I've got rosacea so my face is normally very pink and flushed all the time despite the rest of me being pale and green. So if I wear any slightly more full coverage foundation that actually matches my body everyone thinks I'm dying unless I bathe in blush and bronzer. 😭
The amount of orange in Neutral shades is criminal. Even for those of us not olive (I’m neutral) it’s irritating as hell. They give us pink for cool, yellow for warm, and orange for neutral.
Y’all are my people! I love the Missha bb cream in 23 for that desaturated beige color. Best match so far for me as a fair light. If you have recs, I’d love to hear them!
This was so helpful! Revlon 'Buff' was my closest match back in the day. I always look at ingredients and keep a look out for green pigments like 'ferric ferrocyanides' and 'chromium green oxide' as a good way to find unlabelled olive shades.
As a teen I developed body dysmorphic disorder as I thought my face was green and it was the worst around the mouth. I used extremely heavy makeup to cover it and it took me hours to apply. I would never sleep over at a friends house because I was afraid to remove my makeup. YOUR channel taught me it is a SKIN TONE! And it’s completely normal! Love you for that Alex! 🫒
One of my son's classmates in Elementary school was absolutely green and very pale. She always looked sick and had a hard time with people treating her like she wasn't sick. Now in her late 20s she's a beautiful model. I can't imagine being able to find the right foundation for Olive skin when it's so hard to just find neutral to cool foundation.
I’ve always hated how my skin look different from others, greener or ashen. I even was asked by doctors to check my liver and iron. In a photo in my old pasport i looked legit of green colour if it would be checked with an app thingy
I never comment on stuff but I watched this yesterday and IMMEDIATELY bought the revlon skin caring foundation in the shade you swatched and it is a PERFECT match. I’m shook. This is such a game changer for me thank you! It’s also a great affordable option, it wears nicely over a good skincare base and covers my rosacea really well. Can’t wait to try the about face foundation too!!
Definitely would love to see the online shopping video! As a chronically ill girly with limited energy I get to shop in person almost never but shopping for foundation & concealer shades online is so BRUTAL
Chronically ill person here, also. I cannot go to a store, and online is a crap-shoot. I agree with what you wrote here. Be well. I did find a product that matched me for a while, but it was discontinued (of course.)
Yes, and if you gather all the power you have for that one “big in-person makeup haul,” you get “oh, you are just ✨PALE✨” Guys, I have no energy nor time to go through this all over again.
Same here! I am chronically ill with a skin condition (think: it looks like rosacea but your skin turns orange instead). Finding a foundation and concealer has been a nightmare bc I cannot go to the store, plus I am chemically sensitive to 75% of all makeup/fragrances. The chronic inflammation in my face gives me a red/pink tone, but I can't tell if that's actually my skin tone. I'm so pale all I can tell is that I think I'm cool, whether it ends up being true cool, neutral, or olive.
This trick works pretty well for me as a pale olive shopping online, maybe it can for you too: I look at the section of foundations likely to be the right level of lightness/darkness and within those I choose the one that looks the grayest. This works especially well when there are swatches on someone’s arm because the other shades will look so orange/yellow/pink next to it. Edit: I also use a white foundation mixer since the olive foundations I use are just a touch too dark for me
@@AB-ez1eh The "white foundation mixer" IYKNK. 🤣💝 That's an awesome idea about the gray! Someone once suggested downloading a color pixel software program, taking a picture in direct sunlight, and clicking around to get an idea of foundation color as well as good contour shades. Then you can try to match it to the online pixel color. I tried this and I've found I have a lot of cool gray in my skin tones that almost leans purple! I think the gray has something to do with potential olive, but the red is cool/also my inflammation. lol
Same! Just ordered it at Ulta. Even the shade finder in ultas site gave me F2 olive when I put in the foundations I usually use! Can't wait to pick it up today!
Most pale olive Italian, here!! I'm kind of upset more Italian brands don't do more olive undertones!!! I've been looking for 40 years!! Some Revlon and Milani work for me, but I usually have to mix in the Missha BB Cream (sort of gray undertone) to get the best match. Thank you so much for this!! Many blessings!!!💖💖💖
LA Girl Pro Color mixing pigment in blue absolutely changed my life. Just a little bit goes a long way for those too orange and yellow foundations. perfect olive 🫒
this! I have been buying yellow undertoned foundation for ages and using this to shift the color green and it works like a charm. But sometimes a girl gets sick of having to mix.
I mix L'Oreal Paris Infallible Fresh Wear liquid foundation in the shade of 120 Vanilla with the white and blue of L.A. Girl Pro Color Foundation Mixing Pigment and that makes my skin colour. (120 Vanilla is too dark and too orange for me)
The blue mixer is how I've discovered I'm olive 😂. I thought for the longest time I had a strong blue undertone and was sick of mixing, so I took my ideal mix to the drugstore and bought the Revlon Illuminance foundation in 217. It's has been the closest shade I have ever found and low and behold it has olive undertones. I've been on a quest to find my shade match at the drugstore and nothing has been right till this shade.
I am a light medium olive. The struggle is so real. I have tried so many foundations and have only ever loved one from Dior. Olive girlies get samples from Sephora and test them in your home with natural light because those lights in Sephora are pure sorcery.
I am light-medium with olive undertones and the Lisa Eldridge Seamless Foundation No. 16 is spot-on the color of my neck and jaw line. So SPOT-ON it is, that I kept putting more on because I couldn't see it on my skin. Another one that matches me well is Estee Lauder Double Wear in 2W2 Rattan. Also, if I wear MAC NC30 or L'Oreal True Match Super-Blendable foundation and add 1 drop of blue pigment (L.A. Girl) I can match myself perfectly. Teint Idole has a great alternative. Sadly, it made me break out, so I had to return it and no longer remember the shade number.
You are so good at what you do. The way you talk to the camera is so natural, it literarily feels like you are talking directly to me. You are also so genuine and authentic, who you are is exactly what comes through the videos. I really appreciate your channel, the work and content that you provide us❤️ All love to you! ❤️❤️❤️
Yes, I'd love to do the olive shopping spree. There is a Korean brand named Ko Gen Do and they have an olive shade that I think would work for you. It's pricey, but it has been my best match thus far. Foundation shopping is so hard for olive skin especially!!!
I’ve wanted to try that forever, but I can’t justify that sort of cash on an everyday foundation. If I was getting married or had some fancy event, perhaps, but I don’t and I’m not, so… Will just keep using my blue mixer on the cheaper stuff!
I have found a cheap K-beauty concealer that is so similar to N*rs Creamy Concealer that has a colour called Green Beige. It’s brilliant to cover redness & mix with foundation. The brand is The Saem.
Etude has one too! It’s green and literally exactly my color, which is how i discovered i am olive 😂 it’s the neutral mint shade, i wish etude had a foundation with the same shade too tho 😪
I have the About Face in the same shade as you and really encourage you to get the Lisa E 2.5 too. It’s slightly lighter and more neutral than the About Face, but I think it’s also a bit greener. They both match me, which says a lot about how critical undertones are. I almost cried with relief 😂
Same! I just got the about face in last Friday and I was actually so shocked when I put it on how seamlessly it blended. I saw Nicolette’s story on IG for L2O and it was too saturated so she was ordering the next one down and i just took a chance and ordered it. They’re really close, LE depending the time of year matches me pretty well, It’s just a bit lighter but the finish is also different and you get more coverage. I remember when I worked in the color dept a long time ago, a coworker told me oh you have a bit of olive in you. At the time i was more light med to med and I don’t know why i didn’t think as i stopped sunning so much i still had olive. Ive always just said neutral to warm because face to neck and body ratio so different 😊
Yesss! Because of you, I realized a few years back that I'm olive. ❤ Finally it just made sense that nothing matched me. 🙄 The shades that work for you work for me as well, so I always appreciate your complexion videos, thanks! Hugs from Denmark
Holy crap, this video is soooo ridiculously helpful. Besides helping us see which foundations would be great if we happen to have your skin tone, but it also helps us "use our words" when describing and comparing colors. Thank you for the important reminder to let shit oxidize/dry down a bit, and to always look at colors in natural light! Alex, you are a goddamn gift.
