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It’s not only skin tone but also a persons overall look and facial features that makes the difference. Just to mention a celebrity, Lady Gaga looks much better as a brunette. I know everyone loves her as a blonde and are used to her that way, but she has very strong facial features which don’t really go with the softness of pale blonde hair. Whereas with dark hair her features look softer. Or with Kim Kardashian, she never looked good as a blonde but her sister Khloe does, even though they, at times, have a similar skin tone, depending on tanning, makeup, etc.
Christina Agukaria looks amazing as a blonde and red head!!! The music videos Candy Man shows here with many hair colors (3) and she looks amazing in all of them!
My hair dresser desires for me. Like I do light but tell them not Barbie blonde as it looks horrible on me!!! All blonde washes me out and I had no idea my last stylist was doing that and at my age with thyroid bad idea!!! Health must be considered by the hair dresser and let them know too. I have only had 3 (and felt lucky for that one!) amazing hair dressers in my life.
I am a neutral, light skinned brunette, and the problem is most highlights I get are way too warm, and look brassy on me. I don't look good with ash or gray tones either on the cool side. It is hard for me to find that middle ground between dark brown and lighter colors for summer. I find that adding red to my dark brown often does look good.
You are right, our undertones vary and it doesn’t matter how light or dark we are. I had a professional draping with a 12blueprints analyst and it was the best money I have ever spent. I was wearing clothes that made me fade away and now, I am finally wearing the colors in me!
I love when you do these kind of videos because I go back and forth with hair color so much, I believe I am neutral so I can get away with alot, but still trying to find that "perfect" combo (while also battling the ever increasing gray hairs!)
Yea if you are neutral you can bounce around a lot! You’re lucky. The grey hair battle is always a struggle. What I suggest is to pick a cool hair color. Grey hair has a cool tonality and it won’t clash with the color. If you do a warm tone, when the roots grow in, because the tone is opposite, it will look really really bad because of the high contrast.
Great video! In my 50's and never really understood how to find my shade and the difference between cool, warm and neutral. This really simplified it! Now I want to explore all the wonderful shades and have some fun with color! Thank You!
I'm a crazy mix I guess, because I had my colors done once and the ladies had a very difficult time choosing them for me and putting me in one "catagory." They said, "a lot of different colors look good on you!" They couldn't even decide between silver and gold. It made me feel a little better not being able to figure myself out if they were having that much trouble! After seeing your video, I feel like I'm a neutral that leans cool, however when it comes to hair, I don't think the more ashy/cool toned blondes look as good as the golden blonde highlights do... I tried them once and I felt a little washed out. I agree with what you said about how most of us tend to gravitate towards colors that look good on us too. The only time that was a major fail for me is when I saw myself in the mirror with a yellow sweatshirt on... yikes! I love yellow, but it did not flatter me at all! Lol! Great video, thank you!
You know it’s a complimentary color when it’s flattering even when you’re not wearing makeup! Usually hair colors that weren’t my best needed additional makeup worn to keep me from looking washed out.
Totally agree. This is how I feel with very dark hair (like what I’m wearing in this video). I need a lot of extra makeup to feel good or balanced. Great comment.
So informative! I've always wanted to know the secrets to determine exact tone. I'm cool toned but definitely lean towards neutral which is nice but also tricky! I can't do hair color that is either too ashy or too golden.. always searching for the happy medium. Thanks for sharing this video!
You’re absolutely correct about having to add make up to balance out your hair color. This is definitely true that you have the wrong hair color for your skin tone…. I know because I experienced this when a hairdresser talked me into getting caramel highlights..I never changed my color. I hated it ….couldn’t wait to go back to my dark brown hair!
That's the best explanation ever. I have neutral skin tone but I thought that I could only have my hair dyed in cold colors. That's because my seazonal palette was said to be Bright Winter. However, I prefer golden tones for my hair and jewelry.
Really enjoy your expertise~ this is my first time watching and wanted to know where to go and get your skin color chart and thanks for the tip: face app Keep doing what your doing for you make tasks simple to understand~ Thank you Gabi
For some people it just isn't that easy unfortunately ... I am cool with some neutral tones. I need a little warmth to my hair. I also have blue eyes with warm flecks of gold in them.
My natural hair is black black and when I was younger had olive skin tone. Now that I’m older with a lot of gray to cover the black or even dark brown dye’s or just too dark as my skin has seemed to have lightened as well. I do still tan easily in warmer months. Also the dyes are very harsh and have damaged my hair.
