OK...here's the truth about your undertone

[@AlexandraAnele]

When it comes to foundation, it's like trying on jeans... Like you could have jeans that are sizes 0, 2, 4, and 6.... 🤔😑 Like wut HOW

[@karenbrower9952]

If I see size 0,2,4 and 6 I am in the wrong house!

[@mommaramirez780]

Or you could have jeans in 14, 15, 16, 17 🤣😂🤣😂

[@alyseandrews1066]

Whoa! How you explained being olive toned, yep, that's definitely me! That must be why literally EVERY foundation I try is either too yellow or too pink

[@lauralangham9657]

and the makeup companies don't even try to be helpful - they could all agree on some kind of standard if they wanted to

[@blackrosenuk]

Psh, sizes in general. In my closet, I have sizes XS, S, M, L *and* XL that all fit me nicely. HOW?! ...WHYYYYYY?!

[@beverlyf6603]

Perhaps the only useful exercise I remember in "Art 101" was we were all handed a palette of red, blue, yellow, white, and black paint and required to mix until we matched our own skin tone. We then had to mix up at least one classmate's skin tone. It was soooo hard at first, but totally changed the way I view colors.

[@normalabbie]

That's freaking awesome!! I want to take that class!....

[@susiem.2068]

It sounds really interesting! Was it an in person class or an online one ?

[@littlebumgorf]

Yes I would love to try this sometime

[@NegativeAccelerate]

@@normalabbie no just do it yourself. I learned so much by painting faces myself. I only own 5 paints. Red, blue, yellow, black white and mix them. You usually have to use all of them bar black to make your own skin colour.

[@normalabbie]

@@NegativeAccelerate thanks, I'll give it a try. 😊 I love your username btw 😂😂😁

[@Kimillions]

This topic is definitely series worthy. 👩🏽‍🎓

[@coolwomabat7897]

yesss. please more vids ab this! I can NEVER get it just right!

[@hienthele318]

Haley Kim has a series about it!

[@nancyismyname]

Listen sis, I’m dark-skinned and this video was so helpful. I just a foundation from IT Cosmetics the other day because Sephora was having that 20% off complexion products and while I love the finish, when I got home, I realized under my day light that it’s pink-toned and I have a neutral/green undertone. Patiently waiting for her video to explain how to make this work or else I have to return it.

[@MarianaGomez-zw2gg]

@@nancyismyname use a green corrector/ green primer :)

[@Chelbasaur]

I hope most are in agreement that this is one of the best makeup channels ever. No stupid intros, no pointless off topic introductions, no dragging out the length of the video with unnecessary fluff. Just straight to the point, extremely helpful information, and an endearing person to watch. This girl deserves all of the praise for what she does. Also, kitties are never unnecessary fluff 😻😻

[@alyzak.8997]

Totally.

[@laylakhoney]

My favorite part of having olive skin but also being very light is seeing brands assume olive skin is only for folks with medium/tan/deep skin color 🙃

[@PinCushionQueen]

💯%!!!!! Makes me bananas! That’s why I add a colour corrector to my base when necessary, in natural light.

[@catiejohnson7910]

Or even the fair olive shades are an orangy browny attempt at tan. I’m a yellower fairer olive. But 🤞🏼 I’ve found a pretty good match with Rcma. I’ve been recommending them everywhere for people to try!

[@PinCushionQueen]

@@catiejohnson7910 The one in the pans? Please share. I’m an artist so I may already have it. Regular peeps shouldn’t have to customize on the daily , it’s a pain. Not everyone is equipped to or knows how to mix colour. Sheesh!

[@catiejohnson7910]

@@PinCushionQueen oh no I couldn’t do that I’m not skilled enough. I couldn’t even succeed with white and blue mix ins. New liquid foundation and concealer with three fairer colors g110, 130 and 210 I got samples and swatched and surprising for me went with 210. The descriptions are a little Wonky at times and in different places but the g are def for Olives

[@catherinebyrom6307]

Agreed - I'm a ghostly olive and it's tricky to find

[@trishw3512]

not only are you the most enjoyable beauty youtuber to watch because you’re just so real, you’re also the most educational. i’ve learned more from you in the past 6 months i’ve been subscribed to you, than i have in the past 7 years of watching beauty youtubers. love u alex

[@lexpowell5812]

I second this!!

