"Do I Have Olive Skin?” You'll never have to wonder again.
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- Have you've ever asked the question, "Am I Olive?" Chances of you having an olive skin tone is higher than you think! In this video I explain what it means to have olive skin & how to know if you have olive skin, along with some practical tips coming from MY own experience as an olive skin tone.
Celebrity examples for today's video include: Rihanna, Mila Kunis and Julianne Moore.
This video is PART 3 of my Personal Colours & Skin Tone series.
Here are the Topics for PARTS 1 & 2:
- Part 1: Seasonal Colours - Why is finding your season SO confusing?
- Part 2: Skin Tones - Why is finding your skin tone SO confusing?
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Finding pale olive foundation is a nightmare. Companies seem to think we don’t exist. For anyone struggling with this, after some trial and error I found 3 that work great for light olive. Mary Kay ivory n 160, Revlon candid crème brûlée and revlon candid buff.
Buff is my go to as well!
Pale/fair olive here too, mixing the Loreal True Match serum foundation in 0.5-2 and 2-3 is the best match I've ever found.
Back in the 08 09 CZcams beauty guru days there was a guy named Koren and he recommended an indie brand called thevi for us olives. I tried their shadows but not foundation. Liked it. And not sure if it exist anymore lol .
I've found Loreal has some concealers and foundations that are olive.
Lisa Eldridge has some shades, for me No 9 works very well, before that I just gave up on wearing foundations all together.
"Olive skin tones don't blush"
My rosacea: Hold my beer
Exactly!!! Any redness to the skin is so much more visible when you are olive 😫
true!
I’m so happy that you recognise that there is warm and cool olive skin. I even got in an argument with a beauty influencer before for spreading misinformation that there is no such a thing as light olive skin and it can only be cool.
Simply not true! I'm a living example of warm olive skin right here :) and lots of fair olives out there too!
Agreed!!!
I've been a pale, warm olive for nearly 50 years. I've always known I was olive because I have a lighter version of my father's olive skin and he told me I was olive when I was kid in a matter of fact way. It's just part of our ethnicity. I also look great in olive green, which is the color of my eyes. But, due to being pale, I do need a lot of warm, bright blush and my fall-colored wardrobe to look alive. I haven't tanned in nearly 30 years (don't tan and you will thank me later), but I would turn golden-olive when I did.
you should follow hannah louise poston on here - she has great fixes/recommendations for pale olive tones
Doesn't it depend on if they're talking about undertones or overtones being cool? If your skin looks olive it's because you have a blue undertone (cool) and a yellow overtone (warm) and that makes green overall.
This helped me realize why finding the right foundation is so hard - I'm a light warm olive... with rosacea! All that extra redness disguises the fact that I'm olive, so I end up using warmer complexion products, but if they're more full coverage, I end up too yellow.
Agreed - with a condition like rosacea it's especially difficult!
I can kind of relate! I think I’m olive too bc of like grayish shadows/cast (not sure if warm or cool) + being more light skinned + my face is always flushed red due anxiety. So confusing bc sometimes I look more orange/red 😂
I super relate to this! I naturally gravitate to using yellow foundations because I find it helps covering my rosacea. That'd make my face look drastically different compared to my neck (which is what I now shade match to). For years I added just a tiny dot of blue pigment to my warm foundations to "neutralize it but not toooo neutral" I'm dumb and never once realized I was actually making a slightly green shade since neutral complexion products are peach/orange on me.
Anyways if you're looking for a complextion product and are light skin (roughly MAC NC12 as a reference) the Beauty Blender skin tint in Light 4 was made for light skin tones with a warm olive undertone. It's the best shade match I've had without needing to add in a blue or green pigment. Its light to medium buildable coverage, feels like nothing, and most importantly covers mild rosacea without having to use a full coverage product.
Now I finally understood that I have neutral skin tone and NOT olive skin. This was actually the best video I've ever seen on this topic!
Thank you so much for the compliment - I’m glad the video helped with clarifying! 🥰❤️
I think I’m warm side of neutral with clarity of the colour being the most important thing, but this video makes me think I’m only just outside the range of olive. 90% of what is in this video applies to me (red tones, being able to wear more things when tanned, looking way better without foundation, having trouble finding foundations/concealers etc that look good on me, I even have trouble finding blush that looks good in most brands and have to for darker berry-ish colours)
But neutrals make me look like I’m dying! So I think I’m just yellow toned neutral with pale skin and lots of white, but maybe I’m just outside the boundaries of neutral olive 🤷♀️
This is hands down the best, most clear explanation of olive skin I've come across. Pretty much everything in this video confirmed that I have an olive skin tone. Now I know why shopping for foundation has been such a struggle! Thank you so much!!
Aww what a compliment - thank you so much! I’m glad you found the video helpful. If you have any more questions about the topic please feel free to leave them in the comments and I can make follow-up videos on olive skin!
The best option I have found, is a peachy undertone in complexion products, however, I am predominantly blue so that’s why peachy works.
Yes! I hardly ever wear makeup, because it always makes me look worse.
Completely agree :)
I so agree about foundation buying. It's a pain in the rear. I have to mix them. There is no single bottle that gives me the right undertone. If I tan a bit, as most people do in the summer, I notice most brands seem to head towards an amber colour and that's simply too orange. Why can't they simply add a cool brown to the darken the olive shades? Why Trumpian orange? Right now I'm using a CYO Lifeproof Foundation 107 (yellow/olive) mixed with a small amount of The Body Shop Foundation called Santorini (a peach undertone). Together, they make the perfect match. But it's taken me years to find this blend. I wish more cosmetic companies would investigate and cater for those of us with olive skins. We must surely be a significant market.
The blushing part was so reaffirming to hear. I have acne and fair/light olive skin with somewhat thin skin on my face. My olive skin makes my acne look worse because instead of masking it it offers stark contrast, so the clear parts of my skin are pale green and the red parts look insane next to it. Also the tanning making you look good in more colors thing is so so true! Every summer I buy bright yellows and oranges only to regret it once I lose the tan lol
Have you considered changing what you eat? Personal reduction of acne by cutting carbs (starchy and sugary), gluten (grains, wheat is of course a starch/carb), and taking a vitamin A supplement (cod liver oil, Pure Encapsulations brand 1 x daily).
I've noticed my pores are smaller after taking the vitamin A supplement.
I'm glad im not alone with this one, all down to being very pale and acne and thin skin. how I hated it. foundation looks like a mask and shades never match.. honestly, if you are interested to hear, only tretinoin helped me.
