And don’t forget, there’s then the struggle of once you know your undertone, buying products labelled with that undertone, only for them to be COMPLETELY OFF 😭 like I just swatched some of the elf soft glam foundation, and regardless of their listed undertone, they were all straight up yellow 🥴
@@siddayeShe just came back from India, so she may have tanned there. And/or she looks tanned because the lighting and angle is different than it is in her short videos 😊
@@siddaye no lol actually im more tan right now than I am in this video... this was filmed pre india trip. Its a different 4K camera. I film my shorts on my iphone.
So fun to make this video together! I hope this can be a helpful reference for people who want to know more about undertones and finding the most flattering shades for themselves! 🎨 The Color Theory Girls are always here to help!!
It's been hard finding neutral foundations for my brown skin tone, makeup companies seem to think if you're brown, you're warm. Thank you for doing this video! ♥️♥️♥️
Truth. I'm a 360N teint idole (I used to be 380N but they don't have that now... looks like its 355N now as well.) Their N is N! If that's too pricey, try L'oreal which is the same company just the step down in price and packaging.
Even more difficult to find (unless you use mixing drops of pigment): cool toned black people. Well, first of all you' ll have to argue with those who don' t conceive that a black person can be pink undertoned😤🤬. Remember the tv show Chicago Fire? Their cast is my personal _“Human Skin Illustrated Bible"_ . The character Chief Boden, played by Eamonn Walker is the perfect example (especially because you can see his face side by side with other black or biracial actors). He is clearly *deep magenta* leaning purple when the light hits💓💜 while others are golden or orange. Shot out the the MUA' s of this show because I can tell you that his skin, sadly, doesn' t come in a bottle yet🤦🏻♀️. Hellow, XXIst Century????!!!!! As a bottle of olive oil with legs myself, I can imagine your struggle to find a perfect matching foundation... 🧛🏻♀️🖤
Nyx has a green colour corrector concealer (think it's called the HD concealer).. works better than eyeshadow imo because it's also a liquid.. elf also has one.
1996. Not me scraping some MAC _Fiction_ eyeshadow😅. It also added a glowy without particles finish to my cement matte foundation. 90’ s matte hit different👻😜.
I was in my 50s before I came to realize that I was a PALE GREEN girlie!! It was a revelation that helped me understand why NO foundations matched me. 🤯🤯
I have the same problem. I'm a super pale neutral olive and it took FOREVER to figure out why I couldn't ever find a match. Plus, I have the lupus butterfly rash, so the people at Sephora would always get thrown off thinking I'm ruddy.7
@melissatmatalamaki and I have rosacea! So...same! No one understands that, when calm and healthy, my natural skin tone is a slightly gray, pale green. 🤷♀️
@@tomlinson1107 True Story: "Why is your face so pink but your neck+chest are that sick yellow-green?" 😤Because you keep on telling me that this 🌸 is my foundation shade and this is, if something, my pink cream blush!!!!😡". Let me calm down and you' ll see my actual olive oil face... 🧛🏻♀️🖤
i have been seeing y’all’s short form versions of this concept and i always SAW what you were saying but with the long form, multi-example video i feel like i’m actually understanding!😭 thank you🤎 love your videos, so informative!
I LOVE you for including pics of medium brown skin for warm/neutral/cool olives. It's one of the little things that matter for those who struggle to find references (and good ones at that- there's so much misleading sh!t about olive skin tones online). Thank you, from this warm olive who mixes green concealer with almost everything 💚
This is really well done. I used to work in the cosmetic industry before it became aware of color theory ( I’m 69 ) and this kind of knowledge was greatly needed. Make up has gotten so much more sophisticated , especially for brown complexions . Keep up the good work.
The vein test is the one that finally helped me work out my undertone after ages of looking online for how to find it and always just being confused by how undertone was talked about. I looked at my wrist and saw purple, blue, and green, and it finally made sense. Most of the advice I’d seen online had really specific examples for warm and cool undertones but not neutral.
@@Kraken_1098i have the same problems, my veins literally have those 3. But for years I finally understand that I am neutral but more to the warm side. I think the easiest way to see is to try to use some cool undertones makeup on your bare face, especially lips products. I think muted colors work best, but my face looks so bad on cool undertones, but still looks better with warm undertones.
@@galgal_is ahh, I see. Thanks for sharing this. I mostly wear lip products and blushes and tend to avoid these with red/orange/terracotta undertones because they pull warm on me and wash me out. Berry and candy pink tones look very natural on me. I have a feeling that I might not even be neutral but actually cool toned lol. Since I have light brown skin but I'm not fair, it's very difficult for me to accurately guess my undertones.
