Finding pale olive foundation is a nightmare. Companies seem to think we don’t exist. For anyone struggling with this, after some trial and error I found 3 that work great for light olive. Mary Kay ivory n 160, Revlon candid crème brûlée and revlon candid buff.
Back in the 08 09 TH-cam beauty guru days there was a guy named Koren and he recommended an indie brand called thevi for us olives. I tried their shadows but not foundation. Liked it. And not sure if it exist anymore lol .
This helped me realize why finding the right foundation is so hard - I'm a light warm olive... with rosacea! All that extra redness disguises the fact that I'm olive, so I end up using warmer complexion products, but if they're more full coverage, I end up too yellow.
I can kind of relate! I think I’m olive too bc of like grayish shadows/cast (not sure if warm or cool) + being more light skinned + my face is always flushed red due anxiety. So confusing bc sometimes I look more orange/red 😂
I super relate to this! I naturally gravitate to using yellow foundations because I find it helps covering my rosacea. That'd make my face look drastically different compared to my neck (which is what I now shade match to). For years I added just a tiny dot of blue pigment to my warm foundations to "neutralize it but not toooo neutral" I'm dumb and never once realized I was actually making a slightly green shade since neutral complexion products are peach/orange on me. Anyways if you're looking for a complextion product and are light skin (roughly MAC NC12 as a reference) the Beauty Blender skin tint in Light 4 was made for light skin tones with a warm olive undertone. It's the best shade match I've had without needing to add in a blue or green pigment. Its light to medium buildable coverage, feels like nothing, and most importantly covers mild rosacea without having to use a full coverage product.
I’m so happy that you recognise that there is warm and cool olive skin. I even got in an argument with a beauty influencer before for spreading misinformation that there is no such a thing as light olive skin and it can only be cool.
I've been a pale, warm olive for nearly 50 years. I've always known I was olive because I have a lighter version of my father's olive skin and he told me I was olive when I was kid in a matter of fact way. It's just part of our ethnicity. I also look great in olive green, which is the color of my eyes. But, due to being pale, I do need a lot of warm, bright blush and my fall-colored wardrobe to look alive. I haven't tanned in nearly 30 years (don't tan and you will thank me later), but I would turn golden-olive when I did.
Doesn't it depend on if they're talking about undertones or overtones being cool? If your skin looks olive it's because you have a blue undertone (cool) and a yellow overtone (warm) and that makes green overall.
Also for anyone that struggles with foundations…. Get yourself a GREEN foundation primer! I always keep the makeup forever green primer on hand! I’ll use this to mix with my foundation to amp up the green and it has saved my life! I typically do a 1:1 ratio!
this is also a good tip to find out whether you have olive skin, I realize. get a cheap green one and check if it changes anything if you mix it with the foundations you already have! will try this out asap
@@Sunset553 if you search ‘anti redness primer’ then green primers of different brands should show up. They’re usually used to cancel out the redness in skin so it makes sense that it can help to match foundation to olive skin
This is hands down the best, most clear explanation of olive skin I've come across. Pretty much everything in this video confirmed that I have an olive skin tone. Now I know why shopping for foundation has been such a struggle! Thank you so much!!
Aww what a compliment - thank you so much! I’m glad you found the video helpful. If you have any more questions about the topic please feel free to leave them in the comments and I can make follow-up videos on olive skin!
I so agree about foundation buying. It's a pain in the rear. I have to mix them. There is no single bottle that gives me the right undertone. If I tan a bit, as most people do in the summer, I notice most brands seem to head towards an amber colour and that's simply too orange. Why can't they simply add a cool brown to the darken the olive shades? Why Trumpian orange? Right now I'm using a CYO Lifeproof Foundation 107 (yellow/olive) mixed with a small amount of The Body Shop Foundation called Santorini (a peach undertone). Together, they make the perfect match. But it's taken me years to find this blend. I wish more cosmetic companies would investigate and cater for those of us with olive skins. We must surely be a significant market.
I think I’m warm side of neutral with clarity of the colour being the most important thing, but this video makes me think I’m only just outside the range of olive. 90% of what is in this video applies to me (red tones, being able to wear more things when tanned, looking way better without foundation, having trouble finding foundations/concealers etc that look good on me, I even have trouble finding blush that looks good in most brands and have to for darker berry-ish colours) But neutrals make me look like I’m dying! So I think I’m just yellow toned neutral with pale skin and lots of white, but maybe I’m just outside the boundaries of neutral olive 🤷♀️
The blushing part was so reaffirming to hear. I have acne and fair/light olive skin with somewhat thin skin on my face. My olive skin makes my acne look worse because instead of masking it it offers stark contrast, so the clear parts of my skin are pale green and the red parts look insane next to it. Also the tanning making you look good in more colors thing is so so true! Every summer I buy bright yellows and oranges only to regret it once I lose the tan lol
Have you considered changing what you eat? Personal reduction of acne by cutting carbs (starchy and sugary), gluten (grains, wheat is of course a starch/carb), and taking a vitamin A supplement (cod liver oil, Pure Encapsulations brand 1 x daily).
I'm glad im not alone with this one, all down to being very pale and acne and thin skin. how I hated it. foundation looks like a mask and shades never match.. honestly, if you are interested to hear, only tretinoin helped me.
@@HaHaHaLMFAOtv After years of struggling with sensitive overly oily acne skin well into adulthood, which only seemed happy when on Accutane, I finally realized that in my case I had started a vicious cycle as a teen when I first started breaking out. By being too aggressive in response, that led to my skin being so oily- and in turn clogging pores and causing breakouts. So after a go of Accutane, I looked for another answer to skincare, something very mild but still would do the job. What I found was Paula's Choice, which really did help me. Since then I haven't reverted at all to having oily skin. Now besides Paula's Choice, I also use some Korean skincare products. My advice to anyone is besides diet and supplements, is to make sure you're not doing something wrong in your skincare routine. Making sure you're not being too harsh or just using a wrong ingredient somewhere (like I can't use vitamin C or retinoids) can make a world of difference. If nothing else I would definitely recommend Paula's Choice as a good place to start with figuring out a basic simple and safe routine, that one can later expand on. It also allowed me to now use much lighter types of foundations, just enough to even the skin tone a bit, with just a touch of concealer on the spots that needed it, for a very natural looking look that stayed all day.
This explains so much why I sometimes have olive skin and sometimes don't. Seasonal allergies add redness to the skin And I'm on the lighter side, the combo probably just pushes me into a non-olive spectrum or a less olive. This helps so much!
I’m so glad you found it helpful!! I feel like the seasonal changes for me really got me wondering at first if I’m olive 🤷🏻♀️ and allergies / more redness in the skin makes total sense!
My facial skin can get a pink hue to it from various skincare treatments, but all you have to do is look at the underside of your forearm, and you should be able to see the green-ish tint, especially when comparing your arm to others. Yes, the face can change for a myriad of reasons including skin conditions, allergies, the weather, temp. etc.
Redness is only because the skin is thin and you can see the blood beneath. 98% of the world's population doesn't blush. Sallow is better as reacts to the sun better.
It annoys me to no end. I'm the same. Light medium warm is to yellow for me and ..it took me 10 years to find out my skin tone a makeup artist i know said I am olive
I always hated my skin, always thought what was wrong with me, why am i GREEN like no one else in my village. Years later i found out that my skin was ok -- thanks to people like you, who share their knowledge and experience. So thank you a lot for your video❤
You are so welcome! I'm glad the video was helpful for you. Your skin is perfect just the way it is - olives have the most beautiful coloring and appearance to our skin and it's our best asset ❤
CAN CONFIRM! Based on my personal experience as a very fair olive, .and as a chromatically obsessed painter, everything you said about colour mixing and skin tone changes is consistent with my experience. Also, amazing video! This is the most comprehensive and well organized review of this topic I’ve encountered. ❤ 👏
Amazing - so glad to hear you enjoyed the video and found it to be consistent with your own experiences!! 🥰 Some of the points I made I wasn’t so sure if it was just me or other people experience it too, so I’m happy to hear the validation!
@@stylerefinement definitely not just you- and yes, I agree, hearing a parallel experience is very validating, especially since we have differing skin-tone depth
I relate to what you said about not wearing foundation anymore. I’ve tried for 25 years to find a foundation that matched, and I’ve simply never found one. And I love the color of my skin and I want it to show. So I decided to focus on getting my skin as healthy as possible so I can go without make up ❤
Hey :) I found the mixing just a drop of green concealer into my closest matching neutral foundation gives the perfect shade… still don’t wear foundation often but when I do, the touch of green makes it look more natural and less like a mask
Exactly! Taking care of the skin is the ultimate solution. Now that I’m so used to doing foundation-less makeup styles, I really can’t stand the feeling of foundation on my skin!
I feel the same way. I don’t like the way it feels on my skin. I don’t like the way it looks on my skin either as I’m getting older. However, I do like to wear it occasionally when I’m going to a formal event so thanks for the tip about the drop of green!
when I was in my 20s I had the most beautiful glowy fair neutral olive skin ever and any foundation killed that glow. Time passes... now I need some coverage or camouflage.
@@Kvossera What brand(s) of green color corrector do you like? Eager to try this on the 100 shades of foundation in my drawer that all look horrible on me. lol
Definitely agree about foundation. My skin is too oily and I always hated how smudgy I felt after. Just a bit of blush, some red lipstick and I'm a light olive snow white. Embrace the olive 😊
@@CherryJuli I’ve been sticking to the CoverFX Powerplay concealer in N Medium 2 for a few years now but thinking of switching things up! What brand are you currently using?
I realized I had an olive skin tone about 5 years ago and many, many people argued that fact because I'm very fair and majority celtic. It was a big ah-ha moment for me because I always found wearing high saturation colours made me look sick or washed out while all foundation shades looked orange, peach or pink on my skin.
I found out while I was in makeup school and when our instructor was doing a bald cap demo on me she started spraying green specks to match the olive tones in my skin!
This is so helpful! It explains why I use neutral, red leaning bronzers and how blush is so necessary when I’m doing my makeup. Also how my neutral bb cream matched me better in the summer than it does now. But I just didn’t know how to articulate it to myself haha. Im more of a golden olive, which I learned from trying true olive foundations and it wasn’t quite the right match. Thanks for the knowledge!
I actually stick to neutral concealer as well! I know there's lots more options for olives out there these days but I found a shade that works for me in neutral and I've just been sticking with it haha. I'm also more of a golden olive so it's good to know that true olive foundations weren't really a match for you. I'll have to try it out myself once I run out of my current supply. Thank you for sharing!
Yes! Yes! Yes! Finally someone acknoledges differences and similarities between Olive and neutral. I'm always described as Neutral by makeup store people. i have been very confusted. I ask them if I'm olive and they all kinda agree like 'yeah you could be' or yaah you have some olive, but I guess they are only trained from the perscpetive of warm and cool tones. I am a MAC NC30 /35 and Fenty 260 for reference. Going to rewatch this video again. xoxo
I just recently confirmed that I may have olive skin when I tried a neutral tinted moisturizer! For years I always "tried" to use warm toned foundation because that's what is assumed to be my skin tone as an asian, but it always ended up too warm for me. Then tried cooler foundation and it was too pinkish/greyish. But when I tried neutrals, they were almost a perfect match. Just added some bronzer to give some dimension and voila! Thank you for this video since it confirms that I may have olive skin and it'll definitely help me pick better colors that'll suit me best.
As a fellow Asian and Korean I can agree that I cannot find any Korean products that suits my skin! It’s weird that they haven’t developed more products for olive skin because there’s so many of us Asian olives 🫒🥲. I’m glad you found the video helpful! ❤️
I’m a black woman and have struggled quite a bit with finding foundation and not necessarily because I’m a bit darker, usually the tan/deep portion of the spectrum. I’ve struggled with everything you’ve touched on here. I’m closer to the neutral but slightly on the warmer side of neutral. Cool foundations obviously don’t work and warm foundations tend to be too warm. Neutral foundations aren’t a perfect match but are much closer. Less foundation works better for me and I tend to focus more on skincare for the exact reasons you mentioned. I have been able to find more foundations that match although I do think the labels aren’t always accurate. They may be listed as warm but are actually slightly warm/olive.
I'm glad to hear your experience is parallel with what I explained, regardless of the depth of your skin colour! YES - better skin care is the way to getting to the root of your problems and you don't need that much foundation once you can figure out how even out the skin tone just by using product on the areas that need coverage. Thank you for your comment :)
I've thought for a while that Kosas might have good options for deep olive skintones. Haven't tried it myself but olive people who have tried kosas tend to enjoy it.
THANK YOU. I feel so seen as a pale af olive person. I’ve self tanned for so many years just because it’s a nightmare to shade match or wear certain clothes that I like, but I want to try to embrace my true shade range
I was once told by a colour analyst that "all olives are winters". No way I could make her doubt this. I see quite a bit of greenish/greyish cast on my complexion but I get a lot of redness on my face nevertheless, as I have light sensitive skin. I'd also like to bring up the idea that some complexions are just more muted. That's also why most foundations look starkly yellow or pink/peach on me despite having the right depth. I once tried mixing in some olive eyeshadow, and the foundation became such a better shade (and more muted!)
I definitely am not a color analyst, but I think that is such a generalization! I see a lot of winters that have olive skin, but I have seen Olives in every season. I, myself am an olive-skinned person who borders Spring and Winter.
