Why NEITHER of these work on pale olive skin...

[@annaomodeo7318]

Please never stop advocating for our fair olive skin girls because everyone tries to act like WE DON’T EXIST!! I am so tired of having to make makeup work for me and not the other way around 😭😭😭

[@bobbies1562]

I hear you. How about Bobbi Brown peach color correctors? They have a range of peach shades. I hope we all now understand what WOC have dealt with for nearly 90 years. Most companies still fail to understand that olive undertones also exist in brown skin.

[@evelinaz1548]

THANK YOU !!! No one believes me when I say my tones and finding makeup is hell omg

[@bogdanafilonich33]

True!

[@serchmaabaatarchuluun5761]

Yes, it's already hard to find foundations as it is.

[@SarahAnneStuff]

So much same 😭

[@MusingOnBeauty]

I’m a PALE COOL OLIVE (yes, we exist too) and finding a corrector that works for me is also an impossible mission. So I tend to go for a yellow full coverage concealer, it’s not perfect but it’s what works best.

[@amyslingsby6947]

Same! I have, frankly, green undertones with cool/pinky overtones and am very fair. Warm foundations etc look oompaloompa and cool look PINK. Peachy blushes look best on me. I can’t bronze at all or I look unwell. There’s, so far, only one contour I’ve ever used successfully and that was Wayne Goss’s. It’s not easy being green.

[@thiccookies]

How do you figure out if you have an olive undertone as a pale person? I'm super pale and I still have no idea what my undertone is. I think I'm neutral but im wondering If im also maybe a bit olive?

[@AlexandraAnele]

I actually think pale cool olive is the hardest skintone, at least a warm olive can go for something more yellow, yall have NO options 😩

[@arielm1562]

I watched a video that split cool olive into 2 categories cool and radiant (me) and cool and delicate.

[@Sandra.Viewer]

The Charlotte Tilbury Magic Vanish Color Corrector in Fair is the best one I've found so far 😌 I'm a pale warm olive 😊

[@tatibee75]

I think Olive is difficult to find in general. I’m a chocolate girly and it’s annoying when they think brown is either orange, yellow, or red toned.

[@DeeLite220]

I’ve noticed this. I’m fair-light cool olive and it’s usually C, N, W so I’ll shoot for the “beigest “😂 then I’ll shoot over to see what your working with and it’s usually really warm even when it says cool. Do you own stock in blue color correcting drops too? 😂💚

[@pragyasingh2297]

Thank you for this! Every time I wear makeup I feel like I just CANNOT find something that works unless I just paint my whole face and chest in a full coverage foundation of the same color. I can’t help but feel like I have to give up on the natural looking makeup dream 😢

[@pragyasingh2297]

@@DeeLite220 I definitely do. So I believe glowbymonica on KZbin says that L’Oréal and Lancôme have blue in their formulations so it works better for the olive girlies, but I always need my blue color corrector on hand.

[@CatMcCloud]

Also saturation matters!! Hannah Louise Poston is always lamenting that even if something is pale olive, it might not be desaturated enough for her skin tone. That was an eye-opener for me. All of my blushes look like neons to me now lol.

[@Sara-su7yk]

I think she prefers muted tones bc bright ones make her look younger in a "non sophisticated" way. My skin is Alex's tone and in my case desaturated colors make me look ashy and dead, in fact I often buy coloured makeup made for black pp. I also like korean makeup bc it can be pale and saturated at once, and she hates that it looks bright and youthful. HLP is much paler though.

[@moechae]

Just jumping on the also mid 30s woman with a pale warm olive skintone, I remember in high school I would purposefully tan just so I could get skin dark enough to work with the limited makeup options of the early '00s. I was always so frustrated and confused that my makeup would look amazing in the summer and horrible in the winter lmao. Solidarity my friend. P.S. I would love more discussion/videos about makeup for pale olive ppl if you ever wanted to make them.

[@AlexandraAnele]

SAME! When I used tanner there was a MUFE foundation that was my perfect match 😩

[@violetviolet888]

​@@AlexandraAnele We need someone like you representing cool olives-talk about marginalized and underrepresented. We barely exist according to the makeup industry. Fortunately there is the Mehron Face Paint to use as foundation pigment corrector (not color corrector which will change the formulation of a foundation) in blue and green which are under $10 and will last indefinitely since it takes so little to make a huge difference. As a medium cool-olive it's very challenging to find appropriate red lipsticks, blushes, nude lipsticks, perfect taupes, etc. Would LOVE if you could find a medium olive model to show the color shifts of normal makeup vs what works for us. No MUA has done a decent video on this essential topic that would resonate for a millions of women.

