OLIVE SKIN - What Is It, Best Makeup Colors, Common Myths (IT'S NEVER WARM) & More
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Today's video is all about olive skin and what I've learned and figured out having olive skin myself. I share what olive skin is, some common olive skin myths (for example, it can't be warm and all olive skin is cool), how to know if you have it, some celebrities with olive skin and my top makeup and clothing tips for olive skin. Also, in order to determine your own coloring and your true undertone and overtone, you must analyze your skin in natural daylight (indoor light always pulls warm) and you must cover your hair and torso in pure white. The color of our hair, especially if it's been dyed can drastically alter what colors look good on us. Thank you so much for watching xx Audrey
OLIVE CELEBRITIES
Light:
Audrey Tatou
Julianne Moore - subtly olive in her chest and under her chin
Coco Rocha
Sonoya Mizuno
Mila Kunis
Lily Allen
Mariacarla Boscano
Constance Wu
Cameron Diaz (I've heard people consider her olive and I think she even considers herself olive as well - you can see it in different lighting over the years as she's been lighter and darker)
Sarah Silverman
Medium:
Sandra Oh
Nina Dobrev
Michelle Yeoh
Demi Moore
Gemma Chan
Salma Hayak
Penelope Cruz
Paz Vega
Eva Mendez
Meghan Markle
Morena Baccarin
Zoe Kravitz
Oona Chaplin
Mariska Hargitay
Padma Lakshmi
Ruth Begga
Freida Pinto
Michelle Rodriguez
Alessandra Ambrosio
Gal Gadot
I also want to make a special note of actor Henry Golding. At first glance many people cast him as warm but he's actually olive and in Crazy Rich Asians they dress him exclusively in cool colors which make him look luxe and sophisticated, which suits his character perfectly. In the movie The Gentlemen though his character is less refined so they dress him exclusively in warm colors which we subconsciously read as off - lending to the viewer's mistrust of his character. So cool and really helpful to understand when trying to find your own color palette and the message you want to convey :)
Dark:
Thandie Newton
Zoe Saldana
Rihanna
MY PERFECT FOUNDATION MATCHES FOR MY LIGHT-MEDIUM OLIVE UNDERTONE
NOTE: Due to a lack of widespread knowledge surrounding olive skin, most olive foundations are labeled as warm, golden or even sand but they aren't actually warm and true warm foundations formulated for people with warm undertones are made with peach or orange whereas olive foundations are an even balance of yellow, green and blue and usually appear very green and sometimes even grey. You can see the difference in my side by side swatches in the video.
Koh Gen Do Aqua Foundation in 213 (exact color match to my skin and one of the only true olive foundations I've ever found) bit.ly/2JW0sg4
Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Foundation in 6 when I'm darker and mixed with 4 when I'm paler bit.ly/2xmXzSX
Years ago I used to wear Bobbi Brown foundation in Sand or Warm Sand I can't remember the exact one (it oxidized a little too yellow in the summer but was otherwise a very good match) bit.ly/39XSQUU
I haven't personally tried it, but I've also heard amazing things about Orcé Cosmetics bit.ly/3a0Az9o
I've also heard that Charlotte Tilburry offers some good olive undertones bit.ly/2xjaOE9
And also the new Dior foundation (Face and Body) bit.ly/3ediTLl
And the Fenty Pro Filt'r Foundation bit.ly/39Yuz15 - when I swatched these they were too yellow for my skin
In the past, I've mixed green color drops or a green primer with my foundation to neutralize redness and get a closer color match :)
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Hi everyone thank you so much for watching! Popping on here to say that natural daylight is the most important thing when trying to figure out coloring. You can never adequately determine your coloring without it. It isn’t until you do your makeup or analyze your true coloring in broad natural daylight that you’ll truly be able to see how everything looks. For example, I look great in warmer colors when examining myself in indoor lighting (my bedroom, bathroom, dressing rooms, store showrooms etc) but I absolutely do not look my best when I stand outside or next to a wide open window on a sunny day. Same goes for foundation and makeup. You MUST do your makeup in natural daylight with no indoor lighting. When I use indoor lighting, warmer colors seem to blend perfectly into my skin until I look closely in natural daylight. Then I see them separating from my neck and the rest of my body and taking on an artificially orange tone. When looking at other people on screen in movies and in pictures things like flash photography, artificial studio lighting and hair dye can further confuse our interpretation of their true undertones causing us to misdiagnose which is why I think movies filmed outdoors in natural daylight are the closest we can get to seeing an actress’ true coloring - without of course seeing her in person outdoors. Also, our ability to wear warmer colors as olives definitely comes down to personal preference and the coloring of our dominant features such as our eye color and hair color and striking a balance between that and your true undertone and overtone is a personal choice that should make you feel your best. I hope that helps ❤️❤️ ps a viewer reminded me of the great point that green is not a color naturally occurring in human skin (that’s how green screens work) so it only happens when colors mix❤️
Audrey Coyne , the first two foundations you list both say they’re warm undertone. Do you find this to be common for foundations that work for olive skin tones? If so, that just makes everything all the more confusing! Also, this video helped me realize why I almost never like the way blush or lipstick looks on me. 😝 I would also be interested in a list of which blushes, eyeshadows, and lip products you like to use. And do you ever use bronzer? I find it very hard to find any bronzer that isn’t orange on me.
Oh my golly I love your necklace in the 'warm' picture example!
queenofgreen83 it’s poor naming due to a lack of knowledge surrounding olive skin. The warm or golden listed in the color description is simply to distinguish it from its pink counterparts. If you look at the swatches I shared on my arm, the warm foundation has orange and peach in it, the true olive has yellow but also grey and green and the cool foundation has pink. I hope that helps ❤️
Gigi S it’s my Pamela card 😍🤗
Audrey Coyne was the middle foundation on your arm the first one in your list?
My olive skin changes all the time..I tan very easily in the summer and in the winter my skin almost looks cool ivory..Olive skins drives me crazy sometimes...lol!