@@HaHaHaLMFAOtv After years of struggling with sensitive overly oily acne skin well into adulthood, which only seemed happy when on Accutane, I finally realized that in my case I had started a vicious cycle as a teen when I first started breaking out. By being too aggressive in response, that led to my skin being so oily- and in turn clogging pores and causing breakouts. So after a go of Accutane, I looked for another answer to skincare, something very mild but still would do the job. What I found was Paula's Choice, which really did help me. Since then I haven't reverted at all to having oily skin. Now besides Paula's Choice, I also use some Korean skincare products. My advice to anyone is besides diet and supplements, is to make sure you're not doing something wrong in your skincare routine. Making sure you're not being too harsh or just using a wrong ingredient somewhere (like I can't use vitamin C or retinoids) can make a world of difference. If nothing else I would definitely recommend Paula's Choice as a good place to start with figuring out a basic simple and safe routine, that one can later expand on.
It also allowed me to now use much lighter types of foundations, just enough to even the skin tone a bit, with just a touch of concealer on the spots that needed it, for a very natural looking look that stayed all day.
@@w1975b please, do NOT recommend supplements to anyone. Especially vitamin A. That could be really dangerous for somebody's health
Also for anyone that struggles with foundations…. Get yourself a GREEN foundation primer! I always keep the makeup forever green primer on hand! I’ll use this to mix with my foundation to amp up the green and it has saved my life! I typically do a 1:1 ratio!
Thank you for the tip!
Yass!! I commented the same thing before seeing your comment. The only way that works for me.
What brand or site has a green primer? I’ve never seen it
this is also a good tip to find out whether you have olive skin, I realize. get a cheap green one and check if it changes anything if you mix it with the foundations you already have! will try this out asap
@@Sunset553 if you search ‘anti redness primer’ then green primers of different brands should show up. They’re usually used to cancel out the redness in skin so it makes sense that it can help to match foundation to olive skin
If you have olive skin, mix some green color corrector into a neutral foundation, it’ll change your life 💚
This explains so much why I sometimes have olive skin and sometimes don't. Seasonal allergies add redness to the skin And I'm on the lighter side, the combo probably just pushes me into a non-olive spectrum or a less olive. This helps so much!
I’m so glad you found it helpful!! I feel like the seasonal changes for me really got me wondering at first if I’m olive 🤷🏻♀️ and allergies / more redness in the skin makes total sense!
I used to have zero redness in my face but I have developed rosacea in my 30s.
My facial skin can get a pink hue to it from various skincare treatments, but all you have to do is look at the underside of your forearm, and you should be able to see the green-ish tint, especially when comparing your arm to others. Yes, the face can change for a myriad of reasons including skin conditions, allergies, the weather, temp. etc.
Redness is only because the skin is thin and you can see the blood beneath. 98% of the world's population doesn't blush. Sallow is better as reacts to the sun better.
It annoys me to no end. I'm the same. Light medium warm is to yellow for me and ..it took me 10 years to find out my skin tone a makeup artist i know said I am olive
CAN CONFIRM! Based on my personal experience as a very fair olive, .and as a chromatically obsessed painter, everything you said about colour mixing and skin tone changes is consistent with my experience.
Also, amazing video! This is the most comprehensive and well organized review of this topic I’ve encountered. ❤ 👏
Amazing - so glad to hear you enjoyed the video and found it to be consistent with your own experiences!! 🥰 Some of the points I made I wasn’t so sure if it was just me or other people experience it too, so I’m happy to hear the validation!
@@stylemejenn definitely not just you- and yes, I agree, hearing a parallel experience is very validating, especially since we have differing skin-tone depth
@@Juststudiothings totally! Thanks for sharing your experience 🥰❤️
I realized I had an olive skin tone about 5 years ago and many, many people argued that fact because I'm very fair and majority celtic. It was a big ah-ha moment for me because I always found wearing high saturation colours made me look sick or washed out while all foundation shades looked orange, peach or pink on my skin.
I found out while I was in makeup school and when our instructor was doing a bald cap demo on me she started spraying green specks to match the olive tones in my skin!
I relate to what you said about not wearing foundation anymore. I’ve tried for 25 years to find a foundation that matched, and I’ve simply never found one. And I love the color of my skin and I want it to show. So I decided to focus on getting my skin as healthy as possible so I can go without make up ❤
Hey :) I found the mixing just a drop of green concealer into my closest matching neutral foundation gives the perfect shade… still don’t wear foundation often but when I do, the touch of green makes it look more natural and less like a mask
Exactly! Taking care of the skin is the ultimate solution. Now that I’m so used to doing foundation-less makeup styles, I really can’t stand the feeling of foundation on my skin!
I feel the same way. I don’t like the way it feels on my skin. I don’t like the way it looks on my skin either as I’m getting older.
However, I do like to wear it occasionally when I’m going to a formal event so thanks for the tip about the drop of green!
What about Glossier skin tint. Literally all other foundations look gross on me but Glossier looks so natural.
when I was in my 20s I had the most beautiful glowy fair neutral olive skin ever and any foundation killed that glow.
Time passes... now I need some coverage or camouflage.
Definitely agree about foundation. My skin is too oily and I always hated how smudgy I felt after. Just a bit of blush, some red lipstick and I'm a light olive snow white. Embrace the olive 😊
YESSS having an olive skin is a beautiful thing and we gotta embrace!
Same oily olive here too! I’ve only recently stopped and I love it! I just have a concealer and blush!
Same. I stopped wearing foundation a while age. I just use concealer and translucent powder now. I found a concealer that matches well.
@@CherryJuli I’ve been sticking to the CoverFX Powerplay concealer in N Medium 2 for a few years now but thinking of switching things up! What brand are you currently using?
"Light olive snow white" is a
f a n t a s t i c phrase 👑
I always hated my skin, always thought what was wrong with me, why am i GREEN like no one else in my village. Years later i found out that my skin was ok -- thanks to people like you, who share their knowledge and experience. So thank you a lot for your video❤
You are so welcome! I'm glad the video was helpful for you. Your skin is perfect just the way it is - olives have the most beautiful coloring and appearance to our skin and it's our best asset ❤
I think your beautiful and need to give yourself more credit.
I find as an olive skin tone I can also pull off “weird” colors that other people think wash them out because they are blends.
