Yes indeed, I am one! I have very cool pale freckled skin with blueish undertones and strawberry blonde hair. My skin is cool and hair is warm. I can not wear warm colors without looking ill. Black, dark gray, gunmetal gray, cool blues, navy and some cool light purple colors suit me. Thank you for covering this. One color theory “specialist” nearly convinced me that I should dye my hair a cool ashy blonde color to look more natural and balanced but this is my natural color and it’s perfect for me!
yes! I've seen cool redheads in real life and I just love that look!! and I love the natural hair color with the natural coloration, I think it works perfectly.
@@merriamstyle Thank you and thank you for all of the information you’ve imparted onto us! I’m in my 40s and just coming to style essences and coloring realizations and your channel has been very helpful. It would be great to see more vids about unusual types, features and coloring (like this one!) as it can be quite daunting to figure out how to put it all together!
@@mcr_killjoys5sos_patd56 Oooh, you’re so lucky to be able to wear hot pink, my favorite color! When I was younger soft light pinks worked for me. It’s an interesting thing about wearing black, all the rules say it shouldn’t work but it does.
@@comment3711 As a MUA, don' t let ANYBODY convince you about whatever. If pink with blue veins+ yellow reflecting fire is unmatching, someone has a problem and it' s not you. Pink skin with golden brown freckles and strawberry blond shining gold under the light ✨ is simply *O THER WORD LY* 😍🧚🏻✨ 🧛🏻♀️🖤
Cool toned red-head here and luckily I have quite dark red/auburn hair with not much orange in, so a little easier when picking colours! You were totally right about the eyeliner with the black dress, If I want to do a black or a brighter colour then I have to add a bolder, pin-up style eye to make it work or it looks super heavy. I look best in cool sage, greyed-navy, blush, dusty blue, muted berry etc. Love you doing some redhead colour analysis and not typing us all as warm!
I am a cool toned redhead (auburn specifically). My wedding make-up artist INSISTED on warm toning me. I’m STILL mad about it a year later. Can’t look at my pictures. I literally look like I am a lot bigger than I am and it’s because of the make-up. Crazy how such small things make a huge difference. She insisted that cool redheads don’t exist, but my mom has told me since I was little that I am a cool toned redhead and my sisters are warm toned. We wear completely different colors and all look good in our different color schemes. Drives me nutso when people say it can’t exist.
Thanks for saying redheads can be cool. I am a fair-skinned freckled blue eyed, redhead (strawberry blonde) and love the cool colours on me. I had my colours done in my early 20's and was told Spring because I so fair but should be Fall because I'm a redhead. Now that my hair is going "grey" I especially like black!
Thank you for always putting out wonderful, thoughtful content. I’m a dark strawberry blonde with very pale, cool toned skin (not quite a redhead, but I spent years highlighting my hair to be a light blonde because I was told it was more flattering). This is super helpful video!
I’ve been wanting to go red for years but was convinced it wouldn’t work on me as I’m cool toned. Christina Hendricks was one of the reasons I wanted to go red as I find her so stunning. This was an awesome video thank you!
if you want to know if red will work for you, you could watch my video called 'hair color advice from a color analyst'. there I go over just how important red/green balance is to hair if you want it to look natural, and I also touch briefly on how body type will affect your hair color choices.
I am olive (Indian skin tone) and I was always told I have warm undertones....I recently figured out that my undertones are actually blue and pink, and my skin is yellow- so it mixes to look green/olive. And the yellow on top makes me look warm to some people. So technically I am not warm. It blew my mind away because I always wondered why I looked so good in blue and muted cool colors if I was so warm!!
That why in MAC (and only in MAC, opposite the rest of brands) C (cold) and NC (neutral cold) foundations are yellow and olive. Orangey and orangey with pink are considered warms. 😉 Well, and then whe have some others where olive is neither warm nor cold but _Olive_ it' s own cathegory 😅. Moral of the story? Wear what you fckng looooove! 🧛🏻♀️🖤
This is super-common, olive skin is usually incorrectly identified as warm. I’m about the palest possible version of olive and I discovered, in my pro color analysis, that my undertone is definitely cool. I look great in my recommended cool, light, soft colors and awful in yellows and oranges, etc. and the warm-undertone makeup I was wearing. We all have some yellow pigment in the overtones of our skin (except albinos), so it throws off many analyses. Olive skin of any color depth has, in fact, cool undertones. Many Asians and Africans have this skin tone, as well as many Europeans, like me. Too many color analysts only have familiarity and experience with European skin tones, but it’s gradually improving.
My sister has similar skin tone (she has been mistaken for Indian many times) and she is a deep winter. Cool, but closer to warm than other winter types and can pull off some warm colors. While I am a deep autumn which is similar but more warm than cool. Both can be described as 'olive' which is a complex range that is not always 100% warm.
I would love to hear your take on Jenna Ortega's skin tone and best colors. With her recent appearances, I've seen a lot of color analysts type her in different color seasons.
Thanks for shining light on redheads, Merriam! Interestingly, while I totally agree that Christina is bright and cool, I prefer seeing her in warmer tones. That’s why I love her looks from earlier seasons of Mad Men much more, her coral and green outfits coupled with warmer, softer lighting made her look much softer and more sensual and lively. Later seasons have a harsher, cooler lighting and a super cool navy-fuscia palette that really emphasized her cool skin, and while it made her look brighter, I’d argue it looked too heavy on her and made her features too sharp and her complexion kind of dead. I agree that a rose gold would look amazing on her, but between gold and silver, gold is definitely the winner in my opinion. I don’t know how that can be true with her cool skin, but red hair seems to be a special case haha
Just to add to what you said in terms of dying hair red: Christina Hendricks' natural hair colour is actually a warm yellow blonde, but it makes her skin look kinda grey & murky. So, I can understand why she dyes it red, since it's cooler compared to her natural colour, but not as drastically different as cool brown etc. Also, putting a cool toner in her natural blonde might just look too mousy for her. 🤔🤷
Another cool toned redhead here, but I have low contrast coloring so I feel like bright colors overpowers me and also very dark plums and similar. I’ve always been typed as a spring or an autumn and never felt I’ve looked my best. I’ve yet to Discover my best colors but so far I really like lilac and darker greys.
I’m the same but with strawberry blonde hair. I look terrible and ill in warm colors. Medium gray, gunmetal gray, cool blues, navy and lilacs in the low saturation middle brightness range are my best colors. My mom was a true redhead with pale freckled skin and she looked best in slightly brighter more saturated colors than me but the colors had to be cool.
I, too am a very cool skin with freckles and strawberry blonde hair. I can wear dark autumn, but look fabulous in periwinkle and fushia. I cannot come close to orange or gold or yellow/lime green. My sister is a darker redhead who wears those colors extremely well. But I've found that both gold and silver are bad. I can wear a bronze color and copper, but nothing that clashes with my hair. I tend toward dark colors being over 6 feet and very dramatic in body type. But that blue shadowed skin baffles the color wheel since the freckles and hair "seem" warm. I get typed as a warm spring, which is silly because I look horrid in those warm pastels. You're the only color type person who seems to "get" the red is neither cool nor warm.
Hi Merriam, I'm Cool and Radiant with with Dark Brown eyes, Brown/Black Eyebrows and Auburn hair. I've recently been trying to mix bright silver and bright copper jewellery. Silver on its own is okay. Bright Gold clashes with my skin. Pewter is boring, but I think the Bright Copper/Silver mix is the answer. I haven't tried Rose Gold but I think that could work too. Thanks for this video, it's very helpful. ps Two different Colour Analysts in the past advised me to dye my hair Dark Ash Blonde or Dark Ash Brown and it really does suit my skin, but when I do, it's like a light is turned off, in my appearance. It is quite difficult to reconcile clashing hair and skin in terms of temperature. L'Oreal Dark Rose Gold Blonde is the best hair colour I can find for me.
Thank you so much for this video! I'm a cool toned red head! I'm also a color specialist and HMUA and it's because of my coloring that I do what I do. I have very pale, neutral leaning cool toned skin and very strongly gold hair and eyes. I've been able to be a color chameleon because of it because I can shift my coloring to both warm and cool. I can't do extremes either way, though. Orange is definitely not my color, but certain yellows look great on me, but more so when my hair is cooler toned. I've had sooo many different hair colors, but I've been doing a soft black (again, no extremes) for over a year now with the best response from people. I've found it's typically the cool toned redheads that look especially good with black hair (Adam Lambert) of your style and body type is strong enough. I'm a Kibbe Flamboyant Natural that strongly leans Soft Dramatic with a pretty gothy edgy vibe. I also look good with more natural colors, but I don't stand out quite as much. More dramatic reds, chocolate browns, and black have been my best colors. I love cool toned gold's because they stand out enough, typically as one statement piece. Rose gold is the most flattering, though. I looove peach when I was to do something soft and pretty. I used a lot of light peach at my wedding and it made my skin glow. Teals, emerald green, blues, and purples are stand out colors for me. Black is when I'm fully supporting it, hair and makeup wise. I always chose yellow based foundations because even if the undertone wasn't quite right, it was still brighter and lighter looking. It's hard to find a super light, cool toned foundation. But I've been using white and blue mixer and it's helped a ton!