This is the BEST VIDEO! that I've found that is simple easy to understand not complicated at ALL! You're amazing and beautiful sista! Thank you so much. I have olive with warm tones, I have always worn gold but I can be versatile as well.
I’ll never know what color or whatever my skin tone is 😂 My vein color doesn’t fit into the “test” and I use whatever color of jewelry I want so I don’t know if anything looks good on me 😂 No one has ever told me any color or anything looks good on me so I guess I’m a “lost” skin tone. My hair is naturally platinum white and who knows what skin tone. I wonder what hair color would work? I also have to wear a lot of makeup or I fade away.
What’s crazy is I instinctively found this out by trial and error. I am super cool toned and realized that silver looks better than gold even though I like gold.. and I always feel like I look bad when my brown hair fades and all I see is warm tones! I figured it was because my natural hair color is really ashy that I looked better with cool toned brown. It always fadew warm so I’m constantly toning my hair with blue!!
Great video. Based on this info, I'm a cool tone, but I can easily pull off golden/honey highlights in the summer with my tanned skin (once I am finally tan, that is). Now that I'm getting older, and the gray hair is harder to cover, those warm tones end up looking too reddish on my grays, so I'm avoiding them now. This aging business is ruining my hair trends! LOL
9:43 This is the best information I’ve heard when choosing a hair color. Makes sense- same with too light if not best on you and washes you out if you don’t put a lot of make up on. Thanks
@@queenbee7074 It's not. Olive is green, and green tint can be added to any tone, and can be either warm or cool, depending on the specific hue. There are warm, cool, and neutral olives. Style RU-vidr Audrey Coyne is a good example of a cool olive. Alexandra Adele, makeup RU-vidr, is a neutral olive. Warm olive is e.g. Eva Mendes. Merriam Style has good videos on both cool and warm olives.
The companies that offer online try on hair color, by uploading a photo and clicking the different colors to see them on you, have been unbelievably helpful! I use Olia’s (Garnier’s) all of the time, like an addiction lol
Thank you so much for accepting the fact there's always space for creativity even if a hue is not supposed to match a specific skin tone.. Such a great personality, so down to earth and a gorgeous woman! Wish you all the best! Love u 💖
I actually very much disagree with this. My natural hair color is incredibly unfaltering on me and I’ve had many clients look SO SO SO beautiful and feel much more confident after dying their virgin hair.
I disagree as well. as an east asian we all have black hair as a natural hair color though it varies on the darkness and the undertone, but as soon as we get into college we start to dye our hair, my friends look so much better with brown hair or even blondy hair. There are people who suits in natural, but I would not say everyone.
In the video gabi looks very olive to me. Neutral versus warm. Or warm olive. Would love more on olive skin tones! True fair neutral olive over here and blonde Colors are very difficult!
I'm neutral leaning cool. My veins are blue and green, I've got dark amber brown eyes, switch between metals (currently have a rose gold ring with a moonstone, a silver band, a yellow gold ring with a Sunstone, and rose gold ring with labradorite, 2 gold necklaces, 5 sliver hoops, a silver barbell, 2 gold hoops, 3 gold studs, and i switch the bottom earrings daily dependingon mood lol), tan easily but have more of a copper then olive undertone. My natural hair color is a dark mahogany auburn and my mom and sister have ash black hair. The most stunning color I've ever done is a dusty mauve. So a light pink with grey undertones. Soft black is the most natural looking color on me.
I didn’t mention olive skin tone in this video. I really wanted to keep things simple here because all the sub categories can get very complex and confusing. I can make a whole video on this if you want.
@@GlamGirlGabi thank you so much for your answer ! You are right, it would have made the video way too complicated. Olive skintone is a complicated topic and I found a lot of informations about it on Reddit. Olives can vary from fair to dark and they can lean towards the warm, cool or neutral side. So confusing lol
I have a light olive skin that's cool sometimes and warm other times. I can't seem to find a haircolor that makes me look alive. I've tried so many different colors and I'm still looking for that color that gives my skin life. 😩
Thank you so much for the video! It actually helped me to figure out that I'm actually warm-toned, albeit more neutral warm. For exemple, I only wear rose gold and gold jewelery, I tan well, my skin has a yellowish tint, and I always gravitated more to warmer foundation shades. I always wondered why my violet red hair looked so "off" on me, but couldn't really pinpoint why, as I truly believed I was a neutral. I have dark skin, so it's a lot more difficult then to tell whether someone is warm or cool toned. Now that I've figured this out, I'll go for a more bordeaux-red next time I'll dye my hair, so thank you again! 😊
This is such a great video! You explained everything so well and you speak so concisely which is great! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise on this topic. 🙂❤️
I don’t agree with this method… I am VERY cool/pink undertones and cool toned hair colors wash me out really badly!! I have always looked best with hair colors… and even blush colors… that CONTRAST with my cool/pink undertones… blue based lipstick and blush makes my skin look sickly and washed out… but peach and copper really makes my skin look alive and healthy! Same with hair colors… I have natural red tone to my hair and when I have added violet tones to it I look awful! Copper is better for me personally… The contrast is what looks best on me!
