What's YOUR neutral eyeshadow palette? My journey as a cool muted olive

[@samiluna1374]

Excuse me while I start swatching all of my eyeshadow palettes and realising why I always look a mess 😂

[@LexiLadonna]

haha I've been there :)

[@melih1816]

Literally. Ive been wondering why everything looks either orange or dead on me for 10 years straight

[@profesorahb]

​@@melih1816when I was little, my grandma told me I had olive skin. But I seem so pink in adulthood, but then cool toned stuff looks like a zombie on me. AM I OLIVE?!

[@anabelclarke8003]

Completely agree with you. I think "neutral" is a marketing trick as it makes people think it will work on them. As a cool olive, most neutral palettes don't work for me. Please keep making videos about makeup. There are few KZbinrs who understand cool olive.

[@LexiLadonna]

I have another makeup/eyeshadow video coming out in the next month :)

[@beautystrategy2989]

Neutral for you will be muted pinks, mauve, cream/ivory, khaki, taupe, chocolate browns. Bright silver is pretty but not neutral on you especially with a blue base. This is not only based on your olive undertone but your iris. Korean and Japanese neutrals are a great idea. Brown is a neutral, but depends on the undertone. If you want to amp up the drama, you can mix a medium/dark brown with a neutral pink shadow. Neutral doesn’t just mean it “blends” into the skin; it means that it naturally complements and flatters your coloring. Neutral also doesn’t mean light; it can be dark and dramatic, too. Neutral is opposite to vivid, contrasting, muted/ashy, or “other.” I enjoyed your video and will be doing more pink shadow this week. 😊

[@chaedoolies]

Cream and ivory are warm

[@lapislazulis2378]

For some people, it would be an off white made by mixing green and a very light gray/beige.

[@jackpoopoo]

is there a palette you would recommend for warm olive. I am east asian.

[@Zorriel]

The fact that I always hated "neutral eyeshadow" so I would just apply pink blush as my eyeshadow, is making so much sense. I need to buy that eyeshadow palette !! ❤

[@stacyketner]

Yes, I've been using pink, purple and mauve blushes lately because even the cool tone pallets don't seem to work for me

[@northwoodfalls1403]

I’m kinda shook. I’ve been struggling so hard to figure out my skin tone and colours. Something has been so off and I have not been able to figure it out. It never ever in a gagillion years occurred to me that I might be olive toned. I really thought olive skin tones were obvious, were that warm sun kissed sort of tone. I had NO IDEA there was such a thing as a light, cool, olive tone. I have had different analysis done over the years and no one seems to have any consensus on what I am. So I thought maybe I am just neutral. But I’m clearly not. I look pale but I do not have that bluish white cast to my skin. Anyhow, you don’t need my whole saga 😂 This video popped up during yet another search on the topic and my jaw kinda dropped. Pretty much everything you were pointing out about the difft palettes … I was nodding my head like, “mmmhmmm !!!” . Thank you so much 😊

[@LexiLadonna]

I'm so glad it helped you!! Olive undertones can be super confusing because a lot people just use it as a euphemism for medium depth instead of referring properly to the actual undertones. I can recommend Alexandra Anele as a makeup KZbin who has a light olive undertone who's been helpful for me. She's on the warm side of olive, but i've still gotten some great recommendations from her

[@northwoodfalls1403]

@@LexiLadonna ty so much! I’ll check her out 😃

[@victoriataylor5584]

Have you tried cool neutral eyeshadows.

[@victoriataylor5584]

​@@LexiLadonnayou have blue green undertones, so get something in red orange to counteract the blue green.

[@victoriataylor5584]

​@@LexiLadonnaglad you found one to work for you.

[@glassy_rose]

Lol one time I used blush as eyeshadow in frustration (it was a neutralish blush, mauve and pink) and it was the most neutral eye look ever for me.

[@LexiLadonna]

Awesome! That’s what made me start trying to figure out my neutrals too!

[@northwoodfalls1403]

I find a lot of muted purples and pinks look the most neutral on my eyes as well. I have one cool bronzer that I love and am in a slight panic that I’m nearly out of because it’s so hard to find but I use that when I truly want the “my natural eyelids but better” look. It looks frighteningly bold in the pan but it barely registers on my lids. I use a lot of deep grey blues and blacks as well and it just looks “normal” on me, not bold at all. I stand in front of makeup and despair most of the time because the vast majority of colours just do not work on me at all. *sigh*. The struggle is real 😂

[@nataliemichelo8583]

“Warm olive when it’s warm/ hot outside and neutral olive on gloomy days” medium -deep skin toned girl here 🙋🏽‍♀️ and let me tell you, I LOVED this

[@marie.theartist]

Forgot to mention, those celebrities you mentioned are wearing thoes colors because of the color anaylis they are. They are a True Winter. So, that's why they are wearing those tones. Now, I am a Bright Winter. I can wear bright colors. The neutrals I can wear are taupes, soft pinks, mauves,greys. Now, black smokey eye does not look good on me but because lf my eye shape. Makes my eyes look smaller. So, it all varies in each person. My skin is light/olive-cool.

[@thinredhead]

MY SISTER IN COLOR 😭😭😭omggggg so many thanks for this video!!! Finally someone has the same crazy, rare, pale olive skin like me xD (i live in country, where 98% of people have reddish fair cool toned skin and blonde hair and I always had a problem with my makeup etc)

[@joanie-music]

So this is why I gravitate toward more pinky eye colors!!! And yes... Korean brands rock for makeup colors for fair olive skin!!!

