I have always thought that I look grey-ish green compared to others. Try NARS sheer glow in Gobi. I myself have three daughters, one having cool fair freckled skin, another one peach mid tone skin, and the third has pale olive skin like myself. Did you try EX1 that everyone is talking about? I always wonder why i never looked great in photos, as i tend to look gray or yellowish and even look sick in certain warm colors like orange and khaki. "Pair this palette with some warm, neutral mattes to really cover all the bases of tone and texture.". Berry/ wine lipsticks tend to look great on pale olive skin! It was then when I understood Im somehow cold based. Oddly Im the only one in my family with olive skin. 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. And everyone gets so defensive that being more fair skinned cant be anything but a cool undertone. You have had my EXACT experience. . No idea. 1. This comment section is so so uplifting. I have .. Hope this help a little bit. I have green/hazel eyes and ashy brown hair. I am so happy I found you all!! I look awful in peach blush and look best I think in blue based red lipstick and for eyes neutral brown, black, a bit of purple and royal blue. This is so incredibly helpful for me! Me too! As a 50yo, starting from scratch isnt easy since certain formulations just dont work on my skin anymore. I have dark ash blonde hair and hazel eyes. I definitely relate to this! And on the days its too light, I just brush on some highlighter or blush. Ethnicity, I live in London, UK and I was born here and so were both my parents but my dads family are all Italian and my mums family are Spanish, Latino, Iranian, Indian etc. Recommendations! These might not work for you, but its worth a try! I am very fair (NC8-10 in MAC), dont look good in either pink nor yellow foundation, and neutrals usually look too peachy. So. I guess we get the best of both worlds with our undertone. My veins look dark blue and greyish dark purple. My foundation journey has been so difficult. It is too dark and pulls orange on me. Blondes can really look good on you and still allow your eyes to pop. Ive always associated olive skin with the rich colours of Latin, Arabic or Indian skin tones. It can be explained by the fact that in southern France, people tan easily the weather is always sunny, and nothing is done for brunettes with pale olive skin like me: brands find the pale hues not profitable because its rare. Thanks :). Anyway youre not alone :). Its all pretty confusing with the different types of pale green skin going around too. My skin is definitely yellowish, but when I stand next to someone else with yellow undertones, I look slightly green. But I have found, I can do darker, almost brownish reds. Lucky for me I could still get the Naked Skin 1.0 from UDs website while they had some left. I forgot to mention, the Koh Gen Doh Aqua foundation in 213 is olive. Its all so confusing and frustrating even. Im from Estonia, where the most popular hair colour is called a potato peel blonde, meaning a dusty greenish yellowish brownish mix. I have the same exact problem as you. For reference I typically use huda in Vanillathe second palest. Tried it again recently and I didnt see the greenness, it just looked like a match. Have learned that bright cool colours are best on me clothes-wise and gold is not my friend. This might not help much now, but Ive had decent success with UD Naked Skin 1.0. Everything tends to look yellow on me.). This is the problem Ive been having for the last 35 yrs of my life Im a mix of Greek and Irish and well I have a genetic back ground of almost every continent but Irish and Greek are the most dominant and it gives my a light olive color finding foundation is so hard Ive tried it all even went to Mac and let a professional suggest a color sadly it came out a weird pinkish tan color and looked horrible on me someone suggested Nars but Im to worried about being disappointed again because most make up companies only think of olive as dark tan. Light Blonde Ombre The mix of light and medium blonde hair color here as an ombre is a beautiful soft transition of color perfect for ladies with an olive skin tone and brown eyes. Im quite on the pale side of the olive force too, or at least this is what it looks like as the most ghostly italian you can find in the Bel Paese. With that features, you have to embrace that kind of goth-inspired sultry make-up with berry hues that pop with your skin, I assure you that you can really stand out among other people as its very uncommon. I first tried the Medium but it was too muddy looking even for summer. 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). Their other color, creme, does well when Im a bit sun kissed in the summer. Emerald green. In my case, these tricks always raise more questions than they provide answers: I have brown hair and hazel eyes, which are generally marks of a warm colouring. Since you also tan, the being paler thing might be a thing of living where theres less sun, while locals are constantly exposed to it. I myself have pale golden olive skin and i just dont wear makeup or if I really want to, I put green and yellow foundation corrector before applying a neutral pale foundation. Ive tried Smashbox foundation for olive skin but then I look too green. Lots of great recommendations on here for me to try now :D. I dont wear foundation or powder anymore, but I still at the age of 35 cant find the right colour of clothing to make me look healthy. For MAC My hair has since darkened to a medium ash blonde. I have dark brown hair all over, but sandy beige blond at my temples, my eyebrows are super dark brown almost black looking. Home Make Up Makeup Ideas. Cant find right shade in Nars Radiant foundation. So anyone who is light cool olive, please share your resources! I cant do the thing where you match the color to your jawline because the discoloration extends past that point. I hope this helps someone! These tips are helpful! Ive tried black and dark red hair before, it was just awful!! Im Croatian and fair olive in winter and light olive in summer and I so relate to your struggle! I am 1/2 Italian (my dad is 100%) and 1/4 Slovak with bits of English and German from my mom. . The model looked really tan. 