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Not only was this really educational, it was also relaxing! Unintentional ASMR! ❤️🥰

Video idea: soft gamine at work

Great analysis, thank you!

Holy schnitzels. I do have sharp features. And I do always find it weird when I have a red lip (although I tried one for my profile pic). It always looks harsh and too intense on me. I know why now.

<3 it

I actually paid for a professional color analysis to learn this about my skin. Thanks for acknowledging we exist lol!! I’m also fair which makes me a true outlier.

I thought she was typed as a dark winter, with cool olive undertones and warm overtone

The volume of the voice is so low, I can hardly get the content.

Could someone explain how a purple, a red and a blue can be warmer? I can see it visually but from a physical point of view, how are those colours made, since normally to make a colours warmer you must add yellow to it, but you get green if you mix blue qith yellow etc. Very confusing

The woman is the first point : something i dont understand is why you assume she is an autumn, only to say autumn colours look bad on her since she needs brighter colours. Well, that makes her a spring. I saw a dpring in her straight away

This is me bro .... I am 100% sure I have a cool undertone and 99% of people on reddit agree but in certain lights I look yellowish and it sometimes bothered me but this vid makes me feel better ......

Is there such a thing as a true neutral?

This makes me think of Katy Perry! She’s a natural blonde

It's different in real life and in camera. In camera and pictures hair that is not natural looks much better, but in real life not. In rl your natural works the best for you.

I look like a man in a blazer & not a handsome one, help

I think Merriam uses terms that are more accurate to what the eye sees, rather than Kibbe's rather abstract terms. Dramatic, Romantic? Very likely due to the culture trends of his upbringing. And Gamine, what even is that? Mixed, I can understand. A mixture of features but not blended. But sharpened or rounded is what the eye sees in the different features. Natural vs Beveled. Who's to say what is Natural or Classic? Very abstract.

By childlike do you mean looking awkward with the worng clothes?

I love your videos Merriam, and with each one I learn something new. And this one was a perfect one for me, so thank you :) I was wondering if you could do a video about hair colour change when we age. I notice most women tend to go for lighter colour, or blonde as they age so that the roots aren't as visible. What do you think about that, is it really flattering for every type? x

I always felt I was a cool tone for almost a decade before I finally allowed other women and female relatives try to help me pick makeup at stores. They all told me I was warm. My sister only buys me stuff an autumn would wear because she's an autumn, and she likes her colors on me. Honestly, it never felt quite right. I recently tried Ulta's makeup apps to find my foundation shades and other makeup. I tried two different window locations during the morning, and it became obvious that the app thought I was neutral even after 2 hours. I'm a real neutral. A neutral medium olive with peach undertones. Neither cool or warm (or rather, I'm both at once). Now I'm annoyed and feel gaslighted by people who tried to help me but wouldn't listen to me. The problem is probably the fact that I'm neither cool or warm, but in-between, so it's probably confusing. I'm still stuck between dark winter and dark autumn. What if I'm wrong about both? I imagine I can play with more variety since I am neutral? I think it's easier to just be cool or warm. I'm not sure.

hey! After I watched all your videos on olive skin, I cannot still figure out if I am warm or cool olive, you mostly addressed them separately but not comparing how to decide, could you give some strategies how to tell?:)

My hair gets gingery under the sun. I spent months trying to fight the brassiness back in vain last summer. And a lifetime dye my hair dark. I finally understood that, if technically copper isn't my natural hair colour (my roots are medium ashy blonde with sparks of gold and copper), this is the colour I naturally get overtime after summer and i shouls embrace it. And let me tell you that now I don't try to hide it under brown dyes as I did for years and that I embrace it, I get complimented a lot. It really gives me character. People remember me. Men find me more attractive than ever (as a brunette I am nit memorable). Next I will add more vibrancy to it and get a decent copper, because I need more pigments to look really good I have found. I owe dita von teese a lot. She said in an itw that she used to suffer from being raised in a generation where natural beauty was all the rage (tall, lean, tanned bodies with sweet faces) when she was quite a plain jane and decided that she woule come up with her own idea of beauty: artificial in the sense of manufactured, but carefully thought through. She is my idol although I look nothing like her!

I love your passion! That's why I keep coming back and watching. ❤

Loved it. I don’t have an olive skin tone, I just love how logically you explain everything.

“The people that works for are.. already put together” - oh my goodness you really crack me up :). Your videos always have one two one-liners that are so funny. That one and “I don’t care if you look put together”!

You so professionel and passionate i don't evdn watch other colour analysts of UA-cam so happy found u ! They're so confusing 😢

Great video

Video long over due it is brutal finding anything for this 😢 they just brand us neutral.

I see the worst bad info olive undertone videos from people that are not olive. Especially with bad hair and makeup advice, They do not understand the struggle! I thought I was warm for decades after bad color matching at makeup counters and beauty retailers.

now i'm confused! i think kim looks awful with cool tones, cool hair, etc. to me, she looks better in warm tones. same for the second celebrity, to me she looks better in warm tones

As an *olive OIL* (olives come in lime green, eggplant or even glazed black😅, we are like the top quality oil) skinned person, being able to shapeshift is a total win, personally. Having military green eyes and chestnut brown hair, I can make the yellow dots pop, leave my hair dry so the oranginess shines and become warm and lovely or make my iris lean to grey, wet and slick my hair until it' s almost black and be a cold bish. Let' s be honest, I' m a MUA, I assume it helps a bit🫣... 🧛🏻‍♀️🖤

Is it possible to be less cool and not very cool? Like a spectrum- neutral to cool?

