The real one is daylight! :) Daylight provides the most even distribution of wavelengths (colors) of all light.

I would highly recommend a professional color analysis. It helps a lot and usually you get a color whell with the colors that fit you best und you can compare this wheel with any fabric in almost any light.

@@merriamstyle Is it true that the cloudy days are the best days to check your undertone?

Natural light has the same problem. Cloudy days have cool light

@@miyukifuji_mf There is another color analysis professional I watch that suggested cloudy days are the best so I just wanted to see what was Merrium's opinion ...... but perhaps daylight is the best ........

yay! are you olive too? watch my cool and delicate olive video.

I will! Thank you

There is no muted winter. Try summer.

​@@ArginneExactly wth 😂

Personally, I think Camilla looks amazing in black. Especially when she has a tan. And wouldn't a muted winter be a summer? Winter skin tones aren't muted. I'm a bright winter myself.

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For me too!!

oh my gosh thank you

shanaloveslemondrops that the operative word ‘seemingly’. It’s so far from superficial in reality isn’t it 😍

:') Thank you, it means a lot that people appreciate my work. It was a lot of work!!

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:')!! thank you!!

Aly art's channle. Kibbe types series and hair series.

Thank you!! :D

I can’t tell if I’m high or low chroma tho

I agree you 100%. Same with all the other light ladies like Naomi Watts or Gwyneth Paltrow.

The thing with Nicole is not about chroma but contrast, it may look unbalanced because she has a low contrast (light hair, light eyes and light skin) so it may look severe color blocking between her coloring and the black dress since Nicole has no black features for the dress to correlate, BUT if we talk about the skin only Nicole's skin is very bright and it still looks radiant with that black, otherwise she would look gray (which she does not) Nicole does look good on black but it's not her best number 1 color. 12 season system is about contrast mostly and chroma. That's why it fails, especially because focuses so much on eyes and hair color. That system has always mistyped redheads

​@@katitadebalso ann looks like a bright winter rather than deep.

There is no muted winter. Try cool summer the palette between summer and winter.

@merriam style same here!! I would love to understand why that is!

You could be a combo :) i had a prof analysis done and turned out to be deep dark winter primarily but with deep autumn as a secondary type. You may be similar, in which case one will be particularly good but you can totally steal some colours from the other one.

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The reason you're confused is because you probably take into account features such as hair and skin which don't really matter and they usually lead to mistyping Merriam only focuses on skin undertone and she proved her analysis is correct and more accurate. Just focus on your skin

I watched Audrey Coyne's video on colour typing for beginners (among others), she has olive skin and argues that this tone is cool undertone most of the time, it's the yellow OVERtone that makes people confused. Maybe check it out and see if her conclusions match with your observations

She may look golden compared to Ann but that does not mean she's a warm undertone. I would say she actually looks more pinkish, or colored in general, Ann's skin is not that pink but more pale looking

Hi Monica. Absolutely! It is harder to see warm/cool for muted undertones. Because the reason the undertone is muted in the first place is because it has only a tiny bit more blue or a tiny bit more yellow (and that yellow mixes with other colors in the skin and the eye may see it as a bit more 'brown'/not as 'bright' or 'clear' of an undertone). The pictures of 'muted' undertones having lighter hair is no accident, because muted undertones are not recognized by any other system except for mine. In other systems, a 'muted' person is someone who has a similar color hair to their skin (hence, usually, light skin and light hair). I say no, it's not about that! It's about the skin itself. No other system does that. I'm happy you found you were a muted undertone. I'm a muted undertone myself which is why I was inspired to put this system together. I can see what you mean about Camilla in that dress. I think there are two factors--the harmony of the features and the color, and the harmony of the skin itself with the color. I think the darker muted colors do look better on Camilla because not only do they make her skin glow, they are also harmonious with her features/hair. But I also prefer how her skin looks in any cool muted color (including lighter ones), to any bright cool colors. I think her skin looks more glowy in the muted cool colors. :)

Me too

Just because you have dark hair and eyes does not make you a winter. If you cant wear black youre not a winter. Try another season.

Winter isnt muted. That makes no sense.

you should watch my video called 'the cool and radiant lady' ! about a low contrast light cool and radiant coloring.

@@merriamstyle thank you! Yes, I just watched that, and my skin tone is very similar to hers. I'd noticed in pictures that white looks good on me. I just tested by pulling some things to drape, and my skin glows with the light, bright colors such as sky blue. I may even have to venture out for some icy pink! I'd never have guessed. Thank you so much for your help!

@@Em-ii7zm yay!

Merriam I have watched possibly all of your videos. Your original theory is so useful. Thank you!

Nicole Kidman appears in the video, she has light hair

@@matheussilva8194 Nicole is cool and bright, not cool and muted.

