My ancestry is Irish/UK/Germany. I have such a hard time beyond Neutral tones to bright my eyes and face. And people used to tell me i am warm but i look terrible with warm color clothes and makeup! never thought OLIVE!! I have struggled to find any foundation that works, and I am not a makeup guru so I cant remember the brand. But its probably one of the best out there color wise for us pale olives. I looked that shade up and it will definitely be waaaayyy too dark for me. E.g. Jewel tones (cool). This might not help much now, but Ive had decent success with UD Naked Skin 1.0. is that all? Its so interesting to read through these comments! 4. it truly is a struggle. After years of searching, I can safely say its been my go. I look awful in peach blush and look best I think in blue based red lipstick and for eyes neutral brown, black, a bit of purple and royal blue. My blush is LOreal Lifes a Peach and bronzer from the same line. Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'fyaMZ9nrQXd4VuF_3IRAxA',sig:'mGVQjPavCicUUYNoQawYN42cMuF-P5fZcSLwhf1mhD0=',w:'1000px',h:'666px',items:'1277527467',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })}); Not only does my face not really tan, I have rosy cheeks which is completely contrasting to my tanned arms and legs. I use Bobbi Brown in Warm Ivory though. And the jewellery trick never worked for me. When Im super pale or tan my skin can glow, but in between its so easy for me to look like death. That makes so much sense! Eastern European/mixed background. Funny Ive been searching more asian beauty and makeup videos for awhile now because these women are the closest to me. My veins look dark blue and greyish dark purple. In other words, I am still a bit confused about what colours look best on me. A big thank you for this post! Hello Ladies, think I have you all topped..lol..53 yrs old..just now, tonight, finding out WHY I have never been able to wear more than mascara and a shade or two of lipstick I could apply as my blush, eye shadow AND lipstick without my face looking dirty or appearing in the 3rd ring of Barnum and Baileys 3 Ring Circus. As for metals, I also wear them all well, albeit silver is probably the least flattering. Otherwise, Deauville from Nars does a pretty decent job. I thought that was something exotic women had. I dont know about any foundations or concealers, unless you want to know what not to wear, but I know apricot and peachy lips look really good on me. 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. My favorite lipstick shade is Aveda Poppy. photos I show up with a pink tone. Bobbi Brown Long-Wear Weightless in Warm Sand 2.5 (not a fan of the formula though, too thick for my liking, but great colour match) Because of this I am, I dare say, very mildly translucent to a degree. Youve just described me except the eyes are very pale grey blue. Chantecaille had a shade that actually matched well, it might be mentioned in this blog. I am soft autumn, I have grey-green eyes and muted grey with golden tingle hair. Its awful. I have quite cool brown hair, with golden highlight when Im in the sun.. Never looked good in yellow, pink or neutral foundations. I also have the Dior Backstage 2Warm Olive. I am also a blonde and olive! As a toddler my hair was the color of a new penny. The problem is a lot of olive foundations are golden orangey. Even if I have the pores, the scars, and the patchy skin I wont be orange anymore. Blondes can really look good on you and still allow your eyes to pop. Wow..I can really relate to all of the comments here. Lip and blush colors should be clear and slightly bright. Both turned out to be too light and made me look like a zombie. My Italian ancestors lived in a region near Slovenia maybe this explains the pale olive skin? I always look like a mis-matched patchwork quilt lol. Oh, how I wish NARS would bring back that Sheer Glow Ceylan . It was the most perfect and enhancing shade for my cool to slightly warm skin tone. This is great article! Too dry for under eyes for me though, For concealing blemishes, I also loved Make Up For Ever Full Cover Concealer in Ivory (#6). I hate them! I dont feel so alone now. I tried your suggestions here and all the colour also works to me. I get my foundation at sweetminerals.com/kingofqueensmua I wear a 2O so Im more medium olive, but the 1O should be light enough for you. Ive shown this by holding something yellow up to it and orange. 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. However I feel I wear most colors well. The best fair/light olive foundations Ive found are: My face always stays pale though and gets sun freckles if Im not careful. Other products in the same shade are a bit off. This transfer-resistant eyeshadow comes in a range of highly pigmented shades. Hair is dark brown with gingery-blonde highlights. I spent years with foundation that never matched the way it should (I chose neutral, which wasnt too far off but not quite it either..). cannot. Descarga happy serene young woman with beautiful olive skin and curly hair ideal skin and brown eyes foto de archivo y descubre imgenes similares en Adobe Stock. Natural blonde, blue/green eyes. 6)muted, unsaturated blue; Hold up a gold item and a silver item to your skin. Nothing seems to work because my skin tone, eyes and hair have hints and tones of everything so it ends up matching nothing. Read on to find a bevy of hair colors that pair beautifully with brown eyes. Cant be too warm. On the website it looks like it will be tan but on its rather fair. My arms tan really well, but my face sometimes burns. . In winter I look sickly, no glowing cheeks, just sickly! 