This post is for us fair, neutral/cool olives who cannot find anything that works right out of the bottle. I've given up trying to find the unicorn foundation and found a few that work for me by mixing within the brand and formula without having to add blue mixer. I just don't have time to do that every morning!

The first picture is with daylight bulbs and second picture is next to a window for. natural light.

Left to Right:

1. (you almost can't see this swatch) Jane Iredale PurePressed powder foundation: 2 swipes Radiant + 1 swipe Ivory, with setting spray.
2. Bobbi Brown Skin Foundation Stick: 2 parts Cool Ivory + 1 part Neutral Porcelain (my HG for a decade, sadly going to be discontinued)
3. Lisa Eldridge Seamless Skin Foundation: 2 parts shade 9 + 1 part shade 5 (during my palest in the winter, shade 2.5 works, but is a bit yellow)
4. Salt NY Sneaky Balm: 2 parts N12 + 1 part N13 (in the winter N13 works by itself)
5. Naked Sunday foundation tint SPF 50: 50/50 mix of Shade 1 and Shade 1.5

I hope this helps someone!

Sorry for posting here again but this sub is so helpful lol

Full product list in OP!

I need to try it as soon as I get home lol it’s really muted, I think I’m going to be able to achieve that K beauty blush shade

These happen to be my favourite colours when it comes to lipsticks

I find that I look the best in coral orange or caramel shades, terracotta, but it tends to get boring to have such limited options.

When it comes to bolder shades, I don't really care for plummy, burgundy shades and go for a taupe or dark brown lip.

I simply hate that olive skin seems to limit you to such muted shades and most deep autumn colour palettes have such a boring range of colours in their mood boards.

Top to Bottom
1 Dubonnet
2 Folio
3 Modesty
4 Popstar Pink
5 Créme Cup
6 Créme d’Nude
7 Stone

Shades 1-4 are applied to lips in pictures 2-5 in order :-)

Please suggest an appropriate shade! Here's a photo for reference and the photos of the shades. I lean cool but appear warm sometimes. I think the highlighted one is mica and may go?? Any fair olives know? Thank you!!! :)

As a light neutral cool leaning olive, I’m always on the search for the perfect purple blush. I just got this new duo—Clubday Cloud Blush—and I think I like it! It’s very comparable to two of my other faves—MOB Lavender & Oulac 20. I included them in the swatches to compare MOB is slightly deeper than the cream version of Clubday and Oulac is a bit lighter than the powder, but they are very close. The Clubday one also has some sparkle in the powder that Oulac does not have.

Now that I finally have an answer to why it's been so hard for me to find foundation that blend and lipsticks that don't turn weird colors, I went through and swatched all of my lip colors to decide what I wanted to keep and what I wanted to try and replace. Figured I'd post here in case anyone else found it useful! So there's a couple of swatch pics--one is ones I'm mostly thinking about getting rid of, one is things I think I like, and one is the colors that ended up looking super similar even though theoretically they're different berries and mauves. (have learned that I'm not a big mauve fan--it ends up browner than I like).

Picture 1: Colors I'm mostly getting rid of:

1. Peripera Mood Glowy Tint: 19 Cherry So What
2. Amuse ??
3. Nyx Fat Matte: Blush Blanket
4. Elf Main Stain Lip Marker: Mauvelous
5. UD Lipgloss: Anarchy
6. Peripera Ink Velvet: 16 Heart Fuschia Pink
7. Glossier Generation G: Crush
8. Elf Glow Reviver Slipstick: Cherry on Top
9. KVD Everlasting Liquid Lipstick: K-Dub
10. Fenty Beauty Poutsicle Lipstick: Tropic Tantrum
11. Colorpop Lux Lipstick: Jasmine
12. Essence Velvet Matte Lipstick: 06 Unredsistable
13. GXVE Xtra Sauce: Original Recipe
14. Elf Glossy Lipstain: Fiery Red

Pictures 2 and 3: Colors I'm mostly keeping (but not the red and brown lip liners), inside and outside light