I've had someone else comment about mixing green eyeshadow to their foundation and it worked! I'm definitely leaning towards muted so I agree with what you said about some colours looking too stark on my skin even with the right depth!
This was a very informative video. As a very fair/fair olive leaning warm with rosacea (thanks mom), this helped really solidify and validate my thoughts behind being olive. So many try to fit me in the yellow or cool done box but neither work for me and even 99.9% of neutrals are too peach or pink for me. I hope brands really start catering to olive tones more often. I have found a few brands with my perfect shade but there needs to be more! Thanks again!
This is one of the best explanations about olive skin that I've heard. I'm pretty sure that I have olive skin but all the other videos I had watched in the past said that olives don't have pink in our cheeks nor do we blush visibly. But I do have pink in my cheeks and now I know why. Yes, my skin is very fair; and so the red in my skin colour is showing through much more. Thanks for that great nugget of knowledge, Jenn!
Thank you for the comment!! I'm so glad you found the video informative - I think fair olive is ESPECIALLY tricky because of how light the skin is, and how easily it can be influenced by only a hint or redness. I hope I come across more real-life examples of fair olives to study it more :)
Is not the same for me 😭. I have very pale olive skin. Maybe, the first few hours my tan is a little more reddish but then it turns yellow and I see my skin more green than before!
By far, one of the most helpful videos breaking down olive skin that I've ever seen. Thank you so much for walking us through it in such a consumable way! We must be very different shades of olive, because I find that ANY blush shows up extra red on me, because the red and pink pigments placed on the surface of my skin stand out *so* much from the green background. I have a couple of bronzers that I reach for as blushes, that just show up as absolutely pink on me. Anything in the brown/purple category is my go-to. Cheers to being green-skinned gals!
So interesting to hear about the bronzer appearing pink on your skin - I use bronzer on top of anything showing too pink or red to tone it down! Cheers to us 🥂❤️
I definitely agree about looking less olive in the summer as i tan, i can pull off so much more different colours when im tan, in the winter i look almost greyish/sickly, so i use bronzer lightly on my whole face and it brings back some redness into my skin
I definitely agree on the being tanned part! I've always felt like i look like my best self in summer, and everything suits me better too. So going off that theory, if we were to put a hint of red colour corrector all over our face, would it cancel out the green and make us appear more neutral? And then would colours interact with our undertone the same way they would with a neutral person???
I think theoretically it makes sense, although I haven't tried this on anyone myself. My concern would be the separation from your neck and body if you do that for your face only though!
In my case, getting a tan is more difficult for me, cause my skin tends to look even more gray (you have no idea how gray it can gets, looks super weird, as if I applied some cream or pigment on my skin). When my skin is more pale I've got more redness to it, so it's easier to wear different colors. I can get a light/ivory complexion, but also a brown complexion very easily due to the level of greyish. It's kinda hard to explain it, but I've learned how to navigate through using make up.
skin tone is complex pigment. they don't cancel each other's themself, because they are separated pigment. Theoretically, Red would make your green vein neutral and makes your red more red. I think you would appear to have red skin.
I'm 52 and I only realized recently that although my skintone is very fair and freckled I probably have olive skin. Until now I had always heard of that characteristic for darker skintones than mine. Your very clear video confirmed me in realizing that, thank you :)
This is the best explanation I've seen on how olive skin works! So informative, thank you! And thanks for correcting some of those myths out there. I have very light olive skin and I'm a Bright Spring - definitely leaning warm but still in the neutral range. I first realized I was an olive when I tried to use a green corrector and it completely faded into my skin. Before I knew I was olive I used to have trouble with foundation - cool was too pink, warm was too orange, and neutral tended to look too peachy or gray. I eventually found a better match in a warm yellow-based foundation (L'Oreal True Match W2) , but it still was just a tinge too orange/warm. More recently I discovered Smashbox Studio Skin in 1.05 (fair with a warm olive undertone) and it's the closest I've found yet. Definitely recommend that one for golden-leaning pale olives like me! When I tan I actually think I look more olive? I've noticed when I'm at my most pale a tiny bit more blue comes out, but when I tan my skin appears more golden. But what you said is still somewhat true for me. Even though clear, bright colors are still my colors at my most pale, I can go even brighter and warmer when I tan. So that bright yellow-orange that may overpower me/be a little too warm for me in the early spring is going to be great in the summer! Blush definitely helps bring my face to life more! I still haven't figured out the perfect shade; since I'm bright I'm not sure if your recommendation will work for me but I may give it a try. Thanks again!
Seconded, I also thought the video was a great and crystal clear explanation as to how olive skin works. I've figured out that I'm also a bright spring in seasonal color analysis (muted colors make me look dead and dull, pure gray being the worst offender), but also agree that I can wear more of the very, very brightest colors when I'm tan! Though my best is probably an orange-ish bright red, yellow-orange leans a bit too warm on me. I have to stick to colors that aren't TOO warm or cool, but very saturated... I'm more light to light-medium, and use the Kosas concealer thinly where needed instead of foundation. 3.2O in the winter, and 3.5W in the summer. As for blush, I've never found a blush formula I like and that I find easy to apply. So I just use lipsticks for this, much better selection of colors too 🤷😊 but either way, the absolute best blush color on me hands down is a coral pink. The lipstick I come back to for blush purposes all the time is Max Factor Colour Elixir in Pink Brandy. I'm betting a coral of some variety will be great on you and anyone who is a pale to light-medium olive bright spring, but for some reason I've found that color family very difficult to find in real blushes. But that's my blush color tip!
@@reureya I use lipsticks for different colors as well 💄☺️ I generally find cream blush to be easier to apply and sticks to my skin better for a more natural look, but I usually go over the cream product again with powder formula afterwards!
If you are a light-medium olive and lean more golden, I highly recommend Fenty 225. I always knew I was warmer than cooler but because I am so light if I wore a warm foundation that was the right level of color it could look orange and to remove the orange I would end up with a shade that was probably too light. I have always tanned exceedingly well and really never burned (even without sunscreen back in the day when that was a thing :-) but with no tan people would always say I Iooked so pale. When I tan, my arms and legs look greener but my face and stomach tan more with more red. But I no longer let myself tan so now I am on a quest to just not look like a cadaver🙂 The struggle is real and I am so glad I am not the only one!
I am olive cool toned and have a naturally have bright pink red blush on my lips and cheeks at all times, especially when I am pale.I also stopped wearing foundation but when I need to wear it, I mix my neutral foundation with small amount green concealer, it freaking works! It looks exactly like my skin!
Lots of people have been mentioning about adding green concealer/ colour corrector! I feel like I must give this a try but I'm so used to not wearing foundation anymore that I now hate the feeling of my skin covered in foundation. Maybe for the next special occasion I will give this a try! Thanks for the comment ❤
This video made me realize I have a neutral undertone. Read on if you’re still torn between the two, it might help you shed some light on the matter. I went through phases of my life where I was severely anemic. During those stages, that would last quite a while, there was always this greenish cast to my skin. After getting iron injections and raising my blood hemoglobin levels to more of a normal amount, that greenishness nearly disappeared. When Jenn said that neutral is just olive with a lot more red, it instantly clicked for me. I’m neutral toned, who lost a lot of redness when my red blood cells were low, causing me to look green. Which I always assumed meant olive! But in reality, when the red came back and my body went back to normal - I was back to my normal beige/greyish rosy self. Tl;dr if you’re torn between neutral and olive, get your iron levels up/get a blood test done
THIS IS THE BEST OLIVE EXPLANATION!!!!! Thank you thank you!!! I’ve been struggling because I didn’t like warm or cool colors on me, so I’ve been wearing more neutrals and I’ve been feeling much more confident. It makes to much sense!!!
Hi - thank you for the comment! I haven't tried either brands myself but have heard good things about them, Kosas especially!! I'll need to check them out :)
Glad to have this for reference! I have an olive tone BUT i suffer from sensitivity/redness and could be mild rosacea. With that, my redness does come in handy if i feel like even with little makeup on, I look pallid or sallow.💕
This video is EVERYTHING! Thank you so much for making this content because I have been saying & feeling this for YEARS! And I also have noticed that I look better with my tanned skin. When I’m lighter I look sickly. I also can wear more variety of colors with my darker skin as opposed to when I’m at my lightest. Thank you!
For blush, Tower28's Power Hour is a stunning muted darker red that is perfect for my fair olive skin tone - and will likely look great on all olives in general!
Thank you so much for the recommendation! Will definitely need to check it out as I'm almost out of my current go-to. I'm currently using the Glossier Dusk but thinking of trying something new :)
Audrey Coyne is a very fair-skinned olive who has given great makeup recommendations. Love her channel as well. Great style also. I love that Tower28 blush shade for olive skin tones.
I’m pale olive, and have kind of that “grayish” tone. I’m somewhat more on the cool side, bur some warm colors do work on me as well, specifically the deep fall ones. But I’ve worn both winter ans summer colors and they always work on me.
Re the Mila Kunis example, the more saturated hue dress does not clash. It brings out all the warmth in her hair (looks more brown black) and skin. The light pink dress makes her hair look closer to black and her skin more fair. Having olive skin allows you to go for either less or more contrast depending on what you want 😊
You're right that it depends on what you want! Maybe that was me projecting my preference on what looks better on Mila - but in the end, your preference IS what's the most important!
Immediately subscribed. I have been quite stuck with the seasonal colour stuff because it’s so hard to figure out my skin tone. I think I’m finally coming to the realization that my skin is probably a light, slightly warm olive, but it’s a lot less evident in my face because I have quite a bit of redness. But I’ve always thought that the rest of me is a bit greenish. So there you go. And green colour corrector is my best friend.
Thank you for the sub!! I have not tried mixing green color corrector with foundation but lots of people have been suggesting it so I must try this trick! ❤️
Thank you for clarifying this for me. It makes the most sense. I'm a blue/green eyed blonde who never thought of herself as olive. But after this video I now totally get how I can get away with a mustard top (I tend to have rosy cheeks) but that same color anywhere else on my body makes me look green! It also explains why I can't stand foundation. What sold me on natural skin way back in H.S.was how the foundation on my friend's lovely face turned into a chalky mask pasted over the lovely rosy glow she got in exercise class!
I'm a very pale olive and everything you listed is true for me too. I don't tan any longer but when I did I could wear very cool bright colors. Although nowadays I prefer to rock the chic black and warm grays, so I don't have to worry about skin damage as much.
Thanks for sharing your experience! I used to go into tanning beds but now I only stick to "natural" tans (i.e. spending time outdoors in the summers). The skin damage is just not worth it!
Seriously THE best explanation of an olive skintone and all that goes along with it. I'm a warm olive, sometimes neutral - depending on the brand, of course. I'm gonna mention the annoying "tring/bell" sound everytime you made a point. As a headphone wearer, I think my eardrums are now permanently damaged!!! I got halfway through and resorted to zero volume and reading captions.
Your approach to teaching color theory is fantastic! 🥰 There is a beauty youtuber who is admittedly the palest of pale and only in the last year discovered she was a pale olive - it's interesting because, as you mentioned, olive is most visually associated with yellow-green but in her case it's more of a muted gray, which I guess could be determined as cool-toned olive?
Olives can definitely have the grey-ish tone! Yes I think those olives lean to the cooler sides because it's predominantly the blue that brings out those grey hues!
I think @divadream might be talking about Hannah Louise Poston (who is pale, but definitely not "the palest of pale"): she sometimes mixes green colour corrector with her foundation.
I’m so so glad I’ve come across your channel! I’m a very pale very slightly olive bright spring, and I really think it was my olive complexion that made finding my right season and palette so confusing for so long. It took me years to figure out. That said, I now love that I have an olive, bright complexion because I feel like it’s such a unique feature.💕
I wasnt able to find a shade of base until a girl at a drugstore told me I had olive skin.True I never blush under the sun, I just get tanned. No wonder I look fantastic with blush and I just come back to life after applying.
Brilliant. I am a light cool olive. I tan well. Everything you have said is spot on! Yes, when I am tan I can wear more colors. Brown looks horrible on me. Certain beiges wash me out totally. This was the best video ever.
Thank you for the compliment - I’m glad you found it relatable!! ❤️ For me, brown actually works quite well, but certain beiges definitely agree - I just look like a big blob of beige 😅😂
I highly recommend Beauty Blender’s skin tint foundation in Light 4 for anyone who is fair-light with warm-ish olive skin tones! Their description of the shade even includes “olive” in it! :)
9:53 i already put a check on the previous two points but this one confirmed it for me 😭 people are always complimenting my skin when i get a bit of sun and worried about me when i haven’t gotten any sun in weeks 💀 and once i’m even just a bit tanned, i look good in those very warm and very cool colors that usually look awful on me. thank you!
This is by far the best video I’ve seen on Olive skin! You do a wonderful job explaining… I still have such a hard time telling what my skin tone is though, I just can’t seem to figure it out! Sometimes I think it looks warm, other times it looks cool, sometimes I think I’m olive, but then I see more red in my skin… I wish I could narrow it down, even just a little lol! Anyway, great video and amazing work breaking it all down!
Thanks for the comment and compliment! I agree - finding your skin tone can get really confusing. I do have a video on skin tone as well if you haven't watched it yet (th-cam.com/video/ZOVUE7XZYLU/w-d-xo.html) where I also explain skin tones other than olives!