I was wondering how a tan can affect this. Currently I have a bit of a tan and my veins look quite green so I don't think there's doubt that I have a yellow warm undertone but whenever I've tried to figure undertone based on veins in the past I struggle because sometimes they look green and blue but I think I do have a more evident yellow undertone? Or maybe I've convinced myself of this?
definitely .. I tan very yellow and the green gets so blended it is almost not visible, so in summer I can very happily wear even coral, but the moment September nears, I have to put all my warmer colours to one box and put them away untill May next year, because in winter I am grinch-green and the only "warm" I can wear is very saturated red skirt which always has to me surrounded by black or dark grey :D
Maria Welling oh same! I get up to 5 shades darker in the summer and when that happens the colors I choose change a little but I’ve grown to like it and the variety having olive skin gives me ❤️
I’m the same way. Super pale in winter months but glowy tan if I’m outside in the summer!
This! And it took me years to figure out how to deal with this make up wise...
As an olive with more yellow in me, I find that I can wear both cool and warm colours, but curiously, only in a specific range. Saturated but deep jewel tones for cool shades like mulberry, deep emerald green, navy (because contrast between black hair and light/medium asian skin), and muted for warm ones like mustard, camel, cream, olive green (because my olive skin leans more yellow). Can also never go wrong with blacks and whites! (but an off-white almost always looks better than an optic white on me)
Omg I completely relate to this! I have similar skin tone for sure.
omgooosh!!! saaaameee!!!!
For me only purple and green:)
Jessica You’re probably a deep autumn in the PCA color system. Every shade you named is in that specific season.
There are 12 seasons and it’s very helpful to figure out your best colors.
Yes! same for me. If I wear very saturated orange, I look so green for some reason that I look like I have a terminal illness. But when I wear a very true dark red, navy blues and emeralds I get soooooo many compliments.
Am I the only one who has olive skin but has rly red cheeks? especially when it's hot. I look like a tomato 😂
If you are fair olive, Revlon foundation in 150 is a lifesaver. It covers the redness and lets your beautiful skin tone come through.
Same... i am super light but in daylight my neck especially looks GREEN 😂 so i know since i was a kid that i have olive skin... but when Houston summer heat goes crazy , my face gets soooo red 😂😂
I have a very red face as well! I'm Greek and have never been able to match my foundation! I always look orange! I'm late to this game and I'm now on a mission to match!
No, I have light to medium olive skin and when I workout hard, I get hot, perspire, and my face gets really red.
I am half black and white and I get so red like a 🍅
I find olive skin has an attraction to blue clothes like a sapphire blue
Yes I think so too🤣
Yeah, my skin looks amazing when I wear blue
The "pigeon blue" looks so good on olive skin.
yess, navy/sapphire is 100% my colour!
Yes! I was always confused why my "warm undertone" looked so well in navy blue scrubs.
HI Audrey - Idea💡 for another video: Makeup products for olive-toned women including eyeshadow, blush, lipstick etc.
yes pls give exact shades of what makeup looks good on you.
Jane Delaney I’m olive skin:) and I did some videos on brands that cater to olive skin tones since I know it is not easy finding our shades. 💕
Please do this for ALL skin tones. I’m fenty 445 (dark) I don’t see any articles that help me find products that compliment me
Im olive and naked honey is the closest i could find for tanned to medium olive, and natasha denona metropolis azar or something the brown that looks khaki on bottom left palette on light skin, and havent found the perfect no makeup makeup eyeshadow for fair to light. For bronzer kosas medium works well even when im pale, and when im tanned i find that mauvy bronzers work well like lawless golden hour. For foundation i havnet found my perfect match on full coverage but for everyday kosas 5.5 is perfect . For lips i have naturally rosy mauvy lips so kylie cosmetics dirty peach the lipliner is the perfect match for me not too warm not too cool not too pink. For blush when im pale kylie snow kissed blush is the perfect match and when im medium to tanned i have to mix alot of blushes for it to look natural like bikini martini+poppin fenty for a natural look.
yes help..... help... i just found a new local cushion Looks so stunning. until.. I put my blush on........... 💔
I have had people tell me I'm not olive (even though I am) because I'm so "pale" and claim that they were olive because they had a slight tan at the time. Whenever people claim that olive automatically means tan I just have an internal forehead slap moment.
my sane cell went.. dissapear
Yes, especially when they work behind a makeup counter or as hair colourists. Any hair colouring is going to be super important too.
I have the same problem girl and people call me just white or pale as wall 😂 and don't see the undertones of my skin they just see pale
That's why I thought I was not olive. For the longest time I thought I was neutral; But couldn't understand why gold and silver don't look bad on me but neither of them look truly harmonious with my skin. I just didn't understand why if I tried on a neutral undertone BB cream, concealer, or foundation they looked better than the other undertones but it still looked off
I ALWAYS THOUGHT I WAS JUST ANEMIC OR SOMETHING LMAO OMG thank you
Me too! Or part zombie! Like 'time to paint on some fake human peachie 'life' skin to go out among the humans' !
girl! same😹
The first thing in a check up was always my bloodwork, as they thought I was anemic looking. Nope, just an olive undertone. XD
i have a history of sever anemia that i had to undergo blood transfusion (hormonal imbalance and super irregular menstruation) lol so there are times my parents would tell me that im so pale these past few days but im not i would show them my palms and my undereye for them to see im not pale. turns out i have olive skin lol hahah
I died with this comment 😂😂😂
I always tan well in summer, then look sick and washed out in winter. True olive.
Story of my life
I can’t be the only olive that doesn’t just blush but my entire head turns beet red.😭
OMG SAME!!!!! Finallyyyyy i found someone who have a same struggle as me!!!
lost boy
I’ve gotten better at caring less about what people think or say.
Surround yourself with good people that you trust and won’t mock you or make fun of you.
Now that I’m older (31 yayy) I try to embrace it.
