Wow everything makes sense now! Native American, and Italian here. Where is it? Ill have to find the one you are talking about! I am very, very pale olive. I did find a pigment for lighting up foundation which is actually great when I use it as concealer. Black or dark colours can also make me look muddy sometimes. My DNA test said I am a British, Irish, German with a small amount Eastern European. Brown eyes are complemented by almost every shade of the color wheel, from green and gold to blue and purple.The cooler the shade you choose, such as blue, gray, or green, the more noticeable your eye color will be. Grey-green eyes. Didnt work! Ok. We have the exact same skin colour and undergone. Same problem! Nothing I wear in the winter looks good on me but a tan does wonders for my wardrobe. Mixed bag of genetics and I tan freakishly easily. I definitely relate to this! I look good in all the cool colors and my veins are blue/purple. However, eyeshadows are terrible for everyday use as face powders. It's best to go for straight black, shiny and healthy but matte. I tan but not nearly as dark as Id like unless I go in a tanning bed which I stopped doing years ago- but I dont look brown-brown like an Italian. Great article! I look horrible is most colors. everything comes out too pink and gray on me so far). I like to use this powder, as it adds that olive cast to my skin that is missing when I use my tinted sunscreen https://shop.shoppersdrugmart.ca/Luxury/Quo-Beauty/Categories/Beauty/Makeup/Face/Powder/Colour-Correcting-Loose-Powder/p/Q910?utm_campaign=P1_01222021_2021-P1-BB-ACQ-Shopping-Smart~Shopping-Mass-EN-NA-Acquisition-PLA-na&utm_medium=LD_sc&utm_source=google&utm_term=na&utm_content=na_na_na_na_na&gclid=CjwKCAiAg8OBBhA8EiwAlKw3khzjakxlOMzexJOOMrYqLKGWOPIa0t6ZRZ6WFheMJVP6lealR-u6ehoCeHAQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds. . The struggle is real though! The middle and norther European logic of pale = cool tone, tanned = warm tone just doesnt apply to me. I just burn and go back to my natural yellowish pale tone. If you use powder foundation that might be a lot easier to experiment mixing in additional pigment. A lovely reviewer of yours, Camila, advised on berry and fuchsia they are really good too on me. Thank you both and all!! My body got tanned easily, but my face burned first, my face also looks more reddish than the rest of my body. Exactly my case Im Polish and Im a pale olive. Im a fair olive too, 38, white medium brown hair and grey eyes. It perfectly matched my skin tone like a dream and evenly disappeared into my skin, while giving me a flattering and harmonising appearance which seemed easy on MY eyes. Its really hard to see unless you compare it to someone elses skin. Warm or cool shades of makeup Ill never know. Ive tried NYX Bare With me in Vanilla Nude, and it gives me a slightly too yellow cast, and oxidizes a touch dark, NARS Gobi makes me look kind of bright cool yellow, Koh Gen Doh is too dark. What foundations have you found to wear? I have light blue eyes so its extremely hard to find colours that match eyes and skin. I guess olive complexion wouldnt be a beauty problem if I had that sunkissed tan all year around, but as Im Finnish, Im as pale as snow during winter. Summer? Black seems to accentuate the sallowness of my skin, or somehow seems a bit heavy even though my hair is for all intents and purposes black.. soft, but not faded black, with absolutely NO reflexes (no blue, no gold, not even red anymore). Eyeshadow, I have no freaking clue. DIOR FOREVER SKIN GLOW 2WO (warm olive). I feel like I have the same skin tone as the OP based on her pics and wonder what foundation shades she uses! They made my skin look sallow and dirty. clothes: i have been wearing only black, nightblue and green for ages!! I just bought my first cool shade lipstick today, and it suits me very well, yeay!! Im so glad to have come across this and see so many others suggestions! Olive-skinned celebrities like Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz, and Zoe Saldana have a light olive undertone to their skin, which is similar to my own. The foundations that have worked, miraculously: Koh Gen Do Aqua Foundation shade 213, is ultimate shade match, please ladies do seek this out. Fake tan cancels out some of the green tones, but the rest of the year is a struggle to look healthy. I have been using Alima Pure satin matte foundation in Olive 0, and it is perfect for me! Maybelline Superstay lip Crayon in Lead the Way (warmer) and Stay Exceptional (cooler, a little dark) are pretty good, not too drying, and dont transfer to a mask, but its fragrance is too strong. I have dark hair, dark green eyes, and tan. 