It's kind of amazing to me (in my opinion) that most skin undertone analysis shies away from pointing out the hue differences in black skin because it seems to be the _easiest_ skin colour to type by undertone. I can clearly see the contrast in the different undertones in some of my black friends and colleagues best. It's very easy to see the yellow undertone peeking out from the brown skin, the sharp blue, the muted blue and yellows. Thanks for the video and for highlighting this undertone diversity to make it easier for others x
oh yeah, more pigment = more to see and more difference in general, just as you say! but also, more pigment means the eye can pick up on more, which means each color looks better, even deep undertones' worst colors look better on them than they do on nicole kidman. this is probably why color analysts just say good enough. and also because historically, color analysis has been white centric. so the old systems throw everyone into "deep something".
Update! I spotted a cool and muted east asian skin tone in a cafe today. She was also quite tan. So if you have an east asian skin tone don't assume anything--check out my video on how to find your color season and do the draping!!
Yesss that winter Asian example with the slightly reddish grey skin looks EXACTLY like me. Having such a rare skin tone buying foundation is such a pain. Even though I'm not extremely pale people can get the wrong assumption of me being pale because of the cool undertone, and then recommend me with the lightest brightest shades which look horrible on my face...This is the FIRST time I see my skin tone gets represented in a beauty video and THANKS SO MUCH!!!
Where have you been all my life?!!! This is exactly the problem I have faced that has made shopping a nightmare. Because I am African I have often gotten away with wearing bright yellow dresses, yet my best colour is 100% Royal or Jewel blue. A friend gifted me an emerald green dress that I would never have picked for myself and it looked amazing on me. I confess, I only wear fuschia ocassionally because I get so many complements I thought I was attracting too much attention. 🤦🏾♀️ I'm so so glad I found you. Thank you once again!
This is so helpful! I am an inuit and I have never been able to tell my undertone. I tan so easily and so I thought I must have a warm undertone, but yellows and oranges never looked good on me and bright red/orangey lipsticks always looked separate and extremely bright against my skin. For a while I thought I could be olive, however I have absolutely no green in my skin tone. No! That’s because I’m cool and radiant! That’s something I would have never considered if I hadn’t seen this video. Also growing up I hated pink so I have never bothered to try on pink purpley lipsticks until today. And it looks so. good. on me. Wow. It’s literally the first time in my life that I found a bright color that looked natural on me. Thank you so much!
This really helped me. I rarely see deeper color analysis for winters. I'm a Mexican olive toned deep winter and I need so much help with finding my place with colors. Please keep analyzing medium/beige/olive skin!!! 🙏🙏🙏
@Merriam Style COOL tones are actually very prevalent among East Asians , contrary to what you said. this isn't just my opinion, but based on the color consultation statistics.
Agreed. Lucy Liu is constantly typed as cool and bright elsewhere. But I guess every ons has their own system? I just wonder if subjectivity can be achieved in such subjects cuz of how different perceptions can be especially for people who's skin color can't be predominantly concretely typed
lol I could never colour type myself cause I look pretty good in every colour. It must be because my tan skin is downplaying the incompatibility. Now that I think of it, I honestly don't know what colours I look best in. I always thought if it didn't look too loud or too sickly it was fine. Time to set the bar higher.
I am a very pale olive tone, I've always been told I am a winter...but, I don't look good in greys, and fuchsia looks too harsh sometimes Does that mean, I'm a spring...I do look great in bright tomato red and corals... Royal blue is one of my best colors
It sounds like you're confusing winter and summer. In Merriam's system, winter is cool and muted, while summer is cool and bright. So the royal blue would suggest that you are summer, just as looking bad in grey reinforces the idea that you are not a winter. However you look good an spring colors, and bad in fuchsia, so you may want to start at the beginning and find out if your are warm or cool. We already know that you are bright. If you're warm, you're sping. If you're cool your summer. So try the draping method with a bright blue and a bright yellow. See what happens. Hope that helps.
I finally figured out my season!!! I’m a summer!!! Because whenever I wear hot magenta or royal blue I come alive and I get the most compliments. I still look good in grey as long as it’s a steely grey not a beigeish grey.
Hi Michelle--interesting, I totally believe they exist. But I do want to say that warmer skin tones often look better in everything because we associate warmth with health, so an east asian who is warm may be mistyped as cool because they simply look good in everything, especially with a bit of a tan. I think true cool east asian skin tones are very uncommon. Could you give some celebrity examples of some cooler East Asians? It took me hours to find just two.
Merriam Style I don’t know that many Asian celebrities, especially growing up the the US. But just from my own experience, most of my entire Chinese family is cool toned. We all look awful in warm tones and have fair skin tones that freckle rather than tan. I tried Bobbi Brown foundation once and everyone said I looked “tired” that day. It was way too yellow on me. I think Heart Evangelista is cool, not sure about bright though.
@@merriamstyle Red Velvet's Irene? Would be good if you could do a video covering East Asian celebrities. From quizzes it seems that East Asians have cool, bright and deep undertones.
@@merriamstyle There was a blog post which illustrated the colour theory for asians really well. It's since been taken down, but here's a colour wheel which shows some examples: www.pinterest.ca/pin/568438784195733177/. Some of the winter and summer examples are: Kim Yuna, Im Yoonah, Nana (from After School) and Sunmi respectively.
I’m the same too! Warm colour in clothing is awful on me but I feel good in warm peach makeup and some warm reds, but not brick reds. At the same time I also feel good in cool tones especially nude pinks and mauvy soft pinks and cool cherry/berry reds in lipstick… but medium saturated rosy pinks don’t work at all and feel garish.. I wonder why that is? I think it’s really hard to fit in a box.. though cool olive colours and for sure mine. It would be great to analyse makeup and skin tone, as I think there is more to it with contrast colours and colours that are harmonious being potentially good.
