Neutral Undertones and Olive Skin Tone Explained

yourcolorstyle.com/ ~ Do you think you have neutral undertones? You don't feel that you are dominantly warm or cool? Do you believe you have olive skin tone? Watch and learn as Jen breaks down the concept of neutral undertones and olive skin tone and helps you see what colors flatter you best.
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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.

[@MrsMac3099]

I am not Asian , but part southern Italian. And amen to what you said !!!!

[@TheBaumcm]

Indian and I feel ya. Have never had a perfect match in foundation so I go for matching the intensity and then toning it with green

[@michelleassous]

I’m light and olive and finding a foundation match is near impossible!!

[@DaTaMB]

YEAH! I’m a cool olive asian and it’s super difficult to find products that match my skin in Asia :(

[@lisag4441]

Not Asian but exactly like this color. I have a hard time matching foundation match. I guess south and Central Americans really do have asian ancestors

[@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.

[@tromkalixon6933]

I think that a solution for this would be a foundation formulated with saturated, (semi-)transparent pigments with a less opaque base. Kinda like a good lipgloss which shows colour but doesn't cling to the lip's texture, but also sets. If it doesn't exist, than it should be formulated asap.

[@casillasmakeup]

I work with clients like this often; I tend to color correct, and use an in the middle shade. I do usually have to warm up the body a bit and highlight the center of the face to balance everything out

[@gigigameleira7297]

Yea my face its a lot lighter

[@jellybeanbear7017]

Omg that’s basically mê 😪😪

[@DolceSuono9]

Yes!

[@oliviaolsson6327]

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.

[@coloredpencils01]

Commenting to boost your comment. This is exactly right; saturation is what it's all about to determine olive or not, not just hue.

[@marthaspringer7794]

So relate to your comment! I tan easily, rarely burn in the summer and lose all my colour in the winter. Ash blond, hazel eyes and 'warm' neutral

[@teavetyskova]

Me too!!

[@mls3555]

Me too, but hazel eyes. I can't wear any shade of tan - looks like I'm literally sick😂 I can wear a very cool taupe.

[@honeysickle]

THIS. I am half danish half polish and I was so confused for such a long time. Finding out at last that I have an olive undertone, everything makes so much sense!

[@JessaJaguar]

Easiest way to tell if you're olive-toned...take a green eyeshadow at the same depth of your skin color (fair, light, medium, tan, dark, deep, etc.) and blend it out on your skin...if it starts to "disappear" compared to a same depth of pink/yellow/blue/etc. then that's how you know

[@tromkalixon6933]

Even better if you try it, with a warm, desaturated olive.

[@gigigameleira7297]

Oh That actually worked

[@areebakhan6200]

Can you please explain the same depth part im confused

[@JessaJaguar]

@@areebakhan6200 same depth as your skin color meaning if you have light skin use a light colored eyeshadow, if you have dark skin use a dark colored eyeshadow, etc. Avoid bright or neon shadows for this purpose just because they don't work as well.

[@onemore7632]

that is genius thank you

[@sideeffect2]

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!

[@mandamarieee13]

Allison Smith you are not alone that is me too!!!!

[@MiniiCitrus]

I was thinking the same thing. Lighter eyes may be more uncommon with olive skin but to say you can't have both is silly and false. Melissa Alatorre is a prime example.

[@gigigameleira7297]

My hair and my eyes are really dark brown if not black But my skin is very light and green I haven't watched the whole video yet Even tho i don't in the first category she was talking about i also throught it was kinda senseless to say that bassically light people with blue eyes and a non obvious skin undertone are neutral There are really light skin people with olive undertones

[@YourColorStyle]

I agree! I've finally met someone in person that is fair with olive green skin. Would you be willing to send me your photo? Please go to yourcolorstyle.com/askjen

[@S.C-]

I have medium olive skin dark hair and green eyes. My brother and sister both have brown eyes. And dark hair. Sometimes it happens with genetics but not so common

[@kn803x]

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 🤔

[@YourColorStyle]

I would love to but I don’t have a photo. If you’re willing to have your photo included in a video to show what a fair skinned olive skin toned person looks like, I’d be happy to address it.

