being mistaken as a warm tone
hey! so i am pretty sure i’m cool-leaning neutral olive. anything 75+% cool makes me look sickly cold and anything more than 15% warm makes me look jaundiced. i did the draping for the temperatures myself and also experimented with seasons in clothing over the span of the last two years so i’m convinced i’m cool rather than warm. i don’t use much base makeup but i’ve swatched the famous missha bb in 21 on my hand in the store and it was perfect besides maybe being a little bit more muted than i need it to be. warm shades look yellow, cool ones are too pink and neutrals are too peach. i also believe that my skin is bright and my most flattering season is bright winter.
the issue lies in other people always telling me i’m warm toned. i know that most people out there have no clue olive skin is a thing but even my olive bestie said i look warm olive to her. i went to a local mua as a model the other day and she told me i’m a warm autumn. a few friends of mine that are into beauty were firm believers in me being a soft autumn. or at least a deep autumn. the damn color picker thingie says i’m deep autumn. if you input my skin tone hex code into any LLM it will tell you it’s warm.
is this a universal struggle? maybe all my convincements are false? is this because of my overtone? ig it’s yellow yeah and since my skin looks bright the yellow is bright too? but it’s a cool yellow rather than the warm yellow because of my cool undertones? i know i won’t ever believe i’m warm undertoned but i do realize my overtone is yellow. huzzah. therefore people assume i’m warm toned. and everyone out there and their dogs thinks they immediately need to correct me on the results of my own research that took me sweat and tears to conduct.
this is somewhat a rant post so i’m sorry if i sound too harsh. maybe i am in the wrong but i’m just so tired. i kinda want to give up on the undertone thingie. after all i already know what colours i like to wear and which ones suit me the best. no need to categorise myself right?