I just want to highlight, for any fellow fair-olive girls, sometimes colour analysts say the opposite of what works for you. For example, I have jet black hair (blue-black, naturally) that stays very black even in the sun, fair-ish skin that tans every easily, and neutral-warm brown eyes. I would look like a corpse in 'nude' lipstick'...... Merriam's report said I was cool+bright, but the colours that are recommended clash horribly with my skin - for example cobalt blue and magenta!! It looks terrible against the yellow tones. Just because one person thinks it looks good on you, doesn't mean it does. These things are way more nuanced and individual, and that was a hard pill for me to swallow. I thought I would fit neatly into a category and the more I watched these videos, the more frustrated I became trying to! Now, I have realised that no one knows except you, and you need to experiment alone. Listening to colour-theory analysts will drive you insane, trust me. I have learned these things: the colors natrually found in my body are the most flattering. For example, the colour of my eyes (neutral-warm brown), the jet black of my hair, the colour of my blood, the colour of my skin, all look AMAZING, because it looks harmonious. I've heard color analysts say neutral doesn't exist, which is definitely bullshit, since everything that looks good on me is super neutral. I have tried olive foundations, warm, cool, ashy, etc. The only shades that ever work are neutral red lipstick, neutral skin foundation, neutral eyeshadow, etc. If I go ever so slightly too warm or cool, I look ill. I have been researching this for 7 years, trying to figure out what works on me, and the worse advice is listening to other people at the expense of your own intuition. I knew, before looking into YouTubers, that black and white were amazIng, and that soft peach made me glow, or that mustard was amazing, and that pastel washed me out, except if it was a richer cornflower blue. These don't fit into any category neatly!!!! YouTubers would tell me that mustard yellow is a warm colour, and that 24k gold would wash me out but it's the opposite. Turns out, 24k gold and shiny sterling silver look equally good!!!! Nothing is as binary as these people make out. So don't get discouraged or frustrated trying to fit into a box. More than likely, you know best.

As a fair olive I have found that using extremely purple- leaning sort of lavender blush can give me a very natural color to my cheeks. For my lips I use mostly brown-red leaning nudes.

This is the first time someone’s explained why I feel that wearing black makes me look more vibrant! Thank you!

Merriam is the best on the internet when it comes colour analysis. Hands-down

Olive often can present "grayish" and that is how I picture olive, because it has the aspects of coolish melanin that someone who is fully warm just won't have.

Can you please do a video about having olive skin (green) and grey hair? Black with white areas/streaks.
I'm finding it very challenging!
Many thanks for your videos🎉

Very helpful! I was just thinking last night that really my only beauty goal is to figure out how to look "healthy," so this is great timing.

I´m olive, cool pale olive. There are some colors that make me look yellow, and sometimes greenish-grey.

I'm confused cause that lipstick looks the same in the tube as it does on your lips... what I see is it's very opaque and not a nude that matches your skin, so it clashes and looks wrong.

im a pale warm olive and i love the most about my complexion that i can get away with all these hard to wear super rich inbetween warm and cool colours. colours where there is a lot of super intense vintage gold but a bit more dirty with a little green, and super intense midnight blue but more dirty with a black, a super intense dark burgundy but made a little dirty with some black. i really enjoy that i can wear such a wide array of colours, dark and soft autumn work equally well for me. like how can dusty earthy vintage pink be one of my best colours but also super intense dark rich colours aswell. i feel like almost no season can do that. also how come i dont have too much contrast but somehow i look super high contrast, but im way too muted to appear high contrast. but i need so much contrast in my clothes. i came to love my olive skin since i dont care to put myself in one season and accept that i can never finally say if warm or cool colours work better. muted shades of blue and purple look really cool on me especially in summer. id say i am an autumn more or less who can also pick from dark winter and soft summer -  depending on my yellowness. i can rock some bolt shit and colour combos that other people cant. the only ccolours i struggle with are either too light and bright or too bright. everything mixed with too much white is plain awful.

Redheads can absolutely be olive. I am Middle Eastern and have a definite green tint to my skin and flaming red hair. It is rare, though. I am 40yrs old and have only ever seen one other redheaded child with the same definite green tinge to their skin (another Middle Easterner).

As an olive, back when I was not chronically online, I used a blush that matched my natural lip colour and some bronzer

It's pretty easy to look olive and casual. It's more difficult to look stunning, but not overdone.

Thanks!! Warm and delicate olive here and the way lipsticks change color is wild!

I definitely have light medium neutral cool olive skin. I do look green. strong darker pinks and true and blueish leaning reds make me look amazing. I also find that this lipstick she is using is very nudey and a but orangey looking on her, its by no means “out there” or strong. Nude lipsticks make me washed out, there is only 2 I found so far that are doing ok for daytime, those are my go to lipsticks for every day, but they by no means make me glow like the reds

That’s exactly what happens to me every time I go buy nude colour and then I end up looking like I’m wearing pink😭but now I at least know why

Even me as a faire olive; red and pink lipstick looks crazy on me !!! I only wear dark red, brick red, orange, dark mauve , brown etc

Such a good video on a much needed topic.
It's so incredibly frustrating picking out blush and lipstick. The color never appears as it does in the tube or pan. Needless to say I have quite a collection of makeup that I either can't wear or have to mix with something else.
Anyway, thanks for the info and I appreciate your efforts, Meriam!

Thank you. The more videos with info about olive skin the better!

as a pale olive with dark blonde/light brown hair, i found that putting thin almost greenish yellowy hightlights with absolutely no red works wonders for me and gives my hair a natural sunkissed look. i also have grayish blonde eyebrows with no ounce of red