[@helgaserge7152]

But there is a lot of pink palettes all over the world

[@jay-rene992]

Your methodological approach is sooo satisfying!!!

[@LexiLadonna]

Thank you! It sounds more methodological in the retelling than it was in practice LOL.

[@monicarossi4769]

omg this video just changed my life. i've gone through the same journey of thinking i'm olive but then cool toned but looking not great in bright berry/plum tones. i'm a cool muted olive like you! would love to see more makeup recs from you!

[@LexiLadonna]

I'm hoping to start making videos again soon!

[@imanadlani-rian2375]

I am so so so glad I found your video. I struggle for the longest time with my eyeshadow colors. Nothing seems to work. I have light-medium olive skin tone. I always knew that I have olive skintone because I am mediterranean and everybody in my family have that grayisch/ greenish skin that bronze very easy in the sun. There are a lot of videos about foundations but nothing about the right nude eyeshadow colors for olives. Black is to harsh, browns to warm and the muted cool nudes make my dark circles pop up. I just couldn't figure it out. Till now. So thank you for this video.

[@LexiLadonna]

Yay! I’m so glad it helped :)

[@SaadetOZTRK]

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED MUTED GREENIE COOL 💫💜💖💜💫 Thanks a lot

[@HelibearWomble]

As a fellow Light-Cool-Muted-Olive, the struggle is real! 🐸 I always wondered why the very popular warm neutral palettes looked Off on me. Since discovering my olive undertone I’ve largely backed away from eye shadow (with the exception of “Omega” by MAC) but now I will take a look at some more pink palettes!!! 🌸

[@missincognito452]

I’m a fair, muted, cool, olive and my best eyeshadow palette has been the Urban Decay Naked 3 palette. It makes my muted green-grey eyes pop and doesn’t turn a strange color on me.

[@LexiLadonna]

Yeah that’s an excellent one on me too! I almost got it to talk about for this video but I wanted to use palettes from different brands. I probably could have done this whole video just with all the different versions of the naked palette lol. It’s really cool that they’ve tweaked for so many different undertones

[@ammarazasews980]

I went down the color analysis rabbit hole and came across your color analysis you had done by Merriam style. I'm a medium olive skin tone so I understand this struggle very well!! When that first naked palette came out, the colors did not work on me (and all that followed)! I love the shade of blue eyeshadow you wore in your other video, it's my favorite! And the eyeshadow in this video is beautiful!! I can see how much more flattering it is. I've never used grays, because I have dark circles and worry about looking gray (I'm of Indian background), and gray and mauve clothes don't look good. But, today I tried these cool tones with a Maybelline palette that was gifted to me, and I'm shocked! A bit of gray taupe and mauve is actually most neutral on my eyes! I'm 35, I can't believe I haven't tried this before.

[@LexiLadonna]

It took me until 37 to figure it out so you're not the only one who took a little longer. I'm glad you're finally finding stuff that works for you!

[@PamelaRubel]

It can be so difficult for us olives!

[@violetviolet888]

ammarazasews: You are medium skin tone with an olive undertone. But are you a warm, neutral, or cool olive? Sounds like to me you are "medium skin tone with a cool olive undertone".

[@maimayme]

Yes I finally feel seen. It took me till this year to realize I am olive but not just olive but a bright olive cool tone. My color analysis person told me to not use brown for eyeshadow and I could not compute but this makes a lot of sense👀 thanks for the detailed swatches I’ll be buying that pink palette

[@isabelaneves7253]

The moment I read your title I thought about korean eyeshadows. Thank god I didn't coment before watching the whole video

[@ShaktiFlowww]

THE MOST helpful of all the olive skin tone vids I’ve seen. Thank you 🙏

[@abbyll]

I bought the peripera palette because of you AND damn it looks so good on me, i had to accept the fact that pink looks so much better on me than orange/peach. Can you do more recommendations on products like blush, lips or foundations??

[@LexiLadonna]

I'm so glad it works for you too! I'm not as full of recommendations for other categories, unfortunately. I do have some makeup declutter videos coming out where I give mini reviews on a bunch of different products I have, but I don't have a big youtuber collection, just a smaller number of products and for most other categories I haven't branched out and tried as many things as I have with eyeshadow. Not sure what your skin depth is but I have found korean foundations to be more likely to have olive or desaturated colors, only problem is each brand will only sell a couple shades. Currently I use the Missha Perfect Cover BB Cream in the lighter shade, 21. But I have to lighten it further with the Rose Inc concealer in the lightest shade, which is very desaturated and neutral, works well as a mix-in. Rose inc and Kosas in general seem to have an excellent range and other olives I've talked to have found decent matches there. When my Missha stuff is ready to be repalced, I'll probably try first with Kosas, but I'd be surprised if it didn't require using mix-in and green or blue color correctors. I'm resigned to it For blush I tend to like dusty pink shades when I want a natural look but I have to be super picky. Even a slightly warm pink will look peach or orange on me. My current favorite for natural looks are the Pat McGrath Divine Rose blush in Divine Rose or the Mac Glow Play Blush in Rosy Does It. Both have a great undertone for me but are a bit too saturated so I have to be very careful when using them to not go overboard. My best ever blush was the mini size of Tarte Amazonian clay blush in the shade paaarty, but the full size is a slightly different color and they stopped making the mini. In general though I think you could probably find a great match in that line, they have a ton of different colors in that same family that are only off by slight degrees to get you a perfect shade. Hope that info helped!

[@roselienchen9886]

Awesome! Finally someone solving the mystery. I stayed away from "neutral" eyeshadow since forever because of this

[@mariak8095]

So helpful, so tired of muddy shadow!!! Thank you!