[@kn803x]

Jen Thoden would you mind a photo that is basically from my nose down? 😅 I don’t like taking photos of myself but I have one where you can see my neck & jawline .. also it’s taken on an iPhone (I don’t own a camera) 🙏🏻🙏🏻 please let me know (if you need to I could just take a pic of myself and roll with it xD )

[@YourColorStyle]

Kristina Konno honestly that won’t be enough. I have to take into account hair, skin and eyes. If you change your mind, please take a headshot outside in natural light. Send to [e-mail]

[@keukenlab200]

Kristina, I'm Slavic too and am the same as you! Do you have dark hair? I feel like when I dye my hair black I look pale but when I dye my hair brownish, the olive tone comes out a bit more.

[@mernam5056]

I look grey when I wear white..I feel like I have both yellow/greenish tones.

[@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.

[@querenm3303]

I feel that people forget about olive skin...

[@murphie_4559]

Yep and it’s one of the best cause you don’t burn 😂

[@mariliaoliveira9532]

@@murphie_4559 You just become grayish lol

[@palomapardo1744]

Omg this is the first time I find an accurate description to what happens to my skin when I sunbathe

[@anupreetiboro1352]

@@mariliaoliveira9532 I look sick even when I'm not 😭

[@everalvelast]

Yeah and when you tan you start ti look very ashy

[@minivan1680]

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.

[@gracielu795]

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.

[@josenotmarichan]

You should check out Alexandra Anele! She is an example of a white woman with olive undertones.

[@bakitjasleeen]

Also check out haley kim!

[@AR-sz5lm]

And yet... here I am. Being super pale and unmistakably olive 😂

[@sciencenotstigma9534]

@@josenotmarichan. A lot of Italian are olive.

[@KalliBella1]

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.

[@abigailpena5950]

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!

[@delilahhart4398]

I don't know what brands you use, but you may need to buy a prestige brand rather than a drugstore brand, because the prestige brands typically have a wider color range. I'm white and Cherokee, and I have pale olive skin. I use the Bare Minerals Complexion Rescue in Wheat. You can go to Sephora, and they have a computer that can analyze your skin tone and match you to different shades in different brands.

[@shamapuranik1385]

Try ex1 foundation - I’m olive and light as well and their olive undertones are so perfect!

[@Awall79]

I'm of British/French/Italian decent in that order and my mother is definitely olive. I'm paler than anyone in my family but my family has assured me I'm olive as well. I think I am too but I'm really struggling to find any youtubers who talk about this. I don't wear foundation but I'd love to get an idea of other colors. There are pale olive people...I don't know why more people don't talk about this.

[@bh4439]

@@Awall79 if you've not already, check out Merriam Styles!

[@Awall79]

@@bh4439 That doesn't sound familiar! Thank you I will!

[@stephaniegarsow6220]

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.

[@jenmontzingo]

Stephanie Garsow I’m Israeli and fair skinned unless I’m intentionally tanning (which I don’t do now that I’m in my 30’s and realize how dumb that was. Anyway, point being you can be fair as heck and still be olive like you said.

[@stephaniegarsow6220]

@@jenmontzingo yep exactly. :)

[@Cathaign]

Yup.

[@gabrielamoreiral]

Exactly! My mom is fair and olive and I'm medium and olive too. Rules have always an exception.

[@tara7206]

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

[@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.

[@YourColorStyle]

I completely agree with your comment. I receive photos, often, that look warm because olive skin photographs warm. But in person, it's more obvious. I also agree that olive skin is not necessarily cool. I've had clients that are warm olive and others that are cool olive. Everyone is unique

[@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!

[@yvonneadrian734]

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

[@SusieCocosette]

Yvonne Adrian try red berries or red tomatoes, I can wear both, I choose medium dark! I don’t look good in nude, better in my natural lips color

[@annarehbinder7540]

Check out what Katie finds on youtube

[@uhveetothe]

Try Ruby Woo by MAC

[@Em22-wtf]

Lol!!! I've tried every single red there is, no matter what red lip I try I look like a..... "lady of the night" advertising myself in the pitch dark with my lips! It's AWFUL! Lol!!! I was in hair school and everyone thought they'd find me the perfect red. All we did was laugh for an hour, haha!!! I gave up.

[@KristaaRae]

I use a blue toned red. I’ve been told that true, blood red is good for my skin. I am medium brown skinned though.