I LOVE THIS. I got an NYX foundation that you recommended in a video a couple of years ago for my wedding and it was perfect; same with a blush. I still use both! I would love you to make this into a series (blush, lipsticks, eye shadow...)!
@@askalemuralia I just checked for you, and apparently it is not!! (I rarely use foundation so I have not had to buy it again since). It was the Born to Glow foundation. I've seen on reddit that they have discontinued it, and are now pushing their new BARE WITH ME BLUR foundations. I have not tried them, so I can't tell you if they are any good :( but people on reddit seem to like it.
Yep confirms I’m olive when you mention the Revlon in Buff. That’s the only one I’ve ever found to being close enough without looking orange on me. Excited to try the About Face now!
Woah! Invaluable information here for all the olive peeps around! THANK YOU SO MUCH! And yes please do a video on online makeup shopping, thanks! ;) we really appreciate you and your knowledge!🫒💚
That's me: fair neutral-cool to cool olive. Put a neutral foundation on me, my skin pops grey-green. I've never, in my three and a half decades of life, found a foundation that matches. Send help!
@@RexytheRexy Here's an olive-undertoned people tip for you: Find any foundation in a formulation you love that's as close to your overall skin color as possible-which usually means its "value" matches (not too light/not too dark) but it's still looking orange (or pink) on you. Get a bottle of Mehron Makeup Liquid Face and Body Paint in [green and/or blue] to use as a *foundation pigment corrector*. This is a professional line that is used in the film industry. General principle: Use green if you have a bright/saturated skintone and use blue if you have a muted/desaturated skintone. But either is better than none to adjust an existing foundation that is closest to your needs to an olive-undertone. Barely 1/16th of a drop per daily foundation application will allow you to achieve your color match. It works for all foundations, will last five years and save you $$$ as it is only $6.95. This is completely different than a "color correctors" because which are meant to be applied to the skin *before* applying foundation and can change the formulation of your foundation. The recommendation above is *pure pigment* meaning it will not change the formulation of your foundation.
I found out this year that I'm definitely olive toned (I'd say probably neutral olive, maybe leaning on the cool side) and I always wondered why foundations NEVER looked right on me! Your skintone is definitely a reference point for me so thank you for your olive skintone related videos, this was perfect! I'm really really intrigued by the about face foundation so im probably going to pick that up asap. Much love ❤
@@Kori-Barrenger same! And it doesn't help that my skin looks so different in different lighting too so when I think something is a perfect match, I go somewhere else and my face looks too orange/yellow in comparison to my neck 😫
@@Kori-Barrenger You could be olive, or you could have a muted (or desaturated) undertone of some sort: in other words, you have some grey going on in your skin.
Lisa Eldriges Foundation in 2.5 is definately a true olive foundation. One of the best matches I ever got. Its more muted and darker than Smashbox F10 O. In my opinion Smashbox screwed up the colors in their Always On Foundation. The previous 24h hydrating foundation, that I loved, had a better Fair Olive shade. F10 O in my opinion is not olive, its a very fair yellow. 😢
Yeah, I use the SmashBox F10 foundation as concealer or as a foundation mixer because that stuff is FULL coverage! Their next shades in the line are just all wrong.
The new shade the site indicates compared to the old one is F20W. I’ve swatched F10O, F20N and F20W and on me they all looked kinda the same, but F20W is the closest one to the old version!
Hello, I hope I won't bother you, but would you say that the Lisa Eldridge foundation in shade 2.5 has some kind of yellow tint in it ? My mom is fair/light olive and she struggles to find a greenish undertone, but she also needs a bit of yellow, it that makes sense (but not the golden one). Thank you !
Yesss thank you for the swatches! I love all the olive content 🫒 I’m light cool olive and about face olive still pulls quite orange on me. I’ve learned to look for foundations that look cool gray (not pink) or I’ll add a blue foundation mixer (I use the brand derol) to a warmer shade to tone down the yellow/orange without increasing pink! It works surprisingly well 😊
Oh interesting which about face did you try that seemed orange. I’m a light medium cool Olive so I’m very curious. As the other person asked. What are your closest matches?
@@catiejohnson7910 L2 olive! F2 maybe be cooler toned, but it's a bit too light for me. I don't have a perfect shade match unfortunately, but adding a blue foundation mixer to L2 olive works super well! I'm waiting to try a few Korean foundations because I've heard several brands are great for cool olives. I'm trying the purito bb cream in 21 once my order gets here 🤗
@@susjon1 I don't have one unfortunately! But adding a blue foundation mixer to the L2 olive shade works surprisingly well. It's a cheap and easy solution since almost all complexion products either pull to orange or pink 🫠 I've ordered a Korean foundation (purito bb cream in 21) because I've heard there's more selection for cool olives within that market, but I'm still waiting for my order to get here.
@@allisonmyers5874 I haven’t tried any bb creams but kgd 213 aqua is a pretty good match for me esp in the winter, it’s usually pretty expensive but I’ve been able to get it at a good price on yes style several times. I’m curious as to how these compare. I’m a yellower cool Olive and my face is darker than my neck but a lot of things are too saturated and too golden and orange on me
Thank you for doing this, Alex! I def. need to get that About Face. (And yes, first thing I thought when you swatched it on your neck is that it looked a bit "pinker".) The Lighter Smashbox shade is fantastic, and it was great to be reminded about the Revlon Buff. Maybelline Fit Me 118 used to be good on me but now it's a tad too dark. And Revlon Candid 120 is a tad too light. The KVD Good Apple Balm has good light olive tones, as well. Light 8 and Medium 27 (not Medium at all). Always love new suggestions! Thanks again.
Would love to see a concealer video of how to atleast pick the best concealer for olive tones. Btw alex you were the one who opened my eyes to finally see that I am olive toned, so thank you for that!
This is great. I NEVER tried olive foundations bc I thought olive meant medium skin. I was told I was neutral. But every neutral shade looks peachy or orange on me. Then I bought Auric glow lust in Pyrite (which is my fav product ever) and realized the olive undertone might really work on my skin. Obviously that’s not a foundation but a good starting point. I’m not as fair as you but this was such a great tool to see the differences in tones and maybe try the next shade up in some of these. Just really cool/useful content! And I’m curious about the About Face foundation now!
I. Effing. Love. You. This video is so needed for us olive gals. I've learned so much about skin tone with your help! Light, warm to neutral olive here and I've spent most of my life looking gray as hell. Thank you! I would love a shopping video!
I bought a bottle of Revelon Buff on a whim after watching this last week, I've never had a foundation that matched my skintone before and I look A LOT like you (to the point where I actually found it a bit creepy the algorithm kept recommending your videos, seriously). I always thought my 'sickly' complexion was due to not getting enough sun, lmao. I had no idea I was an olive! I've been wearing yellow foundation for years thinking it made me look 'healthier' and golden but I just swatched Buff and it was just my skintone but even- and it looked. so. natural. Best £6 I've ever spent. I'm going to have to splurge for the higher end dupe tho as this formula sucks. Thank you for this video!
Feeling very seen here. Most foundations don’t recognize pale olive skin tones. I used to go for neutral and warm shades, but have lately been struggling lately to find a match. Since recently discovering cool tone olive is a thing, I think that’s my natural skin tone. Which is even more confusing because I always associated cool tones with pink, but for olive, it means more gray. This video is fantastic and will help olive people so much considering you’ve acknowledged there are so many shades of olive. Hopefully we can see more olive shades come out in the future!
You should try more Korean BB creams and foundations. It's terrible for deeper skin tones, but they always come through for us fair olives. I actually realized I was olive toned because of a Purito BB cream. I just grabbed the lightest shade cuz Korean makeup always has terrible shade selection but it's almost always workable. When it came it out gray I was all "wtf is this, there's no way it'll work." So of course it was almost a perfect match lmao. Then I confirmed it with a Missha BB cream, which is now my go-to when I want to glow like a disco ball. Since then nearly all of my most reliable shade matches (also for bronzer and contour) have come from K-beauty. Thanks for giving me a few more to try though. Super glad there's more selection from the drugstore these days, especially on the lighter end. Buff from Colorstay was always a bit dark for me unless it was summer and I actually tanned instead of burning and peeling.