[@berlineczka]

I am a pale warm olive and I have a few more 'tests' that may help you determine your green undertone: 1) You look terrible in pastels. You can usually wear many colours - some warm, some cool - but they have to be either bright or intense/darker. 2) You look equally bad/nothing special in silver and gold. You look better than either of them in rose-gold metals (especially if you are a cool olive). You look best in brass/aged copper if you are a warm olive. 3) Same for shimmer shadows: silver looks bad, yellow gold the same. You look good in champagne neutrals or aged gold/coppers/shimmery bronzes. 4) You never look good in pure white. Off-white, cream white or even ivory is the only one that you can make work. 5) You look better in grungier than in pure colours: petrol better than royal blue, burgundy or brick better than clear red or brown, mustardy yellow than clear sunny yellow, forest green better than emerald green, etc. 6) You tan pretty. Even if your skin turns red after getting too much sun, it settles into a pretty olive tanned, summery look after a few days. 7) All red lipsticks look good on you regardless their blue or yellow undertone, as long as they are darker. Lighter blue reds look pink on you, lighter orange-y reds make you look sick (cause they bring up the green in your skin). Also, you need a full coverage foundation with red lips, otherwise your skin looks unhealthy. 8) If you make the 12 seasons colour test, it will usually put you in the deep or soft autumn category if you are a warm olive (despite being e.g. a blonde with blue eyes), and deep or cool winter if you are a cool olive, although you do not fully match the whole description.

[@SharonSagar]

This was incredibly helpful. My mind is blown lol

[@flyingpiggo101]

holy crap this is me

[@rphil8574]

I can't even get think about pastels without getting the hives although I still wear pure white, just because.

[@littlebumgorf]

Tbh a lot of stereotypical pastels are cool colors. I have dark hair and a very similar skin color to Alex, maybe slightly lighter. For a long time I knew I was warm/olive, but I also thought I was deep autumn. I only shopped for deep autumn colors, and never tried on pastels. My mom always told me I looked terrible in dark colors and I was so confused as to why. Until my boyfriend started encouraging me to try on clothes I would have never gone for, and the light “pastel” colors looked better than the deep colors. As long as they weren’t too cool-toned, the light colors have been fine on me. So am I a spring? In the end I think, as Alex suggests, gathering observations from other people who can see you IRL in daylight is much easier than comparing yourself to a set of hard rules that might not fit you 100%.

[@disgsteng6755]

@@littlebumgorf absolutely. i find 12 seasons color test is such a hassle as an olive. i was tested as soft autumn, but it's too warm for me. winter is too cool and either bright (bright colors make me look sick) or too deep. soft summer is the closest match but most light colors look awful on me, especially pastels (especially warmer ones). spring is just too warm and light. so i just compiled a rough guide for myself with some minimal referencing of 12 seasons, but instead of following only one season i just take inspiration from couple that are a closest match and mix and match multiple seasons as they fit me personally.

[@MsNonole]

Would love to see that making the wrong undertone work with products you already have. I think I'm pretty close with a light medium neutron to olive foundation but the fact my face looks darker drives me crazy. Then I shaved once and suddenly my face and neck were the same colour. Life changing. Swatching on the neck from now on.

[@bellydancefae]

You sound similar to me! If you like powder foundations, Alima Pure’s Olive 0 is my match, so you’re probably a shade or two darker than me since I’m pale af. I used their neutral and beige shades for a long time but it was never quite right til I matched my neck.

[@tohnnyclaydon6641]

Very relatable. I only shop Fenty foundation anymore. I buy a very light neutral, and a slightly darker olive. Then I mix the two in varying ratios, depending on my current tan.

[@JanelleDianeH]

Tip: try scraping off a TINY amount of eyeshadow in the adjusting color needed, and mix it into your foundation. For example, if you're olive and you need a small amount of green in a foundation that's not quite right for you, mix in a tiny smidge of a green eyeshadow. Experiment with shades and the amount needed. It's at least a great way to figure out what color corrector you need for a specificfoundation, but you might be able to find the perfect shadow and use that as your regular corrector.

[@katiidontwanttoputmylastname]

Yessss great idea!!

[@holycavities]

LA Girl cosmetics have foundation shade adjusters

[@tohnnyclaydon6641]

Dude thank you so much for such a simple fix. I'm scared of trying any primer corrected because my skin is so sensitive. A bit of eyeshadow probably won't hurt though!

[@patriciamays8873]

NYX , some Armani make olive foundations, specifically for warm olive complexions. NYX also makes a face powder in warm olive. Cool olives usually look just fine in all those colors considered neutral. Porcelain, Nude this or that, like Nude beige etc.

[@AS-dw9oe]

That’s exactly how I figured it out as well. So I bought LA Colors Pigment Colors to mix into my foundation and I bought the blue and yellow to make green. Turns out I needed a tad more blue than yellow to get a neutral olive tone. So I lean more towards the neutral light olive tone.

[@iloveicecream127]

When I first started wearing makeup all the foundations would either look orange or gray on me. I'm really yellow (Asian) but because of how pale abd olive i am orange foundations wouldnt match. Neutrals and cool would make me gray. That's when I put my hands next to my friends and saw how green and yellow I am. Straight up Yoda.

[@AntheaToya]

This olive undertone discussion was long overdue. I’ve been meaning to start a channel just to discuss my adventures having medium deep warm/yellow golden olive skintone. We need an olive community 🧟‍♀️💚💚

[@j.j.714]

Are you on Reddit? There’s an Olive subreddit!