[@aireh2535]

This was the single most helpful makeup video I've ever watched. Thank you for making this.

[@OfficialLovelySunflower]

I’m olive skin cool neutral. I accidentally stumbled across Ross gold, mauve, dusty pink, colors. I notice it compliments my eyes better. 🌸💜

[@Marta_Maeldeis]

This. Makes. So. Much. Sense. Thank you!

[@KurtesolWafelosi]

Now i understand why i could use my "blush" as my bronzer for years xD

[@LadyDragonbane]

I love the way you took one step/eye at the time. It really helped to see the difference

[@LexiLadonna]

I'm so glad that helped you!

[@amandasken]

I love this, definitely subscribing! Figuring out one's olive is such a relief and a trip down the rabbit hole at the same time. I'm on the same journey as you right now in regards to eyeshadow, and I'm trying to avoid a few ingredients too, which makes finding the right palette SO hard. I just designed my own palette from Lethal cosmetics and I'm so excited to see if it'll work for me! Also my inner goth is completely in awe of your style

[@hly-gu6ol]

oh my god every blush and bronzer that looks cool toned just looks orange on me! I have a very similar skin color to yours, just maybe a bit darker. I always called my skin tone as "zombie".

[@katieh.]

This was crazy helpful - such a smart concept to do 1 eye at a time 👏

[@LexiLadonna]

thank you! I'm glad it helped :)

[@moonpixelle]

I'm a very muted fair olive and I think I may lean warm but honestly it's so hard to tell, which confuses my eyeshadow efforts a lot. This video is really helpful thank you😊

I have recently realized that the neutral brown palette I've been using for years is way too orange on me! Finding out my undertone has made such a difference for getting makeup right. I'm now on the hunt for an actual cool neutral eyeshadow palette. Wish me luck! 😅

[@LexiLadonna]

Good luck!! :)

[@annamaryu3645]

I'm so glad I found this channel! I've known for a while that I'm olive but have a hard time finding flattering colours because colour theory is a bit challenging. But your explanations are easier to understand and now it all is finally starting to make sense, yay!

[@Olivina330]

The YesStyle palette reminds me so much of the Too Faced Born this Way Palette! So many people in the olive community also love the Naked 3 which makes so much sense with its cool pink tones! ❤️

[@LexiLadonna]

Yeah, I saw the naked3 palette for sale when I bought the naked2 palette for this video! It was so tough not to buy it because I knew it would actually suit me more, but I needed to find a just plain muted palette to demonstrate my point here. That’s definitely on my wish list now :)

[@stelaidrizi]

I am so happy you found something that works. This eyeshadow line from peripera is my favorite. If you want a gray/brown look that looks beautiful on olive skintone try “hip gray” from them. I love it

[@michelleelihu7759]

Love your videos & presentation style! & Thank You for making videos about cool light olive skin tones! Yay! I am a cool light medium olive skin tone & have definitely had quite a time as well! I like Merriam Style & her videos on this topic. I have also watched videos from a color analyst named Lanie Rode who also seems to understand pale/light cool olive skin tones & she offers info on both makeup & clothing with in depth insights too. Also, if you ever get the older Color Me Beautiful & Looking Your Best With Color Me Beautiful books by Carole Jackson, you can actually hold up the pages with color swatches next to your face to see what looks best on you if you don't have fabric swatches to use to compare. You can also use these swatches as makeup color suggestions as well. I happen to be a Summer with medium ash brown hair, & (grey tones, as I am 65+). I have also found that deep rosy corals look great on my skin tone too. & Rosy tones for lipstick & blush shades, are beautiful! Rose is a combo of peach & pink, after all. Corals that lean rosy are gorgeous, imho, & provide youthful & attractive beautiful looks & soften my dark circles, etc! Also, as examples, I think ColourPop:Stone Cold Fox, Rock Candy & Smoke'N'Roses & Morphe: Everyday Chic, Natural Flirt & Va Va Bloom Eyeshadow Palettes would look flattering on you, & jewelry with rose golds vs yellow golds. & I do not work for any of these companies or color analysts, either. Also, Winters, are Cool, Clear & High Contrast. Summers are Cool, Muted & Low To Medium Contrast. I still think that Color Me Beautiful made things easier to understand overall, from a 4 season standpoint to the more updated 16 season updates. Just my humble opinion. Best Wishes!

[@spigney4623]

THIS is my exact problem!! My contour shade needs to be visually olive green

[@LexiLadonna]

Exactly! And most contours I see are just about as warm as bronzer

[@annaglushkova3276]

Wow! This makes so much sense. Thank you a lot for explaining

[@karlasuchova1411]

This is the best video about make up for olive skin. Thank you.

[@soniacox9671]

Sister!!!! You and I have the exact same coloring. Finally I get to see someone else feeling this way. Great video!