Thank you for this ❤ This is me... I know that there are cool olives that exist, but in my case it was very confusing because I look yellow on the surface... Like my skin tone has yellow in it but underneath that is a lot of blue and pink undertones. So overall I look green because green is a mix of blue and yellow and therefore Olive. However, because of the yellow on the top, many people just assumed I was a warm olive. However, the colors that flatter me are muted cool blue, green, burgundy etc... I only realized this much later in life... When I wear warm colors It looks doesn't look bad but it looks as if it is sitting on top of me, it's not in harmony with me. In short, I think I am neutral to cool, although not very very cool

Not related but you look so much like young Britney Spears!

Yes! I’m interested and need your video❤❤

I hope you don't mind this feedback but I'm a photographer and I'm hoping it's helpful. You clearly have a great eye for color, and are very good at what you do, but I'm wondering if you could have a professional help you with your lighting setup. The color temp needs to be adjusted and the diffused light isn't the most flattering. You're also a little out of focus.

Charlotte Tilbury has a warm toned lipstick for her which is my favourite called Amazing Amal. it’s warm. It works amazing for me.

This is me. Warm clothing colors make me look washed out. Pastels are the worst. Nude or brownish lipsticks make me look like death warmed over. My skin can look gray in the winter as well. It's a confusing skintone for sure. Thanks for this video, Merriam!! ♥

Im pretty sure I'm a warm olive. I can wear cool colors too, but nothing very cool such as true blues, blueish purples/pinks. I can't wear super warm colors either, so I must be "warm and delicate". Some of my best colors are: (always soft and deep)persimmon, mustard, burgandy/maroon, teal and neutral olive green etc. But, I look like death warmed over in bright/pure oranges and yellows/yellow-greens. But, never just assume that your cool or warm because your olive. I wore the wrong cool colors for years before I watched Merriam's olive skin videos. I am so very grateful that finally us olives have a color artist that thinks out of the box!! Thank you Merriam !❤

I was well into my 30s before realizing I was olive. To this day, it's confusing (not the olive part, I'm definitely olive, but what type of olive specifically). I'm very fair, and have spent my life being typed as 'cool/pink' by SAs and then looking like total hell in whatever they've specifically recommended, lol. I'd say my natural skin looks - and this is a word people shy away from because it has a negative connotation which, sure, true, but in my case it's just true - sallow. The most flattering colours on me are a very dark and saturated navy/ink blue and true neutral saturated red. Both blue-reds AND orange-reds look awful. I also look good in saturated peacock. Most colours look like hell on me. Most blushes and lipcolours also look like hell. Purple blush can be extremely flattering and natural looking, or terrible and clown-like. I also don't fit neatly into any of the colour seasons, although I think I'm some kind of winter, possibly dark winter. Yikes. About to go check out your other videos now...thank you for the good info on this, it's surprising it's still so little-known!

just the video i hoped for! it's fun to see more of your sass/passion come through in this vid. my favorite channel! ❤

Thank you 🥹 finally I understand why I look dead so often

She looks…. Tired lol

Yes more videos on this topic please! With other examples of cool toned olive celebrities and how to enhance this skin tone, would be much appreciated, thank you!

Love your videos! It is a little confusing. Are we moving away from theoretical color theory and into practical skin color analysis? Green is described by you as having inherent warmth because it contains yellow, unlike pure red which can be truly neutral (contains no yellow). So are you saying cool olive is still on the warm side, but almost contains a teal green (blue green) undertone, making it harmonious with cool red lipstick, silver jewelry etc ? Perhaps I answered my own question…

More confused now. Am I olive or warm\delicate? I was draped as a cool summer, but look good in pinkish coral and olive green. I need to wear a "grayish" foundation to look right. I tan easily, prefer silver, and have greenish blue eyes (not in any category). I feel "all over the map".

Merriam can you make a video like this but warm olive skin? Cause I think I'm cool but I would love a video of the warm just to be sure! You're the best when it comes to olive skin tone, thank you for this!

I’ve been telling people at makeup counters that I am not warm for over 30 years. Cool light olive here too! Everything you say is sooo true about cool olives. I look sallow and dead in warm colors. Put me in a hot cool pink and I glow without any makeup even. Thanks for these informative videos! You’re brilliant!

Check check check, all of these.

Hi Merriam! Your insight is something else! I would truly appreciate if you could go through colour analysis for people with extremely light pigmentation at some point. I am sure many dark-skinned people have the same struggles, if not worse, on finding information that can be easily applied to them. I have been trying to find out the reason behind colours that the usual charts recommend for me are different than my real life experience on what looks good on me (both based on compliments and my own feeling). I feel like people online have constantly typed me as cool toned because I am -extremely- pale, but somehow I am not so sure of it.

Great topic! Thank you..I’m almost sure I’m cool olive. Can you make a video about where to find good cool olive makeup because it is very hard to find? ❤