[@SJ-dl6uc]

I hope you truly know how much your knowledge and scientific approach is empowering for us. it's invaluable. especially your physics knowledge. when you know how light works you stop buying unnecessary products. ❤️

[@AlexandraAnele]

😭🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@courtneysmith3322]

@@AlexandraAnele You are seriously incredible girl!

[@fallingstar6792]

I needed this uplift today. Family being admitted to hospital. Thank you for sunshine on a dark gloomy day💕

[@AlexandraAnele]

😔 Think of you love 🙏🏼❤️❤️❤️

[@-MEL16-A.O.C]

🙏💪❤

[@erikar6041]

Alex, I don’t know if you miss out on PR or income, by not constantly promoting product, but thank you! Your content is over and above anyone I’ve seen in your genre. Thank you so much! 🤗🙏🥰

[@elephantsinwater]

I, a pink person, have never understood why pink skin has a blue undertone. What does that even mean

[@mizshellytee]

Brown is a tertiary colour as it's all three primary colours (red, yellow, blue) mixed together. (Orange, green, and purple are secondary colours.) But of course, there are nuances of brown, depending on how much of each primary colour is mixed in. I think it's in this sense that Alex is talking about a blue undertone. And yet! There are also nuances of red and pink! Think about blush and lipstick shades in the red and pink families. Some have more blue pigment added to them when mixed, so they're more cool-toned (e.g., raspberry tones) but others have more of a yellow base and so are warmer (e.g., the inside of a watermelon). Others still have an elevated amount of red but roughly equal parts yellow and blue.

[@edgaranalhoe7678]

Sameee.

[@keishamayniac5375]

Yess finally someone with the same problem as me

[@vickytime3855]

Right?? Like...I am confusion.

[@elineermens1]

Cool undertone can be green(cool olive) pink or blue. She says blue undertone but I think what she’s trying to see there is a total lack of warmth (yellow/peachy)

[@julesjaay822]

My age is…up there lol, and I’ve NEVER in all these years understood my skin tone, and I’m an award-winning oil painter! It’s not to brag but to get across how hard it is to determine one’s tone. Thanks to you, I realize that pale-skinned olive is a thing. Just like you say, the foundation shades out there are all wrong, too pink, too peach and too yellow. I never thought of mixing my own with color corrector and can’t wait to try. Thanks!!

[@tiger-turtle6]

As someone who never took art class and does not understand anything you're talking about when it comes to undertones, this was very helpful. Thank you

[@candicer2486]

Olive skin is so hard. I just realised this year I’m a pale olive. Both gold and silver looks great on me. Neutral undertone foundation makes me look grey/sick, and yellow undertone foundation is way too warm yellow/gold. I do have some yellow in there, but it’s like a cooler yellow/green. Pat McGrath’s foundation in Light 5 is very close to a perfect match. It’s the perfect shade match, but not undertone. Tom Ford’s Traceless Soft Matte foundation in 1.4 Bone is the perfect undertone but slightly too dark. I usually tend to mix. I’m still hunting for the perfect bronzer. Next to try is Beauty Bay Bronzer in Fawn & Tom Ford Soleil Terra Bronzer.

[@jessicalynn8746]

The struggle is real. I have so many foundations that are either slightly off, too dark, or to light never have I been able to find that spot on match but I keep trying lol

[@leelab8307]

Jessica Lynn try mixing them.

[@jessicalynn8746]

@@leelab8307 oh I do so they don’t go to waste but hoping one day I find the perfect shade lol

[@leelab8307]

@@jessicalynn8746 Don't we all..

[@edgaranalhoe7678]

Same, at one point I had like 7 different foundations. Now i don’t care anymore and just use bb cream lol

[@angiesplaylist23]

Same so I had to give up and mix lol. I have to mix a light neutral and medium olive to get my color

[@gabrielanoll9078]

Any videos you can do to navigate this complex subject are greatly appreciated...I have learned so much from them...please keep them coming💗

[@blbtx45]

You are giving the best information regarding our undertones as well as overtones. My mom was a portrait artist and she said exactly the same things you have said. Thank you. I have one of those complexions that’s always red over blue making me a neutral and I usually can wear any color as long as it’s a definite shade. Pale colors wash me out but vibrant ones enhance my skin tone, hair, and eyes. My favorite colors ore velvety red, taupes, deep or heather grays, okra, and soft but definite blues ranging midway to royal to navy.

[@kim-mr7oh]

i am a medium neutral warm with slightly olive undertones! 3wo dior & 290 fenty hydrating fdt are my perfect matches!

[@sephorasagredo]

I USE 3WO DIOR BACKSTAGE!!! YAAAAAS OLIVE UNDERTONES FOR LIFE!!!

