She’s right. I’m pale olive. Cool colors/deep winter colors suit me amazingly. I can pull from deep autumn occasionally but that’s because I lean cool/neutral. Straight warm tones and gold dyes in my hair washes me out and my under eyes look darker. Muted is awful as well.
Disagree for me as I’m pale olive body wise too and a cute pretty boy that looks half my age literally[[I get confused for 15 a lot but am 31 body wise]] am 5’3” too and have a young face but I look better in warm colours lol which is ironic cause I prefer Winter and don’t like Summer… I prefer the cold… You do you of course! But not all pale olives like wearing cool tones! I also wear some makeup sometimes despite being a boy I wear Bloody Mary’s red eyeshadow sometimes…
So glad you tackled this! I also struggled with the quiz. I know I’m olive. My friend who’s a makeup artist always puts warm foundation on me because she can see that yellow in my skin. I see it in pictures too. However, I can’t seem to find the right colors for clothing. One thing is for sure, bright apple red makes me look amazing. Add to the mix that my hair is salt n pepper but my eyes are a golden-green-brownish color. It’s complicated…
I am pale olive, too (cooler medium brown hair, hazel eyes). In your system I am fitting well into Soft, Cool, Medium (but still have to avoid the lightest of these colors). I know for a fact that I can definitely wear the core-colors (magenta, purple, pure blue) even well in the greyish version, like other systems recommend in "soft summer", but as soon as I move away just a tiny bit from these core-colors (like turquoise, cherry-red, ...), I look DEAD in greyish colors, but MUCH better in the more intense and dark variants, even though I really have to pay attention so that they do not overpower me too much. If I am tanned (tanning GREY for some reason...) I can even wear more intense warm colors, as long as they are not light or greyish. Still, all pure jewel-tones are too much for me, in any color. So in the 12-season system there is just no place for me. I am no winter (no jewel-tones!), but also not really a summer, since I feel mostly medium/dark + clear, but with the possibility to wear greyed colors really well in the core colors (magenta, purple, blue). What is wrong with my coloring or are most systems just not "for me"? Where are the greyish colors in your system that I would find typically in Soft Summer in other Systems?
@@yasmcamp Yes, I am also still looking for my place in the 12-season system. But I think I found it at least in some rare 16++ season variants that have a "Soft (Deep) Winter" (sitting between deep winter and soft summer, but more on the side of deep winter). Only a few websites have it and you need to be brave and type yourself as a (deep, soft...) winter, even though everyone around you sees a summer in you and wants to put you in Soft or Cool Summer. At least they do that with me: My features are not dark enough for a deep season, not intense enough for a winter: Can only be a summer! (and then you cry because of all these faded greyish colors that are also on top of that mostly light and you just feel: this cannot be right!).
This is so helpful! I have gone back and forth in my life with colors for my light olive skin. Some have told me I am cool because my eyes are the brightest with white next to my face, although, dark cool pink, purple and blue don't seem to be right, but when they are softer, they work! Then I was told that i was neutral because of my veins but the neutrals can make me look sick. I can wear some soft warm shades tool! Do you think that as a pale olive ages, we need to go even softer? I have noticed, as I am over 50 that it seems like I really have to keep my colors softer, before I could wear some darker shades. In the wrong colors, my skin pics up too much brown and gold. LOL, still figuring this out at 54 but you have helped tremendously, thank you 🩷
Two Questions: 1. Do we "Olives" fit into anywhere in the seasonal color wheel systems? 2. How can I figure out what blues work for me? My eye color has changed over the years and is a lighter hazel (like army green), so I often go for greens and avoid anything in the teal range (which makes their color look dull. I'm sure I'm a pale olive who looks best in cool colors, especially if they're deep-toned (black mixed into the hue). I know that deep forest green, magenta, Raspberry, Plum and probably deep reds are good. NO pastels or nudes. Nothing "muted". Black and white are both good.
Hi. First, Your Color Style is not seasonal color analysis. I don't know if you fit in seasons but Your Color Style specializes in all skin tones. We customize your color palette to work specifically for you and your olive skin tone. You sound like you are soft cool deep or bright cool deep. I would think brighter blues to darker blues ranging into blue-purple will work best based on your description. I'm not sure how to answer your question more than that.
