This is for everyone... but also for all the olives out there who went for 26 years without understanding their undertone, I know you! The struggle was so real, like real enough that I gave up on makeup entirely for awhile

@laexe2

10 ай бұрын

47 here, still not really knowing my undertone xD olive yes but olive cool? Olive warm? Ahah no certainties in my makeup life!

@Mrsjdw4

10 ай бұрын

Right! When neutral undertones make us look gray or sickly, and warm undertones make us too orange or yellow 😂

@arielts06

10 ай бұрын

💚

@-A-09

10 ай бұрын

​@@Mrsjdw4 Story of my life smh. I recently discovered that I am a warm olive and it suddenly made sense why the foundation shade never seemed right and it either washed me out or was too warm and made me orange.

@-_-pan96-_-45

10 ай бұрын

I used to tell people I have green on my skin and they thought I was crazy 🗿

I have a vision of Alex being a teacher, walking thru her students while we are all mixing vigorously, trying to find our own color!😅 Enjoyed this video...fascinating!

@AlexandraAnele

10 ай бұрын

That would be so fun tho 🥹

@triciag7040

10 ай бұрын

@AlexandraAnele Right! And I might have a chance of getting better than a C grade because my teacher would be so dope! Seriously tho, have learned a lot from your videos & have stepped outside of my comfort box as a result. 👏

@mmcjrc2000

10 ай бұрын

I would 100% take her class! What a great idea and it could be a “lightbulb” moment for Alex…..You Tube should make her more money, she is one to watch and her approach is like no one else on You Tube……❤️

@marshawilliamson8602

10 ай бұрын

I’m imagining her class would be a requirement for all companies who make any sort of complexion products. Those who produce limited shade ranges would go straight to detention. 😂🌸🐝

@sebumpostmortem

10 ай бұрын

Job offers in the future: *Compulsory requirement: DIPLOMANELE* 👩🏻‍🎓👨🏻‍🎓👩🏼‍🎓👨🏽‍🎓👩🏿‍🎓

This technique reminds me of how oil painters, like Bouguereau, would build skin tones with many different colors. His results were not only realistic, but vibrant! Excellent job!

@zoebaggins90

10 ай бұрын

Oh my God! I adore Bouguereau's skintones. ❤

Back in the past century, this was the first thing you were asked to do at the MAC job interview. _"Try to make her look fabulous just with this and no tools"_ was the second. "This"= an unsharpened Spice or Stone lip liner. Being selected was The Hunger Games Make Up Edition😅. 🧛🏻‍♀️🖤

Hey olives! Lisa Eldridge added a few more olive-toned foundations to her line. They're freakin' glorious. (Shades 2.5, 9, 9.5, 16, 23, 35, so there are a ton of options.)

@firnheledien

10 ай бұрын

Agreed! I had no idea I was an olive until tried the 2.5 shade and it was a perfect match that I can use it as a spot concealer.

@SplashBeor

10 ай бұрын

9 is my best match in any foundation! 💚

@JessicaOrban3606

10 ай бұрын

Ooooh thank you!!

Oh gosh this problem is the bane of my makeup existence. I'm fair! I tan easily! I burn easily that fades to tan! My undertones are very yellow! I also have a lot of red due to blemishes! Oh no, this shade oxidized ORANGE on me! The veins in my wrist are somehow blue, green, AND purple! It's a mess.

@GabiBrooks

10 ай бұрын

Giirl, I feel you 😢

@sebumpostmortem

10 ай бұрын

I feel you... We all have blue, green and purple tiny veins in our wrists, even magenta-burgundy! I don' t know who had the brilliant idea to chose this area🤷🏻‍♀️. Find the bigger ones, especially on chest, breasts, biceps or inner tights where the skin is extra thin and probably less tanned😉. If your tan is a roller coaster, buy two foundations: your very palest shade and another one a bit darker than your most tanned moment. Mix then in different proportions and done. Hope it helps. 🧛🏻‍♀️🖤

@auroraborealis13579

10 ай бұрын

Girl….. Same to All of this! And I look good in all of the “seasons” and gold and silver and rose gold look good on me. I have stumped hairstyles when they were trying swatches on me trying to decide if my highlights should be warm or cool undertones and they said both worked. 🤷🏻‍♀️ And, yet, not everything works, maybe wise and shade wise.

Green/yellow undertones unite. For years...nothing worked on my skin. Too red, too orange. I got so frustrated. It's nice to have so many more options now. And maybe I'll mix something myself. You've inspired me.

