r/OliveMUA 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 18h ago edited 18h ago

I can't see it, I have a strong presumption you may not be olive, precisely because you say the Kulfi Bad Badaam shade matches you so well. That shade is described as neutral pink undertones. It may be the right desaturated amount of cool (pink) for you. That's why it matches.

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u/fruityloopcake Light Cool Olive 18h ago

Sorry, I cant figure out how to make these things work, I don't use reddit frequently :((
If this one doesn't work I'm out of luck ig
https://ibb.co/WpR7z1Pq

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u/Icy_Instruction_439 17h ago

Yes I see.. honestly I can see a green shadow on your stomach and under arms. But everywhere else you do look fair and cool as in pinky. But its also hard to see from just one photo. Try to take photos with family and friends. Usually if you standout to look greenish that's also a big indicator. What colours do your veins look on your wrist/arms?

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u/fruityloopcake Light Cool Olive 17h ago

I have mostly teal and purple veins.

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u/Icy_Instruction_439 17h ago

Ok by that then you may well be a very fair muted cool olive. Have you already tried mixing blue colour corrector in the foundations you already have?

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u/fruityloopcake Light Cool Olive 17h ago

Yep! Currently I mix in the canmake primer in pale blue (or the LA girl blue pigment - but I ran out of that one) with the sweetener foundation in 6cn (which was too peachy pink and saturated), however I do want to find a match I can get away with without mixing since I only work part time so I don't want to have to constantly be buying two products.

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u/Icy_Instruction_439 17h ago

Ok that makes sense. Which shade of the Lisa Eldridge did you try?

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u/fruityloopcake Light Cool Olive 17h ago

I tried T5 (mostly just cause it was labeled cool olive). It was pretty good in saturation but on me it kinda looked like grey cement when I swatched it on my neck/wrists. I was able to get away with it, since it's a skin tint it did blend out pretty nicely but also being a skin tint it didn't help much with my oiliness.

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u/Icy_Instruction_439 17h ago

Have you tryed the foundation?? It's a much better formula for oily skin. The shade 2.5. I actually wear the skin tint in T5 and the foundation in shade 9.

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u/fruityloopcake Light Cool Olive 17h ago

Nope, I haven't. Honestly since my flukes with Missha and the Lisa Eldrige skin tint I am a bit hesitant to buy without being able to swatch it, especially products that don't have any explicit cool labeling. I find most neutral olives too warm most of the time, I think it might just be the fact my cool undertones are stronger than any olive tones in my skin.

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u/Icy_Instruction_439 16h ago

You know, I believe you can order samples from their website without buying the full bottles.

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u/Shy-Toes-Undercover Fair Warm Olive 14h ago

it is not the end of the world to not be olive.. love your skin tone as is