In summer I can pull of Garnier bb-creme in claire/light. I also have found Japanese makeup brands have better matches than western brands. If you prefer medium and dark hair colors and are looking for a color thats more fierce than traditional, opt for this shade of purple. I am an Olive 2 and 2.5 in summer. Youre the best! I think many women with Slavic backgrounds would look great in the Ceylan shade. Ive used the MUFE mixer for years and it makes virtually every yellow-toned foundation wearable. On the subject of jewellery, rose-gold (with runner up being gold gold) does me the most favours. The veins on my inner wrists are purple violet, aqua and wedge wood blue. I do, however use a pink blush with gold flecks. As for bronzer, the L'Oral Paris Infallible 24H Fresh Wear Soft Matte Bronzer in Tan has subtle yellow and olive undertones that will flatter your complexion beautifully. Supposedly they are made for olive skin specifically, I literally ordered that foundation the other day, based on a recommendation from another website dedicated to olive skin. Medium brown eyes And highlighted brown hair. Hopefully this will help those who are struggling to find shades that work for them! Youve just described me except the eyes are very pale grey blue. Very interesting. The combos here dont show up orange, which is often a problem for me. Im pretty content with my make up collection at this point (finally) I will leave a full complication breakdown below. However, I picked up a sample of the same foundation in 1W2 Sand and it is perfect. The main thing that stood out was that near other people who are also pale without suntans (I tan quite dark and quite olive) I am green. Agree with colors you recommended. The key is your golden skin undertone and you haven't got so much contrast than Winters have. I think I get my olive skin from my Iberian side, seems common in Mediterranean areas. I tried Jeffrees concealers in C2 and C5 because I thought **maybe** I was neutral, but after seeing how grey they look and trying C6, I believe I am actually olive undertoned! I think orange would too, but I never wear orange. Maybe we should sign a petition??? But for so long I felt like Im just weird cause my type just didnt exist in any makeup advice. But, I have more a tendency to look sallow in the wrong color than ruddy in the wrong color. Haha. My eyes are brown/hazel (again warm) That is the extent of good colours for me. There are a bunch of tricks for finding out your undertone, that I think weve all come across at some point in our lives. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. It was the most perfect and enhancing shade for my cool to slightly warm skin tone. I can tell you, as an Arabic girl, that olive skin is not always that beautiful rich shade. I just got Laura Gellers Baked Blush & Brighten Marbleized Blush in PINK BUTTERCREAM. It was so much easier in the 90s when brown reds were available. I love this post. Ive basically given up on finding a foundation that matches, and I cant do a bright red lipstick or anything orange or bright pink. By george, Ive got it. MUFE Full Cover Concealer in #6 does work well for me, but beware of oxidation, it can turn too dark. Me too! Not all olives are warm. The reason why I havent realized that I could have olive skin is that the definition isnt associated with fair skinned and haired northern Europeans but instead, with Southern Europeans with brown hair and eyes. Gold Neither really looks good on me, to be honest. Fenty already came out with light olive shades..130 and 145, Thanks so much, unfortunately, I tend to be a little more tan then both of these shades, theyre several shades too light for me!! I got here from first seeing the Audrey Coyne video, too. Im in a further predicament because I feel like I go completely against the norm of the abnormality that is even pale olive I can rock both gold and silver, I can tan (hard for me to burn), I have freckles, brunette (copper-chestnut hue that naturally goes blonde at the ends), and I can rock any color besides pastels. I use the LA Girl green concealer. An olive skin tone can easily and beautifully pull off pure black hair color. I am ghostly white in winter, but tan pretty easily and dont burn easily, which Im always old is odd for someone pale as me. Neutral foundation ishard enough to find as it is, but its not right on me either. But not exactly neutral. I look great in jewel tones and orange too. Im from Estonia, where the most popular hair colour is called a potato peel blonde, meaning a dusty greenish yellowish brownish mix. Im super pale but I can tan a little. So glad ive found other pale olives. I usually choose foundations with a bit of yellow, I like the ones by Sephora because they say on it if its neureal, or yellow, and I found a great korean BB cream, that I use only in the summer, as its quite dark, but not orange Dr Jart BB cream. In the summer I can wear a warm foundation as long as the base tone of that foundation isnt too overly orange/red and It wears quite nicely alongside one of the