A note to my fellow painters and color experts who watch this and think, “but tint! tone! shade! hue! brightness!” - Yes. But I’m not here to flex on all the fancy words I know. I’m trying to make color something that is approachable to everyone. For the sake of simplicity, I’m taking more of a “hue + value = saturation” approach. Color theory in painting is a vast world, but a lot of it is totally unnecessary (and alienating) when it translates to making makeup easier and more fun to use. Thanks for understanding :)
The pale blue side looks so much like my mother’s late 6o’s wedding look. (She also had virtually identical colouring - but very ice-blue eyes - ergo even more desaturated.) I don’t think she evolved from that makeup look until the late 90’s when she discovered shocking pink lipstick.
It’s wild that my understanding of all of this comes from a place of failure. Neck match? Never heard of her. Redness? Stop Sign Realness from the neck up. It’s never been a case where I applied something and went “Oh holy shit that’s magnificent. My taxes are paid and my library books have been returned. Ethereal.”
On my third watch. What I’m not really getting is the saturation of skin. Could you show examples of less and more saturated pale skin and less and more saturated deep toned skin? THANK YOU! This is so great!
@@allisonbb716 I am an example of highly saturated pale. My face is naturally very flushed, I have tons of orange freckles. Lots of hot pink and yellow in my skin. My celebrity color twin is Nicole Kidman. You can see her natural color best in her younger photos.
honestly, this feels like youtube premium - i can't believe i'm getting this for free. this overlap of art math and makeup is where your content and creativity shine, kackie.
I was going to comment the same. I have yet to watch another creator who delves this deep and teaches. As with finding jeans, it is so hard trying to get your foundation to match your face and then all of the other products must mesh too. There are days when I just wash the makeup off and say f* it. I have learned so much in this video- Appreciate the time and care you put into these videos
Kackie is here giving away gold for free. I've been playing her older videos of straight make-up reviews. And they're fun and helpful because I know better where not to spend, and what's worth looking into (and seeing if it's available in Germany - often not the case). This type of video though... Masterclass! Thank you so much, Kackie 😊😊
Brownie girl here 🙋♀(7N in Charlotte Tilbury longwear foundation). Thank you! Today I learned that my skin is actually quite translucent. I couldn't figure out how people of my same skin color were able to use 1 or 2 pumps of foundation when I'm good to go with only a half of a pump. Also now I understand why, as much as I love Patrick Ta blush formulas, they look too darn pigmented on my cheeks: it's because they're too opaque (and too saturated); that's the same reason why I can get away with very light sandy-pink blushes that aren't supposed to be noticeable over my skintone.
The content you’re dropping differentiates your channel from other beauty content creators. Not only do you encourage us to wear what we love, but you’re providing us the tools to make it work!! As a fellow desaturated girl, finding my “filler” color to wear high contrast colors has changed my blush game in particular!
You've singlehandedly made me interested in makeup again. Also this is SO your niche: art math + makeup + great non cookie-cutter personality. Keep doing you!
The day RU-vid put her in my algorithm I thanked the RU-vid gods hahaha ❤😂❤😂🎉🎉😢😮😅😊😊😊 she’s simply so talented and helpful and her self and kind 🥰😅🥰💞😳🤯💓 big kackie fan , haha .
Just had my AHA moment! I never understood how greenish tones can cover redness (or cancel it out) when warm red or terracotta tones on my eyes make my green eyes pop. You explained the concept of the colors over themselves creating a beige, but placed next to eachother, having a completely different effect! Thank you!
I actually really like both sides, but for different reasons. The bold eye takes all the focus and nails that 'sultry French girl eye' thing of just one area of focus. And the pastel side is a more balanced 'friendly' face that is great for a summer picnic. Love them both!
Holy SHIT the saturation demonstration on the foundation just explained why I've never found a foundation to match me. I am pale and low contrast and foundation not only usually doesn't go light enough, even the tones that are light enough or even too pale just pull too pink or yellow/orange! I simply need a more mid, muted, less contrasting shade for my skin. ..."simply" meaning i know i won't find any in the drugstore and i don't care enough about make up to want to pay over 10€ for foundation lol...
