Olive undertone skin

[sannnnn]

Hello Any recommendations for olive under tone light to medium or medium for givency foundation shades? I tried 2 Y and it’s too light for me

[danielledanielle]

I don't use Givenchy, @sannnnn , but generally neutrals will work a bit better if you're olive, but look for ones that are slightly pinky if you're medium, or just green-cool if you're more fair.  You can enter a shade in one brand on findination, which is a shade matching site, we can't post links so just copy this and replace the "dot" with '.'  ---> ( findation(dot)com ) Tagging fellow olive @Ispend2much6 for other recs.

Foundations at Sephora with some olive shades (* can also be found at Ulta)

Armani

Haus Labs

Range Beauty

Ami Cole (until Sept)

Lys

Fenty*

Dior*

Pat McGrath*

Gucci

Foundations at Ulta

About Face

Revlon Colorstay

[Ispend2much6]

@danielledanielle @sannnnn   I'll try to help!

About Face does have 2 foundations specifically called "olive."

Urban Decay Face Bond Self Setting Waterproof Foundation comes in Light Medium Cool Olive, Medium Golden Olive, Medium Olive, Medium Deep Olive, Medium Deep Cool Olive.  I tried the Light Medium Cool Olive, and it definitely has a more greenish cast to it.  It didn't work for me because I have a lot of pink in my skin.

Armani Beauty Luminous Silk Natural Glow Foundation in 3.5 is light/medium olive.  Although that's the only lighter olive shade in this product, there are some neutral and even a cool shade that might work as they have a yellow/green cast.  I have or tried 5.0 and 5.1, and they seemed like they would match olive skin well.  They were too ashy on me is why I think that.

What's nice about the Luminous Silk is that you can choose 3 samples of the foundation shades of your choice when you make any $25 purchase on Sephora.  There are other foundation that have this offer, Makeup by Mario for one, who has some shades that aren't specifically labeled olive but are recommended by the r/OliveMUA thread on Reddit.  You could probably find a lot of suggestions there.

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