The best matching concealer I’ve ever had was tinted green, and was meant to be used as a color corrector 😂
I finally got people to realize how olive my skin is just a few years ago. I'm so pale people thought for years it was impossible for me to be olive instead of porcelain. Que gifted shirts in colors that made me look like death incarnate 😂. It wasn't until I stopped exfoliating for a few weeks that my bf noticed via freaking out. He saw my intense dusty blue green skin and panicked thinking I was covered in bruises 😅😂. I had to explain, calm him down and even show him the pale green eyeshadow I use for highlighter before it clicked. Now he corrects everyone who says porcelain. Guess he's proud of his green girlie 🤷♀️❤
Great to hear about your bf correcting everyone haha. Cute! ❤
THANK YOU. I feel so seen as a pale af olive person.
I’ve self tanned for so many years just because it’s a nightmare to shade match or wear certain clothes that I like, but I want to try to embrace my true shade range
Yes we gotta embrace!! ❤️❤️❤️ glad you found the video relatable
Elizabeth, don't tan with uv (skin cancer) or chemicals (other cancers). Learn what colors look good on you.
I’m a black woman and have struggled quite a bit with finding foundation and not necessarily because I’m a bit darker, usually the tan/deep portion of the spectrum. I’ve struggled with everything you’ve touched on here. I’m closer to the neutral but slightly on the warmer side of neutral. Cool foundations obviously don’t work and warm foundations tend to be too warm. Neutral foundations aren’t a perfect match but are much closer. Less foundation works better for me and I tend to focus more on skincare for the exact reasons you mentioned. I have been able to find more foundations that match although I do think the labels aren’t always accurate. They may be listed as warm but are actually slightly warm/olive.
I'm glad to hear your experience is parallel with what I explained, regardless of the depth of your skin colour! YES - better skin care is the way to getting to the root of your problems and you don't need that much foundation once you can figure out how even out the skin tone just by using product on the areas that need coverage. Thank you for your comment :)
I've thought for a while that Kosas might have good options for deep olive skintones. Haven't tried it myself but olive people who have tried kosas tend to enjoy it.
@@fooloo993 I haven’t tried Kosas but I’ll definitely look into it.
I was once told by a colour analyst that "all olives are winters". No way I could make her doubt this. I see quite a bit of greenish/greyish cast on my complexion but I get a lot of redness on my face nevertheless, as I have light sensitive skin. I'd also like to bring up the idea that some complexions are just more muted. That's also why most foundations look starkly yellow or pink/peach on me despite having the right depth. I once tried mixing in some olive eyeshadow, and the foundation became such a better shade (and more muted!)
I definitely am not a color analyst, but I think that is such a generalization! I see a lot of winters that have olive skin, but I have seen Olives in every season. I, myself am an olive-skinned person who borders Spring and Winter.
@@TheFashManChannel i feel like a fall type, so right at the antipodes of winter in terms of both warmth and intensity 😂
Can't agree more - olives are all over the spectrum when it comes to seasons, not just winter!
I've had someone else comment about mixing green eyeshadow to their foundation and it worked! I'm definitely leaning towards muted so I agree with what you said about some colours looking too stark on my skin even with the right depth!
@@TheFashManChannel a color analyst using such a broad generalizations is a bad sign, she should know how complex and individual undertones are….
This is so helpful! It explains why I use neutral, red leaning bronzers and how blush is so necessary when I’m doing my makeup. Also how my neutral bb cream matched me better in the summer than it does now. But I just didn’t know how to articulate it to myself haha. Im more of a golden olive, which I learned from trying true olive foundations and it wasn’t quite the right match. Thanks for the knowledge!
I actually stick to neutral concealer as well! I know there's lots more options for olives out there these days but I found a shade that works for me in neutral and I've just been sticking with it haha. I'm also more of a golden olive so it's good to know that true olive foundations weren't really a match for you. I'll have to try it out myself once I run out of my current supply. Thank you for sharing!
definitely agree with hint no.3 - people think I’m crazy every time I’ve tried to explain it! 🙌🏽
I’m so glad to hear someone agrees with me about this!! I’ve felt this way about my tan for a long time but wasn’t sure if I’m just going crazy haha 🤪
Is not the same for me 😭. I have very pale olive skin. Maybe, the first few hours my tan is a little more reddish but then it turns yellow and I see my skin more green than before!
Yes! Yes! Yes! Finally someone acknoledges differences and similarities between Olive and neutral. I'm always described as Neutral by makeup store people. i have been very confusted. I ask them if I'm olive and they all kinda agree like 'yeah you could be' or yaah you have some olive, but I guess they are only trained from the perscpetive of warm and cool tones. I am a MAC NC30 /35 and Fenty 260 for reference. Going to rewatch this video again. xoxo
Thank you for the comment! So glad you found the neutral vs olive analogy relatable! 🥰❤️
This video made me realize I have a neutral undertone. Read on if you’re still torn between the two, it might help you shed some light on the matter.
I went through phases of my life where I was severely anemic. During those stages, that would last quite a while, there was always this greenish cast to my skin.
After getting iron injections and raising my blood hemoglobin levels to more of a normal amount, that greenishness nearly disappeared.
When Jenn said that neutral is just olive with a lot more red, it instantly clicked for me. I’m neutral toned, who lost a lot of redness when my red blood cells were low, causing me to look green. Which I always assumed meant olive! But in reality, when the red came back and my body went back to normal - I was back to my normal beige/greyish rosy self.
Tl;dr if you’re torn between neutral and olive, get your iron levels up/get a blood test done
I can totally relate to the "wearing less makeup" part...I've gained more confidence and got compliments when I stopped wearing makeup.. and I NEVER really had good skin to begin with. I had bad acne growing up, big pores and oily skin
Honestly I don’t think I’m ever going back to heavier makeup styles!
I just recently confirmed that I may have olive skin when I tried a neutral tinted moisturizer! For years I always "tried" to use warm toned foundation because that's what is assumed to be my skin tone as an asian, but it always ended up too warm for me. Then tried cooler foundation and it was too pinkish/greyish. But when I tried neutrals, they were almost a perfect match. Just added some bronzer to give some dimension and voila! Thank you for this video since it confirms that I may have olive skin and it'll definitely help me pick better colors that'll suit me best.
As a fellow Asian and Korean I can agree that I cannot find any Korean products that suits my skin! It’s weird that they haven’t developed more products for olive skin because there’s so many of us Asian olives 🫒🥲. I’m glad you found the video helpful! ❤️
How I found that I’m olive - as a joke I tested a VERY gray/green looking foundation and it was a match made in heaven, everything just made sense. Now my old foundation looks bright yellow in comparison 😂
Haha - honestly trying different shades on your actual skin is the most accurate to find a match! For me, I found out while I was in makeup school and my instructor was doing a demo on my skin, then she started mixing green into the foundation as she noticed right away that I had olive skin. Otherwise I probably would have wondered for longer!