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. You already know the clothing colors that work for you. Weirdly Urban Decay 714 works on me, even though it is a warmer red. Someone should start pale olive makeup videos! I suspect dark pine greens that have a hint of blue (not yellow) might look good. I prefer to wear loose mineral makeup and the closest I have come is to buy cool-green loose minerals from a cosmetics company on ebay, and mix a very small amount with bareMinerals Golden Fair 04, sometimes Ill add a bit of bareMinerals Light 08 as the 04 is pretty pale. I appreciate your struggle, mine is similar but on top of having pale olive skin I have neutral pink tones too. Black and white looks awful on my eyes. Its interesting because th descriptions say yellow undertones ??? Ive thought many times that I look kind of green , but I usually just chalked it up to being tired, wearing an unflattering color, or weird lighting, etc., instead of acknowledging it as an acceptable part of my appearance. Why cant anyone just make olive foundations?! I am so glad I found you guys. Check out Merriam Style on YT. Its not just an Eastern European skin type either: Im half British and half Indian. So I am relieved it is not just me! *im very fair irish with all the checkmarks of a cool but somethings wrong! I only have one blouse in a warm orange, kinda autumn-orange, because I felt it suits my skin tone. St tropez tans seem to have a green undertone so look really beautiful over our skin tone! Additionally, foundation shades can always be lightened with a mixer. So Im seeing more options for fair olive now. It was the most perfect and enhancing shade for my cool to slightly warm skin tone. Generally, Olive skin look and appearance can be a light olive skin with brown skin undertones, dark olive skin tone with a dark and pale cast, or the pale olive skin tone. I second the ask about mail polishes? Brown in the sun, pale in winter, both metals are okayish, veins chose their own colour as they like. But if its blond suppose better cool, like some ashy light blond, even platinum. I have European blood. You are my skin twin. Help. But yet I share more facial features with her then with my dad. You are the only person I have ever found whose coloring sounds like mine. Also have you tried urban decay naked skin? Im ultra ultra ULTRA pale, not to say pasty, BUT my skin is definitely not rosy/red leaning but very clearly yellow to green. I feel like its always a struggle to find what I look best in. ), but I definitely have the same undertones I am a pale olive. Check out their cream foundation. Its useful to have a secret blush sometimes but I almost never have cute pink cheeks naturally!) This winter Ive been mixing together Bobbi Brown serum foundation in Warm Ivory with Tarte Maracuja moisturizer in Light Sand (mostly as light coverage spot and under-eye concealer). I am absolutely a pale olive skin toned girl, and we do exist! My DERMATOLOGIST is who helped me figure this out- its called the FITZPATRICK SCALE (Google it) I am a Type III(3). I use Revlon Coorstay in Buff. I tested the Stay Naked 30CG as mentioned below, but it was way too dark for me, and the 20WY was just plain too yellow (plus I didnt like the thicker consistency). Liquid wise, I actually find bareMinerals barepro liquid in 07 Warm Light is a pretty good match, if I use it sparingly it still lets the olive undertone show through. GA Luminous Silk in No. Finally!!! I have fair freckled skin with olive undertones (but I tan a bronze color similar to my hair and eyes) I have auburn copper hair (mistaken for brown under indoor lighting) and hazel eyes. Yes, I am Eastern European, too, and at 35, Ive just figured out my undertone! Prior to that, LOreal True Colour (I think thats the name?) well, greenish-golden-medium! I have only recently figured out that I am a pale olive skin tone, after having struggled with nothing matching quite right for my whole 35 years. Black, white, and cream depend on how tan my skin is. Im not cool, warm or neutral. Hi! Some soft pink, and one particular deep coloured camel can be good if I have a bit of a tan. I am really curious now about the one you suggested! 