I feel like I need a salmon-olive foundation to maintain my alive look. Did you try EX1 that everyone is talking about? I first tried the Medium but it was too muddy looking even for summer. I have the same exact problem as you. If I do burn, Id have to be outside for a long, long, long time, and it would be a little spot thats gone in a day. My mother always called me her golden child because even with my light skin, I tan a very deep brown. Wow everything makes sense now! I have never been able to do the vein check or the gold/silver test and thought I was crazy! It wasnt until last year after working with a Stitch Fix stylist that I found out that Im light oliveand that its possible to be that! I too have been trying to figure this out for ages and all the guides on how to find your tone make me even more confused. Haircut Numbers and Clipper Sizes Its jst a complete mess u can see i guess this thread is the answer to my never ending frustration. I tan very well in summer with a very golden glow, but I also get pale very quickly in winter (where I live has very few winter days with sunshine and it is often below 35 F November-April.). However, the color of the eyes is only one aspect of deciding your seasonal color palette. My undertone is green ashy gray cast. For now Im staying with my natural hair color. We have many people of Romany descent who were born in Romania, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia in our family tree. When I walk into Ulta or Sephora in the cool months looking for foundation almost every consultant says I am cool or neutral. Its too dark for me, but it has that slightly green, olive undertone that I need. Found (in my failed foundations makeup bag) Laura Mercier Tinted Moisturizer in Nude (2W2) is perfect with the green primer, but that color has been discontinued. 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. My skin is very fair, but my lips are always tanned, so they change colors and mismatch the skin Not starting with eyeshadow because most eyeshadow brands turn into a muddy mess on my oily lids too And having a test about the skin type I appear to have ultra dry skin, except on the eyelids, for whatever the reason so I cant apply my foundation to my eyes to even the skin so it messes everything a little bit more. I do, however use a pink blush with gold flecks. I guarantee there are way more of us out there who dont know they are olive! 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. Summer? Examples of Black Irish Celebrities and Public Figures Enya, Paul Ryan, Lara Flynn Boyle, Peter Gallagher, Rob James Collier, and Jennifer Connelly all have Irish ancestry, and all four of them would be called black Irish in the colloquial sense. Finding a foundation is hard. Im discovering that bright, full saturation colors look best on me does this make me more on the cool spectrum? 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. The model looked really tan. I looked my best even when steticist told me not they were surprised how good I looked. A lovely reviewer of yours, Camila, advised on berry and fuchsia they are really good too on me. One friend said, I never noticed your skin was greenish to me. My enemies are pastels and cool neutrals. Both turned out to be too light and made me look like a zombie. Im looking for someone with my coloring : black brown eyes, blonde hair, light skin to commiserate with. Cinema secrets and Ben Nye had perfect matches for my light, cool olive skin. Brown in the sun, pale in winter, both metals are okayish, veins chose their own colour as they like. I would love to try an olive foundation and see what it does. I too look terrible in gold so I have identified myself as a cool winter for clothing colors but I still struggle with hair and makeup. I live in the UK, so I dont get much sun most of the year but when I do I tan easily without burning. I think we are skin hair and eye color doubles, or almost! Im Croatian and fair olive in winter and light olive in summer and I so relate to your struggle! foundation and concealer; any neutral-to-cool medium pink blush often with berry or rose in the name; black-brown or burgundy mascara; dark brown, burgundy, plum, and charcoal eyeliner; sand, light golden, mushroom, soft red, soft orange, warm pink, shell pink, lilac, and dark brown eyeshadow; medium muted red or rose lip colors (Burts Bees Redwood Forest lip crayon is great). Agree with colors you recommended. I have noooooo idea why my hair is so deliciously dark brown, my eyes are blue and my skin tone is as fair as it is. Hurray. My best foundation was the original MUFE HD foundation in #117, the reformulation to the Ultra HD in the same shade number is too dark and cool toned for me. But I think only in Sheer Glow. In general I think nude/neutral tones suit me better. However, you can mix it with liquid colour white solution, to lighten it. I had chestnut brown hair growing up with kind of dark grayish green eyes but from years of coloring my hair its dark