My favorite foundation is the mineral fusion powder foundation, I use the shades olive 1 and olive 2. They match my light skin amazingly and have great coverage.
@@rindar9471 I have found that you have to find nude lipstick with blueish or mauve tones. It's not that easy, but it's doable 😄 For example, Marc Jacobs in Slow burn looks good on me. I also want to try Hourglass in Achiever, it looks like it could be what I need. Also I have found that in summer brownish tones could pass for nudes. Lime crime lipstick in Cindy worked for me.
Every foundation looks either too pink, too yellow or too orange on me. Once I even had to mix green food die in my foundation to make it right lol. All of these are so true!
This is my biggest struggle with makeup!!! I started buying foundation with yellow undertones thinking that would be my match but it wasn't 😭 Why don't makeup companies acknowledge that people with fair skin can have olive undertones too?
I am extremely pale and olive-toned, and I struggle with the foundation. Once I turned all ashy gray in face due to the wrong foundation color. Other times I was yellow, and orange.
Olive skin tones are difficult. I can wear magenta, fuchsia, and rose but I look horrendous in bubble gum or Barbie pink. I just look like I have no business wearing those shades. I can wear the hell out of every red shade from brick to blackberry to blue red. Red is my fave!! I burn like hell at the beach but after peeling, I have a grayish bronze cast.
I believe you by just looking at your picture your red hair looks really great on your skin. I know this because I've had EVERY red hair color and I always got compliments on how it contrasted nicely against me. I have the same problem with pink spectrum. I think of it more of "highlighter" colors I can't pull off but if the tones are rich they look amazing. What I find annoying is getting really pale in the winter and drastically getting tan in the summer.
@@belleprado5469 My natural hair is black brown which somehow manages to make me look even more cool toned olive. I find that the ginger, red, or copper shades warm my complexion up more and cancel out a lot of the green undertones.
I'm still struggling girl. Lol. I'm about to just go to Sephora and let them tell me because I hear they have some sort of undertone detector tool or something like that. Lol.
Same here. I look at myself and see golden, but when I wear gold, orange, yellow, warm tones, I look pale, lifeless 😂😂😂 surprisingly, cool dark tones suit FAR better in my skin.
I'm black but I have a more medium skin tone and I love the Pat McGrath Labs foundation in Medium 18 in the winter and Medium 21 in the summer. I have yellow undertones that are slightly olive or a yellow olive undertone.
Girl I’m JUST NOW figuring it out! I couldn’t stand wearing foundations because they would always be too gray, too red or too orange and it was frustrating 🙄
@@fluffybear1539 same here!!! It's so hard to find a foundation that matches my golden olive skin. That's why I only use concealers in my dark circles and translucent powder on the rest of the face, just to mattify the skin.
This video is so underrated. I am warm-olive undertoned. I first turn red, then get bronzed. I have redness all over my cheeks and nose but rest of my face looks yellow and green. I have ashy, almost black hair but it makes me look really washed out so I dye my hair to a more brownish dark color. I wear golden mostly. But when it comes to outfits, I always go for cool tones. Olive skintone is really tricky.
Agree! REALLY tricky. Same here but I highlight my ashy dark blonde hair with warm colours to balance my warm eyes and skin. I feel it works way better on me than dying it all, and it lasts for longer! ;)
Silver eyeshadow &/or highlighter may look great on olive-cool skin tones but definitely NOT on olive-warm skin tones. As an “olive-warm” I can attest to this. Like all skin tones, there’s a spectrum for olive too (olive-cool, olive-neutral, & olive-warm) so not necessarily a “one size fits all” dynamic.
We have to mix that silver with anything closer to our skintone! Or a complementary color to out skintone. Like the makeup artist who did my eye makeup during college grad ceremony used silver and black, and I had bright pink lipstick. A medium Barbie pink works on me tho, as I am pale. But lighter pinks?!?! U G H
I think I have pale olive skin. I can't tell you how many times I've been told I "look a little green". Because I'm very pale/fair I've always believed I couldn't be olive.
@That Groovy Goth I'm now questioning everything because I've always had such a hard time with colours but I have blue eyes and am pale, so I figured I couldn't be olive. This is opening a whole new world for me! Yellows and oranges make me look sick, but cool tones make me look dead. So tricky.
