Let your skin glow . My mom is of Polish/Ukraine decent (her side of the family is all blonde hair blue eyes after she got pregnant with me her hair turned more of a brunette. My eyes are brown with green swirls, spokes and yellow in it. Big newsI purchased inexpensive NYX green primer and added two medium sized dollops to several of my ill-matched foundations and EVERY one now matches my skin. In case it ends up being helpful for anyone: I think a few other people have said this, but my skin tone is kind of golden? Apparently ALL their foundations lean olive. I have no tips, though. 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 have Portuguese, Latin American (Brazil) and German ancestry. reference, Im like an NC15 (but MAC C is too yellow and the W But Im also pale. Salma Hayak, Meghan Markle, Zoe Kravitz, Freida Pinto, Michelle Rodriguez and Alessandra Ambrosio can all be considered medium olive-skinned while Thandie Newton and Zoe Saldana are gorgeous examples of celebrities with deep olive skin tones. For a natural brunette, consider wearing dark hair dye on your roots and blend in honey-blonde hair colors from the middle all the way to the tips. Jennifer Lopez is a great example of an olive-skinned beauty who rocks honey blonde amazingly. Ive bundled some of the readers makeup recommendations (and my own) below, so you can shop products approved by fellow pale olive skinned ladies from right here. I *might* be light olive. Skin: Olive or Cool Blue undertones . I feel you and I am a cool olive or pale olive with brown eyes with specks of amber and dark brown hair. Its not available here and the new LOral bronzer is very shimmery. I never knew why I had such a hard time until someone pointed it out when we were standing in a group at work. Never mauve!! I have the same exact problem as you. Ah, another video I would perhaps want to see is a more intimate q+a about relationship topics that might be a bit controversial (like, whats your stance on non-traditional relationships, how would you react or deal with someone cheating, a threesome, or things like that not in the perverted sense at all, but more like a realistic talk about some more difficult topics people might face with their significant other). I was wondering about their cg(cool green) undertones. Warm tones seem to make me look horrible, but I like my skin with gold? So I would recommend that and I really hope you find it helpfull. My skin tone has both yellows and pinks in it. I think this closely matches the description I would give for my skin tone as well :) my dad side hails from Greece with possible German heritage as well. Steer clear of anything pastel especially lavender! Ive always been baffled by the fact that Im soooo pale, (like most brands of makeup dont make a shade as light as I am), yet I can sit in the sun for hours and I dont burn. Short Hairstyles for Fine Hair Loved everything you said, sounds like we are the same person. Just described me. St tropez tans seem to have a green undertone so look really beautiful over our skin tone! I can wear any shade of green and jewel tones. 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. Im about as pale as Loepsie, if not, paler. Oh, how I wish NARS would bring back that Sheer Glow Ceylan . Its very inexpensive too but the case cracked after 2 months which is annoying. Me too! It is often associated with pigmentation in the Type III to Type IV and Type V ranges of the Fitzpatrick scale. Or maybe my preference in colors has something to do with it as well, haha. 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. Thank you for sharing everyone! So happy to finally know! Ive gotten matched incorrectly at Nordstrom and Sephora so many times. If the veins on the inside of your wrist are green, youre wam toned. Oh wow! Im definitely pale olive and have finally found the right foundation for me: No. Hi, I found these work for cheekbone contour on cool olive skin: ), to nightblue, and all sorts of greens. Thank you so much for this thorough list!! The stylist was perplexed because the tone had quite a bit of gold in it, yet somehow looked ashy next to my complexion and made me look older and washed out. The closest match Ive found for myself is actually drugstore: LOral True Match Lumi Healthy Luminous Makeup C3 (creamy natural). My skin is extremely pale but i can be quite dark if i get enough sun. Dior are including an olive undertone in all new foundations. So, if you are sure youre olive but being told you cant be because you are blonde, know that you arent alone. Im a soft Summer my body is pale Olive. Because I have to run miles before I do! I dont know, but thank you for the very helpful tips! I was totally confused until I started finding info online about olive undertones, and then all of my fashion/makeup/hair color preferences made