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. Im super pale but I can tan a little. Youre the best! Some soft pink, and one particular deep coloured camel can be good if I have a bit of a tan. I am very similar to you. I apply it very lightly as my foundation with a sponge and it does not look cakey. I have green, blue & purple veins in my inner wrists, so was always confused as well. 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. I have dark hair and eyes. Im 38 years old. Highly highly recommend. I have Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, German, French, and Belgium backgrounds. I am so glad to come across this website. Mom mom and brother and pink toned with yellow blonde hair and sky blue eyes. I come from a mixed but mostly Eastern European background (Irish, German, Romanian and Ukrainian to be exact). :)) I looked that shade up and it will definitely be waaaayyy too dark for me. The main thing that stood out was that near other people who are also pale without suntans (I tan quite dark and quite olive) I am green. pastels. Thank you both and all!! I have freckles and thin skin and it often has a red flush over the green tint, so makeup artists always try to match to the redness and I end up looking orange/pink. Black, white, and cream depend on how tan my skin is. Check out Merriam Style on YT. Its very hard to find the right shade for my pale winter skintone. Jewel tones (cool). Since I am yet to find a foundation with a similar tone in a darker shade, I hit it with a little more bronzer to get that nice summer glow. I cant wait to go check out some of the ones listed here!! I am 55 and just figured out I have light olive skin tone. NARS sheer glow in the color GOBI But for so long I felt like Im just weird cause my type just didnt exist in any makeup advice. Finally other people to relate! Ive used the MUFE mixer for years and it makes virtually every yellow-toned foundation wearable. Colorstay in Buff has been the only foundation shade I always went back to when I needed a safe, notmixing-a-ton-of-shades look. I also, went down another rabbit hole and wanted to know the color season. Everything that is too bright like neon colours is just as awful. 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. I feel like deep army green works well, but my mother insists it looks terrible on me, but she also just hates the colour and maybe shes biased? Examples of Black Irish Celebrities and Public Figures Enya, Paul Ryan, Lara Flynn Boyle, Peter Gallagher, Rob James Collier, and Jennifer Connelly all have Irish ancestry, and all four of them would be called black Irish in the colloquial sense. I was born with red skin (yes, red), bright red hair and hazel grey eyes. Hi girls! I tried wearing lime green and looked jaundiced, which is odd because I can basically wear any shade of yellow, but a yellowish green? We understand your struggle and completely empathize! I ve been reading your blog, and reasearching my skin undertone for ages. Ive had the same problem with finding my perfect shade. Gosh! As a toddler my hair was the color of a new penny. Im half middle eastern and also have lighter skin with olive undertones like most people here. Anyway, I scanned the comments and I didnt find anyone with this coloring. Im trying to find my and i think we are probably the same. Wear the shade on long hair for a graceful, elegant addition of color and add in soft waves for subtle texture. Im quite on the pale side of the olive force too, or at least this is what it looks like as the most ghostly italian you can find in the Bel Paese. Short Hairstyles for Fine Hair Gobi is a tad darker but works. The mix of light and medium blonde hair color here as an ombre is a beautiful soft transition of color perfect for ladies with an olive skin tone and brown eyes. even, but when Im Matt Rez is a celebrity colorist from Mche Salon in Beverly Hills, CA and is a Redken Color Ambassador. I also tend to be more cool, but I wear best a washed out black, broken (warm) white, all sorts of dark greens, nightblue, bordeaux red, saturated dark purple, neutral red, orange, light brown, jeans, ? I am Native American, but a tribe thats genetically much more closely related to Israelis than other Native American tribes (Chahta, if anyone is interested) and also English. I had no idea green undertones were a thing, but after years of poorly matched foundation, it all makes sense. Hows that for a bag of Skittles?! Ive found that kettlewell colours classed me as a deep winter and they are spot on. 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! This exact thing always happens to me! 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. 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 finallyget facials if you can. Fellow cosmetologist here! 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. Actually though, there are colour systems and palettes that recognize neutral skin tone, and they suggest pick from any of the polarized palettes, wear whatever you feel good in same with makeup colours. I have very cool blue eyes, but medium brown hair that looks auburn under some types of lighting (and direct sunlight), and ashy in other lighting. Pale skin, brown hair, hazel eyes. Try ash shades like ash blonde or ash brown. I also like her aesthetic. 