[@Banana_brainie]

Same! :’)

[@natalieblue27]

The tip about mixing in a colour correcting primer is so helpful! I mix my foundation with cool pink colour correcting primers now

[@lucyglad5]

Honestly, your videos on undertone (and I went in and looked earlier ones) helped me realise that I have more of a neutral undertone than a cool one, usually I went for the lightest shade and it either wasn't light enough or was too pink in the end, so I started mixing just a straight up yellow corrector in some of my pink-ier complexion products to make them work for me (since in this house we mix and don't waste products that were an investment and still work well) Thank you for doing this vids, they are so helpful and help sooooooo much!

[@LishLuvsDub]

I’m so glad YT just recommended your channel. What an awesome place this is!

[@suzannes5888]

Such a great topic...yes please do the color correction video. Ironically, my mother has a Masters in Fine Arts in Colors. On that "colors education path", I''m in Kindergarten, maybe Grade School, lol....and it's easier to learn from you than someone that is SO technical about colors, lol 🙄 btw, you're spot on about the importance of the color wheel. Thanks for this video!

[@KristinWelton]

I remember going to M.A.C to find a foundation and we had such a hard time matching my skin tone. We were even looking at my veins (green =warm blue=cool “rule) and my veins are green on my left arm and blue on my right 🤣 Finally we determined I’m a light medium with a neutral undertone. But with Dior I’m a fair to light neutral. My eyes love warm toned colours, my cheeks love both, but my lips love cool toned colours. Totally ridiculous. 😂

[@lisatiberi7448]

Same! I think that "look at your veins" methodology is only useful if you are completely warm or completely cool undertone and light-medium skin tone. I've spent way too much time trying to decide WTH teal veins mean.

[@aIconaut]

Are you me?! I’m the exact same

[@JemAndTheHologramss]

Im warm (yellow), however, NC range in MAC is way too yellow, I can't use MAC foundations.

[@KristinWelton]

@@lisatiberi7448 omg I know!!! Like, people look at me weird when I say, “Don’t bother looking at my veins, they can’t make up their mind.” I take it as I have the best of both worlds lol. But it’s hard to find a real ‘neutral’ tone sometimes.

[@KristinWelton]

@@aIconaut I thought it was a lonely world out there! Yay!

[@reneejwaters]

Yes please. More on correcting undertones.

[@3verlastinglove]

I have a cool toned green undertone, like a mint green almost. Light pink blushes, lipsticks and eyeshadows look great on me!

[@Phyrra]

I was originally matched to fair pink foundations because of my rosacea, which looked horrible. Everything looked super pink or super orange on me. I started figuring out that neutral foundations worked better for me once I discovered NARS Siberia so then thought I was neutral. After visiting with a celebrity makeup artist, they explained that I was a very fair neutral to cool yellow. Recently got a sunburn for the first time in over a decade, and found out that I turn olive. So I'm apparently a very fair neutral to cool yellow olive undertone. I especially found your tip about comparing your skin tone to your friends helpful. I find a blue or white foundation mixer can really help me to make things match me better.

[@brockit79]

I think the complimentary colours trick is quite possibly the best advice I’ve heard so far for this - I don’t know why I didn’t think of it sooner…so tomorrow that is what I’m going to do. I think I’m muted warm undertone but with a slight hint of green, but there again I could be totally wrong.

[@galaxyrose15]

I am cool toned and I think that's why I like corals and oranges so much on me. Everything just pops when I wear orangy tones.

[@hannahlarson4155]

Yes plz make the undertone video with conflicting products! So interesting

[@sheenawarecki92]

Yeeees. I'm a coolish toned olive who's also incredibly pale! People see the olive and think I'm more yellow because they can't recognize its green until they put yellow base on and it looks bad :'). Pale lilac is gorgeous on me but I also look good in jewel and like autumn type colors but I'm good in certain brights too. But some standard pastels look...off. I would love to see things about making colors work etc.

[@michaelblanco5613]

DUUUUDE!!!!!! Thank you for changing my life! I have never been able to find a foundation that looks right on me. I’ve got MFing olive undertones. Bought green color corrector and added it to most of my current foundations and voila, perfect.

[@mariagabriela4158]

I would love you doing a video showing how to make a foundation work for your undertone! Greetings from Buenos Aires, Argentina!

[@paulajimenez710]

Thanks for taking the time to explain things that are supposed to be obvious. Very helpful! The cat always makes me smile, super cute😍

[@dimpap6889]

I love that you're getting straight to the point in your videos,soooo refreshing 💜

[@LadyAhro]

Learning I was cool yellow (w/ slight olive tones when I tan) definitely made me realise why warm tones were only a partial match. I'm also slightly muted, so bright cool yellows like NARS Siberia also looked mostly right, but not entirely. I can wear sheer warm yellow foundations but I get on alright with neutral-warm offerings. My best match to this day is definitely GA Luminous silk in 2.

