Toward the end of summer my husband and I laugh bc I start to look sickly, almost like my skin cant absorb any more and I look jaundice. I have struggled to find any foundation that works, and I am not a makeup guru so I cant remember the brand. I send you a virtual glass of the finest, coldest beer in gratitude. I actually use the 145 to highlight! Even though I have been asked if I have some chronic disease that makes me look so pale. Its like the depth of my skin tone underneath is neutral brown but on top is green-white-slightly yellow. Yet, today I am looking for an equivalent and I have been recommended the following via Mecca Chat app online: Fenty Beauty Pro Filtr 140 or 145, Huda Faux Filter Creme Brulee, Dior Backstage Face & Body Foundation 2W . Thank goodness I can tan! My skin is pale, my hair is dark brown with some red in it, and my eyes are green/hazel/grayish/a little bit of rust in there.. (no wonder Im confused!) Its amazing getting to feel not quite so weird. The closest I came was Bare Minerals Original powder in Fair c10. I could see a pastel icy yellow working too, but Ive never tried it as yellow is a dangerous color for us. Este Lauder Pale Almond was perfect. My go to is Urban Decay Naked Basics. I see that green and its lovely. Yeah, no. I know you were interested in this shade, so I thought Id re-visit my previous comment as I dont want anyone to get the impression that cg30 will be okay for pale olives. I would recommend to try the dior neutral and then in the other part of your face the olive; cause olives tent to be to warm for some reason though I know for sure after long 36 years of fighting Im a light olive but cool not warm. This sounds like me, but I have more blue in my eyes, a mix of blue, green, grey and flecks of yellow-ish in the middle. Also do not look good in coral lipstick or any orangey based blushes as well. You only need a little bit of this. Im mostly French on one side and Swedish, Western European, and Native American on the other (as far as I know). Anyway, here are my personal makeup favorites: Fenty 145 (specifically labeled olive!) A few shades paler then she. (Unless on stage when I resign myself to thick Oompa Lumpa foundation. But not sure if its going to help me find the perfect foundation shade as the majority of products is just nit made for us ? Everything youve said makes sense to me, and my mom is clearly medium olive. I am 1/2 Italian (my dad is 100%) and 1/4 Slovak with bits of English and German from my mom. Although I do have pretty rosy cheeks generally so it can be hard to tell. I am currently using two shades of the Este Lauder perfectionist foundation. This help explain why many people of Eastern European descent have an olive skin tone. I have dark, dark brown hair with brown eyes. I also have freckles. Try deep purple and gray colors for eyeshadow. MAC Face and Body in c2 or c3 if tan. Must like it subconsciously because its one of my wardrobe staples I may be neutral, but Nars neutrals can look really orange on me and their cool looks really pink. Heres my tried-and-tested picks for a very pale olive: Can I ask, if a pale olive wanted a flattering green to wear (clothing, not makeup), what green would anyone go for? I also look horrible in washed out shades. cannot. Cause when I tried honey blond, exactly your words I looked washed out and actually I had a bit of a feeling theres no contrast at all, like the color was the same as my skin especially when I got tanned. I think Im really late to this post, but thanks for writing it! Ill have to try that I have pale online skin with yellow and green undertones when I dont tan and finding foundation is so hard. I am Filipina (which means a mix of Chinese, Spanish and Malay). For reference NC20 matches my skin well, Thank you! Pink and purple being my most flattering colours to wear again. Oh, hy there! Brown in the sun, pale in winter, both metals are okayish, veins chose their own colour as they like. Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (born May 5, 1988) is a British singer-songwriter who has sold millions of albums worldwide and won a total of 15 Grammys as well as an Oscar. It was very easy on the eye for me. Not at all warm! Rimmel Stay Matte in Moca pale, slightly beige nude My veins at the thinnest skin are purple-blue too. 