What Colors to Wear for Olive Skin Tone! 

Thank you for this video! I'm definitely olive, and can see the greenish/greyish/yellowishness in my skin. Yellows, pastels, and icy colors makes me look like DEATH, but I get so many compliments when I wear slightly cool muted (earthy) greens, and even a cool jewel-like eucalyptus green makes me glow, but absolutely NO yellow greens. Bright orange and bright both fushia look ridiculous on me, but wine colors, burnt sienna/rust, mauve/deep rosy pink, and deep teal also look lovely. I also find that charcoal and deep brown look fantastic on me, as do bronze and copper. Black eyeliner looks weirdly separate from me, but dark brown eyeliner just brings this beautiful warmth and natural look to my face. Rose gold looks lovely (being South Asian, all the traditional gold pieces are yellow gold, which looks fine in moderation). I haven't really explored purples very much, so I would want to try that (magenta isn't great on me and hot purple is horrific on me, but maybe some muted purples might look good).

I have olive skin. If I wear green I resemble the undead and if I wear brown people ask why I have been crying! I feel great in purples, blues and wine colours, with red if I want to stand out.

Olive skin is an undertone. You can literally have any skin color. From the lightest to darkest skin. This makes it confusing when brands only make things for olive skin when it's a tan colour.

I agree so much with the wine color and also magenta. These are the best for olive skin. Red, black and vibrant blue also works good. Also I agree that we can pull off beige but with more makeup. But I think muted green, khaki works good for me, if I’m not mistaken.

I have an olive skin tone, but I don't tan at all because my skin shade is light. There are also people like us.

I am light neutral/olive, and I burn before I even tan. My skin color is very tricky because people think I am warm, yellow tone, but they confuse my undertone because my skin is light (not fair). If I put a yellow foundation on, it looks too yellow. If I put peach or neutral, it looks too orange, and so on...

I personally look best at wine colors like you said that is when my skin looks neutral and harmonious

omg this is the best breakdown. Everyone else acts like there's only blonde, brown, black with shades of all that. I still wish someone would do a video specifying the eccentric colors like Pink, Fuscia, Blue, Teal, purple, dark red, etc and which ones best match warm or cool skin tones.

Thank you so much for this helpful video!! I’m olive toned and recently had my colors analyzed by a professional. She typed me as a warm autumn. So lots of rusts, mustards, lime greens, yellows, vibrant oranges etc. I feel so orange/sallow when I try to wear those. I get most compliments when I’m in wine, blues like navy, and dark pine greens, royal purples etc. Your info made a lot of sense for me!

I have naturally tanned olive skin. I rock black&white combination, wine colours and light blues. Actually having dark hair around my face helps me wear anything, so I grow it

Thank you! This explains why finding the perfect makeup foundation is like finding the perfect pair of denim jeans!!! It's so frustrating. Now, it all makes sense, and the confusion falls by the wayside 😂

This is so interesting Susan! I remember saying to my mum that I am fair skinned and she said No, you're green like me! I love Olive green so I made a stunning dress in Olive green that fitted perfectly but I could never put my finger on why it didn't really suit me, now I know! Red looks good on me and jewel tones of burgundy and violet, thanks so much! X

It’s interesting how the “rules” are a little different depending on whether you’re a darker olive or a light olive. I’m very pale skinned - I’ve probably got the lightest skin of anyone I personally know - but I’m olive skinned. It took me until I was almost 30 to discover that. No wonder so few foundations match me. Anyway, I don’t wear any jewel tones or vibrant colours at all. I find I look best in muted warm and neutral colours such as rust, navy, burgundy, dusty rose, and even mustard and olive green. (Interestingly I never EVER wear purple be it dark, vibrant, or pastel.) But I think as long as the colour isn’t close to your face you can pull off trickier colours. Such as with skirts/trousers, or even sweaters with a cream/white collar poking through to separate the colour from the skin on your neck.