I finally know I’m closer to cool muted, mistaken as a warm neutral. Being of Japanese, Native American and English, I look sort of medium warm, but I’m truly closer to a light olive. When matched at a store, the foundations people try to match me are always too yellow. According to-you, I’m much more olive or cool mute. I have both green and blue veins, wear silver and gold jewelry. People always think I should wear red lips, with my dark hair and Asian descent, but it looks terrible in me! I look good in peachy nude lips, not fuschia, or red. I wore a blush wedding dress because white did t look as good.
Great videos- I just got into this topic. Can you do a video on women like Naomi Campbell, Viola Davis, and Lupita Nyong'o... basically darker skinned/deep women. Thanks!
Ok - life changing video!!!! I now know with certainty that I’m a cool and bright! Wow. Thanks so much for showing the examples. I’m a mid tone olive and felt like a I could never land on my best colours because my bad colours don’t look that bad as you showed. Thanks again for this brilliantly helpful video. 🙏😁
Literally! I can't tell you how much I love this video. I paid someone to tell me my season and they came back with dark winter even though I showed pictures of me in bright cool cobalt, highlighter yellow, and bright pink, and I look really good. I was convinced I am not a dark winter because super deep shades like pine and dark purple make me look super sallow or way more muted than I am. I think many color analysis people don't know how to handle nonwhite clients. They just assume dark and olive = deep winter.
They told me I must be a dark winter too, I'm Turkish with light sandy skin, black eyes and brows, brown eyes. But dark winter colours make me look too mature and kill of my bubbly self and sweet fine face. They feel heavy on me! Every shade of blue, cool lilac, orchid pink, white and dark ebony wood look good on me. Guess I am a cool bright winter.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for doing this video. I am a dark skinned Latina so your African American section helped me confirm that I am indeed cool. I collaged on my phone a picture of myself with the ladies your typed and I could tell that my skin aligned more with Alicia Keys and Lisa Bonet. I am closer to Alicia Keys, meaning I am not muted like Lisa Bonet. This was so helpful and rarely anyone does this. Thank you so much.
SO glad that I’ve found you, I’m mixed race with olive skin but golden hair, and trying to figure this all out - thank you for bringing in the different ethnicities! 🙏🏽
I always thought I was an autumn warm but now I think I'm a cool and bright toned person. I've always loved blue red and fuchsia lipstick. *mind blown*
Literally the same. I was told by my theatre teacher that I was warm - autumn when I was 13, and thanks to Merriam 25 years later I am 99% positive that I am cool and bright with a deepening suspicion I might be olive as well. The funny thing is that majority of my clothes always have been blue, purple and red - so clearly subconsciously I went for "my" colors.
Thank you for doing this! There are many colour/ style analysts on YT but only a few have examples on Asians/ POC. I learned a lot from your vids. I'm warm, but probably neutral since I can wear both bright & muted/ delicate colours. My skintone is similar to Jamie Chung or Kathryn Bernardo (Google her - PH actress). I now know why I usually get compliments when I wear reds, oranges & yellows, but not when I wear blues or greens. Btw, do you mind sharing your ethnicity? To my eye, you seem to have Middle Eastern & also Armenian features (like Sona, Conan O Brien's assistant) or the Kardashians (the 3 elder ones). Thanks and all the best to you! 😊👍🏼💐
I love your color analyses, and this one too. But I somewhat disagree about your comment on two dresses, the lime yellow ones on Nicole Kidman and Julian Moore, I think they look fantastic, despite your points, which I all agree with. I think the reason those dresses still work on them is because of the warmth of their red hair. Their hair color just goes so well with that color that whatever that color does to their skin pales in comparison. They look super edgy and fashionable. They've both used very dark red lipsticks, and I think that is enough to fix the negative effects of the yellow color on their faces.
One thing is being yellow means toy need to cool down with cool colors to compliment your looks or else warm colors on yellow skin tone would makes you more yellow as warm tones compliment those who lack warm and need warm tones often autumn have colorless skin this is why warm colors suits us
I think Nicole Kidman looks amazing in that mustard/yellow dress, of the four I think Alicia looks the worst because it's such a neon yellow and makes her look a bit grey. I am a redhead and I look great in mustard and rusty red/orange (much like my hair color) but royal blue, bright lemon yellow, peachy pink and light grey really washes me out. It's like I am in between all the time, gold and silver looks equally good on me also. My friends always say I am warm and think I look best in autumn colors, but since I have red hair and very light skin (never get a tan) I'm a summer according to your system.
i disliked all of the yellow dresses equally tbh lol. and though merriam did say some of them didn't look _as bad_ i still didn't think they looked that good. those beautiful blues looked so amazing on them
Alicia, Lisa nor Beyoncé have “deeper” skin tones. They are classified as light skin. Lots of nonBlack folks have that same color and are not classified as deep. Please incorporate DEEP DARK tones please. Not all Black women are paper bag brown!
I hear you! Sometimes my blonde friends have darker skin than me (I have Nazanin's coloring). The point of this video was to show that it's really the color balances of the skin pigment that matters rather than how much pigment there is, and having even deeper skin tones would have made my point even better (not to mention made the video even more inclusive). You could take a look at my video on Lupita and one of my subscribers who's very light--it's called "two ladies, same best colors". But anyway, will try to include more ranges and not only Lupita + Oprah, if you have any specific requests for celebrities you'd like to see color typed, let me know!
@@merriamstyle Gabrielle Union, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Kelly Rowland, Danai Guirira....so much more. It would be awesome if you to really study this, because Im very deep but not as dark as Lupita. My overtones are brownish red and my undertones are taupe. Since my skin is very deep I do look generally good in everything as long as the colors aren't too light and frosty (because I'm not as dark as Lupita,) and I avoid oranges and camel.
Thank you so so much! I'm black and latina and when I tell people I look best in cool colors they look at me like I'm nuts, so next time I'll send them this video. My closet thanks you too!
Be mindful that certain colours are universal and look good on all skin tones. Royal blue is one. And EVERY colour looks good on everyone, it's just the undertone you need to look at. So don't completely put aside a colour. If you are confused between why a colour oppositive to your undertone looks good on you, it is perhaps a universal one.
