Se here she is AMAZING! She makes it so much easier to understand. Love her ❤️

Same here I used to be super confused but later in life I figured it out. Very few ppl truly understand olive skin (cool olive even more so)

If you are called green your whole life, you know. Warm olives have enough warmth to appear normal😂

same!

So you're crazy. This makes us crazy. :D

Can we talk about hair colours along with our cool olive skin tones, (or indeed the same for the warmer types), please?

That's fascinating because it's the exact opposite for me. With zero tan I look sallow and tired, every time I have even a light tan everyone is complimenting me, telling me how healthy I look etc. (and they never perceive that it's the tan, they just think I've got a new flattering hairstyle or sth).

That was spot on explaining omg

@@Lucysmom26 that’s more of what I hear people report when they tan, they look healthier and overly better- but not me! Maybe my tan comes with excessive yellow tones that do not flatter my clearly cool undertones 🤷‍♀️ ? I’d be great to know if this happens to someone else!

Omg this is me too. I never understood why a tan didn't complement me so much. I just get kinda green 😂😅

I'm always thought that I look better when with my winter shade, when I'm tan I look tired and opaque.

That' s why foundations in MAC seem to work all the other way compared to the rest of the world😅. A C (for Cool) is an olive since it has green. A W (for Warm) is a pink or orange since they have red. Once they explain the 🟩-🟥, it makes total sense😉. 🧛🏻‍♀️🖤

Sameeeee

Same

I am the opposite! So what color season is that?😂

I´m new here, what do you mean? haha

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@@eliffify Oh yes! I follow (and love) her too!!!

In terms of color theory, you cannot make orange that much more cooler, it is a purely warm color. To make colors cooler you add blue to them, that makes orange into brown. Warmer purple you add some red to it. Purples are fairly easy for a lot of neutral people to wear since they fall between warm and cool colors- but purple itself is always a cool color

Jennifer_Ann yeah I get that skin tones aren’t all just congregated in the center of the color wheel, that we’re all essentially shades and intensities of brown.. but if we look strictly at paint color theory, blue is strictly cool and yellow is strictly farm. I feel like red and green are neutral. If that’s true then orange (yellow +red) is the same degree of warm as purple (blue +red) is cool. And adding more red to either would bring them each closer to a neutralized tone. Does that make sense? I can’t tell if I’m literally fulfilling her “blind leading the blind” comment 😅

@@sparkleyard yes, that is logical.

I'm exactly the same, I'm barely warm and barely olive, and have rosacea. I look better when I cover the red with a green cream and avoid all reds, purples, and blues...the only colors I can seem to wear are neutral greens, browns, yellows, and creams.

That sounds like me

Me too. I'm warm but very close to neutral and slightly olive with rosacea. Almost nothing looks good on me

Could sell the gold and get white gold or platinum? Then you have the colour but also the feeling of it being luxurious.

@@cathwalsh9921 I value the pieces I have though. They all have meaning. So I’ve started buying white gold here and there. A few pieces will suffice. But cheers for your feedback.

@@PurpleGold. I know what you mean. I have gold pieces that were my Mum’s.

Same here. It's too confusing. All I know is that I look best in saturated colors, especially tomato red, forest green, royal blue, navy blue, or bright coral. So contradictory. My best lipstick is L'Oreal British Red. I thought I was cool olive, but nope, I am too pale to be cool olive. Who knows? I give up. Just going to stick with my red lipstick and bright colors because they take years off me. Pastels look hideous on me, so sad because they fit my personality better.

I have a video called 'golden overtones with cool undertones' that would explain this. It sounds like you're just warm. I don't believe in this 'overtone' and 'undertone' business.

@@merriamstyle thanks ill check it out. I was confused when they said my skin is pale and cool toned but then typed me as a warm season

She has a great video that explains how to tell the difference, I can't remember what it's called, but this is the method she presented there: 1. Examine how your face looks next to a pure orange color, then examine how your face looks next to a pure blue color. If your face looks better with orange - your are probably warm olive. If you look better with blue, your are probably cold olive. If both colors look fine on you, even good, and neither one looks definitely better than the other, then move on to the next step. (Miriam emphasized that there is no point in continuing to the second step if you received an answer in step 1). 2. drape a cool baby pink fabric next to your face, then try warm peachy pink fabric. Which of them looks better on you and your skin will be in harmony with it? If the baby pink - you are a "cold and delicate olive" and if the peach - you are a warm and delicate olive. This method is the only one that helped me finally realize that I am a warm and delicate olive, because the baby pink is so opposite to my skin tone, it really highlights all the yellow in my skin. On the other hand, the peach doesn't do that for me, hence it suits and flatters me better.

thank you ayalashoshani.

