Understanding skin tone using a colour wheel.

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WARNING: This video is a bit nerdy and perhaps most useful to those starting out as make-up artists.
Apologies for the camera, it had a little flip out with colours today.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• casual
• cream
• neutral
• fashion
• beauty
• mature
• elegant
• skin
• tone
• warm
• cool
• white
• hair
• romantic
• english
• rose
• mac
• nc
• nw
• foundation

[shanohu]

well i have a pinky skin tone, but when i used to wear a pink toned (warm) foundation, it looked like i had blush all over my face. it looked waaaay too pink and totally unnatural.

i find that cool foundations balance out the pink and look much better.

that clearly contradicts what you've said.. do you have any explanation for this?

[pixiwoo]

@shanohu Perhaps the foundation was too dark. Perhaps you have slight rosacea, in which case the correct thing would be to correct the warmth in the skin by using a cool toned foundation.

[KaleiCLG]

Damn damn damn, I understand this completely but I bought an NC concealer recently when I should have purchased an nw!

[pixiwoo]

@KaleiCLG Take it back and swap it if you were badly advised.

[shiddity]

in your video that you say you are going to do on this topic, can you please include brown skin tones,(pakistani/indian) too..thanks!

[traslaverdad1]

This video is very instructive,,, thank you for sharing the information.. please publish more of the basics of make-up.. much love

[evelyndaeva]

QUESTION! so if i have a yellow undertone should i use a cool brownish colour to contour so that it will look more natural on my skin? i'm MAC face and body C1

thank you. this video is amazing! xx

[MizeryLovesCompany77]

thank you for posting this video, im a budding freelancer so i need any and every bit of advice on any and everything that will be given lol love you girls, youre awesome and thanks again!

[noinaitz]

this's really help, thank you so much ;)

[iamcasihart]

Your hair and skin look so healthy and beautiful! I actually like the pink hue of your skin, (mine is much the same). Often times, I find that I prefer my skin, (if it is free of breakouts), sans foundation. I like the pinkness of my skin to show...like your's, it looks glowy.  Great vid! Informative!

[MizzSoniaOx]

you mentioned blue ..

but under my eyes im abit yellow ..

[evikat]

I am trying to watch the exclusive tutorials on channel 4 but I cant. :(

Anyone else with the same problem?

Also, I am pretty sure I saw a new video from Sam in my subscriptions, I saved it to watch it later and now is gone. :(

Or I am going crazy :/

[dianeuk01]

@pixiwoo gossmakeupartist gave a tip to put a lighter coloured concealer just in the shadow the puffy undereye makes, tilting your head down helps to see the shadow, doing thisgives the illusion of no puffiness as the shadow is removed, but don't put the lighter concealer anywhere else otherwise it'll cancel out the effect. It works for me. Check out his vid to see it in action. Hope this helps.

[dianeuk01]

Looking healthy and gorgeous, hope you enjoyed your trip to paradise Nic, minus the exotic wildlife! :o)