[@bristremel1554]

you are the first person i've found on KZbin in about 6-7 years of watching beauty content who actually has similar colouring as me. to be honest i didn't think i'd ever find someone with similar colouring as me. i have a few "fair cool" and "fair olive" folks i follow but after trying many of their recommendations and finding their cool tones coming up orange/peach on me, i'd pretty much given up. i've also given up on palettes. i've come to the conclusion that the beauty industry, including reviewers and influencers, don't actually understand what "cool" means. i feel like "cool" has become the "new" (as if cool didn't always exist) buzzword, a trend in makeup spaces that just means "not orange or yellow." anything green, blue, or violet gets thrown in, without the understanding that any and all of those can be warm, and 99.9% of the time they are warm because there seems to be a deep fear of blue- and grey-based makeup. i snorted with laughter when i saw Sigma's "cool neutrals" palette. i don't understand what's going on. additionally, even when there are palettes that have colours i can wear, they make up less than half of the palette, and i can't justify buying an entire palette unless i can wear all of the colours, but that's just me personally. these are the colours i can wear on my face: cheek colour has to be a light, muted, blue-based mauve. this is literally the only blush colour i can wear that does not make me look like rust. on my eyes, light- to light-medium blue- based violets, violet-based pastel blues, and blue-based pastel greens (think more sage or mint, not teal), and greys based on any of these. the only browns i can wear have so much grey and violet in them, they do not swatch brown on most folks. my lips, which appear light at first glance, actually have a deep purple undercurrent, and the only colours that look right on me are muted blue-based plums and mauves, which are extremely hard to find. This is the only area of my face where i actually need a medium-to-dark colour to balance out the undertone of my lips. light lip colours wash me out though i do like a light lip colour with a dark liner. the only palette i've found that is both cool and muted enough for me is rom&nd's Better Than palette in Odd Breeze Garden. strangely, it's a predominantly pink palette, but every single shade in that palette is dusty - dusty as in muted and grey, not as in brown. most of the colours are fairly light which is an added bonus for me. apart from that i've gone the eyeshadow single journey from companies like Sydney Grace, Devinah, and Lethal Cosmetics. Sydney Grace colours that I have and that suit me are Concrete Road, Regal, Perfect Storm, Cali, Snow Queen, and Parallax Light. Devinah colours that suit me are Esme, London Fog (an absolutely gorgeous pastel grey-green), Ethereal, Frisson and Gaia. Lethal Cosmetics makes a lovely pastel periwinkle called Altitude that i'm obsessed with. For the most part i consider my collection complete, but i'm still on the lookout for one more green and i think i may have found it in Emme Cosmetics, in the shade Aqua, though of course i won't know until i try. The absolute best icy blue-leaning pastel mint comes from Watier, the Canadian brand, in the form of their Eye Shine eye pencil in the shade Aqua (they're available on Sephora, at least in Canada). I sadly took the advice of many a beauty influencer after watching the swatches of literally dozens of people on many different skin tones and bought the Colourpop Stone Cold Fox palette. I was able to wear and therefore salvage three of those 30 shades, but i didn't record the names so i'm not sure what they are - it was the medium muted blue-based grey matte, the light grey-based taupe matte, and the white matte with white sparkles suspended in it.

[@LexiLadonna]

I think we do have similar coloruring! I'd given up long ago on ever buying any palette that had neutrals because I knew they would always be too warm. Even "cool" palettes like Natasha Denona Retro palette is mostly warm on me and I can only wear a couple shades. Unfortunately I have not given up on palettes in general because I love them! I love to be inspired by a color story. The ones I've found that work for me are the Natasha Denona Retro Glam palette, which is greyish greens and the one neutral shade in there has a bit of a green tinge to it, and the Colourpop Twilight palette. People always think I'm crazy when I say blue eyeshadow is my favorite but on me (and you) it doesn't lok garish or anything. Even a brighter blue will much more at home on my face that it would on a lot of other people's. But it has to have an iciness to it, just like you were saying for you. I'm glad 90s icy blues are starting to trend because I've finally been able to find some after like two decades of looking and not being able to find blues that didn't verge on aquamarine but instead had the icy look, even if they were bright. I also am the same with blushes and lipsticks. Unless I'm going for a bright red, lipstick is impossible. I've found like one or two shades ever that work as a more neutral lip. It takes a lot of the fun out of makeup when all the blushes you buy, no matter the brand, all look identical haha. But yeah, just like you there's only one color of blush that looks good on me and everything else just looks like I rubbed rust on my face so I just stick to that same shade of muted dusty cool pink. I hesitate to even call it mauve because these days apparently everything, even warm rosewood colors, are being called Mauve by brands

[@bristremel1554]

@@LexiLadonna oh my goodness, yes! i can't believe what gets called 'mauve.' it makes it so confusing! 'dusty mauve' in most lines tends to be what you're describing - more of a warm rosewood colour, or even just plain rose. most of them are just a warm, vaguely pinkish colour - to make them more "wearable." to me, as soon as I see the word "wearable," i know they mean they've created something with a warm brown/yellow/orange/red/pink base to it, and therefore it is unwearable for me. same with "universally flattering" - they've warmed it up, and in some cases taken out any white base (and/or added a gold one), to make it more "wearable." also - i don't know if you've personally noticed this, but it seems to me that in palettes marketed as cool, the shimmers are always the warmest. i first noticed this in Colourpop's Stone Cold Fox palette - every single one of the shimmers was warm (sometimes with a warm base, but always with golden reflect) except for the blue-grey silver shimmer which was too bright for me to wear. when i started paying attention to that i noticed it in all of the palettes people swatch online - the shimmers tend to be on the warmer side. i'm so, so curious about the Natasha Denona Retro Glam palette. i absolutely adore that colour story and it looks like the greens might actually suit me, even if the rosey tones probably won't. it's such a massive investment though and i don't know anyone in my life who's into makeup and has it so i can check it out in person. pastel greens, blues, and violets brighten my face so much. honestly i'd be tempted to try out a ND palette despite the price just for the simple fact that the pans are removable - so if a portion of the palette doesn't work for me i can rehome the ones that do work into my singles palette. i wish more brands did that. the palette colab between Amy Loves Makeup and Adept also looks promising, in terms of truly cool-toned palettes. i watched her swatch it when she revealed it on her channel and i was impressed how much she committed to cooler tones. i like the range of colours as well. i might try that out at some point. i do believe those pans are removable from the palette as well. :)