Yess so glad I found this video. I am getting married soon and doing my own make up. It has been a night mare finding the right foundation and I look worse when I wear it. It covers up the unique glow we olive skin types have. I am half Chinese and from a distance look really warm, but up close there is coolness from blue viens and some transparent pinker areas from my white side. Plus freckles add to the glow. Covering all that up in foundation that is neutral just looks so flat and less glowy. I lose the pink which can be brought back through blush but it’s not the same. I lose the golden bits too. But wearing a golden foundation would be too orange and using a cool foundation would be too pink. Thanks so much for this in-depth video for olive skin tones! ❤
I'm the opposite where I have super oily skin and the foundation just feels really sticky and gross. Lots of powder-form products (blush, setting powder, bronzer) for me!
This is the best explanation I’ve heard. THANK YOU. My skin changes a lot, but I’m generally pale with green overtones. When I was younger I thought I looked sickly & would add bronzer and lipstick to bring some color to my face. A darker bronzer looks way better and more natural than blush, I’m adding this part to my comment in case anyone wants to try that out. 👍
This was a great explanation. Much more up to date than the book on color season analysis from the 80's that I have lol. I have very light olive skin that's on the warmer side. Some areas of my skin are more clearly greenish while others are more yellow or just always red due to blemishes. I don't wear makeup anymore but when I did I could usually get away with warm foundations, they were just a tiny bit too orangey for me. I definitely look bad in both too warm and too cool colors, and neutrals are always my safest bet, but because I'm an artist I can quite easily find a lot of shades of almost every color that work well for me. I just look for ashier, more watered down versions for warm colors like red and orange, and softer versions of cool colors like blue and purple. I tend to avoid clear colors and go for colors that are a mix of at least one warm and one cool color. Like if it's for example blue I'd prefer it have either a hint of red (navy, violet, marine, prussian) or a hint of yellow (cerulian, cyan, cobalt, aqua) as that's gonna look a lot better on me. With red and yellow it can have either a hint of blue or gray. So for example wine red, ochre and ivory are shades of red, orange and yellow that work well for my olive skin, because they're cooled down with gray or blue. Once I figured out this trick, it's actually pretty easy for me to find clothes, jewellery and hair colors that suit me. So at this point I feel like it is actually an asset to have olive skin, because we can look good in both warm and cool colors, it just has to be not too warm or too cool. But that's still probably a greater range of colors than most people can look good in.
I have always suspected I'm a light olive, but it's so difficult to tell because I look so pink sometimes. However, pink-toned foundation has never worked for me, but using neutral concealers (rose inc lx010, nars chantilly, kosas 0.5N) over or mixed with a green primer works very well. Your explanation of adding red to white vs adding red to black made so much sense to me! And I always thought that I was mostly cool because of the pink in my skin and not looking good in orange, but now I see I'm more neutral because I look very good in mauve and peach colors. Thank you very much for this video!
Thank you for pointing out that cool vs warm is blue undertone vs yellow undertone. I've spent sooo much time explaining to redheads that having a lot of pink in the skin doesn't equal cool tone. I don't know where so many of them got that idea, but it's pervasive!
It’s probably because for fair skin, blue undertone can appear purplish / pinkish! But even those pinks are very cool, as opposed to the warm+pink skin appears more peachy!
It was such a nice reaffirmation that in the past few years I have been doing the right thing after I realized my skintone is olive, not neutral or "a weird mixture of cool and warm tones". The one tip that makes such a lot of sense that I have been noticing but could not pinpoint out why is that even with my more pale olive skintone, lighter shades, the typical nude-y lip colors that work so well for others just do not work for me - and now I know the reason. But other than that, apart from still struggling to find the right foundation match, I have been buying clothes (especially tops) in shades that are more tertiary / muted or rich in tone, not sharp cool or warm tones, I have been religiously using blush and usually in mid-tones, nut the super light ones.
Great video! I still don't know if I'm neutral or light olive because I'm very pale, the veins in my wrist are blue, green and violet but I never blush, and what you said about Mila not looking that good in very warm neither very cool tone clothes, yeah, I relate a lot, also finding a good blush for my skin is a nightmare. There's so little information about light olive skin online :( but this video is the best I've seen. (sorry for my english, not my first language)
You're English is great! Thanks for the comment :) I agree - I think fair olives are especially tricky and confusing! I'm glad you found my video helpful.
Wow!!! I have olive skin a bit on the tan side and I've seen countless videos on this subject but this is hands down the first video where I can say I agree 100% with every single word. And that is based on my own life experience, observation, and trial and error based revelations! Thanks for this video!
I think I might be olive, but as a pale girl with a lot of rosacea in my cheeks, it's so hard to tell! I look good in typical bright autumn colours for clothes, but typical cooler tones for makeup (mauve, pink-toned reds, bronzes) so I'm still confused
I have never heard anyone make the pale olives looking grey before, the 'dead' comments, Julianna Moore being an example of a pale olive that also has a lot of flush and your comment about tanning making you more comfortable in colour. They all apply to be and now i think i finally know im a pale olive! And its not one id even considered before this video! Thank you. My husband just said its funny/nice to see me so excited about it. He obviously doesnt understand the struggle women go through and from a quite young age, trying to find foundation that looks good!
How I found that I’m olive - as a joke I tested a VERY gray/green looking foundation and it was a match made in heaven, everything just made sense. Now my old foundation looks bright yellow in comparison 😂
Haha - honestly trying different shades on your actual skin is the most accurate to find a match! For me, I found out while I was in makeup school and my instructor was doing a demo on my skin, then she started mixing green into the foundation as she noticed right away that I had olive skin. Otherwise I probably would have wondered for longer!
I've found a good foundation match which I mix green primer into (about 1/3 primer and 2/3 foundation) to bring it almost exactly to my skin tone. I'm a cool pale olive so finding a good foundation match can be done!
Yes I’ve seen this trick in other videos! I just don’t keep a green primer or concealer around because I have minimal redness 😅 I must try it out in the near future!
Great video! I have olive skin and I was always annoyed that foundation, powder and concealer colors never matched us. I used to work for the cosmetics company Prescriptives and we custom blended foundation, powder and concealer so I was always able to match my green with them, but I also did what you said, gravitated towards the neutrals because they always seemed to work better. It's so funny that you said when we tan we get redder ... I always hated how self tanners never looked like my actual tan because I always tan red/bronze and the tanners are always orange. I personally have always loved my olive skin. I love neutral colors on myself, brights like turquoise and true reds, olive greens and most of the blues. I tend to stay away from purple, orange, yellow and lighter and to a lesser extent brighter greens because they don’t suit my preference, but I have worn them as well and would in the future.
I find yellow works for me but only when I’m tanned! Orange seems to really not be for me but I think orange itself is also a difficult colour to pull off for most!
@@stylerefinement I think most people will think that colors don’t look good on them but a lot of the time it’s mostly preference. I don’t think orange looks bad on me when I’m not tanned it is just not what I like to see on myself. I don’t wear prints either because I always hate them LOL
You’ve explained so much of the strife in my lifelong search for matching makeup. Plus, my tones look exactly like yours. I’ve always hated when I’m pale. I look sorta sickly? Maybe not sickly, but I look much better with a golden tan and it’s easier to match makeup colors. Ugh, finding contour is the worst. They all looked too red on me. Asian cosmetics becoming big in the US is the best thing to happen to my face.
One thing I love about having olive skin is being able to rock warm and cool colours together. Dark blue being one of my best colours to wear, then wearing a slightly warmer orange tinted lip colour with it just brings life to my sallow face. It creates a nice contrast with green eyes too. As long as I'm careful with the brightness of warmer colours, it works really well.
Jealous you’re able to pull off orange lips! I’ve tried but it looks a little too warm for my skin. I agree the brightness definitely matters - darker oranges like MAC Chilli seems to look ok on me, but I have to be careful not to be too heavy handed!
Illy80: Having olive skin does *not* automatically you can "rock warm and cool colours together". Maybe YOU can, but that means you must be a "neutral olive", not a cool olive or a warm olive. I'm a cool olive and orange and most warm colors make me look like a corpse.
I am olive-skinned on the warm side (pretty light in the winter and can get pretty dark in the summer) and I do have a natural blush on the cheeks and freckles while the rest of my skin is still yellow-greenish toned. I think it's possible to be olive toned and still have a visible blush (the freckles and the blush might be signs of some ginger ancestor in my case). But even the red on my cheeks is color-coordinated with the olive tones if it makes sense...One thing I know is that I sure look great dressed in the olive color spectrum.
Thank you, I'm similar. My face flushes massively all the time but how much it shows up depends on lighting and the rest of my body is yellow-green. My hands and feet will also get very red in extreme temperatures.
Thank you SO MUCH! The lack of red topic was truly enlightening, I will definitely never have to wonder again lol. Soft winter is definitely my palette, love you videos!
My mind is blown because you described all of my struggles, but I still can't figure out of I'm olive or neutral. I have rosacea so my face doesn't always match the rest of my body, and in the past I just tanned to make my skin have better color. Now that I realize the sun is aging me I just feel ugly, but maybe this info will help me figure it out 🥲 thank you for such an informative video, I've subbed
HipUsername, watch Dr Dray to improve your skin. Stop tanning. To figure out skin tone don't look at your face. When you're with 3-5 friends, have them make a fist and you all put them in a circle palm down. Compare knuckles, you will know instantly.
@@violetviolet888 thank you for the advice, I stopped laying out in the sun years ago, and I'm subbed to Dr. Dray! I have a good skin care routine and I'm told I look young still, I just hate how sickly I look lol. I dislike self tanner smell, so I just have to embrace it. And I've never heard of the knuckle thing I have to try that!
This is a very well done video! I have just one addition - not necessary a correction, though. I am a pale warm olive and I actually look MORE olive when I am tanned. I guess it depends on the tone one's tan. Mine is not very reddish but rather golden brown. In result, in the summer I move more towards the stereotypical "Mediterranean golden olive girl" territory (despite me being fully Slavic and a NC15 level of paleness in the winter and barely pushing to NC20 when tanned [I use the MAC shades as indications of saturation level only, the actual NC20 is super orange on me]). Still, this is very true for the two separate colour schemes for summer and winter. As a more "golden girl" in the summer, I can wear more white, grass greens, mustard yellows or various olive/khaki tones in the summer but they wash me out in the winter. In the summer I have to cut the all black or deep navy looks as they clash too much with the golden warmth of my summer skin tone.
I wonder if this is a slavic thing...I'm half polish and my mom and all of her siblings look suuuuuuper yellow/gold when they tan. I look *slightly* less yellow, but still quite yellow!
@@TinyTC I don't think so. My sister has a neutral undertone (and is just a tinge darker than me, like one shade in foundation lower) and she stays neutral when she tans. In the summer I LOOK much more tanned than her, even if it is clear when we put our arms next to one another that her skin is objectively darker than mine. And yet I get this "golden olive tan" colour that makes me looks very tanned when I am objectively not. She stays neutral and pale-looking even if she got more sun than me.
Best Olive skin video ever! I'm defo an olive leaning slightly warm even though a lot of "Colour analysts" say olives are always cool. I have actual khaki green skin.
just have to say that this video confirmed all my 30 years of confusion and experience with my skin tone working with colors, blushes, tans, lipsticks, EVERYTHING!
Fabulous video, Jenn! I love having an olive undertone. My mother says I'm straight up green. :) My focus has always been on consistently taking great care of my skin, and strategically using concealer where needed, and then a bit of colour cosmetics to add "life". For me, a more yellow-based concealer has always worked really well. I also want my skin to show through and not be masked. In the past, I had always used yellow-based foundations and they worked pretty well for me, but now it's great to actually find olive undertones, even at the drugstore. I used to be a light-medium and now that I'm a light.. my olive undertones are even more pronounced. Yet another reason why I no longer wearing foundation... except for special occasions. To know if you have an olive undertone, all you have to do is hold the underside of your forearm up to a few other people, and your skin will most definitely have a greenish cast in comparison. Do this in good, bright, natural lighting, and of course, with no fake tan, etc. While my skin has a bit of pinkness now that it has lightened significantly and due to skin treatments.. I'm not sure that I've ever blushed. Hmmm... Can't recall.. :) Your video has been the most accurate one I've seen on olive skin so far! And yes, red clothing (esp. a warm red) does me no favours! lol I even despise red lipstick on me.. Not a good look..
Thank you!! I’m glad you liked the video! Strategic use of concealer + bit of colours is exactly like my routine! For me sandy colours seem to work best, although like you said there’s wider options for olives these days which is so great 🥰. After realizing what a terrible choice it was to wear foundation for my wedding, I decided that I will not wear foundation even for special occasions 😂
@@stylerefinement Agreed. When I say I wear foundation rarely, on those occasions I use a medium foundation and dilute it 50% with a moisturizing "primer".. so it's basically a tinted moisturizer. It's super sheer. I'm not even sure what the point is.. lol I don't like the feeling on base on my skin anymore.. :)
I agree with the others below. This is the best Olive skin video ever! I am 68, and have beautiful clear skin but every time I decide to just 'try' makeup one more time, I am thrilled when I come home, wash it off and see how lovely my skin is. I always get compliments on my skin without foundation so, for most of my life, I have not worn any. Your blush tip is great. I am working on how to apply it so it looks natural. I also do the same thing with lipsticks after many fails. One shade deeper works for me too. I wear almost all black and/or white with occasional blue or red because I just don't feel good in other colors. Now I realize it is likely because, depending on how much time I spend outside, my skin tone changes and what looked good yesterday doesn't today. My hair is naturally silver white now and I look and feel best with no foundation, moisturized skin, lovely lipstick and a wee bit of blush. More than that and I can't wait to wash it off because I don't feel like I look alive. Thank you so much for this great video.