Thanks for this video! I always have extreme difficulty with my foundation, its either way too orange or looks rose pink!! I usually combine a few different ones. Also difficult to find good eyeshadows and clothes. Medium brown colors look orange. Most "nude" colors make me look washed out. I've found the best colors for me are army green, deep maroons, dark red (not bright, looks too orange), dark turquoise, the classic black and white. Brownish-purple lipstick looks most natural on me. I'm glad others can relate!!

Hello fellow olive beauties 💚 The one very important aspect of knowing what colors look good on you is knowing your chroma level. Try researching videos that help you figure out whether your soft or bright. I have a medium very golden olive complexion and I also have green eyes...👽LOL!! It is far more important for me to get my chroma levels correct (in my case, about med/soft)than whether a color is warm or cool. But, also knowing what depth of color is huge ! ( med/deep for me). I'm over 60 years old. So, I've had many years of experience with being green. 😉 Bottom line, not all olive skin tones are the same. Personally, I lean slightly warm. The warm colors of the soft/deepish spectrum actually help to warm up my complexion. I can also look nice in softer/deepish plum tones. But, if I go too bright/light warm/cool its terrible! If you have a very golden olive skin like mine, many of the cool colors will grey out your skin. My Best advice is to compare colors in good lighting and use your eyes to determine what looks best.

This is the most useful video I’ve ever seen on color theory! Very helpful! In fact we have similar skin tone and you helped me to understand why I was always struggling with my palette! Thanks a lot!

Recently found out I’m olive and it makes so much sense I’ve always naturally gravitated towards jewel tones. I agreed with a lot of the points in this video but I think mustard/deeper yellows can look quite nice as long as you wear some extra makeup like with the browns.

Can you please make a video about your favorite makeup products for your olive skin? Thankfully I found your video, because I have the exact same skin tone as you!

Finally! I used that app you suggested and I got the same readings as you did. I have only recently realized I'm a pale skinned olive tone and have struggled for years trying to fit into a "season". We thought spring when I was blonde (pulling a lot of red!), and then autumn when my hair darkened. I went to one of those seasonal analysis people years ago and they told me summer! I was still post pregnancy hormonal and I figured the hormones skewed the results. Everyone says I look good in black but that is not a spring, autumn, or summer season color. Understanding olive and realizing why I have struggled makes sense. The woman who did my analysis also customized my foundation. I looked like I wore a grey mask and the eye shadow and the blush disappeared on me. The colors I look best in are pink and purple eye shadows, and bright pink blusher. People are always amazed when they see it in the compact and swear I'll look like a clown. It's a color POC often wear and I have ancestors that were POC and so I assumed that somehow it influenced my ability to wear those colors. All this time I have been olive. Go figure. Life just got so much easier knowing there's another "box" out there for me to fit into. :)

Forest green is one of my fav colors for my Greek skin tone!

i have olive skin and blue eyes so blue looks perfect on me. lately i discovered that cool greens also look great on me as well as cool muted brown and beige

The olive skin is tricky. I felt like green or yellow in most times, and in another video on youtube i also find that there could be warm, neutral, or cool olive. I understand over the years I never can wear any shades of light red/soft pink/fuchsia/shocking pink on my lips, as a blusher or clothes, but I can nail darker shades of them (in your words, the wine colors) and my skin will looks bright and lively. I thought looking fresh is always about wearing colors that are related to youthful colors but it's about finding the colors that suits us best! My best colors are blue in any shade, but I can't do a teal. My skin will be so sallow. Purple and some green works fine with me, but I can't do a moss/olive/sage, I'd look pale... Through your video I know now I can't wear colors that has too much yellow in it.