Cool muted colors are greyish blue, purple and dark blue, purple, magenta. I have never heard of someone blonde in the winter category, angelina jolie is or was (as a child) naturally blonde and some people say she's a winter. She herself says she dyes her hair brown

@@littleflor2975 nicole kidman is a stereotypical spring. Warm. And bright.

Sometimes as people age, especially when they grey, they get cooler. So for example, jamie lee curtis went from warm to cool. Some people who are cool and delicate may go to cool and radiant (which is cooler than cool and delicate). So basically you could remain cool and delicate, and with your lighter hair you could opt for those classic soft summer colors. Or if you find those drag you down, you could have gotten even cooler and you would look wonderful adding in some brighter cool and radiant colors (perhaps semi bright blues or the likes).

anne is a FN

It does happen to a lot of light olives

I think Camilla looks better in black than Anne does...

yay awesome! :)! more to come on this topic for sure!!

Hi Amy, I'm still working on the color guides for all the undertones (I'm thinking I should have color guides instead of simply selling the color palettes, but you bring up a good point, I should consider selling simply the color palettes), but I can tell you some of your best colors as cool and delicate (winter, but I changed my naming convention to cool and delicate to clarify that I don't use the seasonal approach): Slate gray, placid blue, ash pink, cool dove gray, charcoal gray, cool burgundy, muted purples of any kind (there aren't any 'warm' purples), muted cool reds, muted blues of any kind, teals would work well too, muted emerald greens. For brighter colors, you could go for either a cool bright red, or a cool bright emerald green. These are special because red and green are neutral, and being cool and delicate (winter in my system) means your undertone is closer to neutral, but cool. So since cool red and cool green are close to neutral as well, you could pull these off quite well, or at least much better than let's say a magenta. Your worst colors would be any warm colors, and absolutely especially bright warm colors such as yellow orange and anything like that. Warm greens wouldn't be too great either, and warm reds aren't great either. Cool and radiant colors are ok (clear chroma purples, and clear chroma blues), but muted cool is better. Warm and delicate colors like terracotta or warm browns are not that great since they're warm. Hope that gives you some ideas while I work on making your color palettes available!!

@@merriamstyle Oh my goodness a color guide sounds like a wonderful idea!! Wow! Thank you so much for your reply I am so grateful for your help! Thank you for providing us with your time, expertise and energy and I appreciate your work so so so much!! I'm very excited for what comes! 💕

Aw thank you Amy for such a lovely comment!

Would love to see the color palettes!

The book was titled Colour me Beautiful. It came out in the late 70's early 80's

Not a muted winter but a soft summer

I have seen Anne typed as True Winter, Bright Winter, Deep Winter and even as an Autumn.

Otherwise, lovely videos

I wonder if you're still flattered by cool and bright colors anyway? Just lighter colors than before. Like this lady is flattered by a bright blue but just a bit lighter, not a royal blue: www.hairfinder.com/tips/grey-haired-woman.jpg Another possibility is that you could be softer in your undertone, so cool and delicate colors could work too.

Hi Amber! You could watch my draping video. I don't think you want to get too caught up in soft vs deep. There are four main characteristics: cool and bright, cool and muted, warm and bright, and warm and muted. And it's all about the skin itself and what makes your skin glow, and not so much about features like hair color and eye color. Although they can and should be incorporated, they shouldn't be the deciding factor in your coloring! I also offer consults through my website: merriamstyle.com.

Merriam Style Ok thank you! I’ve been binge watching your videos all day so I saw that one but I’m still trying to understand. I do think the soft vs bright thing makes such a big difference like you demonstrated in this video. So I was wondering, if winter is soft and muted how is Anne Hathaway a winter being bright? Isn’t that a contradiction to the system? Or is she a summer?

probably muted. maybe warm and delicate. the warm browns may just be too rich for you as warm and delicate that's all. but if rose gold looks more flattering than silver or yellow gold, then you may be WD. if silver is ideal, then most likely cool and delicate. but usually cool brown is just wonderful on WD so I'd say you're most likely WD. I've never heard CD say 'I look great in cool brown' although they do look nice in cool brown.

where did you hear that? maybe things have changed? that would be amazing bc when I made this video definitely winter was always bright and cool.

Check out Audrey Coyne's video "Color theory for beginners", she has high contrast and olive skin. A small spoiler: she thinks olive skin is cool undertone most of the time, it's the yellow OVERtone that confuses people. Also deep winters aren't 100% cool anyway, cool undertones prevail but some warmness is permissible too. Anyway the only thing that matters is if you think that her explanations make sense to your observations :) I think the video is very insightful but I can't judge for everyone with olive skin

@@antonina8337 I will check the video. Thanks for your suggestion. I have had my color analysis though and I was classified as a deep winter. I can have some warm colors indeed :)

@@Taichientaoyin ah okay, that’s cool :D

Merriam establishes in the video that this is a different system