[@agresticumbra]

I hear ya. I’ve been describing myself as olive adjacent, as a pale muted neutral with a lot of superficial color; also, I sometimes say I’m two-toned. For example, I can wear both slightly warm & cool undertoned foundations, as long as the pigment isn’t saturated, and isn’t full coverage. It boils down to: I don’t respond to sunlight the way an olive can, and that’s the main reason why I don’t say cool olive. Also, I rarely see someone pegged olive who has the amount of superficial redness I have.

[@swoonscapades]

Yes! Please do the video on making the undertone work for products. I have so many wrong un-used products and i can't keep wasting any more money trying to find my damn undertone 😫 I've had an inkling for a while now that it might lean towards olive but I was confused because I look yellow... anyways after hearing you describe yours, I now have a feeling it's similar to your undertone so I'm taking notes 💖

[@hollys3465]

You're so beautiful and smart Thank You, Thank You! I am italian and Irish and it is soooo difficult figuring out my undertone. I needed this! Keep it coming, please 🙏🙂

[@dee-dees.3635]

I love your tabby cat!!! Thank you for the great info! I still haven't figured out my undertone, and I realize I am not an artist like you... You know the color wheel. I have a lot to learn! :)

[@lauraochoa228]

Please, do a follow-up. How about choosing a cohesive look when you're a "Tri-tone" (warm eyes, cool lips, olive neutral everything).

[@Sirat-E-Azmin]

So many videos out there and I'm still confused whether I'm yellow or olive. This one was very helpful, thank you. You explain things really well, please keep making more videos on this topic.

[@oonatukia]

Super informative. I was wondering if (although not make up related) you could make a video about what colour clothing works with certain under tones, using celebrity examples in photos to see what undertones work with what colours :D

[@joanwaters6410]

What confused me for so long is that my face gets red super easily, and that always neutralized my fair olive undertones. I kept getting shades like neutral-warm or sometimes even peach that always left my face too warm. I am so glad I watched your older video on undertones because it had never even occurred to me that I might have olive undertones, but as soon as I color corrected the foundation I was using it finally looked right!

[@PrincessWhatsername]

Not even gonna lie, the fact that I have such difficulty determining my undertone is the reason I mostly stick to more sheer BB/CC creams in medium neutral tones (which kind of just blend in and blue things a bit), and a single E.L.F. concealer that works fine enough haha.

[@rebecca__bowman402]

I soooo appreciate your educational videos. I always thought I was a pink undertone because I could see blue veins on my wrist and that’s what the online tests said but the foundations always made me look SO pink. I realized by accident I am a warm undertone when I bought a warm toned concealer to correct my under eyes and it matched my skin PERFECTLY!! I haven’t bought high end foundation in SO LONG because I could never get it to match so I gave up. Can’t wait to get one again!!

[@glitzyeyezz5252]

I’m in for the series. Also please address the problem how to match the foundation when the body is lighter (2 shades):( than the face.

[@ivanaudiljak261]

and I believed that I was the only one 🤔

[@ma-ma-mamary3946]

This is probably the 2nd or 3rd video where I tout about your intro being under 20 seconds. Thank you! Yep. Being of S.E. Asian descent, it was a no brainer that I've got a yellow undertone. I'm pretty pale so it's obvious I'm a light shade. Warm foundations were always too orange. Cool foundations were too pink. Neutrals were just about never a match either. The closest I had ever come to a perfect shade was when Fenty Profilter came out with their olive undertone range of what I was trying. Unfortunately at that time, my skin was going through some crazy things & the foundation was too drying. After my skin chilled out and after a couple years have passed, I now like something light-to-medium coverage so that Fenty foundation is still nothing I'd buy now. The next closest thing I found to a perfect match was CYO but then *ugh* that as well as the (more expensive) Soap & Glory dupe stopped being sold. Once my preference changed to a lighter coverage foundation, I got over it as well. Lol! Yes! A video about how to fix a wrong undertone foundation is a must! ♡♡♡ These days, I use pigment drops in SPF or a tinted moisturizer. Anything beyond that starts to annoy me - unless I'm trying to do something completely glam.

[@26thofmay29]

I think another side to this is how muted you are, a lot of the time olive = muted and a lot of what we're doing by adding blue or green to things is desaturating the hue. I've always assumed that I'm really pale but I'm not, I'm just super muted. I think that's probably a common mistake as people with muted colouring often think they look sick, which can make you think you're paler than you are. Adding some blue to a pale yellow saturated foundation (like Nars Gobi) can adjust both the lightness and the saturation to something almost perfect (for me). There are very few actual muted neutral foundations out there!

[@mothmoth224]

I'm a muted cool-neutral and I also found out I'm not as pale as I thought. My overall look is very "watery" and my skin picks up color from the environment easily. (Beware fluorescent lighting!) Only a few companies make a good match for me. I also stopped wearing full-coverage foundations. Wearing medium or a buildable light foundation helps my natural undertone show through.

