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Ever since their Brooklyn show last weekend I've been unable to listen to anything else. I can't stop! I think my upstairs neighbors may hate me!

I posted some lipstick drapes on r/OliveMUA yesterday and it got me thinking. I've found hundreds of reddit posts about makeup for muted fair olives yet there's almost no discussion of what it looks like to be a fair olive and NOT be muted. It seems like some people believe all olives are muted. I found a couple posts asking for examples of saturated fair olive skin and none of them had any useful responses.

Based on how a lot of the frequently recommended lip colors for fair olives look on me (way too light, they make my lips disappear, or I look dead) I'm starting to suspect I'm not actually muted. I've seen the skin color chart and while it makes sense to me in theory I have seen few, if any, examples of saturated fair olive skin online.

If I had to guess I'd say Timothee Chalamet might be a fair saturated olive but I'm not 100% sure. His skin can look either bright white or almost lemon yellow depending on the lighting, which is pretty similar to how I look - very yellow as opposed to gray-green, but also clearly olive rather than peachy/golden yellow. He's a dude though so not exactly a good reference for makeup and I can't think of a female celebrity with the same skin tone.

What do you guys think? Is it possible for fair olives to not be muted? If so, what does that look like in real life? Are you a saturated fair olive? If so pls drop your makeup recs 🙏🏻