[@pamelawolf313]

You have a gift! And I’m so thankful for it, because I’m on the struggle bus over here. Recently I wore a shirt where everyone thought I was sick and a friend said “that’s not your color” so began my need for this series. Haha

[@KristinaAinsworthRealtorAustin]

Thank you so much! I have almost the same coloring as the 3rd woman--i thought I was probably Soft, Warm, Medium and this video clarified it for me. I held up a photo of myself on my phone next to the cards as you went through them on the video! All these videos are so helpful. I had already ordered your color fan in SWM, but then wondered if I was a warm spring or a true autumn. Thanks!

[@JC-yc8wg]

Hi Jen ! I really enjoy your videos. Thank you for making them. Literally everybody describes me as having olive skin. My skin does not tolerate bright colors very well. I do believe I lean cool and I choose my neutral colors accordingly. However, some of my very best colors are on the warm side. It has been my experience that warm colors that have still a considerable amount of blue in them work beautifully. Yes, deeper colors seem to lend themselves to being cooler. A good example of the cooler warm tones are some soft not overly warm rusts, persimmon tones, mustard yellow and even some deep soft warm greens. Of course, the way a color is styled is also very important. The process of finding these colors isn't always easy. It is ironic that having neutrality to your skin can be even more problematic . So, thank you for offering the products that you do.

[@etanguy9586]

I was always told I had peachy undertones and that peachy blush and lipstick was for me, but this has plagued me. I think I look best in saturated cooler colors (like for dark winter people) and have lots of cool green veins (with some purple ones). I’m very pale with dark features. When I compare my skin to my husband’s, mine looks very yellow, his is very pink (cool). We’re both very white lol. I can’t wear any nudes or beige. So yeah I’m confused..

[@sciencenotstigma9534]

Green veins are supposed to be warm not cool. There’s a color analyst who does not go by the veins in YT. She’s a definite warm toned Spring with blue veins.

[@etanguy9586]

I was really confused, but watching Merriam Style really helped me. She has some AMAZING color videos

[@Spark1221]

Finally, my colour type explained--thank you!

[@leighannjohnson1194]

My husband told me just last night that I look green sometimes. Lol. And I am PALE!

[@einhyatt]

A southeast Asian here, everyone here has dark hair and eyes but our skin tone can be soooo different. Am still confused even after all these years and still cant determined my skin tone. The vein test doesnt work, but all I know that do not work for me are paper white, off white and beige hijabs (i'm full time hijabi). I had a NW Mac powder fd and it does not work for me (so I know I'm not cool toned). I tried a Maybelline with a warm undertone, it ended up orangey. OMGGG what am i. All I know, I'm one of the few people who could pull bright golden-ish mustard hijab that really brightens my face up.

[@theviceinvirtue]

Hi! Just wanted to point out that just because people have dark hair and eyes doesn't determine what their skin tone is like ;) - which, I think, is something this KZbinr has referred to incorrectly. Without seeing you in person it's impossible to tell, but from what you've described, it's highly likely you have olive undertones. Whites tend to pull the "greenish" colour out of our skin and makes us look sickly/sallow - I'm assuming this is what happens to you. Try going to a MAC either a few different times or different locations (so that you get a different person matching you every time) and see what ends up looking closest. Even if their foundation doesn't work for you, you can use that as a jumping off point to look for other foundations. Hope this helps :)

[@einhyatt]

viceinvirtue love this!

[@anastasiashterenberg8094]

MAC also does foundations that are neutral they are worth a try.

[@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

[@gabrielamoreiral]

Are you Italian?

[@SCahto]

@@gabrielamoreiral American Indian & Mexican

[@blessedwifeandmama]

Omg God bless you for doing this cannot find this anywhere !!!!

[@daniellevaljean6690]

This was really helpful, thanks! I am fairly pale with very dark hair and golden brown eyes. I seem to be very close to neutral, but as I have been experimenting with makeup lately, I find I like the more purple-ish and grey colors, so I think I lean more towards a cool undertone. But I feel like I can pull off a lot of colors in clothes. I had a friend who was well-versed in the old 4 season system who was surprised at how many colors I could pull off . So this makes perfect sense.

[@YourColorStyle]

Glad it was helpful!

[@Jesus_is_Lord555]

My undertone is hard to figure out. I always thought I had a cool undertone, since I am fair. I was recently foundation matched for bareminerals in the shade golden fair, which is a yellow undertone. It seems to be a pretty good match, my question is does this mean that I am warm and delicate? Or cool and delicate? I'm still not sure if I should be wearing warm or cool colors.

[@yahaira1221]

That was really helpful, thank you so much!

[@coloredpencils01]

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.