[@raerohan4241]

​@@violetviolet888 The western makeup industry, definitely. I actually find that Western brands like Huda and various k-beauty/j-beauty ones have many more options for fair warm and fair olive skins

[@ladyserenity5]

Omg, I never realized this, but so much yes! No wonder I never feel quite right in my make up. :/ I used to tan a lot too because I felt I liked my best overall. Mind blown. 😂

[@emma_luce_1123]

I did not even know she was in her 30's, she looks great 😮

[@m.e.5]

Amen Alex, AMEN! There’s also an assumption olive means tan skin-not the case for fair to light skintones, we’re truly olive green! I’ve seen a makeup artist mix the peach color corrector w concealer to lighten the shade

[@fran791]

It's baffling that brands literally don't get this. Like who chooses their shades? Every single makeup artist knows about fair olive people. Only asian brands make fair olive base peoducts but their ingredients are so harsh and irritating

[@rebekkakhigson]

@@fran791try Kryolan. They also do fair olive base products.

[@athleticgrandma7830]

Yes!!!! I've had people tell me I don't have olive skin because I'm pale 🙄 I've honestly given up on makeup, blush and curl my lashes

[@HyacinthArmor]

Fair toned olive ladies, she gets us!!

[@ngdg_20]

we do have peach colored color correctors in Korea and they're pretty light! (as you would've expected them to be lol) maybe they would work for you? I use THE SAEM's cover perfection tip concealer (they have a peach shade, a green shade and a bright pink shade) but there are concealer palettes by LUNA or Dasique too :D

[@MonicaRubio]

A lifesaver thank you

[@Discordia5]

Great advice. 😊

[@fran791]

Korean brands are the only ones that make shades for pale olive people

[@audrey9able]

The best thing that came out of K-beauty is the fact they can cater to very pale people😅 even for colorist issues.

[@Pink_Belladonna]

I love SAEM bright pink color corrector and i’m rather on a cooler, maybe a little neutral side and because it was my first pink corrector I didn’t know that the others aren’t usually as light as as that one. The price is great and I’m also thinking about buying their green color corrector too because some of the European green color correctors’ formulas don’t stay well on my face as the saem does

[@allisonmyers5874]

Yesss olive videos! I’m light olive and have always struggled with matching shades. I’m glad to see brands are finally starting to recognize olive skin comes in all tones.

[@-A-09]

Light warm olive here 🙋🏻‍♀️

[@chaedoolies]

I’m pretty sure the reason why these color correctors don’t work for you is more because your dark circles are not blue-they’re almost purplish red. That means that you need a pale yellow to cancel them out. It sounds weird but it might just work The orange corrector is definitely too deep, but the reason why it looks better is because it does have more yellow in it, being orange and all, whereas the pink one is basically the color of your dark circles. All it does is enhance them rather than cancelling them out. A color corrector shouldn’t be flattering it should simply neutralize the color underneath so your base doesn’t have tonal differences when you put your concealer on. I think elf’s yellow corrector would probably help you out a lot. This isn’t a pale olive problem I think it’s a personal thing. I’m pale olive and my dark circles are a deep muddy blue that almost leans green, so I use a do use a bright, peach. I know your video isn’t really about this and more about how everyone assumes olive has to be deep to be olive but I just wanted to point it out cuz the title is a bit misleading.

[@HarleyLuna31]

Her dark cicles look more brownish than purple tho

[@AMD2113-e6m]

Agreed. She does not have the classic “vascular” blue/green under eye circles, which is moreso what people need the peach concealer for.

[@Eggg977]

I’m a fair-medium cool olive, and look warmer when I tan due to the yellow/olive overtone I have. I (and i can prob speak for the other olives in the comments) would love to see more videos like this where you discuss undertones/overtones in general as well as trying makeup for olive tones! There’s so much misinformation out there on the topic but you get it.🙌🏻 The subreddit r/OliveMUA has been a lifesaver for me to find products that work. We’re in the trenches here lol thank you for sharing your knowledge!

[@toribern816]

Fenty came around but did a 180 and discontinued my fair light olive skin shades. 🙄 totally feel ya on this issue 🤍

[@AlexandraAnele]

Nooooooooo 😭

[@ElshiBumcfksz]

Yeah the 105, I never found that perfect shade anywhere else I hate it here, so disappointed in Fenty

[@meghan6734]

I was so hurt when 105 disappeared...

[@thefreevolous]

I’m a light medium olive and there has NEVER been an olive within the light-medium range in Fenty stuff. So disheartening. It’s always peach or pink, not even a neutral golden either.

[@user-wp1dn7fd9w]

@@thefreevoloustry 130! It’s targeted for fair skin but it oxidizes a lot. I was disheartened for 105, but I’ve just given up on them!

