Whenever I take a quiz Im grouped into the cool porcelain group that looks great with black hair but black hair only looks good on me if I have a spray tan and define my eyebrows a lot which is more work than I want to do. Johnny Cash and Sean Connery (both of Scottish heritage) are a great example of what original european inhabitants looked like. Im going to do a bit more research on this topic! Its really incredibly frustrating and disheartening, but it makes me feel better to know Im not the only one with this struggle. Bare Minerals BarePro is No. Mindy Kaling, Lupita Nyong'o, Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett, Viola Davis, Sherrie Silver, and Lucy Liu. Its very sheer but there is quite the same shade in the full coverage version I think is the 1.5, wich should be Fair the price range is quite fairt to, if you feel like experimenting. Answer (1 of 9): Olive skin and green eyes is common in the Mediterranean area, both in Southern Europe and the Middle East. Want to shout it from the Any suggestions on lips? MUFE in 117/Marble (they might call it something else now- they recently changed the shade names.) Anyway youre not alone :). wearing black I always go for the coolest of pale shades like The fair CC cream from IT cosmetics or the natural fair shade of Glo Minerals. 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. While the rest of my body seems to be plain pale and white where my skin creases, on my face, which is more red it seems to be olive, specially around my eyes. And people used to tell me i am warm but i look terrible with warm color clothes and makeup! Going in the other direction proves less productive as even the palest of warm toned foundations look like Im rocking a sheer yellow mask. See more ideas about hair, hair styles, long hair styles. I cant choose makeup, hair, or clothes! This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Try MAC Vanilla to apply to eyelids and MAC sketch (berry) to the crease and blend. White gives me a lot less sallowness than greys and is only slightly less neutral than those light gentle neutral colors. :) Yellow is definitely not my friend, so silver is my metal of choice. Im a somewhat muted neutral olive. (Incidentally do you guys flush easily? Dear Camila x Thank you SO much x Im going to try some of your colours and in fact I just have, with success! Being foundation matched is a nightmare. An olive skin tone can easily and beautifully pull off pure black hair color. I always get compliments when I wear slightly orangey-brown eyeshadow, and when I wear BarePro lipstick in shade Geranium (muted red). Maybelline Superstay lip Crayon in Lead the Way (warmer) and Stay Exceptional (cooler, a little dark) are pretty good, not too drying, and dont transfer to a mask, but its fragrance is too strong. The best fair/light olive foundations Ive found are: I burn, then tan lightly in a reddish brown. 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 even feel like I annoyed the girl at Ulta too because I kept feeling washed out and pink constantly when trying colors! I definitely relate to this! Either she's olive or just very very muted. My mother is a mix of French and Danish (her mom with dark hair, dark eyes, and her dad blonde with very blue eyes), and my dad was 100% Sicilian. Im also a pale olive (only because Im a sunscreen addict!). My skin is extremely pale but i can be quite dark if i get enough sun. I also tend to be more cool, but I wear best a washed out black, broken (warm) white, all sorts of dark greens, nightblue, bordeaux red, saturated dark purple, neutral red, orange, light brown, jeans, ? I moderately react the the very melanin your body produces to protect itself from UV, which is what causes you to have a tan. Now, I will use more blush and bronzer to brighten things up. Though we love every hair color she rocks, we especially love the way this strawberry blonde shade brightens up her amazing skin.. Stay away from any bright yellow/golden foundations, cool pinks, and reds. I think I lean towards a cool olive rather than warm, but even so.what colours should we wear?! -Tarte Shape Tape Concealer Fair Light Natural What have you found works for clothing colours for you?! Ive always been asked if Im sick when I dont wear under eye concealer and I dont have bags, just a green/yellow cast with some purple tones as well. Im also a cosmetologist who does makeup for a living so I understand this head scratcher! I have struggled to find any foundation that works, and I am not a makeup guru so I cant remember the brand. Havent commented in a while, but I thought I would update! This skin tone always feels like a contradiction. Its magical and sometimes miserable! I have quite an unusual colouring, my Scottish genes have given me red hair, my Spanish sephardic genes have given me black eyes, and my Germanness has gifted me with pale-ish olive skin! My undertone shows up most clearly when I compare my skin colour to that of my equally pale, but distinctly different-looking Dutch friends. Consider coloring your hair deep gray with a really light purple or blue ombre. A nice warm golden strawberry blonde looks wonderful on my skin and compliments my skin beautifully. of course of lot of that is rooted in colorism and other concerning cultural issues but in the meantime the makeup companies still do it and they do it pretty damn well! was a major flop. such as pinks or reds. 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! If your favorite part of your brown eyes is their richness, chocolate brown hair color with lighter brown highlights are for you. By Terry Sheer Expert shade 3 creamy beige, or the By Terry Foundation stick N2. As you can see, even just highlights bring your hairstyle to a whole other level. For reference I typically use huda in Vanillathe second palest. I also noticed that i look the best in foundations with really strong yellow undertones (MUFE Ultra HD Y245, which was 120 in the original formula), which totally confuses me. 