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. Erin Heatherton . Yes, I am Eastern European, too, and at 35, Ive just figured out my undertone! My mothers family is Ashkenazi Jewish and my fathers side is part Scandinavian and part Swiss. I can wear silver, gold & rose gold jewelry but gold looks best. Thank you ladies for the tips and recommendations for foundations! Ex1 in 2.0 slightly too light, plus the formula dried me out Just found out today. Ahh same here. Hi Diana, your background is EXACTLY my background, and our skins sounds the same! So definitely a lot of European going on inside me! This describes me almost exactly!!! I look great in black and jewel tones but not in orange, pastels or white. Whether you prefer wearing your hair long, short, or somewhere in between, the above 11 colors will work gorgeously with them all and accentuate olive skin tones and hazel eyes on any woman. (No I dont work for Laura Geller ) I appreciate your struggle, mine is similar but on top of having pale olive skin I have neutral pink tones too. Have you guys tried EX1 foundations? I think our skin has yellow in it. I am really wanting to go lighter blonde, but for the life of me, I cannot decide what color will look good on me. Oh my goodness, I have completely found my tribe!! I dont know why it was discontinued. Muted colors seem to look best. I am still using the same concealers as mentioned before, nars in custard and tarte in light medium sand, I believe nars in vanilla would be a better option if you want to highlight the under eye area. Kevin Aucoin the Contour Powder in Light is what I use right now, and the medium shade looks good too but too dark for me. The main thing that stood out was that near other people who are also pale without suntans (I tan quite dark and quite olive) I am green. Neutrals are impossible and I have such a graveyard collection of polishes that I thought would work but just dont. In winter I look sickly, no glowing cheeks, just sickly! I have brown/black hair and grey eyes, with pale pale olive skin (Irish, Scottish, Honduran + German ancestry). Theres a little hint of red to my hair dispersed in sections. Lina, I am exactly like you in terms of hair and eyes and I am definitely a pale olive girl. Ive found a lot of reds make me look SUPER green, and pinks make me look weird too. As I read others posts, I think all this may actually suggest that many of us pale-olivers have evidence that point to totally divergent undertone classifications depending on which signal were reading. Im flattered, but dont personally see it. muddy colours. of course, I avoid the sun so I am extremely pale and when I compare to my Vietnamese friend who is just as pale its very different. Abyssinian is not bad, either. I have been using Alima Pure satin matte foundation in Olive 0, and it is perfect for me! Powder: Laura Mercier loose powder in the shade translucent (all over) and Laura Mercier secret brightening powder (under eye) Charlotte tilbury powder compact in the lightest shade is also great. Thanks for this post. My mom always knew I was olive skin toned, but I didnt ever understand it because makeup came in fair, light, medium, deep and dark. In my case, these tricks always raise more questions than they provide answers: I have brown hair and hazel eyes, which are generally marks of a warm colouring. I finally found a color that kinda matched me in Cliniques line, but Im trying to change my products to be vegan and not tested on animals so I have to find a new one and delving into this nightmare is just so frustrating. Nothing too over the top (sadly). I also think it has to do with circulation and time of the month or cycle of our periods? I learnt to accept it in the early 2000s, when tan was so praised. I use MAC NC20 on my fave and dab a bit on the eyelids and above to my eyebrows to neutralize. Im light skin tone in summer and light to med in summer however if I choose to tan I get tremendously dark (brown with yellow undertones). I only have one blouse in a warm orange, kinda autumn-orange, because I felt it suits my skin tone. Yaaaas! Fair is too white, but a beige is too Orange-y. I have always lightened my hair but have never loved warm or reddish shades on me, and keeping my hair toned cooler is a pain! However, you may not have thought of Russia as a country that does, but reports indicate a presence of this complexion here. Theyre the first brand Ive found that have foundation with fair and light olive undertones :). 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 have French Irish roots. The berry colors for cooler skin-tones are acceptable, suggesting a cooler undertone, however I need to keep it dark. For me, wearing lipstick, blush, or eye shadow just looks off. I resolved to using face tan when Im tanned (my tanned colour is usually my boyfriends pale, untouched-by- the-sun-for-months colour lol). Facial Concealer: (1) Laura Mercier Secret Camouflage in 1 works for cool olive skin. I am very, very pale olive. I only use a drop or so of the yellow and it makes my foundation a perfect match. I have been struggling a lot, looking at sort of similar looking ladies and wondering why do those make up products work on them and dont work on me. Take a look at these 52 gorgeous famous women with hazel eyes and prepare to get lost for a while. Rose gold is the only metal I feel I can really pull off. Olsen . Ive always considered my color season to be soft autumn. I hesitate to offer a suggestion without seeing you, but it sounds like deep winter colors if dark teal and charcoal grey are your go-to colors. Urban Decay cg30 is what Im using currently, this and Koh Gen Do 213 are my closest matches altough both are ever so