Warm vs Cool Olive Skin - What's the Difference?

[@chlomo2618]

Such a great video explaining why it's not easy being green 😂

[@blackeneddove]

This deserves more likes.

[@nancyneyedly4587]

🐸Ker-meee!🐖

[@quillpen815]

Too true, lol.

[@stylerefinement]

😂😂😂 It's really not easy and explaining sometimes confuses me more hahaha

[@George_Tropicana]

@@nancyneyedly4587I can hear it as I read it 😁

[@Filianyntix]

Learning about seasonal coloring was mindblowing for me. Since I'm really yellow on the surface, everyone around me were saying that i was warm toned. Back then i bought a lot of warm make-up items and clothes. I hated how they looked on me and couldn't figure it out for so long. At some point I thought make-up was not for me. Nowadays I'm living in peace with my cool toned muted make-up items and clothes. But I must say it was a long journey. It's extra complicated when you are olive because you are so in between. You are like a neutral person but not actually neutral. You have to be extra careful with colors because the line between looking like a clown and looking decent is really thin. Or at least I feel like that.

[@stylerefinement]

I can't agree more - I used to wear very warm colors especially with makeup and was always confused why what people say I should look good in didn't make me feel so!

[@hahahaaha7208]

Sooo, the best we can do is look decent? :/ Can oli es not slay an outfit😢?

[@tcggggg]

Yesssss. Cool toned but muted is idealll. I have yellow but i was confused about the blue until she described it shows as grey. Thats meeee

[@tessaspanjersberg8057]

Exactly this! This is why i was analysed as a summer and then as a soft autumn. My skin looks yellow and my lips and eyes are slightly warm. But when i wear warm colours i look sick and very muted, like bleh. So apparantly i have a slightly cool undertoon.

[@negy2570]

I guess I have an opposite problem. I'm neutral cool and olive, I guess. I bought L'Oreal C'est Magic CC Cream in green (correcting anti-redness) thinking that it could be my definitive solution. It comes out light cold green out of the tube and when you melt it into the skin it becomes skin colour, BUT... these people thought that all people with redness spots want to look yellow and warm! So the green part was ok with me, but the final result is yellow! I should have bought a separate green/olive liquid corrector in a very light shade and mix it with a neutral cool foundation. I guess this product can be good for warm olives, but not cool olives.

[@maryam.m]

This is the most detailed guide I've seen to explain olive skin. Consider this my reminder that I'm probably a cool-olive, and why I look so "sickly" compared to other people.

[@nancytipton7602]

It's taken me a virtual lifetime to finally understand that I have a neutral olive skintone that appears cooler during winter, but a cool rose-gold brown if I get a tan. More vibrant or saturated look best on me. Shades like: magenta, teal, turquoise , lime green and chartreuse, plum, red, emerald green, royal purple, even black. But. NO baby blue, light pink or most yellows, and other than a deep, warm charcoal, gray makes me look like a cadaver!

[@RuffiRaggaMuff]

This dress is perfect for your olive skin! I need muddy colors because I’m so muted. I still can’t figure out if I’m neutral or olive. Next to someone that is cool I look green but next to true neutral I look warm!

[@stylerefinement]

I just got rid of this dress because of a rip 😫 On a hunt for a similar colored one!

[@Yolk421]

Im very yellow with green (light skin) and I would say because of my yellowness, I thought more warm colors go on me but I was wrong. I have to be careful with both warm and cool colors; they both can make me look sick!

[@stylerefinement]

I’m the same way!!

[@boobee7907]

Me too! I think it’s all about the BLUE I used to think that if I wear warm yellow, if it’s yellower and warmer than my skin then it will cancel out that yellowness and the red will appear but I look gray and sick instead. When I cool blue like ultramarine or cobalt tone my skin still look yellow but not gray and sick anymore. So I realized I’m very blue with a little bit of yellow and zero red. After that I always check how blue the clothes is no matter what colors they are and it always work! ❤

[@onyeenoma]

Thank you for using examples with brown skin. Was really helpful!

[@stylerefinement]

I'm glad you found the examples helpful ♥♥♥

[@cora.ann.s]

In another video about olive skin, the creator talked about two types: "olive cool and bright" and "olive cool and delicate". I found this very helpful for me personally. Some with an olive skin tone tolerate bright colors very well (like Eva in your example) and then there are those who need to add a little softness (Gemma Chan looks better with a mauve lipstick than a pink one, for example).

[@Seoulsearch616]

Your videos are second to none. I'm not even an olive skin tone, but you present such interesting information that no one else is covering that I just have to watch every video! 🌹🥰🌟 Shout out to all the beautiful olive sisters. ❤️

[@stylerefinement]

Thank you so much for the sweet compliment!! I’m so glad to hear the content is refreshing and helpful 🥰❤️

[@NayNay97xoxo]

i’m a cool olive!! the best foundation match i ever found was fenty 150, it def has that almost grey cast to it, and i remember being so surprised when it matched me perfectly!!

[@vmandelaris200]

omg, thank you so much for this!!!

[@LOlmala22]

I can recommend cool olive by artdeco perfect teint!