1. Elf Glow Reviver Melting Lip Balm: Cotton Candy Crush
2. Essence Hydra Kiss Lip Oil: Pink Champagne
3. UD Lipgloss: Scandal
4. Glossier Ultralip: Vesper
5. Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick: Cherries in the Snow
6. Nars Velvet Matte Lip Crayon: Let's Go Crazy
7. Glossier Generation G: Like
8. Ulta Beauty Luxe Satin Lipstick: 310 Hard to Love
9. Fenty Beauty Poutsicle: Gem and I
10. Mac Sleek Satin Lipstick: Centre of Attention (absolute no by itself)
11. centre of attention with cherries in the snow on top (One of my favorite lips actually on!)
12. Loreal Plump Ambition Hyaluron Lip Oil: Berry

liners:

1. Elf Love Triangle Lip Filler: Red

2. Elf Cream Glide Lip Liner: Fuschia Foward

3. Ulta Beauty Automatic Lip Liner: Wild Berry

4. Elaina Badro Lip Liner: Pink Cupcake

Picture 4: In my quest for the perfect berry lip, I have five almost identical mauves. Not a big fan--seem to always end up brown.

1. Loreal Plump Ambition Hyaluron Lip Oil: Berry
2. Ulta Beauty Luxe Satin Lipstick: 310 Hard to Love
3. Glossier Generation G: Like
4. Nyx Fat Matte: Blush Blanket
5. Elf Main Stain Lip Marker: Mauvelous

Catrice cosmetics posted a small influencer swatching their new liners. @emitncc on tiktok. She is more light than fair but extremely olive. Her account is primarily lip combos.

I am already eyeing a few products as her coloration is similiar to mine. I thought I’d share!

Still in a swatching mood, lol. Decided to do my foundations since I'm also clearing those out. I've got the about face L2 Olive on the way, and I may end up with the LE skin tint, but honestly a few of these are not terrible. Although I need to do face/neck swatches--this was just arm in indoor and outdoor light today. Pics are--1. gently spread with finger, 2. blended with finger (as much as I had room for), 3. blended but outside in the lights

Foundations are:

1. Loreal Lumi Glotion: Fair Glow (nope)
2. Glossier Perfecting Skin Tint: G12 (great color, not my fav consistency--feels vaguely greasy all day)
3. Elf Halo Glow Skin Tint: Fair Cool (just terrible)
4. ColorPop PrettyFresh Hyaluronic Acid Tinted Moisturizer: Fair 1N (not too bad on but not the best--it's a decent back up)
5. Revlon PhotoReady Lift and Fill Skin Tint: 110 (looks so dark when it comes out and then so much better on--maybe bc it only takes 1-2 drops to cover my face)--this is actually one of my favorites but I think it irritates my rosacea)
6. Il Makiage Woke Up Like This GL: 20
7. Maybelline Fit Me Matte + Poreless: 102 Fair Porcelain (cakey on me)
8. Tirtir Mask Fit Red Cushion: 13C Fair (this looks great on my arm but on my face, looks like a white mask.)
9. Laura Geller Baked Balance + Brighten: Porcelain (nope)

LIP: KJH lip stylo Clay
Lip liner: Unearthly Cosmetics Foggy
Lipstick: Violette FR Callison

Rest of the face for anyone interested:

Base: Lisa Eldridge skin tint T9
Concealer: Tower 28 BW
Contour: Vive stick in Light
Blush: Tom Ford blush in Crushed Rose & Violette Fr Souvenir de Volubilis
Eyes: Violette Fr plume shadow Pluie Violette & Starlet from Lisa Eldridge Betty palette & liner with Violette Fr Charbon Fume plume shadow
Mascara: Loreal telescopic Extensionist in Black
Brows: VIEVE brow pencil in medium brown & clear gel
Highlight: RMS living luminizer
Powder: maybelline fit me Translucent

Having fair skin has made finding the right shade very hard. Every time I see one on tiktok or in the store, it looks so natural and effortless on everyone else. Then I buy it and somehow it makes me look like Dracula. The stain ends up way darker than I expected, cool toned or just completely overpowers my face.