brown now. This morning my bf said, Olive?! Speaking of, soft sables are the only blushes that work with my tone. My mother is of Costa Rican/German descent and my father is from British Columbia with Scottish roots. Its THE ONE for me! For those with medium skin and cool undertones, like Taylor Swift and Cameron Diaz, a nude lip looks stunning . YES! Hey Lucy, Sometimes Im lucky enough to find some pale yellow-toned product that could do the trick and conceal my red-brown acne scars (I dont know whether I have a yellow-pale-olive skin or a neutral-pale-olive skin, I can see both of green and yellow pigments in my complexion). No one thinks Im olive. Yes! Similarly with makeup because I have blue-green eyes, when I was younger, I always thought I should look good in jewel tones Nope. Best wishes to you you and your mischief! So, if you are sure youre olive but being told you cant be because you are blonde, know that you arent alone. 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. Dont know my heritage-family (both sides) in Ohio since the 1700s. Yesterday, back at another MAC, I was quite surprised when the MUA looked at me and said light olive. She matched me with their mineralized foundation at NC20 or face and body at N2. I have spent so much money on face makeup only to have it look too pink, or too yellow, or make my skin look INCREDIBLY paler than what it is! Since my cheeks are red and everything else so pale, I seem to have a totally different undertone. Warm shades dont work, but not all cool ones do either. On the other hand, there is a very specific shade of orange that makes my skin look glowing while other shades of orange dont look as good. A tad bit dark for me still but so fair, check it out ;). Although I said I mostly look good in drab colors, I noticed I looked sick when trying on ivory wedding dresses, but looked great in white wedding dresses. So perhaps the variance in those signals is a signal in and of itself of olive undertones? 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??? Vivid bright colours are usually not the best idea, as are warm pastel tones. Though science holds dark-haired blue-eyed girls as a rare act of nature, celebs with porcelain skin like Megan Fox and Eva Green prove that stunning contrasts wow no matter what Mother Nature thinks.. To add to the color matching problem, i have very mild Rosacea. So, what if we throw in hazel eyes? For reference my eyes are dark brown and my hair is naturally dark brown almost black with a light olive skin tone, I tan easily and although I am from London and as are my parents my grandparents are Italian, Spanish, Persian etc. Was it discontinued? Thank you for posting this article, ive been very confused all my life about this. I tried camel and blush (and dark mustard oh dear!) I have freckles and thin skin and it often has a red flush over the green tint, so makeup artists always try to match to the redness and I end up looking orange/pink. When I put a dot on my wrist, it seemed too pink, and I almost discounted it. Weirdly Urban Decay 714 works on me, even though it is a warmer red. 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. I just got Laura Gellers Baked Blush & Brighten Marbleized Blush in PINK BUTTERCREAM. Hi. Physicians formula butter bronzer in bronzer i think we have the same hair-, eye- and skincolour! Hi everyone :) Great relief at 58, after many years of unkind comments such as: you look sickly, liverish, jaundiced, pale, swarthy, sallow (always sallow), yellow, not exactly an English Rose etc and 4 colour consultations messing with my self-image by Autumn! Ive been wanting to try the ex1 foundation but Im in between shades 2.0 and 3.0. I was level 6 hair shade dark dark blonde/shiny brown. They look gorgeous here on long wavy hair and against an olive skin tone. Ive found the colours with the most guaranteed success for me are dusty rose shades, black, cooler creams, and darker, slightly muted jewel tones. :) Maybe now Ill find which colors are best this article, Lucy, really has helped! Im so glad to have come across this and see so many others suggestions! Lily Rose Depp is a prime example of a three-dimensional hair color. My natural hair color is a boring dishwater/mousy brown. Im a bit older and besides foundation I also struggle with dying my hair as most of the hairdye has too much orange tones in it. Especially once it oxidized it was orange. I can get away with it in the summer but never in winter. Pure brown colors without the berry part are another no-no. Like 100% clearly cool and so much more flattering. Its that Sicilian/Greek/Malta mix. Its a teeeeny bit light for me, barely noticeable, but matches my jawline perfectly. Forever on the search for THE red. Just ordered some Fenty 130 and 145, fingers crossed! Some colors on the deep/dark autumn palette work well too. Now I have spent many thousands of dollars on tattoos so avoid the sun like the plague and have struggled to find foundation that doesnt clash with my light olive skin. Highly highly recommend. I finally got around this issue by taking a foundation thats neutral undertones but a bit too dark, and added some green concealer. Neutral beiges are almost impossible to find and almost no foundation is as pale as I am. It is a wax-based formula that starts off dry, but just warm it up on your hand first. 