You are so welcome! I'm glad to hear your experience is paralleled with what I explained in the video. With natural-looking blush, I find the key is to be light-handed and apply to a wider surface area! Then you can always go back and re-apply in more concentrated areas as needed. You can always add more so being light-handed is the best way to go!
I have olive skin and look best with yellow undertone foundation, lipstick and blush definitely cool. Recently tested Lisa's Eldridge foundation in olive shade and that was very true to my skin but still I look better when I add yellow. Never could find a flattering bronzer shade, even if it's not horrible I look better when I skip it.
Interesting! You must be leaning quite a bit towards warm. I'm the opposite with bronzer - I always use it, and sometimes even on top of my blush to tone down the shades!
I don't know, but my skin has this very obvious green undertone. When I add yellow it looks like it has more light/ glow into it. It doesn't make dramatic difference, since I use very light coverage and you can still see I'm "green".
I had a lightbulb moment when you talked about choosing a deeper shade of pink/red. I bought this eyeshadow palette with cool pinks and purples. It looks fine at first application - but no matter what I do, the colors on that palette become gray before I even finish putting it on my other eyelid. Meanwhile, I was avoiding this palette I was gifted because I felt its colors were too deep and saturated. Lo and behold, this "bold, deep red" looked perfectly normal on my skin.
Absolutely! I’ve been there and I totally feel you. Now I always just make sure that whatever color I think looks nice, go 2-3 shades darker and it’s perfect👌
I have olive skin, but get red irritation a lot due to skin sensitivity. Very fair, and I have a condition which causes thinning skin, so my skin has gotten pinker overtime, with veins getting more visible as well. They're usually a sort of turquoise color, but where I have some more red in my skin, they're bluer. My sister has pinker skin and her veins are much bluer! Even with the same thinning skin, our veins have different colors.... I would often have too much redness in my face over allergies - and the heightened sensitivity... I'm sicilian, but I found BB cream for East Asian skintones matched the rest of my body better. As an optimist, I guess the silver lining of a health condition is the balance it did for my skin lol
This is THE BEST video on olive skin I've seen, and I've seen A LOT lol. Thank you for explaining it so well!! Also, could you maybe do a video (or maybe reply to this comment) about what blush colors would suite olive skin best? Like should you choose a red, a pink, a peach? Should you strive to contrast the green or not?
Thank you for the compliment!! I think the blush color depends on whether you’re warm/cool and also bright/muted, but generally speaking I think avoiding colors that are extreme (too warm/too cool) is always the way to go, at least for me. I find muted roses/terracotta/browns work well as blush colors but once the color goes too peachy or even too pink, it clashes with the skin! I used to think that peach is the color to go because I’m a warm olive but it ends up making my skin look more yellow. And like I mentioned in the video, always choosing one shade darker works for me every time! Hope that helps 😘❤️
I have a light muted warm toned olive complexion and soft, sheer lilacs and purples work great on me. Lilacs can look intimidating in the pan but for me they show up a really pretty pink on my skin and also brighten up my face
@@xxxLovexxxKissxxx Oh that sounds so pretty! I've never tried purple/lilac blush but I have tried lip products. For some reason I think it brings out the yellow in my skin. I don't think I'm super muted though, so maybe that's the problem for me.
So informative, thanks! I have recently realised I have very very pale olive skin, so have a hard time finding a pale enough shade, let alone the right undertone. I bought the nyx colour correcting concealr wand and mix that w my foundation and it makes it a muuuuch better match. So that's a tip for anyone struggling w their makeup, find a colour corrector and mix
I think that this flushing thing is dependent on the skin's translucency - and also from micro-circulation response which is stronger in some people than others. Olive skin can be thin or it can be thick, and thinner skin is naturally more translucent. Also, the amount of pigment in the skin counts - the more pigment, the more opaqueness, so pale skin tends to be more translucent. Even when it has an olive tone. Flushing is due to the increased micro-circulation on the skin, it's the color of blood showing through, not skin pigment. Exercise, alcohol, exposure to extreme temperatures, topical inflammation, and feelings like embarrassment and excitement increase micro-circulation, and this response is quite individual. So olive skin does not prevent flushing, but there is a chance that thick and richly pigmented olive-toned skin can neutralize _some_ light flushing. I agree that tan tends to add red pigment - and in some cases, it tends to add yellowness, too - and this for sure can help with the brights!
Good point on the thickness of the skin and translucency! I agree about the colour of blood showing through as well - hence my explanation around olives having a sickly appearance! I was trying to explain from a visual perspective how these colours work together/respond to each other. There is another video prior to this one where I discussed skin tones and I was using paint to exemplify how a skin tone is made hence my reference to pigments :) Love the details you've provided on the comment - thank you!
This is exactly my case: extreamly thin skin (a living anatomy class of the vascular system, body and face) and when I tan yellow, due to the added opacity, the chances of showing any red go from 0 to -25 😅 🫒🧛🏻♀️🖤
I finally got people to realize how olive my skin is just a few years ago. I'm so pale people thought for years it was impossible for me to be olive instead of porcelain. Que gifted shirts in colors that made me look like death incarnate 😂. It wasn't until I stopped exfoliating for a few weeks that my bf noticed via freaking out. He saw my intense dusty blue green skin and panicked thinking I was covered in bruises 😅😂. I had to explain, calm him down and even show him the pale green eyeshadow I use for highlighter before it clicked. Now he corrects everyone who says porcelain. Guess he's proud of his green girlie 🤷♀️❤
This video made a lot of sense to me. I had watched a couple of others (from different channels) that left me very confused. This was way more clear. I know I'm olive because of my green veins, but also this video saying when an olive tans they become closer to neutral and can wear more colors really resonated for me.
@@stylerefinement Quick question if you don't mind. Do neutral skin tones interact with colors the same way that olive skin tone do? For example: I mostly have a slightly pink tone to my skin but sometimes it appears slightly ashy/green. Is it possible to be in between a neutral cool pink and cool olive?
@@ladybluelotus It’s definitely possible. Like I said in the video it’s the amount of red that differentiates an olive from a neutral, and if you’re a cool skin tone I think you can definitely border between a cool olive and a cool neutral! Hope that helps ❤️
the struggle to find foundation is so hard for olive undertones 😭so far, the best brands I found with good olive undertones are Dior, Haus Labs, Makeup by Mario, and somewhat Hourglass. Highly recommend dior for more warm leaning olives out there!
@@stylerefinement Ooo yes! Totally forgot about Kosas but they’re good too! For sure check out Dior😊 They have WO (warm olive) undertone in every foundation line! My fave of theirs is the Dior Backstage foundation :)
@@andreesandahl300 Oh wow i didn’t know that! I even have this foundation and didn’t know haha but yes, super lovely foundation! I can see why it’s used a lot in bridal makeup 😊
omg. thank you! you hit so many great points. tanning/summertime makes all the difference for me. i am def olive in winter, nuetral/golden in summer. i tend to wear just concealer when I need it, but pack on the blush.
This was a great video! And a great explanation. I am in my 50s and love makeup. I also thankfully am very good at discerning color. So I’ve always known that if I were to wear foundation I needed either to mix my own or in the past to go to companies that had more range of colors or was made for Asian skin. I am Greek ethnicity. Light to light-med olive. Neutral but cool leaning. I look dead in warm colors. I can do most cool colors especially jewel tones. But for makeup I look best in neutrals with a cool undertone. Black not brown liner. For colors, a burgundy lip or blush instead of a dark very blue berry or a red. I need a touch of warmth in those colors to balance out the blue in them. For eyeshadow I look best in a cool taupe shimmer instead of a silver (cool) or a gold (warm). I don’t wear foundation. Never have on a regular basis as I have good skin overall. I will spot conceal. The best olive complexion products I have found are by the Dior forever line. I know that are pricey but they last forever! The downside is that their olive colors start at 2, so I wear 2 Warm Olive, but it is too dark when I am at my palest. So I mix in a little 1 Warm in with it. It I mix a very light yellow corrector in with it. Same with the foundation if I ever wear it. Same color. In summer I go to their 3 WO products and mix in the 2WO if I’m not at my darkest. But you’re right that our undertone changes a bit when we get tan. I love warmer blush colors in the summer such as a deep coral.
Finding pale olive foundation is a nightmare. Companies seem to think we don’t exist. For anyone struggling with this, after some trial and error I found 3 that work great for light olive. Mary Kay ivory n 160, Revlon candid crème brûlée and revlon candid buff.
Buff is my go to as well!
Pale/fair olive here too, mixing the Loreal True Match serum foundation in 0.5-2 and 2-3 is the best match I've ever found.
Back in the 08 09 TH-cam beauty guru days there was a guy named Koren and he recommended an indie brand called thevi for us olives. I tried their shadows but not foundation. Liked it. And not sure if it exist anymore lol .
I've found Loreal has some concealers and foundations that are olive.
Lisa Eldridge has some shades, for me No 9 works very well, before that I just gave up on wearing foundations all together.
"Olive skin tones don't blush"
My rosacea: Hold my beer
Exactly!!! Any redness to the skin is so much more visible when you are olive 😫
true!
@@coquelicot9455 for pale people yes
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literally lol
This helped me realize why finding the right foundation is so hard - I'm a light warm olive... with rosacea! All that extra redness disguises the fact that I'm olive, so I end up using warmer complexion products, but if they're more full coverage, I end up too yellow.
Agreed - with a condition like rosacea it's especially difficult!
I can kind of relate! I think I’m olive too bc of like grayish shadows/cast (not sure if warm or cool) + being more light skinned + my face is always flushed red due anxiety. So confusing bc sometimes I look more orange/red 😂
I super relate to this! I naturally gravitate to using yellow foundations because I find it helps covering my rosacea. That'd make my face look drastically different compared to my neck (which is what I now shade match to). For years I added just a tiny dot of blue pigment to my warm foundations to "neutralize it but not toooo neutral" I'm dumb and never once realized I was actually making a slightly green shade since neutral complexion products are peach/orange on me.
Anyways if you're looking for a complextion product and are light skin (roughly MAC NC12 as a reference) the Beauty Blender skin tint in Light 4 was made for light skin tones with a warm olive undertone. It's the best shade match I've had without needing to add in a blue or green pigment. Its light to medium buildable coverage, feels like nothing, and most importantly covers mild rosacea without having to use a full coverage product.
I’m so happy that you recognise that there is warm and cool olive skin. I even got in an argument with a beauty influencer before for spreading misinformation that there is no such a thing as light olive skin and it can only be cool.
Simply not true! I'm a living example of warm olive skin right here :) and lots of fair olives out there too!
Agreed!!!
I've been a pale, warm olive for nearly 50 years. I've always known I was olive because I have a lighter version of my father's olive skin and he told me I was olive when I was kid in a matter of fact way. It's just part of our ethnicity. I also look great in olive green, which is the color of my eyes. But, due to being pale, I do need a lot of warm, bright blush and my fall-colored wardrobe to look alive. I haven't tanned in nearly 30 years (don't tan and you will thank me later), but I would turn golden-olive when I did.
you should follow hannah louise poston on here - she has great fixes/recommendations for pale olive tones
Doesn't it depend on if they're talking about undertones or overtones being cool? If your skin looks olive it's because you have a blue undertone (cool) and a yellow overtone (warm) and that makes green overall.
Also for anyone that struggles with foundations…. Get yourself a GREEN foundation primer! I always keep the makeup forever green primer on hand! I’ll use this to mix with my foundation to amp up the green and it has saved my life! I typically do a 1:1 ratio!
Thank you for the tip!
Yass!! I commented the same thing before seeing your comment. The only way that works for me.
What brand or site has a green primer? I’ve never seen it
this is also a good tip to find out whether you have olive skin, I realize. get a cheap green one and check if it changes anything if you mix it with the foundations you already have! will try this out asap
@@Sunset553 if you search ‘anti redness primer’ then green primers of different brands should show up. They’re usually used to cancel out the redness in skin so it makes sense that it can help to match foundation to olive skin
This is hands down the best, most clear explanation of olive skin I've come across. Pretty much everything in this video confirmed that I have an olive skin tone. Now I know why shopping for foundation has been such a struggle! Thank you so much!!
Aww what a compliment - thank you so much! I’m glad you found the video helpful. If you have any more questions about the topic please feel free to leave them in the comments and I can make follow-up videos on olive skin!
The best option I have found, is a peachy undertone in complexion products, however, I am predominantly blue so that’s why peachy works.
Yes! I hardly ever wear makeup, because it always makes me look worse.
Completely agree :)
I so agree about foundation buying. It's a pain in the rear. I have to mix them. There is no single bottle that gives me the right undertone. If I tan a bit, as most people do in the summer, I notice most brands seem to head towards an amber colour and that's simply too orange. Why can't they simply add a cool brown to the darken the olive shades? Why Trumpian orange? Right now I'm using a CYO Lifeproof Foundation 107 (yellow/olive) mixed with a small amount of The Body Shop Foundation called Santorini (a peach undertone). Together, they make the perfect match. But it's taken me years to find this blend. I wish more cosmetic companies would investigate and cater for those of us with olive skins. We must surely be a significant market.