7. I apply it very lightly as my foundation with a sponge and it does not look cakey. I always wondered why on Earth no foundation warm, cool, or neutral tone worked on my skin. It arrived yesterday- The problem is, its way too dark. I also get asked if Im ill or ok when people see me for the first time without makeup. I have found many green correctors lean turquoise, and I suggest to go for a more chrome oxide green one if you can find it. His clients include Ashley Benson, Olivia Holt, and Camila Mendes, and his work has been featured in Allure, Refinery29, and WhoWhatWear. I look like an 80s plastic doll version of an old lady in any blue/green/purple shading. I seem to look better in warmer eyeshadows and blush and cooler lipsticks. I also suffer from Rosacea in winter, so everyone just assumed Im cool tones. I have medium ash brown hair with gold and red highlights in the sun. My best match is MAC Studio Fix Fluid in either NC5 (slightly too light) or NC10 (a tiny bit too dark). Works for me. I never manage to buy just one good shade, I always have to mix. Hello my people! I dont have the dedication or patience to mix my own stuff. Ive been using Ex1 thats specifically for olive skin and highly recommend it. -Fenty Cheeks Out Cream Bronzer The most neutral bronzer Ive ever used! Hi everyone! Most foundations make me look too orange or yellow or washed out. 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! (to wear both with a top in dark black/dark pinks/bits of pale biscuit colours Confetti print from FatFace UK). I think tarte runs kinda pink, which means the shade is a bit more neutral than other pale yellow shades. Or nars radiant creamy concealer in custard, I wonder how common this is in Croatia!? Ps whats your season pallet? I cant find this MUFE item in color blue anywhere. I have Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, German, French, and Belgium backgrounds. I tan pretty well, although I always burn first. Thank you for allowing me to relate-I was on a search for a different hair color. In the end, the struggle would probably be worth it. So dont feel bad that you did at 24, you have me beat! I look great in jewel tones and orange too. The fuchsia (I didnt have anything pink to try out, so I held a book with a fuchsia cover up to my face) and deep berry are incredibly flattering, as is forest and emerald green, in small amounts. I also want to dye my hair a color but I dont know which color. Im very pale compared to most people i know, so its like you said, you cant really tell what my undertone really is, when it just looks white standing next to other people. I definitely look better in cool colours than warm (orange looks horrific on me, but purple and blue look good). But on the other hand warm foundations/concealers are often too warm, even in the lightest shades: they show up on my skin as orangey-pink. Im not sure of anything anymore, just know Im tired of not being able to fit any box :D. Thank you for this! Maybe if you are NC20-25 in MAC and warm, it would be ok for you, but if you are more like NC18 and cool yellow/green this will be too dark. 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. :) I love bright colors, but unfortunately I find that they wash me out or make me look sickly, so I stick mostly to neutrals (tried dying my hair red a few years ago, and boy was that a mistake! Greyinh hair does not suit me that well, so I colour it, but have been restlessly moving from colour to colour all my life. Ive been wanting to try the ex1 foundation but Im in between shades 2.0 and 3.0. I have noooooo idea why my hair is so deliciously dark brown, my eyes are blue and my skin tone is as fair as it is. Me tooooo! I have struggled with this color thing for years. and MUFE y225, both are good for pale olive skin. Im off to read all the comments and work out the colours which work for us. My fathers side of my family are italian and my mothers side Spanish, Latin American, Eastern European and if you go back far enough black. (Others I tried, just made me look horrifically orange). See if one of the newer pale shades is a match for my skin. I live for the summer which is the only season my skin actually looks good. From what I understand olives can be either mainly warm or cool, but we tend to be neutral overall, so neutral shades tend to be easy go-tos for us all (true red, navy, teal, putty, eggplant). It was really helpful for me. Makes a lot of sense. Hi all, I have dark hair, dark green eyes, and tan. I just discovered some of them and what a relief. Pitch Black Black hair strikes a dramatic contrast against olive skin. (Ash blond looms horrendous on me). I like Isle of paradise tanning drops. Ive found that kettlewell colours classed me as a deep winter and they are spot on. Theres one camel colour that looks great, but I cant put my finger on why because *most* dont work It is too dark and pulls orange on me. Unfortunately, it doesnt suit my occupation (law). Freckles sometimes. Thank you, that really helped me understand why I find colour such a challenge. Hello! I would recommend to try the dior neutral and then in the other part of your face the olive; cause olives tent to be to warm for some reason though I know for sure after long 36 years of fighting Im a light olive but cool not warm. Her videos can be pretty boring but are amazingly enlightening. You have described me perfectly!!! I would love to hear what foundation/s youve found so far? It took me to my early 30s to finally just pick colors that were meant for warmed tone people and presto suddenly products would compliment me rather than clash with me. my skin definitely has green undertones, and i look great in dirty gold, dirty olive, most greens actually, rusty oranges, brick reds. Wonder if they could get the right color again. Finding a foundation for my pale self, with that olive tone, oh forget it. Greece, Spain, Italy, Turkey and portions of France have olive skin. 