@throughcolouredglasses9300 I'm also very pale but bright toned, and foundations are all too colored or too greige for my skin. I need white with a hint of yellow and no red or grey to mute it.
Check out the new Abput Face foundations. As a fair olive toned girly, this is the first foundation in my 35 yrs that I didn't have to mix something into(white and blue mixer or mixing 2 shades) to "make it work". At $22, it'd a little more than I'm willing to spend normally, but saves time and actually is cheaper than buying 2 shades and moving for 8/10 of my foundations.
Also, any lipstick/ balm swatches (the less opaque ones...) are useless to me, since my native lip color will always create a different effect. Finally, someone (uh, you) addresses that concept. You are an amazing educator!!
Yeah I never thought about the way my natural pigmentation affected the way lip color appeared on me until my redhead friend borrowed my Burts Bees tinted lip balm, which barely looks like anything on me, but was a very obvious sheer red on her lips!
Aaaand the penny finally dropped for me on why me trying for so many years to use full coverage foundation to cover my acne, rosacea, etc. never worked! It looked bizarre next to my extremely translucent other visible skin (hands, chest). Art math genius to the rescue! I'm gonna go buy a desaturated skin tint 😂❤
If the skin tint is not enough for the redness, you could try a really sheer green tint under it, like Clarins sos in green (I have pale skin, it may not be as discreet on darker skin). Someone with rosacea recommended this combination to me recently and it's beautiful.
This is absolutely fantastic. I'm a graphic designer and certified color management professional at work, but somehow I always feel too familiar with my own face to identify these things and kinda get lost in feeling like something isn't "me". This put into words all of the principles I already knew, but applied them to this other world that I'm less skilled in. Thank you!
I mix my favorite painting gray with blue and orange, and ive never once thought of that in context of makeup until you described gray as a mix black and white.
AH! I'm so excited to watch this!!! I'm taking notes! I've always thought orange looked TERRIBLE on me because everything turns orange on me due to my olive undertone and how pale I am.
Hi! I’m so loving all the color theory content!! Idea/request: can you delve more into the “filling in the other shades so it looks less hollow” concept? I understand the basic hair dyeing concept, but would love some more demos on the skin like showing if the perceived cheek color actually changes when you fill in the other colors, how you know what shade to fill in, how you know it looks hollow, anything else you think would be helpful. Thank you thank you!🙏🏼❤️❤️
This is also what color analysis does--it finds the best version of each color that looks great on a person in the same way that you have done it--by changing the saturation (muted is autumn and summer; bright is spring and winter), temperature, and lightness/darkness (how much black or white it contains). It doesn't say you can't wear a color, but that there are better versions of that color for each person's coloring. What I don't like about color analysis is that even 16 categories isn't enough, because I think that olive people fall somewhere in the middle. So everyone can wear hot pink--but the hot pink on a Winter person will have a touch of blue, the hot pink for Spring will be more like a hot red-coral-pink, Summer will be a muted hot pink with touch of blue, and Autumn would be muted hot red-pink...maybe like a bright sangria (it's all just relative contrasts).
Absolutely, great explanation and yes, the color typing system is very limiting. The fact that there are four seasons is based off the limitations of nature. That kind of limitation is ridiculous for something as expensive as color. What if there were five seasons will there be a mud season? What if we had six seasons? You get where I'm going. They chose four seasons to make it relatable but that harms the framework itself
I recently found your channel and now that I watched a few vids, I thought "OMG, I love how Kackie and Alex Anele both come from that art major perspective. Sooo cool!” You are an awesome teacher!
Can we also talk about how this is a great video on how color creates illusions like shaping? The eye you have the pastel eyeshadow on looks literally smaller and flatter to me. I know this isn't a video about changing and sculpting proportion but I can see it!
Learning that I had a muted skintone, and needed more grey in my products, changed everything for me. Now every time a creator complains about something being too grey, I get excited :D HOWEVER... I didn't realize until watching this video that although my skin isn't particularly dark, it's fairly opaque, which I think is going to be useful information.
I’ve been watching beauty RU-vid for almost 10 years and the last few videos you’ve posted on contrast, saturation and opacity are the most helpful videos I have ever seen!! It’s like magic once you understand it! Thank you!!