[@tohnnyclaydon6641]

THIS. This is exactly it!

[@tohnnyclaydon6641]

And I agree with that comment, a light coverage is super helpful. I wear a sheer bb cream usually.

[@EzraSprouts]

Thank you for the genius idea of mixing colour corrector in, I have some questions! 1. Would this work for BB/CC cream, skin tints etc and would a more lightweight colour corrector be needed for ease of mixing? 2. I'm assuming you mix the corrector in every time? Could you see any issues with mixing a batch, such as oxidation or ingredients reacting?

[@ggultraps]

yessssss i'm a neutral/cool leaning olive but i'm tan so was always told i'm warm, yellow, look best in gold etc. color analysis was life changing, lol. finally figuring out what workss for me! the la girl blue mixer is incredible for products that are too yellow.

[@maryannmccubbin264]

Thank you so much. I am a light cool olive and the struggle is real, not only for choosing a base. Lipsticks and blush choices are also difficult. This is a great topic.

[@blossomvalley1084]

i DEFINETLY want more videos for undertones!!!!!

[@SigreGirl]

I would've liked to see you demonstrate how it looks on you when a foundation (etc) is too yellow/pink and olive, and how you correct them! I also look good in both silver and gold but am seemingly warm toned to the eye. But I always thought I was "neutral" or whatever? Green and blue clothes look good on me but also deep/true reds and warm purples... So I'm like wtf am I an alien? 😅

[@natashajohnson186]

ALEX ! I’m medium skin toned , Polynesian, and I’m sorta NEUTRAL/COOL toned ! Even tho Im darker skin colour!?I’ve bought 5 foundation’s in the last 2weeks ! Point is I’m so lost . And these things cost money . We’re in a hard lockdown in Sydney Australia and will be for another 5weeks - already served 12 weeks in lockdown- Love the vids they’ve kept me laughing and learning over these past months ! More vids on skin/undertones please 😎

[@TinyTitan50]

Good explanation of undertones….I think I’m a light-medium neutral, I have some pink and golden color but tend to buy too light of a foundation, mixing never crossed my mind…. Duh! I’m of Scandinavian decent but with others mixed in. Salt and pepper hair with dark brows. I tan easily. Any suggestions would be very helpful on colors for the eyes and foundation. Love ya!

[@justjessn7958]

It's like the universe was hearing me! I started struggling with my undertone and foundation matches recently, thanks so much for this video!

[@sydneysomething]

It's definitely tricky at times. I'm very cool but often cool toned foundations are goin overkill on the pink whereas i need more blue

[@geniej2378]

Because of you I started mixing in a green corrector into my foundation and I'm so happy with the result! I've always had base products look orange on my skin. I'm still not sure what my undertone is, but I'd recommend after you do the swatch test to get some samples and actually wear them at home.

[@worthigirl2946]

I am not buying another concealer without asking someone in a store for help!! You are so right about undertones! I knew you were olive right away! Btw, I've been watching you forever, and I want to finally tell you how beautiful your eyes are! They pop with out any makeup!!💕💕

[@smbarone2000]

This makes so much more sense! I've been told I'm a fair cool, but I tend to choose warmer tones because fair-cool can sometimes make me look like I'm wearing stage makeup from the 1920s or something. I've learned to swatch my actual face and neck and not my arm in stores because the arm isn't always the best option to get the right color. The kitty in the box -- so cute!

[@sarabear3]

Fixing a wrong undertoned foundation would be hugely helpful I think!! Especially because you can get the color drops to really customize & you'd only maybe need to grab 2 of them if you're close!

[@bellydancefae]

Quite pale olive here, more neutral but I have a lot of pink surface tones (rosacea) and yellow-grey-brown around my eyes (hereditary dark circles). My face looks darker than my neck because of the surface tones, so I have to do color correction to get full coverage, but I tend to lean more towards light coverage. My perfect match foundation is Alima Pure's Olive 0 I can wear both silver and gold but I lean more towards silver as it stands out. Darker jewel tones are my jam, plus cobalt blue, burgundy, teal, and true red. I love the OliveMUA subreddit and PaleMUA

[@ace.ofh34rts]

i think u should look into peach undertone products. milk flex concealer & skin tint in honey, georgio armani 5.5, & nars radiant longwear sahel. yellow is too yellow and i can see theres red but blue and green tones look bad on me. so does silver.

[@mickeymickey1]

i'm south asian and my undertone is this weird combo of warm-neutral with a little bit of olive. usually shade ranges that have the correct depth for my skin tone don't have the right undertone, so most of the time the base products i end up buying are incredibly yellow.

[@yashvijain5180]

This is my exact story..