I also have the three vein colors and I love both golds and silvers, I consider myself neutral but I still don't know if I'm olive or just more into cold tones
Your video is helpful. Skin tones are complicated. I only found out about five years ago that my deep skin is mostly yellow/warm, a tiny bit neutral, and some olive undertone (you say overtone?). I discovered this ONLY because a custom-blended luminous loose powder I bought always looked casket-ready grey on my skin -- by the time I figured this out, it was too late to return. After speaking to the company and looking at the MUA's formula, I discovered the in-store MUA who made the powder had messed up: added too much extender, not enough of some colors, and didn't bother telling me he couldn't make my exact shade (he also messed up on the custom-blend foundation). So, I spent ~$140 on his mistakes -- 😭. I wanted to save my investment and fixed the powder by adding powders I already had: color-correcting and regular, deeper shades -- including green, yellow, apricot, deep, and tan. Kept tweaking the mix until it matched perfectly. Finally fixed! It was complicated, but happy to save my giant 30 g/~$60 powder. Sorry for this long post, but if your makeup looks grey, that's a clue it's time to find your true shade & undertone. Go outside and look at the makeup in daylight before plunking down your hard-earned $$$.
Omg I wish I could come and do a whole color theory undertone consultation with y’all!! I’ve tried all these tests but it’s so hard to figure out on a budget… you really have to shamelessly beg for Sephora samples 😅❤ love that y’all keep educating on this topic!
I didnt even know there was something called an olive undertone before. I was always frustrated that i couldnt find a proper match for my foundation and liosticks i bought on recommendations of influencers whose skintones are close to mine never looked the same on me. But then i found Monica's channel and you have absolutely vhanged my life I finally understood why all that was happening and you have no idea of the relief i felt to realise that nothing's wrong with me and it was actually pretty common. I used to feel so horrid like why is my skin tone like this and whatnot. I felt like an outlier. Like thank you so much!! I have finally put all my insecurities about my skintone to rest
Wow the video really covered many things in a great way. Mixing green pigment in your foundation and lipstick did make a great difference. And that rust orange colour looked too good on you .
Came from your recent short-form video talking about olive makeup on your olive undertone! I loved the MOB Beauty colors and would love to see a long-form video reviewing the brand!
A lot of people don't realise you can be a light olive tone, too. Since I figured this out, I have stopped wasting money on trying so many different foundations. I always used Revlon buff and couldn't understand why I couldn't find anything else that matched my skin. Doesn't help that they changed the colour slightly in recent years.
holy shit best explanation of olive tones ever! thank you I've been especially confused about blush and lip products and the saturation issue is the problem.
This video helped me figure out why my makeup has always felt off - I’m an olive girly! I always thought that couldn’t be the case because I’m really pale, but I’m Italian American and combining my foundation with green worked WONDERS! Thank you so much you guys are literally lifesavers 😭❤
Omg!!!Thank you for actually showing the different shades of blue and orange and showing us what works and what doesn’t . I could visually notice the difference and actually understood what you were talking about 😌😌😌
I’m so glad to watch you longer form content! You’re one of my favorite creators, but I normally only catch you on Shorts. Great, informative video! ❤❤
This is so useful! Explaining olive as an overtone vs an undertone really helped in my understanding of it. Thanks for making this video, hope to see more like it in the future :)
Thank you, this is a very helpful guide. I need to get this green pigment to finally check if I'm indeed olive-toned. For the longest time I thought I was actually cool-undertoned, because of the greenish-yellowish hue my skin has, but whenever I tried to wear cool-toned makeup, I looked like a corpse. I figured out that in reality I'm kinda warm-toned, but more leaning toward yellow than orange, which is also a hell to work with, especially since in my country, most of the drugstore brands deliver orange foundation. Not sure why is this so prevalent in a slavic country, but the trend of "copper tan" is ever so strong since I remember. Not sure if makeup brands still try to follow that or what knowing that's what most people want, but it's really rare this orange foundation does any good to anyone.
@@makeupbymonicaa it was so intresting i ve just started getting into make up and my foundation matching skills have been horrible so it was so fun to hear and actually understand what undertone I was from a fellow brown girl
I love you so much, thank you for this video u have no idea, ive only seen shorts or tik toks abt color theory and they never cover it all, jus blushes and lipsticks, this was so needed.