I think Alicia and my color is same. I rock royal blue but look zombiesh in orange or chrome yellow. Lady, you just helped me realise that I am a summer type. And now I know my skin looks a bit yellow bcz of pigmentation, just like Alicia, so I pretty much look good in both but bright and cool are my color.
I am Indian but I did a color analysis quiz online where I put all the colors next to my face and even though the test gave me winter...I looked better in Summer. I suspected I might have had a cool undertone but wasn't sure...the autumn didn't look very good on me, same for spring. Summer and winter looked good. But winter was a little too vivid. I don't know...still a little confused. I tried the silver and gold metal thing but I can't tell which one looks better on me. I will say though from personal experience I have a cool, deep kinda vivid but not too much, dark blue top and it looks gorgeous on me. On the other hand, warm colors I just am not that drawn to; this warm red dress I am wearing looks meh. So...yeah, I think I might be cool undertone but I am ..not a winter either from what I can tell.
you might be cool and delicate! don't even get me started on how anyone with dark hair gets a winter classification!!!!!!!!!!! you could watch my videos on the four skin undertones, as well as comparing two deep winters! oh and also watch my draping video--I'm cool and delicate myself!
How about cool summer? Cool summer is also cool and muted(Kate Middelton is a cool summer type). I´m a winter too(my skin is much lighter then yours but I´ve changed my colortype because the colors of winter type are way too oversaturated for me.
@@merriamstyle you might be right lol, I objectively look better in cool colors although I’m closer to neutral than someone clearly cool (usually white), and Reddit basically told me I must be Autumn (which I’m clearly not). I seem to be summer in this system but none of the pre-designated ones.
ahhh, so I wore a Bright Burgundy shirt & looked completely washed out with my light tan surface tone, and radiant warmth undertones. It's like wearing bright red lipstick as a Deep Autumn, you're uncomfortable & it doesn't suit you best, as personal colors. 😩 I'm starting to notice I have Lots of bright & cool/ shadow colors in my wardrobe. I need to start buying richer , and depth colors as a Deep Autumn. I only own a couple of those.
I got complimented on the burgundy shirt 😂😂 but it did wash me out when I was in natural lighting. I looked extra pale. Then again, I look amazing in rich red colors. Or fun, bold red. It's interesting what suits & what may not. | So Warm tones fits the fun, bold red colors. And the rich red fits the Deep/Dark Autumn.
Question please if you would kindly reply. I’m Southeast Asian with black hair, dark eyes, super super white skin and pink under tone. Does not tan easily at all. Am I similar to Phan Bang Bang - Summer? Or can I be a Clear Winter or something? Thanks so much if you have the time to reply
In the original seasonal color analysis winter is bright and summer is more muted. Have you changed this intentionally? It’s confusing when the terminology is inconsistent
Interesting thought on the asian girl but I think that she considers the yellow her best color. East asian cultures often see paleness as an ideal and she did look much paler there. I personally thought it looked great on her.
I have an orange undertone. It is flat out orange. I did the colour grab app and got orange. Makeup from fashion fair is always bronze. So... I'm assuming I'm warm but the bright and delicate pallets seem a bit tricky. I pick my colors by putting my hand next to them. My skin will switch on and off like a light bulb. Hahaha
Merriam Style, can a “ summer” person pull off bright almost neon green? Because I identified myself as summer (since I look great in royal blue and hot pink or fuscia) but I also look great in a very bright spring green. I say it’s a spring green because it looks like the color of new grass. I wonder if this green is merely my “yellow” as a summer. I’ve gotten compliments whenever I wear this bright kind of green. Also, I have to be careful with yellows because they look “meh” on me but some yellows like turmeric yellow look fine. Do I still sound like a summer to you?
Thank you for this! It was really helpful! I hope you do this for all the seasons eventually. My problem is that I know I'm a warm undertone, and I look really good in both bright and muted colors, but usually not in pure colors. For instance, bright mustard yellow is my signature color. But I also look amazing in army green and dark but bright teal. I hate how I look in pure yellow or muted peach. What does this mean?! I also look amazing in hot pink, which is bright and cool. I usually just dress in fall colors (not necessarily an autumn palette, but the actual seasonal colors). I almost feel like light vs. dark is more important for my skin that bright vs. muted. I'm just confused. Is this because I have a dark skin tone?
I know this is silly but as a Black woman, I believe personally that colors looking bad is really a case of what do people notice more when looking at us or a photo. Our deep and lovely skin is actually the reason fashion designers put super dark models in beyond bright clothing for photos, because our skin actually makes the colors look good while the colors themselves don't do much to our pigment. It's possible your deep skin is the Reason you don't look bad at all in cool pink. If you look better in bright blue than bright yellow though you'll prob have your answer.
I should look into it and try to find out which season I am I do know that I have a cool undertone when wearing makeup foundation and thanks a bunch i love different shades of pink especially light pink .
I still can't figure out my undertone. I am pale with very dark hair and I think I look better with golden jewelry than with silver. Pink looks awful on me. At the same time, I don't look tan and I think I am fair like Anne Hathaway and Zoey Deschanel. 🤷♀️
What about us super fair with a lot of pink ladies, Think English and Irish skin. You rarely see anyone my shade either. Most are medium beige in print.
Hi everyone! I am a bit confused about smth, hope someone can help. I am definetly a cool undertone, I don't have to wear yellow or orange to look sick or dead, it's enought to juat stand next to a splash of wa color... But I can't, for the life of me, figure out if I'm bright or muted... I tried putting on bright blues, bluish greens, reds, black and white vs muted blues, greens, dark burgundy reds and greys... I seem fine in all of them, as long as they are cool. I even tried the lipstick trick with a bright red and a muted pink and burgundy... all look equally ok to me. Is there such a thing as a neutral level of brightness? I find it hard to believe I am that weird :)) Or am I missing smth? Is there some other way to test it? Thanks in advance!