[@TinaCSSSS]

Omg thank you for this video!!! You're literally first "color consultant" that actually makes sense to me, talks to the depth and don't put everyone into certain "boxes" or seasons... I've been racking my brain for the last few months about which season I belong to, only to realize that I have olive skin and it's just not that simple 😅 (it's very RELATIVE as you said). One thing that doesn't make sense to me in color theory is claim that everyone belongs constantly into one season. When summer arrives I can get so tanned and turn literally orange :D!!! I don't think it looks very good but at least I look radiant in orange/brick/brown/bronze/golden lipsticks and makeup. And then winter comes and I'm stunned every year that same lipsticks I wore in summer are simply overpowering and neutral shades are absolutely the best choice (soft autumn colors are closes to what I'm talking about). The same goes with eyeshadows, best combo is when I mix cool with warm shades, but warm shades alone do always look better than cool shades alone, that's why it's obvious I lean more into warm side. I hope you and some other people with olive skin can agree on this with me, that summer and winter season literally change our color season and suitable colors for us... Btw the second I turned this video I was thinking that this girl MUST have olive skin, so my assumptions can't be that wrong 😁

[@stylerefinement]

I talk about being able to wear a wider range of colors in the summer time in my other olive skin video! I do spend a lot of time outdoors during summer so my skin tone really does change quite drastically, and I definitely feel more at ease with colors in the summer time :)

[@CJLopez-]

100 percent agree!

[@mayas.asylum]

As a pale cool olive you described my struggles with finding colours that suit me perfectly! it's definitely a huge trial and error journey but seeing some things put into words definitely helped so thank you💚 ive been told my skin looks puke green irl LOL so i always knew i was somewhat olive despite how light i am 😂

[@stylerefinement]

I'm glad you found the video relatable! :)

[@CJ_536]

I'm not an olive, but I am so neutral I thought I was cool for decades and only recently realized I am warm. For me, clarity also matters most. I find your info here very helpful even though my skin is not olive.. very fair neutrals also have similar struggles. So thank you!

[@stylerefinement]

You're welcome! I'm glad you were able to find parallels with your experience even if you're not an olive! :)

[@ririimari]

I'm a pale olive girly who is super muted & I'm so glad I found this channel! I live in cool tones and neutrals, usually I go for a monotone look with taupe as the main color lol!

[@stylerefinement]

Yay welcome to the channel ❤️🫒

[@CSFLprincess]

Hey, I'm muted pale olive too! Can I ask you about your best and worst colors? I'm so tired of looking dead and sick in everything and taupe is so hard to find 😭

[@ririimari]

Sadly it's taupe lol no but I like to wear dusty pale colors. Grey, white is acceptable, pale lilac, baby blue, beige but not too yellow. Dusty pink. Too much contrast is really bad for us.

[@ik5759]

Omg someone who shares the struggle 😭😭😭 Which season do you categorize yourself as?

[@ririimari]

@@ik5759 ​@ik5759 I'm pretty sure I'm soft summer but being olive I look good in peaches and pinks but they have to match my depth.

[@Maria.Aurelia]

Wow. I actually might be olive. Me and Rihanna are the same skin tone. I never understood what olive skin tone was but the way you described it bought clarity for me. I’ve always thought I was golden but wearing such yellow/orange foundations was never right for me. neutral foundations that still have that yellow tint works best for me. It also makes me wonder what seasonal palette I am now. I still don’t prefer such bright colors on me but I may have to experiment and see

[@stylerefinement]

I’m glad you found the video helpful!

[@lboogie2679]

This was my same issue. I was into the warm palette but those colors don’t look good on me. My skintone is also similar to Rhianna but foundation always pulls to orange.

[@justforsomething]

I think I'm definitely a pale olive leaning warm, & sometimes look sallow. But I also have very sensitive skin, which can cause redness on my cheeks, chin, nose & eye lids, which gives my non affected skin a more noticeable yellowness.

[@marig9236]

Winter me: Yellow Green Spring, Summer, Fall me: deep with a hint of green. I often think if you are warm olive: bright orange makes you look vibrant and light blue looks like it is wearing you. I myself, when I do use concealer look for one with a hint of yellow in it. I don't have blue or darkness under my eyes but apply to brighten up a touch.

[@kirjastotati]

This video was so helpful! I finally understand that the gray hue of my skin means i'm cool! People (me included) always assume I'm warm because I'm very pale and lack pink in my skin. Being also muted i can't wear bright or most pastel colours. Deep greens, blues, teals and burgundy suit me best.

[@stylerefinement]

I'm glad you found the video helpful!

[@chesiresays]

8:30 this is so true, I’ve bought so many concealers trying to find the right shade. It took me over 4 years bc I didn’t want to be wasteful. I kept noticing that any shade that claimed to be warm looked too orange on my skin, I knew I wasn’t cool toned bc I was too yellow (I’m almost pale so it’s easier to tell), so I gave neutral shades a chance and the shade match is almost perfect now

[@saharamcnamara]

This was so helpful because I look grey as hell. Especially in winter, I look like I've just risen from the dead and tend to get comments (mostly from my mom) about looking sick and "like I've been trapped in a basement my whole life". I don't like the feeling of makeup (foundation) on my skin, but I look like I should be playing in The Walking Dead without it. During the summer my skin shapeshifts and becomes this unhealthy green colour and since I am also extremely pale, the effect of looking like I'm on the brink of death gets maximalized. I was never able to find any colours that looked good on me, but this video made me scroll through some old photos and I found a picture of me in a true red dress, which surprisingly made my skin look less sickly. I guess clarity really is important for people with cool olive skin. This topic should be talked about more often. Great video! Edit: One thing I noticed is that even though clear/bold colours look good on me when it comes to clothing, those same colours look absolutely horrible directly on my face in the form of lipstick. Ever since I switched to lip tint and simple lip oil, my complexion has been looking so much better. Not saying this will be true for everyone, but it might be worth a try.

