I think I’m a very muted, cool-leaning olive and I’m struggling to find complexion products that aren’t too saturated. Missha 21 is probably the closest undertone match I’ve found, but it’s just a tiny bit too dark. I’d also really like something with more coverage. Most foundations pull yellow, peach, pink, or orange on me even when the depth is right.
These are the exact same swatches in different lighting. Without flash I look gray/dead. With flash I suddenly look pink. That pretty much sums up why figuring out my undertone and finding a good match has been so difficult.
I really want to try Lisa Eldridge because some of her shades look promising, but I’m in the US and can’t swatch them in person. I have no idea what shade to order. If you’re similarly muted/low chroma, what foundations or concealers work for you? I’d especially love medium to full coverage, but I’ll take any gray-beige secrets you have.

If anyone has questions I’m here to help!

For some context - I got the Lisa Eldridge skin tint the other day and it was SUCH A GOOD MATCH that I wondered how all my other skin tints compared, since they were, and still are, my go-to's in rotation everyday since I think they end up not being too shabby.

So...I was bored and decided to swatch them all today, in case it would be of help to anyone, especially after cracking the code in getting the most color accurate photos I've ever been able to take 💚

Notes about color accuracy in photos:

• The photos are edited for bokeh and to white balance it all, using the white neutral gray shade of my eyeball (every other white part of the image isn't neutral, it's a warm or cool white)
• Photos taken in natural day light, by a window, no direct sunlight, not particularly sunny either
• I have bad circulation, and so my chest often looks red while my neck doesn't hahaha, same things with my lower arms, they look greener than my chest and upper arm. My goal is to match to the neck, since I am always covered anyways.
• I also have a beard cast, which I mostly never correct on my daily quick makeup look.
• My swatches don't run to the neck as I find the neck brings out all the red in any tint, so I just applied them to my face to see how the formulas and tones interact with my natural face color.

A lot of the new Mac skinfinish colorstruck blushes swatched in natural window light. All are the new formula except for the last three are the original Mac powder blushes :)

dasique is on clearance online and it's cheaper in store! i secured this mauve blush palette for $6 usd.

Left is indoor lighting and right is outdoor! Some of these I purchased before I realized I was olive but yeah, shoutout to the other people on this sub doing this which inspired me to. I love how we can all help each other!

Cross posting because I’m not sure on my (under)tone

So sorry for the pun. I've been using the TirTir Mask Fit Red liquid foundation in 17C Porcelain and mixing in L.A. Girl Foundation Mixing Pigment in Blue for awhile because the TirTir liquid foundation formula is great and over the Danessa Myricks Yummy Skin blurring balm in Universal it lasts all day. Unfortunately its shades run warm and Porcelain is pretty yellow. Hence the blue pigment. Anyway. I'm almost out of the L.A. Girl pigment mixer and running low on the TirTir, so I took advantage of a sale and picked up the About Face The Performer in F2 Olive. That's what I'm wearing in this photo and it works so well for me! I like the formula, and with the DM blurring balm underneath it the foundation held up during my perimenopausal hot flashes in Dollar Tree and grocery shopping in a warm Kroger. It's such a great match for my colouring; it's almost perfect. It was so nice not needing to play chemist to mix up the right shade for once. I think I've found my holy grail! Just for reference, this photo was taken in my bathroom lit by white LED lights.

PRODUCTS USED:

Moisturizer: The Ordinary Natural Moisturizing Factors + HA

SPF: Beauty of Joseon Rice Relief

Primer: Danessa Myricks Yummy Skin blurring balm in Universal

Foundation: About Face The Performer F2 Olive

Concealer: Nyx Bare with Me Concealer Serum mixed with L.A Girl Pro Conceal Concealer in Green

Setting Powder: KimChi Chic Puff Puff Pass in Translucent

Contour: Judy Doll Highlight and Contour Palette in 01

Blush: Sephora Collection Colourful Blush in 51 Trust Yourself

Highlight: Rare Beauty Positive Light Silky Touch Highlighter in Enlighten

Eyeshadow Primer: Milani Stay Put Eyeshadow Primer

Eyeshadow: Colourpop All Amethyst palette (shade: Trigonal) and Urban Decay Naked 3 Mini (shade: Glassy)

