What colors look good on Olive Skin Tone?
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Contrast is everything for olive skin!
I totally agree with the point on darker or just richer colours flattering pale olive skin. I have fair olive skin and now recognise that saturation of the tone is often more of a consideration than temperature. A marl grey looks 🤮but a solid slate grey looks 😍. Also I can take a lot more contrast than my colouring would probably suggest.
Opposite for me! I'd say I'm a medium olive (maybe 😅) , but I look great in marl grey (or at least I think I do)
I’m cool & dominantly yellow- I can do green but nothing yellowish at all .. I do find green brings out some green in my neck and chest, but it doesn’t seem to be in my face so that ok 😊
Purples and magentas are some of my best tho
I think I'm a more cool-toned olive, and I look my absolute best in deep colors. I can wear medium depth bright red and purple if I really have to, but I don't look or feel my best because they easily overpower me-but at the same time, soft/muted colors and all pastels look absolutely dreadful on me! Conversely, I can wear basically any colors as long as I choose the shades making up the outer-most 2 slots of both color wheels, even several greens. My absolute worst colors are muted medium-light yellow greens, yellows, and yellow-oranges. Based on draping, my best colors are very dark jewel tones, especially deep plum purple and dark pine green. I normally type as Deep Winter due to my contrast, but my skintone itself seems to be extremely desaturated of all recognizable undertones. I'm a light grey-green before tanning and a pure grey-beige/brown after tanning. This desaturation appears to be a common problem with olives, and it can really make buying foundation a pain in the bottom!
Also, I can wear gold or silver without any noticeable clashing, but I really look stunning in dark metals in shades like black, pewter, gunmetal, or very dark brown copper. I also really like how I look in certain shades of rose gold, but many seem too warm or orangey on me so I have to try it on in person before buying. A lot of olives seem to not fit well in any specific season. I've noticed other olives seem to do well with the deep colors too, but I'm not sure why that is.
I found your comment to be very insightful. I think I have comparable results with all the colors you mentioned. I was draped and typed as a Deep Winter after thinking I was a Deep Autumn for years. I started wearing black again but I find that it brings out the yellow in my skin. Maybe I am just wearing the wrong kind of black?
Thank you so much. I agree with almost everything except for the pumpkin orange and light pink for the cool olive (she looks too gray with those).
White and beige looks great on olive skin also.
Okei, now watching this video I finally understand why blues have always been my best colors to wear. Blue neutralizes my skin and makes it look brighter and healthier. My skin is mixed green and golden yellow.
This explains why I've been so confused about whether I'm warm or cool. I'm a blue-eyed medium with light brown hair, kind of mousey but with some reddish/golden tones to it in the right light. My family have always said my skin is yellowish and I look awful in yellow. Greens aren't great either but orange/peach are good despite my other cooler features.
Ty ☺️
I have been wearing dusty rose colors. Now I know why I still look blah in them.
I am an ultra fair cool olive. I look horrible in orange, lol. I can only wear cooler reds too. I tend to find myself wearing black and just settling there because I feel like most colors look terrible on me 😕😊
Burgundy is 1 of the best for my medium cool yellow skin.😮😊
Thank you soooo much for this video! I had to watch it several times to truly understand, but I applied some of your theories to my particular skin tone of olive and it was correct. So grateful for your info
You are so welcome!
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south east asian, light medium olive, medium olive when tanned. i look horrible in coral makeup and clothes. olive also makes me look very green haha.
Great video. I hope all new members watch this one.
Thank you for explaining all this. I have olive skin which looks a bit golden or warm. My eyes are brown, but up close. They are green with red flecks. It’s always been perplexing because I look terrible in warm colors, and my best colors are electric blue and deep, bright purples. If I wear make up with warmth in it I look like a clown. It’s all been terribly confusing. I also look a bit off in muted colors, which you explained. It makes so much sense that my best colors would be opposite the color wheel from olive.
I am never sure if I have a cool or warm olive skin tone. I think it's warm though. I have always preferred deep or bright colors. I can't wear anything pastel.
It's so hard to find clothes in flattering colors. Even when I just want a plain T-shirt, there might be a bright pink, navy blue and a warm, deep brown that I can wear out of 20 different colors!
