My eastern European family is all of darker skintone and the only two as pale as me dont wear makeup. Hairstyles for Older Women To those who have a harder time seeing the green hidden in the natural beige of the skin : it becomes more obvious when compared to people with clearly warm (golden/orange) tones or with cool (petal pink) tones. I see the resemblance in skin though a bit- but I would say Im Now I just need to find my Summer shade! Its fruit pigmented makeup and its wonderful. And thank you everyone else for sharing their experiences in the comments! I was light blonde as a child with dark hazel eyes. Youre spot on, and I am amazed to see an actual solution in print. Ive always considered my color season to be soft autumn. Ive struggled with color matching most of my life. I will try other cosmetics you reccomended , Happy New Year!! Oh, and I have green eyes and dark red hair. Ive tried to use blue mixer to tone-correct yellow/orange foundations too, but its just too much work most days to get it right. -Tarte Shape Tape Concealer Fair Light Natural Id recommend looking at Asian brands. YESSSS! Theres little advice, guidance, or technical assistance available on the concerns we face when looking for informational resources. A scattering of lighter brown highlights brings out that bold brass even more. It is nearly impossible to find a face makeup that matches my skin tone. I have dark hair, dark green eyes, and tan. Since my cheeks are red and everything else so pale, I seem to have a totally different undertone. 3 Champagne (Not a bad match but oxidises a bit.) And since i am brazilian i have very mixed roots. I have never been able to do the vein check or the gold/silver test and thought I was crazy! Looks a bit too light at first, but gets a bit darker (=perfect colour match) when it dries. That greenish / olive-ish / taupe grey is the famous olive undertone, that plagues or graces some of us. I feel you and I am a cool olive or pale olive with brown eyes with specks of amber and dark brown hair. A light purple is feminine, work-appropriate, and great for olive tones. OMG so sorry just saw this! hello! There are still a lot of people with light olive skin in Europe, especially in Northern Italy, Germany, France, UK , and of course Eastern Europe where its much more common. Deep purple/violet work, but it cant be too dark. So I am relieved it is not just me! Im told that of a jewel like color, teal (NOT green or blue) can actually look quite good with olive skin, but Im a little nervous given past experiences and I suspect the shade of teal needs to be quite precise. (It was worse when I was a lifeguard) anyone else? My mother is of Costa Rican/German descent and my father is from British Columbia with Scottish roots. Serena Piper Interestingly enough there are some light colors that work on us. I am also a blonde and olive! Even though I have been asked if I have some chronic disease that makes me look so pale. I have trouble finding nailpolish that doesnt make my veins stand out more! Ive always lamented the lack of consideration given to the specific needs of the pale olive demographic within the cosmetic industry. Hi Jeni, just my two cents: reds that are cool (ish) but do not turn pink on me ever are viva glam i and russian red from mac, and velvet jazz from Lisa Eldridge. My eyes are brown cool patron (you can find the explanation in youtube; isnt as simple as blue is cool and green is warm there are both warm browns and cool browns), my hair is somehow dark, ashy brown, I can pull silver and gold jewelry but I look my best in rose gold. Then my hair turned blonde, and finally brown. Isadore face sculptor in pink. Anyways, Im always glad to find fellow fair/light olives as I figured this out myself many years ago whenever anyone would ask me if I was sick or nauseous if I went makeup and spray tan free. However, the color of the eyes is only one aspect of deciding your seasonal color palette. I never meet other pale olive-toned people! Any foundation looks either pink or orange on me, or darker, or chalky Given the fact that, despite my (reasonably medium) skin imperfections, I am more comfortable without makeup on than with it on, I just don`t put enough energy and resources to look for a good match foundation. Maybe a rich royal with a touch of black added? I am so glad to come across this website. For blush and lipstick, if theres mauve in the name and its not too dark, it probably looks good on me. Ive been struggling to find a good match for me and tarte is the closest I can find! Pixie Cuts for Thin Hair Combining certain cool undertones with typical pale to medium yellowish overtones can give an olive. I have the same problem. Glowing skin, minimal makeup, and defined lashes compose Jessica's signature look. This is so unbelievable helpful! 2N is better because it fits my skintone better, but it also seems to have slightly warm reflections which are not in the 1,5N. I am currently using two shades of the Este Lauder perfectionist foundation. I had no idea green undertones were a thing, but after years of poorly matched foundation, it all makes sense. I am half Croatian and half a combo of Scottish/English/Irish- but both of my parents have darker skin than me- my mom is light warm and my dad is medium olive/warm- so here I am with thin skin with veins of all colors very visible. The same situation here! I look horrible is most colors. Cant wait to find your product recommendation and sub it out for (probably toxic) blue craft paint. Sometimes Im lucky enough to find some pale yellow-toned product that could do the trick and conceal my red-brown acne scars (I dont know whether I have a yellow-pale-olive skin or a neutral-pale-olive skin, I can see both of green and yellow pigments in my complexion). Summer? Its wintertime so Im struggling with founding a matching foundation to my pale olive skin. Its quite the adventure! I have always thought that I look grey-ish green compared to others. Rose gold is my best metal, but silver is ok (so are bronze and brass) I understand