The trickiest of all skin tones explained! Remember, I’m not a professional but this is how I’ve come to understand neutral and olive skin tones based on my research.
There's this huge misconception that fair olive skin doesn't even exist, and it seems like fair cool olive is especially tricky. My first time finding an exact foundation shade was only recently, and it's the palest fair olive shade with About Face in F2 Olive. I have naturally drity blonde hair, gray eyes and most people would think I'm just regular 'ol porcelain, but after messing around with mixers and finally trying About Face's foundation, it becomes super obvious I'm olive. This foundation shade just disappears into my skin and a swatch of it next to my cool or neutral leaning foundations makes it the most obvious, any of my other foundations stick out like a sore thumb.
Yes a 100%. One of the fairest people I know (and I live in Finland, we are pale over here 😅) has olive skin overtone. I remember one summer we were sitting outside in our bikinis enjoying the sun and I noticed her skin looked greenish next to mine and my skin looked grayish next to hers, so yeah fair skinned people can absolutely be olive 😊
That makes sense. I always struggled to work things out. My natural hair colour is dark blonde with no warmth, my eyes are grey and my skin looks pale grey, but in summer, I go full golden tan. Blue makes me look dead though.... I always suited colours I 'shouldn't'.
ohhh i’ve been wanting to try that foundation since i watched Alex A. swatch it!!! the struggle is absolutely real though lol, i just recently learned i was fair olive .. i feel like i’ve been on a foundation journey for over 1/2 of my life.
I guess I’m gonna have to pick it up, but in store it still looked (to me) as if it was far too saturated. I’m the most neutral chewed-spearmint-gum/putty color in the winter, and for me nearly everything I’ve ever tried, aside from a few Korean brands, is is far too saturated and I end up needing blue mixer to get to a shade that works.
Light pinks are fine, tans definitely not for myself. Tan colors always look dirty on me. As for the other colors, you said, "Yes, they are a no-go for me. I definitely do reds and purples like a boss. I'm an olive, leaning neutral to pink under tones. Thank you for doing this video. It nice to know someone is explaining this right. I'm a makeup artist, and I'm always yelling at the screen when someone is saying it wrong. That or people assume that having an olive skin tone means one has dark skin. 😮
I believe that my complexion is olive cool. It's hard for me to find foundation matches, so what I do is buy a cool toned foundation and mix it with a blue pigment mixer which works and that's why I believe I am of a cool olive complexion. Plum and muave blushes tend to look the best on me as well as cool toned bronzers. Bronzers that are too warm or orange is no bueno for me, they just look off on me.
The 'overtone' idea is an excellent take. I'm a fair neutral/warm natural auburn redhead with light brown/hazel eyes and the clothing colors that look best on me are true autumn (with some overlap to related colors). However, most makeup geared to 'warm' undertones look too warm on me -(or they actually match my skin tone too much) definitely have to have a 'neutral' fair foundation so as not to look orange! I'm definitely not 'cool' undertone and I'm definitely not olive - I do look pink compared to other olives (including fair olives)! So 'neutral' non-olive foundations have been so so helpful. However, for the very fair olives out there, youtubers Hannah Louise Poston and Alexandra Anele are EXCELLENT resources for fair olive foundations/concealers/color correctors.
This is a video I didn’t know I needed. Makes so much sense why I never feel really confident in my foundation matches. I just use tinted sunscreen most of the time
@@SarahsSensitiveSkin I’ve tried one shade from that line that was recommended to me but it was a bit too pink. I’m really into their Age Perfect radiant serum foundation sunscreen in rose ivory which is a passable match. It’s a more peachy tone to it cancels out a lot of my discoloration. I just love that it’s marketed as a sunscreen and is spf 50. It has a really beautiful finish. I like mixing it with my skin79 BB wearing it over my nyx blurscreen and covergirl simply ageless serum tint. That combo is gorgeous. The different shades of each product really make the perfect shade for me.
My coloring is very close to yours. I’ve found that I have to be careful around blue. It is too cool for me. I can wear blue that has been warmed up a bit. Even navy needs to be a warm navy. I’ve found that colors that aren’t too warm or too cool work the best. Next, I’ve found that value is important. With the dark hair I stay away from light colors. I’ve also found that toning down the color so it’s not too bright looks better, as hazel eyes are softer than deep dark brown.
This is THE BEST explanation of what colors work for olive toned skin that I have found!! The only exception for me is that some heather greys do look good on me, perhaps because I am pretty fair. Otherwise, all of this rings so true for me and I wish I had figured out that I have light olive skin way sooner!
Thank you! This is the best description I’ve heard yet. Golden blonde as a child with blue eyes. Eyes going grey green with a yellow/olive circle at puberty and have always been color changing. When I went grey from stress 10 years ago it was a dark silver grey. When the stress ended, my hair went to a very ashy, white blonde with a streak of darkness in the front. If I color my hair, and if I don’t color my hair with three parts ash and two parts neutral, I will pull red. Ugh. That was horrifying many years ago. I look like I should be warm toned but look like crap with golden clothes. I never realized it until I took my picture for my license wearing a terra cotta turtleneck and a golden sweater over it. I looked like someone found me dead on the side of the road and took a picture of me. I was 12 weeks pregnant with a red hormone cheeks and this picture made look extremely sallow. I get compliments in the strangest range of colors that do not align with any one seasonal palette. My mom says I’m a chameleon. I told her I felt more like a platypus. Nothing I can wear makes sense.
Holly 🤯 I already knew I am olive but EVERYTHING you said I can relate. Ok maybeee the only thing I disagree with is that mauves look good on us, personally I do not like it unless I specifically want to look like a Tim Burtom’s movie character, but that could be just me
Your description of your sister sounds just like me. What would you say she is considered? And what colors do you think look best on her? I don’t typically love reds on me. I’ve been told to wear colors like a Warm Autumn and wear rich jewel tones but in the spring and summer, that’s hard sometimes. I also have Magenta colored hair. A lot of people tell me I look like the pro wrestler, Natalie Eva Marie of that helps.
I don’t like cool tones on my olive skin, they can look gray and cadaver-ish. Anything with a coral or peach really peps up my tone, and makes me look more youthful and healthy…I guess we are all a little diff?
hm. Ive always looked green next to my family, but I look only look good in light peony pink, powder blue, banana yellow, and soft pastel green. hmmm….so am i not olive?
I remember being in elementary school and realizing how green my arms looked next to the other kid's arms. I thought there was something wrong, I was just sitting there thinking "why am I green?? 😭"
Im very pale and subtle olive, cool undertone. The best I look in light, pastel, cool pink. I think everyone has to experiment with different colours to find those which make their faces "glow". It's really impossible to explain it in 10 min video .
