You are my skin twin. I did find out that a very pale muted lilac colour looks goos on me ( its a dress im talking about). Thank you so much for this thorough list!! Same problem! I am dark ashy blonde with greenish eyes. dark eyes amost like a dark honey in the sun but a deep solid brown in the shade and has, or had dark neutral brown/black hair. 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?!). It's also easy to maintain, and looks fabulous. Mahogany never looked natural on me. the pale olive tone thing has made it such a struggle to pick out nude nail polishes too. I will check the new Kryolan Digital Complexion line of foundation and concealer. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience. Laura Geller Baked Balance & Brighten Color Correcting Foundation in LIGHT is PERFECT. I was always much whiter than my mothers side, but I never had the rose petal complexion of my fathers family. I have the added problem of my face and neck being a totally different color than my arms and legs. I am from Romania, so.. eastern Europe, same type of skin, pale, olive, tans easily, but looks really light during winter, especially on my face. I typically use gold, sand beige neutral highlights and sometimes through in a few stands of aubergine. Divya Amarnani, makeup artist and brand owner. If I try a cinnamon-y or even copper eyeshadow, Ive already gone way too far. I am very similar to you. I glow in the dark in the winter & I tan in summer. Im pretty content with my make up collection at this point (finally) I will leave a full complication breakdown below. Nahhh disproven by seeing myself in bolder warm red/orange tones. The mac ones are also easier to find, as the Lisa Eldridge one is only available on her website and with shipping and all it can get pricey. For the moment, in make-up, I use LOral 1,5N or 2N. Natural redheads are super pale and burn easily, but theyre likely warm-toned. Has anyone ever looked into Asian or Korean foundation? If your job and lifestyle permit unnatural colors, one or more of those might be fun to try :). 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. 3 Champagne (Not a bad match but oxidises a bit.) As is the fact that I tan easily in the sun. Having pale olive skin comes with a whole set of struggles. It was very easy on the eye for me. Loepsie thanks for this great article and Im so happy to meet all my fellow fair-olives! In the summer its ok because I tan, but in winter I look like that android out of star trek, if anyone remembers that?! fairness. Your colors are deep, warm and a little bit vivid that results a rich . Green corrector added to a neutral base is the best match for me. Baixe foto de happy serene young woman with beautiful olive skin and curly hair ideal skin and brown eyes do Stock e explore imagens semelhantes no Adobe Stock. 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. Ive found a lot of reds make me look SUPER green, and pinks make me look weird too. When it comes to makeup, finding the correct foundation is always a struggle. Maybe in this it`s more a matter of personal preference. Plum, forest green, navy, etc. Having my colours done in December. However he has been in the sun all his life and is not as light as I. I note that a lot of the comments indicate we all have similar coloring. Im both. My hair has since darkened to a medium ash blonde. Abyssinian is not bad, either. Omg I thought I was crazy when I couldnt tell my undertone by just looking at my wrists. I know this was posted in 2017, but wow this comment section is a godsend. Maybe I can find something that will work and if so a big thanks to the person who recommended it! Shes a golden blonde with light brown eyes and gets really tan. I dont look like a ghost anymore! I have the best luck with jewel tone greens- rich emerald and dark forest green. instagram/dollyparton. I used to LOVE being tan and would tan pretty easily and I always felt better with the color, but I have been natural and pale as ever for the past couple of years. I do not look good in pastel colours, salmon, orange, or peach. Have similar face tone what with freckles leaning greenish, pale base color skin that can flush to red. But I have found, I can do darker, almost brownish reds. Most of them have skin tones that are reddish or pinkish. I have your exact same problem! Much of it is tinted pink because whitening the skin is the fashion, so the bb cushions and fluid foundations are tinted with pink to neutralize any yellow. On top of that im a size xs so most of my clothes is too big. even, but when Im This post is already a few years old but Ive just read it and Im impressed! Others claim that I am extremely fair. MUFE in 117/Marble (they might call it something else now- they recently changed the shade names.) Worth the try! Lol. but if i do i might share my results, if you wish. She totally freed me from the cool / warm trap :). I have dark hair and eyes. My blush is LOreal Lifes a Peach and bronzer from the same line. Berry/ wine lipsticks tend to look great on pale olive skin! Im 34 and just now figuring out I am a super pale olive! I could get very deep olive. Black. Out of any color (not just greens) Ive worn, army green has gotten me the most compliments. I am Filipina (which means a mix of