Your undertone test result
Your Undertone: Olive
Your skin has a green or grey-green cast alongside its warm or cool tones. Earthy, muted colors and deep jewel tones usually suit you best.
Off White · Khaki · Mustard · Terracotta · Teal · Forest Green · Burgundy · Aubergine
You have an olive undertone. A soft green note sits in your skin, often mixed with gold.
It shows up across many depths, from light olive to deep brown. Many foundation ranges miss it.
Olive does not map neatly onto one color season. Analysts disagree on where it belongs, so treat the seasons below as places to start testing, not a verdict.
Key traits
- Next to white paper in daylight, your bare skin looks greenish, khaki or grey-beige.
- Bright white and cream can both make you look a little grey or green.
- You tan easily and deeply, often to a bronze or greenish brown.
- Your skin can look sallow in pale yellow, lilac or baby pink.
- Very loud orange and hot fuchsia both feel like too much.
What to wear and try
- Wear forest green, teal, aubergine and burgundy near your face.
- Use off-white, mushroom and khaki as soft basics.
- Try antique gold, bronze and brushed brass.
- Look for foundation shades named or labelled olive, and test them in daylight.
- Choose brick, terracotta, rosewood and deep berry lipsticks.
Colors to try
Color seasons that fit an olive undertone
What to skip
- Pastel yellow, mint and lilac, which can bring out the green in your skin.
- Neon shades, which look harsh on you.
- Pink-heavy or very orange foundation; both separate from olive skin.
Frequently asked questions
Neither, or both. Olive is often described as a green cast layered over a neutral base, and it can lean golden or lean cool. That is why vein and jewelry tests often give you mixed answers. Treat olive as its own category and judge colors on your face directly.
Most ranges are built on pink-to-yellow scales, while your skin also has green in it. Pink shades look ruddy on you and yellow ones look orange. Look for shades named olive. If a range has none, try its neutral shades before its golden ones, and check the result outside.
There is no single answer. Many olive people do well as Soft Autumn or Deep Autumn, and cooler olives often suit Soft Summer or Deep Winter. Analysts disagree here. Take the color analysis quiz, then drape the top two palettes in daylight to see which one wins.
Yes. Olive describes the cast, not the depth. Light olive skin often looks beige with a faint green or grey note, and it can be mistaken for neutral. A strong clue is that pale pink and pale yellow both wash you out.