I watched Audrey Coyne's video on olive skin and then used Color Grab app to get the red, green, and blue values in my skin coloring. I was able to figure out using the numbers from the app, I am 40% red, 31% green, and 29% blue. When red and green mix, it makes yellow. Blue is stronger than yellow, so using Ms. Coyne's demonstration in her video and my app, I figured out I was olive skintone. So, pastels look awful on me. Orange looks terrible if it is tangerine or light color. Light lavender looks horrible on me. But, any deep dark color, I can pretty much pull off. Deep burgundy, charcoal, deep teal, navy, deep red, deep dark pinks, deep purple, deep dark greens, etc. All my coloring has to have enough black to give contrast. Medium and light colors look 'meh' or I look grey/ashy. Dark hair, dark eyes, olive skin, and dark colors make me look my best.

Thank you so much for this video! For years and years I have had issues with my skin undertone, I felt I always looked sick and no fake tan could cover the natural undertone as it works with your natural undertone. I have struggles with foundations being to yellow or pink, even orange. When researching into my skin tone I found I am neither warm or cool, my veins are both green and blue, my skin has a green/yellow tinge to it. I am so glad for this video because now I understand what my undertone is, what colours to wear etc. I am also predominantly red and green so I came to a lot of similar issues. I looked sick when certain blonde tones that had too much yellow, certain brown tones, it was truly frustrating 😂😂 now I know. Thank you so much!! 💖🤗

I love how in-depth this video goes. I have no idea what I am to this day because I am so pale. I suspect either olive or neutral, and either of these leans EXTREMELY cool. (In color seasons I am a Summer). I do know that I have to stay almost completely on the cool side of the color wheel, and browns/beiges only work if they are really washed-out or cool toned. Anything with too much gray also turns me gray, however. The rest of my immediately family has golden undertones or medium-depth olive tones, and when I stand next to them I look pastel pink. LOL. I feel like my entire fashion style depends on what my hair color is (natural ashy cool blond-brown). I wonder if this is a neutral or olive thing, bc if my hair is medium ash brown, it's completely different than dark ash blond as to what colors and styles work. I love the color theory stuff (independent of skin analysis), so thank you for sharing the wheel and the app!

I have an olive undertone but I am dark skinned and this was very helpful and I now understand what colors to look for in the futures, THX!

I'm olive toned, I wear lots of red and black. I really struggled with colours so this has been very helpful thank you x

Middle or east europeans for example often have green/olive skin tone too, however it's often lighter. I don't think the olive skintone is connected to how light or dark one's skin is.

I am very fair olive and think I sometimes look pink and green. This is so helpful because I never felt cool or warm specifically. I just knew I looked best in very deep color and anything yellow looked terrible. I am also red/green primary when tested on the app. One thing is that a dark olive green also seems to look good. I just don't have a best color.

Very helpful. Thank you. I have light/medium rosey olive skin. Now I understand why gold and mustards look terrible on me.

This was extremely helpful! I always thought I should avoid magenta’s and wine colors! had no clue. Thank you!

Best olive skin video so far👍👍

So... I'm Australian with super WHITE skin but green undertones. My DNA test said I'm 90 percent British. Like if you are a white green person!

Olive is a skin tone not necessarily a undertone as per my research. I think this gets very confusing because all over the internet people are saying it’s a undertone. People with olive skin like myself, have a greenish/grey hue to our actual skin color. You can have warm undertone/yellow, cool undertones/ red,pink, blue, or neutral undertone/mix of both. If your neutral you will always lean more cool or warm. I have a neutral undertone that leans cool delicate, not warm but not too cool, and my skin is light olive not pale. You can actually see green in peoples skin on their neck and chest area if they in fact, have an olive complexion. I could be wrong but I’m open to any feedback anyone has.

Thank you for this informative video! Can’t wait to check out your others! I have been trying to figure out my “season” since the 80’s! I wish I had known way back then what I do now. I never considered that I had olive skin until a relative that took home design in college commented on it. I just can’t see myself objectively enough to evaluate my self. Then I still was like that can’t be right, I am pretty light skinned without a tan. But I do tan pretty easily. Most of my ancestors are from UK and Ireland. But I have come to the conclusion that she was right. So now I am on a whole new learning journey.😊 (Recently found out I do have some Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, and Ashkenazi Jewish DNA, so maybe that’s where the olive skin comes from ??)