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 would love to wear linen or white colors in summer, but I just look odd! I found it years ago and was so helpful, very eye-opening! :) I always knew I was olive (dalmatia genes) because my mom was very pink next to me and I knew that this is the issue with trying to find good foundation, I neved found perfect match. The colors I absolutely avoid are pink, beige and orange. I was thinking of getting a professional color analyses, I found someone in my town who seems really good at it, having a big range of categories etc I can share my results with you, if you wish life changing article THANKS! is too cool. ) A little goes a long way!! Im a fair olive too, 38, white medium brown hair and grey eyes. But also golden? I swear Ive never seen anybody with green undertones like me except one of my cousins. When I first put it on I was like but after blending it in? Most make up artists dont understand this skin tone and will either make you orange or ghastly white. So nice to see Im not the only one to have struggled with this! To help bring out my eyes and balance the tone. My eyes are brown cool patron (you can find the explanation in youtube; isnt as simple as blue is cool and green is warm there are both warm browns and cool browns), my hair is somehow dark, ashy brown, I can pull silver and gold jewelry but I look my best in rose gold. As is the fact that I tan easily in the sun. This made my day. Not too dark like the Mediterranean type olive colour, but a light Slav tone. With all the foundation thats out there it shouldnt be this difficult. Both are great for my dry, sensitive, 46 year-old skin. Ahh same here. Valentina uma adolescente estudante de medicina , vive com seu padrasto drogado aps a morte da sua me , de um dia para o outro sua vida vai mudar e por completo Qualquer adaptao e pedidos para reescrever a histria ser negada, vamos ter nossa prpria criatividade sem precisar usar a dos outros Histria de autoria minha, caso encontre ela em outra plataforma ou em outro perfil . 4. Hair color has always been my biggest problem. Black (Cool) Jewel color clothing is awesome I can wear both bright white & a champagne taupe blouse but avoid both when its in the dead of winter. They also sell the matching concealer, which was another struggle If youre still struggling with the right shade, give it a try. Unfortunately I need to wear foundation. Since I stay out of the sun these days that doesnt really matter. and as a child being called an alien or a witch due to my green/grey skin tone !, for 2 weeks now I havent looked jaundiced, sickly, anaemic or frail so a massive thanks to Loepsie and all you fabulous greenies on here xxx psst. Its interesting because th descriptions say yellow undertones ??? I have similar coloring to you. I was a R/O Prescriptives and the color was Fresh Vellum. Ive shown this by holding something yellow up to it and orange. What hair colors suit them best? =( The best Ive found for you our skin tone, is Este Lauder and Dior. Like Mila Kunis, my background is Ashkenazi. Seems like theyre really advanced on everything more esthetic and skin healthcare. I never knew why I had such a hard time until someone pointed it out when we were standing in a group at work. I am not sure if Im a light olive, warm, or neutral. You are my skin twin. I have struggled to find any foundation that works, and I am not a makeup guru so I cant remember the brand. I can relate to every one commenting here. Omg yes! My face always stays pale though and gets sun freckles if Im not careful. Needless to say, I stocked up! Im Croatian too and Ive always had such a hard time with my skin tone! oh, and i`m of eastern european descent too, from one side. Glad to know Im not the only one lol. People at sephora and ulta always try to give me the wrong color. The closest I came was Bare Minerals Original powder in Fair c10. Almost an eggplant tone. The best fair/light olive foundations Ive found are: Your smile is very bright as well! It generally refers to light or moderate tan skin, and it is often described as having yellow, green, or golden undertones.. People with olive skin can sometimes become paler if their sun exposure is limited. Unlike most Estonians, I have dark brown eyes and dark brown hair. I have the same problem Thank you so much for this! With blond its harder, even if its cool just dont want to harm my hair in vain. The result is gorgeous and doesnt clash with my olive skin while still canceling out some of the sallow tone. Adriana Lima. I am soooo happy I found your page! Ugh. Any other colour does not work, which is sad because I always loved big pink cheeks. The undertone in both is amazing though, just the perfect amount of green plus both are quite muted (Im cool, green&yellow and muted). Can someone please help? But it blended in perfectly! Will look up what you recommended! Could it REALLY be that less common, or are there just a lot of us out there settling for the wrong foundation tones without realizing it? If theyre purple or blue, youre cool toned. I compared it to your picture above and I was a little surprised when the two photos almost exactly match. Any fellow pale olive ladies out there who would like to share some tips? I would be grateful!!! I use MAC NC20 on my fave and dab a bit on the eyelids and above to my eyebrows to neutralize. (Others I tried, just made me look horrifically orange). Cant wait so hope that it will help. I have yet to find one foundation that I dont have to mix or play around with. What Ive found is that for clothes, clear colors are always a good bet. I wish I could wear more bold and experimental colors, but, though limited, at least Im now confident about what looks good (re: not alien-level abnormal). Its been a struggle, especially because I have genetic dark circles so covering them is a nightmare. I have noticed that peach blush makes me look healthy and I get heaps of compliments when I wear it. Pro Tip: Lokwani suggests that if your foundation is too dark, mix a little concealer in it. Yet, I also tend to have a hard time looking for the ideal shade of liquid foundation makeup without it looking too pinky, muddy, orange or yellow and masky. For makeup foundation is tricky, I go without these days and I wear RCMA when I go out. Its a bit of a pain mixing so will definitely try the ex1 range as I notice they do a loose mineral too. If I need one, just the most neutral, light / fair beige, and the rest is to be simply ignored. 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 always look like a mis-matched patchwork quilt lol. Keep the tips coming, its so good to have all of you here sharing your experiences! Wow love that post! 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