[@PamelaRubel]

Im a cool-neutral olive, but not muted, but I have reached a similar conclusion to what you are showing here! Pinks and mauves are my neutrals, I can get away with more intense or vibrant colors, but definitely, the pinks and mauves are the most natural on my green skin! I do avoid peachy pinks, but mauve and purple pinks are my jam. I have found korean brands to have nice pinks! My favorite korean brand is Romand, I feel like they have truly nailed cool tones. And I do like Peripera as well! Edited to add: outside of "neutral" pinks in makeup, I adore wearing cobalt blue, indigo, deep purple, blue teal, light blue, lilac, lavender, and champagne colors and straight up pink, like bright pink. I Oh and cool toned red lipsticks have been my jam for the past few months and Im sad I didnt discover them sooner. I dont like greens usually, BUT a bright chartreuse shimmer can look fantastic. Ironically, I used to think I had warm skin because everyone classified olives as warm back in the day TT

[@misslaura80]

Omg. Thank you so much for this. My makeup has always been a mess. So much orange! This helps a ton.

[@stephaniechan7813]

By golly, i think you've absolutely nailed it! I immediately went and tried my peripera All Take Mood technique Palette in My Room Where Wishes Come True which is a similar color story. I had only just hauled it last week. Yes!! It definitely is more "neutral" than other browns i have! Thank you so much for this video 🎉❤❤

[@rinlumi]

I'm happy to see a video dedicated to cool muted olive! I was so confused with why neutral beige colors look orange toned, and why some pinks look too warm and bright. I learned a lot from this video that since I am cool, muted and olive, I need to get muted pink shades that are not peachy pinks but instead light mauve colors. Thank you very much! May I ask if you have any suggested youtube makeup channels for cool muted olives?

[@LexiLadonna]

Alexandra Anele and Hannah Louise Poston are both fair olives (not sure how fair you are) so I get a lot of recommendations from them on base products. Hannah in particular is muted so has good blush recommendations. But Hannah is neutral to warm and like INCREDIBLY fair and Alexandra is goldenish olive, so what works for them isn't always a perfect fit. That's the best I've got, sorry! If you're on reddit there are two pages that might help. r/fairolive and r/olivemua

[@Ramona-wf4vz]

Hi, i m hlad to have found you. My nude palette is from urban decay naked 3. I have light oliv cool toned skin. So i m excited to see your other videos.

[@LexiLadonna]

Yeah, Urban Decay Naked 3 is really great for light cool olivet! If I didn't have the periperi palette I'd buy that for sure

[@Carina_Rose]

This was so interesting! I have a cool olive skin tone but with blue eyes, so I feel like I can wear copper eye shadow BUT the further away from my eyeball the copper is the weirder it looks, like, I can do a thin bit right next to my eye liner or in place of eye liner, so this makes so much sense! And not too long ago I stopped trying to do a fancy “muted/neutral” eye with browns bc it just looked off for some reason and decided that the colors that looked best on me were the simple cool rose pinks.

[@kameemw]

This was the most validating video I have ever seen. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[@Joelle-qq1vt]

I have never commented on a video about makeup but gosh darnet!! Thanks for this info:') I got the pallet you recommend and was shocked how it IS PERFECT!! Hard skin tone to figure out. This has been the best info yet! Lmk if you do more about muted olive❤❤

[@carm9716]

Yeah, I guess you can say we are all some version of orange. I usually say we are different shades brown (which is just low-intensity orange). Neutral is a color that is in the middle between two extremes. You are going about testing neutral eyeshadow in the right way. We all just have to see how the shadow colors interact with our personal coloring. Five or so years ago when every brown palette was warm I had a hard time wearing any of it because it just appeared to sit on my face instead of blending in.

[@LexiLadonna]

Ahhh that was the worst time, i’m so glad makeup companies are starting to offer more variety!

[@Truthinthestarspsk]

JOAH eyeshadow palette in First Dance is a beautiful, pink-leaning neutral color story & one of my favs! I am light olive & have had all the same issues you & everyone in the comments have had!! I have hazel eyes & dark brown hair, & I’ve found eggplant, aubergine, & muted purples look nice on my skin. My other favs are Colourpop Lust For Dusk palette (Take the Lead & Twighlight particularlly) and Wet n Wild Color Icon 5-pan palette in Petalette. Would love a video on your best olive-friendly BB , CC & tinted hydrators ~ those always pull pink on me😮 Great video!!! ❤

[@preciousgem881]

Thank you for this video! It was super helpful and explains a lot why certain eyeshadows look ok in the pan but don't look right on me. Excuse me while I go shopping!!

[@LexiLadonna]

Yay! I'm so glad it helped you!! That's the whole reason I make videos like this :)

[@lenamanka5542]

I actually think you look best in the Natasha Denona one. Great video!!

[@PamelaWer]

I’ve been meaning to do this for a while and thanks for doing the lords good work lol. Very very helpful

[@faithmiraclesdestiny1432]

This is beyond useful! Please make more videos about color theory/olive undertones!

[@LexiLadonna]

I may do so in the future!

[@jessicamurano9673]

Awesome video! Thanks for talking about this. I've had a lot of trouble finding my best eyeshadow and I've given up but those gives me hope. I'm going to check yesstyle.