I’m yellow next to my kids but yellow and warm foundations look wrong/orange on me! I’m light complected and I tan easily. My hair is very cool medium brown. Brown eyes. My eyebrows need a very ashy/cool but not too dark brown pencil. Hard to find!!
I think it's funny that people can't figure out my undertones when I get my makeup matched. Some say warm, some cool but when I tan it's more obvious with the reddish tones with a weird touch of grey-ish, tho. Not sure... But orange and warm yellows are the death for me 😂, especially orange
😂You dont look good in shades of yellow. Yup sounds about right but a mustard golden yellow🎉! Chefs kiss! And I'm not a fan of any shade of pink except that like Baby ballet pink. I have been told my skin tone does lead slightly Olive. However the colors I tend to look really good and would be Cobalt Blue any shade of Burgundy and darker colors. Shades of green I hate on my skin tone would be khaki or any super muted shade of green I like more of the vibrant greens, like Kelly Green, Teal,or Pea Green,Emerald. And don't even get me started on the verying shades of brown, if I was to wear any shade of brown it would have to be slightly warmer shades with tan in them any other shade of brown. I don't like at all it dulls out my skin tone and makes it look darker. Edit: Gothic style or A Whimsy goth style, so having me match my Foundation most gothic people don't really do. Blushes or burgundy blushes I think that would be too much color on the cheek I have the elf terracotta shade and like bronzed beauty or something like that and I feel like that adds too much of a warmth to my skin tone so I'm wanting to try maybe slightly cooler and one and just slightly a hint of blush not like super strong. Or maybe it could be the way that I am applying liquid blush as I'm not used to using it.
Omg FINALLY, FINALLY someone who understands and *explains* that Olive is an *overtone* and that it can be cool OR warm (or of course, neutral). I’ve been trying to say this for years because I’ve known for the past thirty years that I have olive *overtones* (even though I am very fair, which is also not always acknowledged as possible for olives) but don’t look good in warm toned clothes or makeup. Still waiting for makeup brands to catch up and stop making all the olive toned makeup (of which many still don’t have) warm toned.
There’s also a misconception that Olive is synonymous with white (fair) skin and Mediterranean is the first and only thing mentioned. Black people can be and are Olive tone as well!
Have you tried Mac Cosmetics? I use between an NC20 ( winter ) and NC 25 in summer. I have a light to medium olive overtone skin color. No idea about my undertone, probably neutral since many warm colors look good on me.
I think it would have been much more effective if you would have shown pictures and examples of each tone you were referring to, as I'm still confused about my undertone and wonder if I could have an olive overtone.
Agreed! She seems very knowledgeable about the topic but I still have no idea what she's talking about. I've only just started to realize I might have an olive overtone because I have been struggling to find my undertone for quite a while. I'm somewhere between fair to light and so I hadn't even considered the possibility before. Most of the time when I look up olive over/undertone, the lightest example is still at least a shade or so darker than I am. But I have both very blue and greenish blue veins, which I thought meant that I was neutral leaning cool. And those foundations tend to look better on me than ones that claim to be full neutral or full cool. I usually do best if they have a fair light (so between fair and light tone) neutral to cool, sometimes also adding "with pink" or "with peach" or "with beige" undertones. That's generally what I use and mostly all I have now. But often, something still seems a little off and I've never found my "perfect match."
It can largely depend upon your eye color and hair color, and how that fits into the entire picture… As well as your more tan/summer color vs your paler winter skin shade. It’s a LOT to factor in, and we are all going to be slightly different. I also personally look good in grey, pale/neutral pinks, and I look awful in emerald. So, it’s going to vary a lot on individuals, and It can be more about contrast and saturation vs what actual shades you wear.
First time seeing your channel, appreciate your eval confirms my trial and error findings. Can you go over covering dark eye circles with this skin tone? Peach isn't quite accomplishing the cover-up and orange is too much. Am in the medium , light-medium range.
Oh my worddd!!! and covering dark circles for fair olives too please!! light peach doesn't work for me either. The most effective has been lemony-yellow, but I feel like even that doesn't quite hit the mark. Been trying to figure this out for literally YEARS. 😅
@@Triinuful I have a remy color correction palette and I mix the peach and yellow and it works pretty well. I need to focus peach in the hollows and yellow in the eye bags. But blending the colors really helps
Kosas, Fenty, Ilia and Lisa Eldridge have olive tones. Sorry I am a warm leaning olive and red based bronzers look like CRAP on me, I need golden toned ones. Also yellow definitely always makes me look sickly unless it's more golden but green and gray I don’t have too much issues with. I definitely look yellowish green next to others. My perfect shade match is probably Lisa Eldridge foundation in 9.5 but about-face foundation in L2Olive and Lancome Teint Idole foundation in 240W as well as Kosas 160 are close but LE is the closest so far.
My fair olive skin tans well and turns a deep ruddy brown. In winter when I’m pale and I’m grey green and am neutral. I can’t wear regular bronzers as it comes off as orange. Warm foundations look yellow, forget cool bc it looks pink and neutral foundations look orange. I realized I was olive the past year. About Face F2 olive matches pretty well. Don’t know my season. I can’t wear light peach, light green or light gray. I wore shorts the other day and my skin looked green compared to people standing in line to get ice cream 😂
Its so interesting to know, i think im also olive, but which side I don't know, i compared myself to my mom i look more gray and muted yellow, i do wear neutral leaning to slightly warm colors but it has to very muted, some soft cool color are okay, navy blue, rosewood, soft sage gree, muted blue, purple or plum , dark grey is also looking good, pastel washes me out, brown is okay not my fav , I don't look good in too warm colors and too cool I guess.. looks amazing on me, I don't that bad in pure white but soft off white is better for sure. I wear light gold but i feel like something is off, i prefer silver now.. im confused because I have very dark brown black hair (in some lightning it's ashy ) my hair is not super warm unless I'm in the sunlight I have red highlights, chocolate eyes, pale skin.
I feel like bronzers and blushes are a hassle with olive skin. I’ve found the essence blush in befitting to be the most flattering blush for me where I’ll even use it as a bronzer .
THIS IS GOLDD. i always thought im a neutral, but when i tried neutral foundation it washed me off, i looked ashy. then i changed to warm foundation and it's always too orange for me. i was so confused af. I have found out that im a warm leaning neutral with olive overtone. During winter i look so dull and green hence i always go to mauvey/berry colors, while summer my skin can take a bit of of that coraly/terracota colours. Thanks so much for a such elaborate explanation!