Maybe you're just neutral? or an exception? Lots of the photos she showed do seem like they would fit what she said would fit, it does look useful for their faces etc., but in my case it was always a struggle to fit in those categories. Here I learned that maybe I'm just kinda cool neutral. The warm tones would look unnatural on me, the cool tones would make it look even worse. My natural hair kinda in between. I'd say if you have reddish undertones in your hair, maybe they are not as cool as you think they are, cool brown hair is more greyish, red is closer to honey and chestnut she mentioned ss warm tones.
You're exactly like me..super pink and pale with cool.undertones and blue veins. But ashy blondes etc wash me out so horribly. I look best in golden, warm blondes and reds. And I love copper eye shadow.
Yes you’re right. I look better with a brown that is a few levels lighter and warmer for sure. This is a wig and I like changing it up because hair and makeup for me is such a form of self expression. My natural hair color is a balayage with warm brown tones.
@@GlamGirlGabi Actually I kind of see what you're saying but I would love to see this look with some Supersoft Dewey makeup. So much fun trying all that different stuff and when you are as beautiful as she is you can go very natural and your features carry the show. No matter what she is so gorgeous and can put dog crap on her head and will still be the most beautiful woman in the room hands down every time!
My skin tone is cool with a bit of neutral tone; blonde/dark brunette doesn’t suit me at all, but red plums/ violet (likewise in the picture) and cherry reds are my favorites because I don’t need to wear a lot of makeup, even if I’m very tired.
I once had an Aveda color expert tell me that any shade of red would go great with my skin since I have more yellow toned skin. I did your tests and I think I fall in the neutral zone. Very informative video, thanks for the chart in case I want to change my hair color, I'll have a better idea what shades may look better.
I have a warm skin tone. I look best in ash brown hair with platinum highlights. But I also look good in honey blond, beige 🤷🏽♀️ and yes I have a warm skin tone, my veins are green. During winter I look good with cool brown hair colors and brown, purple eyeshadow. During summer when I'm tanned I look good in both ash color hair or warm color, makeup I look good with peach blush and golden, peach eyeshadow. Also the eyes.... blue and Grey eyes are cool. Green, hazel, light green are warm eye colors.
New subscriber here, you are fabulous! Question about grey hair that I have never seen answered anywhere...what would be your suggestions for someone who has warm-toned skin but wants to let her hair go gray (a cool color?) I find for myself - and I suspect many others - it's not the grey itself that bothers us but the fact it looks so unflattering with our skin tone. I mean, despite the platitude that 'your natural color always suits you best,' that simply isn't always true. Even the chart you listed says that warm-toned people should avoid silver...how can you do that if the silver is actually atop your own head? Is there actually such a thing as a warm-toned grey? Or are we doomed to color forever while we watch our cool-toned sisters rocking their gorgeous silver? :)
I've been platinum for many years. I'm naturally brunette and have warm skin. When I look back at pictures, I think that it didn't suite me at all. But at the time, I loved it. Nowadays, I go for more subtile highlights/Balayage in gold blond/brown.
Honestly, I’ve done that too! I was blonde for YEARS and would have it no other way. Now when I look at those pics, I literally look yellow. Lol! It didn’t bring that healthy glow to my skin at all. It’s so good to understand why that is. Balayage is a great way to blend tones in a super flattering and low maintenance way.
@@GlamGirlGabi absolutely. I wanted to be blond so badly, that I didn't want to understand, why certain tones aren't flattering on my skin. But I'm happy about the journey and about what I know and understand today. I love that I still have my natural hair color and also have a pop of brightness and variation.
@@xine1996 That is the best way to do it! The natural will compliment your skin and then the pops of blonde add all the dimensions! Thank you for stopping by and hanging out with me today!