Hi Ioana, I believe there is a neutral level of brightness actually. :) I don't think it's weird. Most people will lean toward muted or bright, but how bright/muted you are is a continuum, vs how warm you are vs how cool you are--there's a definite point where you'll have more yellow or more blue in the skin. But the chroma of the skin is determined by how bright that warm or cool is. So one could be extremely muted (the more muted you are, the harder it would be to tell if you look better in muted warm or muted cool), or you could be in the middle like you describe, or you could tend toward being much brighter. It's also possible you're just having trouble telling because it's a bit difficult to be objective. Muted/bright is the more difficult thing to tell, usually. ;)
Hi merriam im so sorry I was not able to get in touch with you today like I wanted to . I ended up getting called into work. I hopefully will get my Tuesday off like im suppose to without work calling me again due to someone not able to make it. I hope I can try again for consulting. Thank you.
This is helpful! I kinda look good in a lot of things but this helps it make more sense. I just posted a video with natural light and no makeup. I'd love to know my season if anyone can help 💗
Hi, I don't know if you'll still read this. But in another vid, Merriam said that if you have darker skin, (more melanin pigment), then you can sometimes wear both warm & cool colours. However, you'll havebto determine which colours look best on you.
@@TheKonnoisseur11 hi, I beg to disagree. I'm Asian and medium brown (skintone similar to actress Kathryn Bernardo - you can Google her). Warm colours look best on me. I always get compliments when I wear reds, oranges & yellows, but not when I wear cool colours (blues & greens). Even in pics, I look more radiant in warm colours. You must do draping to determine which suits you best. Good luck!
@@TheKonnoisseur11 I am medium toned in the spectrum. If you compare me to Emma Stone, I'm darker, but if placed beside Oprah or Lupita, I'm lighter. Warm colours can look good on dark women too - Oprah looks great in red & Beyoncé is great in gold (warm). However, Lupita looks fab in bright pink & royal blue (cool). It depends on the person.
I’m a medium olive but I also have naturally blonde hair and blue/gray eyes. Every video I’ve watched, they have dark hair and eyes. Would the colors stay the same for olive skin with blonde hair and blue eyes?
I totally agree. And Fan Bing-Bing's type of skintone (which the video rightly points out is cool-toned) is not actually that difficult to find in East Asia.
Merriam I'm a deep winter , and orange looks really ugly on me cause my skin have a bit of orange tint , therefor , should i evoid blue ?? Cause it's orange's complementary color , knowing that all shades of blue look good on me.
@@merriamstyle oh wow thank you. Im at work right now but off tomorrow . I will click on your link when I get home. Im in Minnesota. I think I might know my season but I need confirmation along with some questions. Thank you
skin depth isn't that important for color type in artistic license. I do have a video called 'two ladies same best colors' where I cover how Lupita has the same best colors as a blonde and light lady.
I always thought I was warm skin tone since my skin is very yellow to my eyes and compared to my sister very cool skin. Though I also think Bright blue looks good on me and I also think black look good . I think warmer colors looks bad on me but I can't tell if it's just because I visually prefer cooler color so I am not objective when I look myself. 😂 I really need to have your color and kibbe body type analysis once I have the budget for it . I can't figure out myself and my husband is not neutral either because he only tell by color he like or doesn't like for what looks good on me ! 😂😂
It's kind of amazing to me (in my opinion) that most skin undertone analysis shies away from pointing out the hue differences in black skin because it seems to be the _easiest_ skin colour to type by undertone. I can clearly see the contrast in the different undertones in some of my black friends and colleagues best. It's very easy to see the yellow undertone peeking out from the brown skin, the sharp blue, the muted blue and yellows. Thanks for the video and for highlighting this undertone diversity to make it easier for others x
oh yeah, more pigment = more to see and more difference in general, just as you say! but also, more pigment means the eye can pick up on more, which means each color looks better, even deep undertones' worst colors look better on them than they do on nicole kidman. this is probably why color analysts just say good enough. and also because historically, color analysis has been white centric. so the old systems throw everyone into "deep something".
Update! I spotted a cool and muted east asian skin tone in a cafe today. She was also quite tan. So if you have an east asian skin tone don't assume anything--check out my video on how to find your color season and do the draping!!
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as a cool and muted east asian girl I would like to state here that we don't get "tan", we get taupe. lol
That's what I would like to know. What colors would look best on me personally.
I think of Snow White when I see the ladies that are Cool and Bright in coloring.
Yesss that winter Asian example with the slightly reddish grey skin looks EXACTLY like me. Having such a rare skin tone buying foundation is such a pain. Even though I'm not extremely pale people can get the wrong assumption of me being pale because of the cool undertone, and then recommend me with the lightest brightest shades which look horrible on my face...This is the FIRST time I see my skin tone gets represented in a beauty video and THANKS SO MUCH!!!
Cheryl L. Have you tried purchasing from asian brands and looking at foundations from yesstyle? More catered to our skin tone though variety is low
Where have you been all my life?!!!
This is exactly the problem I have faced that has made shopping a nightmare.
Because I am African I have often gotten away with wearing bright yellow dresses, yet my best colour is 100% Royal or Jewel blue.
A friend gifted me an emerald green dress that I would never have picked for myself and it looked amazing on me.
I confess, I only wear fuschia ocassionally because I get so many complements I thought I was attracting too much attention. 🤦🏾♀️
I'm so so glad I found you.
Thank you once again!
Thank you for finally touching on olive skin tones in the correct way. I always find people labeling african Americans as solely olive skin tone.
This is so helpful! I am an inuit and I have never been able to tell my undertone. I tan so easily and so I thought I must have a warm undertone, but yellows and oranges never looked good on me and bright red/orangey lipsticks always looked separate and extremely bright against my skin. For a while I thought I could be olive, however I have absolutely no green in my skin tone. No! That’s because I’m cool and radiant! That’s something I would have never considered if I hadn’t seen this video. Also growing up I hated pink so I have never bothered to try on pink purpley lipsticks until today. And it looks so. good. on me. Wow. It’s literally the first time in my life that I found a bright color that looked natural on me. Thank you so much!
This really helped me. I rarely see deeper color analysis for winters. I'm a Mexican olive toned deep winter and I need so much help with finding my place with colors. Please keep analyzing medium/beige/olive skin!!! 🙏🙏🙏
i am amazed by the work you put into these videos. you have one of the sharpest eyes I've seen on youtube around style and color analysis.
