opinion but they look like like rust colored/burnt orange. 🤷♀️
Hm, those are red shades. For most of us you can’t just pull off any super red-roses red and look good. This is an option to find your red, that will actually good on you, not get the same red as “classic” or whatever you have seen in movies and not make you a clown. I defo look like one with bright red 😅
It doesn’t look red to me: looks orange-ish brown. Looks good tho!
This is soooo COOL and I replayed it so many time just to see your reaction everytime you try on a "red" shade HAHAHAHA! What a GREAT laugh you have! Oh..I'm also using this theory on my skin to find my best clothing colours. Not sure if it works but I think so 😂
What is the website the finds the lipstick based on the hex code?
WOW! Affair looks red on you?!?! my goodness I have to try this. Thanks for this, fascinating. Our visual system is an absolute gas, isn't it.
Hi Kackie, Fellow painter here! I just want to make sure I’m understanding the background theory correctly. We have three dimensions of color: hue, value, saturation. The one thing you hold constant here is the value of your lip color. You manipulate hue-e.g. when you pick red or beige. And you can manipulate saturation to your liking. But the one dimension that won’t change is the original value of your lip color. Did I understand that correctly? And that relates, I think, to your point in the previous video that being high or low contrast matters-e.g. presumably, if you have deeper lip color, you are higher contrast. This method does require having some independent sense about which hue to select-e.g. which red will be flattering on you (a warmer or cooler red). Is this right? V Cool!