I’m Eastern European and have very pale olive skin/ green eyes/ashy hair. I don’t think it’s that rare. I’ve always had to buy the neutral foundations and they never look great. If we could get some recommendations for olive foundation that would be awesome !
@@katylee1914 hi! Not a foundation but I’ve been using missha bb cream in shade 21 and even though I’m pale as heck, i almost cried putting it on because it’s like a gray/green and matched perfectly!! I hope that helps
@@katylee1914 I too am eastern european. Very pale green skin, green eyes, ashy brown hair. If I try any other hair color, I look weird. It has to be ashy or greyish. Black and grey clothing makes me look good. I find asian foundations come in pale olive so you might find something there.
This explains why when I had a foundation with yellow undertones, I looked like I straight up had jaundice. Now that I've noticed my olive undertones, I can't look in the mirror in natural light and not see them.
When you said I get that greyish-brown color when I tan.... I felt that 🙃. Also my aha moment came when I realised that rose colored jewellery looks the best on my olive skin. It seems that alot of Mediterranean people have olive skin. 🫒
Saaame! I always pretty much knew that I have an olive undertone to my skin but I was aaalways wondering why the heck my skin would look greyish after being in the sun to the point that I was literally thinking that there`s something wrong with my eyes lol
Oh i have been suspecting i have olive undertones for a while, and this comment helped tbh. I really love rose gold jewelry and didnt know how that played with the tones of the skin because everyone only mentions gold and silver when talking about it. My veins are mainly green with a little blue so i thought i was neutral but I am also from the Mediterranean, look better in dark jewl toned blue and green clothing, feel that i may have a slight yellow cast... so i believe i have to be olive.
Rose gold is everything,from jewellery to eyeshadow and highlighter.I feel this is the thing to wear with an olive skin tone,and although I prefer silver jewellery for style reasons,I tend to favour rose gold in my makeup.
I THINK I HAVE OLIVE SKIN. I NEVER knew but I can never get foundation to match this will help so much. Most makeup looks too "pink" on me even though my veins are blue. Super helpful video
this is not a joke, this video truly is life changing. like now i realize why, when i dyed my hair an orange-brown color, it didn't suit me at all, whereas my black hair seems to match my skin tone perfectly. and why, when i put on eyeshadow, disappointedly, not much of the product shows up bc i'm obviously using the wrong colors. thank you so much for this video! i'm not going to figure out what kind of hair color, eyeshadow, makeup suits my olive skin tone :)
My life changed when I bought blue mixing pigment for my yellow-toned foundation. It turns my foundation a greyish green color and matches my skin color perfectly. I was so stoked because I never have to have orange or yellow-face ever again. (L.A. Girl Blue Mixing Pigment)
This is amazingly helpful, thank you! The a-ha moment was: a) when you wear yellow/rusty colored clothes you look more yellow, and b) you tan greyish brown. 100% my life story.
Life saver. Also most makeup brands who do have olive tone products cater to medium to deep olive skin as. They forgot about fair and light olive gals as well!
Yes! It is almost impossible. But I found a little Swedish brand of makeup with all of these skin tones. I mix foundation myself by adding a bit of green into their olive foundations. Meryl Streep wears this brand. It is called Genheden Professional Makeup. They have a Facebook page. Good luck!
As a young teen I was very much into the scene/pastel goth aesthetic. Once I started wearing pastels I thought there was something wrong - people would come to me and ask if I felt okay, if maybe I was sick. At that time I didn't realise that was because I have olive skintone. Now I avoid pastels and warm colours like a plague.
The pastels have to do with chroma though, not with wether or not we have olive skin. You must have no grey hue and brightness as a distinct feature, same as me, can't do pastels at all either. But my mum is olive too and cool light pastels work great for her. The real commonality for olive folks seems to be only that we don't fit into any category fully. 😂
I found this scouring the depths of RU-vid for skin tone advise! I’m mixed between Puerto Rican and European decent, but everything was either too orange, or too pink/gray. It was always confusing because I look warm, but my veins are blue, purple, and green in some areas. I’m also an awkward “too dark for light foundations, but too light for medium foundations”.