[@OceansTreasure]

You need to do more research. Pale olive skin tones exist and that lady who submitted the photo was one. I’m Eastern European like Mila Kunis and we are usually pale/light olive skin tones. Olive does not mean darker skin any more than warm means darker skin...

[@YourColorStyle]

I completely agree. since making this video I have met, in person, two fair olive skinned individuals. I

[@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

[@justadjustor8993]

I'm not so sure about the mehran light olive foundation shade, but you just described me perfectly! And I'm Southeast Asian! 😄😄😀 This is so interesting 😄

[@YourColorStyle]

I agree. I finally met someone with fair coloring and olive skin.

[@beautifulworld7940]

Thank you! Excellent examples! 🙌😊

[@samhoney1414]

I had just combined two lipstick shades: cinnamon spice and ravishing rose and found the color cinnamon rose on the net. It's my ideal lipstick and I was wondering what season I was for a long time because I'm nuetral and olive. I've been months trying to work it out until I found your warm pink vs cool pink video as this one. The way you explain color palettes and a persons coloring is so clear, precise and confusing that only after a few videos could I comfortably say I figured out my colors. Thank you!!

[@hypatiakovalevskayasklodow9195]

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

[@merevaan2580]

same for me :(

[@hypatiakovalevskayasklodow9195]

Marion B. I'm even more confused now! Ah well, at least I know I'm warm

[@sarawilliams7453]

I fell down the rabbit hole of colour analysis 5 years ago. Let my hair go grey and ditched the black. I have been analysed, in person, as Bright, Warm and Light, Cool, Light and Muted, Light Spring and by Carol Tuttle by photos as DYT Type 1. This video helps me understand why as a Light, it is so difficult. I wear Bright and Cool on special occasions when I wear Bright make up. Otherwise I stick to a wardrobe that consists of soft blues, soft bluey greens (that match my eyes) and cool greys. I wear silver jewellery. I made a decision to do this as these colours harmonise with my greying hair and it makes me look more congruent. It has also made me want to buy clothes again when the angst of finding and feeling right in 'my' colours became too much. Sometimes, trying to fit into a programme is too stressful. Now I have my 'uniform' it's easier. Thanks Jen for another helpful video.

[@genie3852]

Thank you for this information. 😍

[@KristinaAinsworthRealtorAustin]

Im also curious what season you think Angelina Jolie is. Some call her soft summer, some call her soft autumn, she appears neutral.

[@Maria-db9yb]

Hi! Could you please analyze my colouring? I would not mind being featured in a video and I am fair skinned but also very olive, with dark brown hair and eyes, so I have no idea what looks good on me. When looking for foundations, “cool” looks super pink on me and “warm” looks super yellow. I always get matched with neutral but in natural light it lacks green. Please help!

[@cjrg2779]

I am warm, I have yellow/ golden undertones with a medium tone but I look amazing with blue and greens as long as they are bright and warm.....am I considered neutral since blue and green look better on me than yellow and orange?

[@frankie5779]

I am fair-light and have a cool olive undertone. Which color bronzer would look best? Thank you for your videos!

[@jose11032]

THANK YOU JEN for “Quick analyzing” me in this video! I would love to have perfect skin but I am wearing a little bit of yellow toned mineral powder here (Jane iredale Purepressed base in Bisque) since it matches my neck (my face is more pink and shows every vain too) I have always felt warm. My hands especially are quite yellow! As a child everyone told me i looked sick and ghostly all of the time! And every neutral makeup look very pink on me. But, if a foundation is too yellow it also looks quite off... i actually put a drop of blue mixer in most of my makeup, at it matches me perfectly - maybe it just pulls the pink out of the formula? Please tell me why that is if you know why the almost Grey foundation shades look good on me 😆 I have always felt light colors washes me out too, but i never felt drawn towards the orange and red spectrum... so that is very interesting. I will definatly try wearing more of those medium warm colors! I have s lot of jewel toned colors in my wardrobe - though most of it is petrol and purple. I was surprised to hear you found my eyes to be quite bright? i think they are a bit muddy, therefore i thought i could not wear too bright colors? Also very interesting! Thank you Jen! You mentioned both bright and soft... Am I a bright of soft then?

[@JD-pg6ht]

Fwiw I do think you're olive (based on this 3 year old photo lol). I am fair olive and mayyybe cool but find I wear certain warm tones (like the burnt orange in the virtual drape). I always add blue to my foundation too!