concealers I have listed above. My eyes are green and hair is natural medium brown (it used to be golden brown when I was a child) and I tan easily. After 30 years of makeup experiments the most exact shade for the winter version of me is the Vanilla nude Bare with me from Nyx. Sadly many MUA and cosmetic retailers struggle to identify/be aware of it too- so we are constantly misled, misunderstood and waste money on products that simply dont work for us. These cookies do not store any personal information. That Bb cream in a red tube from Missha worked well. I am still using the same concealers as mentioned before, nars in custard and tarte in light medium sand, I believe nars in vanilla would be a better option if you want to highlight the under eye area. I dont know.) Sometimes, I find it more easily noticed if I somehow look at the person with my peripheral vision, or if I unfocus my vision. Bare Minerals BarePro is No. I think its level 7 but a hairdresser said its 8. People with an olive skin tone should avoid pastels like the plague, and instead opt for rich jewel tones such as ruby, sapphire and emerald. Wow! Olive skin isn't picky. I am half Croatian and half a combo of Scottish/English/Irish- but both of my parents have darker skin than me- my mom is light warm and my dad is medium olive/warm- so here I am with thin skin with veins of all colors very visible. skin tone. Wow love that post! 12. I feel you and I am a cool olive or pale olive with brown eyes with specks of amber and dark brown hair. Its all pretty confusing with the different types of pale green skin going around too. Facial Concealer: (1) Laura Mercier Secret Camouflage in 1 works for cool olive skin. Girl makes one. White and light colors wash me out at best, and at worse make me look ill. Yellow is a death knell. We both tan quite easily, though. I find Koh Gen Do foundations in 112 work for me. Pharmacology..lol..go figure.. :) i am so happy to finally see pictures of someone like me. 1/52. I can wear silver, gold & rose gold jewelry but gold looks best. I usually mix shades to achieve a somewhat acceptable match and contour with a light bronzer. Every makeup counter sales person gives me a different shade. I use shade 1.0 which would probably be the one for you too. My skin is such an unusual tone not in the way that people comment but I can never find a foundation match and depending on the person and lighting and how much sun Ive had changes the view of my skin. I come from a mixed but mostly Eastern European background (Irish, German, Romanian and Ukrainian to be exact). Pixie Cuts for Thin Hair Mahogany never looked natural on me. I can see them trying but they end up finding nothing or trying to sell me beige. Gold and silver actually look ok on me. Hey! I also have hazel eyes, freckles and dark brown hair with red/gold tints in the light. My father is fair complected with higher Britain and Eastern European percentage, and my mother is darker olive complexion with higher Southern European and Middle Eastern, Caucasus percentages. (Incidentally do you guys flush easily? My mothers family is Ashkenazi Jewish and my fathers side is part Scandinavian and part Swiss. I too have a mix of anglo-celtic and a dash of swarthy italian (grandfather). Im going to do a bit more research on this topic! My skin is pale but its also not pale which is challenging. Im convinced its just my pale green undertones and naturally deep eye troughs. I never understood, and I tend to love gold jewelry but some days I look in the mirror at the gold stud backs on my earrings close up to my face, and I feel discouraged as if something is clashing. Is light to medium, buildable coverage. Whether you wear your hair short or long, the color is timeless and versatile as its both bold and soft on your skin tone. I also dont have any Eastern European background. Id say Im a neutral warm olive I had a hairdresser once remark that I have no pink in my skin. Pitch Black Black hair strikes a dramatic contrast against olive skin. Yes! I have brown/black hair and grey eyes, with pale pale olive skin (Irish, Scottish, Honduran + German ancestry). Undertones: Warm. Maybe because theyre seen me when tanned (which is quite an achievement I have to tan carefully and slowly), they recognize it. NARS Sheer Glow in Gobi (best match EVER- its like my skin, in a jar.) lol. I have tried SO many foundations, its unvelieable. I have light ash brown hair and hazel/green eyes. Its just, it has taken me years to find this foundation perfect match. I am preferring gold more now bc its what looks the best in the winter to brighten me up. When I put a dot on my wrist, it seemed too pink, and I almost discounted it. Also, I love a great shimmery copper lipstick. But some people told me to look for makeup from other countries like maybe korea? I bought LOral Back to Bronze recently. 