Thank you so much for making another video about redheads :) I too have warm red hair (however more of a dark gold tone which is warmer than Christinas red) with cool skin undertone. What works best for me is combining darker summer colors with autumn colors. For single colored tops my absolute best colors are warm autumn green followed by summer greens with grey in it, darker shades of blue & grey & violett and I absolutely stay away from reds, oranges, yellows, or fuchsia. Most important for me is that the colors are not too clear or too light. I guess what works for us is also heavily influenced by eye color, mine are of a darker grey and not clear.
I think similar colours look better on me too, but it’s difficult to find fitting clothing in those colours. Most common are white, black, light cool grays, browns, beige, tans, cool light pink and other pastels, which all don’t look good. Black is okay
I needed this! I definitely have cool toned skin and my hair is naturally strawberry blonde. I have been so confused about my palette because a while back a color specialist said I was a spring. I definitely am a summer but with reddish hair. I have had my hair dyed very red many times and it always looks very natural despite my cool skin!
I am a cool toned redhead! But I only just fully learned this from watching your videos. I have been told all my life I am "warm" and I am an "autumn" and so I've often tried to wear earthy, brown, warms tones. But actually these colours are not me at all. I kind of disappear in these colours and they also do not reflect my personality. I am a dramatic type of person! So recently I tried to wear just the colours I love and wear more striking, strong make up and wear black too which I love. This video has clarified what I was beginning to suspect - that I am cool toned. even though my hair is red and gives the apparency of "warm"... actually, my skin is so pale that you can see the blue veins in my arms and this I think gives me a blue dominance. I was also told once that I should wear spring tones with these peaches and oranges but I looked terrible. Yellow also is my worst colour possible. Thank you for this in depth video, it makes a lot of sense.
I would love take on the 12 seasons theory that everyone is using right now, especially on Tik Tok. You could do a Tiktok reaction about people typing celebrities and your opinions I've seen Elle Fanning being typed as a light spring (warm and bright but light) and I don't get why if its obvious she's cool toned 😅
As a MUA, tha' s one of the gazillion things that has always pissed me off about restrictive unflexible "MUST WEAR/MUST NOT WEAR" taxonomies. *What about my beyond lovely customers with very pink skin, several shades of golden brown freckles and their strawberry blonde hair shining like pure gold ✨?* Are they a chimera, then? Are they born unmatched? 🤷🏻♀️ #wearwhatyoufckngwant 🧛🏻♀️🖤
@@SueRosalie my coloring is very similar to that description and spring is a collection of my worst colors, second to that is autumn: its browns & oranges make me look ill
@@SueRosalieahaha that's a very close description of my boyfriend and istg he is NOT a spring (I know because I am! And he can not wear my colors at all) the best color I found so far for him is a light cold dirty pink, so I'm starting to think he's some typ of summer. But they the reason I'm still looking is that he really looks bad in many of his shirts, because it's hard to find colors that suit him
@@SueRosalie That's my coloring. The makeup that Springs are advised to wear is a lot of peach and coral. Those colors look nasty on me. My best lipsticks are cool pinks, the bluer the better.
I’ve been watching your videos a while now, and I’m convinced I’m a cool toned redhead. My veins through my skin are definitely blue, I think I look best in pink and olive and blue, and I’m paring down my closet after a big weight loss to contain mostly these colors.
Thank you for this video. I was typed as a (cool) Summer by skin tone a long time ago, and have struggled to keep my natural gold and red hair highlights toned down as much as possible … as if it was a defect. I should have embraced it instead. A bit late now as it’s finally naturally ash (in other words, grey 😂)
AHEM. As a neutral/warm skinned redhead - yes, there are definitely cool toned natural redheads. Not only that most redhead color advice is geared towards them. These are the folks with very pink undertones (rather than peach) and light blue/grey/light green eyes. They can wear makeup that looks horrible on me. I have light brown/hazel eyes, alabaster skin and dark red hair with golden highlights. Blue toned lipstick and any cool tones make me look horrible. Colors with warm undertones - warm greens (olive, grass green, warm forest green), blues (navy/royal blue and turquoise), cocoa browns, mustard yellows, dark red-oranges, tomato red all look good on me. Dark Charcoal grey looks great as does very pale peachy pink. Rust is too warm and matches me too much, melon and salmon are horrifying on me and cool yellows, mint green, slate gray and washed out cool blues are my worst colors ever. People get confused by us redheads because our hair is orangey but you *always* have to check our skin and eyes. And yes there are very pale olive skinned redheads - check out you tuber Hannah Louise Poston.
You are totally describing me too! I almost always just stick to black, mixed black camo or dark olive greens and my color pop is that bright neon coral-almost-pink. Neutrals are an absolute no for me. Like I want to throw up when I see myself in the mirror.
Thank you so much! This was perfect for me as I have her coloring. I am clueless about body typing and the other things mentioned so I will look for your other content.
Please make more videos on colours I am obsessed!! I think I am warm. But green never seems to suit me.. no one ever compliments me in green? Have you ever heard this… starting to think i am so close to neutral
could you be olive? greens can look 'blah' on olive because it's just not different enough from the skin tone. but for the same reasons, greens look beautiful on redheads.
@@merriamstyle Oh my god I feel like I’m talking to a celebrity! You replied to comments on another video it was under a different account.. Nicolas Sweeney… I can’t find it, i said that I was not female and you helped me so much! 🤣❤️ Ok so I thought I was olive skin toned but recently people told me that they don’t think I’m olive at all because I go very light without my tan. I was always told when I was younger I was olive so I’m very very confused. My skin is changing as I’m getting on in my 20s, I think, just feels like since I stopped dying my hair a sandy blonde that people like me much more in Black and darker colours now with my natural hair
@@nicfriary7174 lol you are so sweet! about being olive, it doesn't have to do with how light or deep your skin tone is, just if it leans rosy or greenish. anyone can be olive, very light to very deep. so just because you go light that doesn't mean you aren't olive. I wish I had an 'olive test' I could tell you about but I don't have one yet, maybe I should try to think of one.
So when looking at your first example with Christina, I must say that I agree that those cooler colours look better against her skin, but something that stuck out to me on every picture is how her hair didn't seem harmonious with her at all. So I googled and there was an interview where she said she is a natural blonde, dying her hair red/copper since she was 10. And while I agree that there are a few rare cool toned redheads out there, they usually have more of an auburn/red penny type of hair, not the golden orange Christina has here.
Thanks for the video, I appreciate the perspective that redheads can have cool skintones. I've heard that I must be warm toned because I have freckles and yellowish brown hair so many times that I started believing that I am unable to see colour correctly. I was typed not only an autumn, but a warm autumn at that. Can you imagine... the autumn colours really look off on me, very dark amd heavy. So I kind of settled for spring, because at least those colours aren't as heavy so they don't suck the life out of me as much. But I still prefer how I feel when I wear cooler colours. It does take some balancing, because if I go too cool, the colours clash with my hair and it looks off. So I love the suggestion of the "warm-cool" colours like warm purple and warm blue. That was my conclusion too. The other really confusing thing about my colouring is the yellow sunburst pattern in my seablue eyes 🤷♀️ but I really do not have any warmth to my skin.
I didn't know that. depending on how strawberry it is, I'd still consider that in the redhead family more or less. She certainly has a redhead's complexion, very rosy in tone.
Not even strawberry. Just dark blonde. She's mentioned it a few times. She starting dying her hair red at the age of 10 due to her obsession with Anne of Green Gables. So, I'm not sure she's a good case study at all for this type of video, unfortunately.
Another cool redhead here! True red to copper penny red hair (half white now at 55), blue-grey eyes, very pale skin with true blue veins, and heavily freckled! In the summertime my freckles darken and I can wear some colours that are slightly warm but in winter, when my freckles fade quite a bit, it's obvious that I'm cool! Cool greens, navy, cool purples look great on me. Black, charcoal, cool greys too. Silver, platinum and stainless steel for jewelry. I have some white gold too but sometimes it looks a bit too warm for me in winter. Olive green and yellows make me look ill! I feel that, thanks to the hair and freckles, we can often get away with wearing some warmer colours in small doses. For me I can pull off some warm whites and, surpringly, cognac during the summer!
