Im latin american, also with some eastern europe background interesting how many of us have the same rare tone and common background. Recently, Ive been struggling to find a contour shade that really is perfect. Different parts of my body look more green than others too. Im Portuguese and I have dark green eyes, and dark brown hair and Im considerably darker than my parents, siblings and other family members who are your typical tanned live skinned, I struggle to find make up that matches my skin tone and my vains are both green and purplely blue, Ive found that pastel colours wash me out and I like myself in darker Jewel colours like purples, burgundy red, Royal blue etc, but as Ive said still unsure as I can not see if I have pink, yellows or green undertones x, hello from a fellow pale olive portuguese girl! Olive skin tone is a beautiful and defining feature of many famous women. Theres little advice, guidance, or technical assistance available on the concerns we face when looking for informational resources. (My eyes are very dark brown rather than hazel like yours, so while Im tempted to make eyeshadow recommendations beyond that, I wont :) ), My hairs warm to neutral dark brown naturally and I like that, but have also been happy with burgundy and burgundy/plum out of a box as well as burgundy/warm magenta balayage from a salon. The older I get the more Golden Ive become. Hey there. I think if you had to pick a tint or a side, Im a hair on the warm side of olive, e.g. Haha! Fellow cosmetologist here! Ive turned to just trying to heal my skin enough so that I can go without foundation. However, you can mix it with liquid colour white solution, to lighten it. Thought I figured out Im neutral but even those foundations leave a slight wash of grey. My blush is LOreal Lifes a Peach and bronzer from the same line. 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. I started looking for something else because Koh Gen Do is difficult to get in Poland and its very expensive for an everyday foundation. 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. But its trash. I have very dark brown hair and dark green eyes. Except I naturally have dark blonde hair and blue eyes. I cant rock silver or blue-toned purples (see how that bit of blue scarf makes my neck look that much greener?). But I know for a fact Im cool toned because I only suit silver jewelry. Makeup artists always have me looking too peach or orange. 1) Ive gone to more than one color analyst and have been identified with both warm and cool undertones. Anyone have any concealer suggestions? Its like were all family :), I know this is an old thread but if anyone is looking for a good foundation for fair skin with olive undertone (Im 100%italian) tarte just launched their Foundcealer foundation and Im obsessed with shade 24G (for olive undertones)!! Basically EVERYTHING in our wardrobe needs to be thinking of. You have had my EXACT experience. . It arrived yesterday- The problem is, its way too dark. Lets hope that Ill find the right one! I send you a virtual glass of the finest, coldest beer in gratitude. Its all so confusing and frustrating even. 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. Never thought Id be olive because Im so pale and of mostly Irish and French ancestry but now that I think about it both grandmas were olive! My tips: always pick berry hues of lipstick, it really helps brighten the skin. I look good dressed in bright red and a number of other bright colors, whether warm or cool, but creams and more neutral tones wash me out. Im trying to find my and i think we are probably the same. My body got tanned easily, but my face burned first, my face also looks more reddish than the rest of my body. Think of celebrities with olive skin and brown eyes, such as Jessica Alba and Kardashian. Olive skin. 13 Of The Best Nude Lipsticks To Suit Olive Skin The perfect nude does exist By Jacqueline Kilikita 8 Feb 2017 More From Make-Up Heroic Eyeliner Is Setting The Tone For AW23 ELLE Edit: 14. The key is your golden skin undertone and you haven't got so much contrast than Winters have. This is not that light but because the undertone is finally right I can use it and it looks great.. Thats what I use: Urban Decay 30CG and it matches my light cool olive complexion perfectly. As a toddler my hair was the color of a new penny. 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. Check out 100% Pure. ive been using warm shades for clothing and make up for ages, people also tend to say i look somehow yellow but fair. I always wondered why on Earth no foundation warm, cool, or neutral tone worked on my skin. Shes a golden blonde with light brown eyes and gets really tan. I am in the SAME boat! Where is it? I feel like its the super-cool coloring of my eyes that really throw the coloring out of whack. My skin is pale, my hair is dark brown with some red in it, and my eyes are green/hazel/grayish/a little bit of rust in there.. (no wonder Im confused!) Thanks for sharing! This is as a result of this marvellous website :). And everyone gets so defensive that being more fair skinned cant be anything but a cool undertone. Im looking for someone with my coloring : black brown eyes, blonde hair, light skin to commiserate with. I appreciate your struggle, mine is similar but on top of having pale olive skin I have neutral pink tones too. Ive been using this for over 10 years and nothing else compares for me. It makes us unique but that uniqueness comes with a price of a lifelong search for colors that would suit us the best. mustard warm) tone is going to charity donations) are the culprits, whilst purply colours help stall the green (alien) image. There is no foundation for us lol. I found these mixing pigments a few years ago: https://www.ulta.com/p/pro-matte-mixing-pigment-pimprod2003317?sku=2540122&cmpid=PS_Non!google!Product_Listing_Ads&cagpspn=pla&CATCI=pla-294680686006&CAAGID=28397269470&CAWELAID=330000200001687033&CATARGETID=330000200001394369&CADevice=m&gbraid=0AAAAAD9rLH6JoP4pvxBSRpZi0RdbqlSiD&gclid=CjwKCAiAprGRBhBgEiwANJEY7OF-Thw-bvJgjpGtxaEHScyY-FH3RBtxBffW_ae-XLjpOioA8mw06hoC2pIQAvD_BwE. I look sick in most greens and green-blue clothes, yellow, orange, mustards, beige that has yellow in it etc, muddy and orange bronzers on me, as well as ugly yellowish instead of gold highlighters, yuck! 7 Priyanka Chopra. Even ones that suit my coloring just make me took too made-up which is not really appropriate for my conservative work environment (even on Zoom all day). I could get very deep olive. OMG, I think youre the first person who Ive ever met that has the same skin tone situation. 