Not only EVERYTHING in this video, but when you’re drawing/painting/rating humans in any form, OF COURSE YOU USE ORANGE! Human skin is desaturated orange. You add white, grey, and black when you’re doing digital. With actual paint, you have more time for mixing but still. If you colour drop any human, especially in sunlight, it’ll be yellow or orange when you ramp up that saturation. Any and all undertones are just how the skin looks when it’s got blood going thru it. The deceased have no undertones for that very reason.
The color of your lips can influence which lipstick shade is most flattering as well. The blue color adjuster always comes in clutch for me. I'm also a neutral olive undertone.
Thank you so much! I’ve been trying to figure out for the LONGEST time what my undertone is. Now I have a better understanding of how to determine that for myself 🙌🏽 You brown girl approved makeup videos have completely changed the way I shop and look for makeup that works for my skin 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽❤️❤️❤️
This is the BEST video I’ve watched here from your yt channel.🤩 (and I watch you A LOT here😉😁) It’s been YEARS I have been trying to discover my skin tone. And in Nov/2025 I have started adding a small drop of green contour on my foundation because I suspected I could be “olive”. Well… I guess I really am, after your video.🥹 Thank you VERY much, ‘cause here (Brazil🇧🇷) it’s a complete tabu and almost no one understands olive undertone to give proper advice about. Thanks a bunch.🙌🏼🙏🏼 (from faaar away🤗🇧🇷👍🏼)
like muted colours look good on me but i cant really tell my undertone cuz i sometimes think i might be biased on colours i like personally but this video is so in-depth and detailed i figured out i and am a green girlly but i sill need to figure out my undertone. love your videos cuz u are so detailed with everything especially as an Indian , i wasn't able to find many influencers who understood my struggles and also had solutions to them
being someone w/ medium tan skin & a HEAVILY COOL pink undertone, it has literally taken me 16 yrs to figure out what suits me better. (been doing crusty af makeup since i was 12 lmao) TY TY TY so much for this!!!! i feel like there’s so many cool toned brown ppl who have been done dirty by the makeup industry for soooo long !!!
The demos made me audibly gasp! I already knew I was olive but watching the color theory magic on others is so crazy! This is such a brilliant video 👏👏
loved the explanation, but i never seems to find my right tone, some days I'm more neutral than olive, and some others i look more warmer than neutral. Some day will find the right name for my tone and undertone
I've watched sooooooo many undertone test videos till I found this, such a revelation! Lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and lately local make up entrepreneur has finally adding olive shades in their foundation products
This is so helpful! I’m at almost the exact same colouring as Jaz. I am always struggling finding the right colours for literally everything to do with makeup. Thank you!
Love this video this is perfect to find the perfect makeup you need and stuff but the colors that you wear or you wear doesn’t matter it’s all about your confidence❤
This probably explains why every red lipstick I have ever tried makes me look like a clown. Still haven’t found one that looks good on me, but I like the idea of the added pigments, especially the green. Olive toned over here and it can be a struggle. Appreciate this information!
Always loved your color theory videos together and loved that you guys did this. With the vein test Im neutral undertone. Most of my foundations lean on the golden warm side. I think i may be neutral leaning on the warmer skin tone. I wear mostly silver jewlery cause i looks better one me 😊
I need professional help to understand my undertone/ overtone 😭😭😭 10:35 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Monica, you should have done a masterclass on this in Bangalore. It would have been very helpful for a lot of us to attend a class in person. Can we have an online masterclass ?
I recently started wearing dark green tops and it’s my new fav color! I’m gonna call it desaturated green now and I think I have olive overtone too because the green looks nice on me. But I’m still unsure of my undertone. Will try the blush test and see if where I lean
I love this and Monica was the reason I realized I myself am neutral olive light-medium and not just warm light -medium. Still have a lot of problems finding flattering red shades of lippies though lmao. Sticking with mauve pinks, terracotta nudes and straight up browns is all I can do
And hardly anyone makes a foundation for olive undertones. Especially medium brown skin with olive undertones. Yes green 😅. None of those yellow, gray, or orange used in the mix for foundations work. So use a drop of green colour corrector. Two faced used to have one, then they changed the packaging and the formula.
