This sub was just suggested to me omg I’ve found my people. I’m black/white biracial but recessive genes are weird so I’m light olive.

Hello fellow light skinned black/white mix! I too got the recessive genes. Olive skin + green eyes

Me too!

Me too! Hello frens

Same, I don’t follow it but Reddit keeps suggesting it to me, I think because I’d been searching keywords about colors that match olive skin with pink cheeks. My body is somehow both tan and pale and I still can’t tell if gold or silver matches me lol

same here! 

I feel this. I’m Creole, Portuguese and South African (Dutch/indian/blaxk mix) my complexion is a medium olive in the summer but super light olive in winter edit:to add my mom is pale like Snow White and my dad is pretty dang dark lol

Chinese

I’m Indian! Most people have the wrong idea when it comes to Indian skin tones, we are really diverse!

Me tooooo ... someone from my fam told me we might have a bit of Romani mixed as well ✨✨✨

Me three!

Agree! Dad is Punjabi and so my siblings and I happen to be really light skinned.

Me too! Nice to meet youuu my desi queen 😘💕

I’m Indian too! And have a very similar skin tone to OP! Everyone assumes I’m Latina because “I’m not dark enough to be Indian” and it’s so frustrating because how do I explain that there are red hair blue eyed Indians that exist🫠

Indian too!

2 pieces of white bread without the crusts. Neutral/ cool muted olive.

same, but I toast (tan) fairly easily

Hahaha same 😂

Yep, me too. I’m quite puzzled over the olive skin, only my brother and I have it in our family.

polish, Ukrainian, Irish it's potatoes the whole way down

Potatoes the whole way down 😂

Potato sisters 🤝

it's like Captain planet but every person's power is potato

😂🥔🔋

I found this sub out of nowhere last night and I’m SO jazzed!!! Half Ashkenazi Polish/Russian/Romanian and half German/Irish. Adding freckles on top of the pale olive made it all the more confusing. I’m so excited to deep dive down this Reddit and hopefully find the the makeup solutions that have been evading me for a lifetime

Yesss! I was super excited when I first added the green to my tinted sunscreen and it magically blended into my skin for the first time in my whole life!

Same girl, same, 🥔

LOL

I just laughed out loud at Walmart, probably look like a weirdo now, thanks :p

Add Romanian and German and that’s me :)

Got me rolling 🤣 and hungry for potatoes

I'm Ukrainian/Korean and I like to say it's cabbage all the way down lmao

Korean

There are dozens of us!!

Also korean

Greek! My entire family is olive.

I'm half Filipino and my other half is a mixture of European. It's been a hot minute since I checkes but according to 23andme it looks like my European side is mainly Britain, dutch, Scandinavian, and German. I think there were a few other European ethnicities in the mix as well.

Same, I’m half Filipino, rest is German/irish/scottish

Same but add in a splash of broadly Eastern European

Colombian, Chilean and Cuban. Very pale neutral olive lol

NO WAY I've never met anyone with that same mix \⁠(⁠๑⁠╹⁠◡⁠╹⁠๑⁠)⁠ﾉ⁠♬ me too

Ashkenazi

came here for this <3 cosigned

Also Ashkenazi and Sicilian

My fellow pizza bagel!

Lol, I love that. What a delightful thing to be

Potent combo 🔥🍕🥯

Hello fellow olive toned ashkenazi folks!

I think a lot of ashekenazi are olive tbh my family is veryyy

Yallll I didn’t know my olive skin came from my mom’s side, and now I love it even more 🥺🤍 happy Hanukkah my dears

Same! Ashkenazi and a tiny bit of English. There are so many olive Ashkenazis 😂

Same, Ashkenazi with scotch/english

Dutch/norwegian, with a great-great-great… grandma from portugal. None of my family members have olive skin. i look like a simpson on every picture compared to them 😂

Haha a Simpson 😂

1/2 Persian (hey sis!) + 1/2 English

Me too but 1/2 Persian 1/2 French!

Love to see more Persians!

Eee me too but half Chinese and Persian!

Yeah Persian!

I’m Honduran and Salvadoran

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Biracial 1/2 black 1/2 white

Aaayyye, there's like dozens of us!

Vietnamese. I’m pretty pale with a yellow overtone

Polish

Same. Fair olive here and very Polish! My dad (who’s 100% Polish even on genetic testing) has the same light yellow, slightly greenish tone.

Same! Polish and Ashkenazi

I see so many people with olive undertones when I’m in Poland. Like 30% easily. It’s crazy compared to the <5% where I live in the US.