Do you have any foundation shades that fit you okay? I have the same too light for medium to dark for light situation going on. Anything darker looks too orange or too grey or too pink.
@@khtiderem7112 I'm a light-medium warm olive skin tone and one of the best foundation matches I've had is the L'oreal fresh wear foundation in the shade 425 linen. I hope this helps some!
Figuring out that I had olive undertones led to ditching pink and trying brown lipsticks and then all of a sudden I liked lipsticks lol. I laughed so hard when you mentioned nude and pink lippies being impossible. And the warm rules not applying.
Yeah, I also have found that brown lipsticks are easier for me then nude and pink! Although I have some pinks, that look good on me, but they all are a bit mauve or a bit greyish color.
I think olive skin can lean , cool, warm , or neutral. I lean warm , my hair has a lot of red in it , and look best in earthy fall colors. Foundation has been a pain all my life. I am not pink , or yellow , and neutrals sometimes make me look ashy. Green girls unite !
I began checking all the boxes. When you said silver looks best on olive skin, the alarm went off! I'm always looking at cool eyeshadows and silvery colors! Thank you for making sense of my olive world. In my case I tend to get compliments when I wear olive.
@@Sophie_theesthetician i have pretty much your skin (but in different lightings i look super pale) i have dark brown eyes, blue and green veins, and dark brown hair so dark it looks black. do i have olive skin or no?
The moment I figured out something was up is when I tried all the typical “warm” (too orange) the cool (too pink) and the neutral (just off) then I figured out I’m a neutral warm olive. Lol 😂 so much trial and error from high school til now... but yes olive sisters we are United now
Neutral warm olive. That's how I would describe myself. It can be so confusing when you are also quite light skinned, people just assume you are pink toned I thought I was just neutral with a yellow tinge lol But considering my dad has olive skin and so did my grandma..... Duh.
same lol. The last foundation I bought that matched my skin tone very closely like ALMOST PERFECTLY is the Selena Gomez Rare Beauty foundation in the shade "neutural warm" or something like that. I would usually go for a sandy color like warm sand or even a warm beige but it never quite matches my skin. I wore a lot of drug store brands for a few years for a long Time too, but they were always more "pink" on me and I could only wear them in the winter. Summer time I'd always go with a warm or sand color but it would also be too dark on me! Ugh. I didn't even know neutral warm was a thing but I'm glad I found it! Another pro tip - I finally found my contouring shade!! I get the elf foundation square which comes with 4 shades - two light colors and two dark colors and they essentially have a bit of a gray transfer to it. So it is the first and ONLY pallet I use for contouring anymore and its so freaking cheap its worth it. I get mine in the shade light/medium. I am a somewhat fair/medium olive toned female (half Guyanese & Half Ecuadorian) so.. my skin tone is comparable to maybe Eva Mendes if we're talking celebs lol. Also, cool red lipsticks tend to look great on our skin tone! I avoid hot pink and coral colors like the plague. I hope that helps. :D
every golden foundation i've ever been matched with makes me look yellow or orange even though my skin looks "golden", i have blue veins in my forearm and i think silver jewelry looks way better on me than gold. it all makes sense now! thank you!
After this video i really believe my skin is olive .. veins on my wrist look bluish green and I have some yellow tone to my skin that's why I thought I was warm tone and I read that people with warm undertone should go for warm hair colors well I now have like a golden blonde hair and people said I look way more yellow and on the other hand when I have black ( which is a color that wouldn't look good on warm skin) people love it they say It gives me a porcelain look where my skin looks more vibrant and lighter. Thank you for this video this is one of the only ones i could understand better.
@@kumarules118 black on hair is almost never neutral. it's either super dark brown (aka warm) or blue-black (cool) we all have a baseline hair tone and the chemials are not perfect so you actually very rarely can find a true black hair colour you can check out Aly Art's video "would black hair suit you" or something like that, she explains it very well :)
Literally i am so yellow and i kinda look gray. i always thought I have very warm undertones since i look yellow but gold eyeshadow looks really weird on me lol. While searching for my undertone olive undertones never crossed my mind but now I think i might be olive.