slightly too dark for me. I would love to try an olive foundation and see what it does. I am exactly like u!! Im definitely pale olive and have finally found the right foundation for me: No. My moms heritage cant be traced that far back but we know her family comes from England and Scotland. I can see them trying but they end up finding nothing or trying to sell me beige. Did you try EX1 that everyone is talking about? These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. I apply it very lightly as my foundation with a sponge and it does not look cakey. Also like Burts bees, Sedona Sands, lip crayon for a natural look (kind of waxy though). Cant wait so hope that it will help. In the summer I tan to my human self, but never burn. For blush, rosy shades look best, so i usually mix a deep rose cream blush with Jane Iredales enlighten concealer (which is somewhat peach). Late 40s. My hair has some Whether you wear your hair short or long, the color is timeless and versatile as its both bold and soft on your skin tone. So I must be warm right? The hard part is Im blonde with blue-gray eyes. I am also a blonde and olive! I can tell you, as an Arabic girl, that olive skin is not always that beautiful rich shade. Now, I will use more blush and bronzer to brighten things up. I never usually wear foundation because its usually too yellow or too pink! I never knew why I had such a hard time until someone pointed it out when we were standing in a group at work. Black. In the summer I use YSL foundation BD40 as concealer or their Touche Eclat stick in #2. As a teenager, I always thought I looked greyish/greenish and sickly so I dyed my hair jet black. When Im not wearing makeup, people constantly ask me if I feel ill including my bf lol. For concealer I recently found the nars radiant creamy concealer in the shade Chantilly (lightest one) and I think it works really well !! Cinema secrets and Ben Nye had perfect matches for my light, cool olive skin. Perhaps one of the most subtle looks of all, Alessandra Ambrosio opts for a few ash brown highlights around the face. Maybe in this it`s more a matter of personal preference. Neutral foundations dont seem to do the trick either. (If I put my hands next to my face, you can really see the pink/green difference they dont even look like they belong to me! I am really curious now about the one you suggested! Anyways to add something useful, aside from covering my dark eye circles, which I find the least forgiving olive undertone feature on me with a very light and pinkish concealer, I find strong colours suit me, particularly navy blue. I think of myself as neutral-leaning-cool rather than neutral-leaning-warm, if that makes sense. I look good in earth color and some very clear and cold colors. For reference if you havent read my previous comments over the past few years; I have light olive skin For those who have olive skin, green eyes are flattering especially while wearing brown hair. Price at time of publish: $17 for 0.03 oz. Foundation is a struggle, I currently resort to a light beige (better than other light shades that makes the face distinctly fairer than the rest) mainly to balance out my brown eye circles that makes the pale effect worse. This article is a godsend to many. No idea what shade of blush suits me I always think pinks seem to clash with my skintone somehow but peachy blush makes me look washed out, so I tend to stick to a cool toned bronzer. Though science holds dark-haired blue-eyed girls as a rare act of nature, celebs with porcelain skin like Megan Fox and Eva Green prove that stunning contrasts wow no matter what Mother Nature thinks.. Most foundations make me look too orange or yellow or washed out. *insert eye roll here*. Also have pale olive skin. Tried the backstage olive undertones? I used to have make-up custom mixed for me by a make-up artist. Right now my roots have grown out but the rest of my hair is a yellow cream colored blonde and It doesnt look very good with my skin tone. Youre uniquely YOU! And at the same time a complete lack of petal pink tones, like you would expect in very pale people. Omg I have found someone like me! The veins on my inner wrists are purple violet, aqua and wedge wood blue. Aussie (with Finnish ancestors) pale chick with green skin. Im going to do a bit more research on this topic! My heritage is Native American, French and Finish. Just gold is gold. Ive used makeup with warm undertones because they look better on me than cool undertones (that make my face awkwardly pink), but the warm ones are usually too yellow or orange based or too dark. So, what if we throw in hazel eyes? My best colors are a fall palette of rust, plum, navy, khaki, deep olive, deep teal. I cant believe how many of us have that skin tone and we still struggle to find makeup that is not just meant for pink undertones. I can finally find flattering colours for me now that I have escaped from my former fixation error that those of us mistakenly labelled as warm colouring should wear warm tones of