I try to do more confronting and less running:))
... and if I absolutely can’t, I’ll excuse myself to fan my tomato head 🍅😅
I feel you. It's one of the things I struggle with the most! :(
Yep I walk out the gym looking like a tomate head
I blush when I'm upset, embarrassed, or just drinking a glass of wine😊
OMG. This is life changing. As an Asian, I've always been told that I'm warm/golden/yellow but I still struggled with finding concealers and foundation that looks natural and occasionally a cool toned shade would work and totally confuse me. Turns out I'm olive! Mind. Blown.
Same 💯 % me‼️
The whole "are you sickly" indicator.
Your comment really resonated with me. I’m olive and pale so often doctors will feel I either am low in vitamin d or anemic just by first glance. I like warm beauty filters for this reason
Omg, I know, and I have pale lips to go with it, it's terrible
when I wear certain shades of yellow I look gray/yellow and awful lol
😭
@@bughead7 I feel you! 😖
Omg this just made me understand why i thought i was "warm" but cool tones have always looked so much better on me, I'm olive!
Fran 🤗🤗🤗
Same here
same!
Audrey: “Look if you have green or blue veins...”
me: “ugh of course I have both”
Audrey: “...if you’re olive you probably have both”
Heck yeah.
+1
I can get very yellow but also very red or very neutral. I currently have one arm much darker than the other too 😂 my skin tone changes so much
Dude same
justiceingeneral omg same!!!! My right hand are darker than left because i drive and my hand more exposed to sunlight.
@@purplekitkatemily I see red and yellow in my face, still every foundation is
- too pink
- too yellow
- too peachy
🤷♀️ Oliveskingang🍀
Anyone else feel like when you don’t have a tan you just look straight up green??
I can totally relate! In the winter my green undertones are very prominent and I look so washed out. A tan tends to balance out those green tones and I find that a wider range of colors suit me in the warmer months.
Personally I think I look best without a tan because my tan has a greenish hue to me 😂
Yep all the time! I moved to a colder climate a few years ago and so lost all my natural ever-present tan. And became sickly pale looking xD The amount of time people called me green .....
Yessss especially during quarantine where I can’t go outside I literally look green mixed with a little bit of beige I guess
I am olive and when I’m pale I’m very yellow and when I’m tan I’m more orange looking but not too orange maybe like a mix of orange and yellow idk 🤣
" Are you sick?" Story of my life when I'm not wearing make-up!
Me too!
Hahaha
Lol yes😂
OMG yes!
I found the best olive foundation in the Urban Decay Stay Naked. I’m 30CG - the c stands for cool not because it is pink but for the blue that makes the green! And the G stands for green. First foundation that didn’t make me look sick, mismatched, or like an Oompa Loompa!
Kristi Santiago amazing! Thank you so much 🙌
I'm an ultra fair olive and their shade 10WY was my best and only match I have ever found, so I think Urban Decay has it going for all shades of olive
Kristi Santiago my favorite is the Koh Gen Do Aqua foundation in 213. You can actually see the green in it.
This is literally my perfect foundation shade, I just got it like 3 weeks ago!
I wish it wasn't so extortionately expensive T-T
Wish you could do private consult! Most of the ladies at beauty counters have no idea how to properly help select proper makeup for skin tones
Something that I've found to be helpful is to first get face paint in black, white, yellow, blue, and red to determine exactly what mixture is good for my skin tone (in natural light and artificial light!). Then I take a picture in natural light and start painting colors on my eyes in MS paint (or you can put a color wheel on top) and seeing what looks best.
And especially for olive tones as they always told me I was warm !
Omg, right it i dont choose my base colors by myslef they will choose the pinkest shades for me
They choose whichever will give them a good commission or incentive. Whatever the companies are pushing hardest that month.
I was having so much trouble figuring out if my skin undertones. I thought maybe I was warm because I can see some beige in my skin, but I found warm makeup always made my skin look orange! Then I started to think I was neutral, but neutral makeup made my skin look gray and muddy! It finally hit me that maybe I’m actually Olive! This video came just in time!
same experience here! most of us found out by trial and error..!
Did you find any good concealers or foundations that worked for you? I’m around your skin tone and I’m olive too. Any experience would be appreciated ❤️
@@euscieu4246 well that may also depend on whether your skin is combination, oily, dry, sensitiveness; age; and weather also..! In my case, dry, sensitive skin, near 40 but may pass for younger 😉 Missha perfect cover BB cream in tone 27 has proven to be perfect for me in every way (my skin tone, i could guess is pretty similar to Audrey's). I could talk in length about it... also Max factor has a really beautiful foundation, the Radiant lift, i think i was 75, it's so light looks like your own skin but better and minus the imperfections! The only con for me are those micro shimmer particles, not really visible unless you look really close but i can't get my head around it...
And about concealer, well i use one that works fine for me, creamy but not heavy and conceals fine but not a lot, that's ok with me but if you look for better coverage you might want to look elsewhere, it's wet n Wild photofocus in medium peach
Same experience T.T
I remember meeting one of my lifelong friends in the 2nd grade. She later confessed on the day she met me, she hurried home and excitedly told her father, "I met a green person today!" X-D Out of the mouths of babes!
NYX green color corrector liquid helped me turn my tan/warm and peachy foundations more neutral and olive. GAME CHANGER! Try it out 😘
P.s. Charlotte Tilburry airbrushe foundation 7.5N is a perfect light/medium olive.
same, but i use blue corrector for foundations since green one lightens up tone, but green one is saviour for cream bronzer sticks that always end up orange on me. mixing those with green saved me.
Well, well, well...I just found out I’m Olive and that’s why those warm foundations (that I thought were my to go) make me look ORANGE or super Yellow, like a Simpson 😂
Hecma Ortiz hahaha yes!!
Yes, I believe Audrey is a cooler olive but I’m a warm olive (neutral-warm) and many “warmer” foundations & bronzers can EASILY pull too yellow or orange on me.....so I get it!
Yeahh.. Me too.
I just found that im olive when i try new foundation that is so warm in it.. And my face just like the simpsons
Yeah! Found it! That's my drama with makeup my whole life
As someone who is in their 50s I’m finding a foundation with some yellow is now hella more flattering than an actual olive toned match. Not orange but a bit of yellow and not a shade darker. Preferably a shade light for me. I still have to blend it into my neck though.