[@aygoose]

Truly, its such a blessing to have found you as a fair olive beauty creator. The struggle to find makeup for my skin tone is soooo real. Especially affordable products! Im fair olive, but not crazy crazy light, pretty neutral but leaning a little more on the yellow side. The best color corrector ive found is a pale yellow for my undereyes (and i also prefer it to green for red/dark blemishes too). Ive tried light peaches and orange and pinks and nothing looks right. Concealers foundations powders etc almost always look orange or pink on me, even the “light neutral” ones, and its sooo frustrating. Dont even get me started on contour and brow colors…. Thank god i have you for product recs and techniques and also just killer looks in general.

[@TheRegularjenn]

Yes, try Asian beauty for great light olive options! Please do an updated fair olive bronzer video, I’m tired of looking like I rubbed dirt on my face. Unless I start the opposite of the “Clean girl” trend.

[@JBUHJBUH]

Lol thr 'dirty girl' trend 💀💀

[@pandacadabra]

I'm cool pale olive and can tan but have never found a bronzer that works. Sometimes I use a contour colour as a bronzer bc it's less orangey.

[@glittercatstudios]

It seems to me that using the colour wheel should guide folks into which corrector to use. Undertones are either yellow or blue. And undereye circles are blue and/or purple. Therefore, the hues opposite them on the color wheel are orange and yellow. Mathematically, blue cancels orange. Therefore, applying an orange-based corrector will cancel out the blue. Same with purple and yellow. So why doesn't this work? You're an artist too, so I am anxious to find out what you think. Cheers.

[@HMO16488]

Thank you for putting this together - illustrating why things don’t work is helpful for those of us who felt like we were going crazy, and gaps in product offerings

[@sweetroar]

42 year old golden olive girlie here! Peach corrector to counter the blue of my inner eye with normal concealer and then set with a Light Banana powder, Essence banana powder is perfect, while NYX HD finishing banana powder is too dark for me. Bonus: found that Rituel De Fille 3 drop foundation has a wonderful light olive shade that I really like!

[@rinnie78]

lol. This was highly entertaining. Pink - Zombie girl trying to hide behind concealer. Dead but pink. lol. Peach - Black eye trying to hide behind makeup. Dark but still shadowed. Good thing you are gorgeous regardless!

[@Gaptoothedredheadeds]

I am a fair-light neutral leaning cool olive the best color corrector/concealer for me has been Mac Paint Pot In Soft Ochre. It takes very little product. I don't need to layer any other concealer over it. It doesn't budge.

[@berlineczka]

Pale warm olive here, same experience! However, I accidentally found a holy grail for that, a colour corrector that is a 'dirty pink peach' and actually works on my skin tone. It's ArtDeco's Camouflage Cream in the colour 5 light whiskey. ArtDeco is a German brand and is easy to get in continental Europe, but I guess you can get it online everywhere. They are CF.

[@livesouthernable]

Yep, I’ve gotten so pale, I practically glow in the dark. Still have warm olive skin. I usually end up just using something yellow. I do like the Elf halo glow powder.

[@AlexandraAnele]

Same, yellow was always the closest option 😭

[@pamelaconrad1498]

I have the exact opposite problem - I am a medium/dark cool pink undertone (apparently we don't exist either). Estee Lauder is the only company I've ever had any success with finding a matching foundation. Every other brand I have to cocktail and forget about even getting close with drugstore foundations. Love your content!❤

[@electrickitty626]

Wow. I just randomly bumped into this video and have learned after 41 years, why I have so much trouble finding foundations, concealers, and color correctors that work. Thank you. Would love to see a video with further dive into this topic.

[@AHessMess]

You helped me realize I'm likely a fair olive skin tone -- i had so many issues with my concealers for years! The elf color corrector in peach is the only peach color corrector I've used that's light enough for my skin 😢

[@catrice1296]

Yea idk im still confused about my tone. I work best with a yellow toned foundation but then i have to put a crap ton of blue corrector into it. And then i use a lavender corrector to brighten so i dont look so yellow. But if i use a cool pinky tone foundation it doesnt even look acceptable i look so ugly and ridiculous. Although pink blush looks better on me then peach blush??? So do pink lip products. But grey eyeshadow looks super chalky on me?? But i think grey looks better on me than beige when it comes to clothing. So i havent the foggiest whats wrong with me. I mean i have tried “neutral” foundation like the grey missha perfect bb cream ( a sample of the grey color) and that just looked grey???? And a little dirty on my face??? But when i stand next to my sister i glow a saturated yellowy green color, like quite green.