It feels like anyone with cool tones actually looks good with every hair color.. like I know a lot of cool skin toned girls with ginger red hair and it looks amazing (contrary to what the video is saying), and an auburn brown looks great on them too. But then if you have warm skin (like me) it seems like almost everything looks unflattering except for warm brown. it's so frustrating. But anyways rly dont agree about cool toned skin having any limitations at all.. like seriously everything looks amazing on them.
Yeah, I wear both gold and silver just changes with my hair color. My vein color looks blue and green. I have naturally black hair and I've been dying it different shades of red for years.
I loved your video! Thank you so much! I'm still wearing reddish color but my regrowth is greyish. I would like to go over to grey but think for some strange reason, grey does not suit me. I have a warm skincolor.
I have blue-green veins, rose gold looks better than either silver or gold on me, but my eyes are a warm brown, and with the white paper test, I see green, yellow, & pink. I tanned nicely when I was younger, but now I just turn pink or red. But I doubt I am neutral. Gold makes me look washed out. I will probably continue to be confused about what skin tone I am.
Neutral here. I've always loved mixing jewelry metal tones & have had lots of different hair colors (nothing extreme -- that is, not black, light blond or bright red) esp liked blond streaks on medium brown. I am now a natural white streaks with a lot of dark ash brown left -- brown feels warm compared to white.
I'm neutral but I lean slightly warm. I'm very pale but I have slightly yellow undertones, green eyes, my viens look both blue and green... I suit silver jewellery more than gold though.. My natural hair colour is around a level 5 brown with lots of red/coppery undertones. So I stick with that. I dyed my hair blue black once and absolutely hated it
Being half Irish & half Peurto Rican, I find myself in between cool & warm. If I'm outside & it's cold my cheeks get red. Also when I work out. But in the summer I find myself tanning easily. I am mostly olive colored.
I went platinum blonde at my stylist’s suggestion. I cried at first because my makeup at the time wasn’t correct. Once I switched to very cool toned makeup (pinks, silver, purple, cherry red), everything clicked. I was platinum for years! Expensive, but beautiful.
Thank you! We see vids all the time on what shades to pick for our skin tone when it comes to cosmetics. But nothing for hair! I see some colors really wash out an individual's complexation, while others seem to add natural vibrance. So many shades in the blond categories in particular. The natural color of my hair is also a dead give-a-way as mother nature selected it along with my skin shade to go together. Even with seasonal darkening of the skin. Based on that, warm tones work or neutral but not Ash or cool tones at all. They wash me out something horrible. Great info. Now can you do something regarding coloring grey hair and how it gives you a younger look. I know it is trendy to do grey or white on younger gals, an edgy look, I am talking about anyone who is got grey hair coming in or is completely grey and wants to look a bit younger. I am sure picking the right tone is still key. Before and afters of ppl who were grey and colored it would be great to see the difference in the look of their aga. Thank you in advance. Keep the vids coming!
The one point you forgot is:. To ask your hair stylist! We are trained in not only the cools and warms, but in your facial features and personality too. For example: you have a very high contrast dramatic color. You dress with dramatic flair also. I could put your hair color on someone with softer more round features and a quiet, shyer personality and it would over power her. She would need a fawn color of brown--something softer without as much high contrast as yours--even tho you were both warm skin tones. You did an excellent job on the points you had time to cover. Find a stylist who has lots of experience and has done hair colors that make a variety of people look amazing!
I’m a red hair but never had a sunburn in my live and also have no to very few freckles, like 3 throughout face! But my red was not fiery red more a nice cognac or deer color! My veins are purple and jade! But I love wearing white and like silver!
I am trying to figure out my tone, but when it comes to the jewelry test, it isn't that I think gold looks better on me necessarily. I just really love rose gold as a color for metal in general. But I have both gold and silver jewelry.
My veins are blue and purple. I always wear silver or white gold. My eyes are blue/green. I can not get a tan. Freckles during the summer. My hair is light brown. I never colour it. I was born with white hair, was blonde until I was 12.