Bless you, Olive Queen
I'm so olive! I now understand why foundation is so hard to match. They are either too yellow/warm, or too pink when they are cool. Neutral foundations are often a mix of both so it is indeed quite challenging...
I so wish I could go back to high school and say "No, Barbara, I'm just an olive-toned girl" whenever someone asks me if I'm sick.
Thank you for this great video :)
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Same
PLEASE. My middle school friends backstabbed me because I looked sick, yellowish and pale :D Bitch I'm just fucking olive
i actually am sick and also olive. it’s terrible lol
Bless you Audrey! We olive skin are so misunderstood!
In the 70’s I was wearing Mary Kay makeup, I realized the colors were not right, but her answer was to Mix them....right...buy more bad colors and blend them. This video is way overdue.
The fluorescent lights in the elementary school bathroom made it very apparent that I was a completely different shade than everyone else.
I always hated that type of lighting I look a zombie with them
Omg, same... I also could see all the dark hair on my light olive skin, as a turkish girl in white horse girls Germany.
I just learned more about my skin in 19 minutes than I previously learned in 35 years 🤦🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️ THANK YOU!!
Tip for anyone who is olive toned: Korean foundations usually have cooler tones and are made for olive skin, since it is very common there!!
I like lighter coverage, so Missha BB cream is my favorite 😊 it isn't too thick or cakey. Very comfortable to wear and matches my cool tones beautifully.
To me what doesn’t make sense is that olive skin tone is cool? I definitely have olive skin, it’s very yellow and green but not at all blue so I just don’t understand why I wouldn’t be considered warm. I’m so confused 😭😅
@@soccergirldiva it didn't make sense to me for a long time either! If you are a lighter olive skin tone, you likely also have a greyish undertone in certain lighting. This is the "blue/cool" undertone coming out. Try it out for yourself- wearing royal blue or a plum purple will probably make your other features pop! Such as your eyes, hair, etc. 😁
It took me a loooong time to figure this out lol. I always thought I was warm toned too! But wearing warm colors makes me look super weird!
@@charlottesometimes4 see I think my problem is that I don’t know if I am what people mean when they say “lighter skinned” (when talking about this topic specifically). I am not as light as the video creator but I’m not super tan all year round. I feel like I’m that in between color where some would say I’m on the lighter and others would say I’m on the tanner side, so I feel like that phrase is too vague for me and just confuses me 😅
Standing next to my husband who has a very red undertone, I look super greenish yellowish. I also own one red tank top and people always compliment me when I wear it. But then every foundation I have ever tried in my entire life is either too pink, too orange, or too gray 🥲 I just can’t get it right 😅😭
@@soccergirldiva you are probably a warm olive. Look up Merriam style here on CZcams, she has some great videos on olive skin. Audrey is great however I don’t agree with her notion that all olive skin is cool. Olive skin can be cool, neutral or warm.
All olives have blue and yellow undertones in their skin, blue+yellow makes green. Cool olives will have a lot of blue and only a little yellow in their skin while warm olives have a lot of yellow and only a little blue. Neutral olives have an even mix of both but most neutral olives still lean either slightly warm olive or cool olive. If you are seeing more yellow than blue in your skin you’re most likely warm olive :)
also olive can be any skin depth ranging from fair, light, medium, tan, deep etc and being light or fair olive doesn’t automatically mean you’re a cool olive, it just depends on the ratio between blue and yellow in your skin!
Also if you want to fix your foundations that are too orange/yellow mix some green color corrector in them it’s life changing . You can also try mixing blue foundation pigment or blue color corrector but only a very small amount especially if you’re warm olive. It’ll cancel out the orange tones in the foundation and make them olive toned (the blue in the mixer will mix with the yellow in the foundation to make a green undertone).
Elf cosmetics has great color correctors in both green and blue, as well as LA Girl Cosmetics green color corrector and blue foundation mixing pigment. Don’t use both see which works better with your foundations the green or the blue corrector. Those correctors are holy grails for olives when it comes to fixing foundation. Nyx Born to Glow foundation in Nude is also a really good light/medium warm olive shade that doesn’t require any mixing!
nice video! i also have olive skin, however my skin is rather fair and has more yellow hues than yours. i watched the whole video so i know what you think but i thought i'd share my opinion anyway. i think you have a cool olive skin whereas some people like myself have a warm olive skin. that blue shirt looks flattering on you but if i wore it, it would be unflattering on me. i look not very good in blue, white, cool grey, and black. i suit muted warm colours like cream, burnt orange, olive green, brown, beige, and terracotta, whereas they might not suit you. i noticed in your list of olive celebrities that i would consider some of them to have warm olive skin and the others i consider to have cool olive skin. so yes, i believe that there are both warm and cool olive skin, both groups have a noticeable olive green hue, but some have more warm and yellow hues, the others have more cool hues. personally, i would classify your skin as a cool olive like audrey tatou. i would classify myself as a warm and soft muted olive like mila kunis. again, that's just my opinion based on my observations. if anyone agrees or disagrees i'm not bothered :)
sweetest I agre with you. I have cool olive skin. I got so frustrated over the years I got color analysis done. The analyst confirmed I am deep winter and can also wear some colors from deep autumn.
I just screenshot tour comment, I consider myself a light to medium warm olive skin tone
sandy p i appreciate your comment! i understand that it must have been really frustrating! i think olive skins in general are difficult for people to type. in my opinion the best way to truly know your best colours is to drape different coloured fabrics (both vivid and muted colours) over your skin, in natural lighting. the colours that look flattering and don't overpower or wash you out are your best. im glad that you know what your classification is. :)
Gigi Pera hey thanks! i'm glad
i was able to potential be of use. :)
I am very yellow, I have always struggled with the color for my clothes and make up.
This video was very enlightening and explained a lot of things about my olive skin that perplexed me so I will list them here in case it helps out any other olive-skinned beauties like me that tend towards a warmer olive undertone.