I found my match, after decades, in Clinique CN52. It is greyish toned and really melds with my skin. Now my Chanel B30s look too yellow.
What brand?
@@bbjudyfit mine is the Purito
Cica BB Cream Nr 23, but Nr 21 is also quite grayish
I am olive cool toned and have a naturally have bright pink red blush on my lips and cheeks at all times, especially when I am pale.I also stopped wearing foundation but when I need to wear it, I mix my neutral foundation with small amount green concealer, it freaking works! It looks exactly like my skin!
Lots of people have been mentioning about adding green concealer/ colour corrector! I feel like I must give this a try but I'm so used to not wearing foundation anymore that I now hate the feeling of my skin covered in foundation. Maybe for the next special occasion I will give this a try! Thanks for the comment ❤
I definitely agree about looking less olive in the summer as i tan, i can pull off so much more different colours when im tan, in the winter i look almost greyish/sickly, so i use bronzer lightly on my whole face and it brings back some redness into my skin
I definitely agree on the being tanned part! I've always felt like i look like my best self in summer, and everything suits me better too. So going off that theory, if we were to put a hint of red colour corrector all over our face, would it cancel out the green and make us appear more neutral? And then would colours interact with our undertone the same way they would with a neutral person???
I think theoretically it makes sense, although I haven't tried this on anyone myself. My concern would be the separation from your neck and body if you do that for your face only though!
In my case, getting a tan is more difficult for me, cause my skin tends to look even more gray (you have no idea how gray it can gets, looks super weird, as if I applied some cream or pigment on my skin). When my skin is more pale I've got more redness to it, so it's easier to wear different colors. I can get a light/ivory complexion, but also a brown complexion very easily due to the level of greyish. It's kinda hard to explain it, but I've learned how to navigate through using make up.
i also look better when tanned but i find that when my face has red it looks weird compared to the rest of my body and doesn’t really cancel out
skin tone is complex pigment. they don't cancel each other's themself, because they are separated pigment. Theoretically, Red would make your green vein neutral and makes your red more red. I think you would appear to have red skin.
OMG - you have described me perfectly, especially the part about wearing colour only in the summer. What a clear and helpful explanation!
Thank you for the comment! I’m glad to hear that you feel the same way about the tan analogy 🥰❤️ so validating to hear the parallel experiences!
This was a very informative video. As a very fair/fair olive leaning warm with rosacea (thanks mom), this helped really solidify and validate my thoughts behind being olive. So many try to fit me in the yellow or cool done box but neither work for me and even 99.9% of neutrals are too peach or pink for me. I hope brands really start catering to olive tones more often. I have found a few brands with my perfect shade but there needs to be more! Thanks again!
I’m glad you found it informative! I do think that more and more companies are expanding the options for olives 🫒🤭
Literally the most superior illustration and explanation of Olive and Neutral tones ! I’ve never seen anything better! Crystal clear ! Thank you !
Thank you so much for the compliment - glad you found the video informative!! :)
For blush, Tower28's Power Hour is a stunning muted darker red that is perfect for my fair olive skin tone - and will likely look great on all olives in general!
Thank you so much for the recommendation! Will definitely need to check it out as I'm almost out of my current go-to. I'm currently using the Glossier Dusk but thinking of trying something new :)
All Tower 28 colors are too warm for me :(
Audrey Coyne is a very fair-skinned olive who has given great makeup recommendations. Love her channel as well. Great style also. I love that Tower28 blush shade for olive skin tones.
I'm 52 and I only realized recently that although my skintone is very fair and freckled I probably have olive skin. Until now I had always heard of that characteristic for darker skintones than mine. Your very clear video confirmed me in realizing that, thank you :)
Thank you so much! I'm so glad to hear the video was able to provide some clarity for you ❤
This is literally the most informative video on olive skin I've seen. It was like a sudden breakthrough of finally understanding my skintone.
Thank you so much for the compliment! I’m so glad to hear you found it helpful 🥰❤️
It’s easier to find a warm olive than a cool olive. But thankfully adding blue pigment does the trick.
I was so excited for this long awaited video and you delivered ✨🙌Thank you!
Thank you so much for waiting and I’m so glad you found it helpful!! ❤️ Thanks for being so supportive 🥰🥰🥰
Re the Mila Kunis example, the more saturated hue dress does not clash. It brings out all the warmth in her hair (looks more brown black) and skin. The light pink dress makes her hair look closer to black and her skin more fair. Having olive skin allows you to go for either less or more contrast depending on what you want 😊
You're right that it depends on what you want! Maybe that was me projecting my preference on what looks better on Mila - but in the end, your preference IS what's the most important!
Glad to have this for reference! I have an olive tone BUT i suffer from sensitivity/redness and could be mild rosacea. With that, my redness does come in handy if i feel like even with little makeup on, I look pallid or sallow.💕
If you are a light-medium olive and lean more golden, I highly recommend Fenty 225. I always knew I was warmer than cooler but because I am so light if I wore a warm foundation that was the right level of color it could look orange and to remove the orange I would end up with a shade that was probably too light. I have always tanned exceedingly well and really never burned (even without sunscreen back in the day when that was a thing :-) but with no tan people would always say I Iooked so pale. When I tan, my arms and legs look greener but my face and stomach tan more with more red. But I no longer let myself tan so now I am on a quest to just not look like a cadaver🙂 The struggle is real and I am so glad I am not the only one!
We're not alone!! :)
This is one of the best explanations about olive skin that I've heard. I'm pretty sure that I have olive skin but all the other videos I had watched in the past said that olives don't have pink in our cheeks nor do we blush visibly. But I do have pink in my cheeks and now I know why. Yes, my skin is very fair; and so the red in my skin colour is showing through much more. Thanks for that great nugget of knowledge, Jenn!
Thank you for the comment!! I'm so glad you found the video informative - I think fair olive is ESPECIALLY tricky because of how light the skin is, and how easily it can be influenced by only a hint or redness. I hope I come across more real-life examples of fair olives to study it more :)
This video is EVERYTHING! Thank you so much for making this content because I have been saying & feeling this for YEARS! And I also have noticed that I look better with my tanned skin. When I’m lighter I look sickly. I also can wear more variety of colors with my darker skin as opposed to when I’m at my lightest. Thank you!