Revlon has changed their formulas, and they oxidize on me like crazy. Missha is my holy grail. Love to hear more Korean recs from you- it looks like we have similar coloring!
I'm East Asian and I could never work out foundation, it was always too orange and gave up. I got a bb cream (skin79 triple super in pink) and it was the closest until my friend pointed out it turned grey. 10 years later I tried swatching warm foundations again and still not there😂 this video is what i needed. Olive is another undertone!
Great❤I have such a hard time finding good foundation for my pale olive skin.. my neck has literaly green shades 😅 I would also love to see video from you with your favourite lipsticks for olive skin tone ❤❤
This is by far the most amazing video I have ever watched in my entire life, Thank you!!!!! I am half share lighter than you, more towards neutral side but I have mild rosacea flare ups so I prefer very light olive tones, cant thank you enough for this awesome content!!!❤
I would say the about face first swatch you did and the revlon buff are dead on … this was a great video and so educational I am an olive as well ! Also on the light side !
Anything to help with figuring out foundations is greatly appreciated! Like you said, some can see colors and some can’t. Unfortunately I can’t and at 66 years old I still don’t know my skin tone. Some store “experts” say cool, some say warm and some say neutral. Some say stay away from yellow, but gold jewelry does look better on me. So confusing. Thank you for your detailed tutorials. You are such an inspiration. I love your hair! ❤
Are you telling me I’ve been olive this whole time?! This explains SO much! Wasn’t sure why I couldn’t figure out my shade even when I swatch 4 shades from the same line and I still couldn’t decide b/c they all look wrong! Sephora always swatches me as cool but next to my husband he’s very clearly pink/red and I’m not. Never thought I could be olive because I’m fair and have stereotypically western/european features (I was always told olives were medium tan/Mediterranean). I think I’m a cool olive 😱 Definitely trying about face!
Actually many European descendants are very pale olive, whether it's on neutral leaning warm or neutral leaning cool that kind of olive. I saw like Irish descendant with so much fairer than Alexandra's skin colour and as if a white paper but she is a super pale olive very near to pure white colour. She always struggle for her foundation colour just to make it match to her super pale skin. All the best for your perfect match foundation ;)
You have changed my life. I have spent so much money on pinky/orangey foundations over the years. I'm fair olive that leans slightly cool, so I ordered F2 for pickup today. I am shook. It's PERFECTION.
Fantastic video Alex! At 40 years old I have never found a perfect color match so far, so I really appreciate videos like this. I wish more brands would take fair and light olive skintones into account. I would love to see more content about this topic, it's truly helpful!
Girl, the struggle is real. I have light skin with warm olive undertones. A surprise to me because I look Irish, but my father is half native. I have purchased Armani, Haus into different colors, make up forever, make up forever, reboot, three different Mac foundations, including the face and body. There's more. Not a single match. I never returned any. This has been a costly quest. About Face, thank you and thank you Alex for showing the way.
Try macs new serum-powder foundation! It's the only foundation that matched, the colors differ from the rest of their range and it works sooo well 🙏🙏 I used N11 and it was perfection NC11 for a bit more warmth
Thank you for this! You swatched so many of the shades I’ve been wondering about for a long time! I have a light warm-olive skin tone, and it’s always a struggle finding a shade match in store. Most of the sales reps I talk to try to convince me Im light warm, but it always looks peachy on me. I’m at the point where I won’t try a foundation unless it offers an olive undertone. MAC is another brand that just won’t match!
I’m a fair neutral (warm leaning) and it’s also really hard to find a good match. So many light foundations and concealers are often not light enough or they’re incredibly pink! So even though I’m not olive, watching your videos still helps me learn how to work around these issues and shade match better!
I'm fair neutral olive (dry skinnif it matters), and LET ME TELL YOU the Nyx serum concealer in shade 2 is THE perfect match, and shade 1 to highlight. Shade 2 literally disappears on my neck, completely undetectable. It's a concealer but it's my perfect foundation 😂
Thank you for this! Could you also go through choosing the right type of red lipstick for olive skin? It seems so hard to find a match not being too bright or fighting with the rest of my face...
That’s a great and helpful video! Thanks for doing that. Do you think you could update a video for best bronzers for olive skin? In this same sort of format. Thanks again!
This video was honestly SUCH a godsend. I've only recently found out I have olive toned light skin (I thought they were always medium! Never knew olive could be so light!) and I've wasted so much money with foundations that end up being way too orange. I feel like this is such a good start to finally find a shade that matches.
Thank you so much for this video. I bought the Revlon in buff today. At first it seemed too light but like you said, once it dried down it is the perfect shade. I’m 38 & have never had a perfect colour match. Thank you xs million❣️
Wow, I've legit never seen anyones foundation match as perfectly as that does on you. Im actually insanely jealous right now lol. But im also really happy to find out about this brand that I've weirdly never heard of and I'm gonna check it out and hope I can find one to match my olive skin!
Never felt so seen! Your channel is so uplifting super real and helpful!💝 For the longest I always thought my undertones where yellow until I noticed green too! This was so helpful thank you!!❤ Hope to see a video on setting powders I always feel none suit my yellow green undertones.
This video is so needed and is the perfect timing! I'm on the hunt for a new foundation since Lancôme got rid of their 095 shade and changed the formula. Truly devastating cause it was my closest shade match. I'm very intrigued about the About Face one, though I'm concerned it might be too dark for me. The undertone is incredible though! Revlon Colorstay in Buff was my first foundation that I ever got a close match to! Use to be my go to! I'd have to mix a little white in there because I'm a very fair olive, but I might try it again cause it's so good. Tip I've found though is that the combo/oily and normal/dry "Buff" shades are not the same! The combo/oily one is the more olive of the two and the normal/dry is slightly more pink. Super helpful video and I'd love to see a shopping video for sure! You and I are similar in age, skin type, tone, everything pretty much (including name lol) and you've never steered me wrong yet! Thanks for your in-depth work!
Yes, the two Revlon bottles are completely different standing one to another, the normal to oily is olive and quite lighter in my opinion. I bought them both after seeing them on this channel. They both work well, thought.
I’ve always had a hard time finding a foundation bc it’s either way too orange or way too cool. And even if I find something that’s doable it’s so obvious on my neck. I have a lot of red areas and red splotchy areas on my face which is harsh contrasted by the normal color of my skin which leaves me wondering what color foundation I need. When you said that you can really see your undertone on your neck, that made so much sense. The rest of my skin on my body is olive, but my face has always been hard for me. I’m gonna give this foundation a try once it’s back in stock!
Thanks Alex, that was very helpful. For many years I’ve had Revlon Colorstay in Buff and it’s a pretty decent match and foundation. I hope they continue this drugstore product for the wider population to be able to find a good olive shade.
Thank you for doing this content queen!!!!! PLEASE do more videos about olive light skin, like hair colors (red/ginger hair with olive light skin!) and other make-up thingssssss
Hey, Alex! Looove this video! The timing tho, I just got me a Revlon colorstay in buff, cause I saw you recommend it in one of the videos and daaamn, the color match is so much better that everything I've tried before (and drugstore?! 🤩) Thank you so much! P.S. please make a video like this with concealers for fair olives who only like to spot conceal ❤
Alex, i literally saw this video today and RAN to ulta to pick up your exact shade F2 Olive it matched me perfectly??? i'm actually so stunned. i'm fair/light neutral-cool olive and have never found an exact match!! was using dior f&b 1W til now! you're the best, thank you for all your olive skin tips. xx
Hi Alex, I belong to the Olive tribe, medium light in my case. My loved foundations (and perfect matches) are: Dior’s Backstage 2WO for Winter and 3WO for Summer, and Armani’s Luminous Silk 5.75. For BB I use Shiseido’s Medium Sports BB (50+) and Foto Ultra Isdin Active Unify Color (99 SPF). GoodSunscreen protection and good coverage. Did you try any of those? Love your Channel!
