Видео

Can you please do a video on how to pick colours for daily wear, events or bright colours in general for the cool and delicate palette? Also, how does olive skin in a colour palette ( ex. I'm cool and delicate and olive) vs someone who isn't olive in the same palette differ?

i think I am more confused after this! LOL

Velvet Muse by Lisa Eldridge is the most perfect nude for cool olives! It is my holy grail.

Your voice is suited for ASMR ☺️

Yes because natural gene selections are not for beauty but for preservation of the species.

If I may give constructive criticism: In your older videos you spoke much more clearly and had a more open presence, in the newer ones I find it harder to listen to you, because it feels like you speak more quiet and almost shy into the microphone. Your content is still great of course and I enjoy it a lot!❤

I looove light hair and a hoodie look on her, I think she is in her lines

Hi ! New subbie here ! Looove your content , so unique . Could you please do a video for women that are top heavy with thin legs ? I have two friends of mine that are that body shape and they always ask me what they should wear . They are both the same but one is small chested and the other one is extremely big chested . Can’t find anything online . Thank you, Giada

That cool lipstick doesn't suit her- no wonder

Hi Merriam- i paid for your report, but before you look i had a question. Iam weaking makeup in many photos- what if the makeup undertone is the wrong one? Will that result in a wrong analysis or can experts make out your real undertone? I know that you asked for multiple photos 20 to 30. That may help but what if all the photos are makeup pictures in daylight?

1. Sometimes compliments are not genuine- they're just flattering you. 2. Or they're complimenting your outift or it's color PER SE- meaning the outfit itself is lovely, not whether it looks good on YOU. 3. Projections : Sometimes people like some colors on you because those colors are their own favorite colors. For example, i finally realized a few years ago that I'm not warm- but a few people like my mom like bright colors orange yellow red (the warm shades) so they'd compliment me But reality, those colors did not suit me at all... Edit: I typed this before watching it entirely and I realized you said the same thing haha. So today I learnt: your real colors are Basically when they can't immediately tell what it is that's making you look good- because its so much in harmony with your natural coloring

It’s so true about the shape shifting. And even though I own a lot of jewellery I still prefer to wear yellow gold. Just because I come from poverty and now that I have resources, it gives me more to work with when expressing myself. For me, gold looks luxurious and silver looks cheap in my eyes but I think it’s just more to do with the past of being a have not. After watching this I’ve learned two things: start embracing silver jewellery and throw out all my warm toned lipsticks and lip liners. Just makes me look like I have jaundice. Also, cool blush from now on. You’re a lifesaver!

Could you do the actress Shruti Haasan please? I think I'm like her sometimes so use her for inspo, but other times I get confused again 🥲😅 🙏

Great video! I have Audrey Tantou's olive coloring & bolder brow but Kiera Knightly's bone structure (very flat planar forehead and cheeks, almond deepset eyes, almost no cheek apple even when smiling, stronger jawline and chin). IMO I can wear a smoky eye with no other makeup and look just fine, but if I attempt to wear a red lip and no other makeup, I look like I forgot to wear the rest of my makeup lol. Somehow a red or bold lip calls attention to imperfections of the face ( it makes my dark circles and lip corner pigmentation look 10x darker) but a bold eye pulls focus from imperfections in other areas of the face, at least on me.

I’m here for the ASMR 😍

Aaaaaaaaahhh 🎉 thx.

Thank you so much for this video, it's extremely helpful. Can you please do this with all the other essences?

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 RUclips 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!