so much sense. Oh- Copper also looks good on eyes. Have you had your eyes peeled for a hair color that will look not just great but fabulous with your olive skin tone and brown eyes? If the silver looks better on you, youre cool toned. Shes got very, very pale, cool skin that is prone to redness, blue eyes and very light, cool brown hair. Amber Eyes This beautiful, golden eye color is often confused with hazel. also, I would love to post the photo but Im not sure I can here. No one thinks Im olive. But I do look absolutely horrible in orange, gold makeup is the worst possible thing I can do to myself and warm toned foundation often comes out clearly yellow on me. I will cherish my bottle and probably buy as many backups as I can find. My skin is pale but its also not pale which is challenging. Foundation is extremely tough. Created by Elis Miller . I dont have the dedication or patience to mix my own stuff. This spring I found EX1, a new brand that caters to olive skin ONLY. I found it years ago and was so helpful, very eye-opening! Here, in France, the struggle is real to find some foundations or concealers that can match very light skin (though Im from Paris where the supply might be considered extended! Ive had my colours done several times, and though I generally fell into the cool spectrum, neither the summer nor the winter pallette completely suited my colouring. Same problem! . Im also mostly German with some French, Czech (Eastern European), Irish and Dutch. Chantecaille had a shade that actually matched well, it might be mentioned in this blog. Im older than the rest of you, and have never worn makeup, precisely because of problems matching my skin tones. I think my colouring sounds like yours you might be a soft summer like myself but one shade in the soft summer i cant wear is bluesy gray hope this helps, Dear Lucy x Hi and thank you SO much for your beautiful website and for this amazing and kind article. As is the fact that I tan easily in the sun. At 40 I have a few noticeable sun spots on my hand,dcolletage, and face. I usually go for the lightest two foundation shades and try to warm up my complexion with blush. So glad I googled pale olive undertones on a hunch and found this validation and advice. I have Eastern-European descent! Rose gold is the only metal I feel I can really pull off. I struggle with this too! Another thing that I struggle with, is the change of colors once applied. Want to shout it from the My eastern European family is all of darker skintone and the only two as pale as me dont wear makeup. Please help . Try Revlon in buff the best match for me so far and very economical. Will be reading the comments for sure. I am very, very pale olive. It was really helpful for me. My arms tan really well, but my face sometimes burns. Im ultra ultra ULTRA pale, not to say pasty, BUT my skin is definitely not rosy/red leaning but very clearly yellow to green. Celebrities Female Gorgeous Women Celebs Salma Hayek Bikini Salma Hayek Body Salma Hayek Style Salma Hayek Curly Bob Hairstyles Short Hair Cuts Cool Hairstyles Layered Hairstyles Short Pixie Midlength Curly Hair Like layers in back Wavy Bob Hairstyles Short Curly Bob Haircuts For Curly Hair Easy Hairstyles Prom Hairstyles Not sure if anyone has mentioned this. Jessica Alba / Carey Mulligan. I have NEVER been able to find a perfect foundation to match my pale skin, and Im 46! My eyes are dark blue. Help! I also could cover a broad range of shades, I could tan deeper than other kids in summer and quickly become paler than them in winter. 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). 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. I feel like I have the same skin tone as the OP based on her pics and wonder what foundation shades she uses! My (amber) eyes dont look so orange, more darker brown and as I still have naturally dark brown hair, the green makes it look richer too. Make Up For Ever makes some (Chromatix Mix) and on the cheaper end of the spectrum L.A. I will try other cosmetics you reccomended , Happy New Year!! A feathered long blonde hairstyle is another example of a good hair color for women over 50. I use the LA Girl green concealer. my clothes vary from a washed out black (not grey! So perhaps the variance in those signals is a signal in and of itself of olive undertones? Dark grey-blue eyes with taupe and sunny-taupe: makes them look dark grey-teal. Try shade Fawn from Tom Ford. But some people told me to look for makeup from other countries like maybe korea? Thanks for sharing this article! My face and neck stay paler whilst the rest of me darkens a lot and its frustrating! The problem is that you cant really go bold without looking weird. It makes us unique but that uniqueness comes with a price of a lifelong search for colors that would suit us the best. They are