This makes sense. I am warm deep but also olive. Randomly, I previously thought, magenta looks terrific on me and I have always considered it cool deep. Last year I was told that I am olive and it changed my thinking. So many pieces started to fit as I’ve only looked at undertones and not overtones previously. Love your channel. I learn so much.
I struggled many years with believing that i had to wear cool colors because I'm olive. It turns out that I look better in SWD. But, my skin is on the deeper medium side and I'm very golden, even in the winter. For myself, I got a more accurate result by comparing softer medium warm and cool colors, because I look horrible either way in anything real bright. 😫
This was so interesting. I didn’t write that question but I could have!! I was typed spring years ago, then typed winter a few months ago, bought all new stuff - realized that some warm colors bring out the yellow in my skin which made no sense to me if I was cool - but then I watched a video about a makeup line that came out with true olive undertone foundation and I bought it and - voila. It blended right in invisibly. I still like the cooler colors I’ve been wearing but TBH I stick to neutrals now because this whole color analysis undertone thing has me stressed out!!!
I believe I’m a light olive. My skin appears yellow compared to most other people’s skin including my family.i cannot wear most yellow or orange variations. I tan easily during the summer - my hair grows out ashy brunette but is turned warm in the sun. My eyes were dark green in my childhood, teal green in highschool, blue in my 20’s and gray in my 30’s. I still have a light gray eye color in my 40’s. I tend to just wear gray, blue, and a few cool pinks or blue greens. Warm colors hardly settle well on me- unless I’m very tan and the warm color needs a lot of gray in it. I feel quite limited in colors- especially in make up. I have always had to mix my own foundations and very few cool colors suit as lipsticks or blush. I don’t use bronzers or even contour - as so many of them are warm and stand apart from my skin color to a noticeable degree. Yeah, light olive is tough.
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I have been using the same 3 primary colours for painting since I was 12 years of age: magenta, cyan and yellow (plus black and white!). I get confused here because magenta has no blue in it - also magenta is not opposite to yellow, but green. In a good colour weel, yellow is at the top, because it is the lighter between pure colours, while magenta and cyan have the same medium tonal value, with purple is the darkest. You need a lot of a light colour and need only a bit of a dark one. A light colours provide more distinguishable colours (acid yellow, lime, yellow green, green and blue green), while a mix between dark ones only few (magenta purple, and blue purple). Warm colours are colours that have yellow in it and that includes red (magenta plus yellow). I must confess I got quite confused by the use of colour terms on colour analisys!
You aren't wrong but you are looking at the color wheel from an artist's perspective. When I created my color wheels for color analysis, I had to take some liberties and I needed it arranged in a way that visually divides the cool colors from the warm colors. It's not about the lightest hue, as you refer to. I agree that Magenta is Magenta and does not have blue. I tend to refer to cool colors as blue-based and refer to cool pinks as blue-based pinks. But, yes, you are correct in that Magenta is just cool and it's own color. My color wheel was also created in a way to align with our color fans. I could not put in all the in-between colors because that would increase the size and production costs of the color fans. But I needed to add in more colors between red and yellow, so, from an artisit's perspective, the color wheel may seem off balance a bit. You should watch my video on my explanation of how my color wheel was created. Everything you are commenting about is referenced there. ruclips.net/video/kZVRBNaqDOA/видео.html
As an artist, it took a long time to discover that the problem seems to lie within colour technology, i.e. optic colour is very different than pigment colour. Eventually, in painting, you are best to get over the temperature rats nest and just discover what works for your eye.
Does silver jewelry works? I just need my silver jewelry, black, puple and cherry red to work and im gonna be happy. Im really pale more neutral olive girl, with brown hair (I dye it black tho) freckles and hazel green eyes. i can tan. look gray and pink around warm people but im to green to cool skintone. light soft colors are horrible on me. i do look good in vivid dark green. Currently i can't find any makeup and my pallete💔
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Pale olive analysed as Cool/dark Summer by pro. So when my hairdresser wants to add blonde foils, I decline and keep my natural 20% natural silver against my natural cool Level 5 brown. I look awful in blonde or warm of any kind. Eyebrows too are super cool
But blonde comes in cool, neutral, and warm tones, not just warm. It makes no sense you wouldn’t look good with blonde foils if the blonde is cool tone. Getting highlights on your hair nothing has to do with being a cool/dark summer 🤷🏻♀️
That must have been quite a while ago because I don't even offer the digital color wheel. The new color wheels go with the new color fans and are in the color guides. If you purchased the color guide, we can get you a current version. Email support and my team can get you the file.
