Which Female Celebrity Do You Look Like? It costs almost $40 and its full coverage. I have been wearing Armani designer lift foundation (I have dry skin, oily nose and chin) in shade 5 (its a tad light for me) especially in the summer, but Ive been mixing with Este Lauder perfectionist in cashew to warm it up slightly and it seems to be perfect, I am going to try the shade up in designer lift but I dont think the undertone looks as close of match. Blessings. Ive heard people call them olive but theyre the exact opposite red/orange undertones. I just went looking for green concealer thinking that could be my solution and then I came across this thread. Greek people features stereotypically include having olive-brown skin, brown eyes and dark brown hair. My hair is a cool/neutral light brown and my eyes are grey-blue but my skin tends to be on the warmer side of olive, and so its difficult for me to find foundations/concealers. Dark brows.Blue/grey eyes and completely bananas veins when it comes to determine its colors. Not too dark like the Mediterranean type olive colour, but a light Slav tone. Ha! As for bronzer, the L'Oral Paris Infallible 24H Fresh Wear Soft Matte Bronzer in Tan has subtle yellow and olive undertones that will flatter your complexion beautifully. I think a good option is if you buy a foundation adjuster and mix it into your foundation to adjust it. On the other hand, there is a very specific shade of orange that makes my skin look glowing while other shades of orange dont look as good. It looks more extreme yet against my dark brown hair and dark brown eyes. skin tone. Myself, my father and mother were all born in London. Worth the try! Maybe a rich royal with a touch of black added? I need to find the right foundation Suggestions would be appreciated. Yes! Fake tan cancels out some of the green tones, but the rest of the year is a struggle to look healthy. My foundation journey has been so difficult. I too am pale olive. Help! Im Croatian and fair olive in winter and light olive in summer and I so relate to your struggle! From japanese, to subsaharian africans, to germanics, magyars and whatever people that had set foot on the mediterranean sea on a given moment. Neutral shades are too pink, and yellow colors just dont look right. Read on to find a bevy of hair colors that pair beautifully with brown eyes. But for so long I felt like Im just weird cause my type just didnt exist in any makeup advice. Naturally Im a dirty blonde, but dye my hair copper, which looks great with my blue/grey eyes. Follain.com is a great clean beauty company offering many different clean brands and products! I actually find it quite impossible to find a foundation with my skintone depth (somewhere between nc10 and nw13) and a cool, yellow-greenish undertone. I recently tried 1W1 Bone in Este Lauder Double Wear, which is a pale yellow tone, and was just going to settle with it being slightly off. I have no idea how to work with this I really struggle with foundation and concealer too, anyone here with similar colouring, have you found products and colours that work? I'm SUPER pale since I wear sunscreen every day, but I have olive undertones, medium brown hair, and dark brown eyes. But not exactly neutral. Tried it again recently and I didnt see the greenness, it just looked like a match. Mindy Kaling, Lupita Nyong'o, Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis, Sherrie Silver, and Lucy Liu. Have learned that bright cool colours are best on me clothes-wise and gold is not my friend. Dior are including an olive undertone in all new foundations. I have struggled to find any foundation that works, and I am not a makeup guru so I cant remember the brand. I cant thank you enough for this article. of course of lot of that is rooted in colorism and other concerning cultural issues but in the meantime the makeup companies still do it and they do it pretty damn well! My eyes are a grayish teal. We should all write in to makeup brands and ask them to make olive ranges lol. Greece, Spain, Italy, Turkey and portions of France have olive skin. Thank you for confirming that we arent crazy. Hi. This dark forest green will off set your brown eyes beautifully and the color is adorable on short natural black curls! Im a make-up lover, and have tried a LOT of lipsticks in my life. It also doesnt cover up my redness very well. I look silly with a tan because my grey-blue eyes look ill placed with it. play with Ocicat #1 mixing with some Angora #2 (or #1), This article you wrote just speaks to my soul. And under my eyes, but you cant expect me to not be wearing concealer there ;). I hope this helps someone! Olivia Wilde's bright eye color is complemented by a striking coffee brown, and a chin-length bob gives her a more edgy . Im currently looking at a bright meadow greenIm desperately trying to think its okay (as it makes my amber brown eyes look more dark brown :) but.my husband says it makes my face look sallow and ill Wow love that post! NYX Sweet Cheeks in So Taupe (will probably work for up to medium skin tone I am very light but not pale, and this is a little dark for me unless I blend the heck out of it). I can finally find flattering colours for me now that I have escaped from my former fixation error that those of us mistakenly labelled as warm colouring should wear warm tones of clothes and makeup (or that those of us who are light/pale olive should wear bright colours) your discovery of us green folk deserves a Peace prize! Bronze eyebrow pencil by Wet and Wild (I use it for eyeliner) I have green eyes. Im naturally a golden strawberry blonde French-Gaelic girl with pale olive skin. I use the LA Girl green concealer. Hi again :) You are my skin twin. Erin Heatherton . I also like her aesthetic. We cant try on in store due to Covid-19 right nowI found that my NYX green light to medium color correcting CC cream works better at matching and getting rid of redness than everything I tried from Ulta. Try NARS sheer glow in Gobi. Im not cool, warm or neutral. Hi Ashley, I am very pale (NC10-NC15) and have an olive undertone. 