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. To those who have a harder time seeing the green hidden in the natural beige of the skin : it becomes more obvious when compared to people with clearly warm (golden/orange) tones or with cool (petal pink) tones. Especially once it oxidized it was orange. My eyes are dark blue. It makes me look dead. life changing article THANKS! Something mustve happened in the gene pool somewhere, because I relate to your experience with Dutch people. I think I could be a pale olive too. Haha. :). For my pale olive cool undertone skin I use too faced chocolate Soleil all over (very cool toned) and then on high point she where the sun would catch (nose bridge, temples, cheeks, top of forehead etc) I use kiko baked bronzer (one of their big ones) it has a red brown base, this looks natural like sun kissed redness and the red really compliments the coolness of undertone so you look super tanned but not ORANGE XXX, I relate to this so much! I look best in warm purples, reds, magentas, pinks and greens (like emerald and teal). Clearly cool. Next thing they do, they think oh maybe she is cool they then swatch a cooler tone which goes pink on me. I have to mix it myself, it is the only way. I tan but not nearly as dark as Id like unless I go in a tanning bed which I stopped doing years ago- but I dont look brown-brown like an Italian. I looked my best even when steticist told me not they were surprised how good I looked. / A Swede. I live for the summer which is the only season my skin actually looks good. Im German, Spanish, and English descent, and I have this pale olive skin, dark brown hair, and blue eyes. Both identified me as cool because of the red tones in my skin and because I am fair. It often leaves an almost grey cast. Mahogany never looked natural on me. I am pale olive toned on my body but have hints of pink in my cheeks and a slight bit of redness around nose. Yes! Now, my skin has always confused me because Im half Northern European like Irish and English but Im also half Hispanic including Spain and Mexico. My skin is definitely warm but my veins always look blue AND green. Im too pale for the light olive shade 213 unfortunately. This weird predicament of being pale, green, and cool but not too cool?! As do I. I have pale skin, Im bleach white in the winter but do a complete 180 in the summer, hardly ever burn. And of course there are the some legit fair olive foundations out there kevyn aucoin etherealist in light 03 is my best fit, but sometimes I get too pale for it. My grandfather and his sister have high percentages of Sicilian and Middle Eastern, European Jewish, North African (Tunisia). Colours I find work well, Rich Navy Blues, Blue Reds, Fuschia & white really suits my complexion (orange & yellow ..Hell NO!) Heres some products that I finally found: One thing Ive noticed tho I tend to look better in muted warm colors and certain vibrant cools. But NOT greasy. Off to the charity shop later and then, some (frugal, modest searching for berry toned tops)! Haus Laboratories is a lacto-vegetarian dairy cosmetics brand founded on September 17, 2019, by American singer Lady Gaga.Haus Laboratories products contain no gluten-free ingredients. Ill definitely try some foundations mentioned above (ie. By Chris Drew (PhD) / February 26, 2023. Ive now decided Im olive neutral undertone. I cant rock silver or blue-toned purples (see how that bit of blue scarf makes my neck look that much greener?). With this knowledge its going to be so much easier to know how to pick colours and why some dont work on me, and at least now I understand why I could never fit into the cool/neutral/warm skin tone spectrum! Olive skin. Olive skin is so beautiful but doesnt fit well into traditional seasonal colour analysis so we end up feeling weird and left out! I look great in black, white, navy, charcoal, true red (bluer undertone red, no orange or bright undertone). Ive a good foundation match in mineral powder foundation: Meow Cosmetics Ocicat line. 2N is better because it fits my skintone better, but it also seems to have slightly warm reflections which are not in the 1,5N. oh, and i`m of eastern european descent too, from one side. I am in the same boat. As a teen in the 80s I had my colors done and I was a winter so I carried that little swatch sample around forever. I try to have a balance of dark and light in my hair. For olive skin, it is best to stick with eyeshadow shades from the following color palettes: Brown. I could get very deep olive. I was so confused I ruled out olive skin tone because im not Latin, Mediterranean, Arab. The gray-pink foundation mask has been the bane of my existence for years! I would love to try a new hair color, but Im not sure what. I dont currently use foundation, thats why I dont have my own recommendations in the post. Ive found my people! but pink makeup is not good at all (warm!). I am very similar to you. Black washes me out. When watching your videos I got the feeling we have a similar problem the brownish dark eye circles I cant really say I see a green undertone, but it looks more like brown to me. Ivory/cream, lavender, any shade of blue besides deep blue, and silver grey clothing are a no too. Which is strange. I come from a mixed but mostly Eastern European background (Irish, German, Romanian and Ukrainian to be exact). Its just my own skintone Ive always had a problem identifying. I had no idea why was that so until I spotted myself looking more greenish in those colors, a pale, sick kinda green, not the beautiful fair complexion I have usually. Warm tones seem to make me look horrible, but I like my skin with gold? I typically use gold, sand beige neutral highlights and sometimes through in a few stands of aubergine. 