Neutral Undertones and Olive Skin Tone Explained

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[theviceinvirtue]

Leaving a comment here for any Asian brothers and sisters out there that have fair/light olive skin - you do exist! You can still be anywhere on the spectrum between neutral/cool/warm (although if you're Asian, you're most likely going to be between neutral and warm) but ALSO have your skin pull a little green... and therefore olive. Just wanted to raise awareness so that hopefully more cosmetic brands will provide us with product options in the future.

[iKeto_gal]

There is a "club" of us who have a darker face than our body and if we try to match our body, the foundation makes us look ashy. If we match our face, then the dark becomes more "obvious" of a difference between face and body.

[oliviaolsson]

I am half Eastern European (slavic) and half scandinavian. I have a light neutral olive colored skin. You can be olive and light. In the summer I get much browner, and lose all color in the winter. Warm foudation looks yellow on me, neutral looks orange and cold looks pink or gray. I am olive and light, blond and blue-eyed.

[sideeffect]

Are you really saying if you have light eyes you don't have olive skin? That is so very untrue, and that is exactly why it's taken me 10+ years to get my colors right. I have blue/green eyes, ashy blond hair and extremely green skin. I have to add green color drops to a warm foundation to get a match. Learning about my olive undertone has been a game changer for me!

[knx]

Could you please show a lady that is fair skinned and has an olive skin? I’m Slavic, super fair yet quite visibly green (leaning cool). Please elaborate if you have time. Because most videos don’t help at all.. like I’m leaning cool yet I absolutely cannot wear fully cool toned makeup (70’s flashback image)..any pink based foundation looks straight up pink/peach on my face.. I have this weird grey/green quality 🤔

[franci.f.]

I am Italian and I really enjoyed living in China Town in Milan for some years because in the shops of our neighborhood I could find lot of foundation shades from Dior that are not sold normally in Europe and US.

[stephaniegarsow]

No. No. No. You can't judge skin and coloring from a photo.. not accurate at all.. i disagree there most certainly is neutral and olive undertones. Not all olives are dark. Alot of these examples and comparisons are a matter of personal opinion.

[minivan]

I've noticed that warmer skin people have a natural peachy lip color, whereas the cooler skin tone people have a mauve color, almost like a purplish tone. This was a dead giveaway for me, because even though I have dark skin and thought that I had a warmer coloring, it was the lips that made me realize that I look best in cool tones.

[querenm]

I feel that people forget about olive skin...

[abigailpena]

See, I'm part Spaniard and part Cherokee, which both have olive skin tones; I have a lot of fair olive skin in my family and I believe I am a fair olive as well. No foundation works for me because they're all super pink, even warm foundations until I add green to it. So are you kicking fair olive people out of the color spectrum? Cuz that's kinda why I'm watching these videos... Cuz I'm fair olive and don't know what colors to go for... I know it is just an opinion, but you're kinda pushing away a wide spectrum of people that need the most help with their colors, makeup, and more because of that green...
My fellow olive people, stand up and support our green! We exist and we are real!

[KalliBella]

Also, I'd like to add that in my experience the confusion seems to be not so much on the "undertone, " but on the saturation of color of the skin. Lots of people tell me that I am warm-toned because of my level of skin pigment/saturation of color on the surface. Yet said saturation is not a warm looking saturation, but rather a soft cool light brown pigmentation/saturation.

[gracielu]

As soon as I heard her swap “undertone” for “skin tone” when talking about Olive, I knew she was going to perpetuate the “you can’t be olive if you’re light” bs.

[tara]

Only the colour of the skin should be taken into account when determining the temperature. A lot of redheads are cool and bright, but are constantly told they are warm because of hair colour

[yvonneadrian]

Very helpful I am neutral and olive skin tones. Now to find that perfect red lip still searching!

[stealthis]

Olive skin tones don't show up easily in selfies IME. Cameras shift skin tones and they don't favor "sallow" (green). You really gotta shoot in RAW and nail the white balance and do profiling. Even then, you can be a warm cool or neutral Olive.

When compared to other people in real life though, the green sticks out like a sore thumb if you are olive. Real life comparison really is the best way to tell olive.

[Dizzyknitsandcurls]

I am fair and I have blue green veins I tan very easily but I look much better in cool tones the only foundation that has ever matched my skin properly is mehran light olive I believe that there are people who are pale who have blue green undertones so I guess I’m nuetral

[hypatiakovalevskayasklodow]

Literally all reactions for the skin + cool/warm combos appear different to me than you say it, idk if it is just my screen, but every time you said "she looks better in warm" she looked much better and healthier near cool and vice versa

[Aryellish]

You are a genius! First person ever that could explain why I was still so confuse about my skin tone even though I've seen 1000 videos before failing to explain to me correctly. Thank you soo much!

[coloredpencils]

Part of the confusion comes from a huge disagreement on what is warm and what is cool. I've seen people go as far as to say red is the warmest color (meaning its opposite green is the coldest), while others say yellow is the warmest (meaning purple is the coldest). As an artist, I contend that orange, particularly yellowy orange, is the warmest color. I agree that the burnt orange rust color is a good test for warm. That test brings out the example person's beautiful warm green eyes.

[SCahto]

Thank you for this! My skin changes throughout the year, My complexion becomes very golden/red in the summer & closer to olive come winter