First of all: Thank you for this video! I am a painter and I love (and know) a colour theory and yet I know how friggin` hard it is to match a foundation! Second of all that Shiseido caught my eye, and third of all I love the look of a front teeth gap))
THANK YOU SO MUCH! This is so helpful, but I typically only wear powder foundation cuz it's easier to apply without compromising my SPF layer. PLEASE do you have any fair olive powder foundation recommendations? 🥹🙏🏻
I’m having a color analysis done in a few weeks, and I’m so excited that I’ll get to find out from a professional whether I truly am olive or if I just want to be since nothing else seems to make any sense! Lol😂 i’m not buying any colored products until after I get their opinion. If they think I’m light olive if I’m definitely heading over to try out that about face foundation!
That's exciting! I got mine done when I was like 14 or something and they told me I was a Spring but we didn't talk undertones. So I don't know if it all checks out 😂
@@AlexandraAnele yes, same here, I had mine done about 30 years ago. They told me my basic season (summer) but they didn’t tell me my sub category or my skin tone. We will see! I’m going with House of colour, who does makeup in addition to the draping. I’m super excited! I think I am a soft summer, which means I can cross into the autumn category some. From what little research I’ve done soft summers can tend to have olive skin tone.
Oh my goodness, it’s so funny that you mentioned about face because I literally went into the old store with no aim or any rhyme or reason, but I stumbled upon the about face stand, and I started watching the foundation shades, and I noticed that I matched perfectly to light olive foundation shade I think it’s the l2? And wow wow wow do I really recommend it’s such a great formula. It’s literally spot on. I felt seen. I felt like I wasn’t battling the oranges or the ashiness and I felt so happy.❤❤❤❤
Girl, you are reading my mind! I’m a fair olive and I’ve been going through it trying to find foundation. I was just looking at the Lisa Eldrege (sp?) last night and would love to see how 2.5 compares with the top contenders here. Also would love to see which Fenty ease drop stick matches you best. Thanks for doing the work
Great video! I got my Lisa Eldridge 2.5 (and the darker 9.5 olive shade to mix in a little for summer) in the mail yesterday and the 2.5 is perfect for winter shade. Def get it! And yes please to shopping vid!
Medium tan neutral olive here 🙋🏽♀️ I always had such a hard time with foundation in my 20s, I didn’t know I was olive. I assumed I had a yellow/warm undertone like the rest of the women in my family. All foundation looked awful on me, made me look like a ghoul. Been watching you for years and learned about my undertone. Alex is one of the few beauty TH-camrs I trust🤘🏽🖤
OMG i was referred to you and I’m sooo thankful!!!!! No one talks about how orange foundations that are “warm” get when I’m looking for a yellow undertone… and finally I found someone that explains it!!!! Thank you so much!!!! ❤🙏🏼🥰
I was on another TH-camr's live chat when someone requesting advice on finding a foundation for fair olive complexions. I told her to watch your channel since you are most definitely the pro in this subject.
The About face foundation better never get discontinued, I have never found a color match this good and the formula is amazing. Ive gotten so many compliments since i started wearing it. Now they need to launch a concealer.
omg you're a god sent! the last 15 years its been impossible for me to find a perfect match because I'm olive skinned but fair/ light. thank you thank you thank you. much love from London xxx
I need to check my shade for Colorstay because I think it is the same one you have in here which could explain why i never find a shade that works for me. Remember the Missha BB cream and people were like " it's gray!" And I was like it's the best color match Ive ever had lol.
I don't have olive skin as much as translucent petal but even still, I learned a lot about colors, tones, undertones and how to actually shop for foundation so thanks, my olive friend!
just came here to say that i’m STOKED at the About Face foundation. first foundation to really match my undertones :’) so grateful for your recommendations and for these swatch comparisons! i love love love your videos! ❤
I'm glad you mentioned redness on olive skin because I saw a vid where they said there's a common saying "olive doesn't blush" and I was really confused. I'm a mid olive and I can get a super red face!
I remember when I started looking seriously for a foundation match, and was so confused when I KNEW I had olive undertones for years, but nothing at Sephora was even called "olive." Silly me, I assumed there would be! Warm, cool, neutral only. I was shocked that nothing at all matched me. I might have been fair-medium back then, but I'm fair now since I've been using sunscreen religiously. I started with assuming I was warm/orange (and I think the people trying to help me did, too), but I wasn't, so I go for neutral fair shades these days. I tried adding green color corrector to my foundation like you suggested, and that was really helpful, but most of the time I can't be bothered to do the mixing and just need to slap something on my face. I can't wait to try some that are genuinely for olive folks! I appreciate you, Alex!
I know a lot of people have a problem with using foundations with doe foot applicators but they usually never complain about concealers with doe foots. The complaint is always because of sanitary reasons but we apply concealer under our eyes, down the bridge of our noses, on our foreheads and chins, down the sides of our noses, and/or in any random area of our faces to spot conceal, etc., which means the doe foots in our concealer tubes touch a large portion of our faces as well. Concealer can and has been applied with a doe foot all over the face as foundation yet you don't hear the same complaint. I actually prefer doe foots in my foundation bottles now. I used to prefer pumps only until they started putting large dot foot applicators in them. Now doe foots are my fave.
Being olive and fair = ‘are you feeling ok?’ Every time you’ve a no makeup day 😭
Omg my whole existence lmaoooo like yeah this is just my face 😐😭
LITERALLY
Yes! I also wear sunscreen year/ round a I’m literally looking ill to my family 😅
I've got rosacea so my face is normally very pink and flushed all the time despite the rest of me being pale and green. So if I wear any slightly more full coverage foundation that actually matches my body everyone thinks I'm dying unless I bathe in blush and bronzer. 😭
This! So much this!
The amount of orange in Neutral shades is criminal. Even for those of us not olive (I’m neutral) it’s irritating as hell. They give us pink for cool, yellow for warm, and orange for neutral.
This. When I think neutral, I think it should be more beige.
Yessss. I want neutral to be desaturated. Not a mix of pink and yellow. 🤨
This!!!!!
Y’all are my people! I love the Missha bb cream in 23 for that desaturated beige color. Best match so far for me as a fair light. If you have recs, I’d love to hear them!
They're definitely not adding enough blue pigments. Smh
This was so helpful! Revlon 'Buff' was my closest match back in the day.
I always look at ingredients and keep a look out for green pigments like 'ferric ferrocyanides' and 'chromium green oxide' as a good way to find unlabelled olive shades.
That’s super helpful information!
Omg I remember that being a good shade for me too! I'll have to look into this
What do you wear nowadays?
Excellent color information!
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As a black warm toned girly, I'm honestly just here for the vibes 😂❤
😂 thank you for the vibes! 🙌🏼
@@AlexandraAnele OMG Alex! I love it here 😂❤️
Lol!! I’m a light skinned warm tone person and I’m also just watching just cuz!
Me too. I just love her channel 😊
Anybody with warm skin tones can learn a whole lot from this! :)
As a teen I developed body dysmorphic disorder as I thought my face was green and it was the worst around the mouth. I used extremely heavy makeup to cover it and it took me hours to apply. I would never sleep over at a friends house because I was afraid to remove my makeup. YOUR channel taught me it is a SKIN TONE! And it’s completely normal! Love you for that Alex! 🫒
I have always been under the impression that my hair was green. It’s nice to have people like Alex letting us know our coloring is fine and beautiful.
One of my son's classmates in Elementary school was absolutely green and very pale. She always looked sick and had a hard time with people treating her like she wasn't sick. Now in her late 20s she's a beautiful model. I can't imagine being able to find the right foundation for Olive skin when it's so hard to just find neutral to cool foundation.
I’ve always hated how my skin look different from others, greener or ashen. I even was asked by doctors to check my liver and iron. In a photo in my old pasport i looked legit of green colour if it would be checked with an app thingy
@@vzeimenwhich colour of hair and eyes did she have?
@@amnbvcxz8650 she had medium blind hair that got darker as she got older. I’m not sure about eye color
I never comment on stuff but I watched this yesterday and IMMEDIATELY bought the revlon skin caring foundation in the shade you swatched and it is a PERFECT match. I’m shook. This is such a game changer for me thank you! It’s also a great affordable option, it wears nicely over a good skincare base and covers my rosacea really well. Can’t wait to try the about face foundation too!!
I just did the same but with the aboutface and...I am SHOOK. It's so perfect!