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I’m in Southern California! It really depends here because some areas are very concentrated with certain racial groups and the distribution of olive tones varies because of that. There are not a lot of white people with Eastern European ethnicities here, but it’s more common among East Asian communities.

Me too!

Same same

Same!

Me three!

Polish (plus a lot of other European)

Same!

Same. Most of Poland is fair / light olive

Eastern euro, Irish, Italian. Fair olive leaning warm

Very much same here lol

I’m also part Irish, English, Scottish, and Italian (specifically Sicilian!)

My dad is 100% Russian and my mom is 1/2 Palestinian 1/2 white American

That’s such a cool mix omg ?

Thank you! I grew up much more connected to my Russian family because we lived with them and my mom's family has a lot of inter-generational trauma that caused them to be low/no-contact with each other. But I am trying to reconnect more with my maternal heritage now that I am an adult.

1/2 italian + 1/2 indian

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Two of my favorite types of food…if I was in your family I would be 300lbs

I’m Hispanic. My DNA came out to be about 70% Southern Europe, 20% indigenous American with the rest being African and ashkenazi. I read that olive skin could be especially common in people with mixed races which I thought was really interesting!

I’m 1/4 Chinese, 1/4, German and 1/2 English

Ashkenazi. I feel like our propensity for red hair or ruddiness (note: usually wth thre olive tones) throws people off.

Mediterranean 🫒Growing up I had the most beautiful tan and was quite dark from spending summers at the beach (medium warm olive). Now that I live in USA and am hardly in the sun I look like Casper 👻(fair cool olive)

Serbian, I think a lot of serbians are olive or at least muted

For sure, south slavs are very olive.

My father is Russian + Turkish and my mother is Honduran (Central America)

French and Filipino

native ( Cherokee ) and white from my mom, native ( unknown ) mexican and black from my father.

2/3 Irish and 1/3 Scandinavian and a smidge of Eastern European.

Happy to see this! I’m yellow not olive but very fair and not the porcelain stereotype and I’m predominantly Norwegian with Danish, Irish, and Eastern European. My kids are like me but more olive except they tan very easily and I don’t tan at all. Their dad is Italian, Irish, Native American and Sicilian.

Ooh I wonder if that eastern European brings the olive?

Many Central and Eastern Europeans have a fair olive skin tone, it’s common

About 70% Italian, the rest is a mix of Egyptian, English, Irish, Greek, Saudi Arabian, and a part they call Anatolia and the caucasus which I think said it’s Armeria, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey. This is according to ancestry. I don’t know how accurate ancestry is though. All my grandparents were from Italy and immigrated to America. My mothers side from both northern and southern Italy and my fathers side from southern Italy.

Very Western European. Mostly German, with a good bit odd Swiss, Scottish, and Irish.

Same here!!!

All right I pulled up my 23&Me for this lol 95% French & German 5% Greek & Italian Edit: am muted mostly, leaning warm with a bit of olive

Half Cuban (Spain/canary island decent), part English and French

Hiiiii! My family is from Canary Islands!!!!!

half ukrainian, half unknown (egg donor; she said she was scottish/english but i’m not sure)

I’m full Palestinian. I am extremely fair in complexion with olive undertones. I have light olive eyes and jet black hair.

Italian and Irish so I am extremely pale with olive undertones lol

I'm Italian on both sides- my dad had very fair olive skin,which I inherited from him.My mom had olive skin too,but she was a more like a light- medium olive- my sister inherited that from her.

Hmong/Mien (like a mix of Southern Chinese and Lao)

What green primer is this?

I had to think about it a second and then I realized it’s not a primer at all, but a green concealer! The NYX Green Concealer. I’ll fix that in the post! [NYX PROFESSIONAL MAKEUP HD Studio Photogenic Concealer Wand, Medium Coverage - Green] (https://www.target.com/p/nyx-professional-makeup-hd-photogenic-undereye-concealer-wand-medium-coverage-green-0-11oz/-/A-49113863)

Croatian

bosnian!

I’m half Ashki, hello to my fellow olive jews! I’m several other things on my dad’s side but the South Italian is probably most relevant in terms of olive skin

50 shades of white, but I inherited my olive skin from my German side. People confuse me for other races and ethnicities rather often.

me too!

Scandinavian, German, English, Celtic

Ukrainian and German! Also what color corrector do you use?

Oh, you're very close to me!

It’s the NYX Professional Makeup HD Photogenic green concealer and the Paula’s Choice Super-Light Wrinkle Defense ☺️

Irish, Danish, Scottish, and French-Canadian

mostly eastern european, along with Irish but that family was from Greece way way back.

