Fellow very fair olive here. On closer inspection all of my baby hairs and many hairs look silvery blonde. Then I`m less tempted to look at the actual skin tone, and I notice better the olive / grey overall vibe. Hairstyles for Older Women I only have one blouse in a warm orange, kinda autumn-orange, because I felt it suits my skin tone. Finally other people to relate! My undertone shows up most clearly when I compare my skin colour to that of my equally pale, but distinctly different-looking Dutch friends. as we all know it does exist. 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. I need to find the right foundation Suggestions would be appreciated. Nobody has ever matched my skin tone. SAME! reference, Im like an NC15 (but MAC C is too yellow and the W Im super pale but I can tan a little. Most super muted colors make me look sickly. So happy to finally know! NEUTRAL UNDERTONES Works for me. 3 Champagne (Not a bad match but oxidises a bit.) I was put under Dark Autumn palatte, which might be right but have still had trouble working out my undertone (now clearly understood to be green!). Some celebrities with pale olive skin have lighter complexions, while other olive skin tone celebrities have cool undercurrents.Olivia Munn and. I have to use a beige tan like concealer for acne and green based naked foundation long wear! I struggle so much sometimes with my skin tone especially when trying to find a good hair color that doesnt wash me out. I HAVE found concealers that work for my dark blue/purple/gray under eye circles and for my face when I need it. Currently using tarte light sand beige. Heres what Ive found that works as far as lipstick, blush & eyeshadow: Taupe eyeshadow looks amazing on me. It was only after i added a yellow adjuster to my already yellow foundations that i realised that my undertone is not just yellow but a green yellow. Dr. Hiba Injibar, founder of Dermasurge clinic, says, "Olive is not skin color or race. For years I struggled with my true undertones. Neither can it be too light. And I LOVE Dr Hart Cicapair drops and the one on the tub also. 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. Hope this help a little bit. I have dark brown hair and eyes which borders black but a really fair complexion, but isnt exactly white or pinkish, and it wouldnt take much for me to look pale when my skin is on its own (not suntanned etc.) Ive heard people call them olive but theyre the exact opposite red/orange undertones. After 30 years of makeup experiments the most exact shade for the winter version of me is the Vanilla nude Bare with me from Nyx. We are just Lovely Mother Natures jokes , Ill share a post ,maybe on saturday, on my blog on how I create my own very fair olive foundation because theres NONE out there, lets face it , Yes smashbox 1.05 is the palest olive Ive come across . Me too! I tan very easily and when Im tan its not too hard to make a mix of neutral and red brown that will work okay for me. I am Fenty 130 in the cold months and 145 in the summer. I have the added problem of my face and neck being a totally different color than my arms and legs. This might not help much now, but Ive had decent success with UD Naked Skin 1.0. Under the sun, you go brown rather than red. Im about as pale as Loepsie, if not, paler. With blond its harder, even if its cool just dont want to harm my hair in vain. I use CoverGirl Classic Ivory and find that matches me pretty well. 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. Maybelline Super Stay Matte Ink in Seductress a long-wear medium nude. , Also from Croatia and here after watching Audreys video! Pro Tip: Lokwani suggests that if your foundation is too dark, mix a little concealer in it. Like I said, Im super pale and I have a pink flush to my face, so no one has been able to color match me. I have no idea. Navy blue seems to e my newfound go-to color. But I cant wear extremely cool tones, as they look off. I can relate to every one commenting here. Also have pale olive skin. 