You are straight up a genius in your field and unbelievably awesome at explaining in depth to your audience....all that with a soothing tone voice ❤

@agony-aunt

10 ай бұрын

Right? I learn so much from Alex's videos, like please explain every detail it's how we learn! And I agree I love her chilled out voice and way of speaking like we're all friends.

Not me being in my late twenties when I finally understood I had an olive undertone and that's why no foundation looked good on me. You saved me with your recommendations for olive skin, to be honest! I don't usually wear much make up, but I did my wedding make up with 100% of products recommended by you and it looked amazing!

@faithphoenix3999

10 ай бұрын

Try being 32 😢

@jojorey6886

10 ай бұрын

I’m light/medium olive, I look best in winter colors as well as highlighter yellow, which is not my favorite color. For a long time I used neutral shades but they looked bland. Warm foundation makes me look green, cool does nothing for me. One day a MUA sold me some peachy foundation. Peach? I can’t wear peach color clothes. I have found that it truly looks best with my skin tone. Figured that out in my 60s but I didn’t wear makeup until I let my go natural silver. Better late than never.

As a very pale white chick with blonde hair, blue eyes, and pinkish face, I spent a long time just grabbing the lightest shade available. When I realized that was making me look even more like a pink ghost I would try the next lightest shade, and look orange. So I mixed them and wondered why this peachy tone that looked like it would match, ended up too orange, too pink, too light, and too dark all at the same time. I read articles, and watched videos. I stared at my vein colors under sunlight and artificial lights. Finally I said screw it and just started color mixing from scratch. (As a fellow artist, it took me way to long to get to this point.) I was surprised by how much green ended up going into my mixes, and how gray and yellow the products would look on the palette, only to finally match my skin! I finally realized my skin tone is not "porcelain" or "light ivory". Apparently, Its sallow corpse. 😂

@vampiric-elf5619

10 ай бұрын

I'm sallow corpse too 🥲 I think I'm going to try this DIY approach. I have white mixing pigment and have been thinking about mixing in some green colour correcter too. I also have a lot of red blotchiness and purple eye bags. Why are there so many different colours on my face? 😑

@playingtime24

10 ай бұрын

😂

@emilystreeter6848

8 ай бұрын

Everything you said has been my experience too!! I also thought my face had a pink undertone because I dealt with redness for so long. My body is pink toned, my neck is yellow and my face is white, but somehow also ruddy. Nothing is ever going to match me perfectly so I’ve just focussed on keeping my face as clear as possible so I can wear more sheer foundation which doesn’t look as wrong a colour on my face 😂

@tomlinson1107

8 ай бұрын

OMG same! No foundation ever looked right - so I settled for just looking super pale in "neutral" shades. I had no idea you could be pasty AND olive, but when I look at my old photos before Retin-A destroyed my skin, you can clearly see the greenish-gray shadows.

@marioshu6129

4 ай бұрын

​@@tomlinson1107how did retin-a destroy your skin? :(

I would guess that the fact that you're also a visual artist (painter?) has increased your color mixing knowledge. I'm 60 and have only become familiar with the color wheel in the last few years since I've fallen down the YT art tutorial rabbit hole 😄

That actually made a ton of sense and wa so helpful. I've recently become overly obsessed with trying to find or create the "perfect" foundation match when I realized I have a little olive undertone. This was a great reminder that good enough is FINE and I can balance all this out with the rest of my makeup. That's what I used to do anyway. Thank you for bringing me back to reality!

I’m glad you’re going in depth how adding a little color goes a long way in tones and how important adding blue is.

The fade… chef’s kiss

And this is one of the many reasons why when ppl ask me about my makeup and if I can give them tips, I ALWAYS recommend your channel. You're the best source of technical makeup on KZread.

I love this! Thanks for talking about how the color we see is bed and layers and layers of different elements in the body. It’s a useful thing to keep in mind.Would love to see you balance do some example of “balanced” and “unbalanced” makeup combinations for illustration.

You are pretty much my skin twin. I have fair-light skin that leans more warm but can be neutral depending on the foundation, with a green undertone and I always have to mix my own foundation. I can never find a formula that I like that is a good enough color match. I literally have 30 different foundations and I'm not a makeup influencer so that's pretty ridiculous. However, I have to say that I have fun messing around with it. Your videos are my favorite bc you are an artist so you understand and use color theory really well. You're the best Alex!

This is taking me back to the days when I spent my time doing commissioned artwork and got to have fun mixing paint colors! ❤ I love your videos so much! Your video on making any foundation match your skin was life changing for me. I bought purple and green liquid tints and have managed to save myself a ton of money trying to get matching shades of often expensive foundations as a result. Now, as long as they're close to my color, I can tint them to near perfection. Thank you, gorgeous lady, for teaching me/us SO much!