Great video! I never knew olive was an overtone! I am confused, I have yellowish skin, but undertone seems pink. Sometimes when im tanned i look more dark gold, bromze... But otherwise my skin color is very light gold/ yellow and pink undertone... I also look good in warm pinks ans lilacs which seems strange given my skin tone... Sometimes white makes me look dull, but thats when im a bit more tanned
@@SarahsSensitiveSkin Thank you for responding! 😊 My natural hair color is brownish (with reddish/copperish undertones) black and my eyes are dark coffee bean brown colour, like in my photo 👍🏼
What is your season/color palette? Honestly I think you & I have the same. I have very dark brown (almost black) hair, now with a lot of silver. Most people call my hair black. I have hazel eyes and quite pale skin. When I was a child, I easily browned in the sun, but now I turn red and blister. I buy neutral foundations because nothing makes sense.
Thank you for taking the time to make these videos, you clarified my doubts about olive skin. When they did the analysis, they told me that if your skin turns red in the sun, you tend to be cold and if it tans or turns brown, you tend to be warm. Knowing this, we only need to know the other two characteristics, hair and eyes.
Thank you for solving one of my long standing frustrations. I am South Asian (North Indian), and I think I am a medium cool olive in skin tone. You are absolutely right about the colors that work, but I couldn’t understand why these worked and others didn’t. FWIW, I have that Juvia’s Place blush duo, and the bright color is awesome. Mixing the two gives a more subtle effect. The online quizzes to color match foundation never gave me a good match. Now I know why.
I don’t look in grey, light pink, yellow and certain shades of green. Most shades of green. 😄 I’ve been thinking for a while that I’m a fair olive with a cool undertone. I look yellow a lot.
THIS IS ME!!!!!!!! I believe I’m fair-light neutral-leaning cool olive. I’ve been trying to figure WTF colors work on me because they don’t match most color seasons and some colors look BAD. Most gray looks AWFUL but a blue-leaning charcoal looks amazing, or a purple gray will work. Yellow is a no go because I look like my liver is failing. Light pinks are terrible. I feel most at home in rich blue, hunter green, most purples, burgundy, crisp white, and black. I REALLY struggle to wear any light colors which sucks during sunny summer days. Do you have any light color recommendations??
Wow thank you SO much for making this video, I came here from a TikTok comment I left in your page and I 100% relate with everything you said here, I’m confident I have olive overtones and I always thought the winter colours looked better on me. You’re amazing for doing this! ❤
I’m 12% Italian from a great grandparent. I didn’t notice my tan arms were olive till I was older when other people would put their arms up next to mine that I noticed their tans looked red next to my olive green arm. My face doesn’t tan like my arms do it looks mostly light to medium skin tone with a tiny pinch of olive. I look good in white, dark forest green, most blues, browns & gray. I absolutely cannot wear bright reds or my face turns red but dark reds/dark maroon is ok. No pink bright greens or yellows. I find neutral colored foundation blends better than cool. My hair is a dark ash blonde with blonde highlights from the sun and I have blue eyes.
Out of everyone on TH-cam, you make the most sense, so thank you! So I’m light to medium olive with dark brown hair and eyes, and I love many warm colors on me! Bright yellows with a hint of golden look great on me as well as bright oranges with red mixed in. True khaki or olive green makes me look grayish, and black looks far better on me than navy. So I’m still a bit confused.
My mother was a medium tan, cool olive. I’m a pale, warm olive. I knew I had a warm undertone, but I didn’t realize how olive I was until I looked at my arm next to my husband’s. Normally, I just look yellow. Next to him, I look green and he looks red. We joke that we’re Christmas themed.
Blue and green look really good on me as well as orange blush, unlike cool pink blushes look very bad on me. I have a green and yellow mixer I use for foundation that doesn’t match me
primary colors are actually red green & blue. it sounds wrong. but it’s based on the way our eyes perceive color as opposed to mixing colors to create secondary colors. RGB are the primary colors according to modern standards
is black hair considered cool or warm? i have jet black hair and i believe i might be olive skin. i appear too yellow in comparison to others with a similar skin shade, yet when i try warm foundations, they appear too warm on me, cool shades turn me grey too
Yeah I gave up on "seasonal analysis" years ago because I was always typed as an autumn and I totally understand why but I hate most of the autumn colors.
I’m olive and this explains my entire existence I’ve noticed that my surface-level coloring never matched with the coloring that looks best on me I look super warm and muted basically textbook soft autumn maybe true autumn but those colors are my absolute worst
I am neutral olive and have olive/yellow overtones over neutral to cool undertone. My worst colours in clothes by far are olive greens (awful, I look washed out and grey), warm reds and oranges. But I can wear pretty much any make up (except maybe very orange red tones) and apricot tones look great.
@@Cicelyize I think I’m somewhere in that camp as well. I cannot do yellow though. Olive Green isn’t the worst but definitely not the best either. It looks good in makeup but wearing it doesn’t do much for me. I think green/teal looks good on my eyes because they are dark brown but teal can also make me look a little ruddy. Purples, pinks, and more jewel tones look best on me overall. Except for anything yellow. If I wear yellow, it has to be a soft medium toned yellow. Anything mustardy or leaning towards chartreuse makes me look like I’m in renal failure and have one foot in the grave. I don’t look great in tan either. I’m definitely a winter.
@@racheyrox724 LOL 🤣 yes, I would agree with that too. I did not mention yellow because I don’t think I’ve ever come across that many yellow garments. Yellowish/ warm tan is also really bad. I also think I’m a winter. Always go for the blues, the blacks, the whites, the cool pinks, clear burgundies, and the cool/ bootle greens! In make up I used to think green was very bad, but recently I’ve tried cool green eyeshadow and it’s okay. It’s the yellow more chartreuse leaning that is definitely not flattering.
I’m pretty sure I’m a neutral leaning cool olive. It’s confusing because I have a lot of flushing on my face from rosacea. A cool foundation looks great on my cheek, but doesn’t match my neck. One of my clues is that my mom says that I look green when I’m sick. Basically if all the flushing leaves my face you can see the olive more clearly. Another clue is that although I’m pale, I tan quickly, and don’t burn unless I’m out way too long.
Teach this to dance companies 😩. Trying to buy pointe shoes when you’re my complexion is difficult. I believe I’m closest to a b27 in Bloch but unsure. B24 is the tone I prefer but too light. Browns are always too dark or too red
So interesting, I'm an autumn and I do slightly tan in summer sometimes but depends on if I go in the sun, being quite fair I don't like to be in the sun too much. So, I didn't think I was olive overtone but I suit the golds, coppers, reds, etc. I think that is what you mean. Blues are not so much my thing, nor pinks. I suit khaki well too.
