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Being a redhead is a blessing and a curse. We’re so rare that people often ignore our existence. People fetishize us and you get made fun of all the time. But at the end of the day, there will always be those old ladies in grocery stores that tell us how “people pay so much money for that color”
My whole life, I struggled with having natural dark red hair (warm) and YET very fair, cool pink skin. Was I cool or warm? Finally, in my 50s, my hair turned a beautiful blonde/ white! Now, I am definitely a cool toned woman. I wear cool neutrals, bright jewel toned, navy, and black.
I don’t think capillaries are blue, i think they’re purple. I have lots of veins and large capillaries (idk they’re not small capillaries and not veins, so noticeable in size) close to skin surface and they look purple
My family is all warm, more or less, so is my husband and his family, so are my sons. No cool tones at all. I have a theory that warm tone skin people marry other warm toned skin people. At least, that seems to be the way it works out among the people I know. Then they would usually have kids with warm skin tones, too.
I think I am cool (haven't figured out the specifics yet). I think my dad is cool & delicate, quite a bit darker than me but he tans easily and turns warm & delicate (his face is cool& delicate and his arms are at least nearly neutral), my mom is warm & delicate and pale. Straight up peach. My sister, who is a lot darker than me (she could pass as a local in italy or spain) is I think warm & delicate, maybe more neutral in winter and more towards radiant in summer. My brother, who has very pale skin with dark hair, is C&R I think.
THIS has been SO helpful. I'm a redhead who looks SO different in different pictures. I am a sun lover and gain a lot of color throughout the year. I've NEVER thought of myself as cool. I see orange hair and think"warm." Thank You for this!!!
Was scrolling the comments for someone else who heard that lol… that should probably change to, “the four undertones of the skin” or something lolll just saying
@@Jordan-db2og jewel toned blues and purples (and fuscias) are a yes for me, but only some yellows work while oranges are a hard pass for me (very sad because i love bright orange).
I identify as a redhead, even though my strawberry blonde tones from childhood have darkened to a more ashy reddish-brown these days (and are now starting to go grey). I'm extremely pale, with freckles and rosy undertones. I never tan; I always burn. I've always failed to get a good answer from those seasonal colour analysis quizzes. This is the closest I've ever seen to an explanation as to why my best colours have always been cool and radiant, even though all the systems keep insisting I should look good in pale pastels (which are TERRIBLE on me) or soft warm camels and tans (which are ALSO TERRIBLE on me). I appreciate this video more than you know.
@sh.4409 doesn't ALL grey eventually turn white? Or are you referring to no transition? I'm a redhead and I've been finding shirt white hairs coming out of the top of my head occasionally 😢
I've always wondered why red content in the hair is considered warm but in the skin is seen as cool (because of the stereotype pink tones = cool, and pink tones comes from the presence of red in the skin) I love your system and the fact you take red as neutral, or as I call it an "extra"
I agree! I was determined to be light, bright and warm (light red hair & skin with bright green eyes). I though I was a Light Summer forever and felt so washed out in my pale, muted clothes…all because of that redness that doesn’t factor in, if it’s a skin condition, but is otherwise cool? It doesn’t make sense. Pastels and muted colors are gorgeous colors on some, but I need warmth and brightness! I just bought my first lime green dress, since I was 11 and got so many compliments!
It’s SO AMAZING to find a video specifically directed at redheads for this! So much color typing just flat out ignores that redheads exist, or give you jumbled non-answers because we don’t fit very neatly into the boxes that everyone else tends to. I’m a warmer redhead, and look terrible in silver, but fantastic in the royal blue and “cool” colors, and it just ends up confusing people. The recognition that redheads “change” undertones is really insightful! Thank you for making this video!
I’m the same and I think the cool blues and greens work for me because they go with my hair and eyes, not necessarily my skin. Although I have to be careful with some shades
Very help full. I've tried colour analyzing myself and I came out as a Warm Spring/True Spring. only for my boyfriend to say to me I look better in darker colour and those really don't exist in true/warm spring colour swatch. at my palest I think I fit a Bright Winter, my eyes are dark, my skin super pale and bright and the places I see most pigment are pink the veins on my wrists are blue and purple. Oh also I can't really tan I burn too easy peel and go back to being pale.