Dude, your knowledge and explanation of colour theory is seriously THE BEST. No wonder your shade match is always flawless. You're an artist.

Recently I started mixing some yellow eyeshadow into my neutral BB cream. Game changer ❤

Having light skin tone with olive undertone myself, I always go to your videos!! Thankyou for representing us shrek people lol 😂😂😂😂😂

@m.e.5

10 ай бұрын

Shrek people 💀

Truly helpful, thank you for this, bestie! One video idea: could you potentially do a video on 'what to do on makeup days when your makeup just doesn't sit right whatever you do but you have to be put together anyways' and potential ways to avoid such situations (besides well... not wearing it at all lol)? ❤

Finding my foundation is the hardest thing. The money I’ve wasted and the bottles I have piled up is ridonkulous!😂

Great information! I grew up with bad information. When I was a little kid, I remember seeing Bobbi Brown on Oprah and she said to always wear a yellow based foundation. Then later, because I'm pale, I heard I must be pink. I walked around looking dead for years with a too pink and too light foundation that made me look grey

As a typical Mediterranean (Greek), i have a pale skintone with the usual olive undertone. It's very hard to find a foundation.

Great video. I love this breakdowns of makeup theory you do. I always learn something new ❤ I do “weird” thing when shopping for bronzer (at least I have not heard anyone talk about it) I swatch it on my shoulder - aka part of my body where I get the truest tone of my natural tan since my body ussualy won’t tan much. It’s great hack for fair/light skin tones IMO when combined with buildable formula. The only thing I want warn about is: don’t do it right after tanning when your skin is still irritated/redish from tanning. Bronzers with buildable formula are best friends of every fair/light person, I find that overly pigmented bronzers are the reason why I used to look like a clown since my true tan can fade in a month after summer but the bronzer won’t be any sheerer even if I break my hand blending it. Hope this might help somebody. ❤

I’m turning 40 in December and I honestly don’t have a good understanding of my undertone. It’s frustrating. Can’t wait to watch ❤❤

It took me years to understand I had a light-medium olive skintone and not a yellow golden tone. Every foundation I’ve tried always made me orange and never matched my neck. I finally figured out mixing blue pigment to my foundation/concealer is the key!! Elf has a blue concealer and LA girl has a mixing pigment you can mix to your foundations! It’s a life changer!!

@Kat-fr3yg

10 ай бұрын

You can add blue? I thought you had to add green for olive?

omg I love how you gave us painting/color mixing lesson and used that to teach us about how to find the right foundation shade! So creative and informative. By far my favorite makeup channel on KZread

This was SO great - thank you! As a non-artist, to see those basic colors mesh together to look like skin was straight up magical.

I love the color theory videos! I just used the complementary colors eyeshadow blending tutorial today!

Awesome video Alex!! I absolutely adore your channel you have taught me so much. I've always had a love for all things cosmetology related. Thanx for being you and doing your thang 😘

I love how you explain all those specifics things, it's so helpful! Thanks from a french fan!

This is so truly helpful ! I have always been so confused with choosing my foundation as my face tone is medium fair and neck, chest, arms are much darker... You explained so well and gave great tips, it will really help me to make better choices in the future. I follow you for a little while now but never comment because english is not my native language but I really want to say (at least one time) that you are always so helpful, human, funny and lovely ! Thank you so much for all the time you offer to us all !

Youre like my makeup art teacher that inspires me to be informed and create cool looks. I would love makeup...assignments? Lol seriously

This is so helpful! I can’t ever get a foundation that is spot on but have learned to use blush or bronzer or both to make it all come together.

this is perfect timing

I LOVE these types of videos! ❤

total sense!!! appreciate the info and demonstration cuz the visual helps me a lot. Thanks Alex! 💜💜

This is blowing my mind. I understand the concepts but I still can’t figure out how to look at myself in the mirror and know what I am.

i love this video, thank you for taking the time to show us!! following up though, it'd be cool to see a video of you demonstrating what you talked about at the end. like, purposefully wearing the slightly off coloured foundation then making it work by strategically picking your concealor, blush, bronzer. Then comparing the looks!!

Amen, sister. You are doing the Lords work. Plus, The artistic sensibility you bring to your vids is something I enjoy quite a lot. Big thumbs up!❤❤❤

Bless you!!! 🙌. I learned this when I was airbrushing my foundation in like 2008 but need the refresher! Love this so much!!

This is fascinating!!! I need more and how to make sure the whole face has harmony!

I SOOOO love you, you have been the only makeup artist that I’ve found that actually teaches real life makeup issues.

These masterclasses you're just providing for free are amazing ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 Thank you Alex!

