hi everyone it's Justine i want to talk to you about color when you see me here the first thing
you notice is color before you're able to tell what i'm wearing or which material that might be
color is essential in the first impression that you make on people not just what the color
suggests but also does that color suit you this video is the first of a new series on this channel
all about color i will teach you when demonstrate how to recognize a color and
say whether it's warm or cool so whether it will suit you or not how to build a color palette for
your wardrobe that suits and flatters your skin undertone what to do with black white and gray
how to wear and combine the so-called neutrals in your closet and a lot more if you're interested
in this topic subscribe to my channel because there is lots of useful knowledge coming your
way for today's video i want to show you and teach you to recognize whether a color is warm or cool
not just the six basic ones with several tricks first off when you choose a garment a color
it's recommended to match that color to your skin undertone so the rule is if you are cool
toned you should wear cool colors and if you are warm toned you should wear warm colors
if you do not know right now whether you're cool or warm or maybe neutral there is a video on my
channel linked here and also down below in the description to help you find out very quickly what
you are the problem is when you're in a store and you pick up a garment it's not always easy to say
this is warm or this is cool and the exact color that the garment has you'll try it on and you
might be wondering does that look flattering what kind of color is that exactly the good news is
recognizing cool from warm colors it's just a matter of training and we're doing this right
now let's start with the basic color wheel blue yellow and red are the three primary colors which
i prefer to call hues then if you mix red plus blue you get purple blue plus yellow makes green
yellow plus red makes orange purple green and orange are the three complementary colors now from
here to here we have the warm hues yellow orange red and from there to there the cool hues purple
blue green if you take orange it's in the middle of the warm range right it's red mixed with yellow
both are warm colors so orange is very clearly warm but let's take purple that one's trickier
because purple is kind of in between warm and cool it's a mix of blue which is cool
and red which is warm if i add a bit of red to my purple my hue turns into red purple if i take
the same purple and add some blue it really turns blueish you can see how the red purple
contains more red and the blue purple contains more blue so red purple is warmer than blue purple
but all this is purple so if you ask me is purple a warm or a cool color my answer
will probably be it depends if the purple that you're looking at containing more red
then it contains blue or the other way around that's the actual question by the way you hear
celebrity stylists red carpet stylists say jewel tones work for everyone that depends too i would
say purple pure purple really fifty percent red fifty percent blue really in the middle
is a jewel tone you could call it neutral because it's in between warm and cold however
the actress you're dressing for that red carpet gala probably is more cool or warm so instead
of not making any decision and going for the middle ground work with undertones
that's what i would say at least and go really towards one or the other so that the skin of the
person will glow and stand out a lot more in the dress same thing for green it's in
between yellow which is warm and blue which is cool so they are warm greens and cool greens
so is the green that you're looking at closer to yellow or closer to blue okay so
far we have the three primary colors the three secondary colors these are the basic six apart
from purple and green which are kind of on the edge the other four can be clearly categorized
into either warm or cool most of the time the problem is when you start mixing hues
not in equal proportions to each other or when you start mixing more than two together then it gets
more complicated to say which color you're actually looking at and therefore whether it's
warm or cool they're also more than six colors in real life right so typically this set has 314
i'm going to be using this one in a minute and designers also use bigger ranges than that so
this is the pantone color guide for fashion so for fabrics this is the one that i use
in my job it has many many more options let's take this dark brown as an example is this warm or cool
if it's cool then it should contain more blue if it's warm then it should have more red in it
that's why i'm putting a red and a blue next to it seeing the three like this you can tell
that the brown is closer to the red than to the blue so this brown belongs in the warm spectrum
brown could be either cool or warm but this one is warm conclusion when you put your hue in between
a red and a blue of similar intensities i would say it always makes it a lot easier to see whether
your hue goes towards warm or towards cool it's a very easy trick if you don't know where to start
and it works most of the time another example this is a blue green so in theory it's a cool hue
which which it is blue and green are hard to differentiate for the human eye
and also culturally they are languages where blue and green are the same word
for instance in vietnamese correct me if i'm wrong i think you say the same word and then you have to
specify is that the blue of the sky or the blue of tree leaves what happens if you add white to
that hue you get a sort of aqua green color and if you add black to the hue progressively like
this it becomes a sort of dark blue with a touch of green these five cards have the exact same hue
that's why i call them hue and not colors these are five different colors but it's one hue and
therefore the same temperature they're all cool the only difference is that in one direction
i'm adding white and in the other one i'm adding black conclusion adding white or black to a hue
does not change its temperature also if you combine these three or these three in an outfit
you will have a perfect harmony it's really easy to look at it's the same family it's easy on the
eye you could also pair these with white all the darker ones with black also very easy if you're
looking for color palettes that look harmonious this is absolutely the way to go you will hear
people tell you things like oh you look so well put together and your outfit looks so cohesive
no matter what you're wearing it's only about the colors but i'll go into more details about
building a color palette for your wardrobe in the next episodes of this series what about kakich
there are many different khakis this is khaki
these two this one too if you saw any of these individually you'd probably all call them kaki
because they all contain some yellow they all feel warm they all are technically warm yet i can still
group them and organize them in a way as to see which ones are warmer than the others i have three
that are more yellow the others contain more green aka some blue in it so they're cooler if your
undertone is very warm these three khakis that are more yellow will look even more flattering on you
than the others it gets more obvious if i overlap the cards in one single row this side is more
yellow and that side is more green aka cooler conclusion even within the warm spectrum or the
cool one you can still play with temperature if you're very warm toned you can go for hues colors
that are very warm and you will have an even better effect on how much you glow in your outfit
i want to show you another example with purple see these two sets they're both
purple everything here is purple however this row contains more red can you tell
the darker ones are not so easy to recognize and the light ones are also not so easy but somewhere
in the middle you will see the difference between this and this card conclusion were you looking at
hues that all seem similar at first sight look at the mid tones and it's easier to recognize
the temperature that's it for today thumbs up if you enjoyed this little demo thank you so much in
the next episodes i will show you how to create color palettes for warm versus cool undertones
if you're interested subscribe to my channel before you go watch the next video
in the meantime this one also linked down below is a video about what the
colors you wear say about you the message that you're sending to other people's eyes
so you can start thinking about which colors you enjoy wearing and would like to include in your
color palette in your wardrobe any question you have on this video or on a specific color that
you've seen somewhere let me know in the comments and i will see you in the next one take care bye