My skin is super ruddy and have med-light auburn hair that only has a slight red in it, the becomes more noticeable if the sun lightens the hair. I'm pretty sure im a soft summer.
any lip color or blush tips for cool toned gingers? It is a struggle. Either am washed out because how the pink looks with my hair..or looks off because of the cool tone..think..almosy albino cool tonef.fml
@@rosawolke2788 i literally have blue tones in my skin (even though someone here is trying to tell me otherwise 😂) but the warm color hair is what confused me. I tried to match the warmth of my hair and wondered why color’s looked unflattering on me. When I used my cool skin tone as a guide, I finally found what colors suit me
@@Phoenixhunter157 It’s a little funny that people try to tell us that what we see is wrong or biologically impossible, probable because they think red hair has only pheomelanin and no eumelanin (which makes hair black, brown, or blond) when in reality redheads have both with varying ratios. In t-shirts I can wear colors of soft summer but in sweaters when the color is more in the vicinity of face & hair I need more saturated colors, e.g., greens (not turquoise + not brown green), blues, and violets (has to be cool) from autumn or winter or a combination of a cool and a warm color. This might be because there is contrast between warm hair + cool skin tone that needs to be matched but it is not the typical contrast from winter or autumn that is based on light and dark features.
Hello. Through your channel I was able to understand my bone structure and what looks good on it. Thanks. Now I would like to hear your opinion about the John Kitchener and Olga Brylinska system. What are these systems about, I'm new to these studies of beauty.
I come from a heritage of Sicilian/Cajun French decent. I have always struggled with my undertone. I have very dark hair and brown eyes, and although I can burn I can get very tan. Any help is appreciated!! I truly feel olive but am still unsure. Btw my veins are blue/green. I'm enjoying your videos. 😊
What I mean is, I feel in my gut that I'm warm, but my natural skin is fair yet if I stay in the sun I become very tan. A nice golden tan. All of my life I avoided foundation bc it was too difficult to match. Now that I'm getting into makeup, I'm on a mission to find my true undertone! Lol
Do the next on light haired Winter. I'm a light brown/dirty blonde Winter. Pple assume I am a Summer bcs my hair colour. But Summer cols wash me out while Winter ones look amazing on me. I can even wear pure black. My eyes r blue gray w yellow centers.
are you sure though that black does actually suit you - I think you should have an analysis done. Light haired winters have white or silver hair or the whitest blonde. Summer colours would not wash out those winters because they still have the right undertone. The characteristics of Winter are high intensity and high contrast as well as coolness, deepness or brightness. Your hair colour is medium intensity and typical of summer.
Hi Merriam! Your videos are very helpful. I'd like to ask if you could make another video on which hair color is best for each skin tone... I got a bit lost with the previous one, bc i always thought I was green (literally everyone says my skin looks green 🤣) but i don't look good on the suggested colors. So now I'm confused 😅. Thank you!!
Thanks for this video Merriam! I have been confused for a while about this whole issue. First, m daughter is definitely cool toned yet she has dark blond hair with auburn/redish sheen to it, and she has blue/green eyes. With very little contrast there, I feel she must be a Summer type. Secondly, me and my unusual combination. I am Winter with cool brown eyes with a hint of dark green, and cool fair olive skin. Yet my brown hair has a very subtle auburn sheen to it in the sun, and in summer I get a lot of freckles on my face. Orange, yellow, cream, any warm and muddy tone are definitely a no no for me, and my daughter. Even though I am not a red head, but simply have a red sheen to my hair, your video has really helped me understand why it is still possible to be cool toned yet have some warmth, too
neither of you are redheads. It's normal for winters to have some auburn in their hair when in the sun. You are both cool seasons, you winter and she a summer. Redheads are always warm seasons.
Thank you for making this. This video is amazing. Can yo make a video on hair color? You briefly said that some types look beat in natural hair colors and some types look Better in artificial ones. I would love to learn more about this.
Thank you so much! I’m an auburn and was white blond as a kid and I was more bright red as a teen and it’s slowly darkening as I’m getting older and now I’m more of a dark auburn:) but I have gray/blue cool eyes and a lot of cool pinks in my complexion am super fair skinned and cool toned
I'm very pale with cool tonned skin. I really want red hair and to use henna but, everywhere I look people say I won't suit it. I think I will go for a purple tonned red. However im from Scotland and see many cool tonned perople with natural ginger hair every day.
I don't know if you realise but the show's writers used colour for meaning in many ways, for both the decor and to express the personalities of the characters. Colours also signalled meaning in the plot and events. Costume designer Jeanie Bryant planned all the outfits with purpose. The same thing in Breaking Bad. Characters had signature colours and the colours used had meaning. .
I have been so vonfused about my undertone based on the fact that i have eed hair but i lean towards neutral-cool. This helps so much to confirm lol thank you.
Merriam! You said black as an acent color based on body type. Would TR be one of those body types? Thank you! Adored this video! It's so helpful!💜💜💜🩷🩷🩷🩵🩵🩵
I can find my and my childrens seasons, but my boyfriend is so hard to figure out TT his mom and siblings are red heads but he is blonde, like a very strong blonde, like almost as if yellow colored. He also have freckles and a very red/pink complexion, like just White in winter and then RED in summer.. eyes are light blue. I used to try and dress him in warm colors and it just doesn't work.. idk what he is.
Finally someone is talking sense. I don't understand why color seasons IMMEDIATELY shuts out being categorized as cool when you're a redhead. Like, really? Color is always more nuanced than that! I've always struggled with my season because of this and often I think I look good in winter colors as a red head. Same as me, when you see Christina, you immediately notice her skin and it's coolness. Imo. It's so obvious Also, I think it's not uncommon for a redhead to have cool skin and warm hair. We don't always fit into a perfect category. Instead of trying to say that we are either/or, I think it's something that can be embraced. We can embrace the contrast. I think this contrast can look so beautiful and dramatic!
What do you do if your were a natural redhead but now are graying? My gray must look blonde because everyone thinks I’m a blonde. My hair isn’t completely gray yet. I enjoy your videos.
The hair framing my face is now completely white whilst the back of my head is still red with some white sprinkled through. That has really lowered my contrast (cool toned skin but heavily freckled with blue-grey eyes). My best colours haven't really changed but I look best now in a less saturated or more muted versions of them. I've never worn much makeup but nowadays I find that I must darken my eyebrows (using a light hand with blonde colour pencil), wear a light coat of mascara (brown) and a lip stain or my face disappears behind my glasses (I have 2 pairs with black and navy frames). If I wear a more saturated colour such as dark navy, dark forest green or black near my face, I need to up my makeup to help keep the look balanced. I used to be able to wear those strong colours with minimal makeup because my red hair (true red - copper penny mix) was so dramatic but now with the white hair it's too much without makeup! I have absolutely no desire to go back to fully red; I love the white and, at 55, it feels and looks authentic! My hair is mad curly though so the overall look is not "old" at all!
So what would her season be? My hair keeps trying to put me in autumn or spring but my eyes and skin fit very well in summer or even winter. It’s maddening 😂
Hi Merriam! I received a color typing analysis from you a little over a month ago. I’ve emailed you a couple times to discuss further, but haven’t received a response. You said that I was warm and radiant with yellow dominance and my undertone is olive (you mentioned Salma Hayek is my color twin even though I’m a lot lighter than her) My main question was if a rich red copper would compliment me even though I have an olive undertone. You mentioned warm rich auburns would compliment me in my typing, but I just wanted to see if a red copper falls in that category. Thanks!
I've always been told all redheads are cool undertones. (And bc the makeup industry is lazy and cheap, they have convinced us cool=pink so that they have an easier time making the highly visible vascularity that all human faces have, but pale ppl don't have the melanin to cover it, uniform instead of giving us what all other skin tones get, which is a product to match and unify the true skin tone. We get a giant bottle of the uglies pig colored liquid blush to uniform the redness that we ALLLLLLL want to cover up.) I've also been told all olive tones are warm and medium skin tone. However here I am. Red hair, blue eyes, freckles and an undertone that can only be described as the love child of Kermit the Frog and Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh. I have luckily found your channel and follow the advice you give cool olive undertones and I have never received so many compliments on my makeup. I really appreciate the open mindedness you have for fair and cool olive undertones. Humans are diverse looking, who would have thought?! 🤷♀️😂
I am a cool toned redhead. for years people kept calling me warm toned. totally not. :P I will say even if you are a cool toned redhead... because we are redheaded we can wear many colors and it still looks great. I wear almost any color I want (although nude colors or pastels dont look so good on me).
MP has blue veins, and is therefore a cool undertone. i looked up several of her pictures and noticed that muted blues/greens/pinks/grays totally wash her out, eliminating the soft palette. she looks best in high contrast colors like deep reds, purples, and greens - she can even pull off black! i would classify her as a dark winter, which may be controversial but i think some redheads (namely auburn ones) can be typed here.