I have olive skin and I wear all sorts of colours but I love the colour blue so wear a lot of navy, and pale blue. I haven't found which colour suits my skin tone yet but there are certain colours that look better on me than others. Eg I avoid pastel colours, mid tone colours, bright colours. I'm just not drawn to them.

When you said jewel tones i was like Oh YES that’s what works !

Thankyou so much for this video and information I definitely have olive skin and red suits me a lot, my face looks a lot pinker and youthful it’s so strange! but I’ve always been scared to wear colour. Light purples, blues and silvery tone eyeshadow also really suits me

Thank you! I'm light-to-medium in skin depth, but most definitely olive. I look very, very gray in some pictures! Most "berry" colors (mulberry, blueberry, raspberry, blackberry, cranberry) are fabulous on me, except, perhaps, for "strawberry" red. Other colors I find flattering are eggplant, plum, dark magenta, shaded fuchsia...as you explained, the blue-reds. My worst colors are pumpkin orange, mustard yellow, acid green, milk chocolate brown, toasted caramel, tomato red, toasted peach, burnt apricot, deep camel. If I were to compare "real olives" against my skin, Kalamata, Amfissa, Gaeta, Mission, and Alphonso olives would compliment my coloring, while Manzanilla, Gordal, Picholine, and Cerignolia would make me look sick and sallow. I truly enjoyed your video, I'll be searching for more of your posts!

THANK YOU!!! ❤️

Thank you for this video! This helped me pick out the correct shade of blush for my maternity photoshoot.

I love the mustard olive or fall colors but they don’t love me. I love wearing the dark reds. Some one mentioned you can wear those mustard tones if you wear a scarf that is more complimentary to your skin. I’ve yet to try that. Thank you lovely lady.

Thank you so much, Susan!

In seasonal personal color types(bright, true , deep summer/fall/winter/spring), where does the olive skin tone stand?

i really like being olive even if it means i don't look great in my favorite color haha. something abt being slightly green makes me feel really special haha haha i cannot do red either for hair, but i can do hot pink. i think that suits me more than warmer red. green of any tone/shade in the "neutral" green to cooler green hue suits me well too. i find darkest brown works the best for my hair, which is my natural color. and as i tan and my hair naturally lightens in summer, that works too. truly i just wear whatever but i enjoy knowing what makes me look best for special occasions and eventually, my wedding.

I think blue colors / bluish turquoise and purples and peaches and black and white are the best colors for all with greenish skin undertone/ regardless of wether you are warm or cold olive whoch is predominantly green skin (yellow+blue). And regardless of the lightness of the skin- it works for pale and tan olive skin.

I'm not entirely sure but I think I'm olive because I agree with most the information on this video. However, I feel my color palet changes as I my skin gets darker in summer. I think I look good with bright yellow when I'm tanned, but sooo bad in winter Pastels and beiges are also a no-go

Regarding the part where you said if we're pale olive we might get away with pastels: Speaking only for myself; I'm a very pale olive (leaning warm, very yellow-green looking) and I can't do ANY pastels at ALL, especially not cool ones. I miiiiight get away with a peach pastel if it's not the dominant color, but otherwise? I look like my liver went out at birth against those. I also look terrible in grayscale or cool white. Jewel tones are it for me.

I really feel like olive is the "*sometimes, depends" undertone. What colors look good? Browns*, wine colors*, greens*, and gold* *Sometimes, depends. How do you tan? Well and temporarily** **Sometimes, depends. Can you pull off pastels? Usually not*** ***Sometimes, depends.