[@stylerefinement]

Glad you liked the video! ❤️

[@CJLopez-]

I could not relate more to a comment!

[@etsafut]

Try auburn shades on your hair. It perfectly cancels out the grey and brings out the pink. Lightens up the face too. It worked for me at least. I wear minimal make up and don't look sick at all.

[@hollysmall5006]

Yes! I look good in bright colors as clothing but I need muted colors for lipstick and some other makeup. Jewel tones seem good as both. Like, the clothing color doesn’t change when we put it on, but makeup colors change since the color we see is a mix of the makeup and our skin. It took me so long to figure this out! I had the same experience with a red dress. It’s one of my best colors as clothing. Love this video too. Probably the best explanation I have seen!

[@g3andrea]

Jenn, you do a GREAT job of explaining skin, and undertones in relation to color theory...especially how it manifests in neutral and olive skin tones. Thank you!

[@stylerefinement]

Thank you Andrea for the sweet comment!! I’m glad you found the video informative 🥰❤️

[@karenpenner2231]

This is so interesting, I may have to watch this again to take it all in. I’m 58 and still figuring out my best colors in the 80s I had my colors done but they couldn’t figure me out. They said I had warm eyes (olive green/warm brown) and hair but cool skin. They hardly gave me any colors so it’s been more of a life experience thing and listening to when people tell me a color looks good. I know dark saturated colors are good, and when I wear peaches and corals I get lots of compliments. I have noticed that I can wear warm and cool as long as they aren’t on the extreme ends of the spectrum. Would love to get my colors done again but am not shelling out hundreds of dollars for someone who knows nothing about neutral or olive skin.

[@NayNay97xoxo]

i’m the same way, i’m a cool olive and i find that the dark autumn color palette as far as color seasons go is a good guide. this is because like jenn said we still have a lot of yellow, and the chroma value is right inbetween muted and saturated, and the dark autumn palette also falls inbetween warm and cool, however there is usually a lot of contrast with dark autumns, so if you take a picture and then make it black and white, your eyes and hair appear a lot more contrasted compared to your skin

[@juliechen8710]

I’ve been loving your olive skin tone series. Explains so much about my struggle to find my personal color.

[@neerasinha-frazer2094]

I love the spectrum concept. It makes all of this so much easier to understand

[@coconoir6181]

It’s so hard to find complexion products for dark skin with an olive undertones. It’s drives me insane having to correct the undertones of my foundation.

[@stylerefinement]

KZbin Channel Cocoa Styling specifically focuses on colors and body types for dark skin, if you don't know about the channel already! :)

[@CoilyTwizzler]

Lol it is so frustrating being a Black person with an olive undertone bc all the makeup for us is usually either pretty yellow or red and neither of those work great for us

[@jrmetmoi]

@@CoilyTwizzlercheck out the Pat McGrath Labs foundation range with the shades that have olive undertones in them because they worked out for me

[@jrmetmoi]

check out the Pat McGrath Labs foundation range with the shades that have olive undertones in them because they worked out for me

[@jrmetmoi]

@@stylerefinementthat channel is a wonderful channel actually 👍🏾👍🏾

[@sn3596]

Came here from your video how to figure out you're olive and seeing an example of grey-ness in cool olives has me convinced I'm not. I'm mixed eastern chinese, so I do look a bit more yellow than saxon-anglo people, but apparently that doesn't mean I have to be olive. Thanks! This is all very informative Edit: after some experimenting, I'm correcting myself. I'm cool, light olive, but not very obviously, so just on the edge of olive territory. There are some specific colours that set off my "green-ness" but looks like I need to push pretty far.

[@mervisa89]

I'm a pale cool olive and in my case I use neutral to yellow undertoned foundations with a light coverage, since I can balance my grey/green hue with blush, lipstick and clothes

[@stylerefinement]

True! You can use different makeup products to subdue the excess tones, not just with clothing!

[@eeevie_]

Hi! Could you maybe tell us a bit about how you balance the green with blush, lipstick and clothes? Especially with clothes I'd find very interesting since I'm still struggling with what colours to wear. I do know I need bright colours, but I'm so unsure about whether or not to wear red, for example, like should I bc it cancels out the green or not bc the two clash? Same thing for wearing green or not etc

[@ginadiodati1965]

Great explanation 👌 it's best to try on different brands and shades. For me, concealer and foundation tones in neutral or cool work best. Because I'm olive, I tend to get matched to warm or golden tones. Recently, I got matched to a Fenty foundation in a warm neutral tone that looked good in store, so I bought it. After wearing it in sunlight for a day, I definitely saw it was not a match. The cool tone in my skin was peeking through the yellow hue in the foundation, and it made my skin look like Dijon mustard lol. You have to be careful because even experienced makeup artists still make the mistake of assuming olive is warm skin.

[@stylerefinement]

Agreed! It's best to try the color on yourself - honestly the best way to figure out what matches rather than assuming!

[@Quode001]

THE VIDEO I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED... Jenn you are top tier at what you do

[@stylerefinement]

Thank you so much for the compliment Hanna 💋 Glad the video was helpful!