@Merriam Style COOL tones are actually very prevalent among East Asians , contrary to what you said. this isn't just my opinion, but based on the color consultation statistics.
Agreed. Lucy Liu is constantly typed as cool and bright elsewhere. But I guess every ons has their own system? I just wonder if subjectivity can be achieved in such subjects cuz of how different perceptions can be especially for people who's skin color can't be predominantly concretely typed
lol I could never colour type myself cause I look pretty good in every colour. It must be because my tan skin is downplaying the incompatibility. Now that I think of it, I honestly don't know what colours I look best in. I always thought if it didn't look too loud or too sickly it was fine. Time to set the bar higher.
I am a very pale olive tone, I've always been told I am a winter...but, I don't look good in greys,
and fuchsia looks too harsh sometimes
Does that mean, I'm a spring...I do look great in bright tomato red and corals...
Royal blue is one of my best colors
That means, that actually winter ist cool and bright. Look everywhere, Summer ist cool and muted (greys..)
It sounds like you're confusing winter and summer. In Merriam's system, winter is cool and muted, while summer is cool and bright. So the royal blue would suggest that you are summer, just as looking bad in grey reinforces the idea that you are not a winter. However you look good an spring colors, and bad in fuchsia, so you may want to start at the beginning and find out if your are warm or cool. We already know that you are bright. If you're warm, you're sping. If you're cool your summer. So try the draping method with a bright blue and a bright yellow. See what happens. Hope that helps.
that means you are clear winter cool and bright.
I have olive very pale skin, and colors you have mentioned also looks great on me👍🏻
since you have mentioned "sometimes" there is a warm fuchsia, just keep this in mind.
So so helpful! And the first resource I've found really addressing the issue of deeper skin tones being warm and/or muted. Thank you so much!
I finally figured out my season!!! I’m a summer!!! Because whenever I wear hot magenta or royal blue I come alive and I get the most compliments. I still look good in grey as long as it’s a steely grey not a beigeish grey.
Cool and bright East Asians are actually very common so I’m glad you spent the time to include it. Thank you!
Hi Michelle--interesting, I totally believe they exist. But I do want to say that warmer skin tones often look better in everything because we associate warmth with health, so an east asian who is warm may be mistyped as cool because they simply look good in everything, especially with a bit of a tan. I think true cool east asian skin tones are very uncommon. Could you give some celebrity examples of some cooler East Asians? It took me hours to find just two.
Merriam Style I don’t know that many Asian celebrities, especially growing up the the US. But just from my own experience, most of my entire Chinese family is cool toned. We all look awful in warm tones and have fair skin tones that freckle rather than tan. I tried Bobbi Brown foundation once and everyone said I looked “tired” that day. It was way too yellow on me. I think Heart Evangelista is cool, not sure about bright though.
@@merriamstyle Red Velvet's Irene? Would be good if you could do a video covering East Asian celebrities. From quizzes it seems that East Asians have cool, bright and deep undertones.
Merriam Style A year later...ha! I think these Asian celebs are cool toned: Song Hye Kyo & Awkwafina!
@@merriamstyle There was a blog post which illustrated the colour theory for asians really well. It's since been taken down, but here's a colour wheel which shows some examples: www.pinterest.ca/pin/568438784195733177/. Some of the winter and summer examples are: Kim Yuna, Im Yoonah, Nana (from After School) and Sunmi respectively.
Amazing! Really transformed the way I think of my best color. Thanks!
Nazanin’s contrast of dark features (hair/eyebrows/eye makeup) makes her look better than the others in the muted yellow color.
No its the skin tone
i am still genuinely so confused by color. i think warm eye makeup looks good on me but cooler colors look good on me in clothing.
Omg I am the same, I thought its just me.
ME TOO
I’m the same too! Warm colour in clothing is awful on me but I feel good in warm peach makeup and some warm reds, but not brick reds. At the same time I also feel good in cool tones especially nude pinks and mauvy soft pinks and cool cherry/berry reds in lipstick… but medium saturated rosy pinks don’t work at all and feel garish.. I wonder why that is? I think it’s really hard to fit in a box.. though cool olive colours and for sure mine.
It would be great to analyse makeup and skin tone, as I think there is more to it with contrast colours and colours that are harmonious being potentially good.
I finally know I’m closer to cool muted, mistaken as a warm neutral. Being of Japanese, Native American and English, I look sort of medium warm, but I’m truly closer to a light olive. When matched at a store, the foundations people try to match me are always too yellow. According to-you, I’m much more olive or cool mute. I have both green and blue veins, wear silver and gold jewelry. People always think I should wear red lips, with my dark hair and Asian descent, but it looks terrible in me! I look good in peachy nude lips, not fuschia, or red. I wore a blush wedding dress because white did t look as good.
you might be a warm and delicate if peach looks good on you (warm and muted)
Great videos- I just got into this topic. Can you do a video on women like Naomi Campbell, Viola Davis, and Lupita Nyong'o... basically darker skinned/deep women. Thanks!
A Gravery yes we need this
Your voice is soothing ! thanks for the video
I think Alycia Keyes looked beautiful in that yellow gown/dress. I love a bright yellow, just not mustard or golden.
Ok - life changing video!!!! I now know with certainty that I’m a cool and bright! Wow. Thanks so much for showing the examples. I’m a mid tone olive and felt like a I could never land on my best colours because my bad colours don’t look that bad as you showed. Thanks again for this brilliantly helpful video. 🙏😁
You are amazing!! Great great analysis that really addresses all ethnic groups! Thanks
Literally! I can't tell you how much I love this video. I paid someone to tell me my season and they came back with dark winter even though I showed pictures of me in bright cool cobalt, highlighter yellow, and bright pink, and I look really good. I was convinced I am not a dark winter because super deep shades like pine and dark purple make me look super sallow or way more muted than I am. I think many color analysis people don't know how to handle nonwhite clients. They just assume dark and olive = deep winter.