Wow such a useful and informative ideo. Thank you!!

the part about wearing what you want is so important, i’ve been into learning about undertones out of curiosity and i feel the same way when i see people saying oh if you have these undertones you can never wear these colours and it really rubs me the wrong way, it should be a suggestion not a demand

You can absolutely have an olive skin tone on lighter, fairer skin (Fitzpatrick Types 1 and 2s). We definitely do exist!

This was the most helpful video on this topic I have ever seen! Thank you so much! I have been confused with the classic categories that are putting me in! I feel like I am neither of them. I am a medium olive skin, I get tanned very easily, do not burn. I always felt/feel death when I wear classic muted beige! I look awful in coral lipstick or bright red. I definitely feel more drawn to jewel tones of earth colours. I feel more alive in bright versions of the colours rather than muted (except peach/rosy pink). I absolutely love wine red! Even though I think I am neutral, somehow I do not look good if the red is very cool! I feel that our skin is very tricky and thank you so much for giving the most helpful information!

I'm a medium dark olive skin tone that looks reat on ñight shades and silver jewelry, when I wear gold it just makes my skin looks sweaty and dirty. It is so confusing I cannot use vry bright colors like neons but cool pastels look good on me. I don't get Tan I just get darker, I don't look gold I look grey. Some wine, red shades don't look good on me it makes me look very yellow but fucsia colors make mw look great specially on my lips

I have a light-medium olive skintone. And I figured out early. No yellows, oranges, orangey reds, white, light or medium greens. I mainly stick to vibrant jewel tones. And since I have let my hair go silver, I have integrated pale blues, soft grays and muted pinks. When my hair was a warm brown, I could get away with beige and browns, but not with my silver hair.

Purple is amazing for my WHITE olive skin!!! And I have recognised we are best with silver jewellery. We are leaning cool tone contrary to popular belief. Watch Audrey Coynes video.

For the longest time i cannot figure out if im warm or cool tone but now i finally realise im olive toned. Im light skinned and I always gravitate with olive green, mustard yellow, rusty/burnt sienna, old rose, dark grey, navy and black. I need to try red/wine colour in the future. Thanks for this most informative video.

Hey😊 so i have very tan olive skin with brown hair and amber/Green/hazel eyes and i found that harsh vibrant colours and pastLs dont suit me and only colours like brown and dark green and dark red and cream beige suit me so yeah. What colours should i wear because other colours dont suit me but my whole closet is full of them

It is so frustrating finding a foundation colour. And I have pigmentation now as well. After I had my son. It has become worse. Being over 40 I do not want to wear a thick foundation. But when I in a hurry, as a budy, now single Mum, I do not have time for pin point concealer. Another frustrating thing, is dark under eye circles. Heavy concealers crease. In your profession what brands and colours of foundation and concealers do you find suit and over 40 busy Mum, who does not want to look like she is wearing a mask, but as most people with olive skin know can appear ill or tired. Thank you so much for your chanhel ❤

I have so much trouble finding a good foundation for my medium olive tone skin. I usually match the depth and mix some green concealer into the bottle and it has been the best way. I gave up on finding a perfect match for my skin. Always have to customize.

As warm olive tone i gravitate towards wine colors, be it red or pinkish before i even knew about olive tones. I used both a warmer and another time a cooler wine red over my dark brown hair and it looked really good. Same with lipstick. Good intuition or perhaps because I'm an artist hahah i still don't have the right foundation. It's looks alright but it makes my face look warmer and brighter foundation looks pinkish. This and my asymetrical hooded eyes have been a fun challenge heh

My veins are green, blue and purple, my eyes are amber, my skin gets sunburnt easily and then starts to peel. I don't think that gold complements my skin at all and if I wear any hue of yellow I look like I need blood transfusion, so no idea what undertone that is.

I think it’s okay to break the rules every once in a while, but it’s nice to test what looks best, just to know when to pull off the best one! Also really surprised that olives stay away from greens because technically green can make something redder, like a gray square inside a green square looks redder as opposed to inside a purple square or orange square.

