What Colors to Wear for Olive Skin Tone!

In this video, I explain what colors to wear for olive skin tones for those of you who (like me) have them! I show you the basics of the color wheel first so you can understand how to find the best colors to wear in clothing and then we dive into the techniques to find the best color clothes for you! Style!

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[eshchory]

I have olive skin. If I wear green I resemble the undead and if I wear brown people ask why I have been crying!
I feel great in purples, blues and wine colours, with red if I want to stand out.

[TheInspirefly]

Thank you for this video! I'm definitely olive, and can see the in my skin. Yellows, pastels, and icy colors makes me look like DEATH, but I get so many compliments when I wear slightly cool muted (earthy) greens, and even a cool jewel-like eucalyptus green makes me glow, but absolutely NO yellow greens. Bright orange and bright both fushia look ridiculous on me, but wine colors, burnt sienna/rust, mauve/deep rosy pink, and deep teal also look lovely. I also find that charcoal and deep brown look fantastic on me, as do bronze and copper. Black eyeliner looks weirdly separate from me, but dark brown eyeliner just brings this beautiful warmth and natural look to my face. Rose gold looks lovely (being South Asian, all the traditional gold pieces are yellow gold, which looks fine in moderation). I haven't really explored purples very much, so I would want to try that (magenta isn't great on me and hot purple is horrific on me, but maybe some muted purples might look good).

[rokonsha]

Forest green is one of my fav colors for my Greek skin tone!

[inzombnia]

omg this is the best breakdown. Everyone else acts like there's only blonde, brown, black with shades of all that. I still wish someone would do a video specifying the eccentric colors like Pink, Fuscia, Blue, Teal, purple, dark red, etc and which ones best match warm or cool skin tones.

[DM-xjse]

Thank you! This explains why finding the perfect makeup foundation is like finding the perfect pair of denim jeans!!! It's so frustrating. Now, it all makes sense, and the confusion falls by the wayside 😂

[anastasial]

I agree so much with the wine color and also magenta. These are the best for olive skin. Red, black and vibrant blue also works good. Also I agree that we can pull off beige but with more makeup.
But I think muted green, khaki works good for me, if I’m not mistaken.

[danlightened]

I watched like 10-15 videos of which clothes to get for which undertone, tone and this is one of the better ones which is analytical, procedural. And a very calm voice!

[mma]

I have an olive skin tone, but I don't tan at all because my skin shade is light. There are also people like us.

[Amiramekki]

Olive skin is an undertone.
You can literally have any skin color. From the lightest to darkest skin. This makes it confusing when brands only make things for olive skin when it's a tan colour.

[ChrisIsTasha]

Finally! I used that app you suggested and I got the same readings as you did. I have only recently realized I'm a pale skinned olive tone and have struggled for years trying to fit into a "season". We thought spring when I was blonde (pulling a lot of red!), and then autumn when my hair darkened. I went to one of those seasonal analysis people years ago and they told me summer! I was still post pregnancy hormonal and I figured the hormones skewed the results. Everyone says I look good in black but that is not a spring, autumn, or summer season color. Understanding olive and realizing why I have struggled makes sense. The woman who did my analysis also customized my foundation. I looked like I wore a grey mask and the eye shadow and the blush disappeared on me. The colors I look best in are pink and purple eye shadows, and bright pink blusher. People are always amazed when they see it in the compact and swear I'll look like a clown. It's a color POC often wear and I have ancestors that were POC and so I assumed that somehow it influenced my ability to wear those colors. All this time I have been olive. Go figure. Life just got so much easier knowing there's another "box" out there for me to fit into. :)

[marie.theartist]

I am light neutral/olive, and I burn before I even tan. My skin color is very tricky because people think I am warm, yellow tone, but they confuse my undertone because my skin is light (not fair). If I put a yellow foundation on, it looks too yellow. If I put peach or neutral, it looks too orange, and so on...

[AlexisTwoLastNames]

i really like being olive even if it means i don't look great in my favorite color haha. something abt being slightly green makes me feel really special haha

haha i cannot do red either for hair, but i can do hot pink. i think that suits me more than warmer red. green of any tone/shade in the "neutral" green to cooler green hue suits me well too.

i find darkest brown works the best for my hair, which is my natural color. and as i tan and my hair naturally lightens in summer, that works too.

truly i just wear whatever but i enjoy knowing what makes me look best for special occasions and eventually, my wedding.

[sanyarizvi]

Recently found out I’m olive and it makes so much sense I’ve always naturally gravitated towards jewel tones. I agreed with a lot of the points in this video but I think mustard/deeper yellows can look quite nice as long as you wear some extra makeup like with the browns.

[JC-ycwg]

Hello fellow olive beauties 💚
The one very important aspect of knowing what colors look good on you is knowing your chroma level. Try researching videos that help you figure out whether your soft or bright.
I have a medium very golden olive complexion and I also have green eyes...👽LOL!!
It is far more important for me to get my chroma levels correct (in my case, about med/soft)than whether a color is warm or cool. But, also knowing what depth of color is huge ! ( med/deep for me). I'm over 60 years old. So, I've had many years of experience with being green. 😉 Bottom line, not all olive skin tones are the same. Personally, I lean slightly warm. The warm colors of the soft/deepish spectrum actually help to warm up my complexion. I can also look nice in softer/deepish plum tones. But, if I go too bright/light warm/cool its terrible! If you have a very golden olive skin like mine, many of the cool colors will grey out your skin.
My Best advice is to compare colors in good lighting and use your eyes to determine what looks best.

[vrgirl-kerq]

Thank you so much for this helpful video!! I’m olive toned and recently had my colors analyzed by a professional. She typed me as a warm autumn. So lots of rusts, mustards, lime greens, yellows, vibrant oranges etc. I feel so orange/sallow when I try to wear those. I get most compliments when I’m in wine, blues like navy, and dark pine greens, royal purples etc. Your info made a lot of sense for me!

[smaganas]

Finally somebody with actual Olive skin giving us a video for us 😊😊😊

[CrunchyCrustacean]

It’s interesting how the “rules” are a little different depending on whether you’re a darker olive or a light olive. I’m very pale skinned - I’ve probably got the lightest skin of anyone I personally know - but I’m olive skinned. It took me until I was almost 30 to discover that. No wonder so few foundations match me. Anyway, I don’t wear any jewel tones or vibrant colours at all. I find I look best in muted warm and neutral colours such as rust, navy, burgundy, dusty rose, and even mustard and olive green. (Interestingly I never EVER wear purple be it dark, vibrant, or pastel.) But I think as long as the colour isn’t close to your face you can pull off trickier colours. Such as with skirts/trousers, or even sweaters with a cream/white collar poking through to separate the colour from the skin on your neck.

[javelinnia]

I have naturally tanned olive skin. I rock black&white combination, wine colours and light blues. Actually having dark hair around my face helps me wear anything, so I grow it

[cornishpixie]

I'm olive toned, I wear lots of red and black. I really struggled with colours so this has been very helpful thank you x

[estiiim]

Thanks for this video! I always have extreme difficulty with my foundation, its either way too orange or looks rose pink!! I usually combine a few different ones. Also difficult to find good eyeshadows and clothes. Medium brown colors look orange. Most "nude" colors make me look washed out. I've found the best colors for me are army green, deep maroons, dark red (not bright, looks too orange), dark turquoise, the classic black and white. Brownish-purple lipstick looks most natural on me. I'm glad others can relate!!