I have medium/dark brown hair that can look mousy sometimes, but up close has gold and red in it. 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. Loved everything you said, sounds like we are the same person. We have many people of Romany descent who were born in Romania, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia in our family tree. Id say Im a neutral warm olive I had a hairdresser once remark that I have no pink in my skin. I am also quite cool-toned, but cool-toned foundations actually pull orange on me. I love it and it looks super natural on me :) I really like the way warm neutrals look on me and ashy cool toned colors look really nice. Skin: Olive or Cool Blue undertones . Check out Merriam Style on YT. the 2n is slightly warmer unfortunately, but fits better to my natural skintone. Recently I found out that olive skin often has both green and blue veins Thanks for the foundation tip. Nothing ever looks good on me. Sephoras website describes 1W2 as light with warm, subtle olive undertones. Omg yes! By george, Ive got it. Ahh same here. I have light brown hair and blue eyes with pale skin and dusty rose lips. Which foundation shades do you use in your recommended products?? Navy is fine? Hah my mom always compliments how good I look in grey. Remember its the same undertone, we Light Olives just need to lighten up. What a pain. Makeup forever water blend foundation in y225 is the only foundation Ive found that actually matches me. My mom mentioned in passing that we tend to get darker as we get older in our family. Warm or cool shades of makeup Ill never know. 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. So yes, we have plenty of fair skinned olives here, that go nuts to find a foundation, because most companies think Spanish and Portuguese people are generally warm toned tans (which it might be around tanning salons, but it isnt the majority, not even near to half). light grey It was like my face came alive. Every branded online skin tone test Ive ever taken has not provided the pale-shade + olive-undertone combination as an option that actually existsand these are the people that should know betterbut. , Also from Croatia and here after watching Audreys video! My own skin is pale enough that I often have trouble finding alight enough foundation at the drugstore. The colors are great on your lips. I cant thank you enough for this article. I usually use a green primer before using a pale warm foundation and it usually ends up matching my neck very well. 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. It was the tip..yellow corrector covers dark circles on olives..not green..wow..works like a charm on redness for olives as wellgood luck ladies..lol..Dr. Young PhD. I am really curious now about the one you suggested! Can I ask, if a pale olive wanted a flattering green to wear (clothing, not makeup), what green would anyone go for? They are completely out of business so no way to order. I have green, blue & purple veins in my inner wrists, so was always confused as well. ancestry, but hes pure pale tomato (incapable of developing the SLIGHTEST tan) and I believe my skin tone much more strongly reflects that of my mother who was of Eastern European (Belarussian-ish?) Try Medium Beige in their Conceal + Perfect 2 in 1 Foundation. When I was younger I used to compare my arm to my friends and say Why am I green?!?! In other words, I am still a bit confused about what colours look best on me. Celebrities Kim Kardashian, Salma Hayek, and Vanessa Hudgens. 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. I also have blue eyes. I thought I was cool-toned when I was a kid, then I thought I was warm-toned for a few years. She has higher Middle Eastern percentage but less Southern European and less Eastern European, more Britain, but she is darker complected with a pale olive complexion, ash brown hair, But cold foundations dont suit me, so I gravitated to neutrals and was like a miracle to me. It also doesnt cover up my redness very well. For reference NC20 matches my skin well, Thank you! I have struggled with this color thing for years. Im not cool, warm or neutral. What colours go best with pale olive? Oh darling welcome to the club Im a very fair olive-skinned girl who, just like you, has hazel eyes and very dark blond + COPPER HIGHLIGHTS (natural ) hair. I hope it makes a come back. Any warm or loud/rich colors look bad on us, but orange is THE worst. Im a pale olive (austrian, german, spanish, british, native american roots). Home Make Up Makeup Ideas. I dont use bronzer very often, so I dont have much experience with it. However, the color of the eyes is only one aspect of deciding your seasonal color palette. I must say I dont see the green tone that you talk about in your pictures. 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). The closest I came was Bare Minerals Original powder in Fair c10. 7. Long wavy hair leaves plenty of room to flaunt the stunning shade and frames an olive skin toned face with brown eyes. Im not sure if Im olive, neutral or cool because I have a very weird skin tone. As such, wine, burgundy, and maroon are the best. Ill definitely try some foundations mentioned above (ie. Ive just been doing my eyes & nothing else. You will notice that the yellow hue starts looking clearly olive. :). I had that amazing aha moment where I finally experienced the my skin but better phenomenon. I have the best luck with jewel tone greens- rich emerald and dark forest green. I have both green and dark blue veins, and I never wear orange because I feel it makes me look yellow, or something. Erin Heatherton . I recently discovered my salvation in a Korean brand, of all things. All this sums up to the fact that until now, the online instructions have been confusing and very good at making me feel like an idiot. I would like to pull off bright red and blonde shades but I simply cant. My mother is of Costa Rican/German descent and my father is from British Columbia with Scottish roots. But for so long I felt like Im just weird cause my type just didnt exist in any makeup advice. Make Up For Ever makes some (Chromatix Mix) and on the cheaper end of the spectrum L.A. You can choose to wear it light honey or with more depth. I actually use the 145 to highlight! Also, those Asian chicks often have our skin tone too. I am so happy I found this article as the struggle is VERY REAL! Ive had the most success with very dark cool-brown hair color. But anyway, is it normal for people like us to look different Colors in different lighting? Try Revlon in buff the best match for me so far and very economical. I recently