1. PINK BLUSH! As she mentioned, pink blush looks pretty unnatural on olive skin. Another odd thing is that peach blush doesn't look peach, at least on my skin, it looks pink! So if you're looking for a soft pink color, try using a peachy blush for that rosy petal look. For a natural-looking flush (considering we don't really blush naturally), I find a light application of deep wine or berry colors looks like my natural "I just ran across the airport hauling a 30 lb suitcase to catch my flight" look but better, obvi.
2. PEACH BLUSH. After chatting with a makeup artist about not being able to find a peach blush that looks peach, I was recommended a bright orange blush (NARS Taj Mahal in my case). It looks intimidating AF but I swear a light, and I mean LIGHT, application will give you the most beautiful peachy vibes!
3. RED LIPSTICK/CLOTHES. Be careful with this one guys, the wrong red will make you look sallow and weird. It took me the longest time to figure out why a beautiful red lipstick never looked quite right on me or why a red shirt would look blah instead of making me stand out. In my case, orange is key again. I can't wear any cool or blue-toned reds so opting for a deep red/orange is the way to go. Same with clothes, a warmer red looks beautiful on olive tones and combats that sallowness.
4. BLUES. This was a game-changer for me. I love pastels and bright colors but could never understand why I couldn't pull them off. Deep jewel tones ofc look gorgeous on our olive skin but identifying as a warm autumn, I thought it was very weird that a sky blue (like what she's wearing) was so flattering on my skin. Also explains why I could never seem to figure out if I liked the look of silver or gold jewelry. Knowing that olive skin has blue undertones and understanding that your hair and eyes and even how tan you are can make your skin look warm is so helpful.
WORD! I agree with everything you wrote, especially the berry blush looking like a natural flush.
@@peachpathfinder Berry blush is the only way to go. If I wear pink I look like a kid playing in her mom's makeup, if I wear peach it makes me look more yellow and not in a good way. Berry was the game changer.
@@peachpathfinder100% agree, I could never use any blush that I bought ( all pink and peach). So mostly I would just use my favourite red lipstick when in a hurry and it always looked great. Now it's my default blush😂
i have an olive undertone and i love pink makeup looks with a dusty hint. i just think it looks so harmonious, i believe pink just goes well with green.
I've always known I was olive skin tone. I could pinch my cheeks forever and no colour would ever come to them. You would think that warm colours would look nice on me but they don't, I'm a true winter. Thankfully I really like the winter palette. I can never wear yellow though, it makes me look sick and green. Foundation is the hardest, especially being pale, most people want to put much too dark foundations on me.
I needed this. The vein test was always so confusing because I do have blue and green veins. I've always self diagnosed as neutral. I stick to clearer blue based tones. I am a lighter toned olive, so having the celebrity examples was helpful. Thank you again.
I have never understood why blush looked horrible on me until now.
Right??!! Also, my face cant take a lot of makeup; colors or contrast, otherwise i look like matrioshka. My face gets overwhelmed very quickly 😩
Senada Rakic I have olive skin and blush looks better on me than no blush. Even with my best colors.
I always hated blush until recently because all the blushes that looked so pretty on other people were always so bright and pink and clown looking on me they never looked right
It just really depends on the tone for me. A lot of blushes are peachy based because that's what appeals to most people and they look awful on me, they make me look MORE sickly. I have to look out for cool toned blushes with an almost lilac tone, or cool pinks
Will Rare Beauty's Virtue look good on olive skin?
i already knew i was olive but the “no natural blushing” and people asking me if i’m sick really got me, that was a classic, and i spent years avoiding the beach thinking that if i didn’t get sun my skin would turn to a cool/pink undertone and i never noticed that i look a bit healthier when i get a tan, the only thing that doesn’t apply to me is jewelry, i look washed out with silver, not a good look
That is because silver is closer to neutral than cool. Try rose gold instead. If that looks good on you, then you may fall under the warm and delicate category in Merriam Style’s color system.
Pewter, gunmetal and antique silver and rose gold work for me
i can relate to every single thing that is said. I've done a LOT of research on olive skin and this is by far the most helpful one. hoping for more olive skin related video in the future! ♡
Yes! That one can only be the beginning!
I think the biggest thing I've learned about my olive skin is just how muted my coloring is. I may have dark hair and dark eyes, but somehow, with my skin, it's very very muted. Learning to buy makeup and clothing that was muted was the game changer! Also, blue foundation drops into a too yellow foundation I've found works better than green. I like the blue because it really neutralizes and doesn't add any more yellow. It also helps mute a foundation color so it doesn't look too saturated on my skin.
mochabubble omg yes! When I’m tan and I have less contrast between my hair skin and eyes I feel like I have more flexibility than I do when I’m pale because the contrast between everything is so extreme ❤️
I would say the celebrities I look most similar to are Salma Hayek or Penelope Cruz, but I do blush. Especially after working out 🤷🏻♀️
jazzh100 same here!
Emily Chan , same here. I have medium olive skin.
Good to know it's not just me haha
jazzh100 there are plenty of olive skinned people who blush.
Blush can look gorgeous on olive skin.
Who would’ve thought one of the most interesting thing I’ve found out during quarantine is that I have olive skin Lol. I have skin that’s slightly lighter than Rihanna and a lot of foundation just has too much yellow or it looks ashy. My skins depth naturally reads yellow which I think confuses people when they try to match my foundation. Sometimes I’ve had foundation that is too light on my skin because the random cool undertone is being mistaken for less depth 🤦🏾♀️. I also only wear white, black, grey, or red because I got tired of trying to figure it out 😂
I'm glad you mentioned the relevance of hair and eye color here. I have pale olive skin, but I think the warmth in my hair is so prominent that I need my palette to lean slightly warm overall (but not too much!). I think this would apply to the other olive skin people with red, golden brown, or auburn hair. In order to wear the bright yellow in my pic, I had to load on makeup. So, I think some of us are muted and warm overall.
Heidi Runyan yes!