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. Sand comes up pink on me, Hello all. I have such a hard time looking past my redness in my face that I decided to focus on my neck just under my jaw. In general I think nude/neutral tones suit me better. But yep, very pale olive toned gals exist! NARS Sheer Glow in Ceylan this has been discontinued I think, but they still have it on Asos (Im Polish, not sure if Asos works outside of Europe), For concealing spots/blemishes, Im currently using Urban Decay All Nighter concealer in Light Warm. And I can wear light golds but anything too orangey-bronze and I look ridiculous (unless Im tan). I am so glad to see this discussion it confirms I am not delusional! I have been struggling with this exact problem since I first started playing with make up! I think I am on the warm side of olive, e.g. I tried a lots of hair colors: from black to blonde. Finally, someone who has the same issue as I do! Though we love every hair color she rocks, we especially love the way this strawberry blonde shade brightens up her amazing skin.. Elizabeth Olsen Try ex1 foundation, in one of the lighter shades its specifically made for olive skin tones. Anyway, I scanned the comments and I didnt find anyone with this coloring. Im 31 and just found out what skin tone I am my dad is half greek & Italian, mom is half Hungarian. I am ghostly white in winter, but tan pretty easily and dont burn easily, which Im always old is odd for someone pale as me. The green-yellow green undertones do get more pronounced then. So whether you like neutral hair colors or something more fierce to match your personality and inner fashionista, youll find a hair color you like to flatter your features in our list of the best! MAKE UP STORE sculpt excellence in the color COTTON. Select the colors blue-tone. Like I said, Im super pale and I have a pink flush to my face, so no one has been able to color match me. If theyre purple or blue, youre cool toned. Urban Decay makes a shade in their Stay Naked foundation line that matches me perfectly in the summer (CG30). I dont really wear makeup but I look okay in neutral foundations like Lily Lolos mineral foundation is shade porcelain. Needs to be muted, needs to be cold. I would think army green is good for you, cause it looks good on me too, I just dont use it cause I dont like greens in general except teal which looks pretty good on me tbh, but I know cause when I was a child my favorite dress (looked like a period children dress from about 1900 with sailor neck and was made of velvet!) Press ESC to cancel. Its been a struggle, especially because I have genetic dark circles so covering them is a nightmare. And I really want to go blonder but Im afraid it wont look good on me. What I found was any muted color is a big no (bright colors are okay, even pastels), but the muted ones, when Im wearing those, many misinterpreted that Im sick or exhausted when in reality Im not! Have given up. I have green eyes. My ancestry is Irish/UK/Germany. I HAVE found concealers that work for my dark blue/purple/gray under eye circles and for my face when I need it. i have olive light skin too and would like to see if the mac foundation on nc20 would work for me. 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. Love & hugs! So maybe try that out. I know this is an older post but I believe I am a pale olive! Chanel Les Beiges Healthy Glow Natural Eyeshadow Palette in Deep. I never considered that I am actually cool toned. Ilia True Skin Medium Coverage Foundation in Cozumel SF1.75 described as very light with golden olive undertones blended into my skin seamlessly but a swatch of it was SO different from all of my other foundations. MUFE, or Make Up For Ever can be found at most higher end beauty supply stores, like Sephora, Ulta, etc. Also, definitely did not realize Mila Kunis was so pale olive.she fits me to a T. In fact, I never realized we probably could pass as twins. At the moment (and all my life am 45) feel I can only wear black, neutral reds, forest green or v dark almost black-brown. As far as foundation goes, it is a nightmare most turn orangey or pink. Having pale olive skin comes with a whole set of struggles. Gobi is a tad darker but works. If youre out there Id love to hear what works for you-makeup or clothing colors. I am Native American, but a tribe thats genetically much more closely related to Israelis than other Native American tribes (Chahta, if anyone is interested) and also English. I have very dark brown-almost black hair and light brown eyes. Erin Heatherton . Colours I find work well, Rich Navy Blues, Blue Reds, Fuschia & white really suits my complexion (orange & yellow ..Hell NO!) 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