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). But it has to be dirty! I have black hair, hazel eyes, and the lightest weirdest skin anyone had ever seen in my family. It was light in the summer but I never got around to ordering a darker version. Same experience, same results at prescriptives. Finding foundation has always been a struggle, but I recently bit the bullet and bought Ken Gen Dos 213. I feel like Riri is olive but she goldens herself up a lot. Always pale, with greenish undereyes and lids actually, cannot live without concealer. Oh- Copper also looks good on eyes. My hair is a light ashy brown and I have light brown/hazel eyes. I love bright colors, but unfortunately I find that they wash me out or make me look sickly, so I stick mostly to neutrals (tried dying my hair red a few years ago, and boy was that a mistake! Mostly I avoid red lipsticks because they inevitably bring out the red in my face, but all of these have worked for me in the past. I love navy, turquoise, moss green. And to make it more confusing, you dont necessarily have to be strictly one or another, you can be somewhere in between. My sister has this but I do not. Colours I find work well, Rich Navy Blues, Blue Reds, Fuschia & white really suits my complexion (orange & yellow ..Hell NO!) Anyway, here are my personal makeup favorites: Fenty 145 (specifically labeled olive!) My moms heritage cant be traced that far back but we know her family comes from England and Scotland. Ill always end up looking grayish in most shades too. Or atleast add lots of green to the ones I have. Dark grey-blue eyes with taupe and sunny-taupe: makes them look dark grey-teal. A dark brown hair color is easily freshened up with a few thin to medium-thickness caramel highlights. Ive basically given up on finding a foundation that matches, and I cant do a bright red lipstick or anything orange or bright pink. I love it! I literally have a little clear pot and I put three pumps of Este Lauder perfectionist in cashew and two pumps of YSL youth infusing serum foundation in BD50 and Its a perfect match for me in the summer. Either they think Im cool and I leave with a pink line on my jaw or warm and I look too yellow. Im a pale olive too, of Eastern European and Italian descent. I look best in warm purples, reds, magentas, pinks and greens (like emerald and teal). Try ex1 foundation, in one of the lighter shades its specifically made for olive skin tones. Anyway, Im their harsh bright lighting I feel it makes me look more pink or something but as soon as I am back in normal lighting I look green again. My veins too are sometimes blue, purple and teal looking. Have tried the Alima Pure Olive tones and I love the formula but find Olive 1 looks a tad too peachy on me, and Olive 0 is just too pale. Its not perfect, however. Navy (cool) No idea if it leans warm or cool. . The problem is that you cant really go bold without looking weird. I use that for a pop of color on bare legs collarbones, etc. I am Native American, but a tribe thats genetically much more closely related to Israelis than other Native American tribes (Chahta, if anyone is interested) and also English. I never thought I got her skin tone because I am basically translucent. E.g. Rose gold is also my metal of choice. Also have you tried urban decay naked skin? Yes, I got both Smashbox 1.05 and NARS Gobi. When I have a tan I can wear warm tan foundation. Not all olives are warm. I feel you and I am a cool olive or pale olive with brown eyes with specks of amber and dark brown hair. Skintone: Dark golden. Thank you for this. I am so happy I stumbled upon this article and thread. Woah that is such a cool (but I imagine not super common) combination. I bought LOral Back to Bronze recently. But maybe.theres a little glimmer of hope , Hi everyone, I think I have pale olive skin too (but still unsure). 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. This is probably not what she used, but I have the pale olive dilemma with my own skin and the red I use is Kat von D shade called Nahz Fur Atoo. I am so glad to come across this website. Heyy salut! Then, the Makeup lady at Mecca recommended the Deauville shade, but that one is slightly too pinky. That is the extent of good colours for me. thanks! Ha. A feathered long blonde hairstyle is another example of a good hair color for women over 50. 