@@LizG117 I agree. She looks best in cold saturated high contrast colors. But she wears a lot of gold jewelry as well and it doesn’t look bad on her. And I saw her being typed as neutral. 😵💫
@@marliesbunker2601 i'm a cool summer with strawberry blonde hair and dark hazel eyes... my skin is similarly almost opaque it's so pale. i think it has something to do with that - there's not enough saturation in the skin to 'clash' with the yellow undertones. i also wear silver and gold and rose gold jewelry and all are relatively flattering!
Christina Hendricks is not a natural redhead. She started to dye her hair red since she as 11. So there's another layer of complexity to the whole thing - how does she look like a natural redhead?
If I’m cool and delicate with “pink”skin and naturally ashy/mousy blonde/brown hair, would this hair color be a good option for me rather than blonde highlights?
Red? No. Christina Hendriks went red for the character of Joan. Ash toned mousy blonde or brown always look great with ash toned highlights, because this kind of hair gets lightened by the sun naturally anyway and it' s the colour of your childhood hair
Hi. i had ash-colored hair in my youth and into adulthood. Cool undertone skin, not radiant. My natural hair color became a little reddish at the age of over 50. It is like light mahogany. My picture is old where i have light stripes. I don´t know my body type. It is maybe gamine. I thought based on the test, that i am theatrical-romantic, or romantic. I´m not romantic.
I am tan and rosy at the same time, I look good in cool toned colors as well as warm (or at least maybe I don't notice much of a difference) what undertone would I be ??
yes, maybe warm and delicate like Melissa said! If you look good in warm and cool colors, most of the time it means you're some kind of warm, maybe warm and delicate.
No, it's not possible. Redheads have that red/orange melanin and it's all over, in their hair and in their skin, and red is the opposite of green. So if you have red hair, you won't be olive. I've heard that Julianne Moore is olive. Absolutely not. She is a cool toned redhead. Red is the opposite of green. I talk about this in my video called 'Olive, we need to talk'. The reason why some redheads think they're olive is because they're cool. and they're being told that redheads can't be cool....so they find olive and think it's the answer, but it's not. it's only that they're cool redheads which is the real answer.
@@merriamstyle yes there are no olive redheads, they all have warm undertones and they do indeed have more of the red toned melanin than other people. Brunettes have more of both and blondes have less of both. And there are pale redheads not cool redheads.
It's always surprised me how many famous redheads...aren't redheads. Women dye their hair...a lot. Personally, I think a person's natural hair color is the most beautiful. But that's just me.
@@inzoiplayergirl Oh please, I'm not fooled by that for a minute. If your hair is dyed, it's not your natural color. Period, end of sentence. Accept it and let it go.
I think everyone looks best in their natural hair color. I see so many really jarring “blondes” with dark brown or black eyes and brows, they think it looks good, but it doesn’t, ever. I don’t believe there is any validity in the Kibbe system, either, every analysis I’ve had comes up with a different type, from all over the full range and I never fit any category well. It’s nonsense, as is the idea of body shape being related to coloring, it isn’t one bit. I do think Color Me Beautiful is valid and useful, it’s the original, and still the best. People are prejudiced against it because it uses seasons for names; I agree that it’s not the best nomenclature, but the system itself is reliable and the analysts are well-trained. I wouldn’t get anything other than an in-person analysis, in outdoor light shade, they’re too expensive to waste money on and a wrong result can lead to many bad purchases in wardrobe, hair color and makeup. Around mid-day is best, say between 10 am to 4 pm, in spring or fall, early morning light can distort cool or warm, as can late afternoon light (usually warm). Adjust time the accordingly for summer and winter, to find the mid-day hours for your latitude and date (Google can give you that if you don’t know how to get it from a map, it doesn’t have to be exact, only approximate).
Your premise may or may not be correct, but the choice of colours you're comparing to try to "prove" your point leaves a lot to be desired, as the pink and navy are both bright spring (cooler than warm spring I guess, which is a better fit for that peach you say isn't as good), and the only truly cool colour you analyze is black, which you admit doesn't work as well on her (but dark charcoal suits bright spring). So you basically spend the entire time claiming she's cool because bright spring suits her.
No it's not. All natural redheads have warm undertones. Actress Christina Hendricks is a natural blonde not a redhead. And yes she has cool undertones and is actually a summer. A lot of work goes into film and tv actresses' makeup, hair colour and costuming to make them look good. Summers can wear gold jewellery if it works with the clothing colour. I agree the salmon did look heavy on her and they never put her in yellow. Note how they gave her cool pinks for makeup. The red hair was for her personality. Peggy on the other hand has warm undertones and habitually wore mustard and browns.
Tons of natural redheads have a cool undertone to their skin. They look better in silver than gold. Navy blues, emerald greens, and purples look divine. Warm colours don’t look good on their skin even though their hair is reddish
@@clairewillow6475 that is just not true. I follow so many professional color analysis channels on social media for years and I never ever saw a natural redhead being typed as a cool season.
I’m a natural redhead, and I’m cool toned. My natural hair color is kind of a sandy auburn, and my best colors are cool and bright. I actually did my hair a cooler toned red so it would work better with my skin tone. The shade of Christina Hendrick’s hair looks terrible on me. I look like Ronald McDonald.
this is what i have such a struggle with because people always use celebs with fake red hair like emma stone, christina hendricks, etc. it is frustrating
Why you picked up NOT natural redhead to this analysis? What is the point? Give the example of cool tonned natural redhead, so maybe I will belive you. Vast majority of natural redheads are warm tonned, they can lean towards neutral, or neutral-cool, but natural redhead with cool undertone is very, very rare. I'm waiting for examples. Give me one celebrity that is natural redhead and cool tonned. Ups, I don't hear anything. Maybe they don't exist?
@@jenniferdavis3446 Redheads can have any eye colour. But they are always warm. That's bcs epidermis and hair r basically the same tissue and r governed by the same genes. They r either BOTH warm or BOTH cold.
Yes indeed, I am one! I have very cool pale freckled skin with blueish undertones and strawberry blonde hair. My skin is cool and hair is warm. I can not wear warm colors without looking ill. Black, dark gray, gunmetal gray, cool blues, navy and some cool light purple colors suit me.
Thank you for covering this. One color theory “specialist” nearly convinced me that I should dye my hair a cool ashy blonde color to look more natural and balanced but this is my natural color and it’s perfect for me!
yes! I've seen cool redheads in real life and I just love that look!! and I love the natural hair color with the natural coloration, I think it works perfectly.
@@merriamstyle Thank you and thank you for all of the information you’ve imparted onto us! I’m in my 40s and just coming to style essences and coloring realizations and your channel has been very helpful. It would be great to see more vids about unusual types, features and coloring (like this one!) as it can be quite daunting to figure out how to put it all together!
I am also a cool toned red head and I wear blacks, hot pinks, dark blues.
@@mcr_killjoys5sos_patd56 Oooh, you’re so lucky to be able to wear hot pink, my favorite color! When I was younger soft light pinks worked for me.
It’s an interesting thing about wearing black, all the rules say it shouldn’t work but it does.
@@comment3711 As a MUA, don' t let ANYBODY convince you about whatever. If pink with blue veins+ yellow reflecting fire is unmatching, someone has a problem and it' s not you. Pink skin with golden brown freckles and strawberry blond shining gold under the light ✨ is simply *O THER WORD LY* 😍🧚🏻✨
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Cool toned red-head here and luckily I have quite dark red/auburn hair with not much orange in, so a little easier when picking colours! You were totally right about the eyeliner with the black dress, If I want to do a black or a brighter colour then I have to add a bolder, pin-up style eye to make it work or it looks super heavy. I look best in cool sage, greyed-navy, blush, dusty blue, muted berry etc. Love you doing some redhead colour analysis and not typing us all as warm!
Same! I’ve always been confused why I can do a bright black! But more up playful styles I’ve seen work better with it:)
I am a cool toned redhead (auburn specifically). My wedding make-up artist INSISTED on warm toning me. I’m STILL mad about it a year later. Can’t look at my pictures. I literally look like I am a lot bigger than I am and it’s because of the make-up. Crazy how such small things make a huge difference. She insisted that cool redheads don’t exist, but my mom has told me since I was little that I am a cool toned redhead and my sisters are warm toned. We wear completely different colors and all look good in our different color schemes. Drives me nutso when people say it can’t exist.
Have you had a colour analysis done?
Thanks for saying redheads can be cool. I am a fair-skinned freckled blue eyed, redhead (strawberry blonde) and love the cool colours on me. I had my colours done in my early 20's and was told Spring because I so fair but should be Fall because I'm a redhead. Now that my hair is going "grey" I especially like black!