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. Ive a good foundation match in mineral powder foundation: Meow Cosmetics Ocicat line. Yaaaas! My coloring is a lot like Mika Kunis who is from Ukraine. Theres little advice, guidance, or technical assistance available on the concerns we face when looking for informational resources. Looks like my choice is to be either orange or dead :) (thank goodness I got only samples, Im Polish and we cannot return used products in Poland which I know is possible e.g. I was born with red skin (yes, red), bright red hair and hazel grey eyes. Hows that for a bag of Skittles?! Im now using Revlon Colorstay Foundation in Buff. Girl makes one. This is so incredibly helpful for me! Every time a consultant tries to match me, they choose a neutral/pink-ish colour, but then I go outside and it is awful on me so distinctly pink and different from my greenish neck! I am tired of having the winter jaw line from foundation skin mismatch. Thank goodness I didnt its the best match Ive found and at a bargain price, too! I have no tips, though. Celebrities with olive skin tone are beauty ambassadors, models, and actresses. Thank you for posting !! My face is rose beige . 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 use shade 1.0 which would probably be the one for you too. 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 The struggle continues as I learn to work with pale olive skin thats kind of warm looking but actually more on the cool side. 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. This is the problem Ive been having for the last 35 yrs of my life Im a mix of Greek and Irish and well I have a genetic back ground of almost every continent but Irish and Greek are the most dominant and it gives my a light olive color finding foundation is so hard Ive tried it all even went to Mac and let a professional suggest a color sadly it came out a weird pinkish tan color and looked horrible on me someone suggested Nars but Im to worried about being disappointed again because most make up companies only think of olive as dark tan. Best Eyeshadow for Olive Skin Tones Warm gold, copper and brown shades look beautiful on your skin tone, so we recommend the Urban Decay Naked Half-Baked Mini Eyeshadow Palette. Its been a struggle, especially because I have genetic dark circles so covering them is a nightmare. However, eyeshadows are terrible for everyday use as face powders. Its the winter colouring I really struggle with as Im not as golden as I am in the summer still trying to find a good match for this. I know this was posted in 2017, but wow this comment section is a godsend. Its a teeeeny bit light for me, barely noticeable, but matches my jawline perfectly. Everything is always gray or too orange. The only ones who seem to have green undertones like me are eastern europeans and pale skinned chinese. I did find a pigment for lighting up foundation which is actually great when I use it as concealer. I am very pale with grey-blue eyes and medium ashblonde hair, |I do not tan at all. The struggle is real for us olive-tone PALE girls. And I have never found a neutral foundation light enough for me. I found revlon buff foundation to be very good. I look best in gold jewellery (warm) 7 Priyanka Chopra. Gold is good on me, silver isnt terrible but is not ideal, and rose gold looks best. Not too dark like the Mediterranean type olive colour, but a light Slav tone. :p. My father is of northwestern European (Welsh/British & Germanic?) I tried black hair once and it was way too harsh, making me think I couldnt handle dark brownso wrong. So Im seeing more options for fair olive now. I have the olive undertone (I tan easily, have reddish-brown hair, and have grey-green eyes). My skin gets a golden glow in the summer and I tan well, but I definitely have an unmistakable pink undertone. I am MAC NC-30 and ELF shade Sand, if that helps anyone! Greek people features stereotypically include having olive-brown skin, brown eyes and dark brown hair. I always wondered why I looked so off in the winter and sickly.. this explains it. Urban decay and Fenty make great matches and Sephora will let you try samples. 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. I am from Asia. I usually mix in a bit of the super pale neutral foundations I have around to try and get the shade lighter and that seems to help. Im a quarter Portugueseand probably a good deal lighter than youbut I have the same hair colour, eye colour and I suit those colours. Looking back at the pink/purple/silver photos of me from the 1980s, I cringe. Does that even exist? I can get away with it in the summer but never in winter. In summers white colors now look gray. Id say Im a neutral warm olive I had a hairdresser once remark that I have no pink in my skin. P.s, Im not a NARS Rep, I swear! But yep, very pale olive toned gals exist! They have just launched a line with olive undertones. Just ordered some Fenty 130 and 145, fingers crossed! I am so glad to come across this website. Anyway, heres to not fitting the mold. Its hard to be a girl :)) where do you get the MUFE foundation, Ive never heard of it and Im curious? I was skeptical but maaaybe. This article is a godsend to many. The light color will bring warmth to your olive skin tone as well as draw attention to your dark brown eyes. I also have hazel eyes, freckles and dark brown hair with red/gold tints in the light. Fuscia lipstick looks amazing on me as well as coral and soft pinks. I found one yellow-orange lip color that somehow works. Oh, hy there! Bad: As you said, orange and earth tones are our worst colors. Its clear that we havent met, because I am a Dutch girl and I have the exact same skin tone that you have! I am Greek light skin with olive undertone. I look best in deep jewel tones and darker earth tones (chocolate, rust, etc). On top of that im a size xs so most of my clothes is too big. I mix in my Este Lauder Youth infusing perfectionist foundation in the shade cashew (discontinued). I also look good in emerald greens and this maroon thats been trendy lately. It. I do still have to blend it down to my chest, but its the closest I can find. 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