Okay, so I'm definitely having an 'aha!' moment here! I have always struggled with figuring out my undertone! I have extremely pale skin with rosy cheeks and I prefer silver jewellery and cool toned clothing so assumed that I was probably cool toned but somehow it never quite fit right! Cool toned foundations always look very pink on my skin and next to them my neck looks yellow. I can see the yellow in my skin but my veins look blue and I spent my whole childhood and teenage years being told that I was so pale that I looked green... I guess that should have been my clue! Thank you for the very helpful video, time to go foundation shopping (again!) ❤
I think it's really important to remember that there are lots of different types of olive:) For instance, I'm a light warm olive and Mary Lou Manizer looks really good on me. At the same time, silver eyeshadow looks absolutely awful because it clashes with my skin so much. Weirdly grey/silver hair looked really good on me. Very warm shades don't work for my hair. One of my best colours are probably coral/salmon (almost all), brown (neutral to warm browns), reds (pretty much all) and greens. It definitely takes some trial and error but there are some fantastic subreddits and blogs/videos to get informed. Just like this one:)
Thank you! I remember at school we talked about skin colour and when I said I thought I was olive, the teacher made fun of me as ‘no one has green skin’. I’ve spent years being confused about warm vs cool as none of the recs seemed to work, so I’ve just ignored that and picked colours which people always tell me I look good in. Finally realising I was actually right back at 15, and it all makes more sense!
I knew I was olive when I FINALLY found a foundation that matched me and the description read *olive undertone*! It made so much sense! I love seeing everyone’s trials and tribulations. Seems like we all went through similar experiences! Can definitely relate to feeling like I’m golden tone but gold looks horrible on me but cool tones make me look grey! I’ve definitely been sticking to blue , mauves and silver jewelry lately :)
Hi there! I realized most of the RU-vidrs I watch have lighter skin tones than me so I started searching for olive skin tones and came across this video! I have literally been on the hunt for my perfect nude lip for months now so when you mentioned that in the video I was like 😮😮😮
it's so impossible finding an olive-toned foundation without it leaning ashy or grey, i just need something muted. literally mixing in a touch of olive loose pigment helps
I'm brunette and both my parents were Italian. I tend to burn a bit before I tan. I've been buying warm toned make up for YEARS thinking it was the right makeup for me because I'm olive skinned but it was never a perfect match and I often wondered why. Lately, I ran out of my make-up but was also noticing that the blush I preferred/wore most often and looked best on me was a cool rose blush instead of another peachy blush I had. I also discovered a silver eye shadow that really made my brown/hazelish eyes pop in a way that I never expected. Anyway, I think I'm a cool olive skinned girl, thanks to your vid. I just purchased the Loreal Infallible makeup in ivory buff which seems to be a good match (it's described as cool pink undertones, medium light). It's a revelation and I can't believe it took me this long to figure out. Having said that, my overtone is warmer which adds more complexity to it all, but at least I think I"m on the right path now. If you could do more vids on this topic it would be great. I'm not tanned at the moment, so I can wear this new foundation, but what happens when I get some sun on my beautiful cool olive skin - how do I handle my foundation? Do I go warmer? Deeper? a little of both? Thank you! So glad I discovered your channel!
Thank you for making this video! I am literally living the nirvana moment of my life!! I always look like ill with yellow base foundations, and pink-based ones looked like a mask. I wish makeup counter ladies watch this too and stop recommending me yellow based makeup💕💕💕
I'm an olive skin tone and I have green eyes. In the UK here it can also be referred to as sallow skin. I must admit I tend to choose neutral foundation colours and look great in red lipstick!! I have never found a pink lipstick that suits me 💄😍💋💖
THIS IS SO HELPFUL. Literally I feel like I can be warm but gold jewelry is SOOOO warm. It’s SO weird. And nude lipsticks are a nightmare. And YES to black hair! I’ve never heard someone describe my natural hair so accurately. Like grey-ish brown. I love to dye my hair black because it looks dynamic but not out of place.