I do wear black and have found that as long as I wear a deep and highly pigmented lipstick I can get away with it. A bright scarf or even a gold necklace works too.
I'm a pale, cool olive. I've been typed as a 'soft summer' in 12 season.
I have a predominantly yellow overtone and a green/grey undertone (sounds lovely 😂) with blue eyes and ashy hair.
I absolutely cannot touch anything in the yellow or orange family.
Green is actually good as long as its not super yellow.
I wear a lot of soft pinks, blues and greens and brighter blues and greens. Darker greys are pretty good as well.
I think my softness overrides the oliveness because I would say bright magenta and purples look terrible on me.
When i wear dark clear purple i look really green though so not all purples is great for olive skin if you don't want to enhance the olive skin tone, softer purples and some purples works on me though.
I feel that I have an olive skin tone, but have gray-green-blue eyes. I never see olive tone samples with my color of eyes. Why might that be?
No reason except that I simply don't have a lot of photos to work with.
My eyes are this color although the older I get the less the green shows. My eyes have darkened so much that my eyes sometimes look brown in pictures but they’re gray blue with a central yellowness. Everything else Jen described is me to a T.
Great video! Could you maybe explain why an olive toned person should rather not wear colours that are similar to their skin tone because it clashes, however cool toned people may look awesome in pinks and warm toned people in oranges? I do see that this is what flatters the different undertones the best, but I am really confused about it. Is it because pale green skin can make one look sick while pink or peachy skin is considered the most healthy, so you do want to boost the pink and peachy but not the green?
I think it's because olive skin is cool and wearing warm green clashes with the cool skin tone. I have olive/yellow cool skin and can firsthand say that if I wear olive green I look sickly.
I've been thinking about this as well and to me that's an indicator for olive not being an undertone but being either cool undertoned and having a yellow overtone that creates the olivesness in combination.
Or olives being warm undertoned and having cooler overtones.
Since color analysis is all about creating harmony with the undertones and the overtones can be ignored, so if the undertone were olive I think we would all look best in olive.
@@Dani-lc9hq hmm that last paragraph is a really good point, it should technically be like that. But I feel like I can't really ignore my overtones and just go with what would match the undertones. Maybe this is a sign that olive skin really does need their own category of undertones and seasons
@@eeevie_ yeah, completely ignoring wasn't quite the right word probably because I think it does put us a bit inbetween warm and cool seasons, so I think olives may always be between two seasons. This could be soft summer/soft autumn, bright winter/bright spring, light summer/light spring, deep winter/deep autumn.
I feel like we're never gonna fit fully into one category as well as other ppl do, a few colors may be off, those we could take from the sister season instead.
At least this is the understanding I've come to so far.
It would be great if someone were to analyze the whole spectrum of olives, so far it seems most people only base their understanding on their own olive skin type, yet there are so many variations possible.
@@Dani-lc9hq yeah I feel the same about not fitting neatly into one category as well as non-olive people.
That would be great, yeah! It's so confusing collecting bits and pieces here and there on colour analysis for olive skin tones when the creators of all these articles and videos have a variety of wildly different opinions
Hi Jen, Good video! I have even golder skin than your warm olive model. I also love the persimmon and soft orangey tones on my skin. I can wear olive green if its not overly warm or bright, but it has to be deep. I agree, yellow tones are not my best. But, i love wearing cream tones and golden beiges. Personally, I can't wear anything too bright, and I look horrible in magenta. Im pretty sure I would be SWD , but able to go brighter in some colors . Is it just me and my preferences, or is it a little more tricky being a warm olive? Because, it seems almost contradictory. Is it my undetone or my skintone that makes me appear warmish ? Im definitely olive, but if I had cool undertones , I wouldn't look terrible in bluish pinks/purples...Right ?
you sound like you basically have warm undertones. Maybe soft warm and deep. Everything you describe doesn't really fit a person that is more green and yellow. You sound golden. Warm undertones. Even if you describe yourself as olive, I would go with soft warm and deep.