You are so welcome! I'm so glad to hear so many people are finding this video relatable. Yay to olives!
Tbh there is actually not enough videos on olive skin, i have seen All of them and I need more, pls continue doing videos about olive skin 😭
I’ll continue to make content on this topic! ❤️
I wasnt able to find a shade of base until a girl at a drugstore told me I had olive skin.True I never blush under the sun, I just get tanned. No wonder I look fantastic with blush and I just come back to life after applying.
THIS IS THE BEST OLIVE EXPLANATION!!!!! Thank you thank you!!! I’ve been struggling because I didn’t like warm or cool colors on me, so I’ve been wearing more neutrals and I’ve been feeling much more confident. It makes to much sense!!!
Right?!!!!! I think it's the best ever olive explanation too
Thank you!! I’m glad the video made sense and it was helpful for you! 🥰❤️
By far, one of the most helpful videos breaking down olive skin that I've ever seen. Thank you so much for walking us through it in such a consumable way! We must be very different shades of olive, because I find that ANY blush shows up extra red on me, because the red and pink pigments placed on the surface of my skin stand out *so* much from the green background. I have a couple of bronzers that I reach for as blushes, that just show up as absolutely pink on me. Anything in the brown/purple category is my go-to. Cheers to being green-skinned gals!
So interesting to hear about the bronzer appearing pink on your skin - I use bronzer on top of anything showing too pink or red to tone it down!
Cheers to us 🥂❤️
This is a great breakdown. I'm a warm olive. Foundations are getting better at including our skintone. I look for foundation with a yellow undertone and then find one not too dark or too light.
Thank you for clarifying this for me. It makes the most sense. I'm a blue/green eyed blonde who never thought of herself as olive. But after this video I now totally get how I can get away with a mustard top (I tend to have rosy cheeks) but that same color anywhere else on my body makes me look green! It also explains why I can't stand foundation. What sold me on natural skin way back in H.S.was how the foundation on my friend's lovely face turned into a chalky mask pasted over the lovely rosy glow she got in exercise class!
I highly recommend Beauty Blender’s skin tint foundation in Light 4 for anyone who is fair-light with warm-ish olive skin tones! Their description of the shade even includes “olive” in it! :)
This was SO interesting that I watched it twice! I hope you get a million subscribers Jenn!!
Awww thank you so much for the sweet compliment! ❤️ a million subscribers… what a dream! 😝
This was probably the best explanation of olive and how to explain undertone. Thank-you!
Thank you for the compliment! I'm glad you found the video helpful ❤
I’m so so glad I’ve come across your channel! I’m a very pale very slightly olive bright spring, and I really think it was my olive complexion that made finding my right season and palette so confusing for so long. It took me years to figure out. That said, I now love that I have an olive, bright complexion because I feel like it’s such a unique feature.💕
Welcome to the channel ❤
This is a very well done video! I have just one addition - not necessary a correction, though. I am a pale warm olive and I actually look MORE olive when I am tanned. I guess it depends on the tone one's tan. Mine is not very reddish but rather golden brown. In result, in the summer I move more towards the stereotypical "Mediterranean golden olive girl" territory (despite me being fully Slavic and a NC15 level of paleness in the winter and barely pushing to NC20 when tanned [I use the MAC shades as indications of saturation level only, the actual NC20 is super orange on me]).
Still, this is very true for the two separate colour schemes for summer and winter. As a more "golden girl" in the summer, I can wear more white, grass greens, mustard yellows or various olive/khaki tones in the summer but they wash me out in the winter. In the summer I have to cut the all black or deep navy looks as they clash too much with the golden warmth of my summer skin tone.
I have some people comment about their skin turning more yellow or olive when they tan, so it's definitely different for everyone! :)
I'm a very pale olive and everything you listed is true for me too. I don't tan any longer but when I did I could wear very cool bright colors. Although nowadays I prefer to rock the chic black and warm grays, so I don't have to worry about skin damage as much.
Thanks for sharing your experience! I used to go into tanning beds but now I only stick to "natural" tans (i.e. spending time outdoors in the summers). The skin damage is just not worth it!
Yes!! I've always thought I could only pull off some colors while being tan. Thank you for all the info. It is extremely helpful.
Thank you so much!! I’m so glad to hear you found the content helpful 🥰❤️
finally. this is THE VIDEO with solid and clear explanations. many thanks, this enlightens me and my greyish complexion!!!
You’re so welcome - I’m glad you found the video helpful!
I am olive-skinned on the warm side (pretty light in the winter and can get pretty dark in the summer) and I do have a natural blush on the cheeks and freckles while the rest of my skin is still yellow-greenish toned. I think it's possible to be olive toned and still have a visible blush (the freckles and the blush might be signs of some ginger ancestor in my case). But even the red on my cheeks is color-coordinated with the olive tones if it makes sense...One thing I know is that I sure look great dressed in the olive color spectrum.
I think visible blush is possible for olives too! Probably means your skin is on the thinner side so the redness shows through a bit more ☺️
Thank you, I'm similar. My face flushes massively all the time but how much it shows up depends on lighting and the rest of my body is yellow-green. My hands and feet will also get very red in extreme temperatures.
I think I might be olive, but as a pale girl with a lot of rosacea in my cheeks, it's so hard to tell! I look good in typical bright autumn colours for clothes, but typical cooler tones for makeup (mauve, pink-toned reds, bronzes) so I'm still confused
You should check your skin colour on the inside of your wrist or arm to see if you have any distinct green hues showing!
Thank you SO MUCH! The lack of red topic was truly enlightening, I will definitely never have to wonder again lol. Soft winter is definitely my palette, love you videos!
I'm glad the video lived up to its title haha ❤❤❤
Such a great video (and series!). Thank you 💚
Thank you so much for the comment - I'm glad you found the series helpful! :)
This is by far the best video I’ve seen on Olive skin! You do a wonderful job explaining…
I still have such a hard time telling what my skin tone is though, I just can’t seem to figure it out! Sometimes I think it looks warm, other times it looks cool, sometimes I think I’m olive, but then I see more red in my skin… I wish I could narrow it down, even just a little lol!
Anyway, great video and amazing work breaking it all down!
Thanks for the comment and compliment! I agree - finding your skin tone can get really confusing. I do have a video on skin tone as well if you haven't watched it yet (czcams.com/video/ZOVUE7XZYLU/video.html) where I also explain skin tones other than olives!