3. Gold and silver actually look ok on me. very pale/fair, hazel green eyes, dark brown hair, freckles, burn like mad with OLIVE undertones! So Im seeing more options for fair olive now. I should have listened to my kid self! I have Portuguese, Latin American (Brazil) and German ancestry. Grey, neutral (not cool, not warm) and medium, accentuates the sallowness of my skin. Its driving me nuts not to understand the colorscience behind it (and im a photographer, so i know a thing or two about colors). 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. Youre uniquely YOU! Hi! Why cant anyone just make olive foundations?! Love the comments too. I recon youve been in Spain, where, along with Italy, Greece, Turkey, and other Southern countries its not rare. I dont wear much jewelry so I have no idea re: gold vs. silver. Hows that for a bag of Skittles?! wear. My natural hair color is dark, ashy brown, and my right eye is green while my left eye is half green/ half brown. Most of them have skin tones that are reddish or pinkish. I have always lightened my hair but have never loved warm or reddish shades on me, and keeping my hair toned cooler is a pain! I always return to this site! I have super light olive skin (as close to Milas shade as it gets), and the ONLY suitable foundation shade Ive been able to find is shade #2 Light Olive from BTS organics. There are still a lot of people with light olive skin in Europe, especially in Northern Italy, Germany, France, UK , and of course Eastern Europe where its much more common. Your colors are deep, warm and a little bit vivid that results a rich . Shades of brown hair on people with olive skin look good. Powder: Ben Nye in the shade banana (when darker), Contour: Tom Ford shade and illuminate cream compact (when dark), Bronzer: Benefit hula original (when light), Highlighter: Charlotte Tilbury flawless filter shade 4, Charlotte tilbury Hollywood beauty light wand. I find the combination/oily formula to be more full coverage than the combination/dry. Hello! Im not the palest. Olive skin is not just green, some are grey (very pale east europeans like Nastya Kusakina) some are more yellow (east asians), some are peach/red (Shakira, Justin Bieber, Jessica Alba), some can be neutral (Troian Bellisario) or even pinkish (Leonardo DiCaprio and Olivia Wilde). Otherwise, Deauville from Nars does a pretty decent job. The only blush I love on me is Becca Pop Goes the Glow in Berry, which is also the perfect lip color. Not sure if anyone has mentioned this. I am not sure if Im a light olive, warm, or neutral. Celebrities with olive skin tone are beauty ambassadors, models, and actresses. My Italian ancestors lived in a region near Slovenia maybe this explains the pale olive skin? Different parts of my body look more green than others too. Wonder if they could get the right color again. I have always thought im warm toned because cool foundations turn me instantly into miss piggy. I feel like those colors contrast with my pale tone. Really struggle with finding colours of eye/blush/lip colour that suit me. My skin is likewise pale olive, with green-ish veins. 8) salmon pink. It looked great! Thank you! I cant find this MUFE item in color blue anywhere. I use that little sample against any other foundation I might want to buy. Lipsticks are a struggle but Ive found warm pinks but not peach. Ive never been able to find the perfect foundation match cool tones make my face look really pink in comparison to my neck, neutrals make me look peachy, and warm tones are generally too yellow/orange, unless I go for the palest warm tone, which then looks too pale! My younger sister is the same color. We love how the chunky caramel highlights pick up the . Ive always been confronted by concerned people because of my vampire complexion. 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! So every single one I have owned so far has been more or less wrong and turtleneck sweaters have been my best friends :D Friends have tried to type me according to colour seasons, and throughout the years I must have had more seasons suggested to me than the year has months. Olivia Munn and Kim Kardashian are iconic examples of celebrities with olive skin and brown eyes. Just thought Id put that one out there :). and a very saturated neutral red raincoat that seems to fit well to my surprise, as normally i can wear muted colours better. I cant find anything. I dont look like a ghost anymore! I have dark brown eyes and my hair is naturally light ash brown. A feathered long blonde hairstyle is another example of a good hair color for women over 50. Jennifer Lopez is a great example of an olive-skinned beauty who rocks