[@ryrify]

You are the ONLY mua who knows the fair olive skin struggle! I’m actually not even a little bit warm, just so fair. I’d buy everything if you made a concealer and foundation ❤

[@Zôfiëmakeup]

Daisque sells a complexion palette for pale olive tones that I’ve used on my clients and it works very well and the texture and creaminess is perfect.

[@cjaneg97]

I'm very fair neutral olive. My favourite corrector is the Maybelline Instant Age Rewind in Brightener. I have dark purple/blue undereyes.

[@rinnie78]

I saw you had the Maybelline Eraser corrector in pink when you did your organizing video. I’d love to see you use that vs their yellow corrector. I have the yelllow but sometimes wonder if I would be better served by the pink. Drugstore Comparison video please?? 💗💛

[@SenseiChanel-h9e]

I have thee hardest time color correcting my fair olive skin. I'm very, VERY yellow-y in terms of undertone. My dark circles are some mystery color I can't ever quite isolate and identify properly, thus making it impossible to correct and camouflage. All I know for sure is the typical orange/peach/pink correctors I see in drugstores are not it. Lol

[@auroraborealis13579]

Have you seen/tried Nars Pear concealer/color corrector? Might work….

[@Sarah.0304]

Mine are the same. It’s almost like they’re brown or even dark tan, not your typical blue/purple. I have bought I don’t know how many correctors and they just don’t look right. The closest I’ve come to is mixing a light yellow and pink 😆. But most of the time a say screw it and just use concealer.

[@jordanpulaski]

Same here. It’s a weird brown ish shade for me.

[@rizzart66]

The No7 skin perfecting skin tint was wonderful. Of course, they discontinued it. I've scaled back on my make-up because I'm 57. Hydrated skin looks better than cakey any day.

[@nightmareonyrst333]

I love the finishing powder. The good stuff always gets discontinued 😢

[@emac2008]

I’m so glad you made this video… cause Kelly Gooch had me about to go buy that huda beauty brightening powder… in peach.

[@Camila-eb4ff]

Wow, it looks live I am having a big moment of therapy. Now I’m getting why I can’t find a perfect shade for me. Thanks, thanks, that comforted me. Trying to use pink undertone and I look dead. Yellow undertone never gets on perfect shade for me. I try to use neutral yellowish…but never perfect!

[@EmilyCaysfort]

I've finally found you! The OTHER girl with pale olive skin. I often have to scour eye shadows and lip colors to find the right colors for my skin because it's almost as light as your hair. The products never have the right consistency or finish. Sometimes I feel like a de-saturated emoji. Liked, subbed and all the rest!

[@fbmbassist]

I had a similar issue with the Bobbi Brown correctors. I just had to go for the lighter peach shade (lighter than I expected) so it wasn't orange. Then I go over it with a skin colored concealer. The pink-bisque shade was too ashy on me. I have warm-olive skin. For skin tints I can easily do warm undertones, but for foundation neutral works better so it's not too yellow, or Asian foundations that have the right olive, pink, yellow, neutral balance.

[@always1402]

I found out about my olive undertone recently… Thanks to Monica R I found the L.A. Girl blue pigment so now I am fixing every foundation I got and I am so glad about it!!!!

[@cruz111]

I thought blue pigment is to make it cool undertone and green for olive? I use the green to fix foundations and it works.

[@janicebott4498]

@@cruz111 if you are a cool olive then blue would work

[@raerohan4241]

​@@cruz111 Blue + yellow = green. Typically a foundation with yellowy tones, if mixed with the blue corrector, matches really well. A peachy foundation also benefits because it turns neutral, which while not ideal, is much better than leaning one way or the other. Either way, blue works - just add a little less than would be used for a cool tone, and voila, something that sort of works for olives 😊

[@HarleyLuna31]

Omg yes f huda

[@JoanKSX]

Not really sure but I did add quite some blue + white of the L.A. Girl foundation pigment to L'Oreal Paris Infallible Fresh Wear liquid foundation in the shade of 120 Vanilla and then it works to my skin colour LOL (solely Fresh Wear Vanilla is too dark and too orange as if I'm burnt cheesecake LMAO) I wonder whether I'm olive? What kind of olive am I? And every sales advisor seeing me as 'yellow' Asian LOL

[@SyifaAdriana]

This is so interesting! I have a medium neutral olive undertones and still find it difficult to match my foundation. It's frustrating 😂

[@AlexandraAnele]

Olive tones are SO difficult 😭

[@Sammyltv]

Foundation? Orange. 😭

[@SyifaAdriana]

@@Sammyltv Have you tried adding a blue pigment to neutralize the orange tones? I have started doing that since last year and it massively helps x

[@Sammyltv]

@@SyifaAdriana The thing is I feel like we shouldn't have to mix blue pigment, I feel like foundation shades should have olive skin tones. It also sucks having a desaturated skin tone because just mixing blue pigment doesn't help, the foundation will still be way too saturated.