I have the EXACT SAME problem with the veins test. They literally change color. My coloring really confuses me, and to be honest i'm still not sure if I do have an olive skin tone or not, but this was a really great video
I’ve always thought I was olive but I do blush easily.
I’d like to offer a foundation recommendation: Smashbox 15 hr wear hydrating foundation has multiple olive options from light to dark skin tones. It’s been my fave for years! Great video! ♥️
I don't even have olive skin, but I just wanna listen to your soothing voice 😅
I am so grateful for you taking on this topic! I was confused for years! Im quite pale, not a typical fair lady, but paler than most people, my skin has a noticeable yellow overtone, but i always looked better in cool colours. Everytime I tried to find out if I'm cool or warm, I got mixed results and got more and more confused. I never thought of myself as olive, because I was convinced that it refers to people with deeper skintone than mine. And then I watched one of your videos, where you were describing yourself as an olive and going through the main factors presenting why. And that was my eureka moment! Everything finally fell into place and made sense to me. So thank you very much for all of this! Lots of love from Poland :)
Same! I have noticable yellow overtone but look better in cool colors. I'm pale af but tan really easily. Or I used to. Now I have lupus which makes me sun sensitive and gives me a pink rash on my cheeks, so that throws things off!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS. As a pale Asian person with olive skin, this conversation has been extremely confusing to navigate. The vein test really confirmed it for me because my veins literally do the same thing.
OMG FINALLY I’ve been looking for legit information about olive skin for ages and I’m shocked to discover this is the only thing I’ve found that makes sense to me!!
I have fair olive skin, and makeup counters always want to put me in cool/rosy foundations, which look orange/pink on me. I always pick my own and sometimes it takes many trials and mixing, and disagreeing with the “makeup artist.” I finally figured out years ago that I was olive because when I would wear yellow or green clothing, I looked yellow or green, not the look I prefer, 😆 You look lovely in the blue top!
I (36) was in my 30s before I finally recognized that I was olive. I tan well and I look best in warm, earthy tones...but a lot of concealers and foundations tend to end up too warm on me (and I absolutely canNOT wear cool shades; I look so sickly). I finally purchased a concealer with a neutral undertone and am getting along with it very well, and today your video prompted me to do two things: 1)I went through tons of pictures of myself (at all ages) with other people in the photos, and looked closely at skin tones. Sure enough, I was able to zero in on about a dozen where my skin shines like a green beacon; validation! That exercise was so helpful, for me to more fully understand what I'm working with. 2)From there, I took your suggestion and added a pinch of green color corrector to a foundation that runs way too yellow on me--and it matched my skin PERFECTLY. I think it's nuts that my "perfect match" color is created by taking a bunch of yellow and some green and mixing them together...but it is what it is. It will take me a while to get used to looking less "bronzed" than I usually do, but your side-by-sides really helped me see that while warm colors can work for you, your clarity and natural light really shine when you wear proper shades for your olive skin, and that's what I aspire to. So thank you, so much, for working so diligently on this topic; I appreciate it a ton and it has already had a major impact on how I treat myself! Lots of warm thoughts coming your way from Milwaukee. :)
I’ve found that smashbox concealer in light neutral olive is a PERFECT match for my light olive skin, such a good match that I can get away with concealer only and no foundation
I can’t remember if I left a comment originally but I keep coming back to this video. This is the most comprehensive video on olive skin that I’ve ever found. I really appreciated this video and you did and incredible job
I've known I was olive skinned since I was young. There were times I actually looked green. I always hated the color orange and as I got older, I realized it was because I looked terrible in orange clothes. I have always worn cool colors and I get the most compliments when I wear royal blue, red, purple, and brighter colors. I worked behind the cosmetics counter at Lord & Taylor so I knew how to choose shadows, blush and lipstick, but I had a hard time finding the right foundation color. At the time, I worked for a luxury makeup brand and they wouldn't let me mix my foundation so I just didn't wear any. I was 19-21 years old so it was easy for me to get away with not wearing foundation. You have no idea how many times customers asked which foundation formula I was wearing and I always had to show them the one with the lightest coverage. The dept manager would have killed me if I said I wasn't wearing foundation. I had makeup artists come in and determine I had a warm undertone and even they had a hard time matching me and didn't understand why the colors they chose didn't look right on me. It was very difficult having this skintone. Even now I have the hardest time getting foundations in the correct color, I don't wear foundation often and mostly used tinted moisturizers because of it. Thanks for this video! I hope you do more like this. Take care, Ginny 😘😘😘
Wow you must be having really good skin condition =D
Your customer ask about your 'foundation' XD
This is so true for me and I get so exasperated when store assistants try to get me to buy warm foundation. Your video is fantastic and well researched!
YESSS! Always happening to me too!
Same!!!!!!
So do you buy cool? I’m having this issue now, thanks 😊
This is straight-up ASMR and I was not prepared.
Someone once described my skin tone as olive, and I was so puzzled at the time, but I think your video has confirmed it! Thank you! This helped me sort out a lot of confusion that I had about choosing makeup shades. I don't wear much makeup, partly because it's been so confusing. And now I know why I can't stand frosted shadow haha!
I really needed this video! Because having olive skin is super complicated, I recently discovered after years of not understanding why I was sort of "neutral" what tone I was. Super confusing, especially when every make up counter assumes you're golden and pushes brown/bronzy colours on me, and it never looks right!
TheNomadLens yes! I can relate to this so much!
@@AudreyCoyne Also, and I don't know if this has happened to you, but I often get mistaken for being a lot darker than I actually am. I will never forget for my college graduation a friend who was a make up artist wanted to do my make up for free and I begrudgingly agreed. I never wear foundation, but she decided to use the darkest muddy brown foundation she could find, and slather it on my face, because she said I was too dark/yellow for the lighter ones? Let's just say for graduation my face was an entire 6 shades darker than the rest of my body. Never again!
I can relate to this as well!