1) Ive gone to more than one color analyst and have been identified with both warm and cool undertones. Toward the end of summer my husband and I laugh bc I start to look sickly, almost like my skin cant absorb any more and I look jaundice. The one good thing about having red undertones is that you could possibly mix in some liquid blush of the right shade to your foundation (test in small batches). Back to my natural now). their not orange, but more of s baked brick color. MUFE in 117/Marble (they might call it something else now- they recently changed the shade names.) Foundations with pink undertones make me look like im wearing a mask. For gods sake I am pale with dark hair and dark eyes and warm undertone who doesnt tan!!! Though his family lived in Greece for at least 2-3 centuries we were In Spain before that and there is evidence to suggest that we originated in Syria or somewhere around there. Cant seem to find any to match my pale olive skin! Also, those Asian chicks often have our skin tone too. UD cg30 is a beautiful foundation, dont get me wrong, but my 37-year-old skin needs something more luminous and hydrating. Thanks for the article! NYX matte lipstick in Siren (I was going to embrace my outer goth with this deep deep red, but to my suprice it looks super sofisticated on olive skin!) Fuchsia is AMAZING My ethnic background is Irish/Scottish/English with a smattering of German, but I read that light olive skin is common in German and Scandinavian countries and those Vikings did get around the British Isles! My mom mentioned in passing that we tend to get darker as we get older in our family. A little goes a long way!! . Most colours suit me, but I sometimes look washed out in some pastels. Needless to say, I stocked up! Generally, golden highlights, warm reds and browns look good on such skins. Good thing I look ok in silver. I have only recently figured out that I am a pale olive skin tone, after having struggled with nothing matching quite right for my whole 35 years. just a though, as they tend to have the olive-ish undertones and less pink tones. At 24 years of age.Funnily enough, Im able to colour match other people quickly and well. I think maybe Im just real bad at colours?? Depending on stores, some thought I was cool toned because of some redness in my face and on my hands, others very determined I was on the warm side because of the obvious yellowish (actually more green-ish in daylight) tone on my skin. We exist. Will definitely try darker hues or the same as my natural color only other shades. Any ideas for a light? I found my home I have struggled my entire adult live with my pale olive skin. is too cool. ) In the summer its ok because I tan, but in winter I look like that android out of star trek, if anyone remembers that?! I know hazel is more of a uniform mixture of green and brown. Hope this helps. Also boots no7 calico. Berries and coolish, dusty roses look the best and really brighten my skin. Some days Ill use NYX Bare With Me tinted skin veil in Vanilla Nude as a base layer, and I loved Bourjois Healthy Mix in Vanilla when I did wear foundation :), Hi, if youre looking for a foundation you should look at Fenty Beauty. Sometimes Im lucky enough to find some pale yellow-toned product that could do the trick and conceal my red-brown acne scars (I dont know whether I have a yellow-pale-olive skin or a neutral-pale-olive skin, I can see both of green and yellow pigments in my complexion). I hope it works for everyone else though!! I have a very pale complexion, but am able to build up a tan quite easily I have dark brown, ash-toned hair and hazel eyes. Something. This complicates even more my foundation choices, hahaha, Hi Lola. i think we have the same hair-, eye- and skincolour! Just like every one here I am Irish, and a little Italian, and I had honey blonde hair growing up which faded into a sort of calico hair with steaks of reds browns and blonds. I can relate to every one commenting here. What I can advise you to do is look on reddit, there is a sub called OliveMua and it is basically a forum for everyone with olive undertones, regardless of the depth of your skintone or of the warm- or coolness. It often leaves an almost grey cast. In summer I can pull of Garnier bb-creme in claire/light. Finally!!! As for metals, I also wear them all well, albeit silver is probably the least flattering. Winter is easier, but when I get darker in summer, despite my best efforts to stay light, then really nothing looks good! I started getting curious when I discovered cool toned foundation always made me look sick, and while warm livens up my face, its still a bit yellow. They categorized it as warm olive when in fact olive is a cool tone. Ive been in Russia, and the Baltics and its not common in slavic people. Its funny, my green undertones are most obvious to me when I compare my hand to my Italian/Asian husbands hand. The only ones who seem to have green undertones like me are eastern europeans and pale skinned chinese. And often mix it down with a slightly neutral cc cream that it slightly pearlescent. I always wore fair-light skinned colors and stayed toward the cool side because lets face it, it makes sense. I cant find a rose gold that looks right. 12. 