Now I finally understood that I have neutral skin tone and NOT olive skin. This was actually the best video I've ever seen on this topic!
Thank you so much for the compliment - I’m glad the video helped with clarifying! 🥰❤️
I think I’m warm side of neutral with clarity of the colour being the most important thing, but this video makes me think I’m only just outside the range of olive. 90% of what is in this video applies to me (red tones, being able to wear more things when tanned, looking way better without foundation, having trouble finding foundations/concealers etc that look good on me, I even have trouble finding blush that looks good in most brands and have to for darker berry-ish colours)
But neutrals make me look like I’m dying! So I think I’m just yellow toned neutral with pale skin and lots of white, but maybe I’m just outside the boundaries of neutral olive 🤷♀️
The blushing part was so reaffirming to hear. I have acne and fair/light olive skin with somewhat thin skin on my face. My olive skin makes my acne look worse because instead of masking it it offers stark contrast, so the clear parts of my skin are pale green and the red parts look insane next to it. Also the tanning making you look good in more colors thing is so so true! Every summer I buy bright yellows and oranges only to regret it once I lose the tan lol
Have you considered changing what you eat? Personal reduction of acne by cutting carbs (starchy and sugary), gluten (grains, wheat is of course a starch/carb), and taking a vitamin A supplement (cod liver oil, Pure Encapsulations brand 1 x daily).
I've noticed my pores are smaller after taking the vitamin A supplement.
I'm glad im not alone with this one, all down to being very pale and acne and thin skin. how I hated it. foundation looks like a mask and shades never match.. honestly, if you are interested to hear, only tretinoin helped me.
@@HaHaHaLMFAOtv After years of struggling with sensitive overly oily acne skin well into adulthood, which only seemed happy when on Accutane, I finally realized that in my case I had started a vicious cycle as a teen when I first started breaking out. By being too aggressive in response, that led to my skin being so oily- and in turn clogging pores and causing breakouts. So after a go of Accutane, I looked for another answer to skincare, something very mild but still would do the job. What I found was Paula's Choice, which really did help me. Since then I haven't reverted at all to having oily skin. Now besides Paula's Choice, I also use some Korean skincare products. My advice to anyone is besides diet and supplements, is to make sure you're not doing something wrong in your skincare routine. Making sure you're not being too harsh or just using a wrong ingredient somewhere (like I can't use vitamin C or retinoids) can make a world of difference. If nothing else I would definitely recommend Paula's Choice as a good place to start with figuring out a basic simple and safe routine, that one can later expand on.
It also allowed me to now use much lighter types of foundations, just enough to even the skin tone a bit, with just a touch of concealer on the spots that needed it, for a very natural looking look that stayed all day.
@@w1975b please, do NOT recommend supplements to anyone. Especially vitamin A. That could be really dangerous for somebody's health
This explains so much why I sometimes have olive skin and sometimes don't. Seasonal allergies add redness to the skin And I'm on the lighter side, the combo probably just pushes me into a non-olive spectrum or a less olive. This helps so much!
I’m so glad you found it helpful!! I feel like the seasonal changes for me really got me wondering at first if I’m olive 🤷🏻♀️ and allergies / more redness in the skin makes total sense!
I used to have zero redness in my face but I have developed rosacea in my 30s.
My facial skin can get a pink hue to it from various skincare treatments, but all you have to do is look at the underside of your forearm, and you should be able to see the green-ish tint, especially when comparing your arm to others. Yes, the face can change for a myriad of reasons including skin conditions, allergies, the weather, temp. etc.
Redness is only because the skin is thin and you can see the blood beneath. 98% of the world's population doesn't blush. Sallow is better as reacts to the sun better.
It annoys me to no end. I'm the same. Light medium warm is to yellow for me and ..it took me 10 years to find out my skin tone a makeup artist i know said I am olive
I always hated my skin, always thought what was wrong with me, why am i GREEN like no one else in my village. Years later i found out that my skin was ok -- thanks to people like you, who share their knowledge and experience. So thank you a lot for your video❤
You are so welcome! I'm glad the video was helpful for you. Your skin is perfect just the way it is - olives have the most beautiful coloring and appearance to our skin and it's our best asset ❤
I think your beautiful and need to give yourself more credit.
Tbh there is actually not enough videos on olive skin, i have seen All of them and I need more, pls continue doing videos about olive skin 😭
I’ll continue to make content on this topic! ❤️
CAN CONFIRM! Based on my personal experience as a very fair olive, .and as a chromatically obsessed painter, everything you said about colour mixing and skin tone changes is consistent with my experience.
Also, amazing video! This is the most comprehensive and well organized review of this topic I’ve encountered. ❤ 👏
Amazing - so glad to hear you enjoyed the video and found it to be consistent with your own experiences!! 🥰 Some of the points I made I wasn’t so sure if it was just me or other people experience it too, so I’m happy to hear the validation!
@@stylerefinement definitely not just you- and yes, I agree, hearing a parallel experience is very validating, especially since we have differing skin-tone depth
@@Juststudiothings totally! Thanks for sharing your experience 🥰❤️
I relate to what you said about not wearing foundation anymore. I’ve tried for 25 years to find a foundation that matched, and I’ve simply never found one. And I love the color of my skin and I want it to show. So I decided to focus on getting my skin as healthy as possible so I can go without make up ❤
Hey :) I found the mixing just a drop of green concealer into my closest matching neutral foundation gives the perfect shade… still don’t wear foundation often but when I do, the touch of green makes it look more natural and less like a mask
Exactly! Taking care of the skin is the ultimate solution. Now that I’m so used to doing foundation-less makeup styles, I really can’t stand the feeling of foundation on my skin!
I feel the same way. I don’t like the way it feels on my skin. I don’t like the way it looks on my skin either as I’m getting older.
However, I do like to wear it occasionally when I’m going to a formal event so thanks for the tip about the drop of green!
What about Glossier skin tint. Literally all other foundations look gross on me but Glossier looks so natural.
when I was in my 20s I had the most beautiful glowy fair neutral olive skin ever and any foundation killed that glow.
Time passes... now I need some coverage or camouflage.
If you have olive skin, mix some green color corrector into a neutral foundation, it’ll change your life 💚
I love to just use green color corrector all over my face as a foundation. It ends up so pretty.
@@Kvossera What brand(s) of green color corrector do you like? Eager to try this on the 100 shades of foundation in my drawer that all look horrible on me. lol
My skin looks like it has no green so I was surprised on how well green color corrector blended
Definitely agree about foundation. My skin is too oily and I always hated how smudgy I felt after. Just a bit of blush, some red lipstick and I'm a light olive snow white. Embrace the olive 😊
YESSS having an olive skin is a beautiful thing and we gotta embrace!
Same oily olive here too! I’ve only recently stopped and I love it! I just have a concealer and blush!
Same. I stopped wearing foundation a while age. I just use concealer and translucent powder now. I found a concealer that matches well.
@@CherryJuli I’ve been sticking to the CoverFX Powerplay concealer in N Medium 2 for a few years now but thinking of switching things up! What brand are you currently using?
"Light olive snow white" is a
f a n t a s t i c phrase 👑
I realized I had an olive skin tone about 5 years ago and many, many people argued that fact because I'm very fair and majority celtic. It was a big ah-ha moment for me because I always found wearing high saturation colours made me look sick or washed out while all foundation shades looked orange, peach or pink on my skin.
I found out while I was in makeup school and when our instructor was doing a bald cap demo on me she started spraying green specks to match the olive tones in my skin!
This is so helpful! It explains why I use neutral, red leaning bronzers and how blush is so necessary when I’m doing my makeup. Also how my neutral bb cream matched me better in the summer than it does now. But I just didn’t know how to articulate it to myself haha. Im more of a golden olive, which I learned from trying true olive foundations and it wasn’t quite the right match. Thanks for the knowledge!
I actually stick to neutral concealer as well! I know there's lots more options for olives out there these days but I found a shade that works for me in neutral and I've just been sticking with it haha. I'm also more of a golden olive so it's good to know that true olive foundations weren't really a match for you. I'll have to try it out myself once I run out of my current supply. Thank you for sharing!
Yes! Yes! Yes! Finally someone acknoledges differences and similarities between Olive and neutral. I'm always described as Neutral by makeup store people. i have been very confusted. I ask them if I'm olive and they all kinda agree like 'yeah you could be' or yaah you have some olive, but I guess they are only trained from the perscpetive of warm and cool tones. I am a MAC NC30 /35 and Fenty 260 for reference. Going to rewatch this video again. xoxo
Thank you for the comment! So glad you found the neutral vs olive analogy relatable! 🥰❤️
I just recently confirmed that I may have olive skin when I tried a neutral tinted moisturizer! For years I always "tried" to use warm toned foundation because that's what is assumed to be my skin tone as an asian, but it always ended up too warm for me. Then tried cooler foundation and it was too pinkish/greyish. But when I tried neutrals, they were almost a perfect match. Just added some bronzer to give some dimension and voila! Thank you for this video since it confirms that I may have olive skin and it'll definitely help me pick better colors that'll suit me best.
As a fellow Asian and Korean I can agree that I cannot find any Korean products that suits my skin! It’s weird that they haven’t developed more products for olive skin because there’s so many of us Asian olives 🫒🥲. I’m glad you found the video helpful! ❤️
I’m a black woman and have struggled quite a bit with finding foundation and not necessarily because I’m a bit darker, usually the tan/deep portion of the spectrum. I’ve struggled with everything you’ve touched on here. I’m closer to the neutral but slightly on the warmer side of neutral. Cool foundations obviously don’t work and warm foundations tend to be too warm. Neutral foundations aren’t a perfect match but are much closer. Less foundation works better for me and I tend to focus more on skincare for the exact reasons you mentioned. I have been able to find more foundations that match although I do think the labels aren’t always accurate. They may be listed as warm but are actually slightly warm/olive.
I'm glad to hear your experience is parallel with what I explained, regardless of the depth of your skin colour! YES - better skin care is the way to getting to the root of your problems and you don't need that much foundation once you can figure out how even out the skin tone just by using product on the areas that need coverage. Thank you for your comment :)
I've thought for a while that Kosas might have good options for deep olive skintones. Haven't tried it myself but olive people who have tried kosas tend to enjoy it.
@@fooloo993 I haven’t tried Kosas but I’ll definitely look into it.
THANK YOU. I feel so seen as a pale af olive person.
I’ve self tanned for so many years just because it’s a nightmare to shade match or wear certain clothes that I like, but I want to try to embrace my true shade range
Yes we gotta embrace!! ❤️❤️❤️ glad you found the video relatable
Elizabeth, don't tan with uv (skin cancer) or chemicals (other cancers). Learn what colors look good on you.
I find as an olive skin tone I can also pull off “weird” colors that other people think wash them out because they are blends.
I was once told by a colour analyst that "all olives are winters". No way I could make her doubt this. I see quite a bit of greenish/greyish cast on my complexion but I get a lot of redness on my face nevertheless, as I have light sensitive skin. I'd also like to bring up the idea that some complexions are just more muted. That's also why most foundations look starkly yellow or pink/peach on me despite having the right depth. I once tried mixing in some olive eyeshadow, and the foundation became such a better shade (and more muted!)
I definitely am not a color analyst, but I think that is such a generalization! I see a lot of winters that have olive skin, but I have seen Olives in every season. I, myself am an olive-skinned person who borders Spring and Winter.
@@TheFashManChannel i feel like a fall type, so right at the antipodes of winter in terms of both warmth and intensity 😂
Can't agree more - olives are all over the spectrum when it comes to seasons, not just winter!
I've had someone else comment about mixing green eyeshadow to their foundation and it worked! I'm definitely leaning towards muted so I agree with what you said about some colours looking too stark on my skin even with the right depth!
@@TheFashManChannel a color analyst using such a broad generalizations is a bad sign, she should know how complex and individual undertones are….
The best matching concealer I’ve ever had was tinted green, and was meant to be used as a color corrector 😂
This was a very informative video. As a very fair/fair olive leaning warm with rosacea (thanks mom), this helped really solidify and validate my thoughts behind being olive. So many try to fit me in the yellow or cool done box but neither work for me and even 99.9% of neutrals are too peach or pink for me. I hope brands really start catering to olive tones more often. I have found a few brands with my perfect shade but there needs to be more! Thanks again!
I’m glad you found it informative! I do think that more and more companies are expanding the options for olives 🫒🤭
This is one of the best explanations about olive skin that I've heard. I'm pretty sure that I have olive skin but all the other videos I had watched in the past said that olives don't have pink in our cheeks nor do we blush visibly. But I do have pink in my cheeks and now I know why. Yes, my skin is very fair; and so the red in my skin colour is showing through much more. Thanks for that great nugget of knowledge, Jenn!
Thank you for the comment!! I'm so glad you found the video informative - I think fair olive is ESPECIALLY tricky because of how light the skin is, and how easily it can be influenced by only a hint or redness. I hope I come across more real-life examples of fair olives to study it more :)
OMG - you have described me perfectly, especially the part about wearing colour only in the summer. What a clear and helpful explanation!