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. I got a sample of Touch In Sol Advanced Real Moisture foundation (shade natural beige) in an Ipsy bag. Adriana Lima. Ive always been confronted by concerned people because of my vampire complexion. Serena Piper UD cg30 is a beautiful foundation, dont get me wrong, but my 37-year-old skin needs something more luminous and hydrating. For reference NC20 matches my skin well, Thank you! Ive tried NYX Bare With me in Vanilla Nude, and it gives me a slightly too yellow cast, and oxidizes a touch dark, NARS Gobi makes me look kind of bright cool yellow, Koh Gen Doh is too dark. (p.s. Ultimately, its a little my eyes are a muted warm-tone while my lips are a muted cool-tone (and both require strong vs light shading). YESSSS! At some point my skin became this weird greenish color and it was a lot more noticeable when I was a kid. Grey, neutral (not cool, not warm) and medium, accentuates the sallowness of my skin. What is Olive Skin Tone? It's best to go for straight black, shiny and healthy but matte. I even feel like I annoyed the girl at Ulta too because I kept feeling washed out and pink constantly when trying colors! When I go to warm shades it looks like the right depth but too yellow, like slight jaundice. As is the fact that I tan easily in the sun. Find so so many points of matching with me, so I would recommend Merriam Style channel on youtube and her videos about warm olive or cold olive. Warm or cool shades of makeup Ill never know. If the silver looks better on you, youre cool toned. Since there seem to be so many comments on this of fellow oliver skinned people, I wanted to throw one in. guess what, i am ten years older and still confused ;) i went to chanel especially to get advice for a lipstick and always went home with cool colours. In the winter when I get even less sun than usual, it can be a smidge too dark. The same situation here! If its too light or dark, it wont look good. My mothers family is Ashkenazi Jewish and my fathers side is part Scandinavian and part Swiss. My name is also Nora and I had the same struggles ! Any foundation looks either pink or orange on me, or darker, or chalky Given the fact that, despite my (reasonably medium) skin imperfections, I am more comfortable without makeup on than with it on, I just don`t put enough energy and resources to look for a good match foundation. Unfortunately I had to return in because it broke apart on my oily skin. Read on to find a bevy of hair colors that pair beautifully with brown eyes. I am Native American/Irish/Scottish/welsh. There is no foundation for us lol. As a teenager, I always thought I looked greyish/greenish and sickly so I dyed my hair jet black. Ive literally spammed reply comments with this suggestion. I tried wearing lime green and looked jaundiced, which is odd because I can basically wear any shade of yellow, but a yellowish green? I will check the new Kryolan Digital Complexion line of foundation and concealer. Lipsticks come as a struggle too. A tad bit dark for me still but so fair, check it out ;). Try Revlon in buff the best match for me so far and very economical. I also had the exact same struggles with foundation and gold or silver jewelry. I look good in berry blush soft rose lipstick. 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! :). I havent really though this through before, but now it also somehow makes sense that I looked my best skintone-wise when I had a lot of acne and basically had to colour-correct my whole face with green before applying foundation :-D. I found this post while desperately searching for recommendations for foundations for my very awkward skin tone, Im so glad I found this, thankyou! French, Irish, Welsh and English roots. Skin, my face is a little paler than my body, which is where you can see the greenish cast most clearly when Im semi nude! Question: does anyone have trouble wearing greens because it makes you look really green and sickly? Wow everything makes sense now! I have been recommended EX1 (I think thats what theyre called, so I may try a few shades) will let everyone know how I get on I have this page bookmarked . Victoria Justice The stunning star serves up effortless girl-next-door swag like no other. White looks abysmal. My eyebrows are lighter I think HAPPY because I am struggling! I was born with red skin (yes, red), bright red hair and hazel grey eyes. For some reason though, silver jewelry looks great on me, and gold jewelry looks awful. I usually choose foundations with a bit of yellow, I like the ones by Sephora because they say on it if its neureal, or yellow, and I found a great korean BB cream, that I use only in the summer, as its quite dark, but not orange Dr Jart BB cream. but id like to try the ones you suggested. Makeup artist told me today I have light skin with olive undertones googled it found your site. Oh, yes!!! Jane Iredale pressed powder in ivory has been my lifeboat for nearly 10 years!!! Rose gold is the only metal I feel I can really pull off. So glad I googled pale olive undertones on a hunch and found this validation and advice. As you can see, even just highlights bring your hairstyle to a