hit thirty and only now realized what was going on after spending years thinking I was either warm or cool-toned because some colors from either side looked good on me, resulting in a lot of trial and error (and the purchase of a lot of useless products). Chantecaille color chamomile. Im always taken for being east-european. I tell people Im green-brown-yellow undertone and get looked at like Im insane. I also find that other colours can look decent if I wear enough makeup I just hate that the majority of my body looks good in one colour, and a small detail can totally ruin the look, so I dont even dream of going somewhere public without makeup :/. Please help . Thanks to my mostly German red-headed green eyed family :). Most colours suit me, but I sometimes look washed out in some pastels. I never got matched correctly for foundation, so usually just wore a tinted sunscreen or moisturizer and always wonder whether I was just too picky or why nothing worked! The rest is English, German, Irish and maltese. My mom has green eyes), chestnut brown hair with some red and blonde mixed in there. I hesitate to offer a suggestion without seeing you, but it sounds like deep winter colors if dark teal and charcoal grey are your go-to colors. Not too dark like the Mediterranean type olive colour, but a light Slav tone. Any other colour does not work, which is sad because I always loved big pink cheeks. The only reason why olive skinned people are categorized as tan is that they do tan fast plus you will never find untanned light olive skin in sunny countries because its literally impossible not to tan there unless you are serious about staying in the shade. Thank you!!! If the rusty or reddish-brown eyes are lighter, they could fit to the Clear Winter category; if they are darker, Deep Winters can have them. And often mix it down with a slightly neutral cc cream that it slightly pearlescent. YES! I find that warm undertones (reds, oranges and browns) works great on me ~ also greens, but Im thinking you might be neutral-cool ^.^ anyways whats im trying to say is, middle way always suits me and it could work for you, too. I have brown hair and hazel eyes, which are generally marks of a warm colouring. even darker than that when we hit the beach. I tan Gray which fades to orange, then green then back to light gray green. I am absolutely a pale olive skin toned girl, and we do exist! Thanks for all your advice! NARS sheer glow in the color GOBI Both turned out to be too light and made me look like a zombie. Now it makes sense all those cool and warm undertone charts and colour seasons never mafe sense! I have your exact same problem! I love it! Yes, I got both Smashbox 1.05 and NARS Gobi. Its almost identical to MUFE 117 Marble when swatched. NYX matte lipstick in Siren (I was going to embrace my outer goth with this deep deep red, but to my suprice it looks super sofisticated on olive skin!) However I had to settle for oily skin foundation even do my skin is normal/dry. Oh, and I have green eyes and dark red hair. Everything tends to look yellow on me.). Foundation: Armani designer lift, shade 5 (base foundation), Foundation: Este Lauder youth infusing perfectionist, shade cashew, now discontinued (mix in colour), Concealer: Tarte maracuja, shade light medium sand (under eye when darker), Concealer: Nars radiant creamy concealer in the shade custard (under eye when lighter), Concealer: Nars radiant creamy concealer in the shade ginger (all over concealer when darker). 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. Its not golden at all. Oh my goodness, I have completely found my tribe!! Im flattered, but dont personally see it. I definitely relate to this! An overwhelming amount of incredible comments has come in over the years, and they contain some very valuable advise. I found my home I have struggled my entire adult live with my pale olive skin. Its not just an Eastern European skin type either: Im half British and half Indian. They all clash. ABH Norvina pallette the original light purple one with neutral shades and rose gold which looks bomb on our eyes So, if you are sure youre olive but being told you cant be because you are blonde, know that you arent alone. I have very dark brown hair and dark green eyes. I have medium ash brown hair with gold and red highlights in the sun. Gold makes me look so strange. When it comes to eyeshadow Copper! I recently had my hair colored dark ashy brown and wow my skin just popped! I look more like my dads side with them having the more dominate traits. Really rich wine, like burgundy. I have a lot of Italian and Eastern European ancestry and CoverFXs G+40 shade was the first foundation Ive ever tried (at age 50, two years ago) thats ever matched my skin. Under the sun, you go brown rather than red. Needless to say, finding good colour matches for clothes and makeup has been a challenge. 11. I cant wait to go check out some of the ones listed here!! Celebrities with olive undertones: Eva Longoria, J-Lo, Jessica Alba, Selma Hayek, Lucy Liu, Kim Kardashian, and Demi Moore Choose foundations that l ook balanced or are very subtly leaning towards golden with a slightly olive green hue. The older I get the more Golden Ive become. Also if anyone has any suggestions regarding clothing colours please let me know, the only colour I look good in is black and sometimes (summer mainly) white and in summer its awful! Im mostly French on one side and Swedish, Western European, and Native American on the other (as far as I know). Everything that is too bright like neon colours is just as awful. My eyes are brown/hazel (again warm) And ashy? I can wear only blue-based pink and red lipstick. but pink makeup is not good at all (warm!). You have described me perfectly!!! :) i am so happy to finally see pictures of someone like me. Hope this help a little bit. I did finally find tarte amazonian clay foundation in light beige to be the perfect shade for my . I use Nars pure radiance tinted moisturisers: Alaska (light 2) when paler and St Moritz (medium 1) when tanned. My eyes are medium brown with gold, and my hair is another issue altogether, sometimes it looked like cool steel, and other times chestnut and golden, burnished bronze even, but unfortunately, due to the issue of looking a little sallow in the winter, Ive been bleaching and highlighting my hair blonde since I was a younger child, my mother started lightening my hair when I was around 7.. which is very sad because I actually think my natural hair color was beautiful, and it was me. These are the best, particularly the Koh gen Do! 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