The Characteristics of Color - Part 3 of 3

Learn a tip on deciding if a color will work for you. Plus, we're learning about color temperature and what that means for you when wearing it. Understanding color can help you to identify if a color will flatter you and belong in your color palette. No visuals here, but I hope you learn something new!

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Hey, it's Jen Vax with YourColorStyle.com. And this is part. 3 of a 3 part series all about the characteristics of color. Today. We're talking about the temperature of a color, whether it's cool or whether it's warm, or maybe it's a little neutral and this is important because it depends on your undertones which colors are going to be most flattering. So in part one we talked about chroma whether the color is brighter. Soft part 2, we talked about depth whether it's Light or dark. And today, we're talking about. Temperature, whether it's warm or cool. Now, if you can pull find a color that is matches your color type for all three characteristics, then it's a win. It hands down when but you know, that's not always realistic. And when you're shopping and you see a color and it doesn't exactly fit into your color palette, try to match two of those three characteristics. So maybe it's not the right. But it's the right temperature and it's the right depth. You can still make that work pretty well because in that's kind of a good enough, but if you get all three, it's sort of like the Magic Bullet, right? So let's talk about temperature because this is in my opinion, something that's often misunderstood when you're looking at a color wheel and we'll look, we'll talk about your color style color wheels because that's the one that I know and on the left side of that color. Wheel are the cool colors and they range from at the bottom greens all the way through to magenta, Pink's. So very it on in between those blue and purple, right? Go up and going up to magenta pink. And on the warm side of the color wheel, we have warm Pink's, Two Reds to Orange two yellows and going to kind of green yellows. Those like limey greens and spring greens. Okay, before you bridge over into the cool. Out of the color wheel. Now, I will tell you that in color Mastery right now, which is the new course that just launched. We are actually looking at a different color wheel, something that shifts the shifts, the green over to the bottom still of the color wheel. But moreover, under the warm side of the color wheel. Now, there's no right or wrong here. It's not like suddenly Your Greens I'm going to work on you. It's just a different way of looking at color and the lens of pigment and color analysis. So if that interests you, I'm calling it. Reinventing the color wheel. I really didn't reinvent the color wheel, but I am Reinventing the color wheel that we have been using a little bit to make it much more interesting. In my opinion when it comes to understanding color and color combinations as well as helping you understand how it color is. Actually created, especially through printing because it's the same kind of process that's used for colors for clothing. And really understanding that because it makes all the difference when you're trying to figure out if a color is going to suit you and how to make it work. So, that's all over in the color Mastery Program. As I said before, in my other videos, I'll leave a link somewhere where this video is located so you can check it out, but I just wanted to bring that up because it's It just it, I always get a little kind of dorky and Kiki about color and I love talking about that particular color. We looks a little bit different. So the green depending on which one we're talking about, could be warm or cool, but does it really matter? Because it's kind of a universal color. So let's talk about that too. And the in the realm of warm and cool. So let me just finish. First. We have the warm colors and we have the cool colors. Now, if you have cool undertones, then you will likely be able to wear all of the Dollars on the cool side of the color wheel, and if you have warm undertones, you will likely be able to wear all of the colors on the warm side of the color wheel. That doesn't mean that you can't wear cool colors. When you have warm undertones, and it doesn't mean that you can't wear warm colors because you have cool undertones. That's a misunderstanding. I hear all the time. I hear someone with warm undertones. Say, well, I can wear blue really well, so I must have cool undertones. No, that's not true. There are Universal. Colors all around the spectrum of the color wheel regardless of which one we're talking about that everyone can wear regardless of your undertones. And so they are true red and that one's tough because you can get a red and when you put index or other red, you see that it's got a little blue added to it and it's cooling down or if it has a little yellow added to it and it's warming up. It's more of a tomato red. So you got to be really careful with that. Use your color fan if you can. To get the true red match otherwise to warm over red won't look so good on some with cool undertones and to cool. The red will look a little off on someone with warm undertones. So you want true? Red true. Yellow. Same dissertation here. If you want true yellow and again, use your color fan. If you have it to find true yellow. Otherwise, it'll lean a little bit, too green or a little bit too warm and either way it can look a little off depending on what on your undertones because you You have cool yellows, a warm meal. As we go deep into car mass. And in the color master program about that, orange surprising can be considered a universal color especially for someone that's bright and cool, can't exactly explain it. But it does work really well. So it works well for people who have warm undertones, and people who have cool undertones, mostly people who are cool in deep. Cool and light, I don't know. Not so much and you gotta be careful the right Hue of orange. So we're just talking in very general terms here. Like Peach is not going to work. We're talking about a certain type of orange that's in the color palettes. And on the other side of the color wheel on the cool side, we've got green, which is a perfect blend of blue and yellow. Green looks good on everyone. Most people, there's an exception. I'll talk about that. They owned blue is universal. Purple can also be considered universal. But be careful again. You don't want to blue, the purple that's not going to work. Well, on some with warm undertones, but I think even read purple's will work on on cool undertones. So, just going to make sure the balance of the blue and red there in that purple. The reason I had said that greed us green looks going to everyone but then I had a but there at the end and exception and that is if you have olive skin tone, which has tends to have a little bit of green in your skin. Green's may not feel so great on you because you're enhancing the green and that would be the exception to the rule is, you know, if you have if you feel like you have olive skin tone and green just doesn't work, go with the red, go with the complement, the color, it's opposite, the color wheel depending on your undertones, any of those pink magenta, pink stew. Reds are going to look amazing because it's going to balance out and neutralize that green. So just a little extra tip there. So I hope you enjoyed that and this wraps up all Parts of this series on the characteristics of color. I hope you've enjoyed it. I highly recommend that if you love learning about color like this to join us over in color Mastery. It's not too late to join us and I will leave a link for that. And otherwise, thank you so much for watching.