Definitely would love to see the online shopping video! As a chronically ill girly with limited energy I get to shop in person almost never but shopping for foundation & concealer shades online is so BRUTAL
Chronically ill person here, also. I cannot go to a store, and online is a crap-shoot. I agree with what you wrote here. Be well. I did find a product that matched me for a while, but it was discontinued (of course.)
Yes, and if you gather all the power you have for that one “big in-person makeup haul,” you get “oh, you are just ✨PALE✨”
Guys, I have no energy nor time to go through this all over again.
Same here! I am chronically ill with a skin condition (think: it looks like rosacea but your skin turns orange instead). Finding a foundation and concealer has been a nightmare bc I cannot go to the store, plus I am chemically sensitive to 75% of all makeup/fragrances.
The chronic inflammation in my face gives me a red/pink tone, but I can't tell if that's actually my skin tone. I'm so pale all I can tell is that I think I'm cool, whether it ends up being true cool, neutral, or olive.
This trick works pretty well for me as a pale olive shopping online, maybe it can for you too: I look at the section of foundations likely to be the right level of lightness/darkness and within those I choose the one that looks the grayest. This works especially well when there are swatches on someone’s arm because the other shades will look so orange/yellow/pink next to it.
Edit: I also use a white foundation mixer since the olive foundations I use are just a touch too dark for me
@@AB-ez1eh The "white foundation mixer" IYKNK. 🤣💝
That's an awesome idea about the gray! Someone once suggested downloading a color pixel software program, taking a picture in direct sunlight, and clicking around to get an idea of foundation color as well as good contour shades. Then you can try to match it to the online pixel color.
I tried this and I've found I have a lot of cool gray in my skin tones that almost leans purple! I think the gray has something to do with potential olive, but the red is cool/also my inflammation. lol
This is the best olive toned fair/light video I've ever seen. AAAAAND, I'm so stoked to try the about face foundation!
Same! Just ordered it at Ulta. Even the shade finder in ultas site gave me F2 olive when I put in the foundations I usually use! Can't wait to pick it up today!
Most pale olive Italian, here!! I'm kind of upset more Italian brands don't do more olive undertones!!! I've been looking for 40 years!! Some Revlon and Milani work for me, but I usually have to mix in the Missha BB Cream (sort of gray undertone) to get the best match.
Thank you so much for this!! Many blessings!!!💖💖💖
The Missha has been the only thing that has worked for me.
Armani luminous silk has a light and medium olive
LOVE Missha! It’s my only perfect color match (#13). I’ve worn it about 10 years now, and always go back to it.
I agree, I'm Italian and light olive
I'm from Argentina and I have to mix my foundation with the Missha BB cream too, the foundations here are too orangey u.u
LA Girl Pro Color mixing pigment in blue absolutely changed my life. Just a little bit goes a long way for those too orange and yellow foundations. perfect olive 🫒
this! I have been buying yellow undertoned foundation for ages and using this to shift the color green and it works like a charm. But sometimes a girl gets sick of having to mix.
I mix L'Oreal Paris Infallible Fresh Wear liquid foundation in the shade of 120 Vanilla with the white and blue of L.A. Girl Pro Color Foundation Mixing Pigment and that makes my skin colour.
(120 Vanilla is too dark and too orange for me)
Yes, I’ve been using it as well! Only thing is I wish I didn’t need this extra step of mixing the pigment each time.
The blue mixer is how I've discovered I'm olive 😂. I thought for the longest time I had a strong blue undertone and was sick of mixing, so I took my ideal mix to the drugstore and bought the Revlon Illuminance foundation in 217. It's has been the closest shade I have ever found and low and behold it has olive undertones. I've been on a quest to find my shade match at the drugstore and nothing has been right till this shade.
@@mamabear8373the about face one is only $22, and with the price at the drugstore lately- that's not too bad.
"since I tried the olive shade, it's OL-IVE been using"
That’s cute🤣wordplay.
Good one.
I would love a shopping Sephora video!
seconded!
Thirded! 😂
I am a light medium olive. The struggle is so real. I have tried so many foundations and have only ever loved one from Dior. Olive girlies get samples from Sephora and test them in your home with natural light because those lights in Sephora are pure sorcery.
I am the same!! And I have been done so dirty by that sephora light 😩
Armani number 6.
I am light-medium with olive undertones and the Lisa Eldridge Seamless Foundation No. 16 is spot-on the color of my neck and jaw line. So SPOT-ON it is, that I kept putting more on because I couldn't see it on my skin. Another one that matches me well is Estee Lauder Double Wear in 2W2 Rattan. Also, if I wear MAC NC30 or L'Oreal True Match Super-Blendable foundation and add 1 drop of blue pigment (L.A. Girl) I can match myself perfectly. Teint Idole has a great alternative. Sadly, it made me break out, so I had to return it and no longer remember the shade number.
Have you tried Missha #21?
koh gen do 213 is my closest shade as. light medium olive but i’m not sure if i’m a neutral or warm lol
You are so good at what you do. The way you talk to the camera is so natural, it literarily feels like you are talking directly to me. You are also so genuine and authentic, who you are is exactly what comes through the videos. I really appreciate your channel, the work and content that you provide us❤️ All love to you! ❤️❤️❤️
The more I watch your videos, the more I gaslight myself into thinking I’m olive
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Yes, I'd love to do the olive shopping spree. There is a Korean brand named Ko Gen Do and they have an olive shade that I think would work for you. It's pricey, but it has been my best match thus far. Foundation shopping is so hard for olive skin especially!!!
Yes! Shade 213.
Reminding myself to shop here
Sorry to be annoying with this comment, but Koh Gen Do (江原道) is a Japanese brand.
Yes, Koh Gen Do shade 213 is good, but not fair enough for me
I’ve wanted to try that forever, but I can’t justify that sort of cash on an everyday foundation. If I was getting married or had some fancy event, perhaps, but I don’t and I’m not, so… Will just keep using my blue mixer on the cheaper stuff!
I have found a cheap K-beauty concealer that is so similar to N*rs Creamy Concealer that has a colour called Green Beige. It’s brilliant to cover redness & mix with foundation. The brand is The Saem.
pls say which one is that
Etude has one too! It’s green and literally exactly my color, which is how i discovered i am olive 😂 it’s the neutral mint shade, i wish etude had a foundation with the same shade too tho 😪
Can you swatch multiple concealers next? Specially the Loreal Infallible ♥Great vid.
I’m going to suggest ELF camo concealer for this video too!
She has a few videos of concealer swatches already. 😊
She did swatch L'oreal infallible already in one of her trying on concealers videos, she has a couple.
I have the About Face in the same shade as you and really encourage you to get the Lisa E 2.5 too. It’s slightly lighter and more neutral than the About Face, but I think it’s also a bit greener. They both match me, which says a lot about how critical undertones are. I almost cried with relief 😂
Oh I’m definitely gonna pick it up! 🙌🏼
Same! I just got the about face in last Friday and I was actually so shocked when I put it on how seamlessly it blended. I saw Nicolette’s story on IG for L2O and it was too saturated so she was ordering the next one down and i just took a chance and ordered it. They’re really close, LE depending the time of year matches me pretty well, It’s just a bit lighter but the finish is also different and you get more coverage. I remember when I worked in the color dept a long time ago, a coworker told me oh you have a bit of olive in you. At the time i was more light med to med and I don’t know why i didn’t think as i stopped sunning so much i still had olive. Ive always just said neutral to warm because face to neck and body ratio so different 😊
The LE 2.5 make me look sickly and it was finicky to work with, I couldn’t find a way to make it look very good. Def want to try the about face!
@@laurendempers1315you made need a cooler or more neutral olive.
Yesss! Because of you, I realized a few years back that I'm olive. ❤ Finally it just made sense that nothing matched me. 🙄 The shades that work for you work for me as well, so I always appreciate your complexion videos, thanks! Hugs from Denmark
Looking at your picture I don’t see how you are olive
Holy crap, this video is soooo ridiculously helpful. Besides helping us see which foundations would be great if we happen to have your skin tone, but it also helps us "use our words" when describing and comparing colors. Thank you for the important reminder to let shit oxidize/dry down a bit, and to always look at colors in natural light! Alex, you are a goddamn gift.