They told me I must be a dark winter too, I'm Turkish with light sandy skin, black eyes and brows, brown eyes. But dark winter colours make me look too mature and kill of my bubbly self and sweet fine face. They feel heavy on me!
Every shade of blue, cool lilac, orchid pink, white and dark ebony wood look good on me. Guess I am a cool bright winter.
The people you call cool and bright summers are what I would call bright winters
Can you make a video on Spring Olive Skin tones?
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for doing this video. I am a dark skinned Latina so your African American section helped me confirm that I am indeed cool. I collaged on my phone a picture of myself with the ladies your typed and I could tell that my skin aligned more with Alicia Keys and Lisa Bonet. I am closer to Alicia Keys, meaning I am not muted like Lisa Bonet. This was so helpful and rarely anyone does this. Thank you so much.
Can you do videos for picking hair colors based on skin tone please?
Yess 💕
SO glad that I’ve found you, I’m mixed race with olive skin but golden hair, and trying to figure this all out - thank you for bringing in the different ethnicities! 🙏🏽
I always thought I was an autumn warm but now I think I'm a cool and bright toned person. I've always loved blue red and fuchsia lipstick. *mind blown*
I have a video called who looks good in a fuchsia lip, you should take a look!
Literally the same. I was told by my theatre teacher that I was warm - autumn when I was 13, and thanks to Merriam 25 years later I am 99% positive that I am cool and bright with a deepening suspicion I might be olive as well. The funny thing is that majority of my clothes always have been blue, purple and red - so clearly subconsciously I went for "my" colors.
Thank you for doing this! There are many colour/ style analysts on YT but only a few have examples on Asians/ POC. I learned a lot from your vids. I'm warm, but probably neutral since I can wear both bright & muted/ delicate colours. My skintone is similar to Jamie Chung or Kathryn Bernardo (Google her - PH actress). I now know why I usually get compliments when I wear reds, oranges & yellows, but not when I wear blues or greens. Btw, do you mind sharing your ethnicity? To my eye, you seem to have Middle Eastern & also Armenian features (like Sona, Conan O Brien's assistant) or the Kardashians (the 3 elder ones). Thanks and all the best to you! 😊👍🏼💐
That Nazanin Bonyadi is Persian. I was like, oh finally these features are familiar to me then you said her name. Yeah obviously so typically Persian!
Shamim Jafari I was thinking the same thing with her features. I’m middle eastern.
Good analyses of cool bright, warm muted colors. Never thought about it before.
This is why everything looks better with fake tan on lol
I love your color analyses, and this one too. But I somewhat disagree about your comment on two dresses, the lime yellow ones on Nicole Kidman and Julian Moore, I think they look fantastic, despite your points, which I all agree with. I think the reason those dresses still work on them is because of the warmth of their red hair. Their hair color just goes so well with that color that whatever that color does to their skin pales in comparison. They look super edgy and fashionable. They've both used very dark red lipsticks, and I think that is enough to fix the negative effects of the yellow color on their faces.
One thing is being yellow means toy need to cool down with cool colors to compliment your looks or else warm colors on yellow skin tone would makes you more yellow as warm tones compliment those who lack warm and need warm tones often autumn have colorless skin this is why warm colors suits us
I think Nicole Kidman looks amazing in that mustard/yellow dress, of the four I think Alicia looks the worst because it's such a neon yellow and makes her look a bit grey.
I am a redhead and I look great in mustard and rusty red/orange (much like my hair color) but royal blue, bright lemon yellow, peachy pink and light grey really washes me out. It's like I am in between all the time, gold and silver looks equally good on me also. My friends always say I am warm and think I look best in autumn colors, but since I have red hair and very light skin (never get a tan) I'm a summer according to your system.
i disliked all of the yellow dresses equally tbh lol. and though merriam did say some of them didn't look _as bad_ i still didn't think they looked that good. those beautiful blues looked so amazing on them
They looked ruddy in mustard.
Alicia, Lisa nor Beyoncé have “deeper” skin tones. They are classified as light skin. Lots of nonBlack folks have that same color and are not classified as deep. Please incorporate DEEP DARK tones please. Not all Black women are paper bag brown!
I hear you! Sometimes my blonde friends have darker skin than me (I have Nazanin's coloring). The point of this video was to show that it's really the color balances of the skin pigment that matters rather than how much pigment there is, and having even deeper skin tones would have made my point even better (not to mention made the video even more inclusive). You could take a look at my video on Lupita and one of my subscribers who's very light--it's called "two ladies, same best colors". But anyway, will try to include more ranges and not only Lupita + Oprah, if you have any specific requests for celebrities you'd like to see color typed, let me know!
Merriam Style Thank you so much! You are such a wonderful person for taking my feedback into consideration🥰
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@@merriamstyle Gabrielle Union, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Kelly Rowland, Danai Guirira....so much more. It would be awesome if you to really study this, because Im very deep but not as dark as Lupita. My overtones are brownish red and my undertones are taupe. Since my skin is very deep I do look generally good in everything as long as the colors aren't too light and frosty (because I'm not as dark as Lupita,) and I avoid oranges and camel.
@@merriamstyle can you do Yara shahidi , chole and Halle,and more people who are lighter brown
Thank you so so much! I'm black and latina and when I tell people I look best in cool colors they look at me like I'm nuts, so next time I'll send them this video. My closet thanks you too!
yay! yes, same for me, I'm half Algerian and lots of people have a feeling that I'm warm, but really I'm cool and delicate.
Love the explanation at the beginning!
Can you do a colour analysis video for Indian skin tones❤️❤️ Huge fan of yours...love from India❤️
What a GREAT and informative video. Thank You (:
Great content! Could you do the same for the other three seasons (autumn, winter, spring)?
Oh man thank you for your videos, I always assumed I was warm because I'm olive/tan easily but I think I may actually be cool
Be mindful that certain colours are universal and look good on all skin tones. Royal blue is one. And EVERY colour looks good on everyone, it's just the undertone you need to look at. So don't completely put aside a colour. If you are confused between why a colour oppositive to your undertone looks good on you, it is perhaps a universal one.