Also the hair is a colour in itself and is warm toned which adds another layer of complication. So you can't wear colours on your upper half that clash with orange (hot pink is the worst).
Redheads look incredible in jewel tones, mignight blue, royal purple, emerald green 😍 Also, I certainly turn into a warm when I tan, and look better in a deep olive green t shirt I have
omg I'm so excited about a redhead series!! I've always been so confused about my colouring. I'm pale, with strawberry blonde-copper hair, blue eyes, and while I'm very pale people also say I have yellow-y skin compared to them. My guess would be I one of the redheads who goes from cool to warm and delicate when I get a bit of "tan"
Interesting! I have very pale strawberry blond hair, but no copper warmth to it, just maybe towards pink? My skin is quite pale and doesn't warm up when I "tan" because I don't really tan, just burn. Also blue eyes. I've figured out blues, greens, pinks, purples look okay and orange and yellow look bad. Beige is sometimes ok, khaki and olive green make me look like a partially peeled potato :( I'm totally confused about eye make-up colors except that rust colored eye shadow that's supposed to be great on blue eyes looks super bad on me. Just discovered this series and am looking forward to watching the rest.
I have dark auburn hair with brown eyes and slightly warm undertones. Light oranges are great, most yellows are terrible, aqua blue to turquoise is great, light to medium violets are great; browns are awesome and get me a lot of compliments even from people who hate brown, but not with orange or yellow, which seems to intensify the warm look and turns me sallow. I avoid anything that make me look more yellow than I already do; few people in my region have warm-tone skin and they think it looks bad. My baby was born with very golden skin like my mom has, and the doctor and nurses thought he had jaundice. Nope, that's his actual natural skin tone.
I am the same!! Strawberry blonde/copper, blue eyes and yellowy skin. People always assume that I'm super pale, but when it gets warmer and I wear less clothes (so people see more skin), I always get comments: Huh, I thought you would be paler because of your hair colour. And I always reply: I'm yellow-white :p I never knew this was a thing though!
The "changing color" thing makes so much sense to me having so much trouble getting my color profile done. I'm a natural strawberry blonde with blue eyes. My hair can look blonde or red and my skin can look cool at its lightest, but if the sun touches me even slightly, I turn warm. Currently my arms are warm and my legs are cool....
it's not the fairness or ability to tan that dictates season colour type, it's the undertone not the overtones. Strawberry blondes are Spring. Freckles and tanning effects are dictated by your Fitzpatrick Phototype. Yours is type I.
This is a great video for extremely light skinned individuals and redheads. Often this skin tone is seen as too pale by society and getting a fake or real tan is the solution. When in fact clear and radiant is such a beautiful season. This should be embraced by wearing these amazing bright cool colours not many people look good in
Agree! We think we should not be wearing those "bright winter" colors because we are perceived as "autumns". So, we become perplexed and try to force ourselves into warm colors and liking them when secretly we 😍 fuchsia and colbolt blue!!
@@giselerose8391 YEEEEEEEEEEEEEES I always loved bright pinks, purples, teals, cool greens. When I got into colour analysis a few years ago I was inmediately seen as an 'autumn' because of my golden-reddish hair and greenish grey, muted eyes. I always disliked oranges, yellows and browns though... But started wearing them anyway while still fawning over a brilliant berry red. Because I don't exactly look good in those colours, I always just said I 'prefer this muddy olive' when people asked me why the fuck I would wear those colours and not, I dunno, a gorgeous emerald green? I also started sayign I prefer gold over silver for this reason, and got rid of my silver jewellery (don't worry: it's cheap fantasy jewellery crap) Now it's hard to explain to people that I *actually* prefer brilliant cool shades. And that they actually look perhaps better on me. I am not sure yet wether I am cool & delicate or cool & radiant, in between it seems. I am not a hardcore redhead, but am definitely very pale and have very golden tones in my hair which has the typical 'redhead complexion' look with my pale skin.
Me too! Exactly my story! I think I may be cool & delicate, but nearly, but not quite cool & radiant! No autumn, though despite superficial hair and freckles. It's this translucent pale skin!! Lol!