6 monthly update from all of my previous comments and recommendations. What I can advise you to do is look on reddit, there is a sub called OliveMua and it is basically a forum for everyone with olive undertones, regardless of the depth of your skintone or of the warm- or coolness. It is nearly impossible to find a face makeup that matches my skin tone. My family is from a bunch of places Germany, Russia, Lithuania, Welsh, and more. I look best in gold jewellery (warm) I love to wear navy blue, khaki, dark brown, teal, mauve and certain blacks and colors that are heathered. Nudes if they are pink leaning not peachy. So every single one I have owned so far has been more or less wrong and turtleneck sweaters have been my best friends :D Good thing I look ok in silver. Lina, I am exactly like you in terms of hair and eyes and I am definitely a pale olive girl. Im Portuguese and when I use foundation with pink it looks dull, too much yellow is too light. If the gold item looks better on you, youre warm toned. I find the combination/oily formula to be more full coverage than the combination/dry. But cold foundations dont suit me, so I gravitated to neutrals and was like a miracle to me. Berry/Wine. I recently tried 1W1 Bone in Este Lauder Double Wear, which is a pale yellow tone, and was just going to settle with it being slightly off. I dont even try to wear makeup & most of my face is covered. Also have pale olive skin. As a 50yo, starting from scratch isnt easy since certain formulations just dont work on my skin anymore. I dont use bronzer very often, so I dont have much experience with it. White (cool) Forever on the search for THE red. Aussie (with Finnish ancestors) pale chick with green skin. I recon youve been in Spain, where, along with Italy, Greece, Turkey, and other Southern countries its not rare. Cool seasons will have a cool or bluish undertone to their hair, skin, and eyes. Your email address will not be published. Lol. mustard warm) tone is going to charity donations) are the culprits, whilst purply colours help stall the green (alien) image. I have very pale skin with green undertones, and dark gold hair and pale grey-blue eyes. You have olive skin, brown eyes, and blonde hair! In conclusion, I think green undertones are definitely in the neutral category, just a lot difficult to handle not the most attractive of the skin tones if I have to be sincere. I have to mix it myself, it is the only way. I have wasted a lot of money on foundations that do not work with my skin and lipstick never looks the same on me as in the tube. Winter? and then the struggle of returning mounds of clothes and makeup over the years as on the website similar colour model, in natural daylight, make me look liverish and illand then of course, the happy family and occasion photoswhich just make me sad as I look grim! Colours that seem to work? I tell people Im green-brown-yellow undertone and get looked at like Im insane. Normally I would not have tried most of these products based on their color, but researched them on the internet first and found them all to be winners. Im naturally a golden strawberry blonde French-Gaelic girl with pale olive skin. Try MAC Vanilla to apply to eyelids and MAC sketch (berry) to the crease and blend. Try Revlon in buff the best match for me so far and very economical. NARS Sheer Glow in Ceylan this has been discontinued I think, but they still have it on Asos (Im Polish, not sure if Asos works outside of Europe), For concealing spots/blemishes, Im currently using Urban Decay All Nighter concealer in Light Warm. but i am really struggeling here! Ive always known I have olive skin but i dont bother with foundation, Im lucky in that I dont need it. Both identified me as cool because of the red tones in my skin and because I am fair. I dont really even try to use foundation, just a tinted moisturizer. However, eyeshadows are terrible for everyday use as face powders. It refers to the undertones of the skin rather than the depth and intensity of color." (2) Italian skin color can be quite easy to confuse with other mid-range tones. Im latin american, also with some eastern europe background interesting how many of us have the same rare tone and common background. Im going to go see what your info gets me! Hope this help a little bit. Some women with olive skin have skin with an ashen or gray-like appearance. I should have listened to my kid self! I am also Croatian & have had issues finding flattering makeup for my light, cool olive skin. Current irange and red eye look craze has left me wondering if Im simply bad at eyeshadow. Im on the fence about deeper grey can you send a picture of the skin of your face? Chanel Les Beiges Healthy Glow Natural Eyeshadow Palette in Deep. My hair has some Warm shades dont work, but not all cool ones do either. If you ever find one, please let me know, I would be very interested! Posted on Updated on September 26, 2022. Natural redheads are super pale and burn easily, but theyre likely warm-toned. And at the same time a complete lack of petal pink tones, like you would expect in very pale people. I add that and white (because the blue can darken the foundation as it neutralizes it) to any foundation that is too orange or yellow and voila! Any jewel tone really. Thank