I LOVE THIS. I got an NYX foundation that you recommended in a video a couple of years ago for my wedding and it was perfect; same with a blush. I still use both! I would love you to make this into a series (blush, lipsticks, eye shadow...)!
which Nyx? Is it still in production?
@@askalemuralia I just checked for you, and apparently it is not!! (I rarely use foundation so I have not had to buy it again since). It was the Born to Glow foundation. I've seen on reddit that they have discontinued it, and are now pushing their new BARE WITH ME BLUR foundations. I have not tried them, so I can't tell you if they are any good :( but people on reddit seem to like it.
Yep confirms I’m olive when you mention the Revlon in Buff. That’s the only one I’ve ever found to being close enough without looking orange on me. Excited to try the About Face now!
Woah! Invaluable information here for all the olive peeps around! THANK YOU SO MUCH! And yes please do a video on online makeup shopping, thanks! ;) we really appreciate you and your knowledge!🫒💚
I wish someone would do this who had a cool-olive undertone. Warm-olives are far more common than cool-olives.
Go to a subreddit called Fair Olives. You'll find it more common to be cool olive.
That's me: fair neutral-cool to cool olive. Put a neutral foundation on me, my skin pops grey-green.
I've never, in my three and a half decades of life, found a foundation that matches. Send help!
@@RexytheRexy Here's an olive-undertoned people tip for you:
Find any foundation in a formulation you love that's as close to your overall skin color as possible-which usually means its "value" matches (not too light/not too dark) but it's still looking orange (or pink) on you.
Get a bottle of Mehron Makeup Liquid Face and Body Paint in [green and/or blue] to use as a *foundation pigment corrector*. This is a professional line that is used in the film industry.
General principle: Use green if you have a bright/saturated skintone and use blue if you have a muted/desaturated skintone. But either is better than none to adjust an existing foundation that is closest to your needs to an olive-undertone.
Barely 1/16th of a drop per daily foundation application will allow you to achieve your color match. It works for all foundations, will last five years and save you $$$ as it is only $6.95.
This is completely different than a "color correctors" because which are meant to be applied to the skin *before* applying foundation and can change the formulation of your foundation.
The recommendation above is *pure pigment* meaning it will not change the formulation of your foundation.
i agree I'm light cool tone olive, but these videos are very helpful so glad people are finally realizing that olive skin can be light skin as well.
She swatched one under her video shorts
I found out this year that I'm definitely olive toned (I'd say probably neutral olive, maybe leaning on the cool side) and I always wondered why foundations NEVER looked right on me! Your skintone is definitely a reference point for me so thank you for your olive skintone related videos, this was perfect! I'm really really intrigued by the about face foundation so im probably going to pick that up asap. Much love ❤
Literally, same. Everything is too much of something on me and it’s confusing. Too yellow, too pink, too orange 😵💫
@@Kori-Barrenger same! And it doesn't help that my skin looks so different in different lighting too so when I think something is a perfect match, I go somewhere else and my face looks too orange/yellow in comparison to my neck 😫
Yesss sooo not flattering 😆 i have high hopes for this about face! And the price 💜
@@Kori-Barrengeryes! The price point is an added bonus! 😁
@@Kori-Barrenger You could be olive, or you could have a muted (or desaturated) undertone of some sort: in other words, you have some grey going on in your skin.
Lisa Eldriges Foundation in 2.5 is definately a true olive foundation. One of the best matches I ever got.
Its more muted and darker than Smashbox F10 O. In my opinion Smashbox screwed up the colors in their Always On Foundation. The previous 24h hydrating foundation, that I loved, had a better Fair Olive shade. F10 O in my opinion is not olive, its a very fair yellow. 😢
Yeah, I use the SmashBox F10 foundation as concealer or as a foundation mixer because that stuff is FULL coverage! Their next shades in the line are just all wrong.
The new shade the site indicates compared to the old one is F20W. I’ve swatched F10O, F20N and F20W and on me they all looked kinda the same, but F20W is the closest one to the old version!
Heh, yeah the Lisa Eldridge fair olive matched me so well it actually kinda weirded me out 😆
Lisa makes the best olive shades! Shade 9.5 is my perfect winter shade. I’ve never been had a real match before. It’s amazing!
Hello, I hope I won't bother you, but would you say that the Lisa Eldridge foundation in shade 2.5 has some kind of yellow tint in it ? My mom is fair/light olive and she struggles to find a greenish undertone, but she also needs a bit of yellow, it that makes sense (but not the golden one). Thank you !
Yesss thank you for the swatches! I love all the olive content 🫒
I’m light cool olive and about face olive still pulls quite orange on me. I’ve learned to look for foundations that look cool gray (not pink) or I’ll add a blue foundation mixer (I use the brand derol) to a warmer shade to tone down the yellow/orange without increasing pink! It works surprisingly well 😊
Which are ur best match?
Oh interesting which about face did you try that seemed orange. I’m a light medium cool
Olive so I’m very curious. As the other person asked. What are your closest matches?
@@catiejohnson7910 L2 olive! F2 maybe be cooler toned, but it's a bit too light for me. I don't have a perfect shade match unfortunately, but adding a blue foundation mixer to L2 olive works super well! I'm waiting to try a few Korean foundations because I've heard several brands are great for cool olives. I'm trying the purito bb cream in 21 once my order gets here 🤗
@@susjon1 I don't have one unfortunately! But adding a blue foundation mixer to the L2 olive shade works surprisingly well. It's a cheap and easy solution since almost all complexion products either pull to orange or pink 🫠 I've ordered a Korean foundation (purito bb cream in 21) because I've heard there's more selection for cool olives within that market, but I'm still waiting for my order to get here.
@@allisonmyers5874 I haven’t tried any bb creams but kgd 213 aqua is a pretty good match for me esp in the winter, it’s usually pretty expensive but I’ve been able to get it at a good price on yes style several times. I’m curious as to how these compare. I’m a yellower cool
Olive and my face is darker than my neck but a lot of things are too saturated and too golden and orange on me
Yessss please do a video for shopping foundations online - I'm a fellow green girlie
I'm excited to see an online shopping too 😊
Thank you for doing this, Alex! I def. need to get that About Face. (And yes, first thing I thought when you swatched it on your neck is that it looked a bit "pinker".) The Lighter Smashbox shade is fantastic, and it was great to be reminded about the Revlon Buff. Maybelline Fit Me 118 used to be good on me but now it's a tad too dark. And Revlon Candid 120 is a tad too light. The KVD Good Apple Balm has good light olive tones, as well. Light 8 and Medium 27 (not Medium at all). Always love new suggestions! Thanks again.
Would love to see a concealer video of how to atleast pick the best concealer for olive tones. Btw alex you were the one who opened my eyes to finally see that I am olive toned, so thank you for that!
This is great. I NEVER tried olive foundations bc I thought olive meant medium skin. I was told I was neutral. But every neutral shade looks peachy or orange on me. Then I bought Auric glow lust in Pyrite (which is my fav product ever) and realized the olive undertone might really work on my skin. Obviously that’s not a foundation but a good starting point. I’m not as fair as you but this was such a great tool to see the differences in tones and maybe try the next shade up in some of these. Just really cool/useful content! And I’m curious about the About Face foundation now!
I. Effing. Love. You. This video is so needed for us olive gals. I've learned so much about skin tone with your help! Light, warm to neutral olive here and I've spent most of my life looking gray as hell. Thank you! I would love a shopping video!
I always love listening to your videos, they're so relaxing and chill.
I bought a bottle of Revelon Buff on a whim after watching this last week, I've never had a foundation that matched my skintone before and I look A LOT like you (to the point where I actually found it a bit creepy the algorithm kept recommending your videos, seriously). I always thought my 'sickly' complexion was due to not getting enough sun, lmao. I had no idea I was an olive! I've been wearing yellow foundation for years thinking it made me look 'healthier' and golden but I just swatched Buff and it was just my skintone but even- and it looked. so. natural. Best £6 I've ever spent. I'm going to have to splurge for the higher end dupe tho as this formula sucks. Thank you for this video!
