Olive Skin Tone Explained plus Warm, Cool and Neutral Undertones
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- čas přidán 7. 10. 2023
- yourcolorstyle.com/blogs/blog... ~ Jen explains the color theory behind olive skin tone, warm undertones and cool undertones. She explains how your skin tone is directly affected by your undertones. Plus, she shares her theory on olive skin tone. Visit the blog post to learn more about the colors that flatter olive skin tone and what colors you may want to avoid.
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Such a complicated topic - both figuring out what's going on in terms of color theory, and how to find colors that flatter olives. I'd love Jen's thoughts on this hypothesis. It seems to me that most color analysts treat undertone as a one-dimensional line -- the yellow-orange-red spectrum -- and look for the exact spot on that line. It's a necessary first step, but they tend to forget the second dimension: blue.
Determining how much blue is present explains why on each point along the horizontal yellow-to-red spectrum there's another "vertical" spectrum of tones. Ranges within each point on the spectrum.
The greater the proportion of blue that's present in someone's skin, the more a person's fundamental yellow/red tone turns greenish or grayish. Which explains why some "olives" lean cool or warm. Those with the least amount of blue are the most clearly yellow, vs orange, vs red. I picture a grid diagram with the yellow-to-red as the X-axis and blue as the Y-axis. Or you could make a wheel with the outer circles the bluest and the innermost bands nearly pure yellow-orange-red.
But finding foundations and flattering clothes for olives is still a mystery. Trial and error.
Olive green skin is easy to explain. I see it on my body everyday and in my family. My undertone is cool, my overtone is warm . My undertone on the lightest parts of my body , like my palms and one wrist have blue veins. But my overtone on the rest of my body has GREEN veins. On my one wrist I can't see it go from blue to green. I do not look yellow, I do not look pink etc ... I do have a green cast. My hair is a dark warm chestnut brown with gold/red highlights in the sun. But my eyes are so dark you can barely see the pupil. I was color analysied twice when younger as autumn. That was when it was 4 seasons. But I never felt that way 100 percent correct. I fit more in deep autumn, but I can pull some from dark winter. I can not use light winter colors, gray and pastels wash my out and makeup too cool make me look bruised. My favorite red lipstick is oxblood aka red brown , brick red or neutral red. I hate blush , none look right to me. My favorite shirt color is a neutral burgundy, neutral wine, or again that oxblood color. Also some dark earthy colors. I hate anything too pink or orange. In my family we have neutral/cool olive green, neutral/warm olive green, and yellow/warm. My one grandpa was a Mediterranean mix of ethnicities. Everything from southern Italian, north African, Jewish, Spanish, middle East etc .... They told my mother I was olive when I was a baby. A lot of us get out skintones from that side. My mother side has cool, and my grandma was a red head , with a warm coloring. Sorry to ramble, but that is what it is to us.
oh those colors are the same as mine. would you share some specific shades of make up that work for you please. If you have a favourite eye shadow palette for example.and that o blood lipstick too, if you please. Also, have you tried some different hair colours ? I recently cut my hair to a pixie and I really want to try burgundy/wine
Depends... Not all olive skins are created equal. I am light olive, leaning cool and I cannot wear gold, muted colors,nor earthy colors. My veins are blue-sh/purple. And in spite of being light, I burn, then tan to a brown-greenish tone. I can not wear yellow, pink based foundations. I can pull of the neutral colors but it still gives me a faint, pinkish cast. I have to mix a green primer or get a light olive foundation in makeup lines that carrie those shades or I have to create my mix. I have cool tone, dark brown hair, blue/grey eyes with amber flecks. I am a Bright/Cool/Deep in color anaylis, ala Bright Winter.
Finally someone who mentions light olive skin! Im a very pale light olive and have been typed as a deep winter but I think I'm a soft winter. I need the depth in colors (that winter pallettes have) but not necessarily the darkness/boldness and coolness they carry. It's like I need medium shades of certain colors to suit me.
Then you should look at our Bright Cool and Medium or Bright cool and light color palettes
Im the 2 or 3rd lighrwst oluve tone you showed, almost a dead match for my very fair skin. Idk where these has come from, as no one in my family is my undertone/overtone. I burn and go back to being pale until a little cokor sticks, then i tan and when i do- its very obvious im olive. Being this fair tho, as i dont like the sun, its much harder to tell. Make sense why ive had to mix my own foundation shades for the last 20 years, when i figured it out at 15. Lol
Awesome jen
You mentioned that olives may find certain colors unflattering on them. As a warm leaning olive I would really like to know more about your take on what colors those are. I often hear that teal and warm blues are supposed to be my colors (true spring) but I find them pretty horrible on me, accentuating the blue in my skin too much making me look dead. Are there other colors that olives may find not to work? I’m guessing it could be different depending on their temperature of course. But in any case I’d love to hear more.
Interesting. I don’t know what tone etc I am, just that I’m part Italian and my dermatologist told me that I’m pale olive. Teal looks bad on me, makes me look yellow. But a peacock blue looks good! Deep coral looks good but not regular orange…hmmm…
I should get a repeat if my pro color analysis, now that I’m 63. I expected my skin to become more yellowish, as my Mom’s did, but instead it’s less yellowish and more pinkish. I don’t think this will change the result altogether, but perhaps give some better guidance on my subtype. I know all my foundation makeup looks wrong now, I need to get a current match.
More examples of a range of olive-undertone skin colors on real women would be helpful, one isn’t enough.
Yes I agree . I am grey now but was brunette . .
It's tough to find examples of olive skin tones in multiple ranges. But, as soon as I find others, I will share.
I had a Color Me Beautiful analysis 40 years ago and the analyst initially really struggled to determine my undertone, it wasn’t in the least obvious as were my sister’s and Mom’s, who were also having their analyses (our sweet Mom treated us to this). Then, when she compared a warm orange-coral and a cool aqua, both soft and light, it was perfectly obvious that I’m more cool-undertoned, than warm. (I think the initial, deep-color or bright drapes were just too strong for me, making both look equally bad on me). Then when she put the equally soft aqua (pale turquoise) drape on me, everyone (friends were present) said Ah or Wow! They said it looked like I had put the perfect makeup on! I still think I’m fairly close to neutral, I can wear some Soft Autumn colors, if not the yellowish ones, well enough. I just avoid yellows and oranges and those yellowish, camel, beige hues. This analysis was very helpful to me over the decades, but I did end up dropping grays, which made me look drab, I felt, and purples, which are too difficult to style. I think I have a slightly olive undertone, but it’s not very strong, my dominant characteristics are Soft (especially), Cool and Light. This palette gives me wonderful choices, including the soft whites, taupes and cool pastels I love. I always feel I look my best in these, but do wear some Soft Autumn khaki greens because it’s such a great, versatile, nearly neutral wardrobe color. I just add makeup, which I don’t wear daily, to counteract any greenish shadows.
I still chuckle when I remember my little sister having her colors done and her telling the stylist, "I look green!!"