[@skyclad89]

I have a similar skin tone as you do I'm glad she chose to analyze your photo. I have brown eyes and similar hair. I felt neutral and couldn't decide what colors looked best on me. When she put the burnt sienna drape on you I immediately knew I was warm because that color looks good on me. It looks really good on you too so I'd say you are warm. I've donated all of my bright clothing that just never looked right on me. Now I know why. I'm going to start wearing more beige, taupe and sienna. Btw your eyes are gorgeous 😍

[@marinatonkonogy5968]

What about if someone has eyes that are not so deep but the same hard to define skin undertone? My eyes are brown but not deep and are also difficult to define as either warm or cool and the skin tone has enough pigment not to be considered fair and not enough to be considered "colored" and has kind of an "olive" feel to it? It seems to me that neutral undertone is a real thing if we think of it as a large spectrum that varies from the warmest to the coolest. The neutral is somewhere around the middle, the closer it is to the middle the more neutral it'll be, and the farther away it is from the middle point, the more we can define is as either warm or cool. Of course, no one is exactly at the middle point, but many people are close enough to it to be categorized one way or another.

[@gmoulli6368]

Beautifully explained❤️

[@kirstensignar4581]

Can yellow be cool, and is it considered olive? I'm definitely more yellowy-looking than other people - it's obvious to me only when I'm tanned - but I don't think I'm that green (or green at all? I don't know, Im really bad at visuals). I was convinced for awhile I was olive but I also thought that yellow was warm, and I understand olive to be cool so I rejected that one. (but if yellow can be cool that could make sense). I used an app once that keeps telling me I'm cool winter, but sometimes it gives me soft autumn depending on the lighting. I've had people tell me I looked good in pastel/blush pink, but I also think pastels could make me look washed out. Could this be because I'm more tan now than I probably was back then? I understand that you can be olive and also pale, but that the undertone doesn't change no matter darkness. I don't look yellow at all when I'm pale - I look more pink and blue (but again I have no idea - I just can't tell). Since I'm so confused, am I neutral? I think I look fine in both good and silver...again...don't know, maybe neither, because I can't tell :) lol

[@yvonadostalova2262]

Great examples and explanations!

[@imaginempress3408]

This is so helpful. I am fair and blue undertone but as I have hit my latter 40s, I see a lot of my mom's olive in my skin. I am perplexed.

[@lenka156]

Really great video! If I can, I would give it many thumbs up! I´m someone like Natalie. Normaly is my skin little warmer than her´s. My hair appeared sometimes as dark brown, sometimes as lighter brown with golden-orange undertones. ( It was not colored, but it was very long - so the sun also made his work.) I mostly wore darker, warmer, little bit softer colors. But I can tolerate some darker colder colors also. Now is my hair short, darker brown color with some grey hair too. My skin is lighter than normal, because I was a very long time in bed (surgery etc.) and I feel much more neutral. Many of my more warmer clothes doesnt now look very well. My skin is still warm, but I feel, the hair makes a huge difference - if I will color them, I can wear warm color again. So now I can wear soft warm and soft cool darker colors, but before I can wore also a realy warm colors like warm autumn. Thank You for Your work!

[@xochitlrdriguezorozco1666]

Ojalá tuviera subtítulos en español necesito ayuda para poder descifrar mi piel oliva con lo poco que entendí me ayudó mucho

[@thesekarwyn]

Thank you for making the channel

[@KalliBella1]

Great explanation of "neutral" looking people. I have come to the conclusion that in my case, I am olive cool-toned. My complexion has soft pink tones in some areas of my face and definitely a greenish tone overall. I am medium skin tone, not too light/fair and not too tan/dark. My eyes are darkest cool brown and my hair is black. I always hated the way I looked while wearing warm tones around my face, even warm toned makeup colors don't make me look right. So thank you for all the good information!

[@facundomiranda3391]

I have the same issue. Im a latino man ( argentinian) and my face has too much pink in some parts even though my skin color is olive like Ricky Martin or Sofia Vergara. My eyes are dark brown and my hair is super black. My veins tend to be green but i hate golden jewellry....

[@gabrielamoreiral]

I'm in 99% of your description, except to black hair (dark/medium brown hair). I'm still searched best hair colors, coz my dream is become a pearly/butter/vanilla blonde girl.