Feeling very seen here. Most foundations don’t recognize pale olive skin tones. I used to go for neutral and warm shades, but have lately been struggling lately to find a match. Since recently discovering cool tone olive is a thing, I think that’s my natural skin tone. Which is even more confusing because I always associated cool tones with pink, but for olive, it means more gray. This video is fantastic and will help olive people so much considering you’ve acknowledged there are so many shades of olive. Hopefully we can see more olive shades come out in the future!
You should try more Korean BB creams and foundations. It's terrible for deeper skin tones, but they always come through for us fair olives. I actually realized I was olive toned because of a Purito BB cream. I just grabbed the lightest shade cuz Korean makeup always has terrible shade selection but it's almost always workable. When it came it out gray I was all "wtf is this, there's no way it'll work." So of course it was almost a perfect match lmao. Then I confirmed it with a Missha BB cream, which is now my go-to when I want to glow like a disco ball. Since then nearly all of my most reliable shade matches (also for bronzer and contour) have come from K-beauty.
Thanks for giving me a few more to try though. Super glad there's more selection from the drugstore these days, especially on the lighter end. Buff from Colorstay was always a bit dark for me unless it was summer and I actually tanned instead of burning and peeling.
Revlon has changed their formulas, and they oxidize on me like crazy. Missha is my holy grail. Love to hear more Korean recs from you- it looks like we have similar coloring!
Omg the only shade that matches me are korean 21 N foundations haha funny to read that here!
I'm East Asian and I could never work out foundation, it was always too orange and gave up. I got a bb cream (skin79 triple super in pink) and it was the closest until my friend pointed out it turned grey. 10 years later I tried swatching warm foundations again and still not there😂 this video is what i needed. Olive is another undertone!
That is amazing 🤩
That first swatch has me sold as a fair cool-leaning neutral Olive ( with cool yellow + olive tones)
Foundation swatching starts 6:45
Great❤I have such a hard time finding good foundation for my pale olive skin.. my neck has literaly green shades 😅
I would also love to see video from you with your favourite lipsticks for olive skin tone ❤❤
This is by far the most amazing video I have ever watched in my entire life, Thank you!!!!! I am half share lighter than you, more towards neutral side but I have mild rosacea flare ups so I prefer very light olive tones, cant thank you enough for this awesome content!!!❤
I loved this video! I would love to see something similar for bronzers, as so many look orange on me.
YES! ❤ This was very helpful and would love a shopping video. It' so hard finding olive products 😮
I would say the about face first swatch you did and the revlon buff are dead on … this was a great video and so educational I am an olive as well ! Also on the light side !
Anything to help with figuring out foundations is greatly appreciated! Like you said, some can see colors and some can’t. Unfortunately I can’t and at 66 years old I still don’t know my skin tone. Some store “experts” say cool, some say warm and some say neutral. Some say stay away from yellow, but gold jewelry does look better on me. So confusing. Thank you for your detailed tutorials. You are such an inspiration. I love your hair! ❤
Are you telling me I’ve been olive this whole time?! This explains SO much! Wasn’t sure why I couldn’t figure out my shade even when I swatch 4 shades from the same line and I still couldn’t decide b/c they all look wrong! Sephora always swatches me as cool but next to my husband he’s very clearly pink/red and I’m not. Never thought I could be olive because I’m fair and have stereotypically western/european features (I was always told olives were medium tan/Mediterranean). I think I’m a cool olive 😱 Definitely trying about face!
Actually many European descendants are very pale olive, whether it's on neutral leaning warm or neutral leaning cool that kind of olive.
I saw like Irish descendant with so much fairer than Alexandra's skin colour and as if a white paper but she is a super pale olive very near to pure white colour.
She always struggle for her foundation colour just to make it match to her super pale skin.
All the best for your perfect match foundation ;)
You have changed my life. I have spent so much money on pinky/orangey foundations over the years. I'm fair olive that leans slightly cool, so I ordered F2 for pickup today. I am shook. It's PERFECTION.
I have been DYING to see you review Lisa eldridge's foundation in 2.5 pleeeease do it
Fantastic video Alex! At 40 years old I have never found a perfect color match so far, so I really appreciate videos like this. I wish more brands would take fair and light olive skintones into account.
I would love to see more content about this topic, it's truly helpful!
Girl, the struggle is real. I have light skin with warm olive undertones. A surprise to me because I look Irish, but my father is half native. I have purchased Armani, Haus into different colors, make up forever, make up forever, reboot, three different Mac foundations, including the face and body. There's more. Not a single match. I never returned any. This has been a costly quest. About Face, thank you and thank you Alex for showing the way.
Try macs new serum-powder foundation! It's the only foundation that matched, the colors differ from the rest of their range and it works sooo well 🙏🙏 I used N11 and it was perfection NC11 for a bit more warmth
Thank you for this! You swatched so many of the shades I’ve been wondering about for a long time! I have a light warm-olive skin tone, and it’s always a struggle finding a shade match in store. Most of the sales reps I talk to try to convince me Im light warm, but it always looks peachy on me. I’m at the point where I won’t try a foundation unless it offers an olive undertone. MAC is another brand that just won’t match!
Yay! Thank you!!!❤️
I always struggle trying to find the right shade for my olive skin!!
I’m a fair neutral (warm leaning) and it’s also really hard to find a good match. So many light foundations and concealers are often not light enough or they’re incredibly pink! So even though I’m not olive, watching your videos still helps me learn how to work around these issues and shade match better!
I'm fair neutral olive (dry skinnif it matters), and LET ME TELL YOU the Nyx serum concealer in shade 2 is THE perfect match, and shade 1 to highlight. Shade 2 literally disappears on my neck, completely undetectable. It's a concealer but it's my perfect foundation 😂
Thank you for this! Could you also go through choosing the right type of red lipstick for olive skin? It seems so hard to find a match not being too bright or fighting with the rest of my face...
Yes please to a video on how to find the right shade online ❤
That’s a great and helpful video! Thanks for doing that. Do you think you could update a video for best bronzers for olive skin? In this same sort of format. Thanks again!
This video was honestly SUCH a godsend. I've only recently found out I have olive toned light skin (I thought they were always medium! Never knew olive could be so light!) and I've wasted so much money with foundations that end up being way too orange. I feel like this is such a good start to finally find a shade that matches.
The revlon buff matches you best
Thank you so much for this video. I bought the Revlon in buff today. At first it seemed too light but like you said, once it dried down it is the perfect shade. I’m 38 & have never had a perfect colour match. Thank you xs million❣️
Alex we need COOL TONE VIDEOS TOO! nobody does it everything is always warm toned! just a suggestion!
Check out @lindseymunette! She's a fair cool olive and has lots of good recs for us cool toned lighter olive skin 😊
Wow, I've legit never seen anyones foundation match as perfectly as that does on you. Im actually insanely jealous right now lol. But im also really happy to find out about this brand that I've weirdly never heard of and I'm gonna check it out and hope I can find one to match my olive skin!
Love my olive girlies🫶🏼🫒
Never felt so seen! Your channel is so uplifting super real and helpful!💝 For the longest I always thought my undertones where yellow until I noticed green too! This was so helpful thank you!!❤ Hope to see a video on setting powders I always feel none suit my yellow green undertones.
This video is so needed and is the perfect timing! I'm on the hunt for a new foundation since Lancôme got rid of their 095 shade and changed the formula. Truly devastating cause it was my closest shade match. I'm very intrigued about the About Face one, though I'm concerned it might be too dark for me. The undertone is incredible though! Revlon Colorstay in Buff was my first foundation that I ever got a close match to! Use to be my go to! I'd have to mix a little white in there because I'm a very fair olive, but I might try it again cause it's so good. Tip I've found though is that the combo/oily and normal/dry "Buff" shades are not the same! The combo/oily one is the more olive of the two and the normal/dry is slightly more pink.
Super helpful video and I'd love to see a shopping video for sure! You and I are similar in age, skin type, tone, everything pretty much (including name lol) and you've never steered me wrong yet! Thanks for your in-depth work!
Yes, the two Revlon bottles are completely different standing one to another, the normal to oily is olive and quite lighter in my opinion. I bought them both after seeing them on this channel. They both work well, thought.