So...This video is several years old, but I'll just put it out there: in case anyone is like me: I'm a redhead with brown eyes and very fair, yellowish undertone to my skin (although when I was younger, my belly had a blue white cast in comparison to my arms and legs). It's been a lonoong time since I've done any kind of suntanning but I usually burned first and then got golden. My hair is auburn red with lots of golden streaks. I look great in these colors: all shades of warm greens (not spruce green) and warm olives, royal blue and purple, teal blue, chocolate brown, warm camel/taupe, burnt orange/bright red orange, red orange, charcoal grey and black, soft mauve/purple and rose, and rosy peach. I look truly awful in fuschia, salmon, melon, slate blue, pale gray, and most yellows (has to be an orangey yellow and even then its tricky), beige, and most peaches (see the salmon/melon thing). Apparently brown eye redheads are the most common in the world, but for some reason all makeup tips for redheads are for blue or green eyed redheads with cool or super warm skin. It is so frustrating!!! Peach lipstick and blush are not my thing - make it stop!!! :D
As a redhead this is so great bc being a redhead is so confusing in terms of colors. What would u recommend for redheads who want get highlights/ balayage to frame the face, I feel like picking the wrong highlight would clash w/ the warmness of the hair and look brassy, I have auburn hair btw
We had almost all redheads in my Dad's family... my grandmother, my aunt & me were all different "seasons" in our skin tone! It's astounding how redheads can all vary so much.
I’m a redhead and this is so validating! I morph between cool bright in winter to cool delicate/neutral in summer and find I can wear A LOT of bright colors all the time, and warm tones always make me look blah. I feel like the simplest test too is white vs off white and I look AWFUL in yellowish off white/beige. The old school color typists are so misleading. Also yellow gold looks so bad on most redheads because many of us are cool! Appreciate you!
@aliciaalbertaon2302 •A tan ??😂😂Seriously ..Not me the sun actually makes me ill ..They have different backgrounds so ..Hard to see this ok I be "Cool and Radiant with Factor 50 rather than Burnt to a crisp ,"My friend is Argentinan she is natural beautifully bronze ..With Red hair ..Orange is not my colour choice I can wear dark Red like Claret ?Pink But with Black undertones..Green looks great ..Purple/Brown my eyes appear to change colour with what I am wearing
Image in the shorts doesn't say anything in my opinion, because legs are in shade ( you can see a spot of sunlight on her ancle) so, naturally, they look cooler
Wow, that is so helpful. It explains why I never looked good in those warm tones despite everybody saying I "should be warm". Thank you for a great comparison.
You have a very calm, clear and soothing voice and you never put in fillers like "ugh" or pause even for a second to catch your train of thought. You are an excellent speaker and presenter.
This video is a lifesaver, as a redhead I’ve always been told I have a warm undertones-even by professionals(one even with many videos on RU-vid, such an enormous waste of time and money!). The only time warm colours have ever looked remotely passable is when I have artificially warmed up my skin with faux tan, meanwhile cool and radiant colours look absolutely fantastic with or without a natural tan. You’ve definitely solved the mystery of redhead colouring. Thank you!💕
When I was younger I struggled so much to figure out my undertone, is it cool? Is it warm? It was really frustrating, but luckly I figured out I was neutral while talking to a cosmetologist.
Battleborn Fox My coloring is very similar to yours. What foundation do you use? I’ve been having problems with foundations looking dark or ashy even though they’re technically a good match, I can’t figure out if they’re too warm or cool.
Cat I’m 32 and I’ve always had coppery auburn hair and my hair is getting darker! It’s becoming more brown as I age... it bums me out. We are so random, huh? Haha
ZenMetaLasaurus Mine is getting white hairs coming in. I wouldn’t mind if it was an awesome streak, but it just washes everything out. I’d love to see a video on covering up white while brightening fading natural red hair.
Totally disagree with the color yellow not looking as good on redheads, if anything the yellow dress julianne Moore was wearing looked 100x better than the ugly blue one. It's all to do with the specific shade of that color.
It really do Be like that sometimes - I'm a dyed redhead too...but this means our skin doesn't play by the natural redhead "rules". For example, I'm ghostly pale BUT I'm never a cool skintone...I'm always warm & delicate, all year round, no matter how little sun I get.
