“Olive” marketing in makeup
Hi, recently someone in this sub was asking for product recs like we all do because some of the popular olive tones that are often recommended on here were running a bit peach/warm on them. I commented thinking maybe they were just REALLY olive/green and just needed to add more of a blue pigment into the shade to really make it blend naturally.
However, this had me thinking because sometimes a lot of the popular olive tones in this sub also lean really peachy for me (for example: Tower28 in 9.0 MDR, the Kosas concealers). But I notice these work for some of you. Is this because the products try to be too neutral (and end up leaning pink) and I am slightly too warm for them? I consider myself a true neutral medium olive, so of course I think everything runs orange on me, but I also found that a lot of shades that are marketed as “olive” never are green enough for me. My confusion just lies in the fact that I am pretty neutral and a lot of those shades are just peach on me :( so in my head I’m like “how are these working for all of you??”
Anyone else deal with this?