I came to the conclusion that I am super cool, and my oliveness is throwing that off. It took me years to get to this; with the help of actual physical drapings. How do I know for sure? I always look pink in pictures and when compared to other people. I usually appear gray from a distance. While I am at home with cool berry and plum blushes, they tend to exacerbate my facial redness, so I opt for neutral blushes instead, like nudes and roses. It's like matching both to my oliveness and coolness, a perfect balance. Too warm and I look like I have dirt on my face, and too cool I look redder! Clothes-wise, I am a Cool Winter. Bright overpowers me, and Deep is too dark. The point is, oliveness makes things trickier. In the end, you need to try everything out and disregard the information out there, which is mostly on preferences.
This was confusing if someone doesn’t have olive overtones because it would be so hard to imagine, but as a light to light-medium in summer neutral olive you are speaking my language! I am 55 of Mediterranean descent, have always loved makeup, and luckily have always been able to tell what colors look good on me, and interestingly I don’t even like the colors that don’t. Because I look more yellow than so many people makeup counter people would always try to put very warm colors on me. Because they think I’m very warm. Those colors make me look dead. Rosy browns work best for me. Cooler leaning but not fully cool makeup colors. Champagne eye shadow or highlighter, not silver or gold. But for clothing, jewel tones, cool or purple hot pinks, bright burgundy make my face shine, bright deep blue and emerald green, I can wear coral on the summer when I’m tan which happens really easily. Dior also has pretty good concealers (which I use to spot conceal as I don’t need or wear foundation). Also glossier has some which I sometimes have to mix the light and medium to get my perfect match. Lisa Eldridge’s foundation colors are great also. Thanks so much for this it was great!
This is me. Every time a makeup SA approaches me with a foundation tone suggestion or sample it looks orange or dark and I’d never put that on my face. The exception is the Asian counters (I have a Japanese makeup counter nearby)- I think Asian skin has a lot of light olive tones, similar to certain Mediterranean complexions like ours. When the BB creams came into the European market 20 years ago, I remember how people complained they looked “grey” but they looked great on me.
My stepmom is so olive that when she wears purple or plum shadow on her eyes, it turns brown. Those colors were actually recommended to her as a replacement for brown because they neutralize on her skin and look way better than actual brown.
Great video. I love how detailed you are. This confirmed everything I've been thinking and didn't know how to put into words. I have an olive overtone that makes my skin look yellowy green. I'd always assumed that would make me a warm season and couldn't figure out why I felt better in summer colors... Until I realized that the yellow olive I see in my skin is an overtone and my undertone is actually more cool. Keep up the good work! 💕
Its so true and I find a difficult time finding the right shade for my concealer! I've been using Revlon ColorStay for years and have stuck to it. I've tried to change my foundation and keep coming back to Revlon!
I’ve been told I’m cool neutral. My skin gets pink very easily. I could never tan only burned. I had freckles as a kid. My veins are blue on my wrist. My hair was a natural medium brown and I let it grow out & my hair grew out WHITE. Not salt pepper WHITE. I liked it for a few months & now I hate it. Now my skin looks even lighter & with the white hair I look so pasty. I want to color my hair in a warm tone to warm up my pale skin. What color should I dye it. ❓❓
Feel like I’m a bright winter with an olive overtone. Took me forever to figure that out there. Have been told I’m a neutral but I personally feel like I lean a little more cool because people always say I look better in silver though I can pull off gold too. I can wear very bright almost yellow green or a very dark green. With a red I can pull off a cool toned lip better than warm unless I go for a neon orange, coral doesn’t always look good on me. Also found with eyes I can pull off neon, pastel, or very light betrays but much dark markup looks to harsh on me💯💖
re looking 'dull': I'm cool neutral (neutral enough to make makeup shades extremely difficult; everything pulls super bright or saturated, sigh), quite pale, and my sweetie is relatively pale with olive tones. When we sit together on a zoom call, a huge part of the time the camera just refuses to pick them up. They just melt away into the shadows next to me. I knew lot of tech wasn't good at picking up deeper skin tones, which obviously is seriously messed up, but I was really startled to discover it can be an issue regardless of that, depending on overtone! I can only imagine how badly that stacks...
The redness in my face from my terminally compromised skin barrier kept me from realizing I was light olive for years and years. Seconding About Face and adding Mehron creme as good olive foundations.
You hit the nail on yhe head!!!!! Im 42 and I spent years not even knowing there were specific colors to not wear, as an olive tone. Thanks for this refreshing video!! Any olive skin tone video is difficult to find!
Very interesting! I have olive skin and this was helpful. Finding colors that really compliment my skin is rare and finding foundations that match my skin tone is also rare. So, whenever I get either of those things, I am overjoyed lol
Im a bright winter. And in winter I am grey/ cool tone green ! Neutral leaning cool. I look horrible in orange, green, yellow, aubergine purple and my best colours are bright coral leaning pink and blue (not leaning green) and white !
There's this huge misconception that fair olive skin doesn't even exist, and it seems like fair cool olive is especially tricky. My first time finding an exact foundation shade was only recently, and it's the palest fair olive shade with About Face in F2 Olive. I have naturally drity blonde hair, gray eyes and most people would think I'm just regular 'ol porcelain, but after messing around with mixers and finally trying About Face's foundation, it becomes super obvious I'm olive. This foundation shade just disappears into my skin and a swatch of it next to my cool or neutral leaning foundations makes it the most obvious, any of my other foundations stick out like a sore thumb.
Yes a 100%. One of the fairest people I know (and I live in Finland, we are pale over here 😅) has olive skin overtone. I remember one summer we were sitting outside in our bikinis enjoying the sun and I noticed her skin looked greenish next to mine and my skin looked grayish next to hers, so yeah fair skinned people can absolutely be olive 😊
same, love the about face foundation L2 Olive & the LM2 Olive
That makes sense. I always struggled to work things out. My natural hair colour is dark blonde with no warmth, my eyes are grey and my skin looks pale grey, but in summer, I go full golden tan. Blue makes me look dead though.... I always suited colours I 'shouldn't'.
ohhh i’ve been wanting to try that foundation since i watched Alex A. swatch it!!!
the struggle is absolutely real though lol, i just recently learned i was fair olive .. i feel like i’ve been on a foundation journey for over 1/2 of my life.