But this doesn't make any sense. Either have natural red head, or you don't. You can't dye your hair red and then pretend you have the skin of a redhead too, it doesn't work like that. Melanin between hair color and skin are connected. So if you don't have red hair, you don't have the skin of a redhead either. End of story.
@@callmeswivelhips8229 the reason she looks so great with the red is BECAUSE of her skin tone. she looks like a natural redhead because somehow her skintone is that way. she just looks like a natural redhead and she looks much better because of her skin
@@moores3263 Yea sure whatever, SHE'S STILL NOT A REDHEAD! Your natural hair color is the one your fucking born with. Honestly just fed up with people dying their hair all the time and obsessing over it.
I'm grateful for your acute abilities in observation, exploration, and problem solving in the area of color analysis! I have a red head complexion (translucent fair skin, golden brown hair) and am perplexed when consistently complemented in bright blue when professional analysis results are always Soft Autumn! Plus, I seem to change between being perceived as warm or cool. You are the first consultant to address "red" undertones along with blue and yellow.
Very interesting! I knew I could change from cool to warm but never saw so much information about it. I used to tan (it was a thing in the 80's) and could develop quite a tan and it would change my coloring a lot. Now, of course, I stay pale. And I am very, very pale. Love this stuff! Would love a whole redhead series!
Could you please do a video on pale olive skin? I watched your video on olive skin tones but most of the women had tan skin. I feel like I'm not warm or cool, just grayish/greenish. I feel like I look best in makeup colors that have some brown in it. Bright colors don't look right but muted colors can look drab too. My skin tone is similar to Camilla Belle when she doesn't spray tan.
@@merriamstyle Thanks, I'll try more muted cool colors! It's hard finding light olive skinned celebrities because so many celebrities tan. Mila Kunis seems to have a light olive skin tone when you see her without makeup.
I am Hispanic and I get totally wrong foundation match and color recommendations in general because Olive skin tans easier. My face and arms can look tanned but my skin is actually quite pale and has that green/grey cast. It’s such a struggle! I think I have found I usually fall in the cool and delicate as my best colors.
I would really like a fair olive skin video too! But i'm pretty sure i'm warm and delicate, my skin looks very yellow against cool colors. I struggle to find the right foundation color since i need the yellow color without any hint of orange. Maybe you can talk about how warm olive skinned people can be tricked to think they're cool since the blueness in the green draw them closer to "neutral". As opposed to warm skinned people whose yellow leans orange, they are often more obviously warm. Of course it goes the other way too, cool olive skinned people can think they are warm because they don't have the typical pink. That's the weakness of the standard phrase "if you are orange you are warm and if you are pink you are cool". Olive skin often has neither orange nor pink in it since it pretty much lacks red pigment. An example of a celebrity could be jessica biel, i think she has a similar skintone to me but not as fair
Second this! I know you've already made a wonderful video about the olive skin tone, but I was still left wanting more :) I mean, there's just not that much information out there for us. I'm a medium dark skinned olive girl, with very slight hints of yellow in my skin, and subtle muted shades of red in my hair. However, many colours overpower me except soft muted ones. I can wear some shades of dark blue and grey though, but too much black drags me down a little. But orange and yellow are usually too much
Thank you for this video! I get really confused by this because I have extremely pale skin with blue veins but very very coppery/golden red hair, and multiple people have said that I look warm/glowing. It's always been a struggle to figure out whether I'm warm or cool
In another video you said that tan doesn't change your season, but in this video you say the opposite. Maybe the redheads are an exception? Thank you for the answer, I am a natural redhead that's why I want to know :-)
Yes, I think she means that redheads are an exception, because some are so fair, that they have basically no noticeable pigment, so they appear cool-ish by default. Only when they get a little bit of colour/tan you can actually discern their real undertones.
I agree with most examples and I do follow, however. I think the royal blue is too harsh and awful against pale skin. It makes my skin look metallic and even more white. Just because it stands out, doesn't mean it compliments the skin colour.