[@Ackermoon13]

Wow we share the exakt same problem regarding finding a foundation that matches our skin tone! I look warm in peoples eyes, but everytime I try out makeup for warm skin tones, I always ending up looking so much darker with a completely different skin color (mostly a weird looking orange!) But neutral colors have always looked sooo much better on me! wich may seem a bit suprising for some xD

[@PastelBrushes-n-Donuts]

Will you please do a video dedicated to helping fair olives find their colors & makeup? For reference, I’ve learned that I’m fair olives leaning cool and it’s been very difficult for me to understand how to choose clothing colors and it’s nearly impossible to find fair cool olive’s makeup: foundation, concealer, blush, etc. 💡 Maybe a video helping us on each side, fair cool olive and one for fair warm olive.👍🏻😊

[@LightOfJoy1]

This is the best explanation of olive skin I've ever seen. Thank you!

[@stylerefinement]

You're very welcome - I'm glad you found the video informative!

[@KK-jj1ii]

Your color videos have been SO much more helpful than any other resource on the same topic that I have tried to learn from. I was so frustrated and confused about why warm colors “match” my skin according to all of the guides but do not look good on me whereas neutral-cool tones make me look vibrant. Now I get it! It also was not until I watched your videos that I realized the common theme in the clothing that I look best in is that the colors are tones. I still do not know what “season” I am, but I no longer care because I finally understand that tonality is likely the most important thing in my case followed by coolish hues. THANK YOU!! Please make a video about finding ideal neutrals that work for the wearer and their wardrobe?

[@stylerefinement]

Thank you!! I'm so glad you mentioned that you don't know your season but it no longer matters - that's exactly my point! Once you understand how colors work against your skin that's really all you need to know :) Funny enough though I'm coming out with a couple of new color analysis videos that talk about different seasons of the 16-season system! Haha I will add your request about ideal neutrals to my topics list and see what I can come up with!

[@KK-jj1ii]

@@stylerefinement I’ll be watching them all, haha. Your perspectives are damn insightful!

[@grumpyschnauzer]

Immediately when I walk into makeup stores, they push Neutral on me. I put it on, go outside and it pulls really pink. I always thought I was more of a golden yellow but very pale… it never sat right but it was the closest. THEN I tried cool green from one brand and although it looked a little gray (almost like having no color) it was a perfect match. Sometimes if I get some Sun I pull slightly more yellow than the cool green so I mix in a golden pale color. AND THEN I moved away to an area where I got almost no sun exposure (my hometown is by the beach and I’d get a lot of Sun before) and when I moved back home, my feet tanned really quick. I was wearing shorts when I noticed my pale transparent bluish gray green legs (almost like a corpse color) contrasting my golden hued tanned feet. It was hilarious!!! Confirmed I am a cool olive but I do have to mix in a pale yellow to brighten the color to match my brightness. I land on the deep winter (sometimes mistakenly deep autumn) scale. I have a bluish green undertone with a yellow bright overtone and reddish skin sensitivity that gets amplified if I dye my hair orange or red dyes. My hair color is a natural black color. I’m 37 and barely figuring all of this out. I say all this because I looked at the cool green foundation and said “no way” but like magic when I put it on it completely blended! I was ecstatic and realized I’m a Martian! 👽 just kidding.

[@heatherinde]

Wow! I love that every time I watch one of your videos…. It’s so packed with novel info I know I’ll need to watch it again just to absorb it all. I am a pale skinned olive artist and fashion lover and so the way you break things down has been invaluable to me. ❤️

[@erika91222]

I've been watching your personal color series and girl do I finally get the explanation as to why I find color season so confusing. All this time by elimination I thought I should be somewhere in the Autumn spectrum but I cannot pull off anything too warm nor can I wear anything to bright. Yet not all muted colors look good on me. It's super confusing. Now I know why. I have olive skin, and it's so true that I can wear more colors when I'm tanned. I'm still not sure whether I'm leaning towards warm/cool, I guess I'm in the "neutral" zone. Would love to see more olive skin content and how to find our best color.

[@stylerefinement]

Thanks for the comment! There is such limited info out there for olives for sure - I'll see what else I can come up with as follow up videos ❤

[@pugwoman-nk6ok]

The same thing happens to me with sales people in beauty stores. I have medium-light brown hair, brown eyes, medium-light toned skin (maybe a bit Italian-in-Winter looking?) but they assume I am warm- toned. Then they are surprised when the concealers look too orange. Lol Usually light to medium concealers work best. Also re: Colors, I look best in muted colors overall. (Mustard rather than lemon yellow, cranberry vs tomato, etc.

[@annagram1]

man this is complicated 😂 but you explained it well! i have olive skin and didn’t know there was a spectrum within it until today. i was testing foundations at sephora and was confused when the neutrals looked too warm, and ended up matching a cool shade. they sadly didn’t have a cool olive but it’s good to know that’s what i need!

[@stylerefinement]

It is complicated indeed lol! I'm glad you found the explanations helpful ❤

[@CoilyTwizzler]

Lol this was helpful. I think I’m a pretty similar complexion shade to Zoe and it’s been a struggle trying to categorize myself bc at times i can really see the yellow warmth in my skin but it’s weird bc there’s also like..a grey/pale cast to it that gives it a grey look, especially in the lighting out at stores and stuff. Lol so I’m always confused but I feel like this has helped me make sense of WHY I was so confused lol

[@emilyscottbanks7638]

This is hands down THE BEST explanation of this I’ve ever seen - Thank you!!!