I guess I’m gonna have to pick it up, but in store it still looked (to me) as if it was far too saturated. I’m the most neutral chewed-spearmint-gum/putty color in the winter, and for me nearly everything I’ve ever tried, aside from a few Korean brands, is is far too saturated and I end up needing blue mixer to get to a shade that works.
Light pinks are fine, tans definitely not for myself. Tan colors always look dirty on me. As for the other colors, you said, "Yes, they are a no-go for me. I definitely do reds and purples like a boss. I'm an olive, leaning neutral to pink under tones. Thank you for doing this video. It nice to know someone is explaining this right. I'm a makeup artist, and I'm always yelling at the screen when someone is saying it wrong. That or people assume that having an olive skin tone means one has dark skin. 😮
I believe that my complexion is olive cool. It's hard for me to find foundation matches, so what I do is buy a cool toned foundation and mix it with a blue pigment mixer which works and that's why I believe I am of a cool olive complexion.
Plum and muave blushes tend to look the best on me as well as cool toned bronzers. Bronzers that are too warm or orange is no bueno for me, they just look off on me.
The 'overtone' idea is an excellent take. I'm a fair neutral/warm natural auburn redhead with light brown/hazel eyes and the clothing colors that look best on me are true autumn (with some overlap to related colors). However, most makeup geared to 'warm' undertones look too warm on me -(or they actually match my skin tone too much) definitely have to have a 'neutral' fair foundation so as not to look orange! I'm definitely not 'cool' undertone and I'm definitely not olive - I do look pink compared to other olives (including fair olives)! So 'neutral' non-olive foundations have been so so helpful. However, for the very fair olives out there, youtubers Hannah Louise Poston and Alexandra Anele are EXCELLENT resources for fair olive foundations/concealers/color correctors.
This is a video I didn’t know I needed. Makes so much sense why I never feel really confident in my foundation matches. I just use tinted sunscreen most of the time
I love a lightbulb moment!!! I think Loreal truematch foundation would be a great one to try out
@@SarahsSensitiveSkin I’ve tried one shade from that line that was recommended to me but it was a bit too pink. I’m really into their Age Perfect radiant serum foundation sunscreen in rose ivory which is a passable match. It’s a more peachy tone to it cancels out a lot of my discoloration. I just love that it’s marketed as a sunscreen and is spf 50. It has a really beautiful finish. I like mixing it with my skin79 BB wearing it over my nyx blurscreen and covergirl simply ageless serum tint. That combo is gorgeous. The different shades of each product really make the perfect shade for me.
I add a bit of green concealer to make foundation I have to make it more olive
Try visiting a MAC Cosmetics boutique! They have all kinds of shades.
My coloring is very close to yours. I’ve found that I have to be careful around blue. It is too cool for me. I can wear blue that has been warmed up a bit. Even navy needs to be a warm navy. I’ve found that colors that aren’t too warm or too cool work the best. Next, I’ve found that value is important. With the dark hair I stay away from light colors. I’ve also found that toning down the color so it’s not too bright looks better, as hazel eyes are softer than deep dark brown.
It's about time someone said this!
Can you tell us the names of all the blushes you were holding in your hands please? Thank you so much for this video !!!
This is THE BEST explanation of what colors work for olive toned skin that I have found!! The only exception for me is that some heather greys do look good on me, perhaps because I am pretty fair. Otherwise, all of this rings so true for me and I wish I had figured out that I have light olive skin way sooner!
Thank you! This is the best description I’ve heard yet. Golden blonde as a child with blue eyes. Eyes going grey green with a yellow/olive circle at puberty and have always been color changing. When I went grey from stress 10 years ago it was a dark silver grey. When the stress ended, my hair went to a very ashy, white blonde with a streak of darkness in the front. If I color my hair, and if I don’t color my hair with three parts ash and two parts neutral, I will pull red. Ugh. That was horrifying many years ago. I look like I should be warm toned but look like crap with golden clothes. I never realized it until I took my picture for my license wearing a terra cotta turtleneck and a golden sweater over it. I looked like someone found me dead on the side of the road and took a picture of me. I was 12 weeks pregnant with a red hormone cheeks and this picture made look extremely sallow. I get compliments in the strangest range of colors that do not align with any one seasonal palette. My mom says I’m a chameleon. I told her I felt more like a platypus. Nothing I can wear makes sense.
What is your undertone and overtone?
Holly 🤯 I already knew I am olive but EVERYTHING you said I can relate. Ok maybeee the only thing I disagree with is that mauves look good on us, personally I do not like it unless I specifically want to look like a Tim Burtom’s movie character, but that could be just me
Your description of your sister sounds just like me. What would you say she is considered? And what colors do you think look best on her? I don’t typically love reds on me. I’ve been told to wear colors like a Warm Autumn and wear rich jewel tones but in the spring and summer, that’s hard sometimes. I also have Magenta colored hair. A lot of people tell me I look like the pro wrestler, Natalie Eva Marie of that helps.
I don’t like cool tones on my olive skin, they can look gray and cadaver-ish. Anything with a coral or peach really peps up my tone, and makes me look more youthful and healthy…I guess we are all a little diff?
hm. Ive always looked green next to my family, but I look only look good in light peony pink, powder blue, banana yellow, and soft pastel green. hmmm….so am i not olive?
I remember being in elementary school and realizing how green my arms looked next to the other kid's arms. I thought there was something wrong, I was just sitting there thinking "why am I green?? 😭"
Im very pale and subtle olive, cool undertone. The best I look in light, pastel, cool pink.
I think everyone has to experiment with different colours to find those which make their faces "glow".
It's really impossible to explain it in 10 min video .
I’m yellow next to my kids but yellow and warm foundations look wrong/orange on me! I’m light complected and I tan easily. My hair is very cool medium brown. Brown eyes. My eyebrows need a very ashy/cool but not too dark brown pencil. Hard to find!!
Great explainer!
I think it's funny that people can't figure out my undertones when I get my makeup matched. Some say warm, some cool but when I tan it's more obvious with the reddish tones with a weird touch of grey-ish, tho. Not sure... But orange and warm yellows are the death for me 😂, especially orange
Um, as an olive I very much like to look like I died two weeks ago, thank you very much 🤣🤣🤣 kidding, this video was so helpful!! Love it!
Best video!!!