both muted reds with a hint of brown and dont bring out the reddish tones in my face (pale olive skin that flushes and has reddish cheekswhich clashes with green skin when Im paleI have to keep a slight base tan to even everything outthe struggle is real). It was light in the summer but I never got around to ordering a darker version. Pink and purple being my most flattering colours to wear again. So glad ive found other pale olives. My face always stays pale though and gets sun freckles if Im not careful. I no longer have to choose between formulas I love and having the right color. When I wear anything Cool toned it makes my face look pinky-grey and dead, and when I wear Neutrals I also look very sickly. are very affordable and the choice is wide. I never considered that I am actually cool toned. Its really incredibly frustrating and disheartening, but it makes me feel better to know Im not the only one with this struggle. The colors are great on your lips. Your guide to picking the right shades that complement and enhance the radiance of olive skin. The big challenge now is trying to find a complementary hair color. 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). Thanks :). I think I couldve wrote this lol. I always get compliments when I wear slightly orangey-brown eyeshadow, and when I wear BarePro lipstick in shade Geranium (muted red). Youre a makeup artist, give it a whirl? I also, went down another rabbit hole and wanted to know the color season. Have always worn silver as I like how it looks on my skin but would never wear a silver top & I think gold is ok on me, just sometimes looks a bit like a yellow. It costs almost $40 and its full coverage. In the summer I tan to my human self, but never burn. Navy is also not a color I find especially compliment me but my wardrobe certainly have tons of it, thats why I think that color is pretty much our neutral, with whites (as long they are not optic whites) and ivorys. Finding foundation has always been a struggle, but I recently bit the bullet and bought Ken Gen Dos 213. Home Make Up Makeup Ideas. 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. This is me too. Silver is not awful, but I think it`s not as harmonious as gold, and can look dark black-ish on my skin. Ive also been experimenting with light purples and rose pinks for eyeshadow. (Sounds like an oxymoron but youd have to see it to know what I mean). I have dark brown almost black hair and pull off cool jewel tones the best. I just figured out my undertone is actually cool green. I know hazel is more of a uniform mixture of green and brown. But, I have more a tendency to look sallow in the wrong color than ruddy in the wrong color. 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. We exist. Needless to say, finding good colour matches for clothes and makeup has been a challenge. Ive always had freckles and now, to my horror, age spots, which led to a search for makeup once again. Im going to give this a try soon! Im a somewhat muted neutral olive. I have the hardest time finding any foundation to be light enough for me. Those season color theories never worked for me either. When I need actual color in my make up. Rimmel Stay Matte in Moca pale, slightly beige nude I always knew I have unique confusing colouring. The undertone of your skin is warm, either yellow, golden or olive green. Just found out today. Do you think Im olive too, or something else? I usually just make due with a super light yellow-based one. still searching for more! Getty Images. I have similar coloring to you. Serena has a degree in journalism from the University of Oregon and works in public relations for a nonprofit. Hey! I dont know really anything about my background, but I live in East Europe. Agree with colors you recommended. Ill have to find the one you are talking about! Sewing hobbyist, historical beauty enthusiast, and advocate for slowing down. And judging by the number of comments, there are a substantial number of women who are equally as lost as I am when it comes to finding flattering products! I am preferring gold more now bc its what looks the best in the winter to brighten me up. I can identify with all the comments above. The problem is a lot of olive foundations are golden orangey. They have just launched a line with olive undertones. My sister has this but I do not. I dont like my green pigments, since it makes me look like a corpse in the light of winter!). Yes! For foundations you should check out Koh Gen Do in shade 213 (I wear 123 so that could be good for summer maybe?) Just a spot of cool toned blusher, brown eyeliner and a bright pop of lippy and Im good to go. 2. I have dark hair, dark green eyes, and tan. Eyeshadow, I have no freaking clue. I think I am on the warm side of olive, e.g. My own skin is pale enough that I often have trouble finding