honey blonde amazingly. I dont know really anything about my background, but I live in East Europe. Greek people features stereotypically include having olive-brown skin, brown eyes and dark brown hair. A few shades paler then she. Heres some products that I finally found: my eyes look brown but make up artists say theres green in them Every company discontinued my shade. I bought it recently and Ive been slowly testing it. My face and neck stay paler whilst the rest of me darkens a lot and its frustrating! I think you are, like me a cold olive; I look hideous in red or carrot hair (again tanned but like bad tanned), but blond beiges also do nothing for my skin. Nobody has ever fully understood my skin undertone and I feel so mismatchedmy lips and cheeks are purplish and my natural hair is auburnI now dye my hair jet black because I looked sick all the time. Didnt work! Guys hi!!! Why this works: Chopra's glossy black mane actually has touches of brown and red, which pick up the warm . What hair colors suit them best? ABH Norvina pallette the original light purple one with neutral shades and rose gold which looks bomb on our eyes 5. Although I do have pretty rosy cheeks generally so it can be hard to tell. By george, Ive got it. Smashbox Studio Skin 1.05 and MUFE Ultra HD Foundation Y225 Marble). The only lip color/gloss that Ive found and liked was a nearly clear with light green tones to it which just gave my lips a warmth but not so obscene. Please, please share some of your tips for the right foundations (brand and shade) but bear in mind I am from Croatia and probably cant find anything else than only the big, well-known brands in here. It looks great on me, so maybe youll like it too, This blog suggests some foundations too http://www.beekeyper.com/2017/11/the-best-foundations-for-light-olive.html. I also have hazel eyes, freckles and dark brown hair with red/gold tints in the light. Will get samples when I visit Mecca next time. I look more like my dads side with them having the more dominate traits. Take a look at these 52 gorgeous famous women with hazel eyes and prepare to get lost for a while. Thanks :). It perfectly matched my skin tone like a dream and evenly disappeared into my skin, while giving me a flattering and harmonising appearance which seemed easy on MY eyes. This exact thing always happens to me! My mother has always told me I was olive toned and I tanned like a mad when I was young because I hated how green I look when Im pale. People say that my skin is olive toned, but they tend to miss the pinks. When I first put it on I was like but after blending it in? PS. I researched a lot and found that the Charlotte Tilbury Magic Foundation 6 is the perfect match. HiIm in the same boat. Im flattered, but dont personally see it. I havent searched around, but its an idea :D. I spent a month in Korea and shopped for makeup while I was there. Thank you for confirming that we arent crazy. Since I stay out of the sun these days that doesnt really matter. Just described me. Serena has a degree in journalism from the University of Oregon and works in public relations for a nonprofit. Moving away from toxic products due to health battles. And pitch black. I have struggled to find any foundation that works, and I am not a makeup guru so I cant remember the brand. I find gray is an easy color to wear. Dark honey highlights will add a nice contrast to brown eyes. even darker than that when we hit the beach. Does anyone have recs for bronzer for pale olive skin? I wouldnt use it for makeup much either I tried red lipstick during the big hype, and it just made me look like an ageing opera diva. I wish there were more products out there that look good on those of us with this coloring. Neither really looks good on me, to be honest. And many people tell me I look nice in lots of coloured clothes and I can pull off so many hair colours BUT if anything navy is near my face I look like a dead or unwell. I dont know if Im really pale pale or just paler then my fine compatriots, so take it with a gram of salt. Sheer makeup works best for me. I describe it as a cool yellow tone. Hi Jeni, just my two cents: reds that are cool (ish) but do not turn pink on me ever are viva glam i and russian red from mac, and velvet jazz from Lisa Eldridge. Unfortunately I had to return in because it broke apart on my oily skin. I just discovered BH Cosmetics Naturally Flawless Foundation in Light Olive (with a name like that, I had to try it). I compared it to your picture above and I was a little surprised when the two photos almost exactly match. Im about as pale as Loepsie, if not, paler. Very close to me!! For olive skin, it is best to stick with eyeshadow shades from the following color palettes: Brown. Hi! 