😂You dont look good in shades of yellow. Yup sounds about right but a mustard golden yellow🎉! Chefs kiss! And I'm not a fan of any shade of pink except that like Baby ballet pink. I have been told my skin tone does lead slightly Olive. However the colors I tend to look really good and would be Cobalt Blue any shade of Burgundy and darker colors. Shades of green I hate on my skin tone would be khaki or any super muted shade of green I like more of the vibrant greens, like Kelly Green, Teal,or Pea Green,Emerald. And don't even get me started on the verying shades of brown, if I was to wear any shade of brown it would have to be slightly warmer shades with tan in them any other shade of brown. I don't like at all it dulls out my skin tone and makes it look darker. Edit: Gothic style or A Whimsy goth style, so having me match my Foundation most gothic people don't really do. Blushes or burgundy blushes I think that would be too much color on the cheek I have the elf terracotta shade and like bronzed beauty or something like that and I feel like that adds too much of a warmth to my skin tone so I'm wanting to try maybe slightly cooler and one and just slightly a hint of blush not like super strong. Or maybe it could be the way that I am applying liquid blush as I'm not used to using it.
Omg FINALLY, FINALLY someone who understands and *explains* that Olive is an *overtone* and that it can be cool OR warm (or of course, neutral). I’ve been trying to say this for years because I’ve known for the past thirty years that I have olive *overtones* (even though I am very fair, which is also not always acknowledged as possible for olives) but don’t look good in warm toned clothes or makeup. Still waiting for makeup brands to catch up and stop making all the olive toned makeup (of which many still don’t have) warm toned.
There’s also a misconception that Olive is synonymous with white (fair) skin and Mediterranean is the first and only thing mentioned. Black people can be and are Olive tone as well!
Have you tried Mac Cosmetics? I use between an NC20 ( winter ) and NC 25 in summer. I have a light to medium olive overtone skin color. No idea about my undertone, probably neutral since many warm colors look good on me.
I think it would have been much more effective if you would have shown pictures and examples of each tone you were referring to, as I'm still confused about my undertone and wonder if I could have an olive overtone.
Yes, agreed. Hearing this verbally didn't make much sense to me. Pictures would have helped a lot.
Agreed! She seems very knowledgeable about the topic but I still have no idea what she's talking about. I've only just started to realize I might have an olive overtone because I have been struggling to find my undertone for quite a while. I'm somewhere between fair to light and so I hadn't even considered the possibility before. Most of the time when I look up olive over/undertone, the lightest example is still at least a shade or so darker than I am.
But I have both very blue and greenish blue veins, which I thought meant that I was neutral leaning cool. And those foundations tend to look better on me than ones that claim to be full neutral or full cool. I usually do best if they have a fair light (so between fair and light tone) neutral to cool, sometimes also adding "with pink" or "with peach" or "with beige" undertones. That's generally what I use and mostly all I have now. But often, something still seems a little off and I've never found my "perfect match."
I am still unsure. Grey is one of my best colors as is magenta.
I have cool undertone but olive overtone. Cool greys look amazing!
It can largely depend upon your eye color and hair color, and how that fits into the entire picture… As well as your more tan/summer color vs your paler winter skin shade. It’s a LOT to factor in, and we are all going to be slightly different.
I also personally look good in grey, pale/neutral pinks, and I look awful in emerald. So, it’s going to vary a lot on individuals, and It can be more about contrast and saturation vs what actual shades you wear.
First time seeing your channel, appreciate your eval confirms my trial and error findings. Can you go over covering dark eye circles with this skin tone? Peach isn't quite accomplishing the cover-up and orange is too much. Am in the medium , light-medium range.
Oh my worddd!!! and covering dark circles for fair olives too please!! light peach doesn't work for me either. The most effective has been lemony-yellow, but I feel like even that doesn't quite hit the mark. Been trying to figure this out for literally YEARS. 😅
@@Triinuful I have a remy color correction palette and I mix the peach and yellow and it works pretty well. I need to focus peach in the hollows and yellow in the eye bags. But blending the colors really helps
Kosas, Fenty, Ilia and Lisa Eldridge have olive tones. Sorry I am a warm leaning olive and red based bronzers look like CRAP on me, I need golden toned ones. Also yellow definitely always makes me look sickly unless it's more golden but green and gray I don’t have too much issues with. I definitely look yellowish green next to others. My perfect shade match is probably Lisa Eldridge foundation in 9.5 but about-face foundation in L2Olive and Lancome Teint Idole foundation in 240W as well as Kosas 160 are close but LE is the closest so far.
This was so helpful! Finding a foundation is so tricky!
Omg! Um I think you just solved the biggest mystery of my life!
My fair olive skin tans well and turns a deep ruddy brown. In winter when I’m pale and I’m grey green and am neutral. I can’t wear regular bronzers as it comes off as orange. Warm foundations look yellow, forget cool bc it looks pink and neutral foundations look orange. I realized I was olive the past year. About Face F2 olive matches pretty well. Don’t know my season. I can’t wear light peach, light green or light gray. I wore shorts the other day and my skin looked green compared to people standing in line to get ice cream 😂
Its so interesting to know, i think im also olive, but which side I don't know, i compared myself to my mom i look more gray and muted yellow, i do wear neutral leaning to slightly warm colors but it has to very muted, some soft cool color are okay, navy blue, rosewood, soft sage gree, muted blue, purple or plum , dark grey is also looking good, pastel washes me out, brown is okay not my fav , I don't look good in too warm colors and too cool I guess.. looks amazing on me, I don't that bad in pure white but soft off white is better for sure. I wear light gold but i feel like something is off, i prefer silver now.. im confused because I have very dark brown black hair (in some lightning it's ashy ) my hair is not super warm unless I'm in the sunlight I have red highlights, chocolate eyes, pale skin.
I feel like bronzers and blushes are a hassle with olive skin. I’ve found the essence blush in befitting to be the most flattering blush for me where I’ll even use it as a bronzer .
THIS IS GOLDD. i always thought im a neutral, but when i tried neutral foundation it washed me off, i looked ashy. then i changed to warm foundation and it's always too orange for me. i was so confused af.
I have found out that im a warm leaning neutral with olive overtone. During winter i look so dull and green hence i always go to mauvey/berry colors, while summer my skin can take a bit of of that coraly/terracota colours.
Thanks so much for a such elaborate explanation!
Great video! I never knew olive was an overtone! I am confused, I have yellowish skin, but undertone seems pink. Sometimes when im tanned i look more dark gold, bromze... But otherwise my skin color is very light gold/ yellow and pink undertone... I also look good in warm pinks ans lilacs which seems strange given my skin tone... Sometimes white makes me look dull, but thats when im a bit more tanned
Interesting…right off the bat it sounds like you are neutral-cool with an olive overtone. What’s your natural hair and eye color?
