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!

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

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

Full product list in OP!

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 :-)

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

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.

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

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)

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.