[@raerohan4241]

​@@Sammyltv Definitely true that shades which already fit us should exist, but meanwhile, the blue foundation correctors many brands have put out come in clutch!

[@empressphoenixrose]

Ty for addressing this! I have such a problem finding the right products for my light olive tone. Please keep on addressing this!

[@murphymomof9]

Thank you for speaking up for us warm fair olives. Yup, most color-correct products are too dark. These def. are! I love when you post fair olive content. SO appreciative. Thank you!

[@jsd375]

As a pale olive neutral finding matching concealer for me is a real torture😢

[@fran791]

Try pale olive cool LOOOL 😂❤

[@jsd375]

@@fran791 condolences😅

[@jordanpulaski]

Same! Only one I’ve found is tarte shape tape 16N

[@jsd375]

@@jordanpulaski unfortunately shape tape too thick for me🥲

[@HarleyLuna31]

Girl i use pigments white and blue cuz brands are awful with us

[@mrna00266]

Thank you for making honest contents like this. I'm fair olive just like you and always is a challenge to find products that fits on my skin, and even I'm not living in US (I'm from Brazil), your hints help A LOT!

[@nadined9282]

Thank you Alex, this was so needed! As a light neutral olive I don’t even know where to start for corrector. I’m tired of the makeup industry mostly ignoring us light and fair olives. I would love to see more olive focussed videos and olive experiments!!!

[@chaedoolies]

Your skin tone doesn’t matter with color correctors. What matters is the color of your dark circles. For Alex, peach doesn’t work because her dark circles are already quite warm and red, so she would need either a pale purple or even greenish blue to cancel out her pigmentation. It’s just color theory. Not all dark circles are blue, meaning that orange or peach wont work for most people.

[@jordanpulaski]

So what about darker brownish circles?

[@sblue4575]

Your next collaboration should be color corrector because you’d create it like it should be!

[@surly_mel]

Fellow ultra pale olive green gal here - I've been mixing a little blue or green (skin safe) pigment into my foundation for years. Helps tone down the weird oversaturated orangey-yellowey color that most light foundations seem to have. It's frustrating to have to "prep" a bottle/compact of product each time before it can be used!

[@thatsrealroughbud...2394]

Oh man, people get MAD when people point out that pale olive skin exists. Like, the speed in white online communities, ESPECIALLY REDDIT get fucking NASTY when people even so much as ask questions about undertones for light complexions, shit gets HATEFUL.

[@tamberjune]

Good Morning and loved you're doing this video 🎉🎉🎉 I have more olive skin as well so I was so freaking excited when you talked about this. Being not neutral and not warm and not cool just kinda suck cause most things don't work. Maybe an in depth undertone video. This is a very important topic! I have to use more blush or contour etc, to take away from the weird colors the color correctors give me.❤❤❤

[@annescholten9313]

I love that you try to make things work and are honest at the same time.❤

[@case1962]

I'm a fair warm with a lot of purple around my eyes -- I swear by Fitglow's Peach Color Corrector. They also have a green and a yellow. A little goes a l--o--n--g way!

[@melaniegorniak3803]

Your channel has benefited me greatly you helped me with my hooded eyes and how to apply where to apply and different options for blending, the windshield wiper motions do not work for me but the patting has changed my eyeshadow game by a million. It’s amazing how well blended my shadow looks by using this method it’s just as blended but so much easier and you get way less muddy issues with this technique.

[@kerrykateart]

Fair green olive. 💚 I use green powder, and it works better.

[@Jdoublel7]

This was sooo illustrative, the results are so drastic you can really see the difference (and how neither work for you)

[@LaceyMyriah]

LOL you were SO upset in this video! It did make me giggle. But also - yeah. I’m a pale cool olive and I have pretty much given up on any base makeup unless I’m doing a WHOLE face.

[@kimkeogh2333]

It always makes me laugh when you tell off your camera - great vid as always ☺️

[@natasha7732]

Thanks for the video! I am also olive but closer to light/medium, I just bought the peach huda corrector you showed on one side and it packs a punch! Similar to you I find it too dark if I apply too much. If you haven’t tried, I’d recommend the Bobbi Brown corrector sticks, there is decent options on both peach/pink tones

[@palomaaviles5998]

Dude okay...I've never googled anything about olive skin until today. I've always just mixed my own foundation and bought liquid pigments and mixed them into my foundation. But people in my family and acquaintances have told me I can't be olive toned because I'm pale. But I'm Puerto Rican. And I do tan. But I also have rosacea and excema and have sensitive skin. Allergies and stuff. But people have always told me because of the rashes I get on my cheeks I'm too pale I'm not olive and because I have pink cheeks I'm not olive... It's f****d up.

