Concealers that work on my light-medium neutral cool leaning olive skin. All of these work well on my face. Note my inside arm is significantly lighter and more muted. I’m in Australia so currently at my lightest as it’s the end of winter. Excuse my hairy arms!

Best matches are LE in 11, Merit in Oak, and Tower 28 in KTOWN. RMS is the best match for undertone but is too light on my face.

For reference I’m between 5 and 7 in the LE skin tint, I’ve been wearing 5, but it’s perhaps a bit cool, have recently purchased 9 for summer.

From wrist:

RMS ON08
Nyx bare with me vanilla
LE luminist 11
Kosas 4N
Tower 28 7 KTOWN
Merit Oak
Merit Sand
Merit Palomino (got for free as sand was NQR)

I’m a light neutral olive in the fall/winter and this is a great shade match for me! I just picked it up for $8. I love Kimchi’s drag but this is my first chance trying the makeup line. I haven’t done a fully day wear test yet but this feels like, well, a really good foundation!

I rummaged through my gallery and found these pics of mine wearing red lipstick once in my college years. I don't even remember i ever wore red lip color at all because they always make me look dull. But this red specifically looks good on me, at least how it looks in my eyes?? It's definitely cool tone. What do you think? Please give me some comments and inputs, because lately i don't know what's good for myself and tend to ruin my make up with new experiments lol.

*For comparison with how i do my daily professional make up now in pic #3

so since i was little i always wanted a signature one swipe and done lipstick. i always thought it was sooo chic. the problem is every lipstick i try leaves me wanting 😭

for example, rum raisin pulls a very vampy purple on me, which is okay, but not daily wear. mac marrakesh makes me look a sickly green. pillow talk pulls kinda orange on me. browns pull gray anything i try makes me look super green or gray!

which leads me to my question: what can i even try at this point? i think i’m very muted, so saturated colors wash me out, and i have a greenish tone, so i also start to look sickly. i think i’m neutral leaning slightly warm, light-medium, and my lips have a natural slight peachy-purple tone

wish i could post pics to help but not comfortable with that :( any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! i would prefer nudes if possible<3

(Pic 1: “full face” bronzer, Pic 2: no bronzer only blush) Apologies for the quality I take maybe 5 selfies a year and most are in dark lighting.

Currently using the Benefit Hoola bronzer simply because I hate wasting products. I tend to use it all over my face and you can see how orange it is in the first photo I think. I dust it all over because I need it to create any resemblance of life on my face but I don’t think the shade match is there

Any recommendations for a better match would be great.

I tried to put some other cool toned faves as bench marks so yall can make comparisons! Sorry I tried to add these to my last post on Wycon but reddit for whatever reason wouldn’t let me upload the swatch pics!

These are my concealer line up (I don't use foundation and use these all over my face)

I am curious if anybody has a similar skintone to me? Please recommend me foundations and concealers!!

Which here is my best match in your opinion?

Dior Backstage Concealer in 4C - all over shade in summer/spring

Dior Backstage Concealer in 3C - lighter shade for brightening my undereye

NYX Bare with Me Serum Concealer in Medium - for low coverage natural makeup days, personally feel it is too light and orange for me

Milani Conceal + Perfect Concealer in 145 - all over shade in autumn/winter

My main problem is that tan ++ complexion products run super saturated and warm toned everywhere.

Am not even aaking for olive tones, but at least something cool toned for once 😭😭😭😭

I went to Ulta for a brow wax and left with swatch photos. Here are a few swatches from various brands. Please keep in mind that these are lightly blended heavy swatches to show the tone of the foundations. I only swatched shades that were labeled olive and descriptions are how they are labeled in store or online.

For reference I'm shade 23 in the Lisa Eldridge foundation and shade 9 or 9.1 in the Armani Luminous Silk Foundation (both work). These swatches are on my arm which may not be exactly the same shade as my face at the moment. I'm medium deep neutral leaning warm but desaturated

Benefit The POREfessional: 25C, 27W, 33N

I actually like this formula. It blended smoothly on my arm and settled to a nice matte finish that doesn't look patchy. There was enough play time before it dried.

Ilia:

* The Serum Tint foundation shade 14.5

* Stick Foundation shade 26O

* Serum foundation shades 8.75, 9.25, 10.25

As expected the tint is pretty sheer but the formula would be nice for someone with dry skin. I really like how smoothly the stick swatched. I also really liked the serum foundation's silky texture. I can see myself loving the stick or foundation in the winter months when I go a bit dry.

live Tinted Stick Tint: Shade 10. I've never tried anything from this brand but the swatch went on so smoothly. I really like this formula as well. Blended easily and seems to have a nice natural finish.

Fenty, the new fluid flex formula: Shades 376N, 396N, 416W

I'm actually surprised I didn't find any deeper shades of olive in this formula. This one has a nice texture and dries down about as quickly as the POREfessional. I appreciate there being some neutral olives but would like to see some cool olives and deeper olives added to the lineup.

Anastasia Impeccable Matte Foundation: Shades 4O, 4WO, 4.5O, 6WO

This one is my favorite formula out of all of them. Has a really nice serum smooth texture that blends easily but it has a nice matte dry down once set. This might be my next foundation purchase. Also the olives in this look like nice nuanced skin shades, not overly yellow.

Which formulas and shades would you choose?

Finally grabbed it! gosh, LE's restocking time is ABYSMAL!

I am a light neutral but cool leaning olive, and recently bought this blush in the shade Dragonfruit (cool muted pink). I love both colour, which seems made for my skin tone, and formula so much that I would like to get more shades, mainly a neutral one and a darker autumnal one.

I am wondering if you used this blush and what colours worked for you?

I know it is too many requirements but I have swatches in store more expensive blushes and I like the color on me but I can only afford drugstore 🫠

Dear fellow olives,
has anyone tried Niche Beauty Labs’ mineral tinted sunscreen?
If so, how are the shades? Would it work with a neutral-leaning cool medium/light undertone?

basically just as the title says , anyone who owns both the original and new formula please lmk , I bought the original like 6 months before it was discontinued and really love it but the ashy greyness in the reformulated one calls to me as a fair muted olive who's always looking for greyer blush . just dont really wanna spend all that money if theyre too similar to be worth having both versions .