alight enough foundation at the drugstore. I know this is an older post but I believe I am a pale olive! Now I can use almost any foundation I want and I dont have to desperately look for fair olive foundations anymore (theyre practically nonexistent anyway). As a teenager, I was literally convinced by my family that it was related to my anemia at the time. But with a completed face of makeup its a definite match. Serena Piper Either they think Im cool and I leave with a pink line on my jaw or warm and I look too yellow. Neutral foundations dont seem to do the trick either. Its expensive. I had a suspicion I saw green tones in my skin and brown. It isnt the fairest of the fair but Id say its a fair/light shade. Otherwise, I tend to look better in medium strong, rich colurs for clothes. I am wondering if you could comment as to which foundations you use in the winter and the summer.. my struggle has been lifelong with trying to find good matches and Ive never met someone who has this same background. Thanks for the article! Im not a big fan of mac foundations as the majority are just really heavy on my dry skin but if I do happen to pick one up it would be one of the above. Required fields are marked *. Im going to try Smashbox 1.05 and NARS Gobi, hopefully these will be better colour matches for me :/, Did you end up trying the smashbox 1.05? Does that move me out of Autumn? Ive heard people call them olive but theyre the exact opposite red/orange undertones. I have brown/black hair and grey eyes, with pale pale olive skin (Irish, Scottish, Honduran + German ancestry). I have to use a beige tan like concealer for acne and green based naked foundation long wear! Yes, I am Eastern European, too, and at 35, Ive just figured out my undertone! (Ive wanted to do this with green but very few makeup items are green.) my eyes look brown but make up artists say theres green in them Every company discontinued my shade. My hair has some Brownish red, (not brick), or sometimes wine or a berry color can look better. For me its deeper, because I have a lot of contrast in my coloring, but lighter colors might work for you. So maybe try that out. If I need one, just the most neutral, light / fair beige, and the rest is to be simply ignored. For the eyeshadows (I have hazel eyes), neutral beige, pale shimmery gold (almost beige) champagne, very fair taupes, light peach, deep purples, cool plum hues, indigo, navy blue and black always look good on me. If you have green eyes, this kind of hairstyle can make you look fiercer and make your eyes look a little bolder. Anything from loreal, rimmel, mac, maxfactor, catrice or maybelline would be great! I started getting curious when I discovered cool toned foundation always made me look sick, and while warm livens up my face, its still a bit yellow. I also have blouses in black, dark pink and dark grey or brown (with uggh yellow bits). Olive skin is a human skin colour spectrum. Also, I am lipstick obsessed, and I just found a great one, a muted neutral berry/red from MAC- Brick-o-la, its so great! Youve just described me except the eyes are very pale grey blue. I am very fair (NC8-10 in MAC), dont look good in either pink nor yellow foundation, and neutrals usually look too peachy. Try Medium Beige in their Conceal + Perfect 2 in 1 Foundation. Im 44 and I just found this outlol. I come from a mixed but mostly Eastern European background (Irish, German, Romanian and Ukrainian to be exact). Maddening. What Im trying to do when it comes to foundation is: I get one shade that has olive undertone and if its too dark for wintertime, I lighten up with a pure white foundation, for example (and these are more affordable brands, but decent products): Revolution Conceal and Define foundation shade f 5.7 + Revolution Conceal and Define foundation shade f 0. I always had a feeling that I had pale olive skin. Omg I have found someone like me! I also appreciate the neutral tones of Este Lauder Double wear in 1N1 (porcelain), but like the Studio Fix, it isnt a perfect match. The LIGHT truly adjusts to my unique Olive undertone! Ive been taking screenshots of colors and brands! A few shades paler then she. Its honestly interesting how some icy colors work (pink, green) but some absolutely do not (lavender, blue, silver). 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. Whenever I go into a makeup store to get shade matched for a foundation, they see my freckles and instantly point me towards a cool toned foundation with pink hues. Im so glad to have come across this and see so many others suggestions! Have a great day and do more updates on what you find suits or doesnt suit you! Matte in Moca pale, cool brown hair look too yellow celebrities with olive skin and brown eyes the new LOral bronzer is very.! 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