[@DuiDrop]

your video on using green correctors / liquids to mix in foundations to adjust the tone is a life saver! I'll very soon experiment with it ^^ I'm fair/light with neutral olive undertone. I always thought I was warm but like you show here warm undertone products for the longest time would show up noticably dark on me and I'm extremely oily too so my oils almost always turn the foundation a bit darker by the end of the day. the vein test doesn't help me. and when I'm right next to a very fair cool toned friend I look noticably warm, but when I'm next to someone with an obvious warm/yellowish tones skin I appear cooler. that's when I can see olive the most. as make up brands started relesing more color choices I realized fair/light neutral undertones matched me the best. especially Korean BB creams that are very light and have a gray-ish undertone seemed to suit me the best. but I definitely have olive hues in my skin. so very excited to do better matches soon ^^

[@mizmae0890]

I am pale olive too and there is an elf under eye corrector that I think works really good. It's in a little pot.

[@LulusLivid]

I personally think the cooler tone looks AMAZONG on you! It matches your natural blush or the blush that you’re wearing it just matches really well I think 😭✋❤️

[@true_silvyver]

arent these more like correctors than concealers? so it makes sense they are dark. On the other hand there is bobby brown with the light bisque shades

[@sarahmilano9274]

My pale cool olive girlies… use Korean makeup! They have the best variety of undertones for pale skin

[@Sewcial-Anxietea]

I feel like the pink correctors are always just like... the surface hue of our dark circles. They're cool toned. They enhance the purplish tones.

[@MeloniousThunk]

Light olive here - neutral leaning warm. Best foundations I’ve found are Armani Luminous silk in 3.5, 3.8, 4 (depending on time of year / tan), Makeup Forever HD Skin in 1N10 Ivory, 1N14 Beige, and Estee Lauder Double Wear 1W2 Sand, 2N1 Desert Beige. Honorable mention to Lancôme Teint Idole Ultra Wear in 125W - it’s an amazing formula but not a perfect match for light olive.

[@blackcappedchickadee8469]

I love the concept of the Q and A at the end! Thank you for the video

[@liliznotatnikiem6755]

I am so thankful for this channel! I was was just going to see some review about HUDA corrector and then I stopped here. Not only I realised that I have a much better one (Sisley corrector number 2 peach) but also going through your foundation/olive skin tone videos I finally understood why I kept looking for my perfect foundation for all my life that is over 20 years of doing makeup!!! I’m so shocked. I have some rosacea and some brown spots and yet still olive tone? So confusing, but as soon as I followed you and started to mixed green or all those wrong shades of cold greyish Korean bb creams into my most used foundations (all of them!) , for the first time in my life I created in my face something that has the right color! Yellow bit of olive, not too much peach bit just a bit. Just now I understood thank to your Chanel how difficult it is to find something matching for not fair but light and slightly olive skintone.🤯🤯🤯 my brain exploded now but in a positive way. ❤❤❤ thanks for that, this Chanel transformed my way of seeing the Colors now. Really thanks!

[@baileydubs]

I know you are olive warm, but could you do a color theory vid on olive cool/neutral/warm and how they compare and what colors compliment them? I am light olive neutral and I think dusty mauves look best but I always have trouble branching out, and warms looks terrible on me

[@dagmar0027]

I'm a warm-leaning neutral who's also super fair with naturally dark under eye circles, & neither peach nor pink really work all that well for me for color correcting. I've been using pink simply because it's easier to find in lighter shades, but it's still not quite right on me, in my opinion. However, I'm also so pale that most people can't tell what my undertone is, so I guess it's really only obvious to me.

[@NattyIce94]

The Bobbi brown correctors (in the pot not the stick) work best for me. I have warm olive undertones too and need a light peach to correct my genetic dark circles just like you. The shades light bisque or bisque work for me depending on how tan I am. I’m a few shades deeper than you.

[@thefreevolous]

It makes sense, Bobbi Brown originally started her range with yellow as a base for their complexion products. I remember having light bisque and loving it.

[@irazorn3712]

It's not just about the overall undertone of the skin but also about the colour of the undereyes. My skin tone is pretty neutral but my undereyes are all shades of greyish blue so I definitely need a peachy corrector. I have been using Kryolan Dermacolor Camouflage Cream in the shade 3W for years now and I swear by it! It has a thicker consistency but that just ensures that it doesn't blend away too much and it is high in pigment which means you only need a super sheer layer of it. Since it's not super creamy, it also required less powder to set. It's a win win win situation imo.