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. Undereye holy grail concealer (it is water/tear resistant too) Bobbi Brown Corrector in Extra-Light Bisque and Bobbi Brown Concealer in Warm Ivory (the thick cream one in pot, not the liquid with wand), in a 2:1 ratio (more of the pinky corrector) -use light layers. I usually mix it with an Asian tone-up cream (ie: 9wishes Vanishing Balm) to adjust the lightness and for a more natural finish. However I feel I wear most colors well. . 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 staples are navy blue, deep red like a ruby (the red is more blue than orange, orange red like a garnet doesnt look good on us), jade/forest/deep emerald green, charcoal, and black of course. and brown eyes with green swirl. Voila, perfect match! I feel your pain! Hah my mom always compliments how good I look in grey. Browse the selection of the best hair color for hazel eyes and every skin tone for ultimate ideas on how to bring out the unique flecks in your eyes. She co-founded luxury fashion brands The Row, Elizabeth and James, and the more affordable lines Olsenboye and StyleMint alongside her fraternal twin sister Ashley Olsen. Its more my body skin that is annoying- my arms are blotchier than Id like and thats where I do have freckles and my legs are so pale and veiny but Im afraid of bad sunless tanner! and everytime i find one affordable, its taken out of the sortiment :(, Your email address will not be published. I have struggled for a long time to find a foundation that matched my skin tone. 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. I always wore fair-light skinned colors and stayed toward the cool side because lets face it, it makes sense. Aveeno tinted face moisturizer (spf protection, lightweight), sugar plum lipstick in moisture riche by LOral (not too cool, not too warm and even goes with red), Nude crme lipstick by Milani, L.A. girls lipliner in Forever. People at sephora and ulta always try to give me the wrong color. The best hair colors ideas for olive skin and brown eyes are: 1. Is light to medium, buildable coverage. I have European blood. I am not sure if I am cool or warm toned, but probably leaning cool. Thanks to my mostly German red-headed green eyed family :). I have paler skin than you; if I remember correctly, you use the second to lightest shade from the Bourjois Healthy Mix foundation and i use the lightest, Vanille Clair, which has warm undertones. So does a deep purple put on lightly. Anyone burn easily too? Its only when Im out of the store and in a well-lit room do I see that the tone is oh so wrong. My veins are mostly green but a few look slightly purple or blue in the wrist. So its pretty much impossible to wear anything but a porcelain concealer to not look very odd. I love my skin tone, but such a pain to deal with! I look good in all the cool colors and my veins are blue/purple. From Bright Orange to Dusty Pink, These Are the Best Colors to Wear For Spring 2021 You're. I have highlights which I maintain by using a purple-based color shampoo to keep the brassy out, however, I think I may switch this us-cuz I am so dark naturally, haircolor-wise. I like to use this powder, as it adds that olive cast to my skin that is missing when I use my tinted sunscreen https://shop.shoppersdrugmart.ca/Luxury/Quo-Beauty/Categories/Beauty/Makeup/Face/Powder/Colour-Correcting-Loose-Powder/p/Q910?utm_campaign=P1_01222021_2021-P1-BB-ACQ-Shopping-Smart~Shopping-Mass-EN-NA-Acquisition-PLA-na&utm_medium=LD_sc&utm_source=google&utm_term=na&utm_content=na_na_na_na_na&gclid=CjwKCAiAg8OBBhA8EiwAlKw3khzjakxlOMzexJOOMrYqLKGWOPIa0t6ZRZ6WFheMJVP6lealR-u6ehoCeHAQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds. 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. Your smile is very bright as well! I find the combination/oily formula to be more full coverage than the combination/dry. Im Native American, Irish and English, and my skin tone seems exactly yours but I have greenish/golden dark hazel eyes. I think many women with Slavic backgrounds would look great in the Ceylan shade. 3. Interestingly enough there are some light colors that work on us. My Dad is half Lebanese and French and Italian and my Mom is English and Irish. :-( Foundations are either too yellow or pink. She slso happened to be a light Olive! Go figure! Except my undertones are very clearly cool (purple-blue veins, skin doesnt tan at all), however Ive still got some warm overtones I suppose? My relatives and ancestors have a mix of pale skin and medium olive skin tones, so it would make sense that I would be a pale olive. 