Im still not sure if i have an actual olive undertone but i look green and yellow and i find that i look the best wearing pastel clothes and specially light blue and yellow it just makes my slightly tanned skin pop!!!

Fabulous video! I think I must be a warm olive because I can pull off lovely mustard yellows but look absolutely horrendous in anything pastel. Pinks, butter yellows, light greens ugh! Talk about a walking corpse. I always joke I have a ketchup and mustard palette with my clothes because everything is either a goldenrod yellow or a wine red! I also love deep blues on my skin and I tend to wear a lot of blacks and greys. Thank you so much for sharing!

Fantastic, than you! ❤

This is the only analysis that made sense to me. I am a warm/light/muted olive and i really dont like wearing yellow or greens. I find orange and browns more harmonious for me, but It makes sense that the cooler colors provide a bit more balance (as i love wearing warm shades of blue and pink)...i notice the only time a color makes me look "off" if its too pigmanted...this is contrary to other color analysis that forget that most colors have cool or warm versions of them.

Great video! I'm just a lighter version of you, and this has helped tremendously.

I am a fan of red lipstick and I have to say that blue reds are the best.

I feel very dull in white. Silver suits me best. Gold color darken my skin. Tan easily. Still unable to find the veins color test. So perhaps I am olive? What say guys. Most of the time i feel like I look grey 🙃

We can also apply this tips with makeup! I'm a medium olive, I usually look grayish when I'm more pale but get a golden olive look when I'm tanned. I've tried green and yellow eyeshadow in different shades but they always look so off, my best eyeshadow shades are purples, mauves, coppers, berries and wines. The same applies with clothes, green looks boring on me but yellow green makes me look so dead lol definitely the jewels tones are my best compliments.

im light/medium olive and look good in navy, army green, and wine red (sometimes burnt yellow/orange)

Tint = color + white Tone = color + grey Shade = color + black

Darn, I just missed this. I just started looking into olive complexion thing. I used to think I I had olive complexion but then thought oh but I am warm too. And I remember the whole color analysis thing. But I was always says to be a cool winter which never made sense to me because do.e orange, creme and taupe or cappuccino really looked good on me. And doing the wrist thing checking the veins didn't makes because I definitely am a warm but I had green, blue and one or two purple veins which didn't coincide with what they call a warm.🤷

I feel like I’m definitely olive. Most makeup looks grayish on me! I have almost no pink at all, even when I exercise. I joke that I look like I’ve been dead a week.

I think I might have olive skin. Cool foundation looks PINK and icy on me. Neutral foundation looks either orangy or pink on me, depends of how dark or light it is. Warm 01 from Dior skin glow, is The foundation I feel most matches my neck and chest. My eyes are blue, and my natural hair color is a ashy, medium blonde, with some warmth when sun shines on it, but it’s very ashy, with a little green hue to it actually. I’m very pale! But can tan in The summer. My skin is very oily😅 So maybe I have olive skin?

I think I have medium to dark olive skin and looking in my closet, I have a lot of soft pinks and soft blues in my wardrobe.

You have a lot of the color challenges I have. I wear some maroon and plum, but it tends to accent my dark eye circles. I have to brighten it by wearing white with it or larger gold jewelry. No gray except charcoal with jewelry. Some of my favorites are cinnamon, coral and coppery tones. Most shades of teal work. Rich blues. Deep roses. Ecru. Deep caramel.

Thank you for the color picker app !!!!! Mine is the same as yours. Red with green and smaller amount of blue. Most of my body as greenish veins, but I do have some blue and purple veins. I am neutral/warm. My one Grandpa was a Mediterranean mix of ethnicities. Southern Italian, Sicilian, north African, Spanish, Jewish, middle East etc .... p.s. I have always known I am olive green. My grandpa's family always told me I was ❤.

What a wonderful video! I'm a light olive and can get away with wearing pastel greens and yellows especially pistachio and sage. I haven't tried pastel orange but I'm curious because I look horrible in true orange and I'm a bit traumatised to experiment with it from past experiences, lol. Maybe a pastel peachy orange could work for me. I've noticed the milkier the colour is, the better for me. EDIT: Oh, I also got professionally colour matched 2 years ago as a Soft Summer but I easily wear a decent range of Soft Autumn's light colours, too, I've noticed. :)

Thank you so much for this!!! Even as a pedigreed painter, I’ve never been able to figure what ‘Season’ I was or any of that sort of thing. Trial and error over the years helped me to navigate to the cooler tones with bluer reds, after spending some years swimming in the peachy corals and red or bluish browns, but never yellow or olive browns. Forever doubting my conclusions, disappointed with all the mistakes. I wore gold jewelry as a youngster, but now wear only silver. Quite likely, much of this is based on age and age based changes, as my ‘devil’s food cake’ brown hair is now less vibrant, though still dark and streaked with silvery gray. I could tell the moment I saw you, -this is the first of your videos which I have watched and I will be watching more 👍🏼 -that your skin color was very similar to mine, so I listened in rapped attention and will likely watch again.The one thing that was different was at the end, when you mentioned wearing white. I feel a true white is very harsh on me and needs an ever so slight modification. Probably leaning toward a tan, not cream - too yellow. Any chance you could help with that? I think of a muslin dress I wore as a teen and the color seemed so perfect. But when I think of muslin now, I imagine something a bit more yellow than ideal. Perhaps I need to take a trip to Sherwin Williams.

6:26 'kind of grayish' heheh well well that is what color I am :) yes, my veins pretty much green with some purple and I do tan easily and never burn like my pink-skinned cold undertoned mom. also I can be revived by a somewhat-pinkish-with-some-glow foundation only. and big YEAH to my absolute fav - the burgundy metallic eyeliner! God forbid I ever put on me something corral or yellow. but only with your video I realized I could also try some wine shades in my clothes ;)

What if I look good both in silver and gold? What colors are good for me?

I’m medium olive skin and I do tan well. I have black hair. I really don’t like browns at all. Khaki looks very flat on me. Pink, dusty rose or terracotta lipstick colors fits me best although red looks ok on me too. Clothing: jewel colors, teal, navy blue, royal blue, black and I actually do like olive green too. I feel like olive green against my black hair looks great and it’s kinda like a neutral color on me, hard to explain I guess. I just REALLY stay away from browns, yellows, creams and even white. Bronze and Brown eyeliner looks amazing on me. Black eyeliner can work but it seems to be fighting with my complexion rather than complimenting it.

Light Medium Olive skin here. (My skin tans a lot in summer, but is very ash/gray like the rest of the year) I'm very close to neutral but I lean a bit towards warm, even my hair is ash dark brown. Deep Autumn is the season closer to what I am, but it doesnt work 100% I dress mainly in: Black / Medium-Dark Orange / Mauve & Dark-Warm Pinks / Dark Red

Jewelry and other accessories are important in making you pop as well. Silver metal only for me!

i know this video is about makeup but if you have any knowledge about hair colors too please help me! my skin color is similar to beyonces but my undertone is olive, what color of blonde would suit me best? thanks :)

So u can have olive skin but a different under tone? The makeup lady said I'm olively yellow... My veins are green and blue... My natural lips are a cool pink but I see red in my body skin... But I'm also very light colored (for now, as I work nights, when I go outside I can come back looking completely different. I always wore black... I think I'll just have to stick to it because I just feel like a mess at this point

