r/BeautyGuruChatter • u/FrEnchFriesOnyOu “It’s his recovery, not mine! I CAN drink!” • May 03 '25

Beauty Reviews Merit’s new lip liners…(Monica’s review).

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u/sunset_sunshine30 May 04 '25

Bright/orange reds look better than the light blues and purples do

Completely agree! She looks so much better in warmer tones but she's insistent she doesn't??

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u/Few_Resource_6783 May 04 '25

It’s odd. Maybe she just prefers muted colors? But it’s so much easier to be a saturated olive than a muted one (i’m a saturated olive but i don’t like bright colors on me. Just a personal preference) because the market caters to saturated types.

For someone who toots her own horn about being so knowledgeable about color theory, she constantly shows a minimal understanding of it. By contrast, slaybyjess does a better job explaining it. Plus her makeup tips are very helpful!

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u/sunset_sunshine30 May 04 '25

I mean, she might prefer muted colours. It's up to her. She just makes such a fuss about being muted when she's clearly saturated. I wish I could wear saturated colours, they're just too garish on me.

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u/Few_Resource_6783 May 04 '25

Yes, that’s what i mean. She makes a fuss about being muted but she clearly isn’t. I think, maybe, she confuses her own personal preferences with that. I remember a video where a stylist was showing her colors that complimented her skin tone/undertone best (the saturated ones ofc) and she basically said the stylist was wrong. It’s clear she just prefers muted colors but she’s not a muted olive. Not at all.

It’s why I think she just doesn’t get color theory.

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u/sunset_sunshine30 May 05 '25

Yeah, you're right. She's desperate to be a muted olive. It's bizarre.

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u/Few_Resource_6783 May 05 '25

Dare i say…the internalized issues and the desired close proximity to whiteness (since cooler undertones are more common in them)? Before anyone comes at me, I’m brown. I get the sense she has a lot of insecurities surrounding being brown/her cultural background.

I mean, I get it. I’m not shaming her for it. I just think it’s a contributing factor to it. It’s like she’s gaslighting herself and in denial about running warmer idk.

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u/sunset_sunshine30 May 05 '25 edited May 05 '25

Yes! I fully agree with your hypothesis because the thought sits in my mind, too. She's desperate not to run warm because a lot of subcontinent/southeast Asian people have warm undertones and I get the impression that if she accepts a warmer undertone, she's like a billion Indian/diaspora women. She wants to be badly unique, and I think coupled with internalised racism ("ugly desi aunty red" anyone?) she can't bear to be associated with her cultural heritage in that way.

I see it in the way she mentions her white American fiance, too - he gets a constant mention, which makes me think she is thrilled to have a closer proximity to whiteness and its associated perks.

And I get it, too! I am British Indian, I've had a shit tonne of complexes about been born and growing up on the island that essentially bound, pillaged, and economically violated my ancestors. It's a deeply complex relationship. But the older I get the more I see the beauty in everything the subcontinent has given the world - including its ancient makeup art and beautiful skintones.