Immediately subscribed. I have been quite stuck with the seasonal colour stuff because it’s so hard to figure out my skin tone. I think I’m finally coming to the realization that my skin is probably a light, slightly warm olive, but it’s a lot less evident in my face because I have quite a bit of redness. But I’ve always thought that the rest of me is a bit greenish. So there you go. And green colour corrector is my best friend.
Thank you for the sub!! I have not tried mixing green color corrector with foundation but lots of people have been suggesting it so I must try this trick! ❤️
Omg!!
This video made more sense than any other video or blog regarding olive skintones!!
Thank you so much!! I’m glad to hear it as helpful 🥰❤️
I'm light olive (often look a little grey) and have been trying to figure out how to bring some life to my skin! I'm so glad I found your channel! Thank you for taking time to break everything down and explain why certain colors and techniques work better for different people!
You’re so welcome! I’m glad you found the video helpful 🥰
My mother always called me olive skinned. I believe she was right. As I age my facial skin has reddened. I do like myself in deep jewel tones and in tans, creams and olives. As a teenager I had a hard time with foundations, I had to avoid anything with warm or preachiness to it. Grayish, cooler colors worked better. I also wear brighter colors when I am tan in the summer. Pastels just don’t do anything for me unless it’s gray.
Same for me about pastels - they do nothing for me!!
Thank you for pointing out that cool vs warm is blue undertone vs yellow undertone. I've spent sooo much time explaining to redheads that having a lot of pink in the skin doesn't equal cool tone. I don't know where so many of them got that idea, but it's pervasive!
It’s probably because for fair skin, blue undertone can appear purplish / pinkish! But even those pinks are very cool, as opposed to the warm+pink skin appears more peachy!
100%. I happen to have just tried out the darker lip/blush shade hypothesis this week, and the color is so flattering it immediately became my new favourite.
Great to hear you found the tip useful in finding colors! :)
Thank you Jenn! I just found your channel and I am so happy because I think my skin tone is olive and it's not so easy to find good advice and tips regarding olive skin style. Your content is so good, I really hope your channel gets a lot of traction, you deserve it! 😍
Thank you so much for the kind words!! I've been looking for a easy to follow at-home workout videos and you just knocked on my door :) Will try out your workout videos tonight!
@@stylemejenn You're welcome, keep up the good work! 😊 Great to hear, you are more than welcome to join the workout sessions!
I’m pale olive, and have kind of that “grayish” tone. I’m somewhat more on the cool side, bur some warm colors do work on me as well, specifically the deep fall ones. But I’ve worn both winter ans summer colors and they always work on me.
This is the best explanation I've seen on how olive skin works! So informative, thank you! And thanks for correcting some of those myths out there. I have very light olive skin and I'm a Bright Spring - definitely leaning warm but still in the neutral range. I first realized I was an olive when I tried to use a green corrector and it completely faded into my skin. Before I knew I was olive I used to have trouble with foundation - cool was too pink, warm was too orange, and neutral tended to look too peachy or gray. I eventually found a better match in a warm yellow-based foundation (L'Oreal True Match W2) , but it still was just a tinge too orange/warm. More recently I discovered Smashbox Studio Skin in 1.05 (fair with a warm olive undertone) and it's the closest I've found yet. Definitely recommend that one for golden-leaning pale olives like me!
When I tan I actually think I look more olive? I've noticed when I'm at my most pale a tiny bit more blue comes out, but when I tan my skin appears more golden. But what you said is still somewhat true for me. Even though clear, bright colors are still my colors at my most pale, I can go even brighter and warmer when I tan. So that bright yellow-orange that may overpower me/be a little too warm for me in the early spring is going to be great in the summer!
Blush definitely helps bring my face to life more! I still haven't figured out the perfect shade; since I'm bright I'm not sure if your recommendation will work for me but I may give it a try. Thanks again!
Thank you so much for the comment - so glad to hear about the parallel experience with the tanning even though you’re a bright spring! 🥰❤️
Seconded, I also thought the video was a great and crystal clear explanation as to how olive skin works. I've figured out that I'm also a bright spring in seasonal color analysis (muted colors make me look dead and dull, pure gray being the worst offender), but also agree that I can wear more of the very, very brightest colors when I'm tan! Though my best is probably an orange-ish bright red, yellow-orange leans a bit too warm on me. I have to stick to colors that aren't TOO warm or cool, but very saturated...
I'm more light to light-medium, and use the Kosas concealer thinly where needed instead of foundation. 3.2O in the winter, and 3.5W in the summer.
As for blush, I've never found a blush formula I like and that I find easy to apply. So I just use lipsticks for this, much better selection of colors too 🤷😊 but either way, the absolute best blush color on me hands down is a coral pink. The lipstick I come back to for blush purposes all the time is Max Factor Colour Elixir in Pink Brandy. I'm betting a coral of some variety will be great on you and anyone who is a pale to light-medium olive bright spring, but for some reason I've found that color family very difficult to find in real blushes. But that's my blush color tip!
@@reureya I use lipsticks for different colors as well 💄☺️ I generally find cream blush to be easier to apply and sticks to my skin better for a more natural look, but I usually go over the cream product again with powder formula afterwards!
This was very enlightening. Thank you for the in-depth discussion on olive skin! Cheers
Super helpful video! I’ve never seen the colour drops broken down like this. I can affirm your hypothesis about tanned skin changing tone. I’ve always been confused about my undertone because I look so different in winter and summer. Thank you!!
I'm glad you found the video helpful and relatable. You're so welcome!
You’re good. Glad I found you! I’m a light olive (not fair). I find that Kosas and Hourglass foundations are good for my skin color.
Hi - thank you for the comment! I haven't tried either brands myself but have heard good things about them, Kosas especially!! I'll need to check them out :)
Your approach to teaching color theory is fantastic! 🥰
There is a beauty youtuber who is admittedly the palest of pale and only in the last year discovered she was a pale olive - it's interesting because, as you mentioned, olive is most visually associated with yellow-green but in her case it's more of a muted gray, which I guess could be determined as cool-toned olive?
Olives can definitely have the grey-ish tone! Yes I think those olives lean to the cooler sides because it's predominantly the blue that brings out those grey hues!
divadream, Why did you not name the youtuber? Is it Alexandra Anele?
I think @divadream might be talking about Hannah Louise Poston (who is pale, but definitely not "the palest of pale"): she sometimes mixes green colour corrector with her foundation.
Taylor Wynn?
@@stealthis Tayor is a neutral, she's not olive.
Wow!!! I have olive skin a bit on the tan side and I've seen countless videos on this subject but this is hands down the first video where I can say I agree 100% with every single word. And that is based on my own life experience, observation, and trial and error based revelations! Thanks for this video!