[@jemrawc]

I can’t be the only one who has far too many foundations, concealers etc tucked away in a box because the undertones are a far cry from my actual skin colouring. Only holding on to them because they cost a lot of money or are an amazing product or waiting for a miracle to appear that will make it usable someday. Yes please please make more videos on this topic. Including the video idea mentioned where you make products with the wrong undertones miraculously work. Loved this awesome tutorial, all of your tutorials honestly, and sincerely thank you for helping me learn about this overwhelming and very frustrating topic. You truly are the Bestest! ❤️ from Shannon in Canada 🇨🇦

[@briannak3989]

Thank you so much for covering this! I am also fair with olive undertones and it’s been such a struggle to find a good match

[@ririimari]

I have a neutral olive. I can wear warm or cool olive foundation but I can't tell which side the spectrum I'm on more. I will say every single thing looks very very orange or pink on me. All blush and lipstick unless very cool looks garish. I figured out that it's because I have also a LOT of grey in my skin so I am muted, not a lot of concentrated pigment works on me it has to be sheer or greyed out.

[@clarapahlen1]

Love your cat 😻 Dang what a complex subject, I’ll stay tuned and have faith in your statement; we will get through this! Love your content and your no bullshit attitude, keep it coming! Love from Sweden ❤️

[@starinajar13]

Yessss thank you! I’m neutral olive, med-dark. Anything beyond medium tends to run very warm so it’s hard to find a good match.

[@Samantha2209]

Amen

[@kellym9301]

I'm glad you mentioned cool-toned olive skin. Is there a more affordable option vs. MUF color corrector that you've tried and recommend?

[@AlexandraAnele]

There used to be but NYX discontinued theirs 😑 So far this is the only other one I know of

[@kellym9301]

@@AlexandraAnele I loved the NYX ones and haven't found a comparable one. I will definitely have to save to purchase the yellow and green MUF correctors. Thank you for responding!

[@kellym9301]

@@boldanabrasevic3020 thanks

[@LatelyLucy]

Some cheap ones that I haven’t tried but do exist are LA Girl, Maybelline, wet n wild, and I think cover girl

[@ririimari]

La girl pro matte mixing pigment in blue!!! I mix mine with a orange or yellow foundation

[@EnnameMori]

Fair, warm neutral. Smack bang between yellow, orange and pink. Yet overall makeup, cool toned neutral matte eyeshadows make me look ancient and grey. Brights (cool or warm) look great on me however.

[@smoothruth]

sooo helpful. I'm too very fair olive, kinda neutral toned and I barely find any matching foundation. I usually have to mix different ones to get a matching shade.

[@neon.neutral]

Pleaaseeee bring your fair / pink friends arm to the next vid in this series 😂 I am pale, freckles, def can see blue in my skin but also have redness/rosacea in my face. I need help figuring this out!

[@sephorasagredo]

I am a consultant for one of the large Skincare/Makeup brands. I am half Chinese. For the LONGEST time I thought I was a warmer/yellow undertone. I have SUCH trouble finding a good match for foundation.. The undertone is ALWAYS wrong... Too yellow or too ashy. But I've determined I'm also a warm olive undertone. But not many companies deal in 'olive' undertones!!! I finally found THE perfect shade of foundation for me... And I will literally cry if they discontinue it.

[@ashleybates3905]

.... I have been struggling with undertone for so long because of the differences in my vein colours and the fact that both gold and silver look good on me and I swear my face watching this as I realize I may be leaning olive..... you are SAVING ME omg 😭😭 THANK YOU 🙏

[@s.leeyork3848]

I seriously need a whole series on under tone. I am whitish-pink with blue undertones. Make-up people always try to put me in peachy colors and I end up looking red-orange. Sometimes I think I'd be better off wearing white-out instead of foundation. Your videos help a lot. Thanks!

[@lisatiberi7448]

Back in the day, Bobbi Brown recommended on Oprah that everybody use yellow undertone foundation to look the best. Then because I'm a pale little ghost, I heard I must be pink. It took me YEARS to realize that I'm actually pretty neutral and choosing the palest pink shade makes me look grey and too yellow makes me look sick. It's so tricky. This is top notch advice!!

[@nancykerrigan]

That... sounds like some pretty dumb advice from a supposed renowned makeup artist. Like don't expect everyone to have the same undertones.🙄

[@eggegg8181]

I remember seeing that advice as a teen in a Bobbi Brown makeup book

[@madelyn374]

I love to Draw and paint (self taught) and never really noticed that what I do to create skin tones is the same I should for my skin. Thank you

[@AussieChick48]

STILA make a great primer with swirls of green and peach. It might have a third shade, I can't remember. I need to buy another one. It's great for covering redness. If I need a bit more I simply tap it into the desired spot. When swatching foundation I think it's best matched to the chest area..

[@maureengutmann4937]

And - yes a series, please.