All these "warm or cool" tests never worked much for me (except the gold jewellery one, which I def. prefer - but my veins are teal & purple, and compared to white paper my skin just looks pinkish red ;)), but happily from reverse-engineering from which hair colours suit me and which not, I know I'm warm (or neutral-warm) - best hair colors for me are warm, copper reds and honey blondes, while any ash tones (which are, alas, so popular), cool reds or black hair just make me look sick, to say the least. ;)
Fantastic video and information, Gabi! I have been doing everything with my own hair since my mid-teens... and I just went to a much darker color 2 months ago. I wanted a combination of light ash blond highlights and dark brown lowlights. I did about 50% of each color and now have a dirty blonde look or a medium brown look with depth and dimension instead of the full light blonde look that I was sick of wearing for years. My hair in my profile pic on here is nice...I did that myself but after my light brown low lights faded, I went back to flat blonde because of being busy and distracted and ill. I am really loving the change to a much darker hair color right now...I feel it is much more stylish and was getting so sick of being light golden blonde all over my head. I feel that I will be taken more 'seriously' now that I have gone darker.. (stereotype, I know, but actually true in the way that people perceive other people and judge them on their hair color..etc). I will, however, miss being a "tall blonde" and standing out in the crowd...but it is still worth the effort to go darker and I love the refreshing change. My natural color is dark(ash) brown...so I feel it suits my skin tone with the ash blond highlights (my hair color until I was 4 years old) I just discovered your amazing channel!! Keep up the great work!You are exquisitely beautiful!!!!
I'm half Mediterranean with almost black eyes, olive skin ( green veins)...what hair colour is best would you say?..it's my eye colour that throws me .my eyebrows are almost back ashy colour....oh and black hair does not look good on me
I'm a Celtic blonde by nature (my eyebrows actually match my hair color). My hair is so blonde that when my roots start to show, my hair looks white. I have been dyeing my hair in Auburn shades, usually Dark Auburn, off and on, since my 18th birthday in 2005. I do have more of a neutral skin tone. The veins on my wrist have a greenish-blue tone to them I have dark blue eyes, and I tend to burn before I tan when I'm out in the sun. And I love a gold necklace but I prefer a platinum or silver ring, the earrings can go either way. Thank you for enlightening me with this. Maybe I can use your skin advice the next time I go makeup shopping. I know you're a hair specialist, but this advice is great.
@@Tyndalic I usually do with my makeup, but I never touch my nails with nail polish. It's going on 15 years since my last mani/pedi and I do not want to go through with it again.
Do you have freckles? I find my cool tone auburn clients often have freckles which really warm up their skin. I LOVE this combination. I think it’s so stunning.
I rocked all sorts of reds for 30 years, brick, merlot, you name it I wore it. I am cool toned fair. Born a blonde. I am now back to my natural grey with bits of blond left
When I was around 16-17 I wanted to have deep black hair. I went to the hairdresser and she convinced me I shouldn't do it cause of my fair skin. She colour my hair a dark brown that looked awful on me. I hated it. So I decided to do it myself. I bought a blue black colour dye and it looked freaking amazing on me. It also was during my goth face so the dramatic contrast was exactly what I was looking for. I never went to that hair salon again. My sister also went there and came out looking like Snape 😂
I definitely fall into the cool skin almost neutral as I've aged but my hair has always been a warm brown!! Im thinking of getting some highlights done (first time ever) but I know if I try to do cool highlights on my very warm brown hair then that will just look weird!! I wanted to do framing highlights but I think perhaps they are best away from my cool skin !!
I love your hair. I've had all different colors. I'm pale with blue eyes. I could do black when I was younger now it makes me look older. Can't do any reds. I've got mine dark blonde for now.
I can tell I'm warm skinned toned because when I put my arm up to my husband's, he has pink skin, and I'm yellow! I'm I'm going to be one of those old ladies which yellow hands looking jaundice but not. 🤣 I also have blue eyes. I have always looks great with red dyed hair! People think I'm a natural red head when it fades, but I'm not! :) I will say the purple reds also look good only because it makes my blue eyes really pop! If I dye with a darker Egyptian plum brown (I have a light brown hair), I definitely do have to balance with more makeup, but that's makes it fun. :)
Hi there, really informative video for a person who’s struggled for years to find a hair colour that suits my skin tone etc. I was surprised how changing my parting also made such a difference! You mentioned the face app for hair colours but when I looked I wasn’t sure which one it was as there’s a few. Is there any way you could show a screen shot or describe what it looks like please? Many thanks 😊
anything for gray hair there are so many different colors of gray. I would like to do some kind of enhancement to my gray but not sure what to do or who I can trust to advise me. I do not want to start with coloring my hair again but maybe just a little jazzing up around the face would be nice I would love to find something about gray hair choices and care Best Wishes and many thanks for you great guidance and content.
In my case i'm still confused 😅 I'm a natural redhead i look better wearing cool toned foundation, but better with gold toned eyeshadow and jewelry but blush looks better when it's a cool tone. I have green eyes and my red hair is warm toned. I would love to go blonde for once in my life but picking a color aarrgghhhh 😭