@@SarahsSensitiveSkin Thank you for responding! 😊 My natural hair color is brownish (with reddish/copperish undertones) black and my eyes are dark coffee bean brown colour, like in my photo 👍🏼
You have gorgeous green eyes.
What is your season/color palette? Honestly I think you & I have the same. I have very dark brown (almost black) hair, now with a lot of silver. Most people call my hair black. I have hazel eyes and quite pale skin. When I was a child, I easily browned in the sun, but now I turn red and blister.
I buy neutral foundations because nothing makes sense.
Thank you for taking the time to make these videos, you clarified my doubts about olive skin. When they did the analysis, they told me that if your skin turns red in the sun, you tend to be cold and if it tans or turns brown, you tend to be warm. Knowing this, we only need to know the other two characteristics, hair and eyes.
I’m so happy to do it!!
Olive green looks horrible with my olive skin
Thank you for solving one of my long standing frustrations. I am South Asian (North Indian), and I think I am a medium cool olive in skin tone. You are absolutely right about the colors that work, but I couldn’t understand why these worked and others didn’t. FWIW, I have that Juvia’s Place blush duo, and the bright color is awesome. Mixing the two gives a more subtle effect. The online quizzes to color match foundation never gave me a good match. Now I know why.
I don’t look in grey, light pink, yellow and certain shades of green. Most shades of green. 😄 I’ve been thinking for a while that I’m a fair olive with a cool undertone. I look yellow a lot.
THIS IS ME!!!!!!!! I believe I’m fair-light neutral-leaning cool olive. I’ve been trying to figure WTF colors work on me because they don’t match most color seasons and some colors look BAD. Most gray looks AWFUL but a blue-leaning charcoal looks amazing, or a purple gray will work. Yellow is a no go because I look like my liver is failing. Light pinks are terrible. I feel most at home in rich blue, hunter green, most purples, burgundy, crisp white, and black. I REALLY struggle to wear any light colors which sucks during sunny summer days. Do you have any light color recommendations??
I think I'm a cool toned olive, but blues and purples make my skin look very yellow.
Warm colours make me look sick and greyish.
I'm confused 🫤
Wow thank you SO much for making this video, I came here from a TikTok comment I left in your page and I 100% relate with everything you said here, I’m confident I have olive overtones and I always thought the winter colours looked better on me. You’re amazing for doing this! ❤
I’m 12% Italian from a great grandparent. I didn’t notice my tan arms were olive till I was older when other people would put their arms up next to mine that I noticed their tans looked red next to my olive green arm.
My face doesn’t tan like my arms do it looks mostly light to medium skin tone with a tiny pinch of olive.
I look good in white, dark forest green, most blues, browns & gray. I absolutely cannot wear bright reds or my face turns red but dark reds/dark maroon is ok. No pink bright greens or yellows. I find neutral colored foundation blends better than cool. My hair is a dark ash blonde with blonde highlights from the sun and I have blue eyes.
Out of everyone on TH-cam, you make the most sense, so thank you! So I’m light to medium olive with dark brown hair and eyes, and I love many warm colors on me! Bright yellows with a hint of golden look great on me as well as bright oranges with red mixed in. True khaki or olive green makes me look grayish, and black looks far better on me than navy. So I’m still a bit confused.
My mother was a medium tan, cool olive. I’m a pale, warm olive. I knew I had a warm undertone, but I didn’t realize how olive I was until I looked at my arm next to my husband’s. Normally, I just look yellow. Next to him, I look green and he looks red. We joke that we’re Christmas themed.
I beleive I may have olive skin, but I don’t look good in blue-based reds. I look best in orangey- reds. Could I still be an olive?
Love this. But why do i look best in pink but sick in bright purples, blues? Cool tones work for me when theyre super light/pastel
Blue and green look really good on me as well as orange blush, unlike cool pink blushes look very bad on me. I have a green and yellow mixer I use for foundation that doesn’t match me
primary colors are actually red green & blue. it sounds wrong. but it’s based on the way our eyes perceive color as opposed to mixing colors to create secondary colors. RGB are the primary colors according to modern standards
Nars and Bourjois healthy skin foundation also have good olive foundation
is black hair considered cool or warm? i have jet black hair and i believe i might be olive skin. i appear too yellow in comparison to others with a similar skin shade, yet when i try warm foundations, they appear too warm on me, cool shades turn me grey too
Yeah I gave up on "seasonal analysis" years ago because I was always typed as an autumn and I totally understand why but I hate most of the autumn colors.
Yeah, still don’t know what I am! Just buy makeup that suits you
Light pink looks fantastic on me… wondering if I have an olive overtone after all?
Lol also "sickly and dull" can be an understatement. I can look jaundiced
Thank you! I've always had to mix my foundation. Now I know why!
I turn green when my tan fades, does that mean I have olive skin?
I’m olive and this explains my entire existence I’ve noticed that my surface-level coloring never matched with the coloring that looks best on me I look super warm and muted basically textbook soft autumn maybe true autumn but those colors are my absolute worst
Sometimes dark or saturated colors look better on olive skin.
Olives break all the rules which makes it so hard to figure out! I really hope this helps 🩷
It's been incredibly tricky figuring this all out ❤ this was helpful 😊
I am neutral olive and have olive/yellow overtones over neutral to cool undertone. My worst colours in clothes by far are olive greens (awful, I look washed out and grey), warm reds and oranges. But I can wear pretty much any make up (except maybe very orange red tones) and apricot tones look great.
@@Cicelyize I think I’m somewhere in that camp as well. I cannot do yellow though. Olive Green isn’t the worst but definitely not the best either. It looks good in makeup but wearing it doesn’t do much for me. I think green/teal looks good on my eyes because they are dark brown but teal can also make me look a little ruddy. Purples, pinks, and more jewel tones look best on me overall. Except for anything yellow. If I wear yellow, it has to be a soft medium toned yellow. Anything mustardy or leaning towards chartreuse makes me look like I’m in renal failure and have one foot in the grave. I don’t look great in tan either. I’m definitely a winter.
@@racheyrox724 LOL 🤣 yes, I would agree with that too. I did not mention yellow because I don’t think I’ve ever come across that many yellow garments. Yellowish/ warm tan is also really bad. I also think I’m a winter. Always go for the blues, the blacks, the whites, the cool pinks, clear burgundies, and the cool/ bootle greens! In make up I used to think green was very bad, but recently I’ve tried cool green eyeshadow and it’s okay. It’s the yellow more chartreuse leaning that is definitely not flattering.