I think Alicia and my color is same. I rock royal blue but look zombiesh in orange or chrome yellow. Lady, you just helped me realise that I am a summer type. And now I know my skin looks a bit yellow bcz of pigmentation, just like Alicia, so I pretty much look good in both but bright and cool are my color.
1:30. Summer is not "cool & bright" and winter is not "cool & muted" - those are backwards.
I am Indian but I did a color analysis quiz online where I put all the colors next to my face and even though the test gave me winter...I looked better in Summer. I suspected I might have had a cool undertone but wasn't sure...the autumn didn't look very good on me, same for spring. Summer and winter looked good. But winter was a little too vivid. I don't know...still a little confused. I tried the silver and gold metal thing but I can't tell which one looks better on me. I will say though from personal experience I have a cool, deep kinda vivid but not too much, dark blue top and it looks gorgeous on me. On the other hand, warm colors I just am not that drawn to; this warm red dress I am wearing looks meh. So...yeah, I think I might be cool undertone but I am ..not a winter either from what I can tell.
you might be cool and delicate! don't even get me started on how anyone with dark hair gets a winter classification!!!!!!!!!!! you could watch my videos on the four skin undertones, as well as comparing two deep winters! oh and also watch my draping video--I'm cool and delicate myself!
How about cool summer? Cool summer is also cool and muted(Kate Middelton is a cool summer type). I´m a winter too(my skin is much lighter then yours but I´ve changed my colortype because the colors of winter type are way too oversaturated for me.
@@merriamstyle you might be right lol, I objectively look better in cool colors although I’m closer to neutral than someone clearly cool (usually white), and Reddit basically told me I must be Autumn (which I’m clearly not). I seem to be summer in this system but none of the pre-designated ones.
So very helpful! 👏🏽
ahhh, so I wore a Bright Burgundy shirt & looked completely washed out with my light tan surface tone, and radiant warmth undertones.
It's like wearing bright red lipstick as a Deep Autumn, you're uncomfortable & it doesn't suit you best, as personal colors. 😩 I'm starting to notice I have Lots of bright & cool/ shadow colors in my wardrobe. I need to start buying richer , and depth colors as a Deep Autumn. I only own a couple of those.
I got complimented on the burgundy shirt 😂😂 but it did wash me out when I was in natural lighting. I looked extra pale.
Then again, I look amazing in rich red colors. Or fun, bold red.
It's interesting what suits & what may not. | So Warm tones fits the fun, bold red colors. And the rich red fits the Deep/Dark Autumn.
Did you do a video on the rest of the types as you mentioned? I can't find it :( very well made btw!!
thanks.I’m sick of people saying all East Asians are yellow
Hi. It's so interesting but is there any other way u can explain it better other than season. Tnx.
Thank you for this video! I've got my color now!
Bingbing is actually her name, in Chinese the sur name goes first
So a bit more pigment protects someone from looking bad with their worst colors xD
Excellent presentation
I have leared do much form your videos...thak you so much🧡
Question please if you would kindly reply. I’m Southeast Asian with black hair, dark eyes, super super white skin and pink under tone. Does not tan easily at all. Am I similar to Phan Bang Bang - Summer? Or can I be a Clear Winter or something? Thanks so much if you have the time to reply
In the original seasonal color analysis winter is bright and summer is more muted. Have you changed this intentionally? It’s confusing when the terminology is inconsistent
Interesting thought on the asian girl but I think that she considers the yellow her best color. East asian cultures often see paleness as an ideal and she did look much paler there. I personally thought it looked great on her.
8:27. That dress is NOT warm red. It is COOL red.
I have an orange undertone. It is flat out orange. I did the colour grab app and got orange. Makeup from fashion fair is always bronze. So... I'm assuming I'm warm but the bright and delicate pallets seem a bit tricky. I pick my colors by putting my hand next to them. My skin will switch on and off like a light bulb. Hahaha
I love your channel and this video. Do you do Color Analysis in Online method?
Hi! What do you mean, like offer consults? Or if I have a website or ways to do it online?
If you offer consults online via?
Merriam Style, can a “ summer” person pull off bright almost neon green? Because I identified myself as summer (since I look great in royal blue and hot pink or fuscia) but I also look great in a very bright spring green. I say it’s a spring green because it looks like the color of new grass. I wonder if this green is merely my “yellow” as a summer. I’ve gotten compliments whenever I wear this bright kind of green. Also, I have to be careful with yellows because they look “meh” on me but some yellows like turmeric yellow look fine. Do I still sound like a summer to you?
I hope you talked about the olive skintones here as well with different seasons
I‘m really confused now 🙈 I always fought that I‘m a winter. But now I‘m not really sure...
Why are we whispering sis?
It's midnight, the dogs are asleep
shhhh this is an asmr
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Her mic is too close to her mouth
Her voice is so nice and tender, also sweet.
Thank you for this! It was really helpful! I hope you do this for all the seasons eventually. My problem is that I know I'm a warm undertone, and I look really good in both bright and muted colors, but usually not in pure colors. For instance, bright mustard yellow is my signature color. But I also look amazing in army green and dark but bright teal. I hate how I look in pure yellow or muted peach. What does this mean?! I also look amazing in hot pink, which is bright and cool. I usually just dress in fall colors (not necessarily an autumn palette, but the actual seasonal colors). I almost feel like light vs. dark is more important for my skin that bright vs. muted. I'm just confused. Is this because I have a dark skin tone?
I know this is silly but as a Black woman, I believe personally that colors looking bad is really a case of what do people notice more when looking at us or a photo. Our deep and lovely skin is actually the reason fashion designers put super dark models in beyond bright clothing for photos, because our skin actually makes the colors look good while the colors themselves don't do much to our pigment. It's possible your deep skin is the Reason you don't look bad at all in cool pink. If you look better in bright blue than bright yellow though you'll prob have your answer.
Oh my this was very informative I know very little about colors and seasons (COLOR SYSTEM) but I do know that i hate yellow and orange in general .
Thank you!