whole other level. I find the combination/oily formula to be more full coverage than the combination/dry. As a teen in the 80s I had my colors done and I was a winter so I carried that little swatch sample around forever. Neutral or red undertones in foundation make me look sick. My mom mentioned in passing that we tend to get darker as we get older in our family. As a teenager, I was literally convinced by my family that it was related to my anemia at the time. I have found the best match is when I buy two of the same foundations in two different shades and mix them togetherI typically lean towards a warmer shade to cancel the green in my undertones out a little I typically lean towards shades with the slightest hint of yellow in them. Thanks for sharing this article! Now that its warmer and my tan is back and darker than previous years, Im at a frustrating trial and error phase of finding the right routine for my specific needs without getting sticker shock from seeing my credit card bill. I think I have a pale olive skin tone. For the first time I feel like I can find something that works. My hair is naturally Dark brown (With a very slight warm tinge) I wish I could send my picture with this message, so you guys can all tell me if Im crazy, or if my undertone really is pale olive. Additionally, foundation shades can always be lightened with a mixer. I come from a mixed but mostly Eastern European background (Irish, German, Romanian and Ukrainian to be exact). I just want to say that I`ve tried EX1 in 001 and 002 and both look very very pink on my skin. Oh, how I wish NARS would bring back that Sheer Glow Ceylan . I have very dark brown hair and dark green eyes. Ive used makeup with warm undertones because they look better on me than cool undertones (that make my face awkwardly pink), but the warm ones are usually too yellow or orange based or too dark. I have no tips, though. I have Eastern European roots as well, dark brown eyes, naturally a level 4 in hair color, my veins appear both blue and green depending upon where you look, and when Im tan-greatbut I live in a place where winter is a primary season, and therefore the moment I lose my summer color (which happens fast and then Im back to pale)-the green comes out. As others said, getting a tan makes life easier but Ilia just released a fair olive foundation serum and its awesome. In the end, the struggle would probably be worth it. Unfortunately it has been discontinued, and in my search for something new, I kept being matched incorrectly by Ulta and Sephora employees. I use the LA Girl green concealer. Haha Ive found my people! Woah! Shameless high end snob here. I have dark brown almost black hair and pull off cool jewel tones the best. I have trouble finding nailpolish that doesnt make my veins stand out more! At 40 I have a few noticeable sun spots on my hand,dcolletage, and face. Ive had the same problem with finding my perfect shade. And black. Hey Lucy, Im off to read all the comments and work out the colours which work for us. Deep purple/violet work, but it cant be too dark. I am so pale and since I have been over 30,being in the sun makes me physically ill and my skin reacts as if I have an allergy-skinscreen or not..on an overcast day with sunscreen I burn. Yaaaas! I know it comes from my heritage, but doesnt help me at all. Perhaps its better to let it go grey but Im just not ready for that yet. Im similar. I always thought my skin was yellow however warm makeup looks too orange on me while cool tones simply dont match any part of my skin. Im mostly French on one side and Swedish, Western European, and Native American on the other (as far as I know). :) I have light olive skin (Native American, French, English, Irish) with so many colors and seasonal variations that Im constantly adjusting my color palette, but I find that I can find a way to work in just about any color. Im German, Spanish, and English descent, and I have this pale olive skin, dark brown hair, and blue eyes. Or nars radiant creamy concealer in custard, I wonder how common this is in Croatia!? . My mom has green eyes), chestnut brown hair with some red and blonde mixed in there. Its driving me nuts not to understand the colorscience behind it (and im a photographer, so i know a thing or two about colors). I see the resemblance in skin though a bit- but I would say Im Medium ashy brown hair, grey-green-blue eyes with small golden dots in it, also some freckles. You should give it a try! It really was a peach/yellow. Im fair neutral-warm olive skinned. 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