She doesn't hides her natural hair color is blonde, probably she's a summer, she dyes it red
Thank you for always putting out wonderful, thoughtful content. I’m a dark strawberry blonde with very pale, cool toned skin (not quite a redhead, but I spent years highlighting my hair to be a light blonde because I was told it was more flattering). This is super helpful video!
I’ve been wanting to go red for years but was convinced it wouldn’t work on me as I’m cool toned. Christina Hendricks was one of the reasons I wanted to go red as I find her so stunning. This was an awesome video thank you!
if you want to know if red will work for you, you could watch my video called 'hair color advice from a color analyst'. there I go over just how important red/green balance is to hair if you want it to look natural, and I also touch briefly on how body type will affect your hair color choices.
I am olive (Indian skin tone) and I was always told I have warm undertones....I recently figured out that my undertones are actually blue and pink, and my skin is yellow- so it mixes to look green/olive. And the yellow on top makes me look warm to some people. So technically I am not warm. It blew my mind away because I always wondered why I looked so good in blue and muted cool colors if I was so warm!!
That why in MAC (and only in MAC, opposite the rest of brands) C (cold) and NC (neutral cold) foundations are yellow and olive. Orangey and orangey with pink are considered warms. 😉 Well, and then whe have some others where olive is neither warm nor cold but _Olive_ it' s own cathegory 😅. Moral of the story? Wear what you fckng looooove! 🧛🏻♀️🖤
This is super-common, olive skin is usually incorrectly identified as warm. I’m about the palest possible version of olive and I discovered, in my pro color analysis, that my undertone is definitely cool. I look great in my recommended cool, light, soft colors and awful in yellows and oranges, etc. and the warm-undertone makeup I was wearing. We all have some yellow pigment in the overtones of our skin (except albinos), so it throws off many analyses. Olive skin of any color depth has, in fact, cool undertones. Many Asians and Africans have this skin tone, as well as many Europeans, like me. Too many color analysts only have familiarity and experience with European skin tones, but it’s gradually improving.
My sister has similar skin tone (she has been mistaken for Indian many times) and she is a deep winter. Cool, but closer to warm than other winter types and can pull off some warm colors.
While I am a deep autumn which is similar but more warm than cool.
Both can be described as 'olive' which is a complex range that is not always 100% warm.
olive skin always has a cool undertone
I would love to hear your take on Jenna Ortega's skin tone and best colors. With her recent appearances, I've seen a lot of color analysts type her in different color seasons.
Must be a winter type
Thanks for shining light on redheads, Merriam! Interestingly, while I totally agree that Christina is bright and cool, I prefer seeing her in warmer tones. That’s why I love her looks from earlier seasons of Mad Men much more, her coral and green outfits coupled with warmer, softer lighting made her look much softer and more sensual and lively. Later seasons have a harsher, cooler lighting and a super cool navy-fuscia palette that really emphasized her cool skin, and while it made her look brighter, I’d argue it looked too heavy on her and made her features too sharp and her complexion kind of dead. I agree that a rose gold would look amazing on her, but between gold and silver, gold is definitely the winner in my opinion. I don’t know how that can be true with her cool skin, but red hair seems to be a special case haha
Because she's not a redhead. Video example is terrible.
I'd love to see an example of someone who's skin color type conflicts with the color recommendations for their kibbe body type.
Haha, yeah, I wish she could do Dramatic/Bright spring (me).
Just to add to what you said in terms of dying hair red: Christina Hendricks' natural hair colour is actually a warm yellow blonde, but it makes her skin look kinda grey & murky. So, I can understand why she dyes it red, since it's cooler compared to her natural colour, but not as drastically different as cool brown etc. Also, putting a cool toner in her natural blonde might just look too mousy for her. 🤔🤷
yes, the character needed to have red hair, it was Joan's personality
Another cool toned redhead here, but I have low contrast coloring so I feel like bright colors overpowers me and also very dark plums and similar. I’ve always been typed as a spring or an autumn and never felt I’ve looked my best. I’ve yet to Discover my best colors but so far I really like lilac and darker greys.
pale skin does not equal cool undertones. All redheads have warm undertones
I’m the same but with strawberry blonde hair. I look terrible and ill in warm colors. Medium gray, gunmetal gray, cool blues, navy and lilacs in the low saturation middle brightness range are my best colors. My mom was a true redhead with pale freckled skin and she looked best in slightly brighter more saturated colors than me but the colors had to be cool.
You sound exactly like me - you are mostly a soft summer but with warm hair.
Merriam thank you for providing such a service to so many curious people.
Excellent. I find everything you said makes perfect sense and is very in depth, ie about fabric weight, wearing black etc. Thank you.
Finally, after all this time, I found me! This type is exactly me in coloring.
aw I'm so happy to hear that!!
I, too am a very cool skin with freckles and strawberry blonde hair. I can wear dark autumn, but look fabulous in periwinkle and fushia. I cannot come close to orange or gold or yellow/lime green. My sister is a darker redhead who wears those colors extremely well. But I've found that both gold and silver are bad. I can wear a bronze color and copper, but nothing that clashes with my hair. I tend toward dark colors being over 6 feet and very dramatic in body type. But that blue shadowed skin baffles the color wheel since the freckles and hair "seem" warm. I get typed as a warm spring, which is silly because I look horrid in those warm pastels. You're the only color type person who seems to "get" the red is neither cool nor warm.
Please do a video on strawberry blonde cool-toned skin. I think the rules are different somehow because its so low contrast.
Hi Merriam, I'm Cool and Radiant with with Dark Brown eyes, Brown/Black Eyebrows and Auburn hair. I've recently been trying to mix bright silver and bright copper jewellery. Silver on its own is okay. Bright Gold clashes with my skin. Pewter is boring, but I think the Bright Copper/Silver mix is the answer. I haven't tried Rose Gold but I think that could work too. Thanks for this video, it's very helpful. ps Two different Colour Analysts in the past advised me to dye my hair Dark Ash Blonde or Dark Ash Brown and it really does suit my skin, but when I do, it's like a light is turned off, in my appearance. It is quite difficult to reconcile clashing hair and skin in terms of temperature. L'Oreal Dark Rose Gold Blonde is the best hair colour I can find for me.
Thank you so much for this video! I'm a cool toned red head! I'm also a color specialist and HMUA and it's because of my coloring that I do what I do. I have very pale, neutral leaning cool toned skin and very strongly gold hair and eyes. I've been able to be a color chameleon because of it because I can shift my coloring to both warm and cool. I can't do extremes either way, though. Orange is definitely not my color, but certain yellows look great on me, but more so when my hair is cooler toned.
I've had sooo many different hair colors, but I've been doing a soft black (again, no extremes) for over a year now with the best response from people. I've found it's typically the cool toned redheads that look especially good with black hair (Adam Lambert) of your style and body type is strong enough.
I'm a Kibbe Flamboyant Natural that strongly leans Soft Dramatic with a pretty gothy edgy vibe. I also look good with more natural colors, but I don't stand out quite as much. More dramatic reds, chocolate browns, and black have been my best colors. I love cool toned gold's because they stand out enough, typically as one statement piece. Rose gold is the most flattering, though. I looove peach when I was to do something soft and pretty. I used a lot of light peach at my wedding and it made my skin glow. Teals, emerald green, blues, and purples are stand out colors for me. Black is when I'm fully supporting it, hair and makeup wise.
I always chose yellow based foundations because even if the undertone wasn't quite right, it was still brighter and lighter looking. It's hard to find a super light, cool toned foundation. But I've been using white and blue mixer and it's helped a ton!
Thank you so much for making another video about redheads :) I too have warm red hair (however more of a dark gold tone which is warmer than Christinas red) with cool skin undertone. What works best for me is combining darker summer colors with autumn colors. For single colored tops my absolute best colors are warm autumn green followed by summer greens with grey in it, darker shades of blue & grey & violett and I absolutely stay away from reds, oranges, yellows, or fuchsia.
Most important for me is that the colors are not too clear or too light. I guess what works for us is also heavily influenced by eye color, mine are of a darker grey and not clear.
Which warm autumn green?
I think similar colours look better on me too, but it’s difficult to find fitting clothing in those colours. Most common are white, black, light cool grays, browns, beige, tans, cool light pink and other pastels, which all don’t look good. Black is okay
I’m a cool toned redhead. What a wonderful video so eloquently done.
I needed this! I definitely have cool toned skin and my hair is naturally strawberry blonde. I have been so confused about my palette because a while back a color specialist said I was a spring. I definitely am a summer but with reddish hair. I have had my hair dyed very red many times and it always looks very natural despite my cool skin!