Thank you for the comment! I’m glad to hear that you feel the same way about the tan analogy 🥰❤️ so validating to hear the parallel experiences!
definitely agree with hint no.3 - people think I’m crazy every time I’ve tried to explain it! 🙌🏽
I’m so glad to hear someone agrees with me about this!! I’ve felt this way about my tan for a long time but wasn’t sure if I’m just going crazy haha 🤪
Is not the same for me 😭. I have very pale olive skin. Maybe, the first few hours my tan is a little more reddish but then it turns yellow and I see my skin more green than before!
By far, one of the most helpful videos breaking down olive skin that I've ever seen. Thank you so much for walking us through it in such a consumable way! We must be very different shades of olive, because I find that ANY blush shows up extra red on me, because the red and pink pigments placed on the surface of my skin stand out *so* much from the green background. I have a couple of bronzers that I reach for as blushes, that just show up as absolutely pink on me. Anything in the brown/purple category is my go-to. Cheers to being green-skinned gals!
So interesting to hear about the bronzer appearing pink on your skin - I use bronzer on top of anything showing too pink or red to tone it down!
Cheers to us 🥂❤️
I definitely agree about looking less olive in the summer as i tan, i can pull off so much more different colours when im tan, in the winter i look almost greyish/sickly, so i use bronzer lightly on my whole face and it brings back some redness into my skin
I definitely agree on the being tanned part! I've always felt like i look like my best self in summer, and everything suits me better too. So going off that theory, if we were to put a hint of red colour corrector all over our face, would it cancel out the green and make us appear more neutral? And then would colours interact with our undertone the same way they would with a neutral person???
I think theoretically it makes sense, although I haven't tried this on anyone myself. My concern would be the separation from your neck and body if you do that for your face only though!
In my case, getting a tan is more difficult for me, cause my skin tends to look even more gray (you have no idea how gray it can gets, looks super weird, as if I applied some cream or pigment on my skin). When my skin is more pale I've got more redness to it, so it's easier to wear different colors. I can get a light/ivory complexion, but also a brown complexion very easily due to the level of greyish. It's kinda hard to explain it, but I've learned how to navigate through using make up.
i also look better when tanned but i find that when my face has red it looks weird compared to the rest of my body and doesn’t really cancel out
skin tone is complex pigment. they don't cancel each other's themself, because they are separated pigment. Theoretically, Red would make your green vein neutral and makes your red more red. I think you would appear to have red skin.
I'm 52 and I only realized recently that although my skintone is very fair and freckled I probably have olive skin. Until now I had always heard of that characteristic for darker skintones than mine. Your very clear video confirmed me in realizing that, thank you :)
Thank you so much! I'm so glad to hear the video was able to provide some clarity for you ❤
This is the best explanation I've seen on how olive skin works! So informative, thank you! And thanks for correcting some of those myths out there. I have very light olive skin and I'm a Bright Spring - definitely leaning warm but still in the neutral range. I first realized I was an olive when I tried to use a green corrector and it completely faded into my skin. Before I knew I was olive I used to have trouble with foundation - cool was too pink, warm was too orange, and neutral tended to look too peachy or gray. I eventually found a better match in a warm yellow-based foundation (L'Oreal True Match W2) , but it still was just a tinge too orange/warm. More recently I discovered Smashbox Studio Skin in 1.05 (fair with a warm olive undertone) and it's the closest I've found yet. Definitely recommend that one for golden-leaning pale olives like me!
When I tan I actually think I look more olive? I've noticed when I'm at my most pale a tiny bit more blue comes out, but when I tan my skin appears more golden. But what you said is still somewhat true for me. Even though clear, bright colors are still my colors at my most pale, I can go even brighter and warmer when I tan. So that bright yellow-orange that may overpower me/be a little too warm for me in the early spring is going to be great in the summer!
Blush definitely helps bring my face to life more! I still haven't figured out the perfect shade; since I'm bright I'm not sure if your recommendation will work for me but I may give it a try. Thanks again!
Thank you so much for the comment - so glad to hear about the parallel experience with the tanning even though you’re a bright spring! 🥰❤️
Seconded, I also thought the video was a great and crystal clear explanation as to how olive skin works. I've figured out that I'm also a bright spring in seasonal color analysis (muted colors make me look dead and dull, pure gray being the worst offender), but also agree that I can wear more of the very, very brightest colors when I'm tan! Though my best is probably an orange-ish bright red, yellow-orange leans a bit too warm on me. I have to stick to colors that aren't TOO warm or cool, but very saturated...
I'm more light to light-medium, and use the Kosas concealer thinly where needed instead of foundation. 3.2O in the winter, and 3.5W in the summer.
As for blush, I've never found a blush formula I like and that I find easy to apply. So I just use lipsticks for this, much better selection of colors too 🤷😊 but either way, the absolute best blush color on me hands down is a coral pink. The lipstick I come back to for blush purposes all the time is Max Factor Colour Elixir in Pink Brandy. I'm betting a coral of some variety will be great on you and anyone who is a pale to light-medium olive bright spring, but for some reason I've found that color family very difficult to find in real blushes. But that's my blush color tip!
@@reureya I use lipsticks for different colors as well 💄☺️ I generally find cream blush to be easier to apply and sticks to my skin better for a more natural look, but I usually go over the cream product again with powder formula afterwards!
If you are a light-medium olive and lean more golden, I highly recommend Fenty 225. I always knew I was warmer than cooler but because I am so light if I wore a warm foundation that was the right level of color it could look orange and to remove the orange I would end up with a shade that was probably too light. I have always tanned exceedingly well and really never burned (even without sunscreen back in the day when that was a thing :-) but with no tan people would always say I Iooked so pale. When I tan, my arms and legs look greener but my face and stomach tan more with more red. But I no longer let myself tan so now I am on a quest to just not look like a cadaver🙂 The struggle is real and I am so glad I am not the only one!
We're not alone!! :)
I am olive cool toned and have a naturally have bright pink red blush on my lips and cheeks at all times, especially when I am pale.I also stopped wearing foundation but when I need to wear it, I mix my neutral foundation with small amount green concealer, it freaking works! It looks exactly like my skin!
Lots of people have been mentioning about adding green concealer/ colour corrector! I feel like I must give this a try but I'm so used to not wearing foundation anymore that I now hate the feeling of my skin covered in foundation. Maybe for the next special occasion I will give this a try! Thanks for the comment ❤
This video made me realize I have a neutral undertone. Read on if you’re still torn between the two, it might help you shed some light on the matter.
I went through phases of my life where I was severely anemic. During those stages, that would last quite a while, there was always this greenish cast to my skin.
After getting iron injections and raising my blood hemoglobin levels to more of a normal amount, that greenishness nearly disappeared.
When Jenn said that neutral is just olive with a lot more red, it instantly clicked for me. I’m neutral toned, who lost a lot of redness when my red blood cells were low, causing me to look green. Which I always assumed meant olive! But in reality, when the red came back and my body went back to normal - I was back to my normal beige/greyish rosy self.
Tl;dr if you’re torn between neutral and olive, get your iron levels up/get a blood test done
THIS IS THE BEST OLIVE EXPLANATION!!!!! Thank you thank you!!! I’ve been struggling because I didn’t like warm or cool colors on me, so I’ve been wearing more neutrals and I’ve been feeling much more confident. It makes to much sense!!!
Right?!!!!! I think it's the best ever olive explanation too
Thank you!! I’m glad the video made sense and it was helpful for you! 🥰❤️
You’re good. Glad I found you! I’m a light olive (not fair). I find that Kosas and Hourglass foundations are good for my skin color.
Hi - thank you for the comment! I haven't tried either brands myself but have heard good things about them, Kosas especially!! I'll need to check them out :)
Glad to have this for reference! I have an olive tone BUT i suffer from sensitivity/redness and could be mild rosacea. With that, my redness does come in handy if i feel like even with little makeup on, I look pallid or sallow.💕
This video is EVERYTHING! Thank you so much for making this content because I have been saying & feeling this for YEARS! And I also have noticed that I look better with my tanned skin. When I’m lighter I look sickly. I also can wear more variety of colors with my darker skin as opposed to when I’m at my lightest. Thank you!
You are so welcome! I'm so glad to hear so many people are finding this video relatable. Yay to olives!
For blush, Tower28's Power Hour is a stunning muted darker red that is perfect for my fair olive skin tone - and will likely look great on all olives in general!
Thank you so much for the recommendation! Will definitely need to check it out as I'm almost out of my current go-to. I'm currently using the Glossier Dusk but thinking of trying something new :)
All Tower 28 colors are too warm for me :(
Audrey Coyne is a very fair-skinned olive who has given great makeup recommendations. Love her channel as well. Great style also. I love that Tower28 blush shade for olive skin tones.
I’m pale olive, and have kind of that “grayish” tone. I’m somewhat more on the cool side, bur some warm colors do work on me as well, specifically the deep fall ones. But I’ve worn both winter ans summer colors and they always work on me.
Re the Mila Kunis example, the more saturated hue dress does not clash. It brings out all the warmth in her hair (looks more brown black) and skin. The light pink dress makes her hair look closer to black and her skin more fair. Having olive skin allows you to go for either less or more contrast depending on what you want 😊
You're right that it depends on what you want! Maybe that was me projecting my preference on what looks better on Mila - but in the end, your preference IS what's the most important!
Immediately subscribed. I have been quite stuck with the seasonal colour stuff because it’s so hard to figure out my skin tone. I think I’m finally coming to the realization that my skin is probably a light, slightly warm olive, but it’s a lot less evident in my face because I have quite a bit of redness. But I’ve always thought that the rest of me is a bit greenish. So there you go. And green colour corrector is my best friend.
Thank you for the sub!! I have not tried mixing green color corrector with foundation but lots of people have been suggesting it so I must try this trick! ❤️
Thank you for clarifying this for me. It makes the most sense. I'm a blue/green eyed blonde who never thought of herself as olive. But after this video I now totally get how I can get away with a mustard top (I tend to have rosy cheeks) but that same color anywhere else on my body makes me look green! It also explains why I can't stand foundation. What sold me on natural skin way back in H.S.was how the foundation on my friend's lovely face turned into a chalky mask pasted over the lovely rosy glow she got in exercise class!
I'm a very pale olive and everything you listed is true for me too. I don't tan any longer but when I did I could wear very cool bright colors. Although nowadays I prefer to rock the chic black and warm grays, so I don't have to worry about skin damage as much.
Thanks for sharing your experience! I used to go into tanning beds but now I only stick to "natural" tans (i.e. spending time outdoors in the summers). The skin damage is just not worth it!
Seriously THE best explanation of an olive skintone and all that goes along with it.
I'm a warm olive, sometimes neutral - depending on the brand, of course.
I'm gonna mention the annoying "tring/bell" sound everytime you made a point. As a headphone wearer, I think my eardrums are now permanently damaged!!! I got halfway through and resorted to zero volume and reading captions.
Hi! I’m so sorry about your eardrums… I did get this feedback from quite a few and will def tone it down with future videos!
Your approach to teaching color theory is fantastic! 🥰
There is a beauty youtuber who is admittedly the palest of pale and only in the last year discovered she was a pale olive - it's interesting because, as you mentioned, olive is most visually associated with yellow-green but in her case it's more of a muted gray, which I guess could be determined as cool-toned olive?
Olives can definitely have the grey-ish tone! Yes I think those olives lean to the cooler sides because it's predominantly the blue that brings out those grey hues!
divadream, Why did you not name the youtuber? Is it Alexandra Anele?
I think @divadream might be talking about Hannah Louise Poston (who is pale, but definitely not "the palest of pale"): she sometimes mixes green colour corrector with her foundation.
Taylor Wynn?
@@stealthis Tayor is a neutral, she's not olive.
I’m so so glad I’ve come across your channel! I’m a very pale very slightly olive bright spring, and I really think it was my olive complexion that made finding my right season and palette so confusing for so long. It took me years to figure out. That said, I now love that I have an olive, bright complexion because I feel like it’s such a unique feature.💕
Welcome to the channel ❤
I wasnt able to find a shade of base until a girl at a drugstore told me I had olive skin.True I never blush under the sun, I just get tanned. No wonder I look fantastic with blush and I just come back to life after applying.
Brilliant. I am a light cool olive. I tan well. Everything you have said is spot on! Yes, when I am tan I can wear more colors. Brown looks horrible on me. Certain beiges wash me out totally. This was the best video ever.
Thank you for the compliment - I’m glad you found it relatable!! ❤️ For me, brown actually works quite well, but certain beiges definitely agree - I just look like a big blob of beige 😅😂
I highly recommend Beauty Blender’s skin tint foundation in Light 4 for anyone who is fair-light with warm-ish olive skin tones! Their description of the shade even includes “olive” in it! :)
9:53 i already put a check on the previous two points but this one confirmed it for me 😭 people are always complimenting my skin when i get a bit of sun and worried about me when i haven’t gotten any sun in weeks 💀 and once i’m even just a bit tanned, i look good in those very warm and very cool colors that usually look awful on me. thank you!
This is by far the best video I’ve seen on Olive skin! You do a wonderful job explaining…
I still have such a hard time telling what my skin tone is though, I just can’t seem to figure it out! Sometimes I think it looks warm, other times it looks cool, sometimes I think I’m olive, but then I see more red in my skin… I wish I could narrow it down, even just a little lol!
Anyway, great video and amazing work breaking it all down!
Thanks for the comment and compliment! I agree - finding your skin tone can get really confusing. I do have a video on skin tone as well if you haven't watched it yet (th-cam.com/video/ZOVUE7XZYLU/w-d-xo.html) where I also explain skin tones other than olives!