[@berlineczka]

I am a warm pale olive and I love the ND Mini Nude (for a "your eyes but better" looks) and ND Mini Glam (for more olive/khaki green looks - it is actually slightly cool but it still works good for me). I had to give away the Mini Biba, because it was pulling beetroot-y on me and made me look sick. Now you also made me want the Mini Retro :D I can make quite neutral looks with a palette like ABH Rose Metals - most of these colours will scream "drama! glam!" on other people. On me it just looks pretty.

[@miakliim6870]

Thanks for sharing thiss!! Priceless information!

[@n.k.4481]

You are so rad! I subscribed just after the way you greeted us! LOL. I'm on the hunt for a good eye shadow palette. Are there any drugstore/affordable ones you recommend, for an olive gal here too!! My skin is a touch darker/warmer than yours. On a budget here..

[@LexiLadonna]

I really like the Wet n Wild Icon 10 pan palettes for drug store palettes. They're a good size and not a terrible formula for a soft every day look. They're not great for really bold pigmented looks but that's why I like them as a everyday palette. If you're a pretty cool olive like me the V. I. Purple colorway might work or maaaybe Comfort Zone but not all the colors; Nude Awakening if you're more neutral olive (it has some of that pinkier tone I think olives need in our "neutrals" but it's not too warm or cool), and for warmer olive maybe Rose In The Air, but I confess I'm not as good at picking out what would work for warm olives. Hope that helps! Every person's skintone is slightly different so I'd recommend finding a place you can look at the colors in person and maybe even swatch! I think Ulta carries them

[@lemmings6516]

i am a warm and muted olive, so just the opposite of you and i see: the struggle is real on both sides :D

[@briannareid23]

Wow I learnt SO much from this video. I just recently tried a pink palette (I don’t really prefer pink as a colour and never tried it on my eyes before) and wondered why it looked better on me than the general warm tones I was using. Thank you for going so in depth on this topic ❤️

[@LexiLadonna]

You're so welcome!

[@vanessarayfox]

Saw your post on Reddit! Thank you for sharing!!!

[@LexiLadonna]

Thanks for watching!

[@helenem6458]

Hi I'm a very pale warm muted olive, and the rosy (on the warmer spectrum) eyeshadows suit me better as a neutral palette as any beige/brown one. Like you it makes me look grunge! Also found a good palette from a korean brand - called moonshot!

[@TheGardeningArtist]

Omg I bet that’s why I love the pinkish peach and that mini retro palette. But I love orange with my blue eyes. I found out I was neutral last year after years of warm foundation turning me orange. But I’ve been thinking for a while that I am olive but I can’t tell if I’m more cool or slightly warm leaning. I can wear almost any color of clothing. Light pastels that are cool dong look great or some beige colors. Off white and white looks great. But I’ve found both reddish brown/burnt orange as well as cool toned browns look great on me. I’m so confused.

[@alicej.6068]

Your pinky neutral palette looks just right on you!

[@LexiLadonna]

Oh thank you!

[@ripmysociallife858]

Thank you your video help me a lot as a cool muted olive but I’m Curious what you use for your base makeup. Can you please do a makeup tutorial with the shadow?🫶🏻

[@LexiLadonna]

I’m thinking of doing a base make up video about muted skin and it would include a portion on matching eyeshadow to your skin

[@stacyketner]

Wow, this makes so much sense, I've actually tried a few cool pallets and just never really liked the looks i created, they just washed me out and most anything neutral was straight up orange on me 😅 I gravitate towards lights cool pink highlighters and light cool blush in pink, purple and mauves for my eyes and cheeks and lips every thing else doesn't work and the only pallet that I've ever repurchased was the Covergirl Roses pallet 😂

[@mirio8998]

Girl u just blew my mind?????????

[@TracyD2]

You would like the viseart Lila mini pallet. It looks fantastic on cool, neutral, on the lighter side olive skin.

[@LexiLadonna]

I looked that up, it's looks really good! I think you're right, it would suit me well

[@mores5780]

I watched this and immediately it made sense! The brown neutrals always looked blah. I got 2 pink palettes, both great. Thanks! Would you say you have a lot of yellow in your skin(I do)?

[@katycat11]

I actually really like the "grungy" neutral cool pallette on you. I feel like with that one, I notice your beauty first because it's more harmonious with you, vs. The bright silver and black eyeshadow where I notice the eyeshadow before I notice you. However, the last two palletes were my favorite on you! :) I think personal style may be what draws you more to the bright silver over the grungy colors, because it's more vibrant, like your style, so it's still great for self-expression ^_^

[@katycat11]

Lol I also watched this after the Merium Styles video you did, and I think the last pallette is the "mauve" colors she was recommending ^_^

[@txrn79]

your skin looks similar to mine and I was doing my eye makeup and thought OMG my eyes look horrible and I was using a "neutral brown pallette " it looks so harsh. My hair is dark, my eyes are dark and my skin is "pale" . it just looked so ...harsh. I need to try something like what you showed

[@violetviolet888]

txrn79: Try The Apolo Box: Eight Colors Eyeshadow Palette - Style A, Eyeshadow To Impress $20

[@hverdagslykke1897]

I don't really know what my undertone is, but I loooove gold and bronze on my eye lids, it makes my blue/green eyes really pop. Brown eyebrow pencils on the other hand (especially the light brown ones) is just horrible and makes my eyebrows look orange 🫠 my hair is blond with a red-ish tone, don't know if that says anything about my skin tone though 😅

[@tedoymisojos]

I liked the orangey browns the most on you. Smokey tones are hard to blend no matter who you apply them on, you need a transition color between the smokey color and the browbone color, something close to your skintone, 1-2 shades darker. Can be bronzer, nude tones, apricot, light orange, light taupes etc.. depends on the color you are trying to transition. EDIT: the palette you loved has great transition shades for you. And the rosey tones bring out the green in your eyes. I have warm brown eyes so i prefer golds, honey, reddish amber/brown colors.