clothes and makeup (or that those of us who are light/pale olive should wear bright colours) your discovery of us green folk deserves a Peace prize! I can get very tan but have to be careful of burning in the beginning. I have the Urban the Urban Decay palates listed above and noticed they look best on me in comparison to other eyeshadow palates I own. Cool chick; check her out. I wear a cooler foundation. My sister definitely is but shes a lot more olive toned than me and looks straight up green/yellow and even makes comments like how pink I look even tho I cant even wear most pale foundations since they tend to be too pink toned on me. Here, in France, the struggle is real to find some foundations or concealers that can match very light skin (though Im from Paris where the supply might be considered extended! I definitely look better in cool colours than warm (orange looks horrific on me, but purple and blue look good). On the flip side, if I am tan, I can get away with some warms. so to anyone out there that likes lighter coverage or to my east asian girlies, k and cbeautys got your back. Even if I have the pores, the scars, and the patchy skin I wont be orange anymore. White gives me a lot less sallowness than greys and is only slightly less neutral than those light gentle neutral colors. Your tips are appreciated! Its not golden at all. No wonder I never felt good at makeup or dressing myself! I would love to hear what foundation/s youve found so far? Cant be too warm. Im austrian and all ancestors i know of are austrian too. I also noticed that i look the best in foundations with really strong yellow undertones (MUFE Ultra HD Y245, which was 120 in the original formula), which totally confuses me. There are a few things that don't go well with milky skinpastel colors and too much bronzer. Ive seen emerald and forest green mentioned here a lot as working. In summers white colors now look gray. Jewel tones (cool). I usually go for the lightest two foundation shades and try to warm up my complexion with blush. :) I always knew I was olive (dalmatia genes) because my mom was very pink next to me and I knew that this is the issue with trying to find good foundation, I neved found perfect match. Yes! Thank you <333, Can someone please help me too! And black. I guarantee there are way more of us out there who dont know they are olive! I have noticed that we have a certain hidden darkness in our quite light (at first glance) skin So it makes sense that we look good in quite dark colors (in clothes, I mean ) Darker than expected Eye shadow light warm pinks But this might have more to do with the fact that I have deep set eyes AND that I`m not into goth looks Also, muted eye shadows translate into greys on my eyelids.. Darker shadows translate into goth Bright eye shadows have enough color in them to still show some color on my eyelids. I have the exact same issue. Its olive toned! Ive literally spammed reply comments with this suggestion. They also often have a straight nose but a hump at the nose's bridge. I never meet other pale olive-toned people! Best regards, Mary T. I thought I was the only woman in the world with this problem. Little by little Im working on a palette. From what I understand olives can be either mainly warm or cool, but we tend to be neutral overall, so neutral shades tend to be easy go-tos for us all (true red, navy, teal, putty, eggplant). I dont care much for pastels, but the main idea is Id love to see if you could maybe make a video where you separate your clothes in seasons or shades and try them on separately. Thanks! I find that warm undertones (reds, oranges and browns) works great on me ~ also greens, but Im thinking you might be neutral-cool ^.^ anyways whats im trying to say is, middle way always suits me and it could work for you, too. Jewel Tones. Im assuming the green but I dont want to try the wrong one. Finally, someone who has the same issue as I do! I am still on the hunt for a more suitable concealer tho. So it seems like I hit the jackpot, huh? Its magical and sometimes miserable! I have paler skin than you; if I remember correctly, you use the second to lightest shade from the Bourjois Healthy Mix foundation and i use the lightest, Vanille Clair, which has warm undertones. Either they think Im cool and I leave with a pink line on my jaw or warm and I look too yellow. Level 9 blonde hair with blue undertones looks amazing and silver/gray blue eye shadow also makes my eyes pop, with teal in the outer corner.. Navy blue eyeliner. Aveeno tinted face moisturizer (spf protection, lightweight), sugar plum lipstick in moisture riche by LOral (not too cool, not too warm and even goes with red), Nude crme lipstick by Milani, L.A. girls lipliner in Forever. I think if you had to pick a tint or a side, Im a hair on the warm side of olive, e.g. As a result, nothing ever looks good with both my eyes and skin! Me too! For clothes, both black and white made me look like a grey ghoul. 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