I ❤ this! You explained something complex so well and so simply - thank you!

That’s so cool. Never thought about our color of our skin. Thanks for sharing. I learned a lot from you.

Colour theory and the colour wheel are great educational tools when it comes to understanding what colours work best, and who better to explain it than a visual artist. When I was young I was very fair with a pink undertone. As I've aged - and seasonally - the dominant shade on my face has darkened so that my summer shade is a light medium neutral with yellow undertones. My arms and hands are darker than my face so I use a warm contour or a bronzer to get some balance in tone. Awesome colour tutorial - thanks!

Very informative video❤ thank you so much Alex! You are the best ❤ love how you try your best to explain your makeup knowledge and how you are trying to educate your audience on how to improve their makeup skills ❤ I am learning a lot since I started watching your channel!

This completely made sense! Thanks Alex. I've been puzzling over how to figure out my overtone, undertone and such! So thank you very much! This helps!

Bruh you’re so cool and helpful!!! Thank you Alex ❤

Thank you! I had no idea why people were doing these color theory swatches.. very helpful!!❤

There IS an end. The colour wheel is a spherical representation of the visual portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, which is linear. Red is at one end, and violet at the other. 😃 Also, values are just lights and darks, while contrast is the comparison of those to each other.

Loved this. LOVED THIS! Soooo helpful. Thank you for your time and for sharing your perspective and skill. It’s like you know what I need to learn.

Hi, loved this video! I think it was in this one oooor maybe another one, but I've heard you mention a few times about matching tones across your whole makeup look, and how it's not just about the tone in your foundation. A video where you kind of go into matching tones across all of your makeup would be super cool!

This is great! I like a cross between the peach and olive for you. 🥰

I would love to see you do this to other skin tones/shades 😃

Great content and really helpful. How about doing a video for when you don't have the right foundation shade but you have to make it work?

Dude this is the coolest video ever! So helpful!

This is the BEST video I’ve watched on this topic. Thank you, Alex!

I have been looking for a video like this! I really learned so much, thank you!

Fantastic video! You always make the best and most informative videos for everyone!

This video couldn’t have come at a more opportune time. Earlier today I was trying some foundation samples from Lisa Eldridge and thought I found - THE - perfect color dead-on match in her medium olive shade after the cheek-jaw-neck strip swatch test, but when I put it on my entire face, I was surprised I looked quite dull. I ended up trying on a slightly warmer shade on the other half of my face to compare and thought it looked better overall.

This was very helpful! Colour theory is so complicated (to me anyway) but you explained colour theory as it relates to makeup in a way that is easy to understand.

“I don’t know if any of it made sense” is your official sign off

@AlexandraAnele

10 ай бұрын

TRUE

Love this! Super helpful about not using too much of one tone. I’m new to foundation and totally took your swatching advice! Found something that actually works for me 😊 Thank you❤❤

@AlexandraAnele

10 ай бұрын

So glad it helped! 💗

Thank you so much! This was everything I needed!!!❤

Honestly your explanation is sooo similar to my oil painting teacher! And he had us follow along and do some really impressive paintings!

I love your station. I am learning so much! I feel like I’m attending a cosmetology class

This helps a lot. I am 30+ and have never really been wearing make up on the regular, because it all just looked wrong on me. I am very pale and every foundation and concealer just looks variations of orange on me. After (finally) discovering colour correction paletts through youtube I am now wearing make up more often and not getting frustrated every time I try.

Impressive, answers so many questions. Thank you.

@AlexandraAnele

10 ай бұрын

Happy to help! 🩷

You truly are a top tier influencer and I love the way your mind works!! I wish I could take classes from you ❤

You're such an artist, I love it! You are doing God's work for all of us who struggle with this. I have the mismatch issue, so when you said to balance it with your concealer tone and your bronzer tone, that made so much sense

Great video on color theory and skin tones! As an art nerd I would love a video on lighting and makeup. For example best and worst lighting to use when doing makeup and/ or best lighting tricks for certain makeup looks and events. I obviously do my daytime makeup but what about nighttime, photoshoots , weddings etc...

Wow I have such a hard time understanding undertone and what shades work and don’t. But the one thing I am grateful for that you said was about your friend that has a light face, medium neck and dark arms and those tips of what to do. Totally appreciate that

One of the most helpful videos I have ever seen!