@Merriam Style I'd love to see your thoughts on what shades on red hair look best on different skin tones including olivey-shades and those who are mixed race/ born with ginger hair and dark skin. It's refreshing to hear you say a redhead could be any of the 4 skintones, most color analysis' say box-dye ginger hues should be reserved only for the palest of cool undertones-but we know that's a lie. Models like Carmen Solomon, who seems warm delicate, and vogue model Tanisha Kwayie comes to mind. There's so little on redhead color analysis to begin with, and much less on those who are of non-European decent, so this was much appreciated! Keep em comin' Merriam!
This is the most wonderful video! I'm a redhead who always thought I was warm toned. I was formally draped by a "Color Me Beautiful" consultant in 1986 who said I was an autumn. The palette of little fabric swatches that she gave me included the usual autumn colors, but also some bright purples, teals, and aquas. For a long time they all looked great on me. As I've gotten older, I've been feeling sorta washed out, and like there isn't enough contrast between my skin and my clothes when I wear the warm tones. I've been looking at photos of ladies like Julianne Moore wearing fuchsia and berry lipstick and blush and wondering, hmmmm..... I now realize that as I age, I'm losing pigment in my skin. My freckles are a warm orange color, but they are so faded that the blue veins show through more. I wear sunscreen year round, and it's February, so I'm at my palest. Maybe I'll adopt a warm palette in the summer when I have a little more pigment, and a cooler jewel toned palette when I'm paler. Thanks again for explaining the process of changing colors - I'm grateful!
I had a Color me Beautiful done in 1989, and was typed as Contrasting Autumn Panache. 2 years ago I was one of many that had a quick guess done by a lady on RU-vid. I cooled off apparently because I was typed as Soft, Cool, Medium, (a Soft Summer) When I look at the old color palette I can see how I avoided some of the orange and yellows because they made my skin look even pinker. Then I realized most of those colors were universal ones and most people warm or cool could wear them! My new color swatches have universal plus cool only and when I wear a cool soft color I stand out, not the color. This stuff fascinates me, lol.
even though you lose some pigment with age your warm undertones remain. You just need to reduce the intensity of the colours your choose. Undertones are for life and all redheads have warm undertones. There is literally no such thing as neutral undertones in any colour, whether it's in nature, human skin, or manufactured fabrics, flooring or house paint. The only colour with zero undertone is pure white.
I change colors: red lighter/ darker with amount of sun, eyes and tanning skin. I was blessed to look awesome in ANY COLOR… but I prefer cool or lighter colors
This is the best video on color theory I've ever seen. I feel confident now that my skin tone is 'warm and delicate'. I only wish you had used a few more examples for that subtype, as after all you said it's the most common. Still, I feel like my understanding of my color tones has increased in leaps and bounds. It's so hard for me to do makeup, because I have a lot of distinctly red, blue, and yellow areas all over my face.
Such a great video for us redheads! I find at any makeup store the consultant is always trying to give me the lightest color of foundation they offer, which is usually warm. But in actuality I have a decent amount of pigment (and quite a bit of red) and my undertone is cool delicate... I finally found my absolute perfect shade in the fenty line which was like 6 shades darker than the girl at the store had in mind for me... she was so surprised when she put some on my skin she said “oh wow that is actually a perfect match!” 🙄😂
Julie Morris I have quite a lot of pink in my skin, I think for me if anything makeup tends to be too yellow... I don’t think I’ve ever found one that was TOO pink! 😝
I have had several people who thought I was yellow trying to sell me foundation, but just doesn't blend well with me. My legs glow in the dark and my face, neck and arms are "tanned" red undertone.
Thank you! As a brown eyed very pale bright skinned red, I always get typed on autumn. I hate myself in 80% of those colors, I look old and heavy. Specially when it comes to autumn make up. Those copper lips and moss green eyeshadows 🤮 I find that I look my best in light warm colors and some of the cool ones. I created my own palette. In make up, I stay clear of the moss greens (the very ones they recommended to me), and use cool brownish eyeshadow. But my foundation needs to be yellow toned, and my lipstick needs to go around peaches. I look horrible in cool lipsticks!