Chinese, Spanish and Malay). I have been wearing Armani designer lift foundation (I have dry skin, oily nose and chin) in shade 5 (its a tad light for me) especially in the summer, but Ive been mixing with Este Lauder perfectionist in cashew to warm it up slightly and it seems to be perfect, I am going to try the shade up in designer lift but I dont think the undertone looks as close of match. Try Revlon in buff the best match for me so far and very economical. Rose is typically a good sign as well for both. I tried a lots of hair colors: from black to blonde. However, I see sometimes (depending on the lights) that my legs have a blue undertone, my belly, arms and back looks like a mixture between red and yellow, my neck looks green/yellow and my face is a mix between all of those colors. Hair honey colour as child, darkened to light-medium brown, both neutral and warm in tone. Its very hard for people to connect me to my mom in photos together. I dont really wear makeup but I look okay in neutral foundations like Lily Lolos mineral foundation is shade porcelain. The hard part is Im blonde with blue-gray eyes. I usually mix it with an Asian tone-up cream (ie: 9wishes Vanishing Balm) to adjust the lightness and for a more natural finish. It took me 15 years to decide to try an ash blond and my world changed. 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. I still dont even know if my skin is olive but after reading all the problems from other girls on here I was like yup thats me. The best Ive found for you our skin tone, is Este Lauder and Dior. Muted teal, muted blues, muted purplestheres a theme here, but deep teal and other true jewel tones are still doable Try Koh Gen Do Aqua Foundation Shade 213! Also if fiji suits u then u could check stephnie marrie blog.she has a complete long list of foundation matches for that shade match , a color match for you you can find in Meow I do still have to blend it down to my chest, but its the closest I can find. bordeaux-red seems to work well too, deep purple and a broken white/creme (but not too warm! I work at a makeup store on my slow times I wander around looking at underones in foundation! I have medium ash brown hair with gold and red highlights in the sun. But, I have more a tendency to look sallow in the wrong color than ruddy in the wrong color. I cant do the thing where you match the color to your jawline because the discoloration extends past that point. Use light strokes to blend and pat, and dont cake it on a little goes a long way. Navy blue looks amazing though, so people with our skintone should make sure to stick to dark denims as well. My hair is darkest brown with white streaks as I age. You only need a little bit of this. / A Swede. Girl cant get no shopping satisfaction.. the struggle is real for us dark brown hair with coppery highlights, hazel eyes and pale olive skin types.also finnaly found a great cream for skin made of tea tree(Just) low on chemicals cleared me completly of acne and faded 90%of spots to find what I havent seen since I was 14-I have freckles, Please do tell! Same as wearing orange- I look sickly! Do they still exist? Hey Lolo! So glad I have found this site. Normally I would not have tried most of these products based on their color, but researched them on the internet first and found them all to be winners. I have green eyes. I have brown/black hair and grey eyes, with pale pale olive skin (Irish, Scottish, Honduran + German ancestry). I cant find a rose gold that looks right. Its just my skin. I have yet to find one foundation that I dont have to mix or play around with. Jessica Alba / Carey Mulligan. Woah that is such a cool (but I imagine not super common) combination. This is as a result of this marvellous website :). Im under the impression that post- base layer, I tan faster than nearly every other person of (northern) European descent that I know. And all my life people kept asking me if I was doing well, why do I look so sick and tired. I just want to say that I`ve tried EX1 in 001 and 002 and both look very very pink on my skin. I was skeptical but maaaybe. Those very dark, neutral, rather saturated colors clear my skin and make it look marble light beige. I have my dark eyebrows but her shape- my hair on my head is brown- but is almost auburn in the sun- a trait neither parent has. And thank you everyone else for sharing their experiences in the comments! especially now since I havent spent extended periods of time in the sun like I did when I was kid. Heres what Ive found that works as far as lipstick, blush & eyeshadow: Taupe eyeshadow looks amazing on me. Very dark neutral purple-brown shade with bronze shimmer is a nice match too. Auburn with red highlights is for those ladies who have a spicy personality. I heard you needed to check if your veins were blue or green to see if you had cool or warm undertone, but mine were both! So whether you like neutral hair colors or something more fierce to match your personality and inner fashionista, youll find a hair color you like to flatter your features in our list of the best! 