TheNomadLens oh yes!! This has happened so many times
oh and the Dorito look when you still don't know you're olive and buy a warm foundation, only test it at the shop, only to find at home that you look like you came just after an UV ray session? xD
(since then, I always tested foundations in different light conditions and over time because of oxidization, to avoid mistakes like this)
I have a very very very pale olive skin and it's been a journey trying to figure out what colours suit me. And I am makeup artist and a stylist! Great content, Audrey! Love your channel!
Gabriela Margall same.
HI Gabriela, me too! I am curious what foundation you use- do you have any brands you like? the makeup suggestion on this video was way out of my price range. Thank you for considering!!!
I have pale olive skin too.. Try Bourjois foundations, most of their foundations have an olive undertone
Robina Mukhtar yes!! Once I discovered Bourjois foundations I started feeling like my makeup looked so much better, I have very pale olive skin that looks yellowish-greenish in winter time but that tans quite easily in summertime . Until my mid 20s I didn’t trully figure out my skin colouring
Same :)
Thank you Audrey your insight has helped me so much to transition into my olive skin. I used to only spray tan my skin to make it warm and bronze, but I always struggled to “look alive” and not sick with my lighter olive skin. Now I’m experimenting and finding things that work with my natural skin.
*Thank you, Audrey!* As ever you’re a sweetheart for posting such wonderfully clear and thoughtful content. At 32 I’ve only *just* realized I am pale olive. Oh the money I’ve spent on bad-match makeup and clothes! It explains so much. Your tips really helped to solidify this for me and I am sooo excited to try a green based primer! You’re brilliant, dear! xxx
I love this video!! I'm Olive skin too!! I go almost green in the winter!! It's fabulous to finally have some of my Colour choices confirmed and a lot of new ideas on colour. Thank you so much Audrey! My daughter is very pale and is olive with brown hair. Thank you again from Ireland. 🇮🇪❤️❤️
Hi Audrey! Great video, just one thing to add. IMO, olives can get blushes easily if they have very thin/reaction prone skin, even if they don’t have acnes. Myself is just like that :)
Zhiru Wang yes, this is me!
Same here. I pretty much check off all of the boxes for olive skin (a khaki green shirt makes me look near jaundiced)....but I do get flushed. I have allergies & very sensitive skin, so I wonder if this is the reason?
Zhiru Wang thank you so much! And absolutely it definitely has exceptions :) the blush tip is because depending on how much green you have in your skin it will counteract the blush making it look like you aren’t blushing when you are ❤️ thank you so much for watching 🤗
Oh my goodness, where has this video been all my life?!? I appreciate you so much for making this video and sharing everything you have learned! I've been struggling for years with figuring out if I was cool or warm or neutral--while knowing I had an olive skin tone--but I never made this connection.
This video is a gem! It must have taken Audrey so much research, thank you!
I love this! I’m pale olive and foundations/concealers are so hard. I find that I look alive in rust and coral/peach make up. I started to think I was warm but now I understand that it’s the overtone I’m flattering, not just the undertone! Thank you!!
Audrey, thank you for this video on olive skin. I’ve struggled for years with my olive skin and trying to find flattering makeup and colours for my wardrobe. You’re a beautiful example of an olive skinned woman who has navigated this area with success ❤️
This video has opened so many doors. Especially the make up and foundation tips- I have struggled with the ‘neutral’ thing for years and thought I was olive but was too fair to be considered olive. This is so helpful. Thank you so so much!!
I always thought I was warm, but never felt good in warm makeup or clothing colors. This explains it all! Thanks, beautiful olive Audrey!
Thrilled to see your new upload! Lots of love to you ❤️
This is life changing. I always knew I had olive skin but was always told to wear warm. I actually love to wear both cool and warm tones. But I was always confused in make up stores, when warm toned foundations looked too orange for me.
I'd be curious to see some examples of celebs with olive skin that don't have brown eyes and dark hair. I have blue eyes and lighter hair and still struggle to choose what to wear and what make up to put on ...
Words cannot describe how much of a relief this is!!! Yesssssss, I finally know now what my undertone is! I always thought I was warm because the yellow is so obvious yet I was so confused because light blue just like the color you are wearing looks good on me, but I thought it was a cool color so I shouldn't wear it. It all makes sense now!
And that paint demonstration... THAT PAINT DEMONSTRATION was all I needed to understand. I never imagined "warm blue" existed, but seeing how the yellow dot in the blue made warm blue, was what finally made me understand my skin tone!!! Thank you so much you just cleared up my confusion I was so frustrated trying to figure out my skin tone, and I never really considered olive before and surprisingly no one actually really mentions it in most of the popular places/sources for finding your skin tone.
Yes, I needed this. Now I don’t feel so stupid for always having trouble picking my foundation base colour. I had managed to figure out that a tiny bit of blush in a dusty pink or peach works best but it took some time. Thank you for the tips and validation. 🙏😊
This BIGGEST tip I’ve learned is how important eyes are as a pale olive person... I use anti-redness eye drops and it makes a huge difference! Lumify drops help make the whites of my eyes brighter, and it helps people actually see my dark hazel eyes. I loved this video and hope you continue this as a series! (New Sub) ❤️
For those having difficulty finding foundations with enough blue in them, adding blue pigment can help. I have blue-red undertones, and found that adding Make Up Forever Aqua XL color paint in small amounts led to a perfect match.
Oh my goodness, you just described my life! I thought for sure I was warm, but the suggested colors never worked on me; this explains everything so beautifully
This is by far the best information out there regarding olive skin. Great examples and details. Thank you for de-bunking that olive skin can be warm. I've read and did so much searching regarding olive skin and color palette, but I keep getting stuck. You have un-stuck me. Thank you.
Yes! Finding out I was olive was a game changer! Even light ppl can be olive. Thanks for the detailed info. Even though I have foundation and clothes figured out, the eye cheek and lip colors still baffle me. I'll have to try your suggestions :)
I always thought I had warm/yellow undertones but I think I'm actually an olive! For me, it jumped out by comparing myself to friends & family in (outdoor!) photos. It was really obvious when I looked at myself next to my sister- she has clear yellow undertones and a lighter skin colour than me, but I somehow look pale next to her. It's the cool olive tone! Thanks Audrey!