[@stylerefinement]

I'm glad you enjoyed the video! 😊❤

[@wingedyera]

I think I'm a light warm olive with rosacia and hyperpigmentation around the eyes. No wonder I've never been able to find a foundation or even worse a concealer that works for me. Nowadays i just forgo foundation and concealers, since they somehow all seem to emphasise the bad stuff over the good stuff

[@ya__basic]

One of the rare videos that finally helped me.

[@stylerefinement]

I'm glad you found the video helpful!

[@pragyasingh2297]

You explained this SO WELL! I often wondered why I was a "cool toned" girly but I looked so good in certain vibrant warm colors and so bad that are recommended on "cool toned girls". Definitely related a lot to Eva Mendez in the respect that I feel like beige-gray colors make me look so sickly.

[@stylerefinement]

I'm glad you found the video helpful! ❤

[@bognacelina1628]

Great content! Thanks to you I realized I'm cool olive skin tone - just VERY fair. Are you planning on prepareing a video on extremely dark/light olive skin? that would be a life saver :) i recently dyed my hair auburn red and my skin looks now like natural red head!? even though I always thaugth warm colors don't work for me :D Olive skin is so tricky...

[@stylerefinement]

It’s not easy being green 🫒 but there’s a lot of us, probably more than we realize, so you’re definitely not alone!!

[@Darlizz]

Omg thank you so much for this explanation because all these years I always wonder why I look more grey or sickly in certain photo especially when I'm wearing a clothing that have a grey undertone in it.

[@gorjush]

This is a great video. I also think you can see in the Eva photos how her varying hair color has an impact as well in terms of what color looks good on her.

[@stylerefinement]

Great point!

[@AbbyBlissWhite]

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[@KonjikiKonjiki]

SO helpful, could never figure out how to select foundation etc because SO many lines and their store availability centre around very pink or mauve skin tones. Finally, after watching a few of your videos on the topic, I was able to put in the time to learn how to see skin tints. So far only Maybelline Fit Me has a shade to suit my greenygoldiness.

[@laurenweiss2249]

Thanks for your olive videos! They are so helpful. For my fellow olives, I finally found my perfect foundation match after hearing the advice to add in green color corrector. I get CG N2 foundation, mix in a few drops of green and it matches perfectly.

[@TinyTC]

Intersting. Are you lighter? Darker? What kind of green color corrector do you use?

[@p.b.4464]

You look so beautiful! This is really helpful, esp the sequence of pics of Zoe and Rihanna. I'll have to look through your catalog to see if you talk about ruddy, reddish, or rosacea prone skin. I have some not terrible but visible redness in my forehead, nose and chin- but I think I'm cool and I look good in baby blue.

[@stylerefinement]

Thank you for the compliment 💋 I don't have any videos talking about rosacea prone skin but it's a good topic idea! 😎

[@emanuellasueto3473]

This video is so so helpful!! All my life I wore bright reds and even oranges, but I had my color analysis last year and I'm cool toned!! I started wearing dark blues but I think I look greyer... so I'm going back to my clear colors 😅

[@heidilongman8128]

You might be closer to a Bright Winter! But I do agree with Jenn that seasonal analysis doesn’t take every factor into consideration, but it is a starting point. I think I’m probably light spring, but a few of those colors aren’t the best, and I can wear some darker colors well that are supposedly off limits to the light seasons. If you know it looks great on you then wear it!

[@stylerefinement]

I personally think that oranges are tough sometimes even for warm seasons! I'm glad you found the video helpful :)

[@TheKmonta]

I have similar coloring to you, although I am a lot older than you are. Thanks for your great explanation of olives. It really helped.

[@Sophie-bi6xd]

@Jenn. You make a very interesting point saying olives can never be extremely cool or warm for we have both yellow and green. Does this mean that we can only fall in the color seasons closer to neutral like autumn and summer. Because if you mark the 4 color seasons on a spectrum winter and spring are at the far ends.

[@stylerefinement]

Winter and Spring are on the opposite ends of CLARITY from Autumn and Summer, not temperature. While I agree that clarity can have some influence on temperature (since as colors become softer they naturally become less temperature-sensitive), I wouldn't generalize that Winter and Spring are extremely warm/cool seasons and Autumn & Summer are more neutral seasons in terms of temperature.

[@Sophie-bi6xd]

​@@stylerefinement Thank you so much for your answer!

[@Kamalpreet77]

Please please tell DIY how to self colour like your shorts but in detail the whole process because not colour professional is nearby my area. Thank you This is helpful to understand and identify if I am cool or warm olive tone.

[@stylerefinement]

You’re welcome Kamal! Let me see what I can come up with ☺️

[@musingsofamuslimah2018]

You are a gem on youtube ❤ Would you mind going into more detail about clarity in a future video please? So many colour analysts on youtube talk about what colours you should wear if you are muted/soft vs clear/bright but I have yet to come across a satisfactory explanation of how to actually determine your clarity. Does it have to do with contrast or the tones of your skin? Is someone with dark undereye circles or acne scars considered muted because the skin is not clear? I dont really understand what the concept of clarity is referring to. I would really appreciate if you could address this. Thank you & much love from South Africa! ❤

[@stylerefinement]

Aww thank you! ❤️ acne scars have nothing to do with the clarity of the skin that’s for sure. I will add this topic to my list and see what I can come up with! 🥰 thanks for the support!