[@user-wp1dn7fd9w]

Hi Alex! I’ve swatched the color correctors before the cherry pie one came out and I can say, as a pale olive girl as well, but with heavy blue dark circles, that the cherry pie looks better for blue dark circles and that you could benefit more from the pink pomelo shade! And the translucent powder or the pound cake would look better on fair-olive people

[@iulia.bianca.b]

Yup, I have this exact problem. My skin tone is almost exactly like yours. I'm white as hell, but I'm yellow, not pink. Whenever I want something to match my skin tone, it's always dark. If I go lighter, it's always pinkish. Goddamn. I'm also eastern european, so there's that.

[@makeupdeva6166]

Hello Alexandra. I have so many questions! 1) Would mixing the peach shade with a white loose setting powder work? Or mix the pink and the peach together? How do you figure out if you have an olive undertone, or cool or warm? I've seen other videos explaining how to figure out if you are cool or warm toned, but I still can't figure out what mine is. I also saw a video showing some celebrities as examples of olive undertones, but I still don't see it. I see tan. Especially when they have bronzer on. What do I look for, whether on myself or on someone else, especially if I want to become a makeup artist? Some foundations to me look yellow, or neutral in the bottle but on me look pink. I hope you see my question and are able to explain it in a way that no one else has and that makes sense. Maybe my skin tone is a mix of everything which is why I can't figure it out.

[@justilou1]

I’m also pale Olive. There is a fabulous K-Beauty color corrector by The Saem. It’s a genuinely Olive-beige. They also have a green-beige concealer. I find that correcting with yellow works better than peach or pink.

[@justilou1]

Actually The Saem has two green-beige corrector/concealers. (Very similar to N*rs but MUCH cheaper)

[@bobbies1562]

Should you put concealer on top of a powder color correcter? How would that work? About Face does indeed have olive undertones. Have you tried EX1 foundations -- not sure if they make a shade light enough for you and the product is difficult to find.

[@pinkiepie6880]

I completely agree; I have always had such a hard time finding the right concealers and foundations for my skin tone because for some reason the lighter products go the more pink the undertones are. I'm warm and tan easily but lean more towards nuetral. So if I go any darker the products are too yellow and I look sallow and washed out. Very frustrating. And the women at Sephora give me different advice each time. Some recommend a yellower to nuetral shade while others say I need more pink to counter the yellow undertones 😮‍💨

[@c342thedroid2]

I’m also reaally pale. But I’m olive cool. In my face there’s a lot of pink and red coming through though. And as Alex said most warmer or olive tone foundations come in darker shades. So I’m left with a pinkish face and olive neck. It’s not horrible since if even if pink it (usually) is light enough. But still, it’s noticeable and when I blush it’s even worse.

[@thefreevolous]

MOB Beauty has olive undertones :) the co-founder behind the complexion shades was also the co-founder of Cover FX, which originally had olives in their range before he left and they reformulated. He was also the co-founder of MAC. Maybe it’ll be interesting to see if their shades fit you in the pale olive side, I have nearly perfect match within the light-medium range.

[@audrey9able]

To be fair Huda Beauty's main demographic are for people on arid and hot or humid climates, hence the matte powders. As well as warmer skin tones. But it is too bad especially since Huda Beauty seems to be widening their demographic even more. And this also goes to many other brands.

[@Yummy411]

She advertised these colors pink and peach colors, but has a range of colors. I wonder if the lighter ones are more suited for you. Did they send those?

[@catherineyoung1433]

This makes so much sense! I have trouble with blush, too - peach is too orange and pink is too stark.

[@stacyketner]

I always gravitate towards Mauve blushes most are a neutral color and look fantastic with every look

[@katsybo]

@@stacyketnerme too, they always work.

[@sandrametcalfe7483]

I’m a light/medium warm olive. I have a very hard time finding foundation and concealer. The skin not foundation that matches me is Este Lauder double wear in Dawn. Most foundations are either too orange or too yellow on me.. pink makes me look very sick and dead.

[@bristremel1554]

i'm a very fair cool olive and yep. most fair olives recommend yellow-toned products and I can't go there even remotely. i've got the Cherry Blossom shade in Huda corrector coming shortly and hopefully it does something. in the meantime I've got Haus Labs foundation in one shade up from white [015] which has rosy undertones but I also have the LA Girl mint corrector if I need to grey it out because essentially that's my undertone - grey.

[@likewise6867]

request: try on of Mob beauty. You can build your own palette 🎨💓

[@auroraborealis13579]

I second this!