I am a cool toned redhead! But I only just fully learned this from watching your videos. I have been told all my life I am "warm" and I am an "autumn" and so I've often tried to wear earthy, brown, warms tones. But actually these colours are not me at all. I kind of disappear in these colours and they also do not reflect my personality. I am a dramatic type of person! So recently I tried to wear just the colours I love and wear more striking, strong make up and wear black too which I love. This video has clarified what I was beginning to suspect - that I am cool toned. even though my hair is red and gives the apparency of "warm"... actually, my skin is so pale that you can see the blue veins in my arms and this I think gives me a blue dominance. I was also told once that I should wear spring tones with these peaches and oranges but I looked terrible. Yellow also is my worst colour possible. Thank you for this in depth video, it makes a lot of sense.
I would love take on the 12 seasons theory that everyone is using right now, especially on Tik Tok. You could do a Tiktok reaction about people typing celebrities and your opinions
I've seen Elle Fanning being typed as a light spring (warm and bright but light) and I don't get why if its obvious she's cool toned 😅
Yes, after doing several tests, I seem to be cool toned.
And yes, I am a ginger.
I will say I do not look good in that kind of hot pink.
As a MUA, tha' s one of the gazillion things that has always pissed me off about restrictive unflexible "MUST WEAR/MUST NOT WEAR" taxonomies. *What about my beyond lovely customers with very pink skin, several shades of golden brown freckles and their strawberry blonde hair shining like pure gold ✨?* Are they a chimera, then? Are they born unmatched? 🤷🏻♀️ #wearwhatyoufckngwant 🧛🏻♀️🖤
those people are Springs
@@SueRosalie my coloring is very similar to that description and spring is a collection of my worst colors, second to that is autumn: its browns & oranges make me look ill
@@SueRosalieahaha that's a very close description of my boyfriend and istg he is NOT a spring (I know because I am! And he can not wear my colors at all) the best color I found so far for him is a light cold dirty pink, so I'm starting to think he's some typ of summer. But they the reason I'm still looking is that he really looks bad in many of his shirts, because it's hard to find colors that suit him
@@SueRosalie That's my coloring. The makeup that Springs are advised to wear is a lot of peach and coral. Those colors look nasty on me. My best lipsticks are cool pinks, the bluer the better.
I just bought a dress in almost in that exact cool navy and it’s my absolute favorite !!!
I’ve been watching your videos a while now, and I’m convinced I’m a cool toned redhead. My veins through my skin are definitely blue, I think I look best in pink and olive and blue, and I’m paring down my closet after a big weight loss to contain mostly these colors.
Thank you for this video. I was typed as a (cool) Summer by skin tone a long time ago, and have struggled to keep my natural gold and red hair highlights toned down as much as possible … as if it was a defect. I should have embraced it instead. A bit late now as it’s finally naturally ash (in other words, grey 😂)
She is so beautiful.
Thank you for talking about redheads!!💖
AHEM. As a neutral/warm skinned redhead - yes, there are definitely cool toned natural redheads. Not only that most redhead color advice is geared towards them. These are the folks with very pink undertones (rather than peach) and light blue/grey/light green eyes. They can wear makeup that looks horrible on me. I have light brown/hazel eyes, alabaster skin and dark red hair with golden highlights. Blue toned lipstick and any cool tones make me look horrible. Colors with warm undertones - warm greens (olive, grass green, warm forest green), blues (navy/royal blue and turquoise), cocoa browns, mustard yellows, dark red-oranges, tomato red all look good on me. Dark Charcoal grey looks great as does very pale peachy pink. Rust is too warm and matches me too much, melon and salmon are horrifying on me and cool yellows, mint green, slate gray and washed out cool blues are my worst colors ever. People get confused by us redheads because our hair is orangey but you *always* have to check our skin and eyes. And yes there are very pale olive skinned redheads - check out you tuber Hannah Louise Poston.
You are totally describing me too! I almost always just stick to black, mixed black camo or dark olive greens and my color pop is that bright neon coral-almost-pink. Neutrals are an absolute no for me. Like I want to throw up when I see myself in the mirror.
I always learn so much from your videos, even if the title doesn’t apply to me! 💕
Thank you so much! This was perfect for me as I have her coloring. I am clueless about body typing and the other things mentioned so I will look for your other content.
Please make more videos on colours I am obsessed!!
I think I am warm. But green never seems to suit me.. no one ever compliments me in green? Have you ever heard this… starting to think i am so close to neutral
could you be olive? greens can look 'blah' on olive because it's just not different enough from the skin tone. but for the same reasons, greens look beautiful on redheads.
@@merriamstyle Oh my god I feel like I’m talking to a celebrity! You replied to comments on another video it was under a different account.. Nicolas Sweeney… I can’t find it, i said that I was not female and you helped me so much! 🤣❤️
Ok so I thought I was olive skin toned but recently people told me that they don’t think I’m olive at all because I go very light without my tan. I was always told when I was younger I was olive so I’m very very confused. My skin is changing as I’m getting on in my 20s, I think, just feels like since I stopped dying my hair a sandy blonde that people like me much more in Black and darker colours now with my natural hair
@@nicfriary7174 lol you are so sweet! about being olive, it doesn't have to do with how light or deep your skin tone is, just if it leans rosy or greenish. anyone can be olive, very light to very deep. so just because you go light that doesn't mean you aren't olive. I wish I had an 'olive test' I could tell you about but I don't have one yet, maybe I should try to think of one.
So when looking at your first example with Christina, I must say that I agree that those cooler colours look better against her skin, but something that stuck out to me on every picture is how her hair didn't seem harmonious with her at all. So I googled and there was an interview where she said she is a natural blonde, dying her hair red/copper since she was 10. And while I agree that there are a few rare cool toned redheads out there, they usually have more of an auburn/red penny type of hair, not the golden orange Christina has here.
Thanks for the video, I appreciate the perspective that redheads can have cool skintones. I've heard that I must be warm toned because I have freckles and yellowish brown hair so many times that I started believing that I am unable to see colour correctly. I was typed not only an autumn, but a warm autumn at that. Can you imagine... the autumn colours really look off on me, very dark amd heavy. So I kind of settled for spring, because at least those colours aren't as heavy so they don't suck the life out of me as much. But I still prefer how I feel when I wear cooler colours. It does take some balancing, because if I go too cool, the colours clash with my hair and it looks off. So I love the suggestion of the "warm-cool" colours like warm purple and warm blue. That was my conclusion too. The other really confusing thing about my colouring is the yellow sunburst pattern in my seablue eyes 🤷♀️ but I really do not have any warmth to my skin.
This video was made for me, thank you!
Surprised to read this but Christina’s real haircolor is actually a strawberry blonde
I didn't know that. depending on how strawberry it is, I'd still consider that in the redhead family more or less. She certainly has a redhead's complexion, very rosy in tone.
Not even strawberry. Just dark blonde. She's mentioned it a few times. She starting dying her hair red at the age of 10 due to her obsession with Anne of Green Gables. So, I'm not sure she's a good case study at all for this type of video, unfortunately.
Another cool redhead here! True red to copper penny red hair (half white now at 55), blue-grey eyes, very pale skin with true blue veins, and heavily freckled! In the summertime my freckles darken and I can wear some colours that are slightly warm but in winter, when my freckles fade quite a bit, it's obvious that I'm cool! Cool greens, navy, cool purples look great on me. Black, charcoal, cool greys too. Silver, platinum and stainless steel for jewelry. I have some white gold too but sometimes it looks a bit too warm for me in winter. Olive green and yellows make me look ill!
I feel that, thanks to the hair and freckles, we can often get away with wearing some warmer colours in small doses. For me I can pull off some warm whites and, surpringly, cognac during the summer!
My skin is super ruddy and have med-light auburn hair that only has a slight red in it, the becomes more noticeable if the sun lightens the hair. I'm pretty sure im a soft summer.
This was incredibly helpful!!! Thank you so much ❤
OMG!!!!!!! THANK YOU MERRIAM! Her lipstick at 6:42.....NEED! Tehe its so PERFECT!
any lip color or blush tips for cool toned gingers? It is a struggle.
Either am washed out because how the pink looks with my hair..or looks off because of the cool tone..think..almosy albino cool tonef.fml
I’m a cool toned redhead it took me forever to figure that out.
redheads all have warm undertones. Nothing to do with how fair your skin is
@@SueRosalie no I don’t
@@Phoenixhunter157 same
@@rosawolke2788 i literally have blue tones in my skin (even though someone here is trying to tell me otherwise 😂) but the warm color hair is what confused me. I tried to match the warmth of my hair and wondered why color’s looked unflattering on me. When I used my cool skin tone as a guide, I finally found what colors suit me
@@Phoenixhunter157 It’s a little funny that people try to tell us that what we see is wrong or biologically impossible, probable because they think red hair has only pheomelanin and no eumelanin (which makes hair black, brown, or blond) when in reality redheads have both with varying ratios.