I always thought of myself as very cool and pink because I look like a Snowwhite and I have lot of pink in my face, dont tan only burn red, but I noticed lot of the times without makeup I look a bit sicklishly green specialy on my chest and like you said nude and pink lipstick is just big no for me, my veins go from blue, purple to green so that was making me super confusing, but after watching this and few more videos on olive skin, it actualy makes more sense to me.
Oh my god YES. I have yellow tone skin, but pink cheeks, blue veins. I hate pink clothing or makeup on me, it just doesn’t fit. “Too pink” is the thing. I do tan super easily, I’m Brazilian, but it’s a mix of brown to golden tone. Dark hair is a thing for me. Light colors doesn’t look that good.
Eye makeup colors to me can be a challenge with darker skin that has some olive undertones. Matte brown, tan and beige eyeshadows and eyeliners look terrible on me. Only metallic brown and tan shadows and eyeliners look really nice on me like shimmery dark brown, gold, copper and bronze. Matte black eyeliners are meh OK but not the best on me but that's also because they diminish my small, droopy lidded 'sad looking' eyes. But shimmery black and shimmery gunmetal gray eyeliners and eyeshadows look great on me and shimmery and matte jewel toned shadows and eyeliners look good on me especially the shimmery ones. YSL's original eyeliner pencil comes in some matte dark jewel toned colors and I looked amazing in their emerald green eyeliner pencil. I love that one.
Spent my whole life with people telling me I’m pink and settling for yellow because it was the closest... but after 15 years I finally tried a cool green foundation and it works!! I am so relieved and happy. So tired of my family joking I have jaundice 😆 I was always too scared to try the cool green foundation but in the back of my mind I knew it was likely my color. Lo and behold I’m a cool olive!!! I also have a grey based hair but light cool olive skin tone. Thank you for this video! My eyes change with browns, reds, and yellows in my hair.
The cooler-based red lipsticks and my gravitation toward jewel-toned (especially blue) clothes, my veins somehow being both green AND blue. At nearly 38, it all finally makes sense. Wild. Surface tones vs undertones - this was so informative and helpful. Thank you
I can wear any tone eyeshadow, no blue though, can't find a foundation, have gray toned hair (finding brow products is impossible), can NOT wear warm lipstick or any nude at all, tan so easy, and am pale, but not like other people pale.... mauve is my color all day.
Sounds like our tone is the exact same I look crazy with blue eye shadow no matter how little I use it just looks weird 😐 I also have gray toned hair and for my eyebrows I use light brown or dark blonde even though my hair is dark. Dark brown brow products looks way to dark.
Man, I'm glad I found this video, everytime I try and figure out my undertone I get lost! Someone said my baby had an olive undertone and I thought hmm, maybe I do too...then this video came up. Makes sense for the most part: 1. Eyes are hazel green 2. Hair is dark kind of ashy brown 3. White makes my skin look more yellow. 4. I look great in reds & earthy browns. Purples, blues and greens look ok too. 5. My veins change colour depending on the lighting, sometimes more blue sometimes more green. 6. Some blush colours disappear on my skin.... I love it when things fall into place 😁
I've always wanted an olive undertone like the rest of my family (Italian), but I have a mild form of albinism so I just admire everyone else with it. I admire anyone with a skin tone.
YYYYYYES I have felt all of these things my whole life, nothing that is supposed to look good on warm tones looks good on me! My family always told me I have olive skin, but I never equated olive to green-ass and just thought it was a term for yellow or golden skin. I am 34 and just last year I realized I literally need green color corrector to make almost all foundations match me perfectly. What a game changer. Thanks for this video, we olives are so misunderstood LOL!
I’m mixed White/Navajo and have ALWAYS had such a hard time finding foundation. I always thought i was neutral, and then recently I thought I was warm and peachy. I FINALLY got shade matched at Sephora and turns out I’m an olive! I’m so light that it never occurred to me I could be olive. I always associated olive with deeper skin tones. This video really made a lot of sense for me, thank you for posting!