[@smalltownvvitch]

It doesn't look bad over the camera especially the peach side. Would've loved to see how it works in daylight :)

[@meghan8582]

I agree. The peach side looks good on camera.

[@Ezarhia_The_Fulani]

I have a warm, dark olive tone. I bought the darker Papaya peach corrector. it's way to red for me so I use it quite sparingly.

[@aninamonsoon]

it seems like your undereyes are already a bit red toned. the orange or pink correctors work well for blue, purple or greenish undereyes. those colors basically cancel each other out.

[@agony-aunt]

Great video Alex, very informative. Your understanding & explanation of colour theory is SO helpful. ps That lip colour is gorgeous!!

[@susannadler9791]

The Bobbi Brown corrector sticks are really nice for the under eye. I have a similar depth and undertone to you. The Light Bisque color worked out well for me, but they have peach tones too. I feel like pale olive isn’t really a thing for most cosmetics.

[@AndreeaC.]

I use the Saem concealer in Peach Beige is the most perfect for fair-light range with super dark under eye area !

[@rhondaarmstrong1405]

Great video. I see alot of people use that powder but I truth what you say because of watching you and seeing how you are so I know you are keeping it real.❤

[@thefreevolous]

Yeah, it’s a pain to find true olives and yellow undertones on fair, light and light-medium shades. Huda’s main market is the Middle East, so they are more specialised in catering to those golden, tan undertones. A bit like most Asian brands that are straight out grey, pink, or pale apricot. Fenty is the one that annoys me the most because they are famous because of having such a huge shade range, but there’s NOTHING for olive undertones. CoverFX used to be the one who had specific olive undertones, but they’ve reformulated. One of their founders (who was also a co-founder for MAC) left and has recently started MOB Beauty, and guess what? There’s olive undertones even on lighter shades!

[@fridaoropeza8965]

this is why I take so long doing just my base makeup, I must mix everything, foundation, concealer, color corrector, and blush; I also have a lot of grey on my skin so I have to color correct but I cannot go too warm because it looks to fake because I am olive neutral leaning cool but I can't either just use pink because that doesn't brighten or color correct and also do not want to look more grey T_T and dead than I already look like

[@amandamarissaparis]

yeah, her products are made for the ME but we just love her shit. She’s getting best of both worlds. i’m also a fair warm olive.

[@fatima_amber]

Yep that is her market and the snatched mid 2010s look is a lot more popular there. However there are a lot of people in the Middle East who are fair and esp fair/warm like Alex, so still kind of an oversight. Also I noticed that there is kind of a jump on the peach side, when glow_bymonica tested she had to mix two shades.

[@amandamarissaparis]

@@fatima_amber Totally. I already know it won't work for me as a fair warm olive. I do like some of her products though.

[@mero2627]

I’m a medium olive, not a fair olive and huda’s stuff suits me just fine.

[@OliviaLiberti]

I’m light olive tooo! So frustrating 🫠 Would you be able to mix that peach color with a very light concealer to make it not as dark?? Cause the tone does look really good on you!

[@JBUHJBUH]

I'm wondering whether that & a foundation over the top would help? And/ or using a better syited shade of setting powder?

[@claudiarebecca4688]

I use the charlotte tilbury color corrector cream in light. It’s peachy, but not sure if it will work for you - but it’s def lighter.

[@АндреяТеодосиева-ш2н]

Great video for us olive girlies, Alex! In one of your recent videos you mentioned you're open to ideas, i'd love to see a more complex eyeshadow look like you used to do back in the day, like with Pat Mcgraths pallettes

[@mordan4686]

I'm super white, like... WHITE but it's so hard even to find foundation. They're all so pink. Even the neutral once, pink.

[@computeredfemale]

years ago i saw your tutorial on eyeliner just when i was starting to wear makeup

[@arelysarelys2515]

I just bought the peach pie recently.Put over a little bit of light ivory loose powder over it and wala it got lighter. Loved the coverage.Don’t have much money to spend on more loose powder though but I’m olive yellow undertone. People think I’m pale.

[@bgmbst]

All the great tips and tutorial aside, amazing eyebrows!! The shape the tint the thickness wow

[@cindypowell6358]

I go through the same thing all the time. I’m more olive toned/neutral & fair skinned. The pink & peach don’t work for me especially if they are more dark & too much pink/peach. Smh the struggle is real. Thank you for this video. That’s why I’m so happy with my Haus Labs foundation. The tones/color I found in a foundation match are so good. I need to get the concealer still. 💖🙂

[@vanessagonzalezmua]

Maybe try Natasha Denonas color correctors. She has lighter ones and I like the formula so far.