So, this might have tipped me off that I’ve got olive tones… I think I’m neutral but leaning warm, I’ve never felt like I totally fit into either. I think the olive might explain it. Started looking at my face and noting a green-gray tinge in the shadows of my skin. Explains why I don’t wear foundation, I’ve literally never found a shade match and have been matched as both warm and neutral before
Thank you so much for this video!! I had a hard time finding out my undertone but this video helped me! Now I found out that I am a medium skin girly with a neutral undertone! Shout-out to your bestie Jazlmao too! 🩵🩵
Look at *BIG FAT THICK VEINS ONLY* please🙏🏼. We all have a bunch of mixed little capillaries on the wrists 💚💙💜💖 no matter what our undertone is. Wrists are the most confusing place. Breasts (especially if they never tan) and biceps have the best veins to easily tell if they are 💙 or 💚. 🧛🏻♀️🖤
THANK YOU SO MUCH I’ve genuinely watched ALL your shorts and I was literally just thinking how I still can’t figure out my undertone. You read my mind. This helps SO much I appreciate you both taking the time to make this long form content!!
The best product IMO to test is Charlotte Tilbury pillow talk eyeshadow. If you are cool, that stuff is straight up orange on your lid. If not, it looks like the pretty pink it claims to be. 😊
My test results were: blue-green veins silver or rose gold jewelry look best. I look best in bright blushes and lipsticks Any makeup that is too warm pulls orange on me, but ALSO anything very cool pulls purpley or even gray on me. Most foundations pull too yellow on me. (I once had a pink color corrector match me as well as or maybe better than some of my foundations.😅) I feel like I'm neutral, leaning cool based on that? PS I went wedding dress shopping today, and pure white looked way better on me than ivory or off-white shades. It also brought out the cool/pink tones in my skin in ways I haven't seen before (I almost never wear white).
The test with the clothes is so easy to determine what washes you out and what compliments you. When I did it we started with gold/silver sheets to determine warm or cool and then from bright colors to muted ones..like if you’re pale as me or jaz if you wear orange you’ll look orange 😆 i saw how my skin turned orange as soon she put orange under my face.
Oh, and maybe a question - what do you think about fair olive skin tone? I once tried to get a foundation matching at Sephora and was very discouraged when the lady told me that olive tone is only for a dark skin. I can get really tanned in the summer and then the greenish hue shows more, but when I get pale in the winter, it doesn't suddenly disappear I guess. Or am I wrong?
And don’t forget, there’s then the struggle of once you know your undertone, buying products labelled with that undertone, only for them to be COMPLETELY OFF 😭 like I just swatched some of the elf soft glam foundation, and regardless of their listed undertone, they were all straight up yellow 🥴
That’s a whoooole other topic 😂 I’m convinced ppl don’t know they’re undertone because these makeup brands don’t know themselves 💀
Did you tan your skin at all it looks like you have a tan @@makeupbymonicaa
@@siddayeShe just came back from India, so she may have tanned there. And/or she looks tanned because the lighting and angle is different than it is in her short videos 😊
@@meghanadontireddy6002 okay cause that's gonna throw things off
@@siddaye no lol actually im more tan right now than I am in this video... this was filmed pre india trip. Its a different 4K camera. I film my shorts on my iphone.
So fun to make this video together! I hope this can be a helpful reference for people who want to know more about undertones and finding the most flattering shades for themselves! 🎨 The Color Theory Girls are always here to help!!
YASSS im so happy we made this video ❤❤❤
@@makeupbymonicaaMonica, what would be someone's undertone if pink lipsticks pull mauve/purple on them?
@@Kraken_1098leaning warmer usually!
AS SOMEONE WHO STRUGGLES W FINDING THE RIGHT FOUNDATION SHADE BECAUSE I CANT TELL MY UNDERTONE THIS VIDEO IS A BLESSING
I’m so happy to help!! I hope this video helps ❤
same 😭😭😭😭
It's been hard finding neutral foundations for my brown skin tone, makeup companies seem to think if you're brown, you're warm. Thank you for doing this video! ♥️♥️♥️
I knowww 😢 the foundations in our range is so orange 😭😭
Truth. I'm a 360N teint idole (I used to be 380N but they don't have that now... looks like its 355N now as well.) Their N is N! If that's too pricey, try L'oreal which is the same company just the step down in price and packaging.
I'm black and was always told to pick warm undertones. Still had to mix most of my makeup until I figured out I was neutral last yr🙄.
Same!!!
They did us dirty🥹😭😭@@skyelynnae
Even more difficult to find (unless you use mixing drops of pigment): cool toned black people. Well, first of all you' ll have to argue with those who don' t conceive that a black person can be pink undertoned😤🤬. Remember the tv show Chicago Fire? Their cast is my personal _“Human Skin Illustrated Bible"_ . The character Chief Boden, played by Eamonn Walker is the perfect example (especially because you can see his face side by side with other black or biracial actors). He is clearly *deep magenta* leaning purple when the light hits💓💜 while others are golden or orange. Shot out the the MUA' s of this show because I can tell you that his skin, sadly, doesn' t come in a bottle yet🤦🏻♀️. Hellow, XXIst Century????!!!!!