In winter I am glowing white, in summer I tan. I tan even with spf 50 on. I already know I’m olive but the other day I realised my foundation was a bit too light for my summer skin. So I just put a thin layer of green colour corrector over my dull and red patches. Green works a treat to bright up my skin! 👌😆
Lots of those tipoffs were spot on, for me. I am a fair olive (Jewish), with rosacea redness over the nose and cheeks. Many MUA and SA want to use “cool toned pink” complexion products on me. That looked awful, like I had used blush all over my face! 😲 So, I’d often try to grab something more pale yellow based, to tone down the redness and even things out... but lots of complexion products either didn’t come in light enough yellows or they just looked off.... although I could fix it a bit with cool toned blush or a cool toned bronzer. So far, the only foundation that work well for me, on its own, is Smashbox in 1.05 ... which is a fair olive.
I always thought I was neutral ;-; But when I started to wear warm clothes I looked really yellow and when I wore dark cool clothes I look lighter. I have bronze blonde hair at the moment and I look extremely yellow because of it.. found this video when I was trying to find the right hair color.
I tried armani luminous silk in shade 6 just for kicks and holy crap it matched me perfectly 👌 I mean like perfection and its straight up green when u pump it out, thats what made me realise, my mind is blown
Armani’s Lasting Silk is the only foundation that ever matched my light olive skin perfectly, and I’ve been wearing makeup for decades. I actually cried a little bit when it was discontinued. Haven’t found anything that comes close since.
Oh I didn't know that lasting silk was discontinued, I see them selling it on some sites but maybe thats UK only, could u tell me what shade u used in the lasting silk please? X
@@jiakhan6958 I was shade 6 in Lasting Silk. I tried to switch to Luminous Silk but the formulation doesn’t sit as nicely on my skin and I didn’t find it to be even close to as long wearing.Funny that you mention UK availability; the last time I was able to get my hands on lasting silk it was through Selfridges but that was years ago:
@@urbanpoodle thank u I will check it out 👍I don't know but some people say that fenty hydrating foundation in 290 is a close match colourwise, also I have charlotte tilbury light wonder in shade 6 and its very olive toned if u wanted to check it out, also kosas face oil in 5.5 is olive but u mite not like that formulation x
@@jiakhan6958 Thanks for the info on the Charlotte Tilbury, it's one of the few I haven't tried yet. Right now my go-to is the Beauty Blender Bounce foundation in 240. Horrible packaging but the shade is good on me, no matter how full (using a brush) or lightly (using a sponge) I apply it. Some years ago, I tried Stellar Beauty's Limitless foundation & while I didn't love how it looked on my pores, the shades were very olive-friendly.Same with Koh Gen Do Aqua. There aren't any neutrals until you get to the deep end of the range but the "warm" in 213 was only slightly warm and has some green to it so it might be worth checking out. The finish was really pretty. There's hope for us olives yet!
I am from sweden and my skin tone is very common here. I have pale skin in the winter and i get very tan in the summer. Like VERY tan. I get like five shades darker in the summer. (Not anymore, because i avoid the sun and wear so much sunscreen now, but a few years ago). My haircolor is very cool/grey medium brown, and my eyes are green. All cool foundations look pink/gray and all warm foundations look yellow/orange. I also fit much better with silver than with yellow gold color. I feel like olive skin is actually neutral skintone. This video made so much sense, and now i know what my skintone is! Thank you.
This really is life changing - every foundation I’ve ever tried has looked too pink or orange on me and every lipstick looks too pink/purple. I bought a green concealer to mix in with my foundation and it’s amazing... I can’t believe I’ve been doing my makeup for 10 years and I’ve finally made my foundation actually look like my skin.
Newbie here! I can’t tell u how long I’ve waited for a video exactly like this one!! Before I even clicked to watch, the thumbnail pic on your content page your eye color, hair color and skin tone from what I could tell in the pic looks just like mine!! To say I was excited to watch would be a gross understatement!! Thank u!!!🙏
Everything you say resonates... then you're like, "I'm Greek." AYE!!! yep, Greek olive skin right here. The nude lip struggle and pinks are so weird. I seem to have landed on the perfect resolution for making my base products olive - I use the Auric Glow Lust illuminizer in Pyrite to mix in with my paler foundations and BOOM! Perfect skin tone finally!
This video was perfect. Always wondered why nude lipsticks look terrible on me. Too much warmth in foundations make me look orange, and too many neutral foundations make me look ashy!