I’m pretty sure I’m a neutral leaning cool olive. It’s confusing because I have a lot of flushing on my face from rosacea. A cool foundation looks great on my cheek, but doesn’t match my neck. One of my clues is that my mom says that I look green when I’m sick. Basically if all the flushing leaves my face you can see the olive more clearly. Another clue is that although I’m pale, I tan quickly, and don’t burn unless I’m out way too long.
What blush and lip color do you have on?
Teach this to dance companies 😩. Trying to buy pointe shoes when you’re my complexion is difficult. I believe I’m closest to a b27 in Bloch but unsure. B24 is the tone I prefer but too light. Browns are always too dark or too red
Never realized pointe shoes should match your complexion. Learn something new everyday!
If I want to look sick, all I have to do is wear cool colors.
So interesting, I'm an autumn and I do slightly tan in summer sometimes but depends on if I go in the sun, being quite fair I don't like to be in the sun too much. So, I didn't think I was olive overtone but I suit the golds, coppers, reds, etc. I think that is what you mean. Blues are not so much my thing, nor pinks. I suit khaki well too.
I look good in lavender and not plum
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I came to the conclusion that I am super cool, and my oliveness is throwing that off. It took me years to get to this; with the help of actual physical drapings.
How do I know for sure? I always look pink in pictures and when compared to other people. I usually appear gray from a distance.
While I am at home with cool berry and plum blushes, they tend to exacerbate my facial redness, so I opt for neutral blushes instead, like nudes and roses. It's like matching both to my oliveness and coolness, a perfect balance. Too warm and I look like I have dirt on my face, and too cool I look redder!
Clothes-wise, I am a Cool Winter. Bright overpowers me, and Deep is too dark.
The point is, oliveness makes things trickier. In the end, you need to try everything out and disregard the information out there, which is mostly on preferences.
Im a soft summer
This was confusing if someone doesn’t have olive overtones because it would be so hard to imagine, but as a light to light-medium in summer neutral olive you are speaking my language! I am 55 of Mediterranean descent, have always loved makeup, and luckily have always been able to tell what colors look good on me, and interestingly I don’t even like the colors that don’t. Because I look more yellow than so many people makeup counter people would always try to put very warm colors on me. Because they think I’m very warm. Those colors make me look dead. Rosy browns work best for me. Cooler leaning but not fully cool makeup colors. Champagne eye shadow or highlighter, not silver or gold. But for clothing, jewel tones, cool or purple hot pinks, bright burgundy make my face shine, bright deep blue and emerald green, I can wear coral on the summer when I’m tan which happens really easily. Dior also has pretty good concealers (which I use to spot conceal as I don’t need or wear foundation). Also glossier has some which I sometimes have to mix the light and medium to get my perfect match. Lisa Eldridge’s foundation colors are great also. Thanks so much for this it was great!
This is me. Every time a makeup SA approaches me with a foundation tone suggestion or sample it looks orange or dark and I’d never put that on my face. The exception is the Asian counters (I have a Japanese makeup counter nearby)- I think Asian skin has a lot of light olive tones, similar to certain Mediterranean complexions like ours. When the BB creams came into the European market 20 years ago, I remember how people complained they looked “grey” but they looked great on me.
My stepmom is so olive that when she wears purple or plum shadow on her eyes, it turns brown. Those colors were actually recommended to her as a replacement for brown because they neutralize on her skin and look way better than actual brown.
Great video. I love how detailed you are. This confirmed everything I've been thinking and didn't know how to put into words. I have an olive overtone that makes my skin look yellowy green. I'd always assumed that would make me a warm season and couldn't figure out why I felt better in summer colors... Until I realized that the yellow olive I see in my skin is an overtone and my undertone is actually more cool. Keep up the good work! 💕
Thank you so much!!! I’m glad it helped solidify your season and colors 🩷 it stinks to think so many people get mistyped as warm because of this
Its so true and I find a difficult time finding the right shade for my concealer! I've been using Revlon ColorStay for years and have stuck to it. I've tried to change my foundation and keep coming back to Revlon!
I’ve been told I’m cool neutral. My skin gets pink very easily. I could never tan only burned. I had freckles as a kid. My veins are blue on my wrist. My hair was a natural medium brown and I let it grow out & my hair grew out WHITE. Not salt pepper WHITE. I liked it for a few months & now I hate it. Now my skin looks even lighter & with the white hair I look so pasty. I want to color my hair in a warm tone to warm up my pale skin. What color should I dye it. ❓❓
Feel like I’m a bright winter with an olive overtone. Took me forever to figure that out there. Have been told I’m a neutral but I personally feel like I lean a little more cool because people always say I look better in silver though I can pull off gold too. I can wear very bright almost yellow green or a very dark green. With a red I can pull off a cool toned lip better than warm unless I go for a neon orange, coral doesn’t always look good on me. Also found with eyes I can pull off neon, pastel, or very light betrays but much dark markup looks to harsh on me💯💖
Ha! Probably why my absolute worst color is kelly/grass green. I look absolutely morbid in it. Tomato and rust red are a chef's kiss.
re looking 'dull': I'm cool neutral (neutral enough to make makeup shades extremely difficult; everything pulls super bright or saturated, sigh), quite pale, and my sweetie is relatively pale with olive tones. When we sit together on a zoom call, a huge part of the time the camera just refuses to pick them up. They just melt away into the shadows next to me.
I knew lot of tech wasn't good at picking up deeper skin tones, which obviously is seriously messed up, but I was really startled to discover it can be an issue regardless of that, depending on overtone! I can only imagine how badly that stacks...
It's funny how human genetics work! We can all come in different colors, from the whitest white to very dark black! Evolution at its finest!
The redness in my face from my terminally compromised skin barrier kept me from realizing I was light olive for years and years. Seconding About Face and adding Mehron creme as good olive foundations.
I'm a fair cool olive and a dark winter! Foundation shades are a battle that's hard won😭
You hit the nail on yhe head!!!!! Im 42 and I spent years not even knowing there were specific colors to not wear, as an olive tone. Thanks for this refreshing video!! Any olive skin tone video is difficult to find!
Thank you!!! Finally understood this after years of searching ❤
Subscribed because of this video. Hope you do more olive skin based vids.
Very interesting! I have olive skin and this was helpful. Finding colors that really compliment my skin is rare and finding foundations that match my skin tone is also rare. So, whenever I get either of those things, I am overjoyed lol
My sister has strong olive tones and I’ve seen with her that the struggle is real!!!
Im a bright winter. And in winter I am grey/ cool tone green ! Neutral leaning cool. I look horrible in orange, green, yellow, aubergine purple and my best colours are bright coral leaning pink and blue (not leaning green) and white !