Olive Skin Tone such Penelope Cruz has

When you have olive skin, it can open your world to amazing color combinations that other skin tones just can't accomplish. From dazzling golds and coppers to sensual shades of pinks and purples, having an olive skin tone gives you many advantages when it comes to cosmetics. With such a versatile skin tone you can literally wear very wide range colors you want, you just need to learn which ones look best for your type of skin tone. Learn the many ways you can embrace your glowing skin tone in both fashion and makeup every single day. 

Warm skin tones tend to do well with shiny copper, gold, tan, and light pinks when it comes to makeup choices for lipstick or eyes. For a cool skin tone, deep purples, blues, dark greens, and other jewel tones work great for the eyes, while dark crimson and berry colored lipstick works great for the lips. With olive skin tones, color combinations are easy to accomplish and make wearing makeup fun every day. Happy warm olive skin tone persons can easily wear vivid exotics and bright electrics, while the cool skin tone owners would wear vivid colors only with a good hint of ash, smoke or ice in tones.

Olive skin tones are a huge trend among celebrities today. Perhaps one of the most famous celebrity with olive skin are Jennifer Lopez and Penelope Cruz. You can determine how you want your style to look by following these fashion and celebrity icons and embracing the way they love and enjoy their beautiful warm skin tone. 

Tan is always in fashion, which is why having olive skin is so envious. Since you always look like you have warm and glowing skin, it's easy to figure out how to make your skin look even more glamorous. Simply choose your favorite shimmering colors to bring out the already golden hue in your skin and you'll look amazing every single time. 

You can mix and match your tones for a youthful look, or stick to one main spectrum of color for a more mature appearance. For a fun and flirty feminine look, consider combining pearly pink lips with fuchsia eye shadow. For a more mature, sexy appearance, pair golden brown lipstick with coppery shiny eye shadow. You can mix your favorite colors together because your olive skin tone won't make them look overpowering, which allows you to be more exploratory with your makeup overall.

The sure all-prize make-up for warm olive skin person like Penelope Cruz would be the shiny bronzer to the eyelid area and cheekbone, natural tone pinkish lipstick with some pearl or glossy finish, and from neutral tones of brownish taupes to black ebony as for eye shadows. Some cool or neutral blush accents and black mascara will finish your daily look for every occasion. Only the blushes in this make-up could be matt, but every one another piece should have satin to pearly gloss or shine. Remember, that ashy tones of lipstick could add some dull green to your skin tone.

The best type of makeup to wear for your skin tone depends on your undertone. You can use a chart to determine what your undertone is, but in general if your skin has a pink tint to it, then you are a cool undertone, and if your skin is more yellow based, then your undertone is warm. Knowing your undertone helps you choose the best colors and style of makeup to meet your needs. 

Your hair can help you decide what color works best for your skin tone as well. If your hair is dark or black, stick to cool tone colors. If your hair is golden or lighter brown, then you can wear warm colors nicely. Beauty isn't hard to accomplish, however, and you can wear whatever colors suit your personality best. 

The best part about having an olive skin tone is that you can quite literally wear whatever makeup you want, and only the "but" would be too earthy and ashy tones without golden glowing, mat terracotta or pale smoky grey, for example. Also, too much orange tone lipstick will bring the unnecessary green into your complexion. The sky's the limit when it comes to your style choices, whether you want to look warm and inviting or cool and exotic. The choice is yours, and the possibilities are endless.

Determining your skin tone and undertone

Don’t know what make up color to pick? The theory of color matching will help you to create a healthy harmonious make up suitable exactly for your skin tones, eye color and type of appearance. It's quite a basic knowledge in make up theory and practice! Some example charts with celebrity photos are applied to this article.

Remember, if your hair has been colored it would be slightly harder to determine your appearance type. Also, while determining you should not wear any make up on your face. It’s better to put on neutral colors clothes without accessory. The best lighting for real colors is a diffused day light.

At first you need to examine your skin tone: is it warm or cool? It’s quite easy; just try on some golden and silver textiles near your face. If silver fits you more, so you have cool skin tone. If golden better interacts with your skin, so your color harmony is in warm. Neutral skin tone owners usually have complex colors in their appearance, so they need to determine their undertone also. Do you think your skintone and undertone features look like Amanda Seyfried's? Just have a look on best and worst Amanda Seyfried's make-ups for her light skin tone with cool pink undertone to have your inspiration! It will help you finally to determine your skintone as cool or not.

The undertone color looks to shine through your skin. How to determine it? A good piece of something white, towel for example, will help you to test your skin undertone. Test it only with diffused day light because even small amount of artificial light, such a monitor or table lamp, will add hues to your real skin color. Bring the piece of something white close to your face. Does your skin look bluish, greenish or yellowish, or maybe pink? Blue and pink are cool undertones, yellow from peach to golden is about warm undertones, and people with green undertone usually have neutral skin tone.

Why does it important to determine your skin tone and undertone? It will help you to choose an ideal foundation, concealer, blush and powder, which will look absolutely natural on your face. Also the undertone is exactly the thing that helps match all make up perfectly by choosing the same undertone in eye shadows, lipsticks and lip glosses. You just need to choose foundation in according to your skin tone taking into account the undertone (blue, pink, yellow or green).

  

The last step would be determining the color intensity of your skin from light to light tan: 

• Light. Palest skin, often with freckles. Doesn’t tan at all or tans hardly, always with sun burns.  Have blue, pink or green undertones. For example, Julianne Moore, Amanda Seyfried, Anne Hathaway. You can have a look at the comparison between Amanda Seyfried's light cool skin tone with pink undertone and Penelope Cruz's warm olive light tan skin tone. 
• Fair. Pale skin that tans lightly and looks quite natural with small amount of bronzing. Fair skin tone has yellow, green or pink undertones, for example, Cate Blanchette, Haruka Ayase, Coco Rocha.
• Medium. Naturally beige or lightly sun-tanned skin with yellow to golden undertones. For example, Takei Emi, Gisele Bundchen, Natalie Portman.
• Light Tan. Often with a Mediterranean, Asian, Indian and Brazilian descent. Usually known as olive skin tone. Often seems unhealthy without sun because of greenesh undertone. Light tan skin tone goes with green, yellow and golden undertones. Aishwarya Rai, Penelope Cruz, Morena Baccarin for example.

You can read about how to determine skin tones from tan to bronze with undertones and celebrity’s examples in next article!