TY for the fascinating color discussions that you post here. I love color. I love to paint. I'm very visual and studying colors is a passion of mine. I have, for 2 days now, pulled out my whole closet of clothes and have been trying on each item in a well lighted area in daylight with a white background and taking a selfie with each clothing item. EXHAUSTING! I still have no idea what my skin tones are but I have learned a lot from this exercise. All I do know is that I am muted. Nothing is bright on me. I have learned that according to my selfies, black makes me look sick, black under the eyes. Navy blue makes the muted blue and yellow in my eyes pop and even out my skin tone a lot. Reds, pinks and purples make my face look red splotchy...my nose looks red...lol. Muted orange looks good on me. Cream yellows and cream whites make my skin look wonderful. All other yellows over whelm me and I look like turmeric. Browns, as long as they have a little warmth in them and are muted or dark, make my skin glow. Lighter grays are okay on me. It tones down any redness or excessive yellow, I'm almost pale in grays. But I think I could like that look. I like dark warm grays. So now I have two garbage bags full of clothes that I need to get rid of.
I could have wrote this myself. Did you determine you are olive?
I don't think that I am. I think that I'm a peachy warm. I bought a peach colored T shirt and compared it on me with a pink shirt of the same intensity and the peach looked fabulous on me I could almost be neutral. In winter I get pretty pale with yellow under tones and in summer, in the sun I get brown without burning. But I really don't see a green hue in my coloring at all. My maternal grandmother was olive skinned with olive eyes and she passed that trait on to her sons, but my mom, she took after he father, who was warm skinned and blue eyed. My mom got the hazel green eyes with warm tones. LOL!! Genetics are so interesting. Do you look good draped in peach? @@sarahwitkowski1211
I started searching olive skin again on the internet and I came across this article that was very interesting. It is possible according to this, that I could be a type of olive. Look at this site and tell me what you think. I can wear certain colors from all color tones listed here. So am I a Natural Olive tone as they suggest? @@sarahwitkowski1211
How does this color theory apply to neutral olives?
This makes sense to me. My skin is light olive and cool and muted colors are the worst for me and this is confusing since I'm a dark blond and so am not sure if I have enough contrast to be in the bright winter category but it seems to work best for me.
I've always intuitively stayed away from yellows.
My mum is olive too and has both darker hair and skin than me but the light summer, pallet suits her the best, it's so clear to see that her dominant feature is lightness despite her darker skin, so weird, it's like we're switched. 😅
I don't think you can classify olives by their outside features, hair, etc.
I have light olive skin, but my face has redness. Since red neutralizes green, my face ends up looking brown/darker than my hands. What can I do to brighten and lighten my face to match my hands and body ?
Just use green color color corrector on my face ?
I can’t figure out it I am cool olive or warm ? I am bright leaning and look horrible in grayish/dusty/muddy colors. I don’t look good in nude or lighter browns/oranges. Khaki green is one of my worst colors. In fact warm dark green isn’t my thing.
You probably have to neutralize the red before you can figure anything out. I'd look into green color correctors first. Because I'm super fair, the one that works for me is the LA Colors in mint, it's also on the cool side
I heard if you got redness you may be leaning cool
As a medium olive, I mix in a color correcting base to my foundation. I never go by my face bcuz I have skin conditions that make my face red, but I have warm toned skin. I match to my neck/ body. I also use azalaic acid to help w my redness long term. Hope that helps
I disagree, i look great in olive green and terrible in bright red, I right away look green, I try to avoid wearing that color it looks pretty bad on me, but a darker wine red looks awesome
Jen, if u see this could u explain why im pretty certain im cool olive with my medium yellowness in my skin but i also have a nice pink that comes through on my face, cheeks, um, and pinks and berries look really good in make up. Can olive skin have pink coming through ? For some reason i dont think im just a cool skinned person. I luv the way u explain everything. Its way different then trying to fit yourself in a season. Thank u😊
You just described me. I can become completely sallow and have zero red coloring if I don’t eat dairy, eggs, or gluten. So I always have redness in my face. 😕
I'm pale olive I can do most greens no yellows and the more yellow the green is the worse it looks on me
Or bleach your hair golden yellow blond😅