[@owlq3574]

What if i only look good in colors like shell, off white, peachy flesh toned, and icy blue? I have dark brown hair with a very slight red tone in the sun, white grey in front, my veins are blue, green and purple, my eyes are brown with flowering,sunburst and a couple freckles and a very dark black ring, my skin pops with silver but looks alright in gold. I am medium complexion

[@owlq3574]

I have dark brown hair that is starting to get white, dark brown eyes that have a starburst pattern, and flowering and slight green when in the sun, olive undertones, i tan easily and slate grey, champagne, icy blue looks amazing on me. I can't figure out if i am cool or warm. I look good in gold and silver, with silver looking slightly better and i have green purple and blue veins. HELP

[@jasondozier5262]

I love this channel this is good educational

[@DrHihi]

I think my skin is undertone cold (purple blue circles) and I think my eyes are cold (dark brown and very little green) but my hair is medium brown with orange highlights but I don't know if I should count my hair is warm because when I wear royal blue my face is lit up and on the contrary for mustard red I don't know if I'm deep cold winter or deep autumn

[@user-eo2th2lf6f]

I have brown eyes, dark brown/black hair, light skin shade and the weird part is that when I was younger (kid) I looked good with blue eyeshadow (I used to play with it) but now I am not sure and I feel like I was more cool or neutral before and now I seem to be warm and I wish I wasn’t warm

[@andream9977]

Interesting Stuff same here. I was more cool when I was younger, now I lean towards warm colors (even though I have graying hair!!)

[@nikkitraver7092]

Same here. Brown/black hair, brown eyes and light skin. I am olive leaning warm.

[@yeoluh]

This is a fantastic video. I feel like I really solidified my colors after listening to you. Thank you!

[@softly128]

My olive skin is complicated, many colors makes me look gray or green, sometime I look anemic 😬.

[@saranox7319]

Can I wear dark teal green as a warm leaning neutral?

[@sunshine87654]

I think I might be neutral warm. I get compliments when I wear white, ivory and cream tops. I have blue eyes, was a natural blonde until my mid fifties. I have medium skin slight yellow undertone. Does that sound neutral to you? What cards would you suggest?

[@ArijitBiswasMakeup]

It’s muted olive

[@LK-kn7oy]

This is misleading, olive skin tone isn’t a skin tone shade. You can be very pale and be an olive undertone. You can have blonde hair and still be an olive skin tone. It’s just usually more noticeable in tanner people. Please do another video on fair olive skin tones. If you need resources, please look into the subreddit OliveMua on reddit. You can find a lot of information there. Thanks.

[@YourColorStyle]

I completely agree. I just don't have the photos. It's challenging to do a video on fair olive skin tones (who I have finally seen in person) when I don't have photos. This definitely on my list to address. Thank you for your feedback.

[@LK-kn7oy]

Jen Thoden I understand, but the implications in your videos are still misleading. If you need pictures, again, please reference OliveMua on reddit. You can find a lot of pale olives and they also show many many fair olive celebrities. Thanks.

[@YourColorStyle]

@@LK-kn7oy thanks, i'll check it out!

[@CarenLinn]

Do you have an update to 2022? I'm light olive and just associate deep now.

[@donnadrane4977]

Okay I am still confused. When I was a child I had a pretty deep olive tone and now I have a lighter, more beige skin tone. I have dark brown eyes and hair. I am beginning to think I'm neutral.

[@AJ-cp3es]

i really can’t decide what undertone i have. my veins are green/bluish but my face is yellow, my foundation shade for different brands are both warm and cool 😭 gold and silver jewelry both look alright on me 😭 i wish it was easier to figure out !

[@mernam5056]

You might be olive

[@twooneeightzerosix7400]

Starting to think im colour blind bc i cant tell anything 🥺

[@smileybugLB]

Both examples you used are dark haired and dark eyed... But what am I supposed to do when I have light green/gray/blue eyes and dark dark brown hair with neutral skin?

[@Basicaly-sf7zn]

Soo, if you have more yellow tones and none pink at all, does that mean i have a warm skin tone? People always tell em i am tan but idk i think i’m neutral. (And yes i have dark brown hair and dark brown eyes soo it’s hard to tell.)

[@theviceinvirtue]

Hi! Just wanted to point out that just because you have dark features doesn't necessarily dictate what your skin tone should be ;) Even if you're on the warmer side, it's possible for you to be a neutral-warm as opposed to someone who's on the very warm side of the spectrum, which may be why you feel like you're more neutral than warm. :)

[@deborahnellmcclendon2984]

I’m confused. I have a combo of blue and green veins so what does that mean?