I definitely had a haha moment. I have been trying to analize my skin colour and undertone for a few weeks according to the different colours analysis methods out there, mainly the one with the 12 seasons. But I could not figure out if I was warm or cool. At first, I thought I was deep winter, then clear spring, I was resisting analysing myself as an autumn because I hate the colour palette, but one day I just admitted I had to face I was an autumn, but the reality was that these earthy warm colours make me greenish, yellowish and drain me out. I thought I couldn't be winter because I had warm undertone, you know what I mean I have tried everything. Then I watched your video and ticked all the boxes for olive tone. I think on some level or a long time ago I knew I was olive but I was trying to block it out as I would rather not be. Now, I need to continue figuring out what colours suit me best. Could you make a video about what colour to wear for olive skin. Thanks a lot for your video.
Years ago a consultant at Ulta told me I had olive based skin. I thought she was nuts. I had never heard that before. I am very light and pale and thought olive skin as very Mediterranean. I knew certain colors looked best on me but I thought it was because I was cool toned. I just recently learned about olive and have found a great foundation and other things that have changed my whole appearance. It has taken away the shallowness and washed out look. I am so happy for this new information!
I still can't figure myself out. I'm super fair, but very yellow, I can wear rust or wine coloured clothes, or bordeaux red or orange lipstick (but look awful in bright red). Like, half of the olive hints apply to me and the other half just doesn't. Ugh.
Same. I’m pale but sallow (yellow undertones). Orange & yellow clothing look terrible on me. As a kid, I could get very tan easily, but now I’m 30 & reaching for that spf lol. I have no idea what I am?
As someone who is a pale Southern Italian it's awesome to finally figure out my skin tones lol. I think a lot of Mediterranean people fall into the olive skin tone category. The only part i disagree with is the green eyes. Nearly everyone i know with olive skin has brown.
A problem I always had with those color analysis quizzes, is that they always ask whether you burn or tan, and I do both, I burn very easily first and it becomes a nice tan after that. So, what's up with that?
I always wondered why black looked good on me when I appeared to me on the warm side! I also like silver jewelry better than gold, and I noticed that silver and metallic grey eyeshadows look good on me! Thank you so much for this amazingly useful video!
I've largely given up on matching/wearing foundation but have always been curious on what to call my skin tone. I settled on "neutral" because I used to think olive implied you were still very warm somewhere, but just not "golden" or "tan." I too have the vein color weirdness, most nudes and corals look bad or nearly clownish on me, and my cheeks carry a lot of redness despite the rest of my skin tanning easily. When it's not tanned, it's this odd light yellow to pink-toned continuum. Where warm foundations were either too bright or yellow/orange, and cool foundations were too ashy or peachy. The only signs I seem to break is that I much prefer gold on my skintone than silver, even though I can pull off both. I suppose I can also pull off both orange and blue-based red lips, but that might be another personal preference. Will be trying the shimmery eyeshadow trick tomorrow, since I just picked one up 😜
I'm olive, But i tend to look good on ashy nude or purplish pink lipsticks than deep red ones. I think it depends on how much colour saturation of your skin too. Colours are very fun to play with. Anyway, good video. I hope all of you can find your comfortable range soon. It's a bit harder to be green👽😅
Excellent for us olives! This is the best video on olive skin! This is full of olive skin facts for those that are unsure and need to know. These insights are definitely right!
Interesting video! I only realized last year that I was yellow with olive undertones (all of a sudden I could just see the green in my skin which was not apparent before) and it totally changed how I see foundations and why I have always had such a touch time getting matched correctly. Itz not easy finding shades that have a good balance of yellow and olive. On me gold and silver jewelry both look good and I can often rock both warm and cool clothing. I think perhaps skintones are on a spectrum where some may have more olive while others more yellow for example which would impact how these tips from the video will be relevant for people.
Yes, I feel the video focused more on cool tone olives, even though as a warm olive, at least half of the tips applied to me. Warm olives have a better time pulling off gold jewelry & some warm colours.