Thank you for the comment! It’s so nice to hear lots of people having the same experiences 🥰
THANK YOU so much for sharing such valuable information in a clear and concise manner! This explains so much, all the way down to feeling better in neutral colors for clothing and not wearing foundation/ makeup! I've always been hesitant to try wearing blush but I'd like to someday! Wow it feels good to finally understand my skin a little better, after a lifetime of having various skin issues. You are wonderful!♡
Thank you so much for the sweet comment! :) I'm glad you found the video helpful and relatable. One trick I like using for blush is to use a layer of bronzer on top to tone down any colours that might be too bright! There are people asking for product reco as well so I'm thinking of making a follow-up video on my own routine - I think you'd find it helpful!
One thing I love about having olive skin is being able to rock warm and cool colours together. Dark blue being one of my best colours to wear, then wearing a slightly warmer orange tinted lip colour with it just brings life to my sallow face. It creates a nice contrast with green eyes too. As long as I'm careful with the brightness of warmer colours, it works really well.
Jealous you’re able to pull off orange lips! I’ve tried but it looks a little too warm for my skin. I agree the brightness definitely matters - darker oranges like MAC Chilli seems to look ok on me, but I have to be careful not to be too heavy handed!
@Style Me Jenn
I might not really be pulling it off, but I like it😆 it helps to have a go-to neutral for muting any colour.
I don't suit dramatic lipsticks at allllllll but I've found that the Rare Beauty gloss in Apricot is really nice for a hint of warm orange!
Illy80: Having olive skin does *not* automatically you can "rock warm and cool colours together". Maybe YOU can, but that means you must be a "neutral olive", not a cool olive or a warm olive. I'm a cool olive and orange and most warm colors make me look like a corpse.
I've found a good foundation match which I mix green primer into (about 1/3 primer and 2/3 foundation) to bring it almost exactly to my skin tone. I'm a cool pale olive so finding a good foundation match can be done!
Yes I’ve seen this trick in other videos! I just don’t keep a green primer or concealer around because I have minimal redness 😅 I must try it out in the near future!
You are so right on!! I am a pale olive and it's hard to find the right shades. So glad I found you!
I'm glad the video was helpful!
just have to say that this video confirmed all my 30 years of confusion and experience with my skin tone working with colors, blushes, tans, lipsticks, EVERYTHING!
I'm so glad to hear the video provided confirmation for you! ❤
It was such a nice reaffirmation that in the past few years I have been doing the right thing after I realized my skintone is olive, not neutral or "a weird mixture of cool and warm tones". The one tip that makes such a lot of sense that I have been noticing but could not pinpoint out why is that even with my more pale olive skintone, lighter shades, the typical nude-y lip colors that work so well for others just do not work for me - and now I know the reason. But other than that, apart from still struggling to find the right foundation match, I have been buying clothes (especially tops) in shades that are more tertiary / muted or rich in tone, not sharp cool or warm tones, I have been religiously using blush and usually in mid-tones, nut the super light ones.
Thanks for sharing your experience! Glad to hear you agreed with a lot of what I said :)
Everything makes sense now. Thanks so much.
You’re welcome - I’m glad you found the video informative! ❤️
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Quick question if you don't mind. Do neutral skin tones interact with colors the same way that olive skin tone do? For example: I mostly have a slightly pink tone to my skin but sometimes it appears slightly ashy/green. Is it possible to be in between a neutral cool pink and cool olive?
@@ladybluelotus It’s definitely possible. Like I said in the video it’s the amount of red that differentiates an olive from a neutral, and if you’re a cool skin tone I think you can definitely border between a cool olive and a cool neutral! Hope that helps ❤️
This is the best video I've seen explaining what makes an olive skin tone and comparing it to neutral, thank you!
Glad it was helpful! ❤️❤️❤️
This is the best explanation I’ve heard.
THANK YOU.
My skin changes a lot, but I’m generally pale with green overtones. When I was younger I thought I looked sickly & would add bronzer and lipstick to bring some color to my face.
A darker bronzer looks way better and more natural than blush, I’m adding this part to my comment in case anyone wants to try that out. 👍
Thanks for sharing your own tips!! 👍
Mediterranean skin - north Africa, southern Europe, and west asia, that's who primarily have olive skin. Seems to be the people of the great old civilizations lol. And coincidentally those who use olive oil in their cooking. Look good in everything. Suits both gold and silver. Usually sallow therefore tan well and easily - honey not pink. Some of the best skin there is. Sofia Loren and Monica Bellucci.
Agreed - some of the best beauties out there are olives! ❤️
Olive skin is really common in eastern europe, as well.
I agree! Sicilian and Calabrian here!
This was a great explanation. Much more up to date than the book on color season analysis from the 80's that I have lol. I have very light olive skin that's on the warmer side. Some areas of my skin are more clearly greenish while others are more yellow or just always red due to blemishes. I don't wear makeup anymore but when I did I could usually get away with warm foundations, they were just a tiny bit too orangey for me.
I definitely look bad in both too warm and too cool colors, and neutrals are always my safest bet, but because I'm an artist I can quite easily find a lot of shades of almost every color that work well for me. I just look for ashier, more watered down versions for warm colors like red and orange, and softer versions of cool colors like blue and purple. I tend to avoid clear colors and go for colors that are a mix of at least one warm and one cool color. Like if it's for example blue I'd prefer it have either a hint of red (navy, violet, marine, prussian) or a hint of yellow (cerulian, cyan, cobalt, aqua) as that's gonna look a lot better on me. With red and yellow it can have either a hint of blue or gray. So for example wine red, ochre and ivory are shades of red, orange and yellow that work well for my olive skin, because they're cooled down with gray or blue.
Once I figured out this trick, it's actually pretty easy for me to find clothes, jewellery and hair colors that suit me. So at this point I feel like it is actually an asset to have olive skin, because we can look good in both warm and cool colors, it just has to be not too warm or too cool. But that's still probably a greater range of colors than most people can look good in.
Thank you for sharing your experience!!
I agree - I think that our skin is our best asset 🥰❤️
PERFECT explanation! FINALLY 👍🏻. THANK YOU!!!
You are so welcome!! Thank you for the compliment 🥰❤️
This is sooo helpful! But also healing, because it helps me embrace my skin even more. Thank you!