As a bottle of olive oil with legs myself, I can imagine your struggle to find a perfect matching foundation...
🧛🏻♀️🖤
I mixed a sage green eyeshadow into my foundation and now it's a perfect match thank you💀
Lol, so happy that you made it work though! Especially because it saved you from buying a new product ❤
Nyx has a green colour corrector concealer (think it's called the HD concealer).. works better than eyeshadow imo because it's also a liquid.. elf also has one.
@@quintecence thanks for the rec I was looking at color correctors!
@@meghanadontireddy6002definitely lol
1996. Not me scraping some MAC _Fiction_ eyeshadow😅. It also added a glowy without particles finish to my cement matte foundation. 90’ s matte hit different👻😜.
I was in my 50s before I came to realize that I was a PALE GREEN girlie!! It was a revelation that helped me understand why NO foundations matched me. 🤯🤯
I have the same problem. I'm a super pale neutral olive and it took FOREVER to figure out why I couldn't ever find a match. Plus, I have the lupus butterfly rash, so the people at Sephora would always get thrown off thinking I'm ruddy.7
@melissatmatalamaki and I have rosacea! So...same! No one understands that, when calm and healthy, my natural skin tone is a slightly gray, pale green. 🤷♀️
@@tomlinson1107 True Story: "Why is your face so pink but your neck+chest are that sick yellow-green?" 😤Because you keep on telling me that this 🌸 is my foundation shade and this is, if something, my pink cream blush!!!!😡". Let me calm down and you' ll see my actual olive oil face...
🧛🏻♀️🖤
@@sebumpostmortemthiiiiiiiiissss!!!! ❤
i have been seeing y’all’s short form versions of this concept and i always SAW what you were saying but with the long form, multi-example video i feel like i’m actually understanding!😭 thank you🤎 love your videos, so informative!
YAYY!! It’s a complicated concept and 3 minutes isn’t enough to understand it 😂 so this was very needed
the ULTIMATE colour theory DUO!
👯👯♀️
Here I am, a black AND brown girly, with all kinds of foundation issues 😫 lol.
This was really in-depth info. Thank you.
I LOVE you for including pics of medium brown skin for warm/neutral/cool olives. It's one of the little things that matter for those who struggle to find references (and good ones at that- there's so much misleading sh!t about olive skin tones online). Thank you, from this warm olive who mixes green concealer with almost everything 💚
This is really well done. I used to work in the cosmetic industry before it became aware of color theory ( I’m 69 ) and this kind of knowledge was greatly needed. Make up has gotten so much more sophisticated , especially for brown complexions . Keep up the good work.
The vein test is the one that finally helped me work out my undertone after ages of looking online for how to find it and always just being confused by how undertone was talked about. I looked at my wrist and saw purple, blue, and green, and it finally made sense. Most of the advice I’d seen online had really specific examples for warm and cool undertones but not neutral.
Girl I also have blue, purple and green veins but I feel I lean on the cooler spectrum of neutral. Are you more warm or cool leaning?
@@Kraken_1098i have the same problems, my veins literally have those 3. But for years I finally understand that I am neutral but more to the warm side. I think the easiest way to see is to try to use some cool undertones makeup on your bare face, especially lips products. I think muted colors work best, but my face looks so bad on cool undertones, but still looks better with warm undertones.
@@galgal_is ahh, I see. Thanks for sharing this. I mostly wear lip products and blushes and tend to avoid these with red/orange/terracotta undertones because they pull warm on me and wash me out. Berry and candy pink tones look very natural on me. I have a feeling that I might not even be neutral but actually cool toned lol. Since I have light brown skin but I'm not fair, it's very difficult for me to accurately guess my undertones.
I also have the three vein colors and I love both golds and silvers, I consider myself neutral but I still don't know if I'm olive or just more into cold tones
as a brown girl thank you so much for making a video like this, i have been struggling for the longest time ever but now you have saved me!!
So informative and well explained! I love that you emphasised upon wearing whatever colours you like!
