Does anybody know what an "olive skin tone" is?

The first definition is the one I’ve always understood. A tan complexion, usually with dark hair (I would imagine you could have “olive skin” with blond hair, but people don’t usually describe it that way).

I’ve never seen anyone I would describe as “greenish”...

My husband. Oilive skin. I am so jealous.

If you can’t spot an olive skin tone then it might be easier for you to spot a pink or red/ruddy skin tone, and then you might notice people who don’t have that complexion. People who are very pale white often have that pinker tone, like the Irish, Polish, UK. The Greeks, southern Italians, Middle eastern people tend to be more olive/yellow, tan more easily. Our native Americans tend to be tanner skin also, but many of them have a reddish undertone, but not always. You might remember the make-up brand Perscriptives. They had color blending stations to match your foundation color perfectly. They had undertones of reds, greens, yellows, oranges, to help match up the skin color. It was very interesting for them to paint a line on your cheek and see the differences and the match. Bobby Brown when she first launched had almost all her foundatins with yellowish undertones, not one matched my face, because I am pale and pink. If you look at a line of foundations you can see colors in the same hue, but different undertones. That might be easier than looking at people.

This is why I still say our skin color is not only vitamin D related, but also camoflauge related. But very few people agree with me.

“Olive” is any skin shade darker than mine. lol
Yes @JLeslie “Olive” does not have the pinkish or ruddy tones of the more pale pigments.

Maybe this will help. Although, the photos here are very limited. Olive tone can still be on quite pale skin, but usually has more color than what we associate with very white. I say my husband is a few shades darker than me, and he is the lightest in his family. If we are facebook friends you can look at some of our photos. I don’t remember if we are.

Also, here are more photos of olive skintone. Some are questionable in my opinion, but still gives you an idea.

Olive skin is darker and shinier than normal. Jennifer Aniston does not have olive skin. Jessica Alba does.

I would say Jennifer Anniston is kind of neutral.

I remember someone once told me people with very olive skin have greenish looking veins. My veins are super blue through my skin. I guess the pink tones in my skin would combine with blue to be bluish purplish. I want to go look at my husbands arm, but he is a asleep right now.

Folks from the Mediterranean region are generally referred to as “Olive Skinned”. That spans a big area and it’s not very specific but I hope it helps!

Other, southern European. Possibly a loving/positive undertone rather than a real description?. That’s what I understand..

Olive skin implies an almost flawless surface with few or no freckles, speckles, blotches or blobs. My daughter has skin like that…a long and lovely flow of all the same hue with no distractions like my fair skin exhibits. She inherited it from her father and is on the light end of the olive spectrum as opposed to someone like Halle Berry.

@gailcalled I have never heard that discription. There are plenty of very fair white, pink undertone, people with porcelain perfect skin.

I just think of caucasians who tan very well and don’t have a pink undertone lol

I agree with what someone said that Jessica Alba is kinda olive

I have been described as having olive skin so the best I can offer is a description of my own skin which is a light brown with yellow/green undertones (I had never thought of it like that until reading this thread but looking at my arms I can definitely see it) rather than the red undertones that many Native American or Australian people have. I also have very dark (nearly black) eyes and dark eyebrows and brown hair if that makes any difference. I’m not as dark skinned as Jessica Alba unless I have been in the sun for a long period of time (which doesn’t happen very often living in the UK) but I would say my skin tone is similar to Penelope Cruz.

I always thought Simonetta Stefanelli, who played Apollonia in The Godfather had the definition of Olive Skin.

I thought it’s a pretty tanned lady. Or even better a very pretty Latino lady!

Why only a woman? Men are olive skinned also.