[@kitti2345]

I'm fair/light. Olive but warm I believe. I realize alot of stuff make me look grey. Cool tones like plums make me look sick and grey. I still don't know what is my skin shade but I normally go for darker shades. A medium warm skin product makes my skin pop even though it's bit darker then me. Any light shades make me look sick.

[@Rainbowdust74]

In an older book I have about coloring and what not, I read that warm skin tones can have a lot of pink in them, so take care not to confuse a warm skin tone with a cool one. On the other hand, a cool skin tone can have a lot of sallowness to it and appear yellow, so take care not to confuse a cool skin tone with a warm one. Pretty much, I've been confused ever since.

[@AP-pl5rv]

Your kitty looks almost exactly like my boy (RIP) who passed on. She's beautiful. Great tips on undertone too!

[@betsybabf748]

I'm a very fair warm olive. Everyone would say I was warm, but warm foundations were too yellow. I was color matched and told I was a "vibrant autumn" so needed bolder warm colors. That didn't work. A makeup artist said I was olive, but people said I couldn't be because I was so fair, and that olive was deep. That was wrong. I can be glow in the dark pale and also olive, with a sort of warmish tint, though not extremely warm.

[@meowcenary21]

2:29 omg!!! I studied John Singer Sargent for a long time in high school and art school!

[@analauramendoza5816]

Thanks for the tips!💕 I think they are super helpful, I tend to see my skin tone more yellow and warm but then a foundation tends to look suuuper yellow🤦🏽‍♀️ the comparison with other people will help a lot

[@faithmiraclesdestiny1432]

Please make a video about good blushes for olive skin!

[@fjgalante143]

so beautiful love.... personally i can't wait to see more! sure to love those

[@oddds]

I am really pink but sometimes I use a green color corrector just a little because I don't want my foundation to make me look even more pink.

[@rosievriesinga5904]

I have the same undertone as you , I may be a little bit more fair but I am not sure, but I have the same undertone. It is not red/ pink, or warm orange or super beige, it is really yellowish green look. Olive foundation also matches me pretty good

[@eduardacoelho1444]

Because of you I found out I’m a neutral slightly more cool undertone !! I could never match a foundation because everything was always too pink or too yellow . Now I know not only foundation is easier but blushes, bronzers.. THANK YOU !

[@rockon1cat]

Same here! It was always pink vs yellow lol

[@silkyhair1998]

literally same @ thinking I was yellow and then ending up looking horribly tanned in yellow foundation. BuTT recently I purchased an olive medium toned skin tint and it is an amaAZZZINGG match. Thank u (and your last undertone video) for freeing me from the orange foundation curse 😭😭🙌🏽

[@JoJoTinkRN]

Let’s all sit down with a pencil & paper and take notes from Professor Alex. I am 41 and have never been sure of my skin tone. If anyone can help me, I believe it’s Alex!!! 💜 My question: I am very fair with an undetermined undertone (some say cool some say warm). My chest is always very light even if I get sun because I wear SPF but my body tans. Do I match my face to my neck or match my face AND neck to my body? This isn’t an issue in the depths of Winter but right now there’s a definite shade difference to contend with. Thank you for these informative videos. I always walk away learning at least one new fact or technique!! 💜

[@lencastra]

I was always unsure about my undertone. Until I moved to Ireland, where everyone is pink and I look straight up yellow next to my friends there. They lovingly call me a simpson lol

[@tumblingrosesstudio]

Blue vs yellow!

[@TrappedinSLC]

I have to try that color corrector, so much stuff comes up too pink or too orange on me because I’m very neutral. Another point for people to be aware of - if you have a skin condition like rosacea it can fool your eye a bit and make you think you’re much pinker than you actually are. I have rosacea and if I match to the shade of my face I end up WAY WAY too pink even if I try to avoid the obviously red bits of my face. As you said I have to match to my inner arm to get something that actually picks up what my undertone is. Then I have to color correct the red bits. Though sometimes I let them show through if it’s a medium-ish coverage foundation, as I get sort of a blush effect from the red peeking through. But going to stores or whatever I kept being color matched as cool because of the redness and then it would look bad.

[@dfc41]

So I always thought I was just straight up pinky cool, and then had a ulta worker tell me I was more neutral. I feel like I see pink under my skin and yellow on the top 🤔 my veins are blue and I look good in royal purple and jewel tones but gold isn't awful on me. The best match I've ever found is the Maybelline dream liquid mousse in 30 Natural ivory but like you said, that doesn't tell me much with other brands because some shades they call natural ivory don't match. I was matched to something sands I a believe a tarte foundation.

[@tanyas6643]

I’m a fair olive with a neutral undertone. Unfortunately, many companies that make base products for olive skin tones seem to offer them more for those in the light-medium/medium to tan range. So… I’m often forced to go for anything in the fair-with-yellow-undertone shade. I’m still looking for a FRAGRANCE-FREE green color corrector for mixing… (I’m sensitive to fragrances in skincare and base products.) 😕