Yess so glad I found this video. I am getting married soon and doing my own make up. It has been a night mare finding the right foundation and I look worse when I wear it. It covers up the unique glow we olive skin types have. I am half Chinese and from a distance look really warm, but up close there is coolness from blue viens and some transparent pinker areas from my white side. Plus freckles add to the glow. Covering all that up in foundation that is neutral just looks so flat and less glowy. I lose the pink which can be brought back through blush but it’s not the same. I lose the golden bits too. But wearing a golden foundation would be too orange and using a cool foundation would be too pink. Thanks so much for this in-depth video for olive skin tones! ❤
As a warm olive, I also agree that less is more when it comes to our skin
I'm the opposite where I have super oily skin and the foundation just feels really sticky and gross. Lots of powder-form products (blush, setting powder, bronzer) for me!
I am also warm toned olive, with dry skin. I use only moisturizer and colored lip balms (that are mostly dark reds/plumm color)
This is the best explanation I’ve heard.
THANK YOU.
My skin changes a lot, but I’m generally pale with green overtones. When I was younger I thought I looked sickly & would add bronzer and lipstick to bring some color to my face.
A darker bronzer looks way better and more natural than blush, I’m adding this part to my comment in case anyone wants to try that out. 👍
Thanks for sharing your own tips!! 👍
This was a great explanation. Much more up to date than the book on color season analysis from the 80's that I have lol. I have very light olive skin that's on the warmer side. Some areas of my skin are more clearly greenish while others are more yellow or just always red due to blemishes. I don't wear makeup anymore but when I did I could usually get away with warm foundations, they were just a tiny bit too orangey for me.
I definitely look bad in both too warm and too cool colors, and neutrals are always my safest bet, but because I'm an artist I can quite easily find a lot of shades of almost every color that work well for me. I just look for ashier, more watered down versions for warm colors like red and orange, and softer versions of cool colors like blue and purple. I tend to avoid clear colors and go for colors that are a mix of at least one warm and one cool color. Like if it's for example blue I'd prefer it have either a hint of red (navy, violet, marine, prussian) or a hint of yellow (cerulian, cyan, cobalt, aqua) as that's gonna look a lot better on me. With red and yellow it can have either a hint of blue or gray. So for example wine red, ochre and ivory are shades of red, orange and yellow that work well for my olive skin, because they're cooled down with gray or blue.
Once I figured out this trick, it's actually pretty easy for me to find clothes, jewellery and hair colors that suit me. So at this point I feel like it is actually an asset to have olive skin, because we can look good in both warm and cool colors, it just has to be not too warm or too cool. But that's still probably a greater range of colors than most people can look good in.
Thank you for sharing your experience!!
I agree - I think that our skin is our best asset 🥰❤️
I have always suspected I'm a light olive, but it's so difficult to tell because I look so pink sometimes. However, pink-toned foundation has never worked for me, but using neutral concealers (rose inc lx010, nars chantilly, kosas 0.5N) over or mixed with a green primer works very well. Your explanation of adding red to white vs adding red to black made so much sense to me! And I always thought that I was mostly cool because of the pink in my skin and not looking good in orange, but now I see I'm more neutral because I look very good in mauve and peach colors. Thank you very much for this video!
You are very welcome! I'm glad you found the video helpful❤
Thank you for pointing out that cool vs warm is blue undertone vs yellow undertone. I've spent sooo much time explaining to redheads that having a lot of pink in the skin doesn't equal cool tone. I don't know where so many of them got that idea, but it's pervasive!
It’s probably because for fair skin, blue undertone can appear purplish / pinkish! But even those pinks are very cool, as opposed to the warm+pink skin appears more peachy!
Literally the most superior illustration and explanation of Olive and Neutral tones ! I’ve never seen anything better! Crystal clear ! Thank you !
Thank you so much for the compliment - glad you found the video informative!! :)
It was such a nice reaffirmation that in the past few years I have been doing the right thing after I realized my skintone is olive, not neutral or "a weird mixture of cool and warm tones". The one tip that makes such a lot of sense that I have been noticing but could not pinpoint out why is that even with my more pale olive skintone, lighter shades, the typical nude-y lip colors that work so well for others just do not work for me - and now I know the reason. But other than that, apart from still struggling to find the right foundation match, I have been buying clothes (especially tops) in shades that are more tertiary / muted or rich in tone, not sharp cool or warm tones, I have been religiously using blush and usually in mid-tones, nut the super light ones.
Thanks for sharing your experience! Glad to hear you agreed with a lot of what I said :)
This is literally the most informative video on olive skin I've seen. It was like a sudden breakthrough of finally understanding my skintone.
Thank you so much for the compliment! I’m so glad to hear you found it helpful 🥰❤️
Great video! I still don't know if I'm neutral or light olive because I'm very pale, the veins in my wrist are blue, green and violet but I never blush, and what you said about Mila not looking that good in very warm neither very cool tone clothes, yeah, I relate a lot, also finding a good blush for my skin is a nightmare. There's so little information about light olive skin online :( but this video is the best I've seen. (sorry for my english, not my first language)
You're English is great! Thanks for the comment :) I agree - I think fair olives are especially tricky and confusing! I'm glad you found my video helpful.
Wow!!! I have olive skin a bit on the tan side and I've seen countless videos on this subject but this is hands down the first video where I can say I agree 100% with every single word. And that is based on my own life experience, observation, and trial and error based revelations! Thanks for this video!
Thank you for the comment! It’s so nice to hear lots of people having the same experiences 🥰
I think I might be olive, but as a pale girl with a lot of rosacea in my cheeks, it's so hard to tell! I look good in typical bright autumn colours for clothes, but typical cooler tones for makeup (mauve, pink-toned reds, bronzes) so I'm still confused
You should check your skin colour on the inside of your wrist or arm to see if you have any distinct green hues showing!
I have never heard anyone make the pale olives looking grey before, the 'dead' comments, Julianna Moore being an example of a pale olive that also has a lot of flush and your comment about tanning making you more comfortable in colour. They all apply to be and now i think i finally know im a pale olive! And its not one id even considered before this video! Thank you. My husband just said its funny/nice to see me so excited about it. He obviously doesnt understand the struggle women go through and from a quite young age, trying to find foundation that looks good!
How I found that I’m olive - as a joke I tested a VERY gray/green looking foundation and it was a match made in heaven, everything just made sense. Now my old foundation looks bright yellow in comparison 😂
Haha - honestly trying different shades on your actual skin is the most accurate to find a match! For me, I found out while I was in makeup school and my instructor was doing a demo on my skin, then she started mixing green into the foundation as she noticed right away that I had olive skin. Otherwise I probably would have wondered for longer!
I found my match, after decades, in Clinique CN52. It is greyish toned and really melds with my skin. Now my Chanel B30s look too yellow.
What brand?
@@bbjudyfit mine is the Purito
Cica BB Cream Nr 23, but Nr 21 is also quite grayish
great video, it explains perfectly what a olive skin is, in my case a olive - grays tone
I think the greyish tones in olives are beautiful ❤️❤️❤️ thank you for the compliment!
I've found a good foundation match which I mix green primer into (about 1/3 primer and 2/3 foundation) to bring it almost exactly to my skin tone. I'm a cool pale olive so finding a good foundation match can be done!
Yes I’ve seen this trick in other videos! I just don’t keep a green primer or concealer around because I have minimal redness 😅 I must try it out in the near future!
Thank you! I’ve always loved olive skin tones the most. I have a very ruddy skin tone and used to have to hide it with green.
You're welcome! You shouldn't have to feel the need to hide - I think ruddy complexions are also beautiful in their own way! ❤
Great video! I have olive skin and I was always annoyed that foundation, powder and concealer colors never matched us. I used to work for the cosmetics company Prescriptives and we custom blended foundation, powder and concealer so I was always able to match my green with them, but I also did what you said, gravitated towards the neutrals because they always seemed to work better. It's so funny that you said when we tan we get redder ... I always hated how self tanners never looked like my actual tan because I always tan red/bronze and the tanners are always orange. I personally have always loved my olive skin. I love neutral colors on myself, brights like turquoise and true reds, olive greens and most of the blues. I tend to stay away from purple, orange, yellow and lighter and to a lesser extent brighter greens because they don’t suit my preference, but I have worn them as well and would in the future.
I find yellow works for me but only when I’m tanned! Orange seems to really not be for me but I think orange itself is also a difficult colour to pull off for most!
@@stylerefinement I think most people will think that colors don’t look good on them but a lot of the time it’s mostly preference. I don’t think orange looks bad on me when I’m not tanned it is just not what I like to see on myself. I don’t wear prints either because I always hate them LOL
@@DanteVelasquez amen about prints - same personal preference as me! Stripes is about as far as I would consider for prints 🤣
You’ve explained so much of the strife in my lifelong search for matching makeup. Plus, my tones look exactly like yours. I’ve always hated when I’m pale. I look sorta sickly? Maybe not sickly, but I look much better with a golden tan and it’s easier to match makeup colors.
Ugh, finding contour is the worst. They all looked too red on me. Asian cosmetics becoming big in the US is the best thing to happen to my face.
One thing I love about having olive skin is being able to rock warm and cool colours together. Dark blue being one of my best colours to wear, then wearing a slightly warmer orange tinted lip colour with it just brings life to my sallow face. It creates a nice contrast with green eyes too. As long as I'm careful with the brightness of warmer colours, it works really well.
Jealous you’re able to pull off orange lips! I’ve tried but it looks a little too warm for my skin. I agree the brightness definitely matters - darker oranges like MAC Chilli seems to look ok on me, but I have to be careful not to be too heavy handed!
@Style Me Jenn
I might not really be pulling it off, but I like it😆 it helps to have a go-to neutral for muting any colour.
I don't suit dramatic lipsticks at allllllll but I've found that the Rare Beauty gloss in Apricot is really nice for a hint of warm orange!
Illy80: Having olive skin does *not* automatically you can "rock warm and cool colours together". Maybe YOU can, but that means you must be a "neutral olive", not a cool olive or a warm olive. I'm a cool olive and orange and most warm colors make me look like a corpse.
I am olive-skinned on the warm side (pretty light in the winter and can get pretty dark in the summer) and I do have a natural blush on the cheeks and freckles while the rest of my skin is still yellow-greenish toned. I think it's possible to be olive toned and still have a visible blush (the freckles and the blush might be signs of some ginger ancestor in my case). But even the red on my cheeks is color-coordinated with the olive tones if it makes sense...One thing I know is that I sure look great dressed in the olive color spectrum.
I think visible blush is possible for olives too! Probably means your skin is on the thinner side so the redness shows through a bit more ☺️
Thank you, I'm similar. My face flushes massively all the time but how much it shows up depends on lighting and the rest of my body is yellow-green. My hands and feet will also get very red in extreme temperatures.
Thank you SO MUCH! The lack of red topic was truly enlightening, I will definitely never have to wonder again lol. Soft winter is definitely my palette, love you videos!
I'm glad the video lived up to its title haha ❤❤❤
My mind is blown because you described all of my struggles, but I still can't figure out of I'm olive or neutral. I have rosacea so my face doesn't always match the rest of my body, and in the past I just tanned to make my skin have better color. Now that I realize the sun is aging me I just feel ugly, but maybe this info will help me figure it out 🥲 thank you for such an informative video, I've subbed
Thank you so much for the sub! I'm glad the video was helpful :)
HipUsername, watch Dr Dray to improve your skin. Stop tanning. To figure out skin tone don't look at your face. When you're with 3-5 friends, have them make a fist and you all put them in a circle palm down. Compare knuckles, you will know instantly.
@@violetviolet888 thank you for the advice, I stopped laying out in the sun years ago, and I'm subbed to Dr. Dray! I have a good skin care routine and I'm told I look young still, I just hate how sickly I look lol. I dislike self tanner smell, so I just have to embrace it. And I've never heard of the knuckle thing I have to try that!
I am in the same boat. 😂
This is the best video I've seen explaining what makes an olive skin tone and comparing it to neutral, thank you!
Glad it was helpful! ❤️❤️❤️
This is a very well done video! I have just one addition - not necessary a correction, though. I am a pale warm olive and I actually look MORE olive when I am tanned. I guess it depends on the tone one's tan. Mine is not very reddish but rather golden brown. In result, in the summer I move more towards the stereotypical "Mediterranean golden olive girl" territory (despite me being fully Slavic and a NC15 level of paleness in the winter and barely pushing to NC20 when tanned [I use the MAC shades as indications of saturation level only, the actual NC20 is super orange on me]).
Still, this is very true for the two separate colour schemes for summer and winter. As a more "golden girl" in the summer, I can wear more white, grass greens, mustard yellows or various olive/khaki tones in the summer but they wash me out in the winter. In the summer I have to cut the all black or deep navy looks as they clash too much with the golden warmth of my summer skin tone.
I have some people comment about their skin turning more yellow or olive when they tan, so it's definitely different for everyone! :)
I wonder if this is a slavic thing...I'm half polish and my mom and all of her siblings look suuuuuuper yellow/gold when they tan. I look *slightly* less yellow, but still quite yellow!
@@TinyTC I don't think so. My sister has a neutral undertone (and is just a tinge darker than me, like one shade in foundation lower) and she stays neutral when she tans. In the summer I LOOK much more tanned than her, even if it is clear when we put our arms next to one another that her skin is objectively darker than mine. And yet I get this "golden olive tan" colour that makes me looks very tanned when I am objectively not. She stays neutral and pale-looking even if she got more sun than me.