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. Ive bounced between fair and light tarte shades but they never felt *quite* right. thanks! Everything has made me look piggy pink or a weird shade of Donald Trump orange. I also want to dye my hair a color but I dont know which color. With lipstick, anything pink (cool) or peach (warm) or light (or even medium shades) at all just washes me out completely and I look like an alien. I find it really hard to match to any colour, so I just use a light concealer and then my face suddenly loses that olive tone. Now I understand why so many makeup counter color matches have gone wrong. So glad I came across this article because my skin is almost exactly like yours. I didnt really understand how I could be a cool season with a light olive skin until I read the explanation of overtones and undertones on https://www.simplifiedwardrobe.com/blog/how-to-do-a-color-self-analysis. Jewel color clothing is awesome I can wear both bright white & a champagne taupe blouse but avoid both when its in the dead of winter. Cant wait to find your product recommendation and sub it out for (probably toxic) blue craft paint. Jennifer Lopez is a great example of an olive-skinned beauty who rocks honey blonde amazingly. Im light olive, not very pale, for reference I would say Im slightly lighter than NC20 in MAC (NC18 would be my thing:)) but to be clear, I havent found my foundation match in MAC, this is just for reference when it comes to the degree of my lightness :), Here are some foundations that work for me: I do not look good in pastel colours, salmon, orange, or peach. This transfer-resistant eyeshadow comes in a range of highly pigmented shades. I can easily get away with warm foundations when I have my tan, but every winter I am ghostly pale. I usually just make due with a super light yellow-based one. Ive literally spammed reply comments with this suggestion. Ive a good foundation match in mineral powder foundation: Meow Cosmetics Ocicat line. When I click on the image it takes me to a product page but not one specific to the shade and I dont see the shades mentioned anywhere am I missing that? Try the Revlon Colorstay in Sand Beige. I find some matching products in those brands: Kiko, H&M, Bourjois, Boho cosmetics, Lily lolo, Make Up for Ever, MAC, Nars, and within the expensive ones I cant always afford: Sisheido, Bobbi Brown. So after years of frustration and way too many hours of googeling I blind bought a foundation from Guerlain, a shade that was basically impossible to find: 31 ambre pale. If you have specific recommendations for products, you should absolutely write an article catering exclusively to that topic. Good luck all : ). The foundations that have worked, miraculously: Koh Gen Do Aqua Foundation shade 213, is ultimate shade match, please ladies do seek this out. I just bought my first cool shade lipstick today, and it suits me very well, yeay!! I love warm terracotta, gold, and cranberry eyeshadows. No one thinks Im olive. I do, however use a pink blush with gold flecks. Finally at age 36, just weeks ago, I went to Sephora to get my color match and she she must have placed it on a freckle bc it came back all wrong. The Sisley makeup turned me grey, and the MAC (Studio Face and Body C1) got rid of the red in my face but turned me yellow. Do you use the green or the yellow tint? We both tan quite easily, though. I am very pale with grey-blue eyes and medium ashblonde hair, |I do not tan at all. Those very dark, neutral, rather saturated colors clear my skin and make it look marble light beige. 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. I was studying in art school since 5th grade, now Im an art teacher and I can say that I have the talent to recognize any undertone color, except mine than Ive found out that green-olive undertone is a thing and exists in makeup too and I started to mix up some shades: I bought from Revolution Conceal and Define foundation shade 5.7 for olive undertoned skin and a pure white shade to lighten it up, because the winter is coming and my skin gets paler and greener (but in the summer I bronze very well). Something that suits my skin and hair does not suit my eyes and vice versa. 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. Most similar look ashy gray or oxidize orange yellow. 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. We have put up a list of the best shades that compliment an olive complexion in this article. I did find out that a very pale muted lilac colour looks goos on me ( its a dress im talking about). Im so glad you posted this though!! I have pretty much settled on using Armani designer lift in shade 5, its not too warm and not too cool, so its great for mixing in other shades dependent on time of year/how tanned I am (I tan so easily, other than on my face which just doesnt tan at all). I also feel like I can wear silver or gold, but I have trouble with makeup. I have so many products that should have been good on me, but finding the right ones have been challenging. . Best blush and lipsticks are berry and rose shades. By I see the resemblance in skin though a bit- but I would say Im 2. I am soooo happy I found your page! Its been a struggle, especially because I have genetic dark circles so covering them is a nightmare. I have hazel eyes and very warm naturally ombre hair but can and love to pull off a much warmer copper shade. I am very, very pale olive. Cat again :) I dont know whats going on, but today my UD cg30 looks way too dark and clashes with my super green neck (yesterday my neck looked more yellow, jeeez, how can an undertone look different from day to day?!). My arms tan really well, but my face sometimes burns. As a teenager, I always thought I looked greyish/greenish and sickly so I dyed my hair jet black. So, if you are sure youre olive but being told you cant be because you are blonde, know that you arent alone. Its just, it has taken me years to find this foundation perfect match. Im a make-up lover, and have tried a LOT of lipsticks in my life. Its the perfect shade for me. Neither really looks good on me, to be honest. Sorry for the mistakes I might not see, Im not a native speaker. Hello, (If I put my hands next to my face, you can really see the pink/green difference they dont even look like they belong to me! Made me look piggy pink or a weird shade of Donald Trump orange for you, but its worth try. 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