I should look into it and try to find out which season I am I do know that I have a cool undertone when wearing makeup foundation and thanks a bunch i love different shades of pink especially light pink .
Alabanza I hate orange
Please do the other seasons winter/autumn/spring
I still can't figure out my undertone. I am pale with very dark hair and I think I look better with golden jewelry than with silver. Pink looks awful on me. At the same time, I don't look tan and I think I am fair like Anne Hathaway and Zoey Deschanel. 🤷♀️
Can you do a cool and muted video please?
What about us super fair with a lot of pink ladies, Think English and Irish skin. You rarely see anyone my shade either. Most are medium beige in print.
Hi everyone! I am a bit confused about smth, hope someone can help. I am definetly a cool undertone, I don't have to wear yellow or orange to look sick or dead, it's enought to juat stand next to a splash of wa color... But I can't, for the life of me, figure out if I'm bright or muted... I tried putting on bright blues, bluish greens, reds, black and white vs muted blues, greens, dark burgundy reds and greys... I seem fine in all of them, as long as they are cool. I even tried the lipstick trick with a bright red and a muted pink and burgundy... all look equally ok to me. Is there such a thing as a neutral level of brightness? I find it hard to believe I am that weird :)) Or am I missing smth? Is there some other way to test it? Thanks in advance!
Hi Ioana, I believe there is a neutral level of brightness actually. :) I don't think it's weird. Most people will lean toward muted or bright, but how bright/muted you are is a continuum, vs how warm you are vs how cool you are--there's a definite point where you'll have more yellow or more blue in the skin. But the chroma of the skin is determined by how bright that warm or cool is. So one could be extremely muted (the more muted you are, the harder it would be to tell if you look better in muted warm or muted cool), or you could be in the middle like you describe, or you could tend toward being much brighter. It's also possible you're just having trouble telling because it's a bit difficult to be objective. Muted/bright is the more difficult thing to tell, usually. ;)
Hi merriam im so sorry I was not able to get in touch with you today like I wanted to . I ended up getting called into work. I hopefully will get my Tuesday off like im suppose to without work calling me again due to someone not able to make it. I hope I can try again for consulting. Thank you.
Please do a video for the remaining seasons
Can you do a part two with warm and radiant? Thank you
This is helpful! I kinda look good in a lot of things but this helps it make more sense. I just posted a video with natural light and no makeup. I'd love to know my season if anyone can help 💗
Ok so sometimes the color may look good with your brown skin color but not match your undertone?
Hi, I don't know if you'll still read this. But in another vid, Merriam said that if you have darker skin, (more melanin pigment), then you can sometimes wear both warm & cool colours. However, you'll havebto determine which colours look best on you.
@@kitty_s23456 cool colors still look best sharper cleaner prettier. Warm colors give an earthy look
@@TheKonnoisseur11 hi, I beg to disagree. I'm Asian and medium brown (skintone similar to actress Kathryn Bernardo - you can Google her). Warm colours look best on me. I always get compliments when I wear reds, oranges & yellows, but not when I wear cool colours (blues & greens). Even in pics, I look more radiant in warm colours. You must do draping to determine which suits you best. Good luck!
@@kitty_s23456 you have light skin I was referring to brown skin
@@TheKonnoisseur11 I am medium toned in the spectrum. If you compare me to Emma Stone, I'm darker, but if placed beside Oprah or Lupita, I'm lighter. Warm colours can look good on dark women too - Oprah looks great in red & Beyoncé is great in gold (warm). However, Lupita looks fab in bright pink & royal blue (cool). It depends on the person.
really enjoyed... being bi-racial..always a challenge -- have even done Meghan Merkle?
I’m a medium olive but I also have naturally blonde hair and blue/gray eyes. Every video I’ve watched, they have dark hair and eyes. Would the colors stay the same for olive skin with blonde hair and blue eyes?
But Julianne Moore looks better in warm...
My skin tone is very yellowish beige. Sometimes I'm worried if it's because of Bilirubin!?
My best colours are not cool and bright.
What colours do I look the best in?
Uhm it is very wrong to say that among East Asians cool skin tone is very uncommon. Lucy Liu is actually a very obvious winter
I totally agree. And Fan Bing-Bing's type of skintone (which the video rightly points out is cool-toned) is not actually that difficult to find in East Asia.
I'm more confused than before now...
Please do some videos about cool and muted.
Merriam I'm a deep winter , and orange looks really ugly on me cause my skin have a bit of orange tint , therefor , should i evoid blue ?? Cause it's orange's complementary color , knowing that all shades of blue look good on me.
Hi im half asian and italian mix I sure wish you could do my color analysis is there any possible way to do that? I could use your help. Thank you
Sure! You can do a color consult with me if you're interested! merriamstyle.com/color_consult.html
@@merriamstyle oh wow thank you. Im at work right now but off tomorrow . I will click on your link when I get home. Im in Minnesota. I think I might know my season but I need confirmation along with some questions. Thank you
I'm olive and muted but idk what season I'm
Was hoping there would be an actual dark skin example. Why is it these examples are people who are always on the lighter side.
skin depth isn't that important for color type in artistic license. I do have a video called 'two ladies same best colors' where I cover how Lupita has the same best colors as a blonde and light lady.
What if your eyes are grey?
This is so confusing....
Wait summer is muted and winter is bright according to every other colour analyst!!! Why are you the other way around?
What would a standard soft summer translate as in your system?
cool and delicate, medium contrast.
I always thought I was warm skin tone since my skin is very yellow to my eyes and compared to my sister very cool skin. Though I also think Bright blue looks good on me and I also think black look good . I think warmer colors looks bad on me but I can't tell if it's just because I visually prefer cooler color so I am not objective when I look myself. 😂 I really need to have your color and kibbe body type analysis once I have the budget for it . I can't figure out myself and my husband is not neutral either because he only tell by color he like or doesn't like for what looks good on me ! 😂😂
looking ok in not your best color is why it’s confusing
I feel like you focus too much in cooler clothes than the warmer ones in general in your videos. Maybe you haven't notice.
Do you teach online classes?