Thank you for this video!! Also, you have SUCH a calm and beautiful voice, it's feels so comforting listening to your videos!
Brilliant video! Forget all the others on this topic. Audrey's nailed it. Bravo!!
I have very light skin with red large red patches; I guess it is a matter of researching what suits your own skin tone. I have started my journey on CZcams and your video inspires me to research my skin tone.
Thank you Audrey!! Wow, made so much sense. Especially the foundation part. I always bought warm foundations because I’m a light//medium olive, black hair with black/brown eyes and assumed that’s what you buy for olive, but it made me look horrible, like funeral makeup 😝. But mixing the cool and true olive color might be the solution! Never thought olive was cool, but have always gotten so many complements when my makeup was shades of medium to dark purple 🤔. Going to try wearing your Audrey blue ( hmmm, should be a paint color name) clothing palette and see how it looks on me.
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What a difference this video has made for me...thank you! I knew I didn't belong in the warm section but everyone kept saying that my skin was olive...which it is...it just has more blue that makes cool things really work. Now I know how to enjoy the best of both of those worlds.
The best content on olive skin that I’ve come across. Thank you a million times!! So helpful! Good insights on makeup and clothing too.
I realized the " no blush " situation in my middle school years, I always thought it was a super power 😎🤣
Emylie Zapien hahaha love this!
This is truly one of the BEST videos I've seen explaining my olive skin! In recent years, I noticed that beautiful jewel tones (especially royal blue and fuchsia) and colors that were not "Fall" colors looked great on me...but how could that be? I was a "WARM/FALL" !? I also had a soft purple eyeshadow that l loved that looked great with my brown eyes. I was confused as to why these colors seemed to really compliment my skin tone. So, I just started wearing what I thought looked good instead of only the "FALL" colors I was recommended. This video confirms and clarifies my dilemma and ties it all up for me in a nice little bow :) Thank you!
Alicia Redmond oh yay!! I’m so happy to hear this ❤️❤️ isn’t is amazing when you finally see it? Truly life changing
@@AudreyCoyne Absolutely!
Audrey, I have always thought that I have an olive complexion but you have nailed it for me! I am 64 and just today figured it out for sure! And the fact that it is cool, helps me so much in finding makeup. Thank you so much!
This video is the bomb! I’ve been doing so much research ever since I found out I was olive skintone and I use the exact same foundation shades as you during the summer 💕 just because the makeup industry labels them cool and warm olive, I thought they actually had that spectrum. But thanks to you I even understand it clearer! This is the reason I started my channel is to try and help some olive skin babes out there :) but you did an amazing job!!!!
I have different colors on my body, my face, neck and arms and thighs are red/pink, my chest, belly and calves more olive toned :(( but my hair colorist pointed out to me that cooler toned hair colors look flattering and more natural with my skin. Love your videos, great tip about Armani color. I do use the shade 4 but mixing with 6 would really look good!
This topic is incredibly thoughtful. I have always struggled to understand my own undertone. My appreciation for those who understand their colors and use it is powerful. Nutral, cool, olive have all come up when I have investigated my own skin tone. So many cool colors have are to cool where a soft deep or muted cool seem to work. Although I am very fair others will say I am olive. I'm looking forward to looking through your list of olive toned celebrities. I would love to see more on this apparently mysterious condition, haha!
Soooo nice to watch this video! Recently I have been researching how to choose the best foundation and I was so confused because I couldn't determine my undertone, etc. It all makes sense now! It's like I felt it in my gut and yet didn't realise. Also, I used to look for the lightest foundation because I thought I was just pale and nothing seemed to match me completely, because pale foundations were too pink and darker foundations were too orange.
This was super helpful, Audrey! Thanks for making this video. Now all my years of struggling to understand my colors makes total sense! XO
I’d always thought I had olive skin, but my suspicion was confirmed when the makeup head in my old theatre department was swatching foundation colors on me. She swatched a typical (probably cool toned) pale foundation on my forehead and then exclaimed “Oh you’re so olive!” when she realized how strange the color looked on my skin!
This was so helpful, Audrey! I have light olive skin and have always struggled to choose makeup colours -- thank you for validating the struggle!
I watched this video over and over again! I have a very Olive tone and it took me a long time to realize this. For the past decade, grey/silver clothing/accessories has been my staple colour to wear, I didn’t understand why and now I know 🙌 Thanks for all these tips.
More often than not, people have referred to me as being olive, even though I had a hard time believing it- because I’m very fair skinned. And I always found it interesting that gold jewelry works with my skin color, too, even though I look best in cool, jewel tone colors. I can remember being so surprised when I discovered that olive green clothes look nice on me, and just green in general. But now, I understand it all better and can see my olive tone more clearly. This was a great video, thank you!!! Also, you have such a soft, pleasant voice, I just really enjoyed listening to you speak. 💗
I have light olive skin. Cool foundation looked good on me when I was young. Now that I'm older it makes me look ashy/old. I have to look for neutral but I have hardest time finding one that is not orange.
Thank you, Audrey. I have olive skin, but it is so confusing. Some "expert" make up counter women try to give me warm foundations and lipsticks. But the foundation always turns orange and I have to return them. I wish they would study this skin type before engaging with the public. My facial skin is odd because I can blush and I have roseasa, my eyes are greenish blue and my hair color is medium to light brown, with highlights. I look best in the colors that you look good in, but I am so attracted to other colors I should stay away from. I keep making the same clothing mistakes. That is just me being stupid. I am a Winter, so I should know better. But it is the make up that has been the most difficult to choose correctly. Thank you for those blush and lipstick choices. I do mostly use dusty pink blushes, yet I do not look that good in dusty pink clothing, although I stupidly still purchase them. LOL!!! Take care. :-)
Omg you made me have a breakthrough! My skin is olive!!
I've always had this dilemma of not being warm enough but also not exactly cool toned either, NOW I KNOW.