Omg thank you for this video ! You actually explain it perfectly. I am neutral but leaning warm and this makes so much freaking sense now.

Thanks so much for this! You're make-up looks beautiful in this video.

This video has been so useful, thank you! I have always known that I am neutral but didn’t know that my dominate undertone is warm. This will be very useful in finding the perfect foundation match.

Thanks so much for this! I always thought I had a warm undertone and this confirmed it. Appreciate you sharing your knowledge with us. 😊

Once again, a simple, understandable explanation! And thanks for talking about Mac -your are so right! Great foundations, but useless in helping a confused person!

This is great! I always sort of thought I was neutral and now I’m very sure. A few weeks ago I was reading a lot about this and was getting very confused and uncertain. It’s all cleared up now, thank you!

Best video I've seen on describing undertones! Thank you!

I'm a smurfette, and I watch your channel!

Very useful. Thanks for explaining it so clearly and simply.

Thank you for your videos on undertones and skin tone. Very interesting approach. These are very helpful, especially for one of my family members, who I’ve been thinking for awhile may be neutral.

Thank you! Thank you! For years I’ve been told because I have pale skin and blue eyes that I must be “Fair” with cool undertones. But cool toned makeup always made me look like a vampire…I.e. dead. I finally settled on a shade of foundation that made my skin look the best and basically ignored the labels. Now that I look at it, it’s a neutral. My natural hair color is almost black and I have blue-green eyes and turns out my skin tone is “Light” and not pale. I am Light with neutral undertones that tend toward pink but too much pink makes me look awful. So, short story, thank you for clarifying that you can be neutral with a tendency toward cool or warm undertones as well. Cheers!

Gorgeous hair color & cut on you! And the lippy is stunning!

So glad I found you! Thanks for this info...leaning towards a "warm neutral" for me lol.

Love, love this video….😊. Really pleased to learn bout the klairs mist as I suffer from the dryness you spoke of and it’s horrible. Love the lip balm, have been using that for a while. Just ordered the joseon moisturisers…..thank you. Xx

What a fabulous video Gemma, this is by far the best explanation for undertone colouring I have seen. I'm cool even though I tan easily and have dark brown eyes. Videos in which you are explaining certain points, are your fortè. As a freelance management development consultant I would snap you up in a heartbeat to join my team of trainers if you were in Northern Ireland. Hope you had a wonderful weekend and enjoy your week Gemma xx

Now this is what I call an “A+ EXPLANATION” regarding skin undertones!!! 🅰️➕ I don’t usually leave comments...however, I’ve absolutely took the time to thanks Pampered Wolf for her fantastic clear explanation about skin undertones. Well done young lady! ☺️💝

BEST explanation on KZfaq! Thank you!

Thank you for the explanation. It was easier to understand than most.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for explaining this so very well!!!

Love your channel and advice!!

Thanx for this. I ALWAYS find myself completely confused about undertones. Can't wait to try the paper thing. I ki d of felt like when you did that, it really popped. 💜

No BS, I thought for nearly 10 years I had cool undertones because of my Mac foundation. I found out I’m more neutral with warm undertones when we were looking for engagement rings. Thank you for another great and helpful video. 👏🏼💓🌹

So, so clear and helpful! I’ve been wrong the whole time! And you are not doing anything wrong with your white loads of laundry! The same happens to mine, I swear.

So helpful! I have figured out I am a cool undertone from this!

This is the best undertone video I've seen yet. Thank you. I'm like you -- neutral, but leaning warm.

Yes! Jewelry would definitely show your undertone.. For the longest time I used to think that silver (and white gold) jewelry is more sophisticated and less showy so I wore it All the time ... But a couple of years ago I wore gold earrings and my skin looked so radiant and got so many compliments .. So yep, knowing your undertone is important ...thank you for a lovely video as always 💚 also I love MAC but you are right, you gotta learn your undertone before you step in their store..😂🙈

I have green eyes and cool undertone, burn easy. I absolutely LOVE your warm skin tone (maybe it is your bronzer but it's very lovely).

I love that you told people to use the chest to figure out skin tone. The face is very hard to tell because it's usually lighter than the body. Also the easiest way I've learned about skin tone are by the colors you wear. The color that you tend to buy that looks amazing on you and you get the most compliments plays on skin tone. Bright jewel toned colors look amazing on cool toned skin all except bright red it can clash. Natural colors like orange, brown, and reds look amazing on warm skin tones. Neutrals tend to look amazing in true red, and more muted colors, also black, and Grey's. But bright colors can wash out your skin. This is the best way for me to determine skin tone since it's hard to tell sometimes, especially if your neutral. Love your tips, they are always awesome!

😨😨😯 Never knew that about MAC! Explains an awful lot. I've watched many vids regarding undertones, (I was left confused) however now I know I am a warm eutral. But like you Gemma. Thank you xxx 🌹xxx

Great tips, Gemma! Another way I find makes it easy to determine one's undertone is to apply a warm, peachy blush on one cheek and a cooler pink blush on the other and see which one looks like your natural flush.

Great video, thanks Gemma x

This is so helpful! Thank you!

Love the review!

Way too excited for this YAY!!! I know it’ll be good because your whole wardrobe is my goals 😍😭 also you look so fresh and GLOWING!! 😘❤❤

extremely helpful, thank you so much.

Love this hair color on you

U look gorgeous!

Oh.My.Word...I was super confused having grown up thinking I had a cool undertone. My skin is super fair and I burn quite easily with lots of blue veins. I'm a dark brunette with brown eyes and so I applied your techniques which left me leaning towards the neutral warm camp. I went to two separate makeup counters and they both told me that I'm a neutral that leans towards the warmer side and my skin has an olive color which makes me harder to match a foundation to. The second girl was so kind and helpful explaining it all and I found a great new foundation that matches me perfectly! Thank you so much for this video...it was quite the eye opener!!

Thanks for that. Brilliant x

I'm still working on my undertone. Looks like it's neutral to cool. Blue eyes, gray/silver hair & I burn in the sun but my veins are both green & blue. Thank you for this video, helps me.

Great video. Greaf detail. 😀❤

Hi Gemma; Thank you so much for this easy and straightforward tutorial on our skin. I think i (finally!) have figured it out.Your video on how to choose the right foundation was absolutely fantastic as well.I am a new member of "The Wolf Pack"! Have enjoyed watching your makeup videos/ & tutorials together with your mom ~ I am in my late sixties and you mom always looks so natural fresh and pretty after you have finished her makeup. Both of you are such gorgeous ladies, Cheer's!

Loved the video 💙😙, never thought about undertones (heard about them, but... Never gave it the proper thought). And now I know what my grey and green-ish vains against my pale skin mean 👍😸;

So helpful! Thank you!

Love this vid thank you!!! P.S. Try a bluing liquid agent in your whites :)

Great job! Thank you!!!

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

Totally agree you’re warm undertoned. Be careful with your hair colour as when the front is very ashy it can look a bit too cool

Thank you dear. This helps a lot. You are a ⭐

Very helpful. This has been confusing to me in the past.

Excellent!

You have cleared up some confusion and answered so many questions.

So true about Mac. When I’m at their counter I tell myself “the N means not” lol. So if they give me a NC 30 that means Not Cool 🤦‍♀️😂

Sometimes its more than just the hue thats important. Value and tone make the difference for some people, so also looking at light/dark, or vibrant/muted, are key factors. I’ve always hated trying to figure the warm/cool thing out. The veins, my hands are blues & purples, my arm is green, and the wrist is literally where the two run together. Silver and gold look good, most my jewelry is two toned cause of that. So neutral obviously but then there’s quirks. I’m brunette & brown eyes and warm hair colors are definitely needed, I look ill if I go ashy, but then in conflict wearing some warm colors are horrible on me. I don’t tan well and have a lot of pink on the surface of my skin. I typically do better with cool tones but they cannot be light or pastel or I look ill. Over years of figuring things out mostly with clothes, I’ve determined for me its not the color that’s important in most cases, but the value and tone. Darker, muted colors, whether cool or warm, are best for me. Although taste wise I’m always drawn to those in the cool side as all my favorite colors are there so thats what I wear. 😋

Omg , thank god finally i found a perfect vedio with super explanation , we are alike i to have green and purple veins and gold and silvee jewellery ,now after so many struggle i finally found my undertone I'm so so glad i found your vedio , thank you thank you so much , the best vedio on KZfaq ,100/100 love love 🥺🥺🥺😘😘😘

I just loooovvvee your video.. Learning so much specially sense I'm no were as I used to look in high school now I need lots of help thank you 😊😊😊

Very helpful thank you. X

So enjoy your channel and tips

I just found you, love, love, love your videos, love your beautiful mom and I am really happy I found you...this is an older video from 2018, I know we are in 2020 but I would love so much to see a video were you could guide us regarding warm and cool undertones, I think I have a cool undertone, love and look better in silver, love the warm shades of eye shadow but I look better in grays, mauves, blue grey...sometimes is a bit confusing...thanks for your help and great work.

Thank you!

thanks for that! i have mac nc20 and i always thought i was more N and W undertone and never fully understood why my foundation is C!!

What about the olive undertone Gemma? We’re the most overlooked camp. So if you have trouble finding the right shade of foundation and it never looks right you might be olive toned. We tend to get put in the neutral group because of the vein test. At the beauty counter I get put in the warm category because I have a yellow overtone. So the last thing I need is a warm foundation with more yellow which will make me look like a banana or an orange. Neutral colours are sometimes almost exeptable but still slightly off and can make an olive look sallow or greyish. What’s missing in these foundations is the green pigment. Only few youtubers get this because they are olive toned themselves and can help shed some light. Contrary to what many believe olive skin is not nesessarily dark. Olive skin ranges from fair to very dark. And to confuse things even more: there are cool and warm olives! It’s not easy being green!

That video here is a national treasure for anyone interested in make-up. It helped me to finally decide that I am neutral, leaning towards cool. I prefer silver to gold jewelry and I never tan. I have green eyes and I have both green and bluish-purplish veins on my wrists. BUT there also is a definite hint of yellow to my very pale skin. That left me wondering for a long while. But I decided to also look what I prefer instinctively. Like, my lipsticks are always more of a bluish red than a yellowish red. I prefer silver jewelry on me and have always done so. If gold at all, it needs to be a very pale gold or white gold (white gold has a much warmer undertone than sterlings silver, which is crispy cool). So what I’m saying is that most of the times we instinctively go for the things that suit us better. For instance, I love fall colours but I would never wear them because they look sad on me.

I think I am a cool undertone. The lady at the estee Lauder counter did the computer scan matching thing and then gave me this horrible yellow toned foundation. I swear I look like I need a liver transplant in it. The wrong undertone can make a huge difference.

Washing Tip! I make my own washing powder. I use a couple of small finely **grated blocks of "Household soap" (*The Green One) not any beauty soaps for washing the body or hands. Add a bag of Washing Soda/Soda Crystals (£1 from Tesco) and a tub of Oxyclean from any £shop. Mix it all together in a large airproof container and use one small scoop (from the Oxyclean) per load in with the washing. One and a half if it is heavily soiled. I think it costs about £5 for around 70-100 washes. It gets all stains out, takes about an hour to make but more importantly, it doesn't make my skin itch. Even on my eczema areas. I use a squirt of white vinegar (39p a pint from Tesco) as a fabric conditioner. It takes out any soap residue from any washing detergent and leaves no smell at all. Towels will be super soft and soon get back their natural absorbancy. *Green Household soap, the kind your Great Granny used, available from Ebay or Amazon. **Cover mouth & nose with a bandana when grating soap or you will sneeze your head off. Wash hands VERY well after handling the soap for long periods or wear gloves.

Hi Gemma, You really explain things very well, but I'm still no wiser......ha ha .I think I am neutral, lot's of colours seem to suit me. I do get colour matched for foundation but never really ask about skin tone. Sometimes at the beauty counter the consultant may say something, but they are never consistent with their comments. You are so right about Mac they certainly do confuse me. Thank you so much. 😘😘

Very informative video, Gemma! I "think" I'm neutral, but need to try the paper test.

Wayne Goss says you can tell by looking at the skin on the neck. I have found that this is helpful. I have a definite yellow undertone but I have so many traits of a cool skin tone that I feel I'm neutral, not warm. Basically I'm still not 100% sure... although if a foundation is too pink, it looks ridiculous on me!! xXx

Thank you so much now I know!! 😊 I'm cool or Neutral

New subbie here from America, love your videos, very informative

This definitely helps me understand my undertone better and now I know I have a cool undertone, possibly leaning slightly to neutral. I will find out tomorrow when I stand by the window, waving my arms about and freak my neighbours out. 😜

Best video I've watched about this subject! 👍👍

This video was so very helpful. I took a a color class in college and the tips you shared was spot on. And yes, Estee Lauder is a great brand to figure out your undertone. Keep doing what you do as I will be following you.

I have a neutral undertone but because I have a little bit of olive in it I switch between cool and warm depending on the time of year. In winter I wear cooler colors but in summer I switch to warm once I get a bit of a tan. Because I live in Australia we tan just walking around every day!

I was highly impressed with my local Estee Lauder counter. She took one look at me and went 'neutral' and then got her skin match gizmo out to prove it. Until then, I'd been convinced I was cool-toned.

thank you, thank you,thank you!

Hi, it would be awsome if you could make a video what colors fits best in clothes and lip colors depending if you are C/N/W.

The MAC counter comment made me chuckle. That would baffle me. I have never priced Dior, but I imagine can more readily afford MAC to Dior foundation.

You are right! I visited a MAC counter thinking they would give me the most precise info about my skin undertone. Good Lord, I ended up buying a NC20, which is wasaaaay lighter and cooler. The person was testing my neck, the inside of my arm. A disaster.

I agree with everyone below - love your videos and would be amazing to have tutorials for different undertones. I have very similar colouring to you (dark eyes, beige skin tone, blonde hair - but I'm definitely a cool). I adore peaches and corals but struggle to find ones that suit. Is it even possible with cool undertone?

Thank you for this Gemma! I always assumed I was warm but I’m a darker skinned Latina but just this week I went to the Estée Lauder counter and she told me I’m neutral with pinkish under tines!! Say what?!?😱😱😂😂😂

I think I'll visit a counter lol, all my tests I've done has made me 2nd guess myself. Ty darling

You are awesome,,,LOL THANK U

Another good way to tell your skin tone is what colors are you more drawn to? What colors do you have more of in your closet? What colors do you have more of in your home decor? Cool tones look good in silver, black, grey white and pastels. Warm looks good in autumn deep colors. Brown, maroon, Burnt orange, forest green, olive, cream or ivory and gold. Warm I am neutral that leans more on the warm side. My veins are blue green. Hair is chestnut and eyes are hazel. I'm light to med skin tone. I can burn but takes a lot. I never wear sun screen and burn usually once and at most twice untill I start tanning. I look my best in autumn/fall colors but also look really good in pink and in dark blue. I can wear some winter colors. I look good in black and both cool and warm reds. I also look AMAZING in most shades ( cool or warm) of purple.

I'm cool toned but in certain lighting my neck and chest can look slightly yellow which is confusing because there are definitely pink undertones in those areas as well. I've started choosing neutral tones in foundation and believe they suit me best so I may be neutral/cool if there is such a thing. 😕

i love this video! i was so damn confused about undertones. i'm like, "what the hell does that mean?!" lol.. now it makes better sense to me. thank you so much for the info. and you are looking fantastic as always! and i agree, i love your hair color, it truly suits your skin tone. 😁👍💖

I'm a solid neutral and I'll wear warmer tones for Summer and cooler for Winter. My struggle has always been trying to find cosmetics that complement me with my hair colour because my palettes needed to change when I changed my hair (It's naturally silver now and so far anything goes) Regarding your laundry whites - we are a karate family and I wash a lot of white uniforms, I wash them in colourless detergent - no bluing "whites wash" as that stuff will grey clothes over time, with an added tablet of laundry bleach. ditching those blue tinted detergents will make a huge difference. Also, those tips of using hydrogen peroxide to brighten whites (and remove underam yellowing) only works on 100%cotton, never use on poly/cottons as it'll turn them bright urine yellow; I learned that the hard way.

Very helpful

Thank you. Can we have a follow up on what colours suit each undertone x

I have a warm undertone but a cool overtone (Deep Winter in the season colour analysis) so I am kind of neutral makeup wise but leaning to cool therefore some neutral foundations look yellow on me if they have more yellow pigments than blue. It's tricky sometimes....

It's funny you should mention Mac. I've always been a bit confused about the cool/warm undertone thing, went to a Mac counter and she took one look at me and gave me N20. No wonder I was confused, I'm neutral lol!

I have a cool undertone pale skin and really dark brown eyes .

Gemma, you are fantastic@ . New subscriber here....enjoying you and your channel, and your mum!

Great video thanks 😊 As for the washing.... the stuff that's supposed to brighten - usually a blue additive - is activated by uv light. It's actally meant to stop whites developing a yellow tinge when being line dried, so if you usually tumble dry that could explain the greying xx

My husband and I definitely fall in the category of exceptions. I am very light skinned with clear green-grey eyes. I barely tan, but do freckle. I should be cool toned, right? Nope. (I am yellow toned) My husband has green-hazel eyes, and does not tan. He is pink toned. He rocks the cool colors and his grey hair! I've spent too much of my life wishing I could wear the colors that cool toned people could wear, but I've made peace with my coloring and have really appreciated how lately many eyes shadow palettes are warm and perfect for me!

Very helpful video. I am definetelly a cool undertone. 😅

Yay I think I’m neutral since my veins are both blue and green but blue is def more dominant

Possible cause for white clothes turning gray. During my two years living in SW7 London, my whites turned gray the first time I washed them so I assumed it was the water. The whites washer load had some new items and some items previously laundered in California.

Thank you for the great tips. Also re your laundry, it’s that lost black sock that did it!

New sub but have been watching your videos for a while :) I'm pretty sure I'm neutral/cool yellow or even olive and can go from one side of a department and get matched to "warm" and a few steps over and get matched to "cool". I'm pretty fair with brown/gold hair and brown eyes and have yet to find my "perfect" match so I'm at a loss. Are there brands that work better for someone in my situation? I have Nars, Bare Minerals, Smashbox... the closest is Clarins in 100.5 - until it oxidizes. I would love a video about the best eye/lip shades for warm and cool tones!