When you release your “Perfect Bedroom Brown” eyeshadow palette (we all know it’s going to happen😉), can it please be based on this video? It would be so cool to see a palette that is the saturated and desaturated of the colors. If anyone can do a bedroom eyes palette like this, it’s you Kackie! Using color theory to select my makeup has been a game changer!
The royal blue side gives off strong magician vibes and the pastel one gives fairy vibes both look so pretty 💙🩵 I think your freckles actually boost the look and that both lip combos would have worked on either side because the balance out the cool eyes. Either way I love your videos because even though I don't use much makeup colour theory is handy in loads of things, including outfits and well painting. Thank you for doing this series!
I struggle with having freckles, and some redness, but also don’t want a super opaque base. I’m very desaturated - like translucent baby fish level translucent. I do like the Erborian green color corrector to help resolve some redness before I go in with any foundation, but I feel like I’m always fighting SOMETHING.
I just have to say how thankful I am for you and your videos. I love the art of it all- the make up, the luxury, the color theory, etc. However, you are a breath of fresh air. You are real and unhinged and sophisticated and just lovely and kind all in one. I’ve been struggling with an illness where I can’t really get out and do all the things I want to do, so instead I have literally been going back and watching/rewatching alllllll the Kackie videos. My brain and my heart thanks you. My Sephora points also thank you. My wallet maybe not so much… 😂😂😂
I'm very low contrast with a desaturated complexion and now I know why I always appear to be wearing a lot of makeup though/when I'm not. I'm good at it and I like the way my makeup looks but I've always wished I knew how to tone it down. Now I know. Thanks a million!
I am LOVING this series of videos you’ve been doing. They are so helpful. As a light olive girlie they have been responsible for so many lightbulb moments for me! Thank you!
This is like a color theory course but for makeup. Looove it! The ligth blue blends better with your skin tone but the brigth blue makes your eyecolor pop imo.
I've just figured out this is why a LOT of makeup counter sales people are so bad at matching that they seem colourblind to me. Next one who tries to make me look like a clown will be directed to your site!
Kackie, I want to say that you are providing a great wealth of information. So many people just don’t understand these basic principles of color. You explain things in an easy and comprehensive way that I people can grasp. I worked at Sephora one x-mas and a lady was wanting a lipstick 💄 I asked her a question about opacity and she gave me a blank stare. So I explained and found what she wanted. Please keep geeking out about color theory and educating people.
How have I not seen your vids before?! Not only are you breaking it down for us all, you're literally empowering us! I watched this and your contrast video - so helpful dor me from dark brown high contrast to silver grey - EYE OPENING! Thank you, and may I say, youre one helluva babe, Kackie! ❤
Your videos truly feel like watching a makeup masterclass. Whenever you post an educational video like this one it is like everything all of a sudden makes sense. You are so talented and your videos are incredibly insightful. Much love from the Netherlands! ✨🤗
THANK YOU!! I've said this so much. I get really peeved by the whole trend of what season you are or what color looks good on you. SURE there might be a color that is just meh. but MOST people can wear MOST colors
Ok, I am going to have to watch this a few more times. My brain is super excited and buzzing lol. I, like just about every other woman with access to the internet, have been delving into all the buzz around colour seasons. It’s led to a rabbit hole of the science of both skin melanin and the very nature of light and colour and pigments …. It’s left me with this vague idea that all the colour season analysis systems out there are missing very important details and it’s all circling around what you are demonstrating here. I’m for sure some version of a “bright” and temperature doesn’t really seem to matter much at all. I have some degree of contrast (for sure going to that video of yours next 😃) but the contrast seems to be more about how much contrast of “bright” colours I need rather than just the way my features contrast (like hair, eyes, skin tone, eyebrows) or don’t. There is something about my skin and hair that isn’t immediately obvious that requires a lot of reflective quality in colours I wear to look harmonious. I haven’t solidified what’s going on there yet but I’m closing in on it and THIS information is tickling my brain big time. I think you just told me why it is that I often reach for my lipsticks to use on my eyes and cheeks rather than the slew of eyeshadows and blushes I have. I have so many of the “right” colours but they often just look “meh”. They aren’t giving me what I’m looking for and I think I now know why!! Also explains why I gravitate towards any kind of glowy foundation rather than the matte or heavier coverage ones, even when the fuller coverage ones are, technically, a “match” for my tone and undertone and temp, etc. GAAA !!! There are so many beauty content creators that would benefit from seeing this, especially the olive toned ones out there who are forever struggling to find good options. Thank you !