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! Ive tried their concealer as well and loved it but again Im in between shades! well, greenish-golden-medium! But, of course, its all individual. I dont feel so alone now. I learnt to accept it in the early 2000s, when tan was so praised. and a very saturated neutral red raincoat that seems to fit well to my surprise, as normally i can wear muted colours better. My mom mentioned in passing that we tend to get darker as we get older in our family. I believe that would fit law. but pink makeup is not good at all (warm!). Eyeshadow, I have no freaking clue. One friend said, I never noticed your skin was greenish to me. My wrists are blue like those with pink undertones and my skin is just as pale as theirs if not paler in some cases. My winter routine consisted of a cool foundation topped by a neutral powder, followed by transparent finishing powder to blur everything as best as possible. I only have one blouse in a warm orange, kinda autumn-orange, because I felt it suits my skin tone. I am Native American and Irish, and my skin is pale olive. Toward the end of summer my husband and I laugh bc I start to look sickly, almost like my skin cant absorb any more and I look jaundice. If you lighten up that color, the unsaturated one, you will notice that of all the olive green not much green-ness is left, the more you lighten it up, the less green-ness it retains; the grey-er / more taupe it shows. and MUFE y225, both are good for pale olive skin. Your guide to picking the right shades that complement and enhance the radiance of olive skin. I dont even try to wear makeup & most of my face is covered. So my best jewelry is rose gold and I also tend to think silver looks better than gold (gold makes me look tanner but like a bad tan Im sure you know exactly what I mean), my signature color is powder rose, but MUTED! I live for the summer which is the only season my skin actually looks good. Ive realized, that colors that are just slightly on the cool side look the best and I can wear the bright version of it. I also look horrible in washed out shades. I look silly with a tan because my grey-blue eyes look ill placed with it. I love warm terracotta, gold, and cranberry eyeshadows. Based on my experience, I can say the next if you pick from darker colors they should be a bit warm like chocolate or chestnut/ or some caramel highlights are great. I have such a hard time looking past my redness in my face that I decided to focus on my neck just under my jaw. I do honestly believe you are in the Pale Olive Club welcome! I generally fit neutral but finally realized that I lean much more toward cool and I look so much better in cool clothing and makeup. Rule of thumb is for me: find a celebrity who is Olive -Skinned (Google, again) And no matter how dark they are as long as they are OLIVE just take their color matches & take them down a notch or several notches if needs be. I always thought I had a yellow undertone, but now I realize that I am, like you, an olive. But I cant wear extremely cool tones, as they look off. If youve seen the Nyx Cant Stop Wont Stop foundation in Pale that would be my foundation colour if i had the right undertones for it. My hair is more of an auburn brown with golden tones to it as well as olive green/hazel eyes. Most of them have skin tones that are reddish or pinkish. I think I am on the warm side of olive, e.g. Perscriptives are good., they matched velum foundation for me. Keep an open mind about the look youre going for, and perhaps embrace a somewhat exotic result that may have a striking effect. 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. Ill add that for me I look awful in green or orange, both silver and gold look meh but silver is a bit better, I have dark cool toned brown eyes, dark brown hair. Eastern European/mixed background. Every cool concealer or foundation either makes me look like a pink peep, and the warm ones give me oompa loompa vibes. Though his family lived in Greece for at least 2-3 centuries we were In Spain before that and there is evidence to suggest that we originated in Syria or somewhere around there. Lol. Im a soft Summer my body is pale Olive. Ive been taking screenshots of colors and brands! Medium or dark neutral? Sand comes up pink on me, Hello all. Id recommend looking at Asian brands. Oh wow! To emphasize the color even more, play with a forest green eyeshadow. Sheer makeup works best for me. For concealer I recently found the nars radiant creamy concealer in the shade Chantilly (lightest one) and I think it works really well !! Im light skin tone in summer and light to med in summer however if I choose to tan I get tremendously dark (brown with yellow undertones). Why are there no foundations for us? Im trying to find a light texture powder to achieve this effect. I always look like a mis-matched patchwork quilt lol. Im a pale olive too, of Eastern European and Italian descent. Confession: I have a diploma in makeup artistry and an almost decade-old beauty channel on YouTube, and Ionly just found out whether my skin undertone is warm or cool. I got a sample of Touch In Sol Advanced Real Moisture foundation (shade natural beige) in an Ipsy bag. I can get very tan but have to be careful of burning in the beginning. Warm complexions would use corals and warm pinks and cool complexions pinks . Im always taken for being east-european. Your story sounds like mine, I never dreamed I had olive skin. Anne Jacqueline Hathaway was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Kate McCauley Hathaway, an actress, and Gerald T. Hathaway, a lawyer, both originally from Philadelphia. i havent gotten around to j beauty yet) do account for olive and cool tones for pale skin beautifully! No wonder I never felt good at makeup or dressing myself! Im getting ready to pack most up for return and stick to my charcoal grey or dark tealbut I SO want to look jolly and energisedany ideas please xxx. Remember to buff it out. In which part of your face you see it? Ive been thinking about trying that foundation, but I only recently discovered I might be pale olive. In the end, the struggle would probably be worth it. Was it discontinued? What a pain. You and me both kid! 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. I have tried SO many foundations, its unvelieable. 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. 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