Just Learned I’m Olive-Toned :-o HELP!
I only discovered that I’m olive-toned about three weeks ago, and it’s already completely changed the way I do my makeup. I used to buy warm foundations and get confused as to why my face always looked so orangey. The cool-toned ones were even worse, so I wrote them off completely — I’m not pink, I’m a yellowy gray!!!! It’s confusing because I do look quite warm in incandescent light (picture 1). I included a picture of me in natural light (picture 2) so you can see what I mean in contrast. I think part of the reason I appear olive at all is because I have a semi-rare condition called hEDS that gives me thin, stretchy skin — you can see my veins and blood vessels through my skin, which pull my tone green-grey (Picture 3). Maybe I still don’t understand my skin tone? Am I not cool olive?Pointers appreciated.
If you haven’t gotten your hands on So Elemental from Colourpop yet, I can’t recommend it enough for cooler olive skin. Because I’m pretty fair-skinned, I can’t speak to how this will perform on darker skin tones, but if you get a chance to try it, please let me know! The shades are all SO Y2K. I feel like Britney Spears in this picture!
Anyway, it’s been really nice to find a community of people that share the struggle of buying makeup that works. if you have any recommendations based on the pictures I attached for colors that might work for my skin, hair, and eyes, recommend away! It’s all new to me!
(Edit: after feedback from multiple users, I’m leaning more towards fair-light neutral olive as the descriptor for my skin tone — please also understand this post is for makeup purposes, i.e. finding a foundation and product colors that work well with the appearance of my skin 😊.)