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? , deep green , dark army green and am on a diet from warm mustards, mid brown, orange and yellow result? I am in the SAME boat! Thankfully some of my family members were keen on noticing skintones so Ive know about oliveness for a long time, but it took me FOREVER to learn how to handle it with makeup! The berry colors for cooler skin-tones are acceptable, suggesting a cooler undertone, however I need to keep it dark. I just got Laura Gellers Baked Blush & Brighten Marbleized Blush in PINK BUTTERCREAM. And I really want to go blonder but Im afraid it wont look good on me. I use the LA Girl green concealer. I find Koh Gen Do foundations in 112 work for me. OMG, I think youre the first person who Ive ever met that has the same skin tone situation. I most definitely look good in gold jewelry (and eye-shadow), and most definitely do NOT take to silver or even rose-gold jewelry & tones. I just went looking for green concealer thinking that could be my solution and then I came across this thread. I have reddish brown hair and light brown eyes, and would say my coloring is overall a warm-neutral look. 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! I also have a difficult time finding complementary colors for my skin tone, however I have discovered that Maybellines #20 Classic Ivory is a fair match to my tone and blends easily to my skin color! I also have blouses in black, dark pink and dark grey or brown (with uggh yellow bits). Hair color: Deep cabernet. Weirdly, peach on clothes looks horrible. I had deep brown hair but Ive lightened to a medium brown as Ive gotten older. Wow I feel so validated. Medium or dark neutral? If you have green eyes, this kind of hairstyle can make you look fiercer and make your eyes look a little bolder. I have dark brown hair and eyes. I thought that was something exotic women had. Nothing I wear in the winter looks good on me but a tan does wonders for my wardrobe. Ive tried their concealer as well and loved it but again Im in between shades! I struggle so much sometimes with my skin tone especially when trying to find a good hair color that doesnt wash me out. Oh wait, never mind. I am one of the few with a true red undertone. Haha. . Im discovering that bright, full saturation colors look best on me does this make me more on the cool spectrum? I am also Croatian & have had issues finding flattering makeup for my light, cool olive skin. O well. I first tried the Medium but it was too muddy looking even for summer. I also have a lot of face redness which I think is hard to look past when trying to figure out my undertone. Never mauve!! I had no idea green undertones were a thing, but after years of poorly matched foundation, it all makes sense. What is Olive Skin Tone? So no, tanning is a bad indicator for if youre warm or cool toned. My hair is a medium ashy brown but somehow with red and gold tones in the sunlight. Its so frustrating isnt it! 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. Maddening. I even used to work as a makeup artist and would match people all day but nothing ever looked quite right on me. I also feel a different shade when in northern Europe, however, I cant agree with this undertone being common in Eastern Europe. My skin got clearer, my eyes brighter and my overall look softened. I always wore fair-light skinned colors and stayed toward the cool side because lets face it, it makes sense. However, some years ago I had found the most perfect foundation for my skin tone: NARS Sheer Glow Foundation in Ceylan! wear. I custom blend a warm and a cool foundation for this very reason! Reduce the saturation to some degree, about 2 /3 down, and / or darken the color. Good: The best colors Ive found are deep, jewel tone colors. 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. With the pandemic, Im so pale and Ive come to realize how olive toned. I think I am on the warm side of olive, e.g. Lol. Any fellow pale olive ladies out there who would like to share some tips? 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?) 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. Oh, weird! So glad I googled pale olive undertones on a hunch and found this validation and advice. I am Armenian/European heritage so pale olive skin is inevitable here. My name is also Nora and I had the same struggles ! Little by little Im working on a palette. That greenish / olive-ish / taupe grey is the famous olive undertone, that plagues or graces some of us. It perfectly matched my skin tone like a dream and evenly disappeared into my skin, while giving me a flattering and harmonising appearance which seemed easy on MY eyes. Courtesy of Divya Amarnani. Eyes areermgreen, orange and grey close up and not really any distinguishable colour from far away. Either she's olive or just very very muted. Reading some of the other peoples suggestions and comments on here is a huge help and gives me confidence that Ill find it :))). =( Anne Hathaway. I can tell you, as an Arabic girl, that olive skin is not always that beautiful rich shade. Really struggle with finding colours of eye/blush/lip colour that suit me. I would be grateful!!! Champagne and bronze as well as neutralish browns are usually good for lips and around my eyes. I have pale olive skin AND rats!! Hello! I have dark brown hair with hazel green eyes and i am very fair. Now, I will use more blush and bronzer to brighten things up. 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