In t-shirts I can wear colors of soft summer but in sweaters when the color is more in the vicinity of face & hair I need more saturated colors, e.g., greens (not turquoise + not brown green), blues, and violets (has to be cool) from autumn or winter or a combination of a cool and a warm color. This might be because there is contrast between warm hair + cool skin tone that needs to be matched but it is not the typical contrast from winter or autumn that is based on light and dark features.
Hello. Through your channel I was able to understand my bone structure and what looks good on it. Thanks. Now I would like to hear your opinion about the John Kitchener and Olga Brylinska system. What are these systems about, I'm new to these studies of beauty.
I come from a heritage of Sicilian/Cajun French decent. I have always struggled with my undertone. I have very dark hair and brown eyes, and although I can burn I can get very tan. Any help is appreciated!! I truly feel olive but am still unsure. Btw my veins are blue/green. I'm enjoying your videos. 😊
What I mean is, I feel in my gut that I'm warm, but my natural skin is fair yet if I stay in the sun I become very tan. A nice golden tan. All of my life I avoided foundation bc it was too difficult to match. Now that I'm getting into makeup, I'm on a mission to find my true undertone! Lol
Do the next on light haired Winter. I'm a light brown/dirty blonde Winter. Pple assume I am a Summer bcs my hair colour. But Summer cols wash me out while Winter ones look amazing on me. I can even wear pure black. My eyes r blue gray w yellow centers.
are you sure though that black does actually suit you - I think you should have an analysis done. Light haired winters have white or silver hair or the whitest blonde. Summer colours would not wash out those winters because they still have the right undertone. The characteristics of Winter are high intensity and high contrast as well as coolness, deepness or brightness. Your hair colour is medium intensity and typical of summer.
Hi Merriam!
Your videos are very helpful.
I'd like to ask if you could make another video on which hair color is best for each skin tone... I got a bit lost with the previous one, bc i always thought I was green (literally everyone says my skin looks green 🤣) but i don't look good on the suggested colors. So now I'm confused 😅.
Thank you!!
love your videos, even though I can't see what you see😂 it obviously takes training, but thanks for the lessons!!!
Thanks for this video Merriam! I have been confused for a while about this whole issue. First, m daughter is definitely cool toned yet she has dark blond hair with auburn/redish sheen to it, and she has blue/green eyes. With very little contrast there, I feel she must be a Summer type. Secondly, me and my unusual combination. I am Winter with cool brown eyes with a hint of dark green, and cool fair olive skin. Yet my brown hair has a very subtle auburn sheen to it in the sun, and in summer I get a lot of freckles on my face. Orange, yellow, cream, any warm and muddy tone are definitely a no no for me, and my daughter. Even though I am not a red head, but simply have a red sheen to my hair, your video has really helped me understand why it is still possible to be cool toned yet have some warmth, too
neither of you are redheads. It's normal for winters to have some auburn in their hair when in the sun. You are both cool seasons, you winter and she a summer. Redheads are always warm seasons.
@@SueRosalie thanks for your reply., I appreciate it :)
Thank you for making this. This video is amazing. Can yo make a video on hair color? You briefly said that some types look beat in natural hair colors and some types look Better in artificial ones. I would love to learn more about this.
She has one already!
Thank you so much! I’m an auburn and was white blond as a kid and I was more bright red as a teen and it’s slowly darkening as I’m getting older and now I’m more of a dark auburn:) but I have gray/blue cool eyes and a lot of cool pinks in my complexion am super fair skinned and cool toned
But it’s so confusing trying to find my season!
I'm very pale with cool tonned skin. I really want red hair and to use henna but, everywhere I look people say I won't suit it. I think I will go for a purple tonned red. However im from Scotland and see many cool tonned perople with natural ginger hair every day.
Cool neutral toned red heads generally have mahogany or auburn hair like mine and get classified as brunettes. We aren't al bino orange heads
I don't know if you realise but the show's writers used colour for meaning in many ways, for both the decor and to express the personalities of the characters. Colours also signalled meaning in the plot and events. Costume designer Jeanie Bryant planned all the outfits with purpose. The same thing in Breaking Bad. Characters had signature colours and the colours used had meaning. .
can't wait for the next video
I have an olive undertone to my skin and I'm a redhead with pale skin, I've compared my skin to other redheads in my family and it's more yellow
Thank you so much!!
I have been so vonfused about my undertone based on the fact that i have eed hair but i lean towards neutral-cool. This helps so much to confirm lol thank you.
Merriam! You said black as an acent color based on body type. Would TR be one of those body types? Thank you! Adored this video! It's so helpful!💜💜💜🩷🩷🩷🩵🩵🩵
What colors would flatter someone with a yellow toned skin? Its not green/olive and not peach but closer to yellow toned?
All yellow based skintones are warm by default, so peach, caramel, cinnamon, warm olives, copper,warm chocolate, cream,etc....
@@An-kw3ec Thank you!
I can find my and my childrens seasons, but my boyfriend is so hard to figure out TT his mom and siblings are red heads but he is blonde, like a very strong blonde, like almost as if yellow colored. He also have freckles and a very red/pink complexion, like just White in winter and then RED in summer.. eyes are light blue. I used to try and dress him in warm colors and it just doesn't work.. idk what he is.
can you do east asian colouring please? it's confusing
Finally someone is talking sense. I don't understand why color seasons IMMEDIATELY shuts out being categorized as cool when you're a redhead. Like, really? Color is always more nuanced than that! I've always struggled with my season because of this and often I think I look good in winter colors as a red head.
Same as me, when you see Christina, you immediately notice her skin and it's coolness. Imo. It's so obvious
Also, I think it's not uncommon for a redhead to have cool skin and warm hair. We don't always fit into a perfect category. Instead of trying to say that we are either/or, I think it's something that can be embraced. We can embrace the contrast. I think this contrast can look so beautiful and dramatic!
But its not her natural haircolor 🤔
Right, fhat part is confusing me
What do you do if your were a natural redhead but now are graying? My gray must look blonde because everyone thinks I’m a blonde. My hair isn’t completely gray yet. I enjoy your videos.
redheads are the people who can and probably should keep up their hair colour because they can look washed out once they go grey.
The hair framing my face is now completely white whilst the back of my head is still red with some white sprinkled through. That has really lowered my contrast (cool toned skin but heavily freckled with blue-grey eyes). My best colours haven't really changed but I look best now in a less saturated or more muted versions of them. I've never worn much makeup but nowadays I find that I must darken my eyebrows (using a light hand with blonde colour pencil), wear a light coat of mascara (brown) and a lip stain or my face disappears behind my glasses (I have 2 pairs with black and navy frames).
If I wear a more saturated colour such as dark navy, dark forest green or black near my face, I need to up my makeup to help keep the look balanced.
I used to be able to wear those strong colours with minimal makeup because my red hair (true red - copper penny mix) was so dramatic but now with the white hair it's too much without makeup!
I have absolutely no desire to go back to fully red; I love the white and, at 55, it feels and looks authentic!
My hair is mad curly though so the overall look is not "old" at all!
She's not a real red head, as a child she had dirty warm tone blonde hair, for me she's warm. red hair suits her really well
Yay new video!!!!!!
So what would her season be? My hair keeps trying to put me in autumn or spring but my eyes and skin fit very well in summer or even winter. It’s maddening 😂
Hi Merriam! I received a color typing analysis from you a little over a month ago. I’ve emailed you a couple times to discuss further, but haven’t received a response. You said that I was warm and radiant with yellow dominance and my undertone is olive (you mentioned Salma Hayek is my color twin even though I’m a lot lighter than her) My main question was if a rich red copper would compliment me even though I have an olive undertone. You mentioned warm rich auburns would compliment me in my typing, but I just wanted to see if a red copper falls in that category. Thanks!
I've always been told all redheads are cool undertones. (And bc the makeup industry is lazy and cheap, they have convinced us cool=pink so that they have an easier time making the highly visible vascularity that all human faces have, but pale ppl don't have the melanin to cover it, uniform instead of giving us what all other skin tones get, which is a product to match and unify the true skin tone. We get a giant bottle of the uglies pig colored liquid blush to uniform the redness that we ALLLLLLL want to cover up.)
I've also been told all olive tones are warm and medium skin tone.
However here I am. Red hair, blue eyes, freckles and an undertone that can only be described as the love child of Kermit the Frog and Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh.
I have luckily found your channel and follow the advice you give cool olive undertones and I have never received so many compliments on my makeup. I really appreciate the open mindedness you have for fair and cool olive undertones. Humans are diverse looking, who would have thought?! 🤷♀️😂
I am a cool toned redhead. for years people kept calling me warm toned. totally not. :P I will say even if you are a cool toned redhead... because we are redheaded we can wear many colors and it still looks great. I wear almost any color I want (although nude colors or pastels dont look so good on me).