Favvv color theory duo 🤎
Your video is helpful. Skin tones are complicated. I only found out about five years ago that my deep skin is mostly yellow/warm, a tiny bit neutral, and some olive undertone (you say overtone?). I discovered this ONLY because a custom-blended luminous loose powder I bought always looked casket-ready grey on my skin -- by the time I figured this out, it was too late to return. After speaking to the company and looking at the MUA's formula, I discovered the in-store MUA who made the powder had messed up: added too much extender, not enough of some colors, and didn't bother telling me he couldn't make my exact shade (he also messed up on the custom-blend foundation). So, I spent ~$140 on his mistakes -- 😭. I wanted to save my investment and fixed the powder by adding powders I already had: color-correcting and regular, deeper shades -- including green, yellow, apricot, deep, and tan. Kept tweaking the mix until it matched perfectly. Finally fixed! It was complicated, but happy to save my giant 30 g/~$60 powder.
Sorry for this long post, but if your makeup looks grey, that's a clue it's time to find your true shade & undertone. Go outside and look at the makeup in daylight before plunking down your hard-earned $$$.
Omg I wish I could come and do a whole color theory undertone consultation with y’all!! I’ve tried all these tests but it’s so hard to figure out on a budget… you really have to shamelessly beg for Sephora samples 😅❤ love that y’all keep educating on this topic!
THANKYOU THANKYOU IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS AS A BROWN GIRLIE ❤️
YAYYY I’m so glad ❤ I hope this helps
I didnt even know there was something called an olive undertone before. I was always frustrated that i couldnt find a proper match for my foundation and liosticks i bought on recommendations of influencers whose skintones are close to mine never looked the same on me.
But then i found Monica's channel and you have absolutely vhanged my life
I finally understood why all that was happening and you have no idea of the relief i felt to realise that nothing's wrong with me and it was actually pretty common.
I used to feel so horrid like why is my skin tone like this and whatnot.
I felt like an outlier.
Like thank you so much!!
I have finally put all my insecurities about my skintone to rest
As someone starting off with makeup, this video really helps. Thank you so much
I'm so glad! Ty for watching ❤
Wow the video really covered many things in a great way. Mixing green pigment in your foundation and lipstick did make a great difference. And that rust orange colour looked too good on you .
Came from your recent short-form video talking about olive makeup on your olive undertone! I loved the MOB Beauty colors and would love to see a long-form video reviewing the brand!
A lot of people don't realise you can be a light olive tone, too. Since I figured this out, I have stopped wasting money on trying so many different foundations. I always used Revlon buff and couldn't understand why I couldn't find anything else that matched my skin. Doesn't help that they changed the colour slightly in recent years.
The long-awaited video is finally here!❤
holy shit best explanation of olive tones ever! thank you I've been especially confused about blush and lip products and the saturation issue is the problem.
This video helped me figure out why my makeup has always felt off - I’m an olive girly! I always thought that couldn’t be the case because I’m really pale, but I’m Italian American and combining my foundation with green worked WONDERS! Thank you so much you guys are literally lifesavers 😭❤
Omg!!!Thank you for actually showing the different shades of blue and orange and showing us what works and what doesn’t . I could visually notice the difference and actually understood what you were talking about 😌😌😌
love the long form content ❤❤
I’m so glad to watch you longer form content! You’re one of my favorite creators, but I normally only catch you on Shorts. Great, informative video! ❤❤
Loving the long-form content! Please consider making more :3
Every week baby!!!
@@makeupbymonicaa Yay!! Thank you for all the work you do 🎉. So excited 😊
Do People think having olive undertone means luking like Shrek?? 😭
I think so honestly 😂
This is so useful! Explaining olive as an overtone vs an undertone really helped in my understanding of it. Thanks for making this video, hope to see more like it in the future :)
Thank you, this is a very helpful guide. I need to get this green pigment to finally check if I'm indeed olive-toned. For the longest time I thought I was actually cool-undertoned, because of the greenish-yellowish hue my skin has, but whenever I tried to wear cool-toned makeup, I looked like a corpse. I figured out that in reality I'm kinda warm-toned, but more leaning toward yellow than orange, which is also a hell to work with, especially since in my country, most of the drugstore brands deliver orange foundation. Not sure why is this so prevalent in a slavic country, but the trend of "copper tan" is ever so strong since I remember. Not sure if makeup brands still try to follow that or what knowing that's what most people want, but it's really rare this orange foundation does any good to anyone.
Loving the return of the beauty influencer to TH-cam ❤️✨️ I think we might have picked the right people this time.
omgggg this is gonnna actually be amazing I cant wait!!!
Lmk what you think!!
@@makeupbymonicaa it was so intresting i ve just started getting into make up and my foundation matching skills have been horrible so it was so fun to hear and actually understand what undertone I was from a fellow brown girl
also I have been loving ur long-form videos💓im always waiting for new content from you
This is one of those videos that requires multiple viewings - each time I will be learning something new.