[@kimitursi762]

Please please PLEASE analyze me. I have no idea what undertone I am. I'm asian and I definitely have a kind of yellow hue to my skin, but my actual tone looks very cool, almost pinky and ashy compared to my other asian friends who have the traditional warm yellow undertones. When I tan, I think I get more yellow but it has a more reddish tone compared to that glassic golden tan.

[@julieherrera886]

Hi my name is Julie I have dark brown hair and bark brown eyes , I’m a neutral skin tone but I don’t know what color can I be I wear warm colors and feel do dark and I wear light colors and feel there’s to light makes me to pale , please help me ❤

[@Kcvaz]

my skin color is very close to marisa tomei, is she considered olive, neutral, warm??

[@KT-bc6dc]

I’ll submit a photo - I would love for you use me . I had such trouble finding foundations because of light but nothing Ever looked right . I tired way to many to count cool doesn’t look good on me warm doesn’t look good me and neutral had me looking off . I went and was color matched and she said it was because I had green / olive undertone. She matched me and I feel like I can finally have make up and clothes that look flatter my skin tone. So I do die my hair but I naturally have very dark brown hair with red in it. I dye it rich chocolate with hint of red. I have pale blue eyes and fair skin. I feel make up wise I look best in browns , mauves, berry colors . Clothes wine colors and earth tones and i can do certain blues navy or bright light blue - I feel I look good I’m burned colors . I look awful in pastels . I would love to know what u think or what u come up with. Everyone always assumes if ur fair skinned ur cool.

[@theviceinvirtue]

Yes - you're totally right - there's a huge misconception that olive undertones only come with medium to deep skin. There's a lot of us who are fair/light olive! We're massively underrepresented in the beauty & cosmetics industry.

[@Dizzyknitsandcurls]

I’ve been waiting for this one!

[@vallorenzo669]

Thanks Jen!

[@bigmamisvea3318]

Olive skin in very pale people tends to look more greyish and can go in the direction of yellow or green, I've noticed on myself

[@allenwalker9200]

I'm also Slavic, I'm pale but have that yellow/green undertone. Like... Cool colors do not suit me but I can't wear gold but silver

[@pugwoman-nk6ok]

I’m soft! I look best I’m the colors you picked for Sandra Bullock, and my coloring is similar. And bright, cool colors on occasion. Thanks!

[@AlexaOrchid]

She keeps saying "very fair" and I'm like "Am I a joke to you?" Everyone she called fair is actually "light" and in comparison to me has a pretty intense skin color.

[@sarahksera]

I dont know my undertone until today. I look ashy in every color 😢

[@skyc7089]

oh i kinda get it Thank you!!

[@dianebailey2567]

Thank you for the wonderful video!!For a light olive skin these are long lasting nude lipsticks and colors that are beautiful Outlast all day covergirl Always Rosy #549 Covergirl outlast ultimatte #180 Brewtiful Day Rimmel Provocalips #430 wish upon berry

[@viktoriavesely513]

I am always super confused as to my undertone. I am extremely fair but not as fair as a redhaired person might be. Like not just straight up white. I did the thing with my veins but some are blue, some are purple and some appear greenish, depending on where on my body I look for them. If I use a foundation with a warm undertone, it looks too yellow or orange on me, compared to my neck, cool toned ones make my face look more pink or redish than my neck and neutral foundation colors appear greyish and make me look super washed out and tired looking. I really don't know what is happening even though I am familiar with color theory as I was taught it in art school but I just can't figure out what I am hahahaha send help pls

[@bobbylewski]

Thx a lot, exactly my case very confused why I feel I lean cool but gor example love to wear some golden dresses I have. But this whole colour analysis thing made me very unsure and confused

[@AR-sz5lm]

I am an ultra fair cool olive. Probably about 3 shades lighter than Audrey Tautou-- who BTW is also a fair olive. I'm noticeably "green" next to others. (I have dark brown hair, dark brown eyes)

[@ruthie_rosario]

Thank you for not putting neutral and olive in the exact same category. 💕

[@mollyreilly8662]

honestly its so hard for me cause my skin tone is very obviously warm but my eyes and hair are cool

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

Makeup colors for foundation, concealers, etc., should be the best match to the skin, forget about tones, etc., just get the best match you can. For makeup that adds color, like blush and lip color, just choose the ones that make you look the healthiest and prettiest.