I have a pale green undertone. It’s so hard to find a matching foundation. (Can imagine it would be called “Seasick”)

@sebumpostmortem

10 ай бұрын

This is my skin too. Obviously, I wear a DIY mix that I named _Princess Fiona_ Feel free to borrow it. No copyright 😉 🧛🏻‍♀️🖤

This was so amazingly informative. Thank you

Love this video. You explain it like a true artist. I always have stress this to my clients in color theory. ❤

Alex, don't know if you'll be able to see this but you absolutely MUST TRY the Evy technology spf mousse if you haven't already. It is amaziiing! It leaves a slightly tacky finish but not shinny so it works besutifully with makeup or with a bit of powder if you don't wanna wear makeup. We need a review from you pweaaase! Ly! Edit: I have the kids version- bigger package and doesn't sting my eyes which is a miracle 😂

Yes, you are spot on with all this advice!

It makes lots of sense, Alex! Thank you!❤

This video was like an introduction for me. I have so many more questions and thoughts after this

Amazing!! Please do a video on hair color and how to pair/pick a color that compliments your skin tone/undertone 🎉

Great job breaking this down with a great demo as well.

I love videos on color theory! Thank you❤

I loved this exercise!

Thank you, thank you! This was incredibly helpful! I struggle with my neck & face being two different colors. Plus I have melasma spots. A lot to deal with on my face. But this video really helped reduce some of the anxiety.

This video just validated my thoughts on mixing foundations! Thank you for your tips! Imagine my color-blind self picking the right foundation (or any make-up product) shade for my skintone & undertone. These days, I'm mixing a neutral light shade foundation w/ a fair olive one. So far, it works. I'll buy the light-medium neutral next time.

Great explanation. Thank you. Very helpful.

this is what makes alex stand out for me as a MUA!!! the talent is unmatched!! but the skin tone sure is 😭🫶

This is really a great tip regarding the olive and yellow skin tone like I have too :)

What a great video!!!! Thank you so much Alex!!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Thank you Alex for this informative video. I never knew anything about this. I just pick out a foundation that looks close to my skin tone.

So informative and interesting! Thanks so much, Alex!

If I’ve said it once I’ve said it a thousand times - I always learn soo much watching your channel. This was great - thank you ❤

This made PERFECT sense! I’m a Mua but I’ve been looking to really perfect my craft with different face shapes and different skin tones and undertones. If you couldn’t tell I’m a black women but I do have clients of different skin tones then me and I’ve been having an hard time with my lighter clients/models while the over all applications look good they look kinda dead. Even though everything “matches”. Ive been trying to make everything one color! With darker tones you can do that and get away with it more but with lighter tones that’s when they start to look a bit dead. Now I know what I was doing wrong! Thank you so much for this video!!!

While watching the video, I totally get it…then I try to figure out my makeup and I’m lost again lmao I’m thankful that you have the same sort of coloring that I do - certain yellows and greens and oranges make me look ill because of the greenish-yellow in my olive skin. I have the HARDEST time figuring out which foundations to buy. It also is interesting to consider the things you were explaining about not going too heavily in one direction - because I’m a brunette, have dark brown eyes, olive skin, and tan very very easily, I’ve always been told/assumed that I’m warm toned. It’s only since I’ve found your channel that I’ve realized the nuance in my skin. It always seemed curious to me that the blush I gravitate towards is an icy pink - it seems too light for my skin but it seems to look best. I think my tone shifts depending on the time of year. I can wear more golden foundation in summer, but in winter it looks ridiculous. Time will tell if I can figure this out at all lol ❤ thank you for the great information (as always!!)

@Kaibigan39

10 ай бұрын

We are twins. What I've found helpful is to go for more of a sheer-medium coverage instead of full, or stick with concealer & bronzer but skip the foundation. Olive concealers are easier to find than foundation, I've found. You are spot on with needing different makeup for summer than winter. In summer I find I can get away with more mainstream "yellow" based concealers and brown/bronzy bronzers. In the winter, I need light, cool, olive concealer (neutral can sometimes work) and I switch to blush instead of bronzer so I get that warmth when I loose my tan. You may want to consider your contrast levels too. In the summer, I find I can wear a lot of cool-based colors (blues, especially light blue, highlighter colors, etc), but in the winter I'll need berrys, maroons, & burgundys and to fill in my brows dark to balance out my pale, less saturated skin. Hope you find the match you are looking for!

Great video…making me think about this. I have a very pale face with rosy undertones. My neck is also very light but more neutral and my arms have a little more color in the summer, neutral with a hint of warmth. No matter what I always have issues…if I match my neck I look ghostly, if I choose more rosy, I can see it my neck. Any warm foundation and I look orange. So I tend to go more neutral and bronze with more cool toned bronzers…with a hint of red. For video I go warmer…in real life I go light with cool undertones. Not sure why, I always get matched with a very dark shade that looks terrible when in natural light outside. Thank you for this video…the search continues. And these suggestions will help a lot.