[@musingsofamuslimah2018]

@@stylerefinement thank you very much! I always look forward to your videos 🤗🌹

[@naimahossain8316]

Can you do a video on best hair colors for olive skin?

[@jen48799]

Thanks for explaining this. I have been trying to figure out my colors. I know I am a cool olive, but as I have been trying different winter colors - I have been getting more confused. I recently settled on the idea that the brightness of a color is more important for me then the actual temperature and I couldn't figure out why, some of the softer/medium winter colors just didn't seem to do a lot for me the way a bright color does.

[@stylerefinement]

I have a video called "Why do I look bad in both warm and cool colors" that explains what you talked about! You should check it out if you haven't already ❤

[@in_rose_coffeelover]

I loved to learn how olive skin can also have some neutral in it as sometimes I wonder if I'm not neutral instead. But then, I remember how I once brought two foundations that looked almost the same, even if one was a sample of a cool one, and the other was a full-size neutral. Surprisingly, the neutral one gave me a very grayish look if I tried to wear it on my whole face while the cool foundation left a more natural finish unlike what I expected seeing the pictures of it online 😅 (I was so shocked with the neutral that I even tried it in my brother thinking something was wrong with it, just to find out it was his shade and that my brother has neutral skin color 🤣)

[@allisonmyers5874]

Thank you so much for explaining this! I’d always assumed I was warm because I’m light olive, but most olive foundations still pull super orange on me. I’m hopefully a more gray-toned products will match me better.

[@stylerefinement]

Glad it was helpful! ❤

[@Cicelyize]

This video is wonderful. How many times have I been matched with foundations 2-3 tones darker and warmer than I need just because of my olive yellow cast. I think I am a neutral leaning very slightly warm if we consider make up tones. However for lipstick I do better with neutral to cool, and for clothes it’s winter colours while olives, warm reds and orange leaning tans are bad.

[@vanessam.v2779]

thank you I am a fair warm olive, with green yellow hazel eyes! this was very helpful!!

[@mercyxxholicxx]

Glad to see your content. I have always thought to be neutral but my skin is almost exactly like the girl on the right, with more Greyish blue and being a afro girl I never think I might be olive, im mixed

[@stylerefinement]

I do think neutral and olive can be confusing to distinguish, especially if your skin is darker! At first I thought that Zoe Saldana had cool skin tone but as I've looked through more photos there were some where she looked REALLY green!

[@nahiemaa]

Yessss I only get “super warm” during the summer but I’m still olive. Ppl always say I’m warm all year round, but then I always look too orange

[@mvuj]

Thank you another thorough explanation olive skin tones!

[@stylerefinement]

You're welcome! I'm glad you found the video informative :)

[@Herwitchinesss]

Thank you for bringing up Eva! My skin tone is a lighter olive typically though it gets to medium/light range of dark the second I'm in the sun but I have far more yellow and gold tones that show through my skin as well as more red than others with my "range" - finding my season has been difficult but basically, I'm more true neutral with a slight lean towards warm. Deep autumn if I had to pick is just a bit better than cool winter is on me, with black and white and some of the pinks looking awful on me in CW, DA has only one or two no's. some of the colors that look great on Eva, i can also wear but that bright yellow turns me grey; however, grey tones look equally awful on both her and me. I recently discovered a lime green shade that looks great on me which shocked me bc I loved it as a kid but my mom claimed only very pale people could pull it off so i never even tried it on my body 😅 it was a very nice surprise!

[@Herwitchinesss]

& my best hair color besides the black with red highlights my hair naturally is / black with balayage added in to add warmth around my face has been a medium copper red so definitely I lean more warm neutral!

[@IncandescentLightbulb00]

All the stuff that you explain makes so much sense! The only thing that confuses the hell out of me is foundation shades. I haven’t used foundation for over 10yrs at this point because all of it looks just awful and flat at best and never matches my face well. Here is the problem: my skin is fair with a lot of red showing through. I don’t have any rosacea or anything it’s just the pink undertone gets very pronounced on me. Here is the thing: foundations either make me look like I smeared mustard on myself (yellow) and the pink’s don’t match either! The cool tones make me look like miss piggy. The only stuff that works is Korean bb creams that have a lot of gray green undertones to cancel out some of the redness. They straight up give me porcelain skin. This is why I just can’t find acceptable foundation. Hence my conclusion is that foundation shouldn’t “match” your face. Not really… it should neutralize they undertone that’s way more pronounced than other ones to balance it out and make you look nice and glowing. Am I wrong? Am I missing something here? The closest shade of foundation that I ever found was MACs NC17 which they don’t make any more. This question confounded me for years and I’m just glad that Asian beauty brands know how to address this problem because western ones don’t seem to understand it. Even ranges like Fenty don’t have any tones that balance out the red and bb creams are not the same as Korean ones.

[@stylerefinement]

You should try using color correctors to subdue the excess redness instead! I've also ditched foundation a number of years ago for the reasons you've explained, and now I just color correct my dark circles and use a neutral concealer on top to blend the color corrector. Foundation is meant to "match" the face, but for the problems that you've described color correctors are used to offset any excess unwanted tones in the skin underneath the foundation!