@@ayalashoshani986very succinct! That makes sense to me.

Having watched Merriam's videos for many years: olive is neither, is just another factor, undertones are either warm(yellow) or cool (blue), and both can be either pink/red or olive/green. In photo editing the magenta/green spectrum is named tint, while blue/yellow is temperature, we'll something similar happens with skincolor.

WoW there's a lot of difference between soft summer and cool winter 😅 By your photo alone I would guess bright winter.

My choices would be between bright/true winter and true summer. Please discard soft summer, you look very contrasted. 😅

@@michelagirotto6184 I thought Soft Summer as my eyes up close are very cloudy/muddy grey-silver blue-khaki, whereas I've read that Winters have very clear bright eyes. My skin/hair also has a very strong grey overcast and is quite ashy.

@@Lilah_Ninigigun_Belet-Eanna Every summer season can have muddy eyes... But soft summer means low contrast between their features, and you have a lot of contrast... Dark Brown hair, bright skin, light blue eyes... Definetily not a soft summer 😅

@@michelagirotto6184 Hmm, I might be Cool/True Summer or Cool/True Winter then...🤔

I think Kim K looks cool and bright red.

would not recommend unless you want to put the foundation all over your body as well. what will happen to your neck, arms, hands, etc!!

@@merriamstyle it’s so true…maybe for a long sleeve dress or sweater lol

So funny, I have warm olive skin with cool hair! Haha

@@ashleycnossen3157 and it's your natural hair? I guess the way we're born is just beautiful, but not necessarily bring us the best accordingly with our style. And I think different tones can goes well!

​@@anapalindromoYes naturally cool brown. It made me really confused at the beginning. I've found I like it when I'm wearing my colors, the wrong colors highlight the contrast too much

This is what I always, thought. That olive skintone was specifically in the middle of the fair-deep spectrum, that it was literally impossible for a fair-skinned or a deeper skin-toned person to be olive. Not true, and as soon as I figured that out so much immediately made sense 9especially my struggle to find a foundation that worked and wasn't either too pink or too orange).

Alexandra Anele has the answer😉✨

Bruh I'm greek and olive toned, I'm the winter I'm pale af n0 on Estee lauder. If we avoid the sun and wear sunscreen we are pale af. The difference is because we have A LOT of sun here, if someone's not careful and wear sunscreen etc, they'll be much darker. Before I started obsessing with skin ca, in the summer I'd be literally n8 Estee, I looked like a different race, people would think I'm Romani

yes that is cool and delicate. please watch my video titled 'the four skin undertones'

​​@@merriamstyle thank you Miriam .. I'll check it out 😊

She uses herself as an example a lot so I appreciate that we're seeing what her skin really looks like. And I don't see the connection between knowing her stuff and wanting to wear makeup

According to Miriam's method, there really isn't a person in the world with completely neutral skin. skin will always be either cold or warm, it's just a scale, and there are some whose tone is closer to neutral, but it's still not really completely neutral.

I have always described green as being neutral if half of its value comes from blue, and half of its value comes from green. Have you watched my video called 'olive, we need to talk', there I describe this. Cool olives DO have more yellow than cool rosy tones, *however* they also have more blue than cool rosy tones. this is because they have more *green* (blue+yellow) than rosy tones do. cool olives are just as cool as cool rosy tones. truly cool with all the bells and whistles and certified cool. All skin tones have *some* yellow, otherwise we would be literally purple (the complement of yellow). that doesn't mean that all skin tones are warm. sure, I guess they have 'some warmth' if you want to see it that way, that's alright. but the point still stands, the cool skin tones simply have more blue than yellow.

Ok thanks for your reply! I will rewatch that and try to understand it better. Thanks again! 🙏

Thank you so much for this feedback. I'm not set up to get a photographer to help out right now (I film late at night because that's when my children sleep), but I will consider this in the future.

@@merriamstyle I totally understand. Keep getting your content out there. It doesn't have to be perfect. I recently bought some Releno LED lights on Amazon (2 of them) to create a cheap lighting video setup for someone. You could play around with something like that. They have adjustable color temp and you could model your face a little. Or not! :)

@@cwednesday thank you!

What do you mean these examples are darker women? Amal Clooney is one of the lightest skin tones out there.

She has dark hair and dark eyes, medterranean

@@merriamstyle yes, what Monika said. Amal, to me, is very dark except in her skin tone. I am a blonde of Scandinavian descent, draped as a Summer. I don't think Amal would be a Summer?

is it possible you may not like the look of cool skin? sometimes people just want to look 'yellower' even if it means their skin is less even because they think yellower looks healthier/tanner.