Luxury Makeup for Light Olive Skin 

I forgot the Chanel blush stick existed! I was recommended that after a MUA gave me a Chanel makeover and gave me a shade that would work both as a bronzer AND blush and I remember loving how practical it was.

LONG POST :D Hi! This is really interesting! :) I think we almost have the exact same skin colour - I am also a 4 in Armani's foundation, it also goes on light but evens out! Just want to mention something because while I agree with the fact that light olives are very neutral (finally someone said it!), I actually never understood the thing for peachy tones. I pretty much look like you, jet black hair, dark brown eyes, very light olive skin, etc, and I would look very tired if I didn't wear a lot of blush. I personally think light olive skin tones are more naturally 'washed out' if we don't add colour, and the hard part is finding the most harmonious colour to add. I've figured out, over 8 years of research into colour analysis and making so many mistakes, that a) there are tiny nuanced differences between all olive shades of skin and everyone is different, so the colour season thing is hard for us to fit into; I am somewhere in the middle of deep winter, bright winter and deep autumn, but not perfectly. And b) that the colours that look the most harmonious on me are ones naturally found in my body, and these don't fit neatly into colour theories. For example, a lipstick that mimics the colour of my blood looks amazing, which is a neutral deep blood red that doesn't lean too cool or warm. Tom Ford's Velvet Cherry is pretty as well, I love that shade. It says it's a "reddish-brown with warm undertones", but if you're olive, colours can pull differently on you than on other people. So while Ruby Woo looks blue-red on some people, it looks very neutral-warm on me. But if I wear warm-red nail polish, my skin looks like a corpse hahaha, so I have to wear super blue-based red nail polishes (almost purple) for it to look good.. which contradicts everything else haha. So after being frustrated for years, I just gave up on colour systems and tested things, and it seems there are warm, neutral and cool tones all over my body. Anyway, to my point on blush, it would be really interesting for you to try a cream blush that is neutral-red because I've found, and I think it would suit you too, that blush is the most important part of my make up routine. The only one I have found that is neutral and 'natural' enough to mimic a natural flush on me is the Ere Perez Carrot Colour Pot in 'deep crimson red' - I have now used it for 6 years straight!! I wouldn't trust the online images of the blush, because they look weirdly warm, but the blush colour in real life is neutral-cool that pulls warmer against my skin, which then just looks like it matches. The next trick is layering blush - so I use the Ere Perez first, then dab on my lipstick shade over it in a sheer layer so that the top of the cheeks are more flushed and the background red fades out neatly. I also tested out an Etsy store that sells 'natural' blush made from a traditional Victorian make up recipe that probably looked the best I've ever seen on me, but unfortunately it's liquid and slightly impractical to use because it is made in small batches and stains heavily. The key takeaway was that lots of make up risks looking artificial against olive skin because they lack the nuance that olive skin has; they are more flat colours without complexity which can work if people are super clearly warm or cool. Anyway, I just wanted to put this out there if anyone else who is our skin tone is struggling - so many recommendations for light olives are completely off and the opposite of what would work, and I wasted so much time trying to fit into one of these systems. Here's a good test: if you are finding that as a pale olive, you look tired or washed out, try adding cream blush in a natural looking colour, like brick red or deep purpley-red in a sheer layer on your cheeks, tip of nose and chin and lips, and compare that to the more washed out looks like peach, biege or nude and see which one makes you look more you. Or more 'fresh', or healthier, or harmonious. Hope this helps!! :) Here's the make-up I use that has stood the test of time for me: 1. Armani to-go cushion in 4 (only for colour, didn't like the finish) 2. Gucci cushion in 4 (literally perfect skin finish and shade) 3. Typology tinted serum in the lightest shade (gorgeous formula but doesn't last all day) 4. Base blush colour of Ere Perez cream blush in Happy (deep crimson red), and then a top layer of Typology lip oil in Red to add glow on the cheeks, or whatever lipstick colour I am wearing that day, very sheer layer - this makes the whole face match and look harmonious 5. No eyeshadow, use the natural darkness of lids to contrast - I find eyeshadow can really drag me down as a pale olive! I only use sparkly sheer eyeshadow for events but nothing else 6. Tom Ford Velvet Cherry lipstick is probably my favourite, but I have tried so many red lipsticks, like Mac Russian Red, MAC Ruby Woo, Chanel Coco Flash in 70 Attitude, Tom Ford Night Porter, Charlotte Tilbury So Marilyn, Charlotte Tilbury Red Carpet Red, heaps of Korean soft matte liquid lipsticks in deep reds, etc. 7. I might sometimes do a very small cat eye in jet black liner, and curl my lashes with some mascara, but that's usually it. I like Kevyn Aucoin's Volume Mascara, or any other fibre-based mascara, because they don't smudge as much. P.s., I don't use concealer because I also find it looks unnatural against my complexion and it's hard to find a perfect colour match. I think this is the case for most women in my family, we are all olive and none of us look that good with heavy concealers, if any. The foundation is enough to look smooth but not too unnatural because humans naturally have slight darkness there. I just make sure to sleep well, get enough iron from red meat, drink water, not drink alcohol or coffee, avoid sugar/carbs, etc etc. I find this makes the biggest difference to the colour under my eyes!! And to prevent breakouts, of course.

Agree Estee Lauder blush is in a class of it's own. I use the berry one, as my olive skin, is a bit darker.

For light/fair olive skin; It's so true that the best blushes are the ones that almost look like bronzers.

Cool but the problem is that for light olive skin there is only luxury foundation.... so either spend 50 dollars but i just mix and match.

If you don't mind, what do you wear on your lips in this video?

this is so helpful!!! can i ask, do you know your color season? I have never found someone with skin so similar to my own and i’m lost with trying to figure it out lol.