[@lilianmaes7710]

I discovered my olive skin tone when I was trying my sister's skin tint and foundation which leaned towards tye neutral and warm tones. Mine was clearly ashy blueish green compared to my sister

[@becm963]

I enjoyed this video. My skin is closer to Eva Mendez. I don’t look good in gray. I can wear a wide spectrum of colors. I will take into the account the clarity of the colors. That makes sense.

[@stylerefinement]

Glad you found the video helpful! :)

[@mathildamathilda6169]

Your video is the most detail and easiest to understand how to determine my skin undertone. Thanks

[@stylerefinement]

You're welcome! I'm glad you're finding my content helpful ♥

[@aikaadysheva3286]

This is amazing, a scientific explanation of skin colors is very helpful. Thank you!

[@stylerefinement]

You’re welcome! Glad you found the video helpful ❤️

[@CyberMercy]

The problem with using Celbreties is they get painted a more desirable skin tone - yes even the body. a sheer bronzer / tan gell can warm up the body skin of a cooler tone while appearing natural. great Vidi 😎☕💋

[@stylerefinement]

That's so true and I wish I had access to more real-life examples with no makeup!

[@kiute.c]

This video has been so helpful! I look nothing like Eva Mendes, but I think we are similar in that clarity is more important than temperature. I've been really sick, but on days when I have had to leave the house, I got comments that I looked like I was getting better when I wore my brighter sweaters (lime green, emerald green, coral pink, robin egg blue). My previous research would tell me all olives must be cool, or all olives must be muted. But my collection is a mix of warm and cool and I hate how muted colors look on me, so it drove me crazy trying to decide my undertone. This video speaks to what I feel makes sense based on how colors make me feel and what I see 💚 Also, its nice to find someone else who thinks Rihanna leans warm!

[@stylerefinement]

Thanks for the comment! I'm glad the video was helpful :)

[@Eleven_vi]

Thanks your videos are so helpful you explain very well ! Would love a video about hair color and seasonal palette and for olive skins 😊

[@stylerefinement]

Glad you liked the video! I'll see what else I can come up with colors for olive skins :D

[@mariannediaz7456]

This video is gold

[@CaramelSwatches]

So cool to see tan brown women as the thumbnail photo! This is the depth range my makeup swatch page caters to. 👏🏽

[@stylerefinement]

I'm glad to hear that! :)

[@reformingbeauty]

I've been told I'm olive and neutral. I personally am drawn to more cool tone colors in makeup. I can easily wear warm or cool colors in makeup or clothing. I like olive, mustard yellow, and wine colors but also wear bright and soft purples and pinks a lot too. I HATE the color blue and turquoise or dark denim is the closest I will ever get to wearing blue. I'm biracial (black and white) and often confused as Hispanic bc I'm so light skinned.

[@KaliKali-hv9bt]

😊 same

[@gemi_boludeces]

I've noticed that my face looks warmer but my neck looks totally green hah also in white light i look so gray XD but i think i'm more on the warm side than cool,still there's a lot of warm colors that i think don't look good on me,so yeah,it's tricky for us olives.

[@stylerefinement]

I actually look at the neck area when I'm looking through celebrity photos to see if they show any olive hues! (Also because they wear so much makeup in photos that it's hard to tell.) It is tricky for us indeed :P

[@kateaye3506]

I have a warm leaning foundation and a cool leaning foundation and I am a light olive. My warm foundation definitely sits better on me.

[@penny9107]

why tf did u clap so hard at first 😂 my earsss😂😂😂 but thank you for the contentt, love itt

[@Siennajs]

Fr I HAD HEADHPHONES ON

[@Seoulsearch616]

Appreciate all your hard work! 👍🏼🌹

[@someauraplay]

Very helpful video, thank you so much :)

[@janekof]

Can you put this in your personal colours and skintone series playlist? I think this video got missed and it's such a good one!

[@stylerefinement]

Thanks for letting me know! ❤️ added

[@misspetite9285]

I can finally explain my olive skin tone haha Love this video :)

[@stylerefinement]

Thank you! Glad you liked the video!

[@lgempet2869]

Great explanation!👍 Definitely struggle w/finding foundations: even olive-based foundations, when they’re available are often TOO olive, but foundations that lean yellow or peach are often too far those directions, and neutral foundations often just make me look ashy or even worse, dead! My skin tone is a medium olive/neutral, leaning slightly golden (tan well…but sometimes in a combination of golden, neutral tan &/or ruddy). Sometimes I can find a foundation in my general range, but it’s challenging for sure! Certain brands bring more success than others.🤷

[@stylerefinement]

I'm glad you liked the video! I totally agree that some olive-based products are too green lol your description of your skin tone sounds exactly like me! Oftentimes I find any sort of colors that has the word "sand" in the name works best, although I do have olive tones

[@lgempet2869]

@@stylerefinement Yes, you’re right….”sand” in the name of foundation, etc., is a pretty good sign it could be a good match & yes, I believe our skin tones are VERY similar.😊

[@HaHaHaLMFAOtv]

this helps a lot. I'm so pale, my skin is quite sheer. I try to match my foundation to my chest but it's never right. Now I mix pale yellow foundation with blue and I look grey. so this is why. and still too dark. it's so annoying I don't know what to do with my foundations anymore

[@stylerefinement]

I find testing along the jawline works great - so you can see if the color matches your face but also the neck area!