I'm a light-medium olive with naturally blond hair and hazel blue eyes. I look and feel good in mid to dark range colors, especially navy, cobalt, teal (both light and dark), wine, brick red and violet. I look like something's wrong with me if I wear brown that isn't chocolate or taupe, almost all yellows and most oranges. Mauve (the pink, purple & gray tone) looks horrendous on me. Now if I have a tan (which doesn't really happen now that I'm older), I can pull off more yellows, oranges and pastels and not looked washed out. Green either has to be a forest green or darker or I can wear olive that has some grey in it, but forget about anything with too much yellow. I figured out my makeup a long time ago, but every once in a while I forget and try a nude pink lipstick that will almost always look lighter and orange on my lips. Yet, if I wear a color that doesn't have some brown in it, it's too stark compared to the more natural look I go for. My best 'neutral' eyeshadows are olive/khaki green and navy blue (basically has some grey to it). My blush that looks almost beige with a bit of red in it turns very brick on my face. I pretty much gave up on lipstick because I'm so picky about how it feels on my lips and getting the right tone to match my skin. Mostly just wear lip balm.

Welll this is confusing 😂 I look perfect in yellowish green and some wierd shades of purple (like lavender). But blue based green: death. And I am olive for sure. You can see the green glow lol

'Tertiary' kind of rhymes with Hershey chocolates. HER SHE AIRY except it starts with a T of course so TerShe-Airy or TUR SHUR EE is also ok 👌

I'm a light olive. For whatever reason jewel tones just don't look good on me. I took a photo once wearing a cobalt blue satin blouse and was shocked how green I looked, even with foundation on. My best colors (in my opinion) appear to be muted colors off the primary color grid: Ivory, champagne (I wore a champagne wedding dress), burgundy, terracota, goldenrod, muted forest or nature-y green, navy blue, VERY muted sky blue without even a hint of brightness in it, lilac, aubergine, and warm non-neon pinks such as guava and coral. Anything bright or saturated (eg. kelly green) usually looks horrible on me, with the exception of orange (preferably on the redder side of orange)

I am olive but pale and everyone thinks I am sick 😅. White looks good on me though.

I'm honestly so lost with colour lol, all i know is that I am very olive! Whenever I wear an olive green colour top my skin looks hella green as well, which i kinda like really, but as far as other colours go I have no clue what to wear! I'm definitely yellowish in the skin too, but then i also feel I look really good in navy and blue tones, so it all just feels random to me! The only colour i know that always looks terrible on me is any form of yellow, especially mustard, even though I have a warm undertone...

I have a golden medium-tan skintone with olive undertone and soft black-brown hair, and dark mahogany brown eyes. I can only do muted to deep colors including mustard but not clear colors like solid black or royal blue / purple or gem tones. When I wear black my features get overpowered. Greys, muted blacks, dark neutrals are what I like on myself. I almost never wear white or black.

Love that red dress! I’m olive with golden brown hair, black, white, wine, hot pink, lilac and blues look best on me. Nice vid , thx

I really found this helpful. Thank you so much! Just a suggestion - for your background in your videos, you might think about using colours that are better for your skin tone (maybe a jewel tone?). You are blending into the browns behind you.

I am olive but i turn red in sunlight or after exercising, also i am not an oily skin person, wanna know your thoughts?

As a light olive, I must say this is the most helpful video on olive skin colors! Thank you so much. It makes so much sense and the visual examples make it very clear. I knew not to lean too much to the warm or cool shades, but you explained so well why yellow/green/peach/beige shades don't work either.

i'm olive skin too. I believe jewel tone colors look best on me. royal blue, royal purple, deep wine colors, reds, pure white, definitely black, maybe deeper gray colors, I definitely stay away from yellows and greens I probably would not wear. pastel colors would be to light for me, but if it were a deeper pink, maybe like a magenta I may be able to wear that. Any color that was muted like the browns especially tan would not look good at all on me. I also like navy too. I was 25 when I first got my makeup done at macys by the makeuo brand Lancome. they evaluated my skin and told me that I was a neutral. i did not fit entirely in the warm category or the cool category. Apparently I was a combination of both, which I could not understand because I thought one had to be either warm toned or cool toned, but not both. Since then the categories that are available where a person can fit in has increased since I was 25.