I’ve always had a hard time finding a foundation bc it’s either way too orange or way too cool. And even if I find something that’s doable it’s so obvious on my neck. I have a lot of red areas and red splotchy areas on my face which is harsh contrasted by the normal color of my skin which leaves me wondering what color foundation I need. When you said that you can really see your undertone on your neck, that made so much sense. The rest of my skin on my body is olive, but my face has always been hard for me. I’m gonna give this foundation a try once it’s back in stock!
Thanks Alex, that was very helpful. For many years I’ve had Revlon Colorstay in Buff and it’s a pretty decent match and foundation. I hope they continue this drugstore product for the wider population to be able to find a good olive shade.
Thank you for doing this content queen!!!!!
PLEASE do more videos about olive light skin, like hair colors (red/ginger hair with olive light skin!) and other make-up thingssssss
Hey, Alex! Looove this video! The timing tho, I just got me a Revlon colorstay in buff, cause I saw you recommend it in one of the videos and daaamn, the color match is so much better that everything I've tried before (and drugstore?! 🤩) Thank you so much!
P.S. please make a video like this with concealers for fair olives who only like to spot conceal ❤
Look at you sacrificing your face for us! ❤ This was so educational!
Alex, i literally saw this video today and RAN to ulta to pick up your exact shade F2 Olive it matched me perfectly??? i'm actually so stunned. i'm fair/light neutral-cool olive and have never found an exact match!! was using dior f&b 1W til now! you're the best, thank you for all your olive skin tips. xx
Hey Alex! I love your videos 💚 can we please get a video on cool olive undertones x I’d love any recommendations and tips
Thank God I found you!!!❤❤❤, I have spent soooo much money trying to find my shade, it’s truly sad😢
THIS IS THE CONTENT WE NEED
Hi Alex, I belong to the Olive tribe, medium light in my case. My loved foundations (and perfect matches) are: Dior’s Backstage 2WO for Winter and 3WO for Summer, and Armani’s Luminous Silk 5.75. For BB I use Shiseido’s Medium Sports BB (50+) and Foto Ultra Isdin Active Unify Color (99 SPF). GoodSunscreen protection and good coverage.
Did you try any of those? Love your Channel!
We neeeeeeded this!!! Thank you!
You are SOOO good! Best comprehensive content.
First of all: Thank you for this video! I am a painter and I love (and know) a colour theory and yet I know how friggin` hard it is to match a foundation! Second of all that Shiseido caught my eye, and third of all I love the look of a front teeth gap))
THANK YOU SO MUCH! This is so helpful, but I typically only wear powder foundation cuz it's easier to apply without compromising my SPF layer. PLEASE do you have any fair olive powder foundation recommendations? 🥹🙏🏻
I’m having a color analysis done in a few weeks, and I’m so excited that I’ll get to find out from a professional whether I truly am olive or if I just want to be since nothing else seems to make any sense! Lol😂 i’m not buying any colored products until after I get their opinion. If they think I’m light olive if I’m definitely heading over to try out that about face foundation!
That's exciting! I got mine done when I was like 14 or something and they told me I was a Spring but we didn't talk undertones. So I don't know if it all checks out 😂
@@AlexandraAnele yes, same here, I had mine done about 30 years ago. They told me my basic season (summer) but they didn’t tell me my sub category or my skin tone. We will see! I’m going with House of colour, who does makeup in addition to the draping. I’m super excited! I think I am a soft summer, which means I can cross into the autumn category some. From what little research I’ve done soft summers can tend to have olive skin tone.
I’ve been seriously thinking of doing a color analysis too and for the same reason… I tried doing it myself and came up with soft summer as well.
@@blogabenteuer i’m going to be happy to have a professional, with a trained eye give me their opinion. I’m so tired of guessing!
Oh my goodness, it’s so funny that you mentioned about face because I literally went into the old store with no aim or any rhyme or reason, but I stumbled upon the about face stand, and I started watching the foundation shades, and I noticed that I matched perfectly to light olive foundation shade I think it’s the l2? And wow wow wow do I really recommend it’s such a great formula. It’s literally spot on. I felt seen. I felt like I wasn’t battling the oranges or the ashiness and I felt so happy.❤❤❤❤
Alex, I'm about to cry! THIS IS A GAME CHANGER. I have been blending green pigments into my foundation for far too long!
Girl, you are reading my mind! I’m a fair olive and I’ve been going through it trying to find foundation. I was just looking at the Lisa Eldrege (sp?) last night and would love to see how 2.5 compares with the top contenders here. Also would love to see which Fenty ease drop stick matches you best. Thanks for doing the work
Great video! I got my Lisa Eldridge 2.5 (and the darker 9.5 olive shade to mix in a little for summer) in the mail yesterday and the 2.5 is perfect for winter shade. Def get it! And yes please to shopping vid!
Medium tan neutral olive here 🙋🏽♀️ I always had such a hard time with foundation in my 20s, I didn’t know I was olive. I assumed I had a yellow/warm undertone like the rest of the women in my family. All foundation looked awful on me, made me look like a ghoul. Been watching you for years and learned about my undertone. Alex is one of the few beauty TH-camrs I trust🤘🏽🖤
OMG i was referred to you and I’m sooo thankful!!!!! No one talks about how orange foundations that are “warm” get when I’m looking for a yellow undertone… and finally I found someone that explains it!!!! Thank you so much!!!! ❤🙏🏼🥰
I was on another TH-camr's live chat when someone requesting advice on finding a foundation for fair olive complexions. I told her to watch your channel since you are most definitely the pro in this subject.
The About face foundation better never get discontinued, I have never found a color match this good and the formula is amazing. Ive gotten so many compliments since i started wearing it. Now they need to launch a concealer.
omg you're a god sent! the last 15 years its been impossible for me to find a perfect match because I'm olive skinned but fair/ light. thank you thank you thank you. much love from London xxx
Love this video! I totally geek out on color theory!
I need to check my shade for Colorstay because I think it is the same one you have in here which could explain why i never find a shade that works for me. Remember the Missha BB cream and people were like " it's gray!" And I was like it's the best color match Ive ever had lol.
I don't have olive skin as much as translucent petal but even still, I learned a lot about colors, tones, undertones and how to actually shop for foundation so thanks, my olive friend!
I always mix in a green opaque primer. Fixes everything. I use the one from Catrice. Learned this from the olivemua subreddit.
I ran and got the about face in L2 olive and it matches my skin tone perfectly. Thank you so much!!
just came here to say that i’m STOKED at the About Face foundation. first foundation to really match my undertones :’) so grateful for your recommendations and for these swatch comparisons! i love love love your videos! ❤
I'm glad you mentioned redness on olive skin because I saw a vid where they said there's a common saying "olive doesn't blush" and I was really confused. I'm a mid olive and I can get a super red face!
I remember when I started looking seriously for a foundation match, and was so confused when I KNEW I had olive undertones for years, but nothing at Sephora was even called "olive." Silly me, I assumed there would be! Warm, cool, neutral only. I was shocked that nothing at all matched me. I might have been fair-medium back then, but I'm fair now since I've been using sunscreen religiously. I started with assuming I was warm/orange (and I think the people trying to help me did, too), but I wasn't, so I go for neutral fair shades these days. I tried adding green color corrector to my foundation like you suggested, and that was really helpful, but most of the time I can't be bothered to do the mixing and just need to slap something on my face. I can't wait to try some that are genuinely for olive folks! I appreciate you, Alex!
Thanks, Alex! It's so crazy that finding a correct foundation color is next to impossible. I appreciate you swatching all those.
I know a lot of people have a problem with using foundations with doe foot applicators but they usually never complain about concealers with doe foots. The complaint is always because of sanitary reasons but we apply concealer under our eyes, down the bridge of our noses, on our foreheads and chins, down the sides of our noses, and/or in any random area of our faces to spot conceal, etc., which means the doe foots in our concealer tubes touch a large portion of our faces as well. Concealer can and has been applied with a doe foot all over the face as foundation yet you don't hear the same complaint. I actually prefer doe foots in my foundation bottles now. I used to prefer pumps only until they started putting large dot foot applicators in them. Now doe foots are my fave.