This is currently the best video on RU-vid!! As a makeupnartiat, you put to words what I wish every one of my clients understood when they describe what they want for makeup. Granted, I will have to eat h it another 3x to fully grasp everything you are sharing here, but one of my closest friends is an art teacher so I feel like I have a leg up on understanding the base of what your saying. This serious of videos is absolutely needed in this space! I am saving them all to refer back to over and over.
I can see a new line of merch: FULL OPACITY❤❤❤❤ LOW SATURATION 💕💕💕 In all seriousness, THANK YOU! This is the most useful and valuable information I’ve gotten from a makeup tutorial in…EVERRR
This is the content we can’t get anywhere else. I want you to know how much I appreciate you, your talent and ability to make all of this approachable.
Thank you so much for these videos! I've struggled for years with why some things haven't quite worked out despite following so many tutorials, and now so much has clicked in to place! I'll be rewatching repeatedly while I try new things out. Again, thank you! ❤
I love your videos :) I could "see" the blue on the desaturated side transform as you added the blush and it is just magic. Everyone else is doing fox eyes and huge lips and YOU are making art - beautiful!
I’ve been watching beauty content for over 15 years now. I feel like I’ve seen it all and was around for the full beat cream contour for literally every occasion phase of makeup. You’ve quickly become one of my favorite creators (and I thought I’d seen literally everyone and everything there was to see). I feel like I’m actually learning new techniques and more color theory beyond the basics that we’ve all known forever.
🩵💙💜🩷❤️❤️💛💚🖤🤎🩶 Love these color theory art math videos, Kackie! These type of videos really set you apart from what is going on in the rest of the beauty you tube world right now!! Fan-freakin-tastic!!
About saturation: while you are watching a TV show, a film, you name it... with a considerable amount of actors from different ethnicities, it' s the moment to try and understand it. Change the screen settings and low "color" or "saturation". They all become desaturated but they are still, proportionally, as dark or light skinned than before, it doesn' t change. Chicago Fire would be a nice cast to play with. Hope it helps. 🧛🏻♀️🖤
This clearly & in a more theoretical way explains why I always liked a more matte finish & medium covereage in my facial cosmetics (satin is good too). I'm fair & transluscent & every vein, old scar, etc shows. I was way more a powder complexion product person until recently & then age (I'm 64) just made powders not look great anymore. I prefer cream formulas that dry down to a powder finish now & aren't too sheer. I do like a serumy foundation but always use a concealer under layer due to redness. (Sometimes I just wear concealer blended out as foundation & don't bother with foundation at all) I'm experimenting with liquid blushes but usually add a powder blush on top if I'm being honest to get that opacity. Lip products are the exact opposite, I want sheerness. My lips have a lot of natural pigmentation & I like a pop of sheer but bright color there. Sometimes a clear gloss is actually enough unless I want to change the color of my lips. Eye makeup is a neutral matte sculpt (hooded eyes) with a sheer shimmer on the inner 3rd of the mobile lid. Never realized how specific my opacity preferences were before now lol. I do a lot of layering & mixing to get the colors, textures & finishes I want. Gloss over matte, matte over gloss etc. I am also a traditionally trained artist & painter with a graphic design background. I love your content 😊
Loving loving these most recent videos! I know when I like the way something looks on me, and your videos are helping me understand WHY I like how they look. Starting to feel more empowered in my personal makeup style; thank you!
I've been wanting to do a declutter and refocus my collection on products I'm actually going to wear and this series has been SO HELPFUL in decision making!! I'm think now not in terms of "do I like it?" alone, but "how many opaque products like this also I need?" "How much contrast does this offer??" - it's really helped me recognize the value in holding on to something I might only use a few times a month, but are really critical to that particular look while also seeing the value in considering other factors than tone or shade. Thank you!!!