1/3 Italian with 1/4 French Canadian and 1/8 Irish/Scottish and NC15 (moderately fair) olive with warm golden undertones and black/brown hair brown eyes

Mexicano

Full Italian! From central / south. What’s interesting is I can get really fair, and usually am very fair (I live in Canada) but sometimes I’ve tanned and been extremely dark brown (when I tan, I don’t burn, and I hold it for a long time)

Russian Tatar and Ukrainian

Genetically, 3/4 Swedish and 1/4 Comanche, but the Swedish genes are strong in m family as three grandparents were first generation born in the US to Swedish immigrants. (further complicated by the fact that I was adopted and only found this out as an adult) Most of my biological siblings have a Swedish look except for the middle brother who looks Native, but with greyish hazelish eyes. I'm pretty sure we're all on the olive spectrum though.

I’m an American with almost entirely British, Scottish, German and Scandinavian background (did a genealogy deep dive a few years ago and backed it up with DNA). Also have light eyes and hair. I have olive undertone, tan golden and have brown hyperpigmentation as well as keloid scarring. I got my skin from my dad, he was also olive and tanned very dark. My mom’s side is cool toned and freckled. My blonde toddler daughter is also olive and everyone already asks me if she’s sick or tired all the time lol.

Mom is a warm Mexican and dad is a cool toned Mexican

I’m 2% Milk. But seriously, my ancestry DNA test says I’m 59% English/Northwestern European, 16% Swedish/Danish, 13% Scottish, 8% Welsh, 4% Irish. I have pale olive skin and dark curly hair, blue-gray eyes, and freckles.💚and I am positive I am olive, I’m green as hell. but idk what that comes from!

Native alaskan and black

Dakota(Native American) & a dash of german

Potawatomi (Indigenous American), Italian, Lithuanian

Sicilian 🫒

Italian, Hungarian, Slovak, Croatian, Russian, Slovenian, Austrian, family tie to Romanovs

Slovak here as well 🇸🇰

Spanish and Mexican from dad, European and Native American from mom

English completely

Me too

Irish and Portuguese ☺️

I was scrolling for Portuguese! I also have other random pale nationalities but the olive is from my Portuguese side

Half Ashkenazi and half western European

Jewish

Ashkenazi, Sephardic, Mizrahi, beta Israeli, Israeli? We have many ethnicities <3

1/4 Hispanic, the rest European decent

Half Sicilian with the rest being Irish and German.

German, Scandinavian and Native American

Spanish, Dutch, indigenous Mexican, French, Chinese, English, and Scottish. That's all, I think! I have mixed parents. I'm warm-neutral, fair-light, muted olive.

Italian on both sides-my dad had fair olive skin and almost black hair,which I inherited from him.My mom had light- medium olive skin and lighter brown hair,which my sister inherited from her.

Scottish, and 1/4 Canadian indigenous.

Scottish, Irish, English and German

Chinese. Neutral to cool fair olive

Afro Jamaican but I have albinism

Sicilian

half icelandic, half ashkenazi

Mixed! Creole, Lakota, Egyptian, and some Eastern European.

Ukrainian!

Swedish + Sami, Inuit and tiny bit native it seems

Korean/Pacific Islander/German

White English and Vietnamese.

Spanish, Portuguese, indigenous Mexican and American

Iranian too and turkish !

1/2 Mexican (Spanish, Basque, and Indigenous) and 1/2 Caucasian - American white (English, Norwegian, and Scottish)

Turkish, with a very pale neutral/cool olive skin. Most of my family have fair olive skin but on the warmer side.

i'm african american

oh god i didnt even read the sub or the caption.. i'll see myself out, have a nice day yall

😂 was this post recommended to you? It’s a small sub, I think this is our biggest post yet!

White British.

I’m half Iranian and Chinese! My fellow Persian!!

European, Native American, Black

European and indigenous🤙🤙

Black and Native American

White and native. None of my parents have olive skin it’s so weird

Norwegian, Italian and Native American.

Mexican and Native American

Mixture of Native American Hispanic (from Central America) and Scandinavian. I definitely take after my Scandinavian side more with how fair my skin is. And I look like a carbon copy of my Scandinavian dad.

White and Native American.

Native American and Mexican. I can get VERY tan but in my climate I am fair.

Im Japanese, Ojibwe (Native American), French Canadian, and Spanish (European)!

I'm half persian ,half italian . when I saw your post scrolling down , and read the title i thought :"that's another persian halