Wow, you just described me to a T!

I'm a light warm olive and some of your best choices look terrible on me :D - dark red lipstick or cool toned ones is true for me too (Ruby Woo is my best red), but I have to have them mat to not overpower me. If I want to go more purple, then CT Viva la Vergara is great. - nude lipstick does work but you have to go in the darker nudes for your match. I am at the NC15 level in MAC, and my nude lipsticks are the ones tailored towards medium-tan range. Granted, I also have naturally dark lip pigmentation, but this is what works for me. No pale corpse-y tones for me. - I can wear well almost all types of blush except of cool powdery pink and cool mauves. My best matches for natural look are bronzer-blushers, though. - ALL pastels look terrible on me, but true, pale violets like lavender or periwinkle are the worst of them. Lime is just next to it. But I also look bad in all whites, creams, beiges, khaki. Greys and cool greens are the terrible too. - Dark(ish) muted colours that are neutral or leaning slightly warm are my best friends. Fire brick, burgundy, plum, barn red, maroon, navy (the more neutral one without a purple hint), anthracite (i.e. almost black grey), warm blacks, rich chocolate brown, warmer dark greens like bottle or forest green and warm lighter greens (like grass green), stormy or darker steel grey-blues. I can also wear mustardy yellows well if they are saturated and not almost-white. My absolutely best colour is petrol.

Exactly! except I'm still going to wear my lavender colors haha

Light olive here too!😂😂

I don’t know. I’m light olive skin tone with dark brown hair and eyes. I think I look good in both warm and cool colors. I was previously determined to be a winter.

I'm glad you found the video refreshing and helpful! :D

Yes! I too had the same revelation! I kept getting stuck between SA and SS for literal years, because warm and cool are equally fine on me. But, this is only true if the color is muted and low-low medium contrast. I've spent SO much money trying to figure out why I didn't "fit" into a certain seasonal box by trying new clothes or new makeup. Im so so hyped I found this video ahhhhh

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Agreed! :)

I tend to go by what makes my lips look healthier. If I wear colours that are wrong for me, they look washed out. When I wear colours that look good on me, they’re more peachy-pink.

I agree with both - the blue tones show up in both my under eyes and lips when I wear colors that are too cool on me!

Some days no color helps and I can put on enough make up to look like an elderly street walker and it still won’t help. I have wallpaper paste complexion with bunny eyes ( my daughters description.)

Thank you so much for the compliment! ❤ Another color video coming next week too :D

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I agree. Have seen many videos and explanations but this one gives more clarity. Thank you!

True! Jenn is The best 😊!!!

Yes! Many U.S. color analysts are very adamant that everyone is either more Warm or more Cool. I have some things in common with Olives, because I’m a very fair redhead. There are some redheads who are fully warm and, I’ve heard, a few who are cool. However, many, like me, are somewhere in the middle and can play it up either way, like many Olives can. That’s because we have far more pheomelanin (produces yellow, pink, red) than eumelanin (produces beige, tan, brown, black). Like me, many reds have the very warm yellow/red (shades of orange) hair, but pink/red under the skin, which color analysis says is cool. However, our freckles add warmth. We are usually bright and high chroma (though only the darker reds are high contrast). Within our subtype (usually Light or Bright, but all are possible), we combined temperature redheads can usually pull off powder blue, light purples and pinks (cool) and yellow greens, grass greens, light/bright olive, blue -green, warm or cool reds and yellows…the whole gamut, although some have trouble with very warm or very cool colors. On me, the more neutral colors, in temperature, look best. Neutral temp = coral (pink plus orange), mint, blue greens, butter/daffodil yellow, salmon, and other colors midway between Warm and Cool. Still, the dominant color analysis theory holds that no one, or almost no one, is truly neutral. I am considered Warm-Neutral (typed as Light/Bright Spring), because of my warm hair eyes and freckles, though my skin has what are usually called cool undertones and a yellowish/peachy skin tone. It’s just not pigmented enough pigment to change my blush to peach or bronze, so the effect is pretty neutral skin. If there are Warm and Cool people, logically speaking, there should also be neutral people and people at every point on the spectrum. What do you think? P.S. Thankfully, tonal theory says that temperature is not everyone’s dominant trait, so that does account for many of us neutral types.

Such a detailed explanation - thank you!! I agree with you 100% abiyt the colors being somewhat ambiguous ❤ I find that when I tan I'm actually able to wear brighter/clearer colors better as opposed to soft/muted colors!

I second this. I’m a very cool olive. Olive is an overtone, not an undertone 😢

Check out my Olive Skin video if you haven't already ❤

I could have written this comment. Pastels are the enemy, but deep, saturated warm and cool colors are both friendly. I am still not sure what that makes us though. 😂

​@@bibliophilelady6106I feel like I am totally the same! Though I just have yellow undertones I think, not olive skin. I still can't place myself on that wheel 😂. All I know is that I look good in rich jewel tones, but pastells are a no no 😄

@@bibliophilelady6106 It makes you neutral bright.

@@bibliophilelady6106SAME!!!

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Haha you're welcome! I'll do that more to make things clear ❤

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You're welcome ❤ Yes the system is only meant to be used as a guide, but I see so many people expect very concrete rules and palettes that apply for each season and being frustrated about it!

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That's me! Cool pink & purples are my absolute wrost colors lol

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I'm glad you liked the video! I'm similar to you but lean more towards dark ❤

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I'm glad you liked the explanations! As long as you know that bright colors suit you the best and clarity of the colors is the most important to you that's all that matters :D

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Coming up on Wednesday! :D

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Yes I have seen her videos about style roots which I thought was quite interesting! ❤

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I know the feeling when what seems like a tiny difference to the eye makes a huge difference when you actually apply it on your skin!!

You might try looking at ULTA's own brand of Flushed Blush in the shade "Pink with Envy." It's a dark pink color, similar to Lancome's Aplum.

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You're probably sitting closer to the Deep Winter (like in between Deep Autumn and Deep Winter) than to the True Autumn! :)

@@stylemejenn that's exactly what i was going to say. I just discovered I am Deep/Dark winter and can borrow from dark autumn a bit. Go to Spice Market Colour...Discover...and read up on Dark winter. I resonated so well! I find I look best in Jewel colors. I'm 58 and it's so exciting! I always thought I was an Autumn and am realizing that although skin-tone wise, I can get away with it...but the brightness of the Deep Winter colors brings me to life.

I'm glad you're finding my videos helpful! ♥ There can be instances where you're typed into a wrong season, or even if it is the right season for you, you might just not feel comfortable with the palette! These things are so personal that it's hard to find a single right answer :)

I've never heard of it but it looks cool! I'm gonna watch some of her videos now ♥

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Sounds like you have a muted cool-olive undertone

no, olive is an overtone not an undertone.

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That’s the hardest part about finding your color season, subtype and palette…feeling crazy! I often feel crazy, because I have Warm red hair and green/gold eyes, but my pinkish/red undertone is described as unequivocally cool. Yet, my skin tone is yellow/peach and freckle are warm. What am I? I was determined to be between Light and Bright Spring, but I can’t wear the warmest Spring colors and can wear the bright Summer colors. I finally know the palette that works well for me. It’s a Tonal palette, with the brighter Light colors and the lighter Tonal Brights. I was typed as Spring, but can’t wear the warmer Spring colors. They bring out my hair and eyes, but I look like a ghost 👻

@@sciencenotstigma9534 we mixed warm/ cool redheads are the most challenging! ( often very cool undertones , fair skin value, with warm surface or tan freckles, brown or gold eyes with green and either darker auburn ( so high contrast) or golden strawberry blond, we just really don’t fit into a typical season. I think redheads should have a totally different system than the 4 seasons

Thanks Andrea! YES red lips is not only about colors but also about your features ❤ So all things are considered hollistically!

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I have never heard of Soft Winter. Is that in a more expanded system, or do you mean what they call Cool Winter? I’ve noticed it has more light colors than other Winter palettes.

@@sciencenotstigma9534 It is really difficult to find a palette for soft winter online. I've seen that some stylists have a 16 season colour analysis and Soft Winter seems to be part of that. I just know that pure black looks a bit harsh on me now (before it looked amazing, one of my best colours along with royal or navy blue). Now I find I need to add a lighter colour alongside it to soften it. But I know I'm definitely not a summer - they are too muted and without enough contrast for me.

@@sciencenotstigma9534 As explained in the video, softer means more grey is in the hue.

You could also be a Deep Summer if you need that extra darkness!

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The the same exact way! Being quite pale, the brighter colors not giving as much of a contrast makes a huge difference. I always find myself going for very and saturated dark colors frequently! I used to self tan and it definitely opened up my wardrobe to lighter colors! So cool!

@@karleejames3717. Yes! I’m a Strawberry haired Spring with very fair , neutral skin. I can’t wear Warm Spring, but I can’t wear the lighter Light Spring colors either, despite my light red hair, because I cannot tan. My hair is high chroma and my eyes are a vivid dark Olive with gold flecks, so they create enough contrast with my skin to wear the more classic, crayon colors (green, red, yellow, royal blue, etc.). However, I can’t wear the neon, or nearly neon colors. That seems to require more darkness, like the pastel colors do. I can wear light, bright colors…just not pastels or neons, of any shade. I think there are some fair-skinned people who may be able to wear neon, with the thicker pigment layer often found in Winters that creates a stark white skin tone. I have a very thin pigment layer, so a lot of ruddiness shows through, which looks ridiculous with neon.

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@@stylemejenn can you make a video with actual test subject getting a make over?? Make overs are so fun 🤩

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Thank you for the suggestion! Let me add it to my topics list :)

It means you have fair skin with a bright olive undertone. However you didn't indicate if you are cool or warm. Would you look better in warm or cool colors?

@@violetviolet888 More in cool colors!

"fair olive" is a contradiction. You can't have both. Fair skin is the very white blue/pinkish skin of English/Irish/Scottish ancestry, that freckles and burns easily. Pretty much the opposite of olive skin. What you are probably trying to say is light olive skin. Tip: all olive skin falls into the Winter palettes. Tip #2 hazel eyes can belong to any of the seasons, eye colour is not linked to skin types.

@@SueRosalie Incorrect. Anyone of any skin value (lightness/darkenss porcelain to deep black) can absolutely have an *olive undertone*. Ask anyone who is fair with an olive undertone. I can assure you they exist.

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This is where I am with my 2 year old red head. He looks bad in completely warm colors. His skin turns yellow with true spring and orange and ruddy with true autumn. I’m leaning towards Bright Spring for him. But Bright Winter is not bad, I think it just drains him slightly. Excited to find another red head with similar coloring. I’ve been having the toughest time finding his colors since he was born. Most people automatically put red heads into the True Warm seasons based off of the overtone instead of undertones.

My coloring is somewhat similar but with dark brown auburn instead of bright red, and I think for me, my colors that work are opposite. I think redhead coloring is the hardest to figure out for sure because most of us are a mix of seasons. Ive found colors that make my complexion glow, do nothing for my hair and eyes. 🤔

i@@Julia29853 it might get easier when your hair starts to gray/whiten, maybe you'll naturally gravitate to cooler tones. I was a natural bright redhead and I have neutral/warm (not olive, but kind of sallow) very fair skin and hazel brown eyes, and deep/bright autumn colors (royal and other warm bright blues, olive, warm greens, warm chocolate browns) as well as certain soft autumn colors (rose-mauve, mustard, warm charcoal gray) are the best for me, and with makeup I can pull off black (my hair/skin have a nice bright contrast to the black). I'm almost 50% gray/white, and when I don't dye my hair (right now it's the perfect shade, almost like what my hair used to be - a bright warm auburn with no cool tones) I look completely washed out and sallow. I'm not looking forward to when I let go of dying my hair as it will really mean having to re-do a lot of my color sense. I'll probably wind up being a decidedly soft autumn, which is a bummer (eg no more dramatic contrasts, which I love). Thanks Jen for your deep dives into color and makeup types - so helpful.

My husband is the same! Red hair with cool/neutral pale skin and he can pull off highlighter neon colors and look effortless, typically regardless of undertone, but bright spring is really the best overall when looking for neutrals due to his warm hair and bright blue-green eyes :)

I have the opposite problem! My natural hair color is a very ashy dark blonde but my skin has a warm undertone. I have always added golden highlights to my hair to make my look more cohesive. I suppose my hair does naturally appear more golden with a little sun anyway, but it's still a strange combination of tones.

I think it depends on the olive! There are olives that look better in muted than saturated too :)

​@@stylemejennYes! Pale olive here, muted colors are the only ones that look good on me.

@seemakazmi965 "muted colours can make olive tones look washed out". No, there are muted olives (you are a bright olive) just as there are warm olives and cool olives.

Point taken - just shows how complicated it is to find colours that suit us! Hence the need for so many different colours! I have to wait until my flattering colours and styles are in vogue! @@violetviolet888

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I think in here it was similar - I might have been wearing a different lipstick but something really similar to the Nars Tinted Lip Balm in Whiplash!