Best Colors for dark skin | Dark Winter

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0:00 Dark Winter
1:59 Color Characteristics (features)
3:10 Color Characteristics (palette)
4:50 Note on contrast
10:10 Dark Winter Colors
11:53 Dark Winter Examples
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Music by HoobeZa

Music by HoobeZa

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[Robin]

I’m a dark winter so I’m too excited for this video!

[renamuchindu]

Can't wait for the dark winter examples cause I'm trying to figure out whether I'm just a dark autumn in denial. I thought I would be dark winter cause I believe my skin is neutral cool, brown, and my eyes and hair contrast highly with my skin. Both are a very dark brown on close inspection but look black. But I have a mustard top that I think looks good on me. And coppery brown and warm brown look good on me too.

[spidergirl]

I'm looking forward to this video! I've seen it somewhere that Teanna Taylor is a Dark Winter, it'd be cool to see if the next video includes her in the breakdown :)

[ms.x]

Please can we do a special for olive skin? And Kibbe body types?

[sarantoure]

Thanks. I think I am a warm clear spring though 😁

[nataliapinto]

I am more and more confused (or in denial 🙄) I've spent the last few years wearing mainly black during cold seasons (I live in the UK) or white during summer. But now I feel like I need to change things around a bit! So I got my undertones checked by a professional stylist and they said I'm a winter (blue veins, I like silver on me, but gold doesn't look too bad. But I like warm colours better and I thought I was a warm autumn after your videos (my foundation is a warm colour).
Is there any relation between autumn and winter or am I just in denial?

[muta_othernames]

I was waiting for this one! Now that I've ruled it out I'm certain I'm a Clear Winter 🙂

[friedchicken]

Can we please have a video of patterns to wear being dark winter? Because patterns also depend on body type😊

[santanaloveta]

Hi there, is it possible to be both a clear spring and dark autumn? I feel like i am somehow a mixture of both
Thank you again so much for all this knowledge you are blessing us with🥰

[amayaperry]

This is so great! It took forever to figure out that I am a dark winter. Even longer to figure out that I have olive undertones. Love your videos-looking forwards to the next ones. (Also, for celebrities with olive skin-i'm not an expert but I think Lauryn Hill has olive undertones. And then this one is a bit more clear-Rihanna)

[forrestwhittakerseye]

I I’m dark winter. I look good in black and jewel tones

[AtizayFantezi_Art]

Can you do sister seasons for deep autumn or which spring colors work for them aswell?

[claudianzau]

Is it possible to have warm undertone and be a dark winter? I’m confused cause I have warm undertone but my online color analysis keeps giving me dark winter

[louiserasesa]

Hi Micah

I loved this video! Thanks for sharing.

Please touch more on muted/soft dark winters and how or what differentiates from soft summers.

The “mutedness” is what confuses me, TBH.

Does this make them “soft dark winters” or “dark soft summers”.

Which colours from either palette would suit people in these categories.

So ready for the examples! ❤️✨

Ps. Congratulations on 20k!

[rizwanakhtarmomin]

Tarki skin very beautiful I love dark skin.

[l.m.n.]

I'm definitely a winter but the difference between clear and dark winter with black women is so slight, or maybe even non-existent, so I don't know if it makes much of a difference or is easy to type. For instance, I see Lupita most often typed as clear while Viola is often typed as deep. But when you see pics of them together I'm struggling to see a difference and find they both look good in the same colors. So honestly, I just make sure I'm in primarily cool tones and wear what I want in that range. I also wear select warm tones as accents. A totally cool toned outfit can be boring so I like to throw in gold jewelry or even shades of orange that are coral or amber toned. When black people glow we are bronze and copper hued like the sun, not silver, so in this aspect I think we are mostly neutral or always have a warmth. Anyways, I stopped caring about clear vs dark and just go with the outfit.

[kk-owdn]

Hi Micah am from Kenya n am glad to find your channel, to help me figure out what clors work for my dark skin. One thing I still don't understand is dark winter, or summer, or cool winter I get lost please can u explain further about season is it skin or do u mean clothing

[martiniqueblumeninsel]

I was so much looking forward to this as well. I am still in between dark or clear winter. Not very obvious as both work for me and feel great. Dear Micah could you please use women of a medium to lighter skin for your pictures as well? I am mixed and medium to lighter skinned and find it sometimes a bit difficult to adapt myself to darker skin tones. More of Alicia Keys and Zoe Kravitz Type women would be amazing. Thank you so much 💓

[CeCe-osul]

Is deep winter the same as dark winter?. I used the site color wise and I come up as deep winter every time. But when I look up deep winter I can’t find it. All I find is dark winter.

[cyt]

I'm surprised you grouped Liya Kibede here. Her undertones are very green. She seems neutral/olive.