I have a bright bright coral orange tank that makes me look super tanned (for me) so that and fuscia are my go to neons and turquoise in jewellery look a great. In fact, most everyone thinks this is my natural color and that I was coloring it before. Fawn “plowy” in Polish, its perfect combination of slightly greenish beige. Thank you for posting this article, i’ve been very confused all my life about this. But the ‘silver or gold’ still continues for me…. Finally I’m aware of my skin undertone.I have green eyes ,ash dark brown hair,freckles and I get tan pretty easly. It's light enough for all-over colour but powerful enough to conceal those blue or purplish under-eye circles that often plague light to dark olive skin, and the supersize wand makes erasing said circles so easy. I find the combination/oily formula to be more full coverage than the combination/dry. I had this instinct for a while that pure solid red should be better, but again pure red just does the orange-y thing. Any warm or “loud”/rich colors look bad on us, but orange is THE worst. Haha. I’ve bounced between fair and light tarte shades but they never felt *quite* right. For those of you in the cool olive camp, ash or strawberry blondes are a great choice. 2. Too Faced Cocoa Contour Chiseled to Perfection. I am dark ashy blonde with greenish eyes. (I really like orange but I guess some things have to be admired from afar and not incorporated into clothing.). I always wore fair-light skinned colors and stayed toward the cool side because let’s face it, it makes sense. Greyinh hair does not suit me that well, so I colour it, but have been restlessly moving from colour to colour all my life. Omg, they look sooo bad. If you cleanse your skin regularly, then it became smooth and safe. I have pale olive skin, probably due to my mom being half Lebanese, and I’ve always had a green undertone to my skin, but never thought it could be olive since both my mother and I thought olive-skinned people needed to have darker skin. If you find something you like, please post!! Omg I have found someone like me! My best colors are a fall palette of rust, plum, navy, khaki, deep olive, deep teal. I think a good option is if you buy a foundation adjuster and mix it into your foundation to adjust it. Medium brown eyes And highlighted brown hair. I have the same exact problem as you. AMAZON, THE AMAZON LOGO, AMAZONSUPPLY, AND THE AMAZONSUPPLY LOGO ARE TRADEMARKS OF AMAZON.COM, INC. OR ITS AFFILIATES. I look awful in peach blush and look best I think in blue based red lipstick and for eyes neutral brown, black, a bit of purple and royal blue. – I look best in gold jewellery (warm) I nearly always burn first (sometimes bad if I’m not careful), but after the burn ‘heals’ it always turns into a nice base tan layer. It had never happened to me before, ever. My mom mentioned in passing that we tend to get darker as we get older in our family. Still flummoxed about what color clothes to wear, but at least I don’t look like I’m wearing a pink mask anymore! I think of it as makeup and it does half of the work for me :) You can use a face mask to treat acne. Despite the cosmetic industry beginning to become more conscientious about diversity and catering to a range of skins shades and tones, there are currently very few options for those people in our demographic when it comes to items that rely on tone to look natural, like foundation, concealer, contour. Let’s hope that I’ll find the right one! I have very dark brown hair and dark green eyes. With lipstick, anything pink (cool) or peach (warm) or ‘light’ (or even medium shades) at all just washes me out completely and I look like an alien. I love grey, purple, black , pink (bright or soft), white, olive green and warm neutral colours like camel. My mom is like this, she’s fairly darker than me while I am quite pale. Also if anyone has any suggestions regarding clothing colours please let me know, the only colour I look good in is black and sometimes (summer mainly) white – and in summer it’s awful! Thanks for your wonderful tips. The rest of my family has burnished red undertone olive skin and dark hair, warm brown eyes. I never manage to buy just one good shade, I always have to mix. Anything that is visibly warm or cool is harmful to my undertones. Highlighter And Contouring Kits. I see a lot of people mentioning good foundation matches. Pharmacology..lol..go figure.. Blessings. In the summer I can wear a warm foundation as long as the base tone of that foundation isn’t too overly orange/red and It wears quite nicely alongside one of the concealers I have listed above. The green comes out the most when we’re not tanned, so you can see it better when she’s lighter, but take a look at this: In this photo it’s most noticeable around my mouth, the sides of my neck and my arm. Then my hair turned blonde, and finally brown. I’m austrian and all ancestors i know of are austrian too. Using Vitamin C will prevent the pigmentation on the Italian skin. :), Oh, at last, my heavenly home! Its more my body skin that is annoying- my arms are blotchier than Id like and thats where I do have freckles and my legs are so pale and veiny but Im afraid of bad sunless tanner! Because I have sensitive skin on my face that is often red people say I have cool tones however because I tan so easily my olive neck and warm tanned shoulders say otherwise. Now, I know that there are different ranges in olive skin tones as well, so I will list out a few shades that generally look great on olive tones. In terms of makeup that actually works… over time, I’ve discovered that my acceptable eye-shadow palette is super limited to just (darker than tan) brown eye-shadow tones or dull bronze/gold or a just white-ish highlighter accent. But the nude shade needs to be avoided. Pale/light olive here. There are lots of properties of every skin tone that distinguish it from other skin tones. I’ve had the same problem with finding my perfect shade. While the rest of my body seems to be plain pale and white where my skin creases, on my face, which is more red it seems to be olive, specially around my eyes. Thankful to have found this thread! Liz Huelfenhaus fiji is completely a normal neutral(peachy undertone) shade honey. White. Now, my skin has always confused me because I’m half Northern European like Irish and English but I’m also half Hispanic including Spain and Mexico. It can be any type from oily to dry. Colorstay in Buff has been the only foundation shade I always went back to when I needed a safe, not–mixing-a-ton-of-shades look. Very few make-up brands cater for us PALE chick/guys. It’s frustrating because it’s not talked about and even many (most?) I have your exact same problem! I look like an 80’s plastic doll version of an old lady in any blue/green/purple shading. And all my life people kept asking me if I was doing well, why do I look so sick and tired. Speaking of, soft sables are the only blushes that work with my tone…. I myself have three daughters, one having cool fair freckled skin, another one peach mid tone skin, and the third has pale olive skin like myself.