though and blame the makeup companies. I am not sure if I am cool or warm toned, but probably leaning cool. Im still on the hunt though for that perfect foundation shade. I have such a hard time beyond Neutral tones to bright my eyes and face. Had jet black hair, nice green eyes and tans SO easily. I only use a drop or so of the yellow and it makes my foundation a perfect match. Finally Im aware of my skin undertone.I have green eyes ,ash dark brown hair,freckles and I get tan pretty easly. On the subject of jewellery, rose-gold (with runner up being gold gold) does me the most favours. Olive undertone makes so much sense! But when it comes to clothing, I swear the only colors that I actually look good in are black and grey . I also, went down another rabbit hole and wanted to know the color season. This might not help much now, but Ive had decent success with UD Naked Skin 1.0. Nothing that overwhelms or wears you, instead of you wearing it. I was a R/O Prescriptives and the color was Fresh Vellum. Estee lauder double wear concealer 1c (light cool). I have light olive skin (Native American, French, English, Irish) with so many colors and seasonal variations that Im constantly adjusting my color palette, but I find that I can find a way to work in just about any color. Great article! My own skin is pale enough that I often have trouble finding alight enough foundation at the drugstore. Maybe because theyre seen me when tanned (which is quite an achievement I have to tan carefully and slowly), they recognize it. I find the combination/oily formula to be more full coverage than the combination/dry. I am not prone to redness and I am much more yellow then her- but I wouldnt say I have a yellow undertone. Looking forward to trying out some of these products! PS. I stick away from yellow and true orange, lilac and lavender like the plague. For those who have olive skin, green eyes are flattering especially while wearing brown hair. So Im even paler than you, so much so that sometimes in pictures I look like a ghost. On the flip side, though, somewhat similar to the author, when I look at my wrist veins, some are CLEARLY purple, but then the rest are obviously green-ish blue, which might suggest neutral-to-cool undertones? . I had always known I was olive, but the warm / cool spectrum seemed almost impossible to determine. I can wear muted jewel shades, taupe, black and charcoal, as kettlewell suggested after I did an online colour analysis with them. Thanks! When I had chestnut hair, reddish, I hated it, but it looked good in photos apparently, and now I have a sort of balayage, that always goes a little orange over time, but its like a caramel colour that seems to lighten my features and I like it. Ill always end up looking grayish in most shades too. I see that green and its lovely. I think my colouring sounds like yours you might be a soft summer like myself but one shade in the soft summer i cant wear is bluesy gray hope this helps, Dear Lucy x Hi and thank you SO much for your beautiful website and for this amazing and kind article. Ive shown this by holding something yellow up to it and orange. Highly highly recommend. I am Polish and French-Canadian on one side of my family, and mixed Romanichal on the other side. I think Im really late to this post, but thanks for writing it! I know that medium skin tones can get called olive when they aren't. it's especially tricky to make that call with lighting and makeup in photos. Tried the backstage olive undertones? I definetly cant wear a black skirt, i look sickly pale unless ive got tanner on. A short, platinum blonde pixie is a youthful haircut and hair color combination for women over 50. Muted teal, muted blues, muted purplestheres a theme here, but deep teal and other true jewel tones are still doable Ive been thinking about trying that foundation, but I only recently discovered I might be pale olive. The best match I have found is porcelain beige (B) from Tarte shape tape concealer. the pale olive tone thing has made it such a struggle to pick out nude nail polishes too. is that all? So glad I googled pale olive undertones on a hunch and found this validation and advice. Either she's olive or just very very muted. So I find this really neat! I always suspected I was olive, although it was quite pale. I have dark brown eyes and hair, pale skin and I tan super easily but my colour season is definitely winter (not sure about the subtype, probably clear). Help. ? LOL but long story short, I have found a few things that work for our unique frustrating but dope skin tone. Since I stay out of the sun these days that doesnt really matter. Another thing that Ive noticed is that dark and medium olive skin naturally lightens with age while light and pale olive skin darkens due to accumulated sun damage. The closest match Ive found for myself is actually drugstore: LOral True Match Lumi Healthy Luminous Makeup C3 (creamy natural). Hopefully this will help those who are struggling to find shades that work for them! Youre my tribe! was a major flop. Something. No wishy-washy Browns for us.. dark chocolate shades look great. Ethnicity, I live in London, UK and I was born here and so were both my parents but my dads family are all Italian and my mums family are Spanish, Latino, Iranian, Indian etc. I used the paint app to swatch colors next to your face on a pic of you with no makeup (faux-freckles-6.jpg) and thought the deep winter colors suited you well. Some people think my eyes are blue. Its for light-medium skin. My skin got clearer, my eyes brighter and my overall look softened. Based on my experience, I can say the next if you pick from darker colors they should be a bit warm like chocolate or chestnut/ or some caramel highlights are great. Ill have to find the one you are talking about! I dont tan easily, but I also am not prone to burning easily. Its relatively inexpensive at about $35AUD, but places like Priceline in Australia often have specials and you can sometimes pick it up for about 20 bucks. 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