I am body wise pale olive and I disagree as I think I both like and look better in warm colours like tans, yellow, orange[[favourite colour]], golden browns, reds[[I have dark red stuff but also have a chili pepper red Spyder skin jacket which they call the colour volcano]], greens[[warm ones or dark ones, green never looks bad on me]], plums[[plum is a warm purple and my favourite shade of purple]], mustards, warm teals, etc. I don’t like the way I look in cool colours like the pink you showed is not for this boy, or cool blues as they don’t look right on me….and black and dark grey look fine on me, though I avoid white cause I dye my hair Garnier’s Cherry Flamingo which is a red-pink colour. I haven’t aged since body wise I was 15 and now I’m 31! I do have green/blue plaid joggers but plaid is different than solids! Those colours I mentioned show off my olive tones better! I also never tan but I don’t spend much time in the sun as I’m like an ice type Pokemon or something 😂 as the cold feels better against my skin. Hot weather is bad for me.
She’s right. I’m pale olive. Cool colors/deep winter colors suit me amazingly. I can pull from deep autumn occasionally but that’s because I lean cool/neutral. Straight warm tones and gold dyes in my hair washes me out and my under eyes look darker. Muted is awful as well.
Disagree for me as I’m pale olive body wise too and a cute pretty boy that looks half my age literally[[I get confused for 15 a lot but am 31 body wise]] am 5’3” too and have a young face but I look better in warm colours lol which is ironic cause I prefer Winter and don’t like Summer… I prefer the cold… You do you of course! But not all pale olives like wearing cool tones! I also wear some makeup sometimes despite being a boy I wear Bloody Mary’s red eyeshadow sometimes…
Same for me. Now if we can some foundation that works for us.
So glad you tackled this! I also struggled with the quiz. I know I’m olive. My friend who’s a makeup artist always puts warm foundation on me because she can see that yellow in my skin. I see it in pictures too. However, I can’t seem to find the right colors for clothing. One thing is for sure, bright apple red makes me look amazing. Add to the mix that my hair is salt n pepper but my eyes are a golden-green-brownish color. It’s complicated…
Oh my gosh…I wish I had just started here. I’m fair olive and I feel unanalyze-able at this point
I am pale olive, too (cooler medium brown hair, hazel eyes). In your system I am fitting well into Soft, Cool, Medium (but still have to avoid the lightest of these colors). I know for a fact that I can definitely wear the core-colors (magenta, purple, pure blue) even well in the greyish version, like other systems recommend in "soft summer", but as soon as I move away just a tiny bit from these core-colors (like turquoise, cherry-red, ...), I look DEAD in greyish colors, but MUCH better in the more intense and dark variants, even though I really have to pay attention so that they do not overpower me too much. If I am tanned (tanning GREY for some reason...) I can even wear more intense warm colors, as long as they are not light or greyish. Still, all pure jewel-tones are too much for me, in any color. So in the 12-season system there is just no place for me. I am no winter (no jewel-tones!), but also not really a summer, since I feel mostly medium/dark + clear, but with the possibility to wear greyed colors really well in the core colors (magenta, purple, blue). What is wrong with my coloring or are most systems just not "for me"? Where are the greyish colors in your system that I would find typically in Soft Summer in other Systems?
you described meeee! everything feels so off... i've been trying to figure it out my colors for so long
@@yasmcamp Yes, I am also still looking for my place in the 12-season system. But I think I found it at least in some rare 16++ season variants that have a "Soft (Deep) Winter" (sitting between deep winter and soft summer, but more on the side of deep winter). Only a few websites have it and you need to be brave and type yourself as a (deep, soft...) winter, even though everyone around you sees a summer in you and wants to put you in Soft or Cool Summer. At least they do that with me: My features are not dark enough for a deep season, not intense enough for a winter: Can only be a summer! (and then you cry because of all these faded greyish colors that are also on top of that mostly light and you just feel: this cannot be right!).