3. But, it wont last forever & then I start my mad search of trying to mix & match foundations again!!!! Without the use of light olive skin makeup, this skin tone may look yellow or sallow. Ive basically given up on finding a foundation that matches, and I cant do a bright red lipstick or anything orange or bright pink. These shades are beautiful, elegant, and will complement your skin's undertones. Cant find right shade in Nars Radiant foundation. So glad I have found this site. Next thing they do, they think oh maybe she is cool they then swatch a cooler tone which goes pink on me. Almost an eggplant tone. Do you think Im olive too, or something else? There are a lot of comments but I might as well share my experience! Anyway, I scanned the comments and I didnt find anyone with this coloring. I stay away from makeup entirely because finding good colors is just too hard! I compared it to your picture above and I was a little surprised when the two photos almost exactly match. Its fruit pigmented makeup and its wonderful. White (cool) where do you get the MUFE foundation, Ive never heard of it and Im curious? The undertone in both is amazing though, just the perfect amount of green plus both are quite muted (Im cool, green&yellow and muted). Try shade Fawn from Tom Ford. I have trouble with lipstick too. I didnt get the new Forever one in the same shade and I dont think its right. Try Medium Beige in their Conceal + Perfect 2 in 1 Foundation. I often go with darker but muted purples or darker beige with grey tones. Those in Latin America who are descendants from Southern Europeans, as well as indigenous people of the Americas may have that. Makeup artist told me today I have light skin with olive undertones googled it found your site. I will cherish my bottle and probably buy as many backups as I can find. *insert eye roll here*. Copper. I think Im not that pale after all Im light rather tahn fair. I am a dirty blonde (used to be strawberry) with red tinted hair in the sun and green eyes. People with an olive skin tone should avoid pastels like the plague, and instead opt for rich jewel tones such as ruby, sapphire and emerald. Exactly my case Im Polish and Im a pale olive. Warm foundations seem to suit me better than cool ones. Kosas makes a wonderful safe face oil; Im using shade 6 for the summer with a bit more color than I have in winter. Ive bounced between fair and light tarte shades but they never felt *quite* right. I almost exclusively wear purple/berry lip shades, even if its just a tint. My DERMATOLOGIST is who helped me figure this out- its called the FITZPATRICK SCALE (Google it) I am a Type III(3). As far as foundation goes, it is a nightmare most turn orangey or pink. Its very hard to find the right shade for my pale winter skintone. Ana, hey loepsie, Remember its the same undertone, we Light Olives just need to lighten up. Im super pale but I can tan a little. I had deep brown hair but Ive lightened to a medium brown as Ive gotten older. Oh, how I wish NARS would bring back that Sheer Glow Ceylan . 1. . Its useful to have a secret blush sometimes but I almost never have cute pink cheeks naturally!) pure white Estee lauder double wear concealer 1c (light cool). Always failed, because I never seemed to fit any category really, just mix of them.. I have the olive undertone (I tan easily, have reddish-brown hair, and have grey-green eyes). Still, I didnt figure out until a few years ago (my 40s) that I had pale olive skin. Ive read that olive tones are often mistaken for a warm tone when really, theyre a cool tone. It was really helpful for me. I dont have the dedication or patience to mix my own stuff. Theyre all fair, burn easily, only tan with trouble but typically have olive or golden undertones. I do, however use a pink blush with gold flecks. Orange. Shameless high end snob here. And black. Its awful. Lighting has a lot to do with how my skin tone looks too. Being foundation matched is a nightmare. Now, I will use more blush and bronzer to brighten things up. Both gold and silver jewelry are fine, though generally silver is a bit better. Anyway, I love makeup but Im having a terrible time with all of the overly warm eyeshadows, while the cools are sometimes too ashy. Keep the tips coming, its so good to have all of you here sharing your experiences! Meanwhile my German family have almost ruddy, medium skin colors and get bronze easily. I have dark brown eyes and my hair is naturally light ash brown. However Im quite sure that I fit under the label olive skin, as my veins seem both blue and green and I can see the green and some yellow colors on my skin. Needless to say, finding good colour matches for clothes and makeup has been a challenge. A light purple is feminine, work-appropriate, and great for olive tones. Im so glad you posted this though!! Even if I have the pores, the scars, and the patchy skin I wont be orange anymore. Complements my hair beautifully. I have very dark brown-almost black hair and light brown eyes. It is often associated with pigmentation in the Type III to Type IV and Type V ranges of the Fitzpatrick scale. MAKE UP STORE sculpt excellence in the color COTTON. They also often have a straight nose but a hump at the nose's bridge. I custom blend a warm and a cool foundation for this very reason! What an eye opener!!! And her mix was great. I am one of the few with a true red undertone. Blushes dont last much, bronze tones look terrible on me, I look better with pink or coral tones I was using Estee Lauder makeup and if I looked closely, it looked so yellow on my forehead, but the cool tones looked so pink! winter white/ivory looks great Find so so many points of matching with me, so I would recommend Merriam Style channel on youtube and her videos about warm olive or cold olive. With her vast knowledge of the latest trends, haircuts, and colors, she helps people look their best. I look best in warm purples, reds, magentas, pinks and greens (like emerald and teal). Hairstyles for Black Women Thanks everyone for their insights <3, I am not of eastern European descent (I am German, so Id say central European? Hey everyone! I generally fit neutral but finally realized that I lean much more toward cool and I look so much better in cool clothing and makeup. 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