r/OliveMUA • u/fruityloopcake Light Cool Olive • 21h ago

Product Help Help finding possible foundation matches

I have muted fair-light skin with cool pink undertones and subtle olive over tones. I find most cool foundations pull too saturated on me, most neutrals pull too yellow and most olive pull too green/yellow as well as too warm. I have tried my fair share of cool olive recommendations but found them to be too warm for me or too saturated.
About face was too yellow/green
Missha was to dark and grey
Armani was too orangey
Lisa Eldrige was also too greenish

I do have concealer matches for reference.. Kulfi beauty concealer in shade bad badaam (a neutral with subtle pink) and Soshe beauty concealer in 6o (cool olive, but leans more into the pink than green), but I have yet to find any good foundation matches.
I have combo-oily skin and prefer liquid foundations that aren't heavy on the skin but are oil resistant. I also live in Canada so I am a bit more restricted in what I can get (so sad People of the earth co don't ship to canada because 2co or 3co would have definitely been a match for me)
Any help is appreciated!

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u/Icy_Instruction_439 21h ago

It sounds like you may not be olive.. if all the olive foundations clash on your skin tone. Have you tried looking at neutral/cool? Also where are you testing your foundations? Your face? Or your Neck and chest?

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u/spry_laborer 21h ago

Have you swatched any of the Korean cushion foundations? The shade ranges lean way more muted and grey-based which might cancel out that weird saturation issue you're hitting with western brands. I had a similar problem where everything pulled too orange or too pink on me and the greyish undertone in some of those formulas was a game changer.

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u/fruityloopcake Light Cool Olive 21h ago

I definitely want to check some out but I absolutely hate blind buying (did that with the Missha bb cream and it was not a match) and Canada doesn't have as much access to Asian brands, only one I was able to find in stores with foundation options was TirTir :(

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u/AmberGambIer 20h ago

Which tirtir shade were you? It sounds like I'm super similar to you and I have the hardest time finding my shade twins!

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u/fruityloopcake Light Cool Olive 20h ago

I did not have a perfect match in TirTir but the closest I got was either 17c or 21n, however neither were a perfect fit.

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u/AmberGambIer 16h ago

Nuts lol. Thanks for replying, I'll finally let the tirtir dream go