Great video! My a-ha moments were every single moment honestly. I'm such an olive. My go to tip when I feel tired and my skin looks kinda pale and washed out and my veins and undereye circles pop out more, is to apply a warm pink blush on my naked skin. It makes me look a lot better.
Kalimera gorgeous neighbor! (I'm Turkish hehe) 🙋♀I've recently been on a mission to figure out this "am I olive or neutral?" adventure, and been checking out videos on this topic. Yours made it clear THE MOST for me! thank you so much for this very well informed video 💕 I struggled with the olive concept for the longest time because I'm a very pale color (but will tan in a few hours walking outside) but pale color shades in foundations look a bit more pink on me and if the undertone is too yellow then that also shows (tho seems to fit a bit better, but still not quite there, and unlike many people grayish BB creams seem to disappear on me 😸) you mentioning the eye color details helped tremendously! Also your nails are to die for! 💜
Yes! I thought that I wasn't olive because I have light skin, but I really are! My best colors are blues and purples, and some pinks and greens. When I am tan there are some warmer colors that work on me, so it was very confusing. Could you make a video with a palette of colors which soot olive skin? Thanks!
This makes so much sense. I always felt that the colors that look best on me are black and warm toned greens, and that warm colors wash me out, which is weird cuz i always thought I had golden undertones.
If you ever get bored of red.. dark brown, black and teal lipsticks are also great choices *Also kiko milano smart fusion lipstick in 436(?) Cold brown
@@quintecence oooooooh a teal! I think I could be brave enough to rock that for casual wear! Also defo need to get into the browns! They’re some good recommendations thank you 🙏😝😝
@@VictoriaWilder95 if you have olive/blue undertones, teal lipstick will pop on you. If you can blend blue eyeshadow into your skin without needing a cool toned brown transition shade to make it look cohesive, you can rock a blue lipstick. Grey toned nudes are also great.
I knew it! Another tip off is if you look sallow in the winter or are prone to under eye darkness. True warm and cool toned people don't seem to have this problem.
Yes!! I love this video. I’m supremely pale, but also olive, which took me a long time to understand because typically olive is only discussed as an undertone for medium skin tones. I still struggle with what colours I “should” be wearing though - thanks for lending your advice on the blue based colours!!
Girl, I'm 37 (today is my bday, yay!) and Greek, and haven't figured out YET what skin tone I have! My veins under natural light look some times green, some times bluish green, gold is very close to my skin tone to the point it might not pop out, but silver doesn't pop out either, my face looks white in photos but not white upclose! Its actually more yellowish with red/pink under and some spots might be more grey or green!!! White paper next to my face does not help at all! And lets NOT talk about make up! There's no foundation that actually looks natural on me they will either be too white-pink or too dark-orange/yellow, I have to mix 2 , one light and one dark to get anything that would be close to my natural skin! So, I envy anyone who can determine right away what skin tone they have!
Yes! I look ill in beiges/creams/warm pinks. People have asked if I had the flu because it made my face coloring look so off! Cobalt and emerald have been my favorite go to colors for formal events if I’m not in black. My closet is almost all grey, black, green, blues, cool purples. I’ve learned pretty much all pastel shades clash with my skin tone so if I’m in love with a soft color, I find tiny ways to wear it, purses or clothes with small pastel details. When I wear flattering colors, I feel gorgeous. When I wear unflattering hues, EVERYONE tells me. Thanks world for helping me stick to my best colors I guess...🤣
Your words on olive skin made so much sense to me, and explain many things such as why nude lipsticks look terrible on me, why warm toned makeup makes me look even more yellow and why I just can't wear orange or yellow clothing!!! Thank you
I already knew I had olive skin before watching this, but I was curious what the "clues" were and if I agreed with them lol So if you are reading this comment & you are wondering if you have olive skin...these hints are DEFINITELY legit!!! My "AHA!" moment was when I blending an olive-toned eyeshadow, and it blended right into my skin 😂
Now it all makes sense. I tried on a warm beige sweater the other day and it made my skin look so yellow, it suprised me. I always assumed i am cool because of my blue/teal veins and pale skin (i'm also Deep/Shaded Summer) but i can't pull off very cool colours. Medium ash brown hair + brownish green eyes are also checks out ♥️