[@after9bars]

this made me realize i have a cool olive skin tone omg thank you

[@stylerefinement]

I'm glad the video helped! ❤

[@jrmetmoi]

My favorite foundations these days are the Pat McGrath foundation foundations in the shades Medium 18, Medium 21 and Medium Dark 23 because they all have olive undertones and they look really good on me I also love wearing the Danessa Myricks Beauty Vision Cream Cover foundations in N07 and in TO01 Olive became they also appear to have olive undertones in them

[@RileyDawnOfficial]

Great videos. Love the in-depth detailsand visuals 🔥🔥🔥🔥🙏🏽

[@stylerefinement]

Thank you 🙌

[@DanteVelasquez]

Such nuanced insight is a gift 🙂

[@stylerefinement]

Thank you so much for the compliment! 🥰

[@CarmenKaamos]

Pale olive with greyish cast. I look horrible in grey and pale colors in general. I look best in jewel tones.

[@notaclue822]

Make up colours are so complicated. I used to like ones with a rose tone because I thought it cancelled out the green. Pink and green are complementary, so that makes sense. Then it's cool so that is what I thought I was for many years. Now I think I have some warm too though. I would like to know more about colour corrector. Thanks. Very good video. Some things can't be simplified.

[@stylerefinement]

Thanks for the comment! Makeup colors can be tricky for sure - I'll see if I can focus on the topic of different color correctors in a follow-up video :)

[@emanalmrogi8103]

Extremely helpful video for me as olive skinned person, thanks for taking the time to make it

[@stylerefinement]

Glad it was helpful!

[@vanessadeleon5386]

I love how thorough you are. Hands down the best videos. You are great at facial proportions, would you be able to create a consultation that can help on what procedures we can do to make for a more symmetrical or appealing face?

[@stylerefinement]

I'm glad you like my approach! I don't provide consultations specifically for cosmetic procedures, because personally I've seen way too many cases where the end result is questionable even when the right theory is applied (think of Zoe Kravitz with her chin filler - theoretically the chin filler should have brought more balance to her face but the result is worse than before), but I am releasing some downloadable guides on facial proportions in November! :)

[@AirborneAshes]

my problem with makeup, being a very light olive, is that there's usually no undertone selection in my shade. i'm lucky if anything is light enough drugstore wise. i think the makeup trick is probably best for people with mid tone skin, since we all know people with very deep skin have even more trouble finding foundation than i do

[@troebeliewoep]

Im a light, warm leaning olive and Ive given up on wearing foundation. The neutrals aren’t in a fair enough range (where i live so I can test them on my arm). The fair shades are either pinkish or yellow. Im really glad that ive got many freckles, so blemishes dont stand out much

[@stylerefinement]

I've given up on foundation years ago as well!

[@_maymie]

You have the best explanation regarding this topic !!!

[@stylerefinement]

Thank you! Glad you liked the video :)

[@roses.9181]

Yay thank you so much for following up on this! Whenever I watch your videos I need to rewind through some parts 2-3 times to make sure I fully understand lol. I also wish I knew what my season is!!! I'm so frustrated lol. Ugh I wish I could do a color consult with you :(

[@stylerefinement]

You're so welcome! I'm glad you found the video informative :)

[@dysdaffy6905]

Thank you! Can you do an exact analysis to olive vip personalties please? Like for nina dobrev?

[@womeninadjusting7329]

This video was needed

[@UserinBerlin]

I am a light olive and my worst colours include: extremely warm, extremely cool, extremely bright, extremely dark (black) and extremely light (white). For years, I was investing time and energy into trying to figure out whether I lean more warm or cool... until I figured and accepted that I am so close to the middle of the warm-cool spectrum that labelling myself as any of the two is pretty irrelevant, and it might confuse me more than help me navigate. Now I know I can pull out any warm or cool shade as long as its temperature is not extreme AND, most importantly of all, it is MUTED. My best shades are those variations of colours that look as if someone took a pinch of a muted olive green and mixed it into that (any) colour: greenish off-white, greenish yellow, greenish + orange, greenish +pink, greenish+blue, greenish + any other colour, you get the thrill. You can train your eye for spotting that "pinch of green" even in red or pink or orange lipstics, as well as in neutrals. And if you, on the top of that, know whether you look better in brights or muted colours, and darker or lighter ones, you have all the keys you need for identifying the right cloths, make up and hair colours. Thanks for the video. Wishing fun to olives & all ❤

[@elinaem2319]

This video was really helpful to understand many things about my skintone and suitable colors, thank you so much! For me, I think, I can wear pretty much any color, as long as it's clarity is high. Any muted color makes me look sick. And what also looks horrible on me: any neon colors (especially fuchsia or electric blue), any brown color (but beige is really fine) and khaki green. This for the clothing. And for the eyeshadow colors: I find most of the shades look fine, except for any pastel shades, especially pastel blue or green, grey looks very bad, but silver a bit better; also the Naked 2 Basics palette doesnt work for me at all. And for the lips: i find most lipstick colors work for me, except for pastel pink shades and cool brown nude colors, like MAC's Fresh Brew 😵

[@stylerefinement]

You’re so welcome! I’m glad the video was helpful for you ❤️ I’m the opposite in that I need muted colors, and pastels and brights are not for me at all clothing wise!

[@elinaem2319]

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