[@akanesatoh1326]

An ethnic asian passed by me and she almost seemed green, she looked like the definition of olive.

[@adamjajcay7916]

I tried this method and I found the column in the middle to be the most appealing. Both corner columns did not suit me at all. What does that mean then? I am defo. not neutral skin tone though. I would classify myself as warm, yellow and even a little bit ashy

[@jenmontzingo]

Adam Jajcay Are warm and ashy not opposite?

[@iamtheevening]

How can i contact you 😅😅 because i feel crazy green

[@tattianasalles3019]

This is complicate. I am latina. My hair and eyes are dark. My skin tone is next to Eva Mendez. Am I warm?

[@thinkingitthrough6776]

Interesting when the dyed hair colour is wrong it throws everything off.

[@adaintydream8759]

Hello 👋 from a new subscriber! i am still confused, can i send you a pic and could you help me find my shades ?

[@gigigameleira7297]

My skin is light green Has Both warm and cool quality My hair is really dark brown My eyes are also dark brown if not black I wish i could send you photos of my skin to help me out

[@YourColorStyle]

Yes! Please go to yourcolorstyle.com/askjen

[@jasminsukkar9872]

@@YourColorStyle me too i want to send you my picture pllz i will marry after this hard time of corona 🙏🙏🙏

[@byakuyakuchiki9453]

Wow!

[@Em22-wtf]

I don't know what I am, but I was def a little surprised when a make up counter lady told me I was "green and yellow".... Lol, isn't that Olive? It's so confusing. I've been told a bright aqua blue is "my color", and had my aunt tell me I look "horrible" in rust color... Never wore my fav shirt again after that, lol!!! It's all so confusing. I dye my hair red, with copper or violet undertones, and I think both look fine, with really dark eyes. I just wear what I like, lol, except red lipstick, I look AWFUL in ALL red lipstick! Lol!

[@ChantelStays]

I always just considered myself a warm undertone but it doesnt always make sense. My skin has an obvious yellow cast to it, but has a green shading to it especially when I'm not tan from the summer sun. In the summer I go quite golden and then a deep bronze with a yellow cast. I'm multiracial so it's an interesting mix. Never have found a foundation that works...even in the warm and golden or neutral and I'm definitely not cool or pink. Also could you do a color analysis on me !!! Pleeeeaaaaseee

[@rdpcl]

I suggest to watch Merriam Style olive undertone videos, she believes Olive can be Warm or Cool (and also could be Bright or Soft). Thanks to her I understood why silver looks a bit better than yellow gold, even if my overtone is clearly yellow, and that rose gold jewelry suits me best.

[@jcox3572]

I'm often mistaken for multiracial. Tip for the foundation. I have always had to get two shades. I feel like I am neutral so I tend to have a warm and a cool foundation that I mix accordingly to how my tan or lack of tan is doing. Other than than that I just make sure my make up and clothes match all cool or all warm shades to tilt my neutral tone one way or the other. I focus on the bright colors....I hope this helps!

[@ChantelStays]

@@jcox3572 awesome thank you so so much ! I look horrid in bright or high contrast colors...so other than that it really resonate with you and will try your tips 💕 happy holidays

[@syrlozmira]

My skin is exactly like you

[@violetviolet888]

8:33 *Your Color Style* I find it very interesting that you do *not* include ANY cards in your video for the *olive* toned examples of Eva Mendez or Lucy Liu so that we can see them when you do this for everyone else, considering half the title of this video says "Olive Tones" explained. This is frustrating for olive toned viewers to not have the opportunity to see.

[@jennyh.2381]

I have no idea what my undertone is because I have a lot of pink in my skin but I have brown/green eyes and I have brown hair with a lot or red and blonde in it. I am so confused!

[@deniseangelaantigua8139]

Have u found the right color for you to wear?

[@jennyh.2381]

Hello Denise Well, I think that I look good in black, baby blue and grey. I don’t like how I look in bright colors.

[@deniseangelaantigua8139]

Jennifer Renee if u look good in those colors and u have pink undertone in ur skin, I guess we have the same undertone. You are winter cool.

[@jennyh.2381]

Hello Denise Ok, thank you! 💕

[@ThelmaThais1]

dianne keaton has pink undertone and is obvious u need glasses or magnifier glass