- Hi everyone, it's Justine.
And this is episode 3 of my series about color.
Last time we built a color palette
for somebody who has a warm skin undertone.
So logically today we are building a palette
that will be flattering for somebody who is cool.
If you don't know whether you warm or cool yet
or maybe natural in between
this video here will help you figure it out.
And it's also linked down below in the description.
My goal for today is to give you
a whole range of cool toned colors so that you get a feeling
for all the options that you have actually disposal
on the cool side of the spectrum.
Then we'll build a color palette that is cool
but also wearable, not just on the runways,
in real life, in a real life situation.
And while we get there
I give you a ton of other tips as well.
So first, what are the cool colors, blue, purple and green.
So this half of the color wheel,
and also anything in between these.
Now I'm gonna switch to my little color cards.
I'm adding blue, green, and cyan,
and also blue purple.
This way I'm building bridges sort of,
and it gives us the width of the cool range.
On the left side if I add a tiny bit of yellow,
I will immediately turn into something warm.
So here is my limit, so to speak,
and on the right side
if I add some red, it will turn warm too.
Now let's play with the intensity.
If I add some black to my hues
it's slowly gonna get very dark, very winter like,
more muted as I'm going towards the bottom of the screen.
And if I add white, the intensity is reduced
and you get a color palette
that looks a lot more like summer.
I could keep adding more white at there
but you get the idea, that's the direction.
Conclusion, if you take any two hues in this cool range
and you add white to them, the more white you add
the more you will always end up
with the harmonious color palette,
because they will become more and more similar,
because of the white.
Same thing if you add black
to any two hues in this range, the more black you add
the more your two initial hues
will look good next to each other.
Fun story, once I was in a hardware shop
and there was a salesperson promoting a color guide
a range of wall paints.
So they had 200, I don't know, colors of wall paint.
And she was saying the brand, blah, blah, blah
curated this huge new selection of wall paint colors.
And if you take any colors in this range
they will always look good together.
And that's why this color guide is so special, et cetera.
And I was like, "can I see," (laughs)
I had a look.
It turns out, they just took a bunch of different hues
from the entire color wheel
and kept adding more and more white to them.
That's it, and this color guide was on sale
for over a hundred euros.
And I thought,
(Justine chuckles)
"no need to pay a hundred euros for that."
Okay, we've seen the width of the cool range.
Now let's talk about the depth
that we can put into a color palette.
Here are some examples.
They're all combining white
with cool hues that contain white as well.
Number one, purple, lavender
which is purple plus white and white.
That's extremely harmonious.
It's like the perfect harmony
because it's simply different intensities of one same hue.
Number two, more advanced, bleach denim
plus a white t-shirt plus a light green shirt.
That means two different cool hues
plus whites as your neutral.
Number three, a cool blue pair of jeans.
The jeans could be any cool hue in the range.
Plus a neutral in this case, black
black shoes and a black and white patterned shirt.
Let's not forget that contrast can also be brought in
through prints as well.
Conclusion, if you pick one cool hue
making varying intensity,
adding whites and adding black,
plus white and or black as you're neutral,
you have your color palette already, you're done.
But let's go deeper and add color accents as well.
The lady in purple is doing a great job
because she did not just combine
different intensities of purple.
She also has red lips,
golden hardware on the bag
and orange little dark details on the sneakers.
These three elements are warm hues.
So adding warm color accents to a cool outfit is a great way
of making your overall look stand out.
It doesn't have to be in huge proportions.
It doesn't have to be one of the core pieces
that you're wearing.
You can do it in subtle hints
through the makeup and all the accessories vice versa.
The same is true if you have, have a warm outfit,
you can bring in slight touches of cool hues
to make the whole thing pop.
Another example,
this lady has the same white plus light blue bases
that we already saw, but she's adding a light pink shirts.
Plus a blush colored handbag.
Both are warm hues technically,
and she's wearing bright blue sunglasses.
Blue is cool, but it's a lot more saturated
in intense than her jacket.
So make sure that you include different intensities
or levels of saturation
when you're building your color palette.
It makes the whole thing more interesting.
That's why, I mean,
when I say bringing depth to your color palette,
typical, cool summer hues
are baby blue, ice blue, lavender, aqua green, mint, surge.
And in winter, the typical ones would be navy blue,
blue huay, dark blue, forest green, emerald, dark purple.
Okay, now let's practice what we saw so far.
I'm gonna create a full color palette,
including black and white too,
because most real life wardrobes would.
I'm starting with blue green
of which I take a shade where I added black
and a tint where I added some white.
Then I add white.
I add a blue green plus gray
going into a more neutral direction.
I add blue jeans
in bleach denim.
So that's the closest I have to (chuckles) bleach blue
and black as a neutral.
My accent color from the warm range will a tint of yellow.
Now this is a color palette
where everything looks good next to each other.
It's probably not wide enough for a full wardrobe.
So I'm adding another color on top of my blue green
and that is purple plus a tint of it, which is lavender.
The results is too many color
at the same time for one outfit.
But if you're building a palette for an entire wardrobe
you need more than just one color.
So on top of my blue green, I'm thinking purple.
Well, what do you think?
Would you wear a color palette like this?
Which shoes do you feel most attracted to?
Now I wanna talk to you about purple, purple for a minute,
because the beginning,
remember I said purple is kind of at the limit
between cool and warm on the color wheel on the spectrum.
And you always hear stylists say, purple is a jewel tone.
And jewel tones look good on everyone, is that so?
I personally disagree.
The thing is you can make purple cool by adding blue to it,
and you can make it warm by adding red to it.
If you saw any of these hues individually
you would likely call them purple yet
when you see them next to each other,
they are really different.
Conclusion, I think that purple looks good on everyone.
Yes, but it really depends on which purple
you're talking you about.
Point in case, Kate Winslet and Selena Gomez.
They do not wear the same shade of purple one is cool toned.
And the other one is warm toned.
Purple and also green are really in between cool and warm,
because they are on the limits on each side of the spectrum.
So it's very easy to make them tilt to either warm or cool.
And in theory you could make
any cool hue look at least warmer.
Like you take blue, which is really clearly cool.
It's in the middle of the cool range.
You add red to it.
At some point you'll end up with something
which is unidentified brown tending towards black.
And that's where I think you need to separate color theory
from color practice.
And I think fashion is a practical thing.
Some of these unidentifiable colors
you can't really say anymore, is it even warm-cool?
Is it like a blue originally?
Or is it a red or what is this?
It doesn't look flattering often on human skin tone.
So it doesn't do the job for fashion design.
And if brands were launching
these kind of colors on clothes,
nobody would buy it because it just doesn't flatter anyone.
I guess what I'm trying to say is,
yes you can tweak any color the way you want,
you can typically make a green or purple cool or warm.
But like the rest of the spectrum,
red orange will be warm.
You can add as much blue as you want.
Its like (chuckles) in 99% of the cases
a really warm color will be warm.
And that's something that you can actually work with
when you're building a concrete color palette
for your wardrobe, makes life a lot more simple.
Thumbs up, if you enjoy this video and learn something
thank you very much for your support.
The next episode in this series will be all about neutrals,
whites, blacks, browns, et cetera.
I will give you a range of neutrals that works nicely
for warm undertones and one that works for cool people,
it will all be in the same video.
This way you'll be able to save those ranges
and have them with you the next time
that you go wardrobe shopping.
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The previous episodes of this series about color
are linked here in the little card
and down the video description,
I put you the link to the whole playlist
so that you can catch up with any episode
that you might have missed on the topic.
I will see you soon in a new video and until then take care.
Bye.
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