Olive Skin Tone - Color Analysis Q&A
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- čas přidán 14. 11. 2020
- YourColorStyle.com ~ Jen answers a question submitted to her through her Ask Jen page. She has olive skin tone with deep hair and eyes.
"Hi Jen!
I'm Barbara, from Brasil, and I am a big fan of your "Your Color Style" and CZcams channel.
I've been trying for a while to guess my best colors. I think I'm a bright, but I can't even tell if I'm a cool or warm one... Could you help with my question, I'm confused...
Thanks!
ALL the best and blessed be!
Barbara
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Ty. More olive skin tones please, especially fair/pale
@Benziar Fadel ty
My veins look more green.very little blue/purple sometimes.my neck is more yellow/green and I have medium skin.so iam not sure if I am warm olive or neutral.Iam having a very hard time picking foundations.most of them which i swatch on back of arm looks ok, but when i put on face it appears lighter or grey.can you help me
@Benziar Fadel i am not on insta
And deep dark
Also medium-deep olive skin tones, I do not see much olive skin tone videos that look like mine.
I'm Asian with light and olive skin and Im always confused why I look great in very deep lipstick while I think I'm a bright person. You just solved my confusion!
Thank you this was so helpful.
More olive skin colour analysis please 🙏
You are very welcome!
it's insane how white and black let me truly notice her eyes! they just sparkled!
Thanks 🙏 I think she looks much better in soft cool deep than bright. More harmonious on her colouring.
I really agree, the bright colors looked extremely harsh to me. Her skin is visually soft in texture, and olives generally have a lot of trouble pulling off bright colors. The vivid orange and red both clashed and overpowered her to my eyes.
A lot of us Brazilians are olive skin. It's so hard 😕
The only green I can wear is a dark almost pine green. All other greens make me look sickly GREEN. I’m wondering if there’s something me maybe being lighter olive. Hmm.
Great video, really helpful.
Me, too! Very fair, but green makes me look green!
I'm an ultra fair neutral-ish olive (with some peach tones in my face) and one of my best colors is seafoam green, but pine green usually overpowers me. It's funny how different olives can be! Why are we so complicated!?
I'm very fair/pale olive and I can wear emerald green and deeper green (both cooler bottle/pine green and olive) easily, as well as an ocean green. Olive skinned people who look less green than the woman in the video can often wear quite a few shades of green and look fabulous, but I am uncertain if this has any connection with being lighter olive. In general, what I have noticed about olive skinned people is that jewel tones look amazing and that if colours become too bright (both warm and cool) they tend to be a bit overpowering - in my opinion, the bright green the woman in the video is draped in is just too bright for someone with olive skin. Neons, very bright colours, wishy-washy colours, and pastels are not very flattering on people with olive skin regardless of how fair/dark the skin tone is (in my experience).
You could try "gem tones" or "peacock" tones. They usually look lovely on everyone and if you struggle with greens, those tones might help you :)
The olives that are too light and too warm (yellow based) do the same thing with my skin color. Especially during summer when I have a tan with that grayish greenish tint present. Green has to have a lot of black added to it for me to not have the green look.
I really really loved your video. I am also brazilian and my colors are just like Barbara’s. By the way it is a common coloring in the southeast of Brazil. We are NOT golden, many of us are olive and that is a real struggle with an industry that insists that since we are of latin descent we must have golden skin. I am happy to say that my last question about myself ( soft or bright) was answered: I too can pull graphic white and black. You also corroborated my opinion that I look great in orange, but not in yellow, warm or muddy tones. It always puzzled me. Thank you a lot, it is very nice to see someone to look like me being analyzed. 🙏🏻
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Great advice on orange! I see people like this woman from time to time wearing bright orange and looking great. In the past, my knowledge of other color systems has made me wonder how it could be that orange is working on bright, cool, and deep. I will say, though, that I didn't mind the green so much. I would recommend a very bright true green, however, perhaps an emerald green. Green reminds me of Benetton, and I think Benetton used to use bright, cool, and deep folks in their ads a lot, did they not?