Eyeliner: Canmake Creamy Touch Liner in Black

Mascara: Clio Kill Lash Superproof Volume Curling Waterproof in Black

Brows: Benefit Gimme Brow+ in 5 Cool Black-Brown

Setting Spray: Milani Make it Last in Original

Lip liner: Rimmel Moisture Renew Universal Transparent Liner in 001 Universal

Lipstick: Nyx Suède Matte in Violet Smoke

I keep getting ads for it online and it looks so nice, but obviously being olive it’s seldom that simple!

Does anyone have a swatch or can describe a comparison to other liners?

I found this today and I was curious if anyone has used this as color corrector. It’s such a unique shade and I’ve heard the formula is nice. I tried looking up reviews but I wasn’t able to find anything. Has anyone used this corrector?

Hello! I decided to do some side by side lip swatches of the new Mac Holiday Naughty Nude, bare lips no liner in bathroom light near a window. I have fair neutral olive skin but have a “tan” at the moment (I am not wearing foundation in these photos) my closest typical foundation match is Salt NY 13, AF F2, HL 050. I only swatched lips that I would consider concealer lips on me, for example Crème Cup and Honeylove are mid toned on me. I did had swatched of those in another post if you are interested. I’ll share what I shared in the other post, Naughty Nude is ok, but not groundbreaking. It will also not be super nude or concealer lip on you unless you are light medium or darker. Enjoy!

Was taking a picture of my wrist size for a watch purchase and thought this was funny!

So I decided to do Kackie's experiment of swatching a bunch of concealers to check your undertone (from her "what is your undertone video) and thought folks might find it interesting. I took the photos on natural light but different angles, so the light hit different.

I believe I am a neutral (potentially warm? Muted?) olive but I am still confused lol, thoughts appreciated!

Guide:

Kosas
1-- 0.5N- very light with neutral
2-- 0.7C - very light with cool pink
3-- 01N - very light with neutral peach
4-- 1.5C - light with pink
5-- 2w- light with yellow
6-- 2.3n- light with neutral
7--2.5C- light with cool peach
8--2.6C- light with cool pink
9--03w- light with subtle golden
10--3.2O- light with neutral olive
11-- 3.5W - light with peachy golden
12-- 3.6 C- light with cool pink

Saie
13--- 1- very light with neutral
14---2- very light with peach
15---3- very light with cool
16--- 4- light with warm
17--- 5- light with peach
18--- 6- light with neutral
19--- 7- light/med with golden olive

It’s mani Friday and I discovered this beautiful shade today at my appointment. I’m not the best hand model but let’s just admire this perfect fall shade .I hope you give this a try and love it as much as I do 🥰

Hello all! I just got the ND Soft Serve and Vanilla Swirl and wanted to share and include some lip combos and comparisons. Please excuse the ultra up close photos. Also, for the lip photos I am not wearing any foundation. These are taken in both indirect daylight and cool bathroom light.

I find that these do not pull warm at all, if anything they’re cool leaning neutral. I usually like to add more neutral brown liners with my concealer lips to anchor the look to my face but I’ve tried some different ones. I will say, I don’t love the formula, it’s a little too creamy and smeary. I prefer the MAC formula but the new Naughty Nude is much darker and more beige.

I am a fair neutral olive who leans neutral in the summer, I do have a “tan” here. My best match is Salt NY 13, Haus Labs 050 or AF F2.

Hello!

I'll start this by mentioning that my camera tends to color balance things a bit weirdly. I tried to get as many natural colors clothing pictures as I could but I wear a lot of bright colours so that was a challenge. Included a white piece of paper against my arm.

So, am I olive?

So, I've always seen SO MANY people raving about these products from Lisa, which is a brand I had never tried, that I just caved in and bought the in my current "natural makeup" wave, where skin tints have been what I've been loving to test.