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 look almost grey, sallow but with grey/ gold eyes and mid brown hair. 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! Your coloring is often mistaken with the Deep Winter palette. everything comes out too pink and gray on me so far). "Pair this palette with some warm, neutral mattes to really cover all the bases of tone and texture.". Nothing too over the top (sadly). You described me exactly and imagine living in Croatia I barely found the lightest shade od revlon which is good for me in the summer when I do tan a little. Hair color: Deep cabernet. Now I knowits because Im olive! Its great for spots as it stays put. my perfect bbcream match is innisfrees eco natural green tea bb cream and even though it swatches a little warm, on my face its an absolute dream!!! You are SO right about the rich emerald and dark forest green they seem to cancel out the awful grey tone for my pale olive green skin and make it look more luminous in a nice way. Ive never really looked good in either gold or sliver and it can be hard finding things that look good with my skintone. Almost an eggplant tone. Im going to go see what your info gets me! Some people claim I have medium tines skin or always look slightly tanned. I relate to that, I am paler than you and I struggle to find the perfect match in foundation and concealer. But in this case, I think it would have to be the right shade, just like with purple. I also think it has to do with circulation and time of the month or cycle of our periods? I am not sure if I am cool or warm toned, but probably leaning cool. It was so much easier in the 90s when brown reds were available. Olivia Wilde's bright eye color is complemented by a striking coffee brown, and a chin-length bob gives her a more edgy . Hold up a gold item and a silver item to your skin. Ive been using this for over 10 years and nothing else compares for me. This sounds like me, but I have more blue in my eyes, a mix of blue, green, grey and flecks of yellow-ish in the middle. I also disagree on it being uncommon in people of Latin descent, specially with dark features like mine and yours (brown hair and eyes). Omg I have found someone like me! I just bought my first cool shade lipstick today, and it suits me very well, yeay!! My face and neck stay paler whilst the rest of me darkens a lot and its frustrating! (p.s. I always felt I had this dusty grey brown, with a grey / green tinge, like a faded, antique cloth. 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. My arms tan really well, but my face sometimes burns. Anyways to add something useful, aside from covering my dark eye circles, which I find the least forgiving olive undertone feature on me with a very light and pinkish concealer, I find strong colours suit me, particularly navy blue. I have cool dark brown hair & light brown eyes with some green. Antracite grey is ok, black overwhelms me, but I wear it anyway. 7s Calico. Nothing seems to work because my skin tone, eyes and hair have hints and tones of everything so it ends up matching nothing. I tell people Im green-brown-yellow undertone and get looked at like Im insane. Very close to me!! We have put up a list of the best shades that compliment an olive complexion in this article. I know you were interested in this shade, so I thought Id re-visit my previous comment as I dont want anyone to get the impression that cg30 will be okay for pale olives. A feathered long blonde hairstyle is another example of a good hair color for women over 50. Exactly my case Im Polish and Im a pale olive. Dark colors are easy to wear, but arent exactly flattering. The green-yellow green undertones do get more pronounced then. Oh, hy there! However, I can pull off both because I believe Im neutral but I dont like too much of either. Cool chick; check her out. Finding a foundation is hard. Weirdly, peach on clothes looks horrible. The first foundation to perfectly match me. Anyway, I love makeup but Im having a terrible time with all of the overly warm eyeshadows, while the cools are sometimes too ashy. I hope it works for everyone else though!! in the US). I have no idea how to work with this I really struggle with foundation and concealer too, anyone here with similar colouring, have you found products and colours that work? Its a warm pink (not a baby girly pink) swirled with light shades of bronzes. My skin looks green standing next to my best friend who is warm toned and dark brunette. I tan very easily and when Im tan its not too hard to make a mix of neutral and red brown that will work okay for me. Since my shoulders did not have a lot of sun exposure it was my true color. Thank you for sharing! I had this instinct for a while that pure solid red should be better, but again pure red just does the orange-y thing. 2. I was level 6 hair shade dark dark blonde/shiny brown. This is great article! Sheer makeup works best for me. Light, gentle, slightly muted, slightly warm colors (pinks or greens, some mellow yellows too) seem rather neutral on my skin as in they don`t visibly hurt my undertones, not like the icy pastels or the cold grey colors. My face definitely has a greenish cast, but my forearms, hands and legs are blue-pink and kind of translucent. (Ash blond looms horrendous on me). My tips: always pick berry hues of lipstick, it really helps brighten the skin. In the winter when I get even less sun than usual, it can be a smidge too dark. Silver looks better than gold although gold doesnt look bad . On top of that, the formula oxidizes like crazy. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. Though theyre not as noticeably different on my skin as the cool and warm tones, they still come out a bit too pink for me. 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