[@marie.theartist]

I am a light cool/olive and I have this problem,too.

[@cora.ann.s]

One word: mauve (Okay, a few more 😅: a cool mauve is one of the most flattering colours for people with an olive skin (eyeshadow, lipstick etc.) I had a similar experience to you. Of all things, a light, delicate pink is my neutral eyeshadow color! It has become completely one with my eyelid. I would never have thought of it if I hadn't just tried out all the colors I have.)

[@LexiLadonna]

I agree with mauve! but a true mauve. These days I've noticed a lot of brands selling "mauve " mauve items that are quite peachy and warm, and they alter their product photos to make them appear way cooler than they are in real life. My theory is that they are just repackaging all their warmer rosewood shades as mauve to try to get in on the trend without having to actually formulate new items

[@Alexandra-hp5uu]

The Ilia Necessary Eyeshadow Palette in Cool Nude is amazing for cool olives. It is the only palette I own. The palette has pink/purple based shades and taupes that look beautiful mixed with the green in our skin. Undo: Nude Blush Matte Infinity: Taupe Bronze Teardrop: Soft Grey Lavender Matte Just: Slate Brown Matte Overcome: Deep Burgundy Matte Unravel: Dark Violet with Tonal Shift

[@LexiLadonna]

I just looked it up and that looks really pretty!

[@sleepyheadsarah]

I have a personal vendetta against all "neutral brown" eyebrow pencils. They are oraaaannnngggeee.

[@Olivina330]

Urban Decay recently brought out the Naked Foxy of 6 olive-friendly colors 💃

[@LexiLadonna]

Those would definitely be great for a warm olive, but too orange for me!

[@violetviolet888]

Vee: Those would work for a medium to dark skintoned warm olive undertone but not for cool olive undertone.

[@HollyPolich]

I'm light olive with green eyes. Cool taupes/ true olives are my palette. It's impossible to find. MAC had a handful of good singles, but canceled them. Maddening.

[@violetviolet888]

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[@TheMPHobbist]

My favorite neutral palette is kryolan v3 palette it's neutral leaning with one or two yellow based shades and it just works I always kind when I'm going for a really neutral I match the natural tone of my dark circles and the natural flush of my face and lips

[@sayurisgabriela]

The peripera palette is mauve 😊 Just like Merriam said! ❤️

[@LexiLadonna]

I know!! She was right all along!!

[@MenchieExtrakt]

I’ve wasted so much money trying to find a neutral eyeshadow that doesn’t look yellow and puffy. Not to say that all Asian eyeshadow suits me, but I definitely had a better time finding a perfect neutral palette from them. Turns out I need reds and purples, or something without yellow. Examples are Mac Royal Rendezvous, Addiction Tokyo’s Bad Promise, Dasique beige knit, the cool/ red tones in the nyx warm neutrals palette

[@LexiLadonna]

I think Asian brands are better with muted tones for sure, and I don't think they got as into the warm toned trend as we did here (which I personally think was due to the influence of the Kardashians). Whatever the reason, it's so nice we have more options now and eastern brands are so much more accessible in the west than they used to be!

[@mammi3577]

Thank you 🌷 😊 🌷

[@helgaserge7152]

On 16.20 I guess that "cool" toned eyeshadow look just much much darker and deeper

[@mandamarieee13]

This is mind blowing but makes sense. I always thought neutrals for a cool olive skin would be a green leaning cool brown/gray eyeshadow? You think this would give a completely different effect?

[@LexiLadonna]

It gives a similar effect that you see with the little Urban Decay palette I tried. The grey tones sort of build on the grey tones already in my skin and it gives a very "dead" or grungy look. It's look I actually love, but it definitely steers more into edgy/grungy than a neutral "my eyes but better" effect.

[@mandamarieee13]

@Lexi Ladonna thank you for replying that does make a lot of sense! How would you say this application of color theory would apply to a cool olive looking for a good contour shade? Would we want to look for something with a pink/red undertone rather than green/gray? I have so many problems trying to find a good shade!!

[@violetviolet888]

AF11, for a cool olive undertone you want to use a cool/grey taupe, often found in eyebrow colors. You want them to lean towards a bluer side (but you won't see the blue)

[@tobelieve627]

I’m apparently cool and radiant (also assessed by Merriam), and olive, but my skin isn’t too cool, it’s very bright though. Grey is the absolute worst color on me, it needs colors, saturations, and with some pink or coral can work for me. The mini retro pallet looks bad on me, I love the color theme but hated how it looks on me. I think colors having a shade of green will work well for all olives, even brown with green works well, even yellowish green. 😅

[@kr3642]

Where is the grey-beige single pan shadow from?

[@tedoymisojos]

Girl, dont use a scratchy towel to remove eye makeup! Your eyes will sag and become hooded quicker. Nobody wants that. Skin elasticity is finite 😱. I would know😢

[@helgaserge7152]

And the last look is pink, I dont know - different people will call neutral watever they like, but for me it looks just pink)

[@emahaise5908]

omggg thank u so muchhh! Ive always known that I have an olive undertone but really struggle finding a good color match. I bought the peripera eyeshadow months ago in shade nude flexxxxx but it turns out to be too warm on me. so I thought maybe I am cool olive and then i bought the rom&nd dry buckwheat eyeshadow (which is a very popular korean cool tone eyeshadow) but I look like i got punched in the eyes when using it 🤣🤣

[@violetviolet888]

Ema Haise: Sounds like you are a fair skintone with neutral olive undertone, unless you are medium skintone with neutral olive undertone. Try mauve, cool purples, and cool greens and greys for eyeshadow.