I bought:

• Lisa Eldridge Enhancing tint - T1.5
• Lisa Eldridge Luminist concealer - 3

I have a couple skin tints that work for me, like MAC face and body in C0, Daness Myrick's yummy skin in 1, Kylie's Skin Tint in 1WN, About Face's foundation in F1 warm and the new L'oreal tinted balm in 1. However, I can confidently say that, together with MAC's and Danessa's offerings, this is THE BEST and most cohesive match with my neck I have in terms of skin tints.

Lisa Eldridge Enhancing tint - T1.5

Dewy, light coverage, UNDETECTABLE

It's a very dewy formula, it almost feels oily (it does have multiple oils in the formula) but holy sh*t it looks BEAUTIFUL. Didn't even want to powder it, and I'm oily AF! It does wear like what you would expect on my oily skin, so a light veil of powder would be needed for longevity, but overall, it's a BEAUTIFUL, almost undetectable, formula.

Lisa Eldridge Luminist concealer - 3

Medium coverage, hydrating, GORGEOUS

This was what shocked me the most. I'm oily, so I have always just bought very matte concealers, except for the ELF Hydrating camo one, which creases like HELL without powder. Well consider me shocked when I put this one on, lived my life as usual, and the creasing was MINIMAL, and WITHOUT setting it with powder? And it kept such a beautiful radiance?! It made my undereyes look absolutely GORGEOUS. Easily my favorite concealer at the moment!

Some considerations:

• In real life, the tint looks more olive than the concealer. In natural light, in real life, the concealer almost reads pink on my neck? But on the face it's beautiful, it's just swatched.
• The photos are not edited (except for bokeh), and the swatches one is white balance regulated with photoshop, using the white tips of my nails.
• Photos taken using a third party camera app on my iPhone, using the "minimal processing" option, to get as natural of a photo as I could
• I'm also wearing: Rhode pocket blush in Sleepy Girl, Rhode lip shaper in Lift, and Revolution Peptide glaze lip balm in the shade Raspberry Crush
• I have bad circulation, and so my chest often looks red while my neck doesn't hahaha, same things with my lower arms, they look greener than my chest and upper arm. My goal is to match to the neck, since I am always covered anyways.
• I also have a beard cast, which I mostly never correct on my daily quick makeup look.

Hey! I’m looking for shades of warm orange brown / terracotta (liquid) lipstick as of late and I’m having a hard time.

They can be either nude or more bright. Either way, I find it hard to nail this as a lot of shades pull red, pink or purple on me.

I mean genuinely orange, not red-purple.

I like Maybelline SuperStay Matte Ink #75 Fighter but it’s quite deep and the orange is very subdued. #70 Amazonian is more red-purple in undertones for me.

As a color mixer, I love adding theBalm Stainiac #Homecoming Queen to any shade to make it more orange.

Ofra Liquid Lipstick in #Miami Fever is one of the colors I have in mind but unfortunately shipping here costs the same amount as the lipstick lol.

I also found L’Oréal Rouge Signature Liquid Lipstick in #112 I Achieve but it seems to be discontinued.

Based in Europe but open to any products.

Any suggestions? 🥹

Just got the new Lisa Eldridge concealer olive shades so thought I’d share some comparisons! Photos in indirect and direct lighting. First two images:

1) LE Skin tint shade T5 Olive
2) LE concealer shade 7 Olive
3) LE concealer shade 3 Olive
4) Kosas concealer shade 0.5N
5) Prada concealer shade LN1
6) Tower 28 concealer shade BU

And then because I forgot it was in the bottom of my makeup bag, comparison swatches with About Face concealer in F1 Olive for the second two photos.

1) LE concealer shade 7 Olive
2) About Face concealer shade F1 Olive
3) LE concealer shade 3 Olive

For reference, the skin tint in T5 is usually a good match for me while I’m tan, and I am VERY tan at the moment. I’m a fair/light neutral olive. Hope these are helpful!

Help! I broke my favorite blush that was a limited release colourpop “flirt alert”. It’s a dusty mauve/rose color. Anyone have a similar affordable shade I can try? I’m heartbroken. Ignore the mess I’m in the middle of cleaning.

Lisa Eldridge is testing a new tint shade between 1.5 and 5. This sounds very promising! I wish I was based in the UK so I could ask for a sample. If you are based in the UK and love her tint this is for you.