@@berlineczka Fascinating.
Best Olive skin video ever! I'm defo an olive leaning slightly warm even though a lot of "Colour analysts" say olives are always cool. I have actual khaki green skin.
Olives can be either wam or cool! I’m a living proof of warm olive 🫒😎
This was SO interesting that I watched it twice! I hope you get a million subscribers Jenn!!
Awww thank you so much for the sweet compliment! ❤️ a million subscribers… what a dream! 😝
just have to say that this video confirmed all my 30 years of confusion and experience with my skin tone working with colors, blushes, tans, lipsticks, EVERYTHING!
I'm so glad to hear the video provided confirmation for you! ❤
Fabulous video, Jenn! I love having an olive undertone. My mother says I'm straight up green. :) My focus has always been on consistently taking great care of my skin, and strategically using concealer where needed, and then a bit of colour cosmetics to add "life". For me, a more yellow-based concealer has always worked really well. I also want my skin to show through and not be masked. In the past, I had always used yellow-based foundations and they worked pretty well for me, but now it's great to actually find olive undertones, even at the drugstore. I used to be a light-medium and now that I'm a light.. my olive undertones are even more pronounced. Yet another reason why I no longer wearing foundation... except for special occasions.
To know if you have an olive undertone, all you have to do is hold the underside of your forearm up to a few other people, and your skin will most definitely have a greenish cast in comparison. Do this in good, bright, natural lighting, and of course, with no fake tan,
etc.
While my skin has a bit of pinkness now that it has lightened significantly and due to skin treatments.. I'm not sure that I've ever blushed. Hmmm... Can't recall.. :)
Your video has been the most accurate one I've seen on olive skin so far! And yes, red clothing (esp. a warm red) does me no favours! lol I even despise red lipstick on me.. Not a good look..
Thank you!! I’m glad you liked the video!
Strategic use of concealer + bit of colours is exactly like my routine! For me sandy colours seem to work best, although like you said there’s wider options for olives these days which is so great 🥰. After realizing what a terrible choice it was to wear foundation for my wedding, I decided that I will not wear foundation even for special occasions 😂
@@stylerefinement Agreed. When I say I wear foundation rarely, on those occasions I use a medium foundation and dilute it 50% with a moisturizing "primer".. so it's basically a tinted moisturizer. It's super sheer. I'm not even sure what the point is.. lol I don't like the feeling on base on my skin anymore.. :)
@@wendigo1919 I used to do the same!! And then realized I’m really not covering anything so I ditched the routine eventually haha 😆
I agree with the others below. This is the best Olive skin video ever! I am 68, and have beautiful clear skin but every time I decide to just 'try' makeup one more time, I am thrilled when I come home, wash it off and see how lovely my skin is. I always get compliments on my skin without foundation so, for most of my life, I have not worn any. Your blush tip is great. I am working on how to apply it so it looks natural. I also do the same thing with lipsticks after many fails. One shade deeper works for me too. I wear almost all black and/or white with occasional blue or red because I just don't feel good in other colors. Now I realize it is likely because, depending on how much time I spend outside, my skin tone changes and what looked good yesterday doesn't today. My hair is naturally silver white now and I look and feel best with no foundation, moisturized skin, lovely lipstick and a wee bit of blush. More than that and I can't wait to wash it off because I don't feel like I look alive. Thank you so much for this great video.
You are so welcome! I'm glad to hear your experience is paralleled with what I explained in the video. With natural-looking blush, I find the key is to be light-handed and apply to a wider surface area! Then you can always go back and re-apply in more concentrated areas as needed. You can always add more so being light-handed is the best way to go!
I have olive skin and look best with yellow undertone foundation, lipstick and blush definitely cool. Recently tested Lisa's Eldridge foundation in olive shade and that was very true to my skin but still I look better when I add yellow. Never could find a flattering bronzer shade, even if it's not horrible I look better when I skip it.
Interesting! You must be leaning quite a bit towards warm. I'm the opposite with bronzer - I always use it, and sometimes even on top of my blush to tone down the shades!
I don't know, but my skin has this very obvious green undertone. When I add yellow it looks like it has more light/ glow into it. It doesn't make dramatic difference, since I use very light coverage and you can still see I'm "green".
I had a lightbulb moment when you talked about choosing a deeper shade of pink/red. I bought this eyeshadow palette with cool pinks and purples. It looks fine at first application - but no matter what I do, the colors on that palette become gray before I even finish putting it on my other eyelid. Meanwhile, I was avoiding this palette I was gifted because I felt its colors were too deep and saturated. Lo and behold, this "bold, deep red" looked perfectly normal on my skin.
Absolutely! I’ve been there and I totally feel you. Now I always just make sure that whatever color I think looks nice, go 2-3 shades darker and it’s perfect👌
I have olive skin, but get red irritation a lot due to skin sensitivity. Very fair, and I have a condition which causes thinning skin, so my skin has gotten pinker overtime, with veins getting more visible as well. They're usually a sort of turquoise color, but where I have some more red in my skin, they're bluer. My sister has pinker skin and her veins are much bluer! Even with the same thinning skin, our veins have different colors....
I would often have too much redness in my face over allergies - and the heightened sensitivity... I'm sicilian, but I found BB cream for East Asian skintones matched the rest of my body better. As an optimist, I guess the silver lining of a health condition is the balance it did for my skin lol
I’m East Asian but East Asian BB creams don’t work for me - they’re wayyyyy too light and some of them make my skin grey!! 😅🤣
You are so right on!! I am a pale olive and it's hard to find the right shades. So glad I found you!
I'm glad the video was helpful!
This is THE BEST video on olive skin I've seen, and I've seen A LOT lol. Thank you for explaining it so well!! Also, could you maybe do a video (or maybe reply to this comment) about what blush colors would suite olive skin best? Like should you choose a red, a pink, a peach? Should you strive to contrast the green or not?
Thank you for the compliment!! I think the blush color depends on whether you’re warm/cool and also bright/muted, but generally speaking I think avoiding colors that are extreme (too warm/too cool) is always the way to go, at least for me. I find muted roses/terracotta/browns work well as blush colors but once the color goes too peachy or even too pink, it clashes with the skin! I used to think that peach is the color to go because I’m a warm olive but it ends up making my skin look more yellow. And like I mentioned in the video, always choosing one shade darker works for me every time! Hope that helps 😘❤️
@@stylerefinement Thank you so much for the help!! ❤
I have a light muted warm toned olive complexion and soft, sheer lilacs and purples work great on me. Lilacs can look intimidating in the pan but for me they show up a really pretty pink on my skin and also brighten up my face
@@xxxLovexxxKissxxx Oh that sounds so pretty! I've never tried purple/lilac blush but I have tried lip products. For some reason I think it brings out the yellow in my skin. I don't think I'm super muted though, so maybe that's the problem for me.
Marianne K - It's not as simple as "Like should you choose a red, a pink, a peach?" You need *cool-toned* reds, pinks and peaches.
So informative, thanks! I have recently realised I have very very pale olive skin, so have a hard time finding a pale enough shade, let alone the right undertone. I bought the nyx colour correcting concealr wand and mix that w my foundation and it makes it a muuuuch better match. So that's a tip for anyone struggling w their makeup, find a colour corrector and mix
I’ve seen this suggestion multiple times here 🥰 great to know it’s a method that works for so many! I must give this a try sometime ❤️
I think that this flushing thing is dependent on the skin's translucency - and also from micro-circulation response which is stronger in some people than others.
Olive skin can be thin or it can be thick, and thinner skin is naturally more translucent. Also, the amount of pigment in the skin counts - the more pigment, the more opaqueness, so pale skin tends to be more translucent. Even when it has an olive tone.
Flushing is due to the increased micro-circulation on the skin, it's the color of blood showing through, not skin pigment. Exercise, alcohol, exposure to extreme temperatures, topical inflammation, and feelings like embarrassment and excitement increase micro-circulation, and this response is quite individual. So olive skin does not prevent flushing, but there is a chance that thick and richly pigmented olive-toned skin can neutralize _some_ light flushing.
I agree that tan tends to add red pigment - and in some cases, it tends to add yellowness, too - and this for sure can help with the brights!
Good point on the thickness of the skin and translucency! I agree about the colour of blood showing through as well - hence my explanation around olives having a sickly appearance! I was trying to explain from a visual perspective how these colours work together/respond to each other. There is another video prior to this one where I discussed skin tones and I was using paint to exemplify how a skin tone is made hence my reference to pigments :) Love the details you've provided on the comment - thank you!
This is exactly my case: extreamly thin skin (a living anatomy class of the vascular system, body and face) and when I tan yellow, due to the added opacity, the chances of showing any red go from 0 to -25 😅 🫒🧛🏻♀️🖤
@@stylerefinement Yep, I think you did an excellent job with that!
This was probably the best explanation of olive and how to explain undertone. Thank-you!
Thank you for the compliment! I'm glad you found the video helpful ❤
I finally got people to realize how olive my skin is just a few years ago. I'm so pale people thought for years it was impossible for me to be olive instead of porcelain. Que gifted shirts in colors that made me look like death incarnate 😂. It wasn't until I stopped exfoliating for a few weeks that my bf noticed via freaking out. He saw my intense dusty blue green skin and panicked thinking I was covered in bruises 😅😂. I had to explain, calm him down and even show him the pale green eyeshadow I use for highlighter before it clicked. Now he corrects everyone who says porcelain. Guess he's proud of his green girlie 🤷♀️❤
Great to hear about your bf correcting everyone haha. Cute! ❤
This video made a lot of sense to me. I had watched a couple of others (from different channels) that left me very confused. This was way more clear. I know I'm olive because of my green veins, but also this video saying when an olive tans they become closer to neutral and can wear more colors really resonated for me.
Everything makes sense now. Thanks so much.
You’re welcome - I’m glad you found the video informative! ❤️
@@stylerefinement
Quick question if you don't mind. Do neutral skin tones interact with colors the same way that olive skin tone do? For example: I mostly have a slightly pink tone to my skin but sometimes it appears slightly ashy/green. Is it possible to be in between a neutral cool pink and cool olive?
@@ladybluelotus It’s definitely possible. Like I said in the video it’s the amount of red that differentiates an olive from a neutral, and if you’re a cool skin tone I think you can definitely border between a cool olive and a cool neutral! Hope that helps ❤️
Yes!! I've always thought I could only pull off some colors while being tan. Thank you for all the info. It is extremely helpful.
Thank you so much!! I’m so glad to hear you found the content helpful 🥰❤️
the struggle to find foundation is so hard for olive undertones 😭so far, the best brands I found with good olive undertones are Dior, Haus Labs, Makeup by Mario, and somewhat Hourglass. Highly recommend dior for more warm leaning olives out there!
Ooh first time hearing that Dior is good for warm olives! I must check it out 😍 thank you for the suggestion! I also heard good things about Kosas
Armani luminous silk has a light and medium olive. It’s a light to medium coverage and expensive… but its my shade! YAY
@@stylerefinement Ooo yes! Totally forgot about Kosas but they’re good too! For sure check out Dior😊 They have WO (warm olive) undertone in every foundation line! My fave of theirs is the Dior Backstage foundation :)
@@andreesandahl300 Oh wow i didn’t know that! I even have this foundation and didn’t know haha but yes, super lovely foundation! I can see why it’s used a lot in bridal makeup 😊
@@andreesandahl300 I’m a medium olive - will check this out! 🥰
omg. thank you! you hit so many great points. tanning/summertime makes all the difference for me. i am def olive in winter, nuetral/golden in summer. i tend to wear just concealer when I need it, but pack on the blush.
Thanks for the comment! Glad to hear the experiences are parallel 🥰❤️
I was so excited for this long awaited video and you delivered ✨🙌Thank you!
Thank you so much for waiting and I’m so glad you found it helpful!! ❤️ Thanks for being so supportive 🥰🥰🥰
This was a great video! And a great explanation. I am in my 50s and love makeup. I also thankfully am very good at discerning color. So I’ve always known that if I were to wear foundation I needed either to mix my own or in the past to go to companies that had more range of colors or was made for Asian skin. I am Greek ethnicity. Light to light-med olive. Neutral but cool leaning. I look dead in warm colors. I can do most cool colors especially jewel tones. But for makeup I look best in neutrals with a cool undertone. Black not brown liner. For colors, a burgundy lip or blush instead of a dark very blue berry or a red. I need a touch of warmth in those colors to balance out the blue in them. For eyeshadow I look best in a cool taupe shimmer instead of a silver (cool) or a gold (warm). I don’t wear foundation. Never have on a regular basis as I have good skin overall. I will spot conceal. The best olive complexion products I have found are by the Dior forever line. I know that are pricey but they last forever! The downside is that their olive colors start at 2, so I wear 2 Warm Olive, but it is too dark when I am at my palest. So I mix in a little 1 Warm in with it. It I mix a very light yellow corrector in with it. Same with the foundation if I ever wear it. Same color. In summer I go to their 3 WO products and mix in the 2WO if I’m not at my darkest. But you’re right that our undertone changes a bit when we get tan. I love warmer blush colors in the summer such as a deep coral.
I have heard good things about Dior as well!! I must try it out :) Thanks for sharing your own tips!