Very interesting video! This explains my makeup preferences and I think it will make it clearer to me what products will not work for me before buying. I prefer products with less opacity and high opacity has always made me feel clownish, but I’m still a fan of blue eyeshadow. I’ve realised why it works is because I wear shadows that are pretty much see through and broken with a lot of white. My skin then comes through and as I’m cold tone it doesn’t turn green. Great demonstration!
I really love you content, vibe and style. Shocking that you are only getting 100k on RU-vid now. You are truly a Style Queen👸🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉. Congratulations 🥂 🙌
The very thought of opening up the world of colour makes me want to run and hide in a (neutral, brown, taupe) corner. Watching this video in fear and trepidation …
Stumbled on this channel and it's an instant subscribe for making videos about color theory. I have some art training and even then I tend to fall in the rut of wearing "safe" or "comfortable" colors for my coloring, but this is a great reminder that there are always ways to make any color work for you
This is excellent and I truly wish more beauty reviewers who do make a living creating content would invest more in their skills/vocab in precisely assessing/describing color & opacity & finish/etc. One thing that can be confusing is how the same person will call a color relatively “warm” because it is further away from blue hues and will call another warm because it is more desaturated (even though it may be closer to blue). For the purposes of communicating color, that just not helpful on its own.
Oh it's so true. And even I get tripped up talking about a group of colors being cool like an eyeshadow palette being an overall cool palette VERSUS the reality which is that they're cool *compared* to other things we recognize as warm or neutral 😂 so it's like an excel circular reference warning.
Ok so I’m colour blind… and figuring out tone, undertone, opacity, saturation etc has been such a challenge for me. THANK YOU Kackie for creating content like this! It is so helpful!!
1. I could never draw portraits until i got into makeup (the 2016 glam) and suddenly I was able to understand how to make skin tones out of watercolor, where to add pink, where to add shadow, what shades to use for shadow so I love art + makeup combos!! 2. NC44 and VERY TRANSLUCENT skin!! My veins do be veining more than my NC30 mom 😂😂😂
Thank you for teaching about color theory. I find myself trying colors that I thought I would never be able to wear. It is so much fun to think outside the box.
This video is so helpful and like nothing else I have seen in the beauty community. Thank you for making color theory, as it relates to beauty, so approachable!
🤯 Great set of videos; I watched all three. The "perfect red lip" was easiest to digest for me. This one makes sense to me while I'm watching but when I try to apply it to myself I'm stuck on the old AOL loading noise 😅
I am one of those people who absolutely will scream from the rooftops for you to wear whatever makes you happy. I absolutely love color but I also love neutrals. I atarted really looking at my makeup this year and I realized that the tone amd saturation definitely influence whether I think that shade works with my complexion or fights it (the contrast video comes into play here too). But all that being said I'll still wear those colors, I just also know that olive greens make my features "pop" more than like a grass green and that's why I gravitate to olives. Understanding makeup theory has changed my perspective on makeup but at the same time I still will wear whatever I want. I hope everyone watching these videos use them all tools they can grab for amd doesn't look at them as the end all be all of how to do your makeup. Thank you for producing these amazing videos amd giving them to us for free
These videos are amazing!! I’m going to have to watch them over and over. Thank you for putting this all out there for us. Honestly, I think this is waaaaay more helpful than a traditional makeup tutorial.
I am amazed at what I learn from your channel about color. I learned from your last video why all nude lipsticks look terrible on me. And I like red lipstick on me but I’ve never quite found my right red shade. Your background as a painter makes your information on color as it pertains to makeup invaluable. I’m so glad I found your channel.
Awesome overlays and graphics alongside the video 🤩 i am so happy this series got two! new entries. Also, quite surprising video but luckily we have Kackie to come up with something like this to explain us makeup colour theory in super captivating way.
This video is really helping me understand my recent preference for low-opacity high-saturation color cosmetics. My makeup personality is distinctly low-key, but my pigmented lips and dark eyebrows put me in the high-contrast camp. The usual "no makeup makeup" pallette ends up looking like a muddy disaster on me.
Kackie! This is such an amazing video that my ADHD brain got engaged to its entirety without pausing for hundreds of potential distractions! I adore it!
For someone who really has struggled with the color theory of make up, these videos are so amazing. They’re also super relaxing for some reason. Perfect for my 3-4 AM newborn feedings. 😂❤