Thank you ❤❤
I love you so much, thank you for this video u have no idea, ive only seen shorts or tik toks abt color theory and they never cover it all, jus blushes and lipsticks, this was so needed.
Not only EVERYTHING in this video, but when you’re drawing/painting/rating humans in any form, OF COURSE YOU USE ORANGE! Human skin is desaturated orange. You add white, grey, and black when you’re doing digital. With actual paint, you have more time for mixing but still. If you colour drop any human, especially in sunlight, it’ll be yellow or orange when you ramp up that saturation. Any and all undertones are just how the skin looks when it’s got blood going thru it. The deceased have no undertones for that very reason.
The color of your lips can influence which lipstick shade is most flattering as well.
The blue color adjuster always comes in clutch for me. I'm also a neutral olive undertone.
Monica you’re a makeup teacher! I really thought I was a warm girl but now I think I’m neutral! I’m gonna buy the pigments and check em out!
Awesome!! Thank you two so much! ❤🎉
Thank you so much! I’ve been trying to figure out for the LONGEST time what my undertone is. Now I have a better understanding of how to determine that for myself 🙌🏽 You brown girl approved makeup videos have completely changed the way I shop and look for makeup that works for my skin 🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽❤️❤️❤️
Great video, very informative. I am curious of your take on purple blush shade range for warm/olive skin.
This is the BEST video I’ve watched here from your yt channel.🤩 (and I watch you A LOT here😉😁)
It’s been YEARS I have been trying to discover my skin tone. And in Nov/2025 I have started adding a small drop of green contour on my foundation because I suspected I could be “olive”.
Well… I guess I really am, after your video.🥹
Thank you VERY much, ‘cause here (Brazil🇧🇷) it’s a complete tabu and almost no one understands olive undertone to give proper advice about.
Thanks a bunch.🙌🏼🙏🏼 (from faaar away🤗🇧🇷👍🏼)
like muted colours look good on me but i cant really tell my undertone cuz i sometimes think i might be biased on colours i like personally
but this video is so in-depth and detailed i figured out i and am a green girlly but i sill need to figure out my undertone.
love your videos cuz u are so detailed with everything especially as an Indian , i wasn't able to find many influencers who understood my struggles and also had solutions to them
being someone w/ medium tan skin & a HEAVILY COOL pink undertone, it has literally taken me 16 yrs to figure out what suits me better. (been doing crusty af makeup since i was 12 lmao)
TY TY TY so much for this!!!! i feel like there’s so many cool toned brown ppl who have been done dirty by the makeup industry for soooo long !!!
I'm obsessed with this informative beauty content! Tysm
I WAS WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO! THANK YOU 💖
The demos made me audibly gasp! I already knew I was olive but watching the color theory magic on others is so crazy! This is such a brilliant video 👏👏
Thank you for this! Very informative. Will continue to use what I have and then put into play what I’ve learned from this.
loved the explanation, but i never seems to find my right tone, some days I'm more neutral than olive, and some others i look more warmer
than neutral. Some day will find the right name for my tone and undertone
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thank you for such an informative video!! loving your migration over to long form content ❤
This is the first video I’ve seen which isn’t a short. 10/10
I love this girl combo
I've watched sooooooo many undertone test videos till I found this, such a revelation! Lives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and lately local make up entrepreneur has finally adding olive shades in their foundation products
Love the video! Would love to see Monica try Lisa Eldridge products for olive undertones
You guys are my favourites especially when it comes to colour theory
I’ve been wanting to know my skin tone forever, it’s one of the main reasons why I don’t use foundations. Thank you
This is so helpful! I’m at almost the exact same colouring as Jaz. I am always struggling finding the right colours for literally everything to do with makeup. Thank you!
Love this video this is perfect to find the perfect makeup you need and stuff but the colors that you wear or you wear doesn’t matter it’s all about your confidence❤
I have always struggled with understanding how undertones work but this video had everything!
This probably explains why every red lipstick I have ever tried makes me look like a clown. Still haven’t found one that looks good on me, but I like the idea of the added pigments, especially the green. Olive toned over here and it can be a struggle. Appreciate this information!
This was super helpful, I’ve been struggling to find my undertone, Thank youu ❤
Always loved your color theory videos together and loved that you guys did this. With the vein test Im neutral undertone. Most of my foundations lean on the golden warm side. I think i may be neutral leaning on the warmer skin tone. I wear mostly silver jewlery cause i looks better one me 😊
This was such a a helpful video!!