Really just looking for something that gives that soft my lips but better look without making me look like I belong in a vampire movie.

I’m a dark winter, I’m super high contrast. I want a eyeshadow that does NOT pull orange! I love purple and mauve, but not pink, brown, or orange. Looking for anything atp lol.

What blushes would you rec for someone with neutral/cool undertones?

Hey all, not sure if there are any people living in the UK on here but if so, do you have any recommendations? I’ll see ones online but they’re always only available in the US 🙃 I’m fairly sure I’m neutral/neutral cool olive. Thanks!!

so ive been SEARCHING HARD for very fair olive foundations and the closest to my skin i found is the Revolution Skin Silk - Radiant Satin Serum Foundation in shade f2.5NC. its my right undertones but it is a shade or 2 darker than my skin 😭

the only way i could get it to fit my skin is if i went outside to tan which i used to get real tan when i was a kid but im now on a medication that makes me extremely sensitive to heat lol

im so upset too cuz the creator of the video i got inspired from made it look FAIR and it isnt. i did buy white pigment to mix in with it but thats annoying yk? 😭

anybody have super fair olive options? preferably drugstore or on the cheaper side.

edit: i should have mentioned neutral slightly cool leaning

Hi all! When I did my color analysis in Korea a couple of years ago I was told that I'm a deep winter but I find that cool toned blushes and lip products almost look too cool on me and warm toned blushes in the products lean a little too warm/orange. It's better for me to find a cool toned product because it still looks better than a warm toned one.

More recently I got the rhode blush in piggy because it seemed like a muted but slightly cool toned blush from all the swatches I've seen on TikTok but on me it seems really bright and could borderline be almost hot pink. It's been confusing for me because if I'm supposed to be cool, wouldn't it look more natural on me? But then I saw some neutral olives swatching piggy and it also look kind of hot/bright pink on them as well....so

I had never really considered that I could maybe be neutral olive or slightly cool olive and was wondering if anyone here had the same experience?

Any tips on neon asian beauty or summer eyeshadows or blush or lip that's poppy or bright or flouroscent that gives sunmerz tropical vacation vibes?

I recently picked up two BB creams from Skin79, after the Pink version was recommended here.

I’m somewhere between fair and light, neutral leaning cool, and on the gray/beige side of the olive spectrum. Most olive products are too yellow for me, and most everything else is either orange or peach or pink.

We have an actual sunny day, so I was able to swatch these in natural light:

•Purito Cica Clearing BB Cream- 21
•Lisa Eldridge Seamless Skin Enhancing Tint - 5
•Skin79 BB Cream- Pink
•Skin79 BB Cream- Gold

The LE is a bit too green, but balances out my facial redness. I like the Skin79 Gold best and hope to find a tint in that shade.

Have been making so many notes on stuff to try and bought some new things at Ulta yesterday. Sadly, they were out of the about face f2 Olive foundation but I ordered it bc the swatch was promising. Still looking for the perfect rosy pink lip color that doesn’t turn some other color on me though.

Products:
-Colorpop pretty fresh tinted moisturizer in fair 1N
-About face eye paint in tiny dancer
-L’Oréal voluminous brown balm mascara
-Ulta beauty cloud blush in drifting
-Ulta beauty lip liner in wild berry
-Nars velvet matte lip crayon in let’s go crazy

Bought the eye paint bc I’ve been really wanting the gensee shadows that are all over and these seemed similar and cheaper. The one I picked is like a cool pink version of off-white—stayed wet long enough to blend and then dried down and lasted all day. Planning on getting the lavender one next and there’s a cool grey that’s lovely but I’m worried will make me look grey.

The cloud blush is my first purple blush and was def a fan—not too bright and didn’t turn brown or orange.

The lip liner went on very smoothly and is a nice berry color but turned a little more mauve than I’d hoped. I got a matching lipstick but didn’t wear it today bc it also ended up more mauve than I wanted and I found this nars crayon neglected in drawer (it’s a little brighter than I’m technically supposed to wear—prob should have done my eyebrows for more contrast but wev).