you for sharing! Im also a cosmetologist who does makeup for a living so I understand this head scratcher! I have just ordered a few shades of Dior face and body which are meant to be perfect for olive tones so I will update/reply to this post. Many strategies have been implemented, but they are not perfect since I also have hormonal acne. How To Choose Hair Color For Olive Skin And Brown Eyes. Fellow olive skinned girl here. Pastels make me look yellow and jewel tones make me look red. This transfer-resistant eyeshadow comes in a range of highly pigmented shades. Omg yes! Same experience, same results at prescriptives. my clothes vary from a washed out black (not grey! Maybe you could try that? I have a fair amount of freckles across my cheeks, but I am not covered in them. Hi Ashley, I am very pale (NC10-NC15) and have an olive undertone. Thats so strange since i consider the skintone in my face rather on the cooler side. My fathers side of my family are italian and my mothers side Spanish, Latin American, Eastern European and if you go back far enough black. Sorry for the mistakes I might not see, Im not a native speaker. Those from Bourjois (the Red velvet mattes in the following shades: Grand Cru, Red Volution, Plum Plum Girl, Saperliprunette, Pink pong, Nude-ist etc.) My hair is light ash brown and I love changing color but its really hard to find the right colors for my green skin :( Olive skinned people usually have dark brown, ash brown and rarely ash blonde hair but those with more visible peach undertones can have golden brown hair too. Recently, Ive been struggling to find a contour shade that really is perfect. I finally got around this issue by taking a foundation thats neutral undertones but a bit too dark, and added some green concealer. I think a good option is if you buy a foundation adjuster and mix it into your foundation to adjust it. The best foundation I have found is the Revlon Colorstay in Sand Beige. Then my hair turned blonde, and finally brown. Eyes areermgreen, orange and grey close up and not really any distinguishable colour from far away. / A Swede. If you can get Alima Pure shipped to you, they make sample kits to test out shades. I have similar coloring to you. Bad: As you said, orange and earth tones are our worst colors. also, I would love to post the photo but Im not sure I can here. I do not look good in bright orange or yellow, or any yellow-based reds, bright pastels, lime green, etc. However I had to settle for oily skin foundation even do my skin is normal/dry. The tan always fades within a week. What colours go best with pale olive? But this makes total sense My grandad, dad and sister are all much more traditionally olive-skinned, almost Mediterranean looking, but Im so pale I thought that that couldnt possibly be me! Out of any color (not just greens) Ive worn, army green has gotten me the most compliments. Its jst a complete mess u can see i guess this thread is the answer to my never ending frustration. This is all so fascinating? Thanks to my mostly German red-headed green eyed family :). I have been told on quite a few occasions I look like the girl from that seventy show aka Mila Kunis. Like I said, Im super pale and I have a pink flush to my face, so no one has been able to color match me. Ive had my colours done several times, and though I generally fell into the cool spectrum, neither the summer nor the winter pallette completely suited my colouring. I was always much whiter than my mothers side, but I never had the rose petal complexion of my fathers family. -Dr Jart Black Label BB Cream comes out of the bottle almost grey, but is the very first foundation that ever actually matched me It took me to my early 30s to finally just pick colors that were meant for warmed tone people and presto suddenly products would compliment me rather than clash with me. I often go with darker but muted purples or darker beige with grey tones. If theyre purple or blue, youre cool toned. If you have dry skin, the yellow-green tint that olive complexions have can make you look ashy or grey, particularly in the dead of winter! The color tests dont work on me (veins are a mix, etc.) So definitely a lot of European going on inside me! She compares Mila Kunis (warm fair olive) tot Audrey Tatou (cool fair olive). So on sunny days, my hair and skin have a golden hue, and on rainy days I just look green all around. Try burgundy for clothes/accessories. . It took me a long time to figure out my best colors, but after a lot of trial and error I have a pretty good list. Any ideas as to what would be a good hair shade? I am still on the hunt for a more suitable concealer tho. Would be thrilled if you responded, thanks! On top of that, the formula oxidizes like crazy. You are an Autumn woman who flows into Winter. I always had a feeling that I had pale olive skin. Freckles sometimes. Im just so used to my face being pinker than my body haha. But . I will break it down so its easy to follow. Not sure if anyone has mentioned this. Assume that Im on the warmer side because gold also looks better