Thank you! This video was so good, and easy to understand for someone like me who is getting started with make up a bit later in life ❤
I need professional help to understand my undertone/ overtone 😭😭😭 10:35 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Monica, you should have done a masterclass on this in Bangalore. It would have been very helpful for a lot of us to attend a class in person. Can we have an online masterclass ?
GIRL I LOVE YOU I NEEDED THIS 😭
I recently started wearing dark green tops and it’s my new fav color! I’m gonna call it desaturated green now and I think I have olive overtone too because the green looks nice on me. But I’m still unsure of my undertone. Will try the blush test and see if where I lean
This is so educational. I enjoyed this!
love your channel!! you’re amazing🩷🫶🏻
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The dream team ia back 🎉🎉
Great video, very helpful! This insight may explain why i’m drawn to a very deep, forest green as a cool-toned, fair-skinned person!
ughhh everyone say thank you miss monica and jaz our saviours in makeup xx
This video could have saved me a lot of money buying products that I only used once. Thank you .
I love this and Monica was the reason I realized I myself am neutral olive light-medium and not just warm light -medium. Still have a lot of problems finding flattering red shades of lippies though lmao. Sticking with mauve pinks, terracotta nudes and straight up browns is all I can do
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I love watching your longer form content💗
And hardly anyone makes a foundation for olive undertones. Especially medium brown skin with olive undertones. Yes green 😅. None of those yellow, gray, or orange used in the mix for foundations work. So use a drop of green colour corrector. Two faced used to have one, then they changed the packaging and the formula.
Thank you for this video. Much needed one❤
So, this might have tipped me off that I’ve got olive tones… I think I’m neutral but leaning warm, I’ve never felt like I totally fit into either. I think the olive might explain it. Started looking at my face and noting a green-gray tinge in the shadows of my skin. Explains why I don’t wear foundation, I’ve literally never found a shade match and have been matched as both warm and neutral before
the best makeup sister out there!!!!
Some of my makeup pulls too orange on me so I needed this video!! Thank you!!
Thank you so much for this video!! I had a hard time finding out my undertone but this video helped me! Now I found out that I am a medium skin girly with a neutral undertone!
Shout-out to your bestie Jazlmao too! 🩵🩵
Look at *BIG FAT THICK VEINS ONLY* please🙏🏼. We all have a bunch of mixed little capillaries on the wrists 💚💙💜💖 no matter what our undertone is. Wrists are the most confusing place. Breasts (especially if they never tan) and biceps have the best veins to easily tell if they are 💙 or 💚.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH I’ve genuinely watched ALL your shorts and I was literally just thinking how I still can’t figure out my undertone. You read my mind. This helps SO much I appreciate you both taking the time to make this long form content!!
Needed this video! Been struggling figuring out my undertone!!
Omg love this detailed video on color theory😍😍 I enjoyed every bit of it. Hope this helps many to understand what works for them❤
thank you so much monica
“I’m right you’re orange” CRAZYYY 😭😭😭
The best product IMO to test is Charlotte Tilbury pillow talk eyeshadow. If you are cool, that stuff is straight up orange on your lid. If not, it looks like the pretty pink it claims to be. 😊
My test results were: blue-green veins
silver or rose gold jewelry look best.
I look best in bright blushes and lipsticks
Any makeup that is too warm pulls orange on me, but ALSO anything very cool pulls purpley or even gray on me.
Most foundations pull too yellow on me. (I once had a pink color corrector match me as well as or maybe better than some of my foundations.😅)
I feel like I'm neutral, leaning cool based on that?
PS I went wedding dress shopping today, and pure white looked way better on me than ivory or off-white shades. It also brought out the cool/pink tones in my skin in ways I haven't seen before (I almost never wear white).
Love these type of videos ❤
Giiiirl, thank you soo much for this video!!
The test with the clothes is so easy to determine what washes you out and what compliments you. When I did it we started with gold/silver sheets to determine warm or cool and then from bright colors to muted ones..like if you’re pale as me or jaz if you wear orange you’ll look orange 😆 i saw how my skin turned orange as soon she put orange under my face.
Oh, and maybe a question - what do you think about fair olive skin tone? I once tried to get a foundation matching at Sephora and was very discouraged when the lady told me that olive tone is only for a dark skin. I can get really tanned in the summer and then the greenish hue shows more, but when I get pale in the winter, it doesn't suddenly disappear I guess. Or am I wrong?
Love love love it... and long form video!!!❤❤