Super helpful, this is one of the best quick wraps on olive skin I’ve ever seen! Thank you!
This was soooooo helpful thank you so much for making an olive skin video
Adorei, Barbara. Você fica fantástica com cores frias.
This was so interesting, thanks! I have medium olive skin with that very slight green undertone, not as obvious as the lady in the video, but I get many compliments when I wear emerald green or even dark green. I think maybe it suits olive skin better if the green is a true green, with less yellow in (more blue toned green). I find it all very confusing at times, because I like orange or dark brick lipsticks, but can also wear deep cranberry. I struggle mostly with foundation make up, more than clothes. I often add green colouring into face foundation to correct it as they are all too peach, orange, too yellow or too pink usually.
@Benziar Fadel Thank you so much for your very informative reply! I actually look slightly less warm/less orange than in the photo but if I consider your comments I would say I am a neutral olive leaning slightly warm/golden. I can also wear soft sage greens, they bring out the warmth in my skin and even khaki looks good as well as the stronger greens we spoke of earlier. I so appreciate the trouble you took to give me such a detailed reply, as I have learned from it and now understand that neutral warms are better on me than true warms. Red looks good on me too, but exactly as you say, if I have a very bright red it is just too much and can be garish, whereas when it is a neutral red it looks much better on me. I will most certainly keep your advice in mind going forward, thanks again for your helpful advice!
@Benziar Fadel Thank you again, your perspective really made me think and I would say I have learned more from your comments than many videos or articles I have read about what would suit me. It never occurred to me that because I have black brows and equally dark eyes and strong bone structure, is why I can carry off dramatic dark colors even in make up. Many years ago I was analysed by someone who used to do 'color me beautiful' who said I was a Winter who could also wear one or two of the deeper autumn colors. I'm still not sure if that was fully accurate, as she also said I should not wear gold and only wear silver, but I like both! I must thank you once more, you have taught me so much! In case you are interested, there is a You Tube channel called Aly Art and she does very interesting videos about face shapes, body types etc.
My colors are almost identical to the lady’s in the video but I look really good in green. Secret I believe is, like you say, stay away from yellowish greens. I believe the green she tried on the video was the wrong one I wouldn’t ever wear that but emerald looks perfect.
Nah if you're cooler olive then emeralds green is better. Emerald works on me but olive green is better, since I'm warm olive
@@nm9688 hi! I don’t know if you were addressing me ( the feed is getting long). I look better in emerald than olive. Olive looks good but emerald is my best color by far, along back and white. That is why I believe I am cool but there is always this olive skin doubt...
I'm cool, muted, deep and olive and I used to think that I can pull off just about any green except pastel greens, but what you said is so true. I now realize that some cool greens can make me look more green. Greens that I like and look good on me are emerald and generally blue greens.
ty please more olive skin tone
Thank you Jen for answering my question! It was so helpful! Thank you so much! 🤩😊
Bárbara what about blush? Do you wear it? It is impossible for me to find the right shade.
Delícia ver uma brasileira parecida comigo nestes vídeos, é a primeira vez, parabéns brasil 🇧🇷
@@patrician3821 difícil mesmo...
Adorei sua aparição aqui 😍😍😍
I'm also brazilian and also olive skin tone
I'm sort of a fair neutral asian too. But my outer face is warm slightly olive, but my inner face and cheeks are cool and pinkish. My neck is olive while my shoulders or the thinner parts of my skin are pinkish cool. I assume I'm summer pale but with fair share of some colors from spring pale! Muted ashy colors are no no for me and bolder colors look "floating".
Excellent video. You could (and should) give Merriam Style a lesson on color analysis! I love the way you overlaid the different colors on the exact same image yet you can clearly see what appears to be a brightening or dulling of the complexion. I wonder what kind of light she used in the image? It looks like daylight but so diffused and shadowless. I can't seem to find that kind of light in my house. I was really confused about the orange because I'm a bright winter who wears orange but have always believed I'm supposed to steer clear of it. It's not my best color but it's certainly wearable for me as long as it's true orange not brick or rusty.