than silver on me.Im Slavic decent btw.Over the years Ive learned one great trick that changed my foundation game.Buy yourself a green primer,mix with almost every fondation and you are good to go.It will lighten foundation shade a bit,so take that into consideration. Thank you so much for this thorough list!! Thank you this was super helpful! Those season color theories never worked for me either. I guarantee there are way more of us out there who dont know they are olive! I have yet to find one foundation that I dont have to mix or play around with. Ive thought many times that I look kind of green , but I usually just chalked it up to being tired, wearing an unflattering color, or weird lighting, etc., instead of acknowledging it as an acceptable part of my appearance. Theres a little hint of red to my hair dispersed in sections. like, they purposefully market a good portion of products towards specifically pale skin. But anyways, thank you. Ha. im a cool toned asian and i honestly thought that was what made me struggle with foundation matches for so long but i TOTALLY get the whole this is too pink AND too yellow AND too gray??? Oh, and I have green eyes and dark red hair. As I read others posts, I think all this may actually suggest that many of us pale-olivers have evidence that point to totally divergent undertone classifications depending on which signal were reading. Thankful to have found this thread! Always looking for makeup I almost exclusively wear purple/berry lip shades, even if its just a tint. I have a blue mixer too, but find less use for it. But contouring has evaded me because the color is never quite right. :). No idea. In other words, I am still a bit confused about what colours look best on me. When you choose brown, go with wheat, ash or honey highlights. I have hazel eyes and very warm naturally ombre hair but can and love to pull off a much warmer copper shade. Xxx. Like a shimmering but not glittery. Because the Romany migrated from Rajasthan India, many Eastern Europeans (Romania and Hungary) will have traces of South Asian DNA showing up. Let your skin glow . I am of French, English (as in British), German (Bavarian, to be exact) Romanian, Scottish, Irish and equally 1% Norwegian & 1% Native American or Indigenous (not sure which is used now dont want to offend) But since its the blue thats the undertone, you should look for colors with a cool undertone. I look well, healthy, glowing and happy (people tell me, with astonished expressions) well, thats after 57 years (Im 58) of people telling my dear mother (yep she even got challenged about her green baby when I was in my pram!) Need a hair color you can wear professionally to work but still want something eye-catching? Maybe that was my hair when I first tried peach though and I should look again. I will cherish my bottle and probably buy as many backups as I can find. MAC Face and Body in c2 or c3 if tan. I Am a strange mix of both. I dont look good in either gold or silver, but if I had to choose one jewelry color to wear, I look better in silver. <3 The struggle being blonde and olive is real. Gold makes me look so strange. I find camels are also great as long they are not too deep neither too warm (as far as possible form browns and as close as possible to ivory/nude or grey). Im finding the same, I need to mix two foundations. I havent commented since the end of October so I thought I would update you with some new finds and some advice I was recently given by a stylist I was working on a project with. The undertone of your skin is warm, either yellow, golden or olive green. and MUFE y225, both are good for pale olive skin. I once tried on a deep chocolate pullover and was surprised that it actually worked. Try shade Fawn from Tom Ford. (I always look good in pearlish eyeshaddow.) The light color will bring warmth to your olive skin tone as well as draw attention to your dark brown eyes. Black or dark colours can also make me look muddy sometimes. I have light olive skin (Native American, French, English, Irish) with so many colors and seasonal variations that Im constantly adjusting my color palette, but I find that I can find a way to work in just about any color. Its olive toned! Is it online? Thankfully some of my family members were keen on noticing skintones so Ive know about oliveness for a long time, but it took me FOREVER to learn how to handle it with makeup! This is as a result of this marvellous website :). What foundations have you found to wear? Best color? Everything has made me look piggy pink or a weird shade of Donald Trump orange. All jewellery tones generally suit me. What is Olive Skin Tone? Foundation is a struggle, I currently resort to a light beige (better than other light shades that makes the face distinctly fairer than the rest) mainly to balance out my brown eye circles that makes the pale effect worse. Im going to try Smashbox 1.05 and NARS Gobi, hopefully these will be better colour matches for me :/, Did you end up trying the smashbox 1.05?

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