I find a slightly blueish red is perfect not fire engine or blood
@@kt1711 "Style Me Jenn" makes very helpful videos here on RUclips ;-)
This is so helpful!
I have gone back and forth in my life with colors for my light olive skin. Some have told me I am cool because my eyes are the brightest with white next to my face, although, dark cool pink, purple and blue don't seem to be right, but when they are softer, they work! Then I was told that i was neutral because of my veins but the neutrals can make me look sick. I can wear some soft warm shades tool! Do you think that as a pale olive ages, we need to go even softer? I have noticed, as I am over 50 that it seems like I really have to keep my colors softer, before I could wear some darker shades. In the wrong colors, my skin pics up too much brown and gold. LOL, still figuring this out at 54 but you have helped tremendously, thank you 🩷
Two Questions: 1. Do we "Olives" fit into anywhere in the seasonal color wheel systems? 2. How can I figure out what blues work for me? My eye color has changed over the years and is a lighter hazel (like army green), so I often go for greens and avoid anything in the teal range (which makes their color look dull. I'm sure I'm a pale olive who looks best in cool colors, especially if they're deep-toned (black mixed into the hue). I know that deep forest green, magenta, Raspberry, Plum and probably deep reds are good. NO pastels or nudes. Nothing "muted". Black and white are both good.
Hi. First, Your Color Style is not seasonal color analysis. I don't know if you fit in seasons but Your Color Style specializes in all skin tones. We customize your color palette to work specifically for you and your olive skin tone. You sound like you are soft cool deep or bright cool deep. I would think brighter blues to darker blues ranging into blue-purple will work best based on your description. I'm not sure how to answer your question more than that.
This makes sense. I am warm deep but also olive. Randomly, I previously thought, magenta looks terrific on me and I have always considered it cool deep. Last year I was told that I am olive and it changed my thinking. So many pieces started to fit as I’ve only looked at undertones and not overtones previously. Love your channel. I learn so much.
I struggled many years with believing that i had to wear cool colors because I'm olive. It turns out that I look better in SWD. But, my skin is on the deeper medium side and I'm very golden, even in the winter. For myself, I got a more accurate result by comparing softer medium warm and cool colors, because I look horrible either way in anything real bright. 😫
What is SWD?
@@rehamalhousain1279 I can also only guess, but I would say SoftWarmDeep?
@@rehamalhousain1279 soft warm and deep 😊
Thankyou very much.
you are very welcome
This was so interesting. I didn’t write that question but I could have!! I was typed spring years ago, then typed winter a few months ago, bought all new stuff - realized that some warm colors bring out the yellow in my skin which made no sense to me if I was cool - but then I watched a video about a makeup line that came out with true olive undertone foundation and I bought it and - voila. It blended right in invisibly. I still like the cooler colors I’ve been wearing but TBH I stick to neutrals now because this whole color analysis undertone thing has me stressed out!!!
What line of cosmetics did you find?
@@cdanerg9416 About Face. They have a few true olive shades. Mine is F2Olive.
@@cdanerg9416 I think my reply might have been deleted because it mentions a product. If you search youtube you'll find it!!
@@cdanerg9416 sorry they keep deleting my replies
What's the name foundation?
I believe I’m a light olive. My skin appears yellow compared to most other people’s skin including my family.i cannot wear most yellow or orange variations. I tan easily during the summer - my hair grows out ashy brunette but is turned warm in the sun. My eyes were dark green in my childhood, teal green in highschool, blue in my 20’s and gray in my 30’s. I still have a light gray eye color in my 40’s.
I tend to just wear gray, blue, and a few cool pinks or blue greens. Warm colors hardly settle well on me- unless I’m very tan and the warm color needs a lot of gray in it. I feel quite limited in colors- especially in make up. I have always had to mix my own foundations and very few cool colors suit as lipsticks or blush. I don’t use bronzers or even contour - as so many of them are warm and stand apart from my skin color to a noticeable degree. Yeah, light olive is tough.