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. I havent found any foundation thats light enough and has cool green undertones. Help. I am pale olive! We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. Its relatively inexpensive at about $35AUD, but places like Priceline in Australia often have specials and you can sometimes pick it up for about 20 bucks. Olive skin. I did find a pigment for lighting up foundation which is actually great when I use it as concealer. Shiseido make the best colour match for my skin. some time later my ideal Liquid Foundation was discontinued. I was eyeing the UD stay naked 30CG but i was worried it would be too dark for my MAC NC15/ Huda Panna Cotta skin. I have Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, German, French, and Belgium backgrounds. Unfortunately it has been discontinued, and in my search for something new, I kept being matched incorrectly by Ulta and Sephora employees. Im still on the hunt though for that perfect foundation shade. Im a pale olive too, of Eastern European and Italian descent. Fingers crossed its a good match. The shade fuschia work wonders for me, especially lipsticks. Maroon A dark red or brown color is another great color for the olive skin person, especially in the colder months. Curtain Bangs Wear make-up colours that complement your skin tone. There used to be a shade available only in Singapore by Guerlain that was wonderful, they called it ambre clair and it was perfect, but Guerlain did away with it, so Im now searching for that nice rose-smelling makeup in that not pink, not yellow but green undertoned light foundation. I hope that helps. I had been blending my foundation with green colour corrector and I thought that worked because I must have a lot of red in my skin, not because my undertones were actually greenish! Get Kat Graham's classic Latina-esque look with a choppy layered hairstyle partnered with a black-brown hair color. My mom has green eyes), chestnut brown hair with some red and blonde mixed in there. brown and my eyebrows are ashy, but dark! Its frustrating because its not talked about and even many (most?) Theres a lot more but yeah I love this post :). Does that move me out of Autumn? Neutral (leaning blue) red. But some people told me to look for makeup from other countries like maybe korea? Its all pretty confusing with the different types of pale green skin going around too. But mainly its green brown and also just neutral in the truest sense. Please help . In the end, the struggle would probably be worth it. but i am really struggeling here! My mom always knew I was olive skin toned, but I didnt ever understand it because makeup came in fair, light, medium, deep and dark. Foundation matching sites kept pushing me to 20WY but the porcelain youtube reviewers who are way lighter than I am are using the 20 range. I also have fair olive skin, and it took me until I was almost 40 to figure this out. Just gold is gold. Anyway, I scanned the comments and I didnt find anyone with this coloring. The only colors that seem to go well with my skin are plum purple, navy blue and of course black. Then I thought maybe I was a warm like a deep Autumn , but I finally came to the conclusion that I didnt fit into any of those neat little categories. Hello Ladies, think I have you all topped..lol..53 yrs old..just now, tonight, finding out WHY I have never been able to wear more than mascara and a shade or two of lipstick I could apply as my blush, eye shadow AND lipstick without my face looking dirty or appearing in the 3rd ring of Barnum and Baileys 3 Ring Circus. Myself, my father and mother were all born in London. I just went medium ash blonde/brondei have green hazel eyes Do you look good in cream or white? Im fair neutral-warm olive skinned. Women who have a gothic or punk vibe will appreciate the electricity bright red brings. The undertone in both is amazing though, just the perfect amount of green plus both are quite muted (Im cool, green&yellow and muted). Chantecaille had a shade that actually matched well, it might be mentioned in this blog. Now I can never go back to it since Ive started turning gray/white/silver at the roots. LOreal Free the Nude in No cage, another medium nude Nudes if they are pink leaning not peachy. Its the perfect shade for me. Needless to say, finding good colour matches for clothes and makeup has been a challenge. My facial features look eastern european too, I hear this all the time from people. i didnt realize this was a european thing too! Both identified me as cool because of the red tones in my skin and because I am fair. Warm. I dont use bronzer very often, so I dont have much experience with it. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. Im super pale but I can tan a little. Grey-green eyes. It was so much easier in the 90s when brown reds were available. I dont even try to wear makeup & most of my face is covered. Woah that is such a cool (but I imagine not super common) combination. I tan pretty well, although I always burn first. Another foundation shade that works well on my is Mac nw15 but is darker than my skin color (but nw13 is too pink) if some of you could give me some piece of advice would be very helpful.

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