[@luzestefania3061]

Its like your neutral colors are the closest to your lip color?

[@LexiLadonna]

You’re probably not too far off on that! It’s like they say how your best lipliner color is your eyebrow color.

[@PamelaRubel]

Mind blown! My best neutral colors are cool mauve pinks. My lips are cool mauve pink. Even my best nude or neutral nail polish color tends to be a cool toned mauve pink. Regular "nudes" (different shades of beige and brown) do not look natural on my skin!

[@beautystrategy2989]

Amazing observation!

[@violetviolet888]

Luz Estefania: Neutral colors would be any color that exists on your body.

[@Spikypotato.]

I thought I was a warm olive (autumn) but FINALLY made a really good color analysis and I am a cool winter with olive skintone🎉 yeey! I’ll try a pinkish palette like this. May I ask if you are european? 😃

[@LexiLadonna]

Yes, my dad’s family is from SE Germany and the family on that side has similar coloring as me. My mom’s family is English and not olive at all

[@violetviolet888]

H N: Forget the "seasons". Are you a fair skintone with cool olive undertone?

[@di3486]

I am hispanic and I have a very similar tone. I am more of a true summer. I have redness in my face but green everywhere else😂

[@DL-ie6jz]

I know this is an old video but I need to ask you now that I have watched these two videos so many times and can't find a definite answer. I'm also cool, muted & olive. So would you say that the cool palettes that are lilac are okay? Or they lean too cool for the olive?(e.g. romand better than eyes dry lavender) And if something red turns less red would a muted red palette (e.g. romand better than eyes dry rose) be more in harmony with the skin? I'm very interested in the cool muted lilac kbeauty palettes but it feels very scary to go to that territory with my olive undertones..

[@LexiLadonna]

Well everyone is slightly different, but if your skintone is similar to mine I think the dry rose would look pretty natural and nice! I also love the look of the dry lavender palette, but it's not going to look like a neutral palette./ It would probably look a lot more neutral on someone who is cool but not olive. I personally love blue-leaning pastels so I think it could still look nice, but I feel I look best in those types of colors when I have a full face of makeup on. For me my daytime makeup usually doesn't include foundation or very much concealer and I go for a natural eye, that's why finding something to match my skintone really well was important. But when I go out in the evening and wear foundation I find that my complexion looks a lot brighter and less muted and slightly less olive. Mostly because it's hard to actually get an olive undertone foundation! But that means the blues and lavenders look nicer against that than my bare skin. As cool colors they don't look bad on bare skin, per se, they just more separate from me than when I have foundation on. Anyway, that's just my experience. Hope that helps!

[@DL-ie6jz]

@@LexiLadonna yeah that helps a lot! Thanks for the answer! I actually later on realised that in your colourpop mystery box video you had a very cool lilac or purple color on and even though it wasn't a statement like the cool bright blue was, it was more of a statement than the pink muted look in this video. Somehow without realising that it's my best neutrals palette I've been using a pinkish muted palette from clio(simply pink) for years now. I've been trying to search for some other colors that would be subtle but something different for a change but I guess the pink muted rose colors are here to stay 😅 Thanks for this precious video. I really think I understand my skin a bit better now 🐸

[@beautystrategy2989]

Lilac may work depending on your eye and hair color. Lilac is a pastel purple. Purple can be red violet or blue violet. Anytime these colors are used, it’s important to conceal under eye discoloration to avoid a “black eye” look.

[@violetviolet888]

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[@momlifeandstyle3751]

I'm olive and the "green" in retro is definitely grayish on me but it looks nice somehow. It's bizarre. I'm like a neutral olive.

[@LexiLadonna]

yeah I think it would be great on neutral olive!

[@momlifeandstyle3751]

@@LexiLadonna I just realized the lightest color in the mini glam by ND is the color of my skin! A true neutral for me!

[@di3486]

Cool olive muted skin tone is the most forgotten skin tone. “Neutral” eye shadows are orange in our scale😂

[@SaadetOZTRK]

I wonder if there are other colors than pink that would create 'neutral' look for us

[@helgaserge7152]

I dont know, but pink look seems pink to me. The best way is to apply some contour shade that a tone darker than your skin. Eyeshadows may be too dark (or lights) and do not meant to copy skin tone) and in that case you will see the color on your eye (undertone of brown shades). Typically what considered neutral - is just without bright colorful shades

[@bellegraves]

You ever go your whole life wondering if you’re insane or if every palette everyone loves really does look like shit on you? Oh, everyone in this comment section? 😅 I feel seen. The struggle has been real. I pretty much stick to black, taupe, coffee brown, emerald greens, and mauves at this point. Occasionally a cool toned pewter shimmer that isn’t silver, but isn’t gold either. I have noticed Korean palettes look far more promising. I’ll have to lean into that journey. Thank you 🙏🏻

[@BrujaCarrieLiz]

Have you tried the Dominique cosmetics transition palette?

[@LexiLadonna]

No, but I just looked into it. I love the idea that the colors are made to be used all over the face! I could see myself getting something like that for travel.

[@violetviolet888]

Bruja Carrie Liz: That may work for a medium to dark skintoned warm olive undertone, but not a cool olive undertone.