The more I learn the more I'm confused. I can't even pick foundation!!! 😭 Help!!!!
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I have been using the same 3 primary colours for painting since I was 12 years of age: magenta, cyan and yellow (plus black and white!). I get confused here because magenta has no blue in it - also magenta is not opposite to yellow, but green. In a good colour weel, yellow is at the top, because it is the lighter between pure colours, while magenta and cyan have the same medium tonal value, with purple is the darkest. You need a lot of a light colour and need only a bit of a dark one. A light colours provide more distinguishable colours (acid yellow, lime, yellow green, green and blue green), while a mix between dark ones only few (magenta purple, and blue purple). Warm colours are colours that have yellow in it and that includes red (magenta plus yellow). I must confess I got quite confused by the use of colour terms on colour analisys!
You aren't wrong but you are looking at the color wheel from an artist's perspective. When I created my color wheels for color analysis, I had to take some liberties and I needed it arranged in a way that visually divides the cool colors from the warm colors. It's not about the lightest hue, as you refer to. I agree that Magenta is Magenta and does not have blue. I tend to refer to cool colors as blue-based and refer to cool pinks as blue-based pinks. But, yes, you are correct in that Magenta is just cool and it's own color. My color wheel was also created in a way to align with our color fans. I could not put in all the in-between colors because that would increase the size and production costs of the color fans. But I needed to add in more colors between red and yellow, so, from an artisit's perspective, the color wheel may seem off balance a bit. You should watch my video on my explanation of how my color wheel was created. Everything you are commenting about is referenced there. ruclips.net/video/kZVRBNaqDOA/видео.html
As an artist, it took a long time to discover that the problem seems to lie within colour technology, i.e. optic colour is very different than pigment colour. Eventually, in painting, you are best to get over the temperature rats nest and just discover what works for your eye.
I loved this explanation❤❤❤❤❤
Would you consider me a light olive? I can't wear gold,mustard or muted colors that well.
That's really not enough information to say. You could also be cool and bright.
Does silver jewelry works? I just need my silver jewelry, black, puple and cherry red to work and im gonna be happy. Im really pale more neutral olive girl, with brown hair (I dye it black tho) freckles and hazel green eyes. i can tan. look gray and pink around warm people but im to green to cool skintone. light soft colors are horrible on me. i do look good in vivid dark green. Currently i can't find any makeup and my pallete💔
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There is a Reddit for Olive-skinned and for Fair Olives 😊
Pale olive analysed as Cool/dark Summer by pro. So when my hairdresser wants to add blonde foils, I decline and keep my natural 20% natural silver against my natural cool Level 5 brown. I look awful in blonde or warm of any kind. Eyebrows too are super cool
Aren't we supposed to be soft summer?
But blonde comes in cool, neutral, and warm tones, not just warm. It makes no sense you wouldn’t look good with blonde foils if the blonde is cool tone. Getting highlights on your hair nothing has to do with being a cool/dark summer 🤷🏻♀️
Jen, if we already purchased a digital wheel previous to the new roll out, do we need to repurchase?
That must have been quite a while ago because I don't even offer the digital color wheel. The new color wheels go with the new color fans and are in the color guides. If you purchased the color guide, we can get you a current version. Email support and my team can get you the file.
I am body wise pale olive and I disagree as I think I both like and look better in warm colours like tans, yellow, orange[[favourite colour]], golden browns, reds[[I have dark red stuff but also have a chili pepper red Spyder skin jacket which they call the colour volcano]], greens[[warm ones or dark ones, green never looks bad on me]], plums[[plum is a warm purple and my favourite shade of purple]], mustards, warm teals, etc. I don’t like the way I look in cool colours like the pink you showed is not for this boy, or cool blues as they don’t look right on me….and black and dark grey look fine on me, though I avoid white cause I dye my hair Garnier’s Cherry Flamingo which is a red-pink colour. I haven’t aged since body wise I was 15 and now I’m 31! I do have green/blue plaid joggers but plaid is different than solids! Those colours I mentioned show off my olive tones better! I also never tan but I don’t spend much time in the sun as I’m like an ice type Pokemon or something 😂 as the cold feels better against my skin. Hot weather is bad for me.