I think she's using a different system for summer and winter than the other season system people are used to where summer is muted and winter is bright.

I thought that of the cool seasons, summer was more muted than winter because winters can wear stronger, more vibrant versions of the cool colours.  A lot of this video made good sense though.  Too often they consider eye and hair colour when it's the complexion that matters.  Sadly, even hair dressers and cosmetitcians can't be trusted to know this very well.  It's no wonder people are confused.

For me, the problem is I never get to tell when something "looks better on me", even though I can with others. I think Im neutral just because some people around insists I'm warm, and I "feel more comfortable" with cool colors. For some people like me it's is really tough to understand..

I'm trying to understand your point, but I don't.

The way I see it, yes it's basically impossible for someone to be smack dead in the middle and thus neutral. However, at the same time, it's also nearly impossible for someone to fall smack dead in the warm or cool either.  My theory has always been that it's about what your skin tone falls closer to. In retrospect, to the middle (neutral side) my skin leans slightly in the warm side, but overall, my skin tone is closer to the middle than the warm. If my skin tone was a ph (and the ph of 1 is warm. 7 is neutral and 14 is cool) I would fall into about a 6. That's why I personally consider myself neutral with a touch of warmth.

Interesting video.  This topic gets tricky for people because many times, a person's skin tone doesn't lean very obviously warm or cool.  As you approach a neutral skin tone, it gets more difficult to determine whether you learn warm or cool because these differences are so subtle.

People also expect certain colors to look incredible on them and certain colors to look terrible, when many people can pull off a lot of colors.  It's just a matter of which ones look the best, but that doesn't mean the ones that aren't your best  automatically make you look dead.

I learned that the neutral undertone isn't a specific color, but a mixture of both cool and warm undertones.

A Winter is bright and cool. Summer is cool and muted.
Kathy B.
That is how I always learned it.

I'm extremely interested in this whole topic. What makes the most sense to me is the ColorBreeze system. By that system, Angelina is a toasted soft summer (a deeper summer with a hint of warmth, but primarily cool, which means she'd look best in darker, muted and primarily cool colors) and I'm a sunlit soft summer (which is primarily cool with a bit of warmth, light and muted). There are muted types in each season. And usually it's hard to see which undertone those muted types have because it's not too obvious. That's also why muted colors (which are often called neutral) look better on them. I used to ditch the whole color typing thing for a long time because I look awful in typical summer colors, spring colors wash me out, autumn colors make me look sick and winter colors are simply just overpowering on me. Muted summer colors in the lighter spectrum look great on me. By your theory I would be a winter, right? My haircolor is medium ash blonde, skin (overtone) is yellowy but with a distinct blue undertone which, in certain lighting, makes it appear green, my eyecolor is grey-blue with yellow specs which can make it look like a mint green depending on lighting and what I wear. I prefer picking up the colors of my natural coloring and wearing variations of them. That's the easiest way for me to shop for my complexion. I look awful in true blue and true orange. I look washed out in true red and true green. I look awkward in yellow or turquoise (gives me an ugly "color-beard" if you know what I mean). Blues are a struggle (I know which ones suit me, but I can barely find them in store), soft pinks are easy, soft greens as well, purple shades work but not all of them. Some colors work only when I wear makeup others work amazingly without makeup (such as the soft pinks and greens). I don't want to say your theory is wrong because the colors you picked for those two examples where absolutely fine, it just doesn't suit my perception of the 4 seasons. You would probably also find the right colors for most other people. So actually it doesn't really matter as long as the result is alright. To me there's no such thing as going by "you're bright so you are this season - you're muted so you are that season" and also no such thing as a neutral undertone. Maybe when you pick a foundation color, but not when it's about deciding what season you are. There's light muted, light bright, dark muted and dark bright. It's all about contrast, clarity and depth. And this is so damn interesting, I could talk about it all day long xD

It's really hard to compare dresses, unless you take out other contributing factors. The cameo green dress is much darker than the "blush" one (honestly it looks even like a pastel icy pink on my screen, not muted either). Plus, some people are going for harmony, others for contrast...
I'm just more confused than ever and have decided to try wearing stuff all day (instead of briefly holding them up against my face). I'll probably know instinctively if the color is working or not.
It seems that there are no rules for olive tones and you have to assess each color individually. And I feel that eye and lip color DO play a role as well, which is why I look good in a muted petrol blue or a cooler dusty rose even though I am generally more warm...

I tried draping yellow and blue and I honestly can't tell what looks better. The blue made my skin look more olive, and the yellow made it more peachy. I prefer the color blue over yellow, so I'm biased to think it looks better even if that might not be true... The blue definitely made my eyes and hair pop more though! I have black hair and really dark eyes.

This is helpful but it seems like in real life a 3% difference leaning cooler or warmer or even a 40/60 split would still make you appear more or less neutral and allow you a greater range of cooler/warmer you can pull off, perhaps leaning a bit more one way or the other. I tend to find that muted blues, pinks, greens and yellows, especially muted pastels, look good on me but also bright yellows and blues as well as pure black and white so I really don't know what that makes me!

Undertones aren't just about finding the colors that work for you; they're also about finding foundation tones that work. Foundation companies use the term 'neutral' for skin tones that are not close to either the warm or cool end of the spectrum. It helps create a more inclusive set of available colors. I was never able to find a foundation that worked until I explored neutrals. It's a way to describe the skin, and it works, as skin undertones are varied and need further analysis than just "cool" or "warm".

I believe the girl below. If neutral green and red can exist so can neutral skin colour. I've seen people with neutral skin aswell. And yes I understand how colour works I'm an artist and a makeup artist.

I have very fair olive skin so blue and yellow both look awful on me 🤣 I really struggle with finding my colours because I think I sit in autumn but I cannot wear anything with too much yellow or blue because it brings out the green/grey in my skin. I'm baffled!!

Both bright blue and bright yellow looks good on me.  Muted blue isn't as good.  But Muted pinks, purple and dark red tones does. Both warm and cool.   I have a neutral foundation.  Slightly warm make me look like a lemon and Slightly cool make me gray. I have been diagnosed as al 4 seasons by different experts.   So I don't know

Love lots of your videos. As someone with blue/yellow eyes and both cool pink and  warm yellow undertones as well as  purple blue and green veins ... (constantly fluctuating between cool and warm based on the season aka how much sun I have seen) ... if I don't call myself neutral ... what do I call myself? :)

I so like your approach to colour theory. This makes so much sense to me especially as I am coming from a background of painting and photography. I would have said that there is a theoretical possibility for a neutral undertone but the probability is infinitesimally small :-) I really don't need the seasonal reference, it is way easier with just sticking to warm and cool. Great job!

the hair and eye colour tests are super inaccurate considering it only works on caucasians. coloured people all have dark hair and eyes but there definitely are undertone differences..

This makes the most sense of any system I have seen for practical application in matching colors to skintones. I can tell you're actually thinking it through for logical consistency rather than taking someone else's word as gospel. A lot of people are super attached to whatever "rules" they read first, but I always felt the various ways of looking at color types I've seen on blogs and youtube have gaps or contradictions that this system does away with. Yes, primary red is a "warm" color in art, but it's clearly a neutral in terms of the skin color blue-yellow spectrum and what colors actually look good on existing skintones. Very good video

Thank you. I always thought I had warm undertones...but then I just found out I look neutral - and than I an olive. Although I look neutral, my overtone is yellow and undertones are cool - so they mix and overall I look neutral. So I agree that undertone itself isn't neutral.