WHO would have thought I, as a deep brunette would finally get the answer to why my best colours change so drastically in winter and summer in a video about redheads. I have an olive hue to my skin, I am pretty neutral (warm leaning). In winter, as i loose some of my yellow the blue is more visible and I can pull off cooler muted colours as an result. In fact they look beautifully and replace some of the warmer colours I can pull off in summer as they start to overpower me. I was always confused if I’m warm or not but I guess I’m just slightly warm crossing a border to cool sometimes. It’s so hard to distinguish neutral colours from the rest. Cool is easy to say and warm is easy to say.
yap! i totally agree...🙏🏻bless you for insight... one thing that may be of interest to your attention that I recently discovered is we can have an cool overtone with a warm undertone...imogen lamport says this. I have been rabidly studying color since age 15 so that's over 30 years and I agree with you I think you're on to something here I think there is more to a redhead because we have a different pigment in our skin than other skin tones... and I have two pictures that I'm going to go study now - one in summer where I have a tan on my face and I look absolutely warm and vibrant but still excellent in the white and wearing, and one in winter with NO tan and i only look good in a cool toned green... EXCELLENT. 🙏🏻😇
I have strawberry blonde hair, I am very pale but my skin is really yellow 😅 I think this „super pale is always cool“ doesn‘t apply to me. Question: I would really like to know my Kibbe Type, I have done the test a Million Times and I still have no idea. Can I pay you via Paypal? :)
I think redheads can have very different undertones. When I (readhead) hold my arm next to my friends (also redhead) I always seem more yellowish and she more pink - in summer and in winter.
agreed! my skintone is VERY yellow and i’m a redhead but mixed race. my mom is black with a warm skin tone. so even at my lightest, i am NOT extremely pale. i believe my undertone is warm and radiant and doesn’t change. redheads can definitely have very different skin tones... saying they’re all cool at their lightest like in the video is a pretty blanket statement. i disagree with it, but we may be very specific cases lol.
I feel so vindicated! I noticed this in the last few months... I noticed that just this color has an effect on my skin it has an effect on my hair! my hair will appear subtly cool if I'm wearing cool colors and it will be brassy orange if I'm wearing warm colors...
Very interesting video, makes me wonder if this is an explanation why only ever like.. half the autumn colours worked for me as a redhead and not perfectly either. However I found it confusing that you used so many heavily doctored fashion photos with obvious filters instead of more natural ones in daylight conditions. It's not like we can really see the true colours in those photos.
Hi Merriam, thank you for another video, I really like it how you explain colors, that's clear, logical and refreshig :) I'm waiting excitedly for another video on how to rock FN style while staying elegant and showing some figure!
Great video. This really explains a lot because my husband is a redhead and I was scratching my head for the longest wondering why he didn't look so good in muted warm colors. He has super yellow skin but his eyes are a crystal grey. Super vibrant and his hair has this duo chrome effect where it's red but somehow seems to look like golden wheat from a certain angle. Should I try neon colors? Idk he looks pretty alive in that super bright construction orange if you know what mean
@@merriamstyle oh my god, lime green! Our daughter looks ethereal in lime green! I should've seen the connection since she has his skin color, except she's blonde so that must've tricked me.
I’m a brown auburn. I have fair skin with lots of red in it. I always thought it was warm because of the red. But it’s definitely cooler. I wear neutral foundation because I can see both purple and blue in my veins. I also tend to change to warm toned when I’m tan.
yes you are warm as are all redheads and auburn brunettes. Veins are irrelevant and misleading and nothing to do with undertones. Fairness of skin is also irrelevant to undertones. Fairness is due to Fitzpatrick Phototype and the fairest of those is type I which is redheads (spring or autumn)and the lightest blondes who can't tan at all (can be spring or summer).
Merriam, I somehow can't watch any of your videos on your website... Homepage is like empty, I tried a few times. And I don't see any video section on the website From my phone, I was able to weirdly play something once.... But there was only sound... Don't know what the problem is... Your page shouldn't be too heavy - for modern gudgets, for a good provider, right?
I’m a redhead and wearing the colour red confused me. For a red I look great in a brick red or rich blood red and not a more pinkish bright red. Burnt orange also looks lovely but so does pale blue, turquoise, aubergine and emerald green. I’m pretty sure I’m cool toned but the red question confuses me. I also prefer gold or copper jewellery as it picks out the flecks of gold in my hair.