The indigo looks good on her but I found the red to make her appear more yellow.
Amazing vídeo
Thank you!
Thank you. I have very light olive skin tones. I had nearly black hair and deep hazel eyes. I have since grown out the gray. It is, unsurprisingly, salt and pepper. When I look in the mirror now, I see very cool silver hair, but my skin tone looks more yellow. This is confusing. I know I lean cool, and now I need to go a bit lighter with color next to my face but I’m still a bit unsure where to go. I was a Dark Winter.
That's right and great as always :) I can confirm. She is a Deep bright and Cool. I am also in this category and know why she struggles with warm or cool . Especially the skin and also the eyes are as stated the problem. If you just look at natural hair color you will far easily realize in which category (cool or warm) you more tend to lean...I know I can wear some warm colors and believe it or not a clear orange is okay. A muddy orange not so much. Olive green and Pine Green is okay. Really saturated warm spring green...not so much. Gray and light pastel colors especially I hated the most in the past, now I know why... in the 12 seasonal system, I would have been called a deep winter. Though I gravitated more towards Deep Autumn (here this would be something like Soft Warm and Deep or Bright warm Deep) But since I have had color analysis training and am a color analyst. I know better. :)
În my case is very difficult ...my picture here is not relevant at all...The filters are making me red...I cannot find a tone...I am pale greenish vains greenish yellowish eyes and I am struggling finding my undertone .... I need a blonde hair ....verry hard to find
I’m extremely pale and just discovered olive undertone. I would love to see an example of that
The 🎃 lip would look crazy beautiful on her but definitely not paired with a yellow cloth but a blue. It actually created the instant optical illusion that she was wearing a beautiful matching eyeshadow🧡...
I think I'm warm olive.... shopping is so hard for me.
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I’m not loving her in the bright pure orange. I see what you’re saying though, because bright cool deep women in your other videos look stunning in this clear medium true orange. I think the difference is that the other women have deeper skintones than this woman does. I wasn’t even crazy about her in the white but black looked fantastic on her. I still get confused with the difference between high contrast and high depth. I know you keyed her depth off her hair and eyes but she seemed more high contrast than high depth due to the lightness of her skin.
I was classified as a Summer when I was younger but now I’m going grayer, I get compliments when I wear black & white, it matches my salt & pepper hair. I don’t know if a person can go from low contrast to high contrast but it looks like that has happened to me.
And what about browns for her?
Hi Jen, new subscriber. So would the deep from her bright cool and deep translate to deeper or darker than medium tone foundation? I ask because I've got similar skin to your model and have always used a medium neutral type of foundation but in summer I should perhaps be looking at the darker shades? Thanks for video!
I was confused about the orange, cause I think it looks good also. Thanks for this video!
3:15 why do I think the left one is much better 😅😅
I'm fair with gray green eyes & my skin is vary fair olive and neutral... This seems to be the case always Everytime I test my skin color with Foundation... Would this apply to me!?
I've had ppl all my life tell me green looks good on me ...is it bcuz my skin is fair neutral olive?
2:15 Wait I thought she looked better with the soft and purple color and the bright color was distracting on her ....
5:16 Also I think she looks sallow in that orange ......
I didn't like the orange on her.
@Benziar Fadel I heard you cant be a cool undertone if you have yellow overtones ......
@Benziar Fadel Very dark skinned people and albinos have yellow overtones too?
@@Iden_Elihio_1999 Let me guess, you heard this from Merriam Style?
@@Iden_Elihio_1999 I would think Albinos are the exception but I'm no expert.
I honestly think she’s muted.
She definitely was
Can I send you a picture and you tell me what tone Iam ?
All Orangetones are warm. Not cool. 🤦
Olive does not mean dark. Do light olive.
That's a TERRIBLE photo of her to be using. I really doubt she looks that grey in real life.
She’s olive undertone. She likely does look that grey with indoor lighting.