Could you do an analysis of Madelaine Petsch as well? She is a mystery to me.
MP has blue veins, and is therefore a cool undertone. i looked up several of her pictures and noticed that muted blues/greens/pinks/grays totally wash her out, eliminating the soft palette. she looks best in high contrast colors like deep reds, purples, and greens - she can even pull off black! i would classify her as a dark winter, which may be controversial but i think some redheads (namely auburn ones) can be typed here.
@@LizG117 I agree. She looks best in cold saturated high contrast colors. But she wears a lot of gold jewelry as well and it doesn’t look bad on her. And I saw her being typed as neutral. 😵💫
@@marliesbunker2601 i'm a cool summer with strawberry blonde hair and dark hazel eyes... my skin is similarly almost opaque it's so pale. i think it has something to do with that - there's not enough saturation in the skin to 'clash' with the yellow undertones. i also wear silver and gold and rose gold jewelry and all are relatively flattering!
Christina Hendricks is not a natural redhead. She started to dye her hair red since she as 11. So there's another layer of complexity to the whole thing - how does she look like a natural redhead?
If I’m cool and delicate with “pink”skin and naturally ashy/mousy blonde/brown hair, would this hair color be a good option for me rather than blonde highlights?
Red? No. Christina Hendriks went red for the character of Joan. Ash toned mousy blonde or brown always look great with ash toned highlights, because this kind of hair gets lightened by the sun naturally anyway and it' s the colour of your childhood hair
Hi. i had ash-colored hair in my youth and into adulthood. Cool undertone skin, not radiant. My natural hair color became a little reddish at the age of over 50. It is like light mahogany. My picture is old where i have light stripes. I don´t know my body type. It is maybe gamine. I thought based on the test, that i am theatrical-romantic, or romantic. I´m not romantic.
You are most likely a Summer Soft
@@SueRosalie Maybe you´re right.
The dress @2:44 is a warm colour :)
Me being a redhead thinking Im a cool toned Watching: 👀👀👀👀🧐🧐🤔
I am tan and rosy at the same time, I look good in cool toned colors as well as warm (or at least maybe I don't notice much of a difference) what undertone would I be ??
You might be warm and delicate. She has a video where you can test…! (:
yes, maybe warm and delicate like Melissa said! If you look good in warm and cool colors, most of the time it means you're some kind of warm, maybe warm and delicate.
Just because someone dyes their hair red doesn’t make them a redhead. Yes she does have red hair but she is not a redhead ☹️
Is it possible to be a cool radiant olive with red hair?
No, it's not possible. Redheads have that red/orange melanin and it's all over, in their hair and in their skin, and red is the opposite of green. So if you have red hair, you won't be olive. I've heard that Julianne Moore is olive. Absolutely not. She is a cool toned redhead. Red is the opposite of green. I talk about this in my video called 'Olive, we need to talk'.
The reason why some redheads think they're olive is because they're cool. and they're being told that redheads can't be cool....so they find olive and think it's the answer, but it's not. it's only that they're cool redheads which is the real answer.
@@merriamstyle yes there are no olive redheads, they all have warm undertones and they do indeed have more of the red toned melanin than other people. Brunettes have more of both and blondes have less of both. And there are pale redheads not cool redheads.
@@SueRosalie please watch my video called 'olive, we need to talk'
It's always surprised me how many famous redheads...aren't redheads. Women dye their hair...a lot. Personally, I think a person's natural hair color is the most beautiful. But that's just me.
I'm thinking Isla Fisher or Karen Gillan????
no not really usually correct dyed hair > natural
@@inzoiplayergirl Oh please, I'm not fooled by that for a minute. If your hair is dyed, it's not your natural color. Period, end of sentence. Accept it and let it go.
@@callmeswivelhips8229 wha.. i said dyed hair is more beautiful than natural hair color when its done correctly..
@@inzoiplayergirl That was weird phrasing if that's what you meant. And I still disagree with just as much intensity lol
I think everyone looks best in their natural hair color. I see so many really jarring “blondes” with dark brown or black eyes and brows, they think it looks good, but it doesn’t, ever. I don’t believe there is any validity in the Kibbe system, either, every analysis I’ve had comes up with a different type, from all over the full range and I never fit any category well. It’s nonsense, as is the idea of body shape being related to coloring, it isn’t one bit. I do think Color Me Beautiful is valid and useful, it’s the original, and still the best. People are prejudiced against it because it uses seasons for names; I agree that it’s not the best nomenclature, but the system itself is reliable and the analysts are well-trained. I wouldn’t get anything other than an in-person analysis, in outdoor light shade, they’re too expensive to waste money on and a wrong result can lead to many bad purchases in wardrobe, hair color and makeup. Around mid-day is best, say between 10 am to 4 pm, in spring or fall, early morning light can distort cool or warm, as can late afternoon light (usually warm). Adjust time the accordingly for summer and winter, to find the mid-day hours for your latitude and date (Google can give you that if you don’t know how to get it from a map, it doesn’t have to be exact, only approximate).
She is not a real redhead, she is died hair.
I’m confused I thought most red heads were cool skin toned 😂
I'm not sure what she's on about. She literally did a whole video on a clown = fake red hair.
Your premise may or may not be correct, but the choice of colours you're comparing to try to "prove" your point leaves a lot to be desired, as the pink and navy are both bright spring (cooler than warm spring I guess, which is a better fit for that peach you say isn't as good), and the only truly cool colour you analyze is black, which you admit doesn't work as well on her (but dark charcoal suits bright spring). So you basically spend the entire time claiming she's cool because bright spring suits her.
No it's not. All natural redheads have warm undertones. Actress Christina Hendricks is a natural blonde not a redhead. And yes she has cool undertones and is actually a summer. A lot of work goes into film and tv actresses' makeup, hair colour and costuming to make them look good. Summers can wear gold jewellery if it works with the clothing colour. I agree the salmon did look heavy on her and they never put her in yellow. Note how they gave her cool pinks for makeup. The red hair was for her personality. Peggy on the other hand has warm undertones and habitually wore mustard and browns.
You could really see how cold she is when she was wearing the black dress! She looks super blue and pink.
She’s very beautiful, if only she had her natural hair color!
She is not a natural redhead, so this video doesn't makes sense. It is biological impossible to have natural red hair and have a fully cool undertone.
Tons of natural redheads have a cool undertone to their skin. They look better in silver than gold. Navy blues, emerald greens, and purples look divine. Warm colours don’t look good on their skin even though their hair is reddish
@@clairewillow6475 that is just not true. I follow so many professional color analysis channels on social media for years and I never ever saw a natural redhead being typed as a cool season.
@@clairewillow6475 th-cam.com/video/1TV_WuTTzmc/w-d-xo.html here is an explanation
@@katsuhoshido3782 i literally see one everyday when I look in the mirror, or at my own sibling lmao
@@clairewillow6475 how do you know? Have you been typed professionally?
Growing up all I heard was to wear the worst possible colours for skin. The redhead curse 😂
Christina Hendricks should not count as a “cool-toned redhead.” She’s not a real redhead
Please increase the output volume of just speak louder and closer to the microphone, I can’t hear you.
I’m a natural redhead, and I’m cool toned. My natural hair color is kind of a sandy auburn, and my best colors are cool and bright. I actually did my hair a cooler toned red so it would work better with my skin tone. The shade of Christina Hendrick’s hair looks terrible on me. I look like Ronald McDonald.
That's not her natural hair color, so it doesn't make sense.
Please use examples of real redheads not fakers. Redheads are genetically different and this affects us more than our hair colour. She's no redhead. 🤢
this is what i have such a struggle with because people always use celebs with fake red hair like emma stone, christina hendricks, etc. it is frustrating
I think this whole thing is absolutely pointless. Just wear whatever color you feel good in
Why you picked up NOT natural redhead to this analysis? What is the point? Give the example of cool tonned natural redhead, so maybe I will belive you. Vast majority of natural redheads are warm tonned, they can lean towards neutral, or neutral-cool, but natural redhead with cool undertone is very, very rare. I'm waiting for examples. Give me one celebrity that is natural redhead and cool tonned. Ups, I don't hear anything. Maybe they don't exist?
That's bcs she's not a natural redhead. Natural ones r always warm. Genetic fact.
Not a genetic fact. Redheads with brown or hazel eyes will be warm, ones with blue or gray will be cool to neutral.
@@jenniferdavis3446 U can have blue/gray eyes and be warm. Or have brown eyes and be cool.
On a redhead?
@@jenniferdavis3446 Redheads can have any eye colour. But they are always warm. That's bcs epidermis and hair r basically the same tissue and r governed by the same genes. They r either BOTH warm or BOTH cold.
@@jenniferdavis3446 actually even some of us brown eyed redheads have cool undertones in our skin