Yesss embrace it! We're all beautiful ❤
I have olive skin, but get red irritation a lot due to skin sensitivity. Very fair, and I have a condition which causes thinning skin, so my skin has gotten pinker overtime, with veins getting more visible as well. They're usually a sort of turquoise color, but where I have some more red in my skin, they're bluer. My sister has pinker skin and her veins are much bluer! Even with the same thinning skin, our veins have different colors....
I would often have too much redness in my face over allergies - and the heightened sensitivity... I'm sicilian, but I found BB cream for East Asian skintones matched the rest of my body better. As an optimist, I guess the silver lining of a health condition is the balance it did for my skin lol
I’m East Asian but East Asian BB creams don’t work for me - they’re wayyyyy too light and some of them make my skin grey!! 😅🤣
Fabulous video, Jenn! I love having an olive undertone. My mother says I'm straight up green. :) My focus has always been on consistently taking great care of my skin, and strategically using concealer where needed, and then a bit of colour cosmetics to add "life". For me, a more yellow-based concealer has always worked really well. I also want my skin to show through and not be masked. In the past, I had always used yellow-based foundations and they worked pretty well for me, but now it's great to actually find olive undertones, even at the drugstore. I used to be a light-medium and now that I'm a light.. my olive undertones are even more pronounced. Yet another reason why I no longer wearing foundation... except for special occasions.
To know if you have an olive undertone, all you have to do is hold the underside of your forearm up to a few other people, and your skin will most definitely have a greenish cast in comparison. Do this in good, bright, natural lighting, and of course, with no fake tan,
etc.
While my skin has a bit of pinkness now that it has lightened significantly and due to skin treatments.. I'm not sure that I've ever blushed. Hmmm... Can't recall.. :)
Your video has been the most accurate one I've seen on olive skin so far! And yes, red clothing (esp. a warm red) does me no favours! lol I even despise red lipstick on me.. Not a good look..
Thank you!! I’m glad you liked the video!
Strategic use of concealer + bit of colours is exactly like my routine! For me sandy colours seem to work best, although like you said there’s wider options for olives these days which is so great 🥰. After realizing what a terrible choice it was to wear foundation for my wedding, I decided that I will not wear foundation even for special occasions 😂
@@stylemejenn Agreed. When I say I wear foundation rarely, on those occasions I use a medium foundation and dilute it 50% with a moisturizing "primer".. so it's basically a tinted moisturizer. It's super sheer. I'm not even sure what the point is.. lol I don't like the feeling on base on my skin anymore.. :)
@@wendigo1919 I used to do the same!! And then realized I’m really not covering anything so I ditched the routine eventually haha 😆
Thank you! This video spoke to me, I took your advice on board, bought a different blusher and lipstick as you suggested, and, blimey, what a huge difference! Less is more I agree
I'm glad you found the tips helpful! ♥♥♥
The sun tan made SO MUCH sense to me, thank you!
I'm glad you were able to find parallel experiences! Thanks for the comment ❤
I would argue that I’m olive. I do have rosy cheeks, but the rest of my body has a warm olive cast to it and in the summer when I tan, it seems to bring those green hues forward.
One tip that I didn't see in this video was to check the veins in your wrist and elbow. If you have a mix of blueish purple and green veins, you have an olive undertone.
I found out last year that I'm a light olive undertone, a pale green queen! Made sense because I'm from the Balkans, and olive skin is not uncommon there. 🫒
I think the fashion color theory is complicated because I have so many random saturated or bright colours that look really good with my skin. Bright coral, periwinkle (like Mila Kunis' dress on the right side) mustard and bright yellows, and even that yellow-green highlighter color look really great on my skin. There are some light blues that make me look yellow if they are complementary. Purple can be tricky, as well as cool toned pinks. On the flip side, most greens and very bright, dark pinks and reds can pull the pinks and reds up in my skin and brighten my complexion. On that note I can't see the problem with Mila's red dress? I think she looks stunning, it warms her up and she's glowing! She may be more tanned in that photo which could change the perception of her skin. I think she looks more greenish in the pale pink dress. It's really individual when it comes to clothing, even a slight change in hue can make a difference. Things like hair and eye colour are a major factor too. I'm a dark brunette. A olive tone with blonde, red, black or brunette hair is going to make a difference.
Just my two cents, if anyone is interested lol.
Thanks for the comment! I think the vein colour can get tricky because some people have more blue veins than green and vice versa, regardless of whether you're olive or not! I personally do have both but more leaning towards green.
With Mila in the red dress in my opinion it brings out too much warmth in her skin and her skin looks more even with the pale pink, but I have seen some people comment that the red doesn't clash. But in the end your preference is what's the most important anyway, so if you want to enhance the warmth in your skin even more so you could choose to! Based on your comment I think you'll find my other video on seasonal colours interesting, so definitely check it out! :)
@@stylemejenn Thanks for the heart + reply ❤️ that makes sense, and I will check those other vids out~
The camera and file compression can make all sorts of weird colour stuff happen in photos online, so who's to say how it looks in person 🤔
Olive skin is underappreciated, always glad to have discussions about it 🥰
As a warm olive, I also agree that less is more when it comes to our skin
I'm the opposite where I have super oily skin and the foundation just feels really sticky and gross. Lots of powder-form products (blush, setting powder, bronzer) for me!
I am also warm toned olive, with dry skin. I use only moisturizer and colored lip balms (that are mostly dark reds/plumm color)
My life just changed! thank you
Thanks for the comment and compliment - glad you found the video helpful! :D
Really helpful!!!
Great video! I have olive skin and I was always annoyed that foundation, powder and concealer colors never matched us. I used to work for the cosmetics company Prescriptives and we custom blended foundation, powder and concealer so I was always able to match my green with them, but I also did what you said, gravitated towards the neutrals because they always seemed to work better. It's so funny that you said when we tan we get redder ... I always hated how self tanners never looked like my actual tan because I always tan red/bronze and the tanners are always orange. I personally have always loved my olive skin. I love neutral colors on myself, brights like turquoise and true reds, olive greens and most of the blues. I tend to stay away from purple, orange, yellow and lighter and to a lesser extent brighter greens because they don’t suit my preference, but I have worn them as well and would in the future.
I find yellow works for me but only when I’m tanned! Orange seems to really not be for me but I think orange itself is also a difficult colour to pull off for most!
@@stylemejenn I think most people will think that colors don’t look good on them but a lot of the time it’s mostly preference. I don’t think orange looks bad on me when I’m not tanned it is just not what I like to see on myself. I don’t wear prints either because I always hate them LOL
@@DanteVelasquez amen about prints - same personal preference as me! Stripes is about as far as I would consider for prints 🤣