Even thou I am a Redhead and have pretty light Skin, I really don't care if neon Yellow would overclash my Skin. I love Neon-Yellow and I would always wear it because it's fun :D
I don't know why this stuff is so confusing to me. Just trying to figure out what my undertones are for foundation, and now find out they probably change? 😭😭😭
Rachel you could get a foundation that’s slightly darker and a white foundation mixer and mix it to suit. Lots of really pale people add white to their foundation to make it light enough
This makes so much sense!!! I have a warm yellow undertone but in the winter I have to wear the lightest neutral foundation I can find because any other color gives me an ugly line.
I’m most certain this is me! When I am very pale from lack of sun exposure, I am cool and radiant. But if I get a bit of sun, my yellow pigment can take me to the early stages of Warm and Delicate terrritory :)
@@littlehouseinthebigapple5716 Haha I can definitely empathise with that! If it helps, I believe I may be cool and radiant when i have none of my natural pigment, but if I gain a bit of pigment (which is usually on my hands/chest/face from working on our farm), the pigment seems to be yellow. I did just get my Body Geometry done with Merriam, and she is amazing! So if you decide to get your colours done with her, I highly recommend her lovely service. xx
It’s hard being a redhead and now that my hair is going white it’s even harder! I look like I’ve been beaten in burgundy or purple but pale lavender is one of my best. Though now pale, my hair still has warmth, eyes are blue and skin is pale. Yellow and red are (were?) good on me but pale blue washes me out. My very best color is non-dusty teal but tangerine is a close second. I’ve been seasonally typed several times as a spring.
Damn, lady..thank you! I’m so glad you spoke on the notion of our color changing, depending on additional pigment. I’ve found it to be especially difficult though to be a pale redhead who also struggles with acne. The bold colors work overtime to bring even more attention ur shit skin and so cool and delicate becomes the go-to, unfortunately..
Okay but you know you're a true redhead when everywhere you go to get your hair cut the stylist says something like "if I could bottle up your hair color it would sell for millions" I've been told that by 3 lmao
Thank you so much! I finally found my skin tone. The usual commentaries about it (without the redhead consideration) doesn't ever quite solve it for me. Though I have colored my hair a lot of different colors, I have a red to my hair (and freckles) which has made it confusing for me. Your video was very helpful.
This makes sense in that natural redheads have pheomelanin instead of eumelanin - which is what makes their hair red - so what happens to their skin tone with increasing amounts of pheomelanin might be different from what happens in the rest of the population with increasing amounts of eumelanin.
I'm a redhead with very pale, cool pigmented skin and blue eyes. My favourite colour is red, but I don't look good wearing that colour because it clashes with my hair :/ I do look better wearing black, royal blues and greens though.
It is super confusing. Im a very fair redhead with blue eyes and yellow undertones. I look awful in black and white and basically any cool color. but if I have a slight bit of self tan on I can wear black and it doesn't look so bad. so I guess I do almost change undertone a bit.
When I was a teen, I've tried to wear cool colours because of my skintone. And in summer I always become yellow-ish and that confused me a lot. Thank you for this video, it helps to understand the nature of this effect
I am not as red as these ladies or at least not such a vibrant red but everyone describes me as auburn type hair. It’s like a medium brown leaning heavily into red. This video was extremely helpful for me. Several years ago I did some reading on the colour seasons and identified as a soft summer mainly because of wrong ideas about my own appearance. This really helped me to see that I am actually quite a vibrant winter and I feel like I’ve been able to confirm that by holding up some of my soft summer type colours vs very vibrant cool colours and seeing what looks better.
I kind of want to send in pictures of myself because I am an extreme example of a natural redhead who changes colour, this video is so validating lol. I have mixed British and Middle Eastern ancestry and I look so pale that I’m almost blue when I live in the UK. But I recently moved to the American south and I tan quite intensively, and definitely have warm yellow undertones. Thank you for making something that addresses this and gives fashion advice tailored to more unusual skin!
Thanks for the video. Could you make a future video on hair colour and skin tone. I've noticed that some people can pretty much rock all hair colours while some only look their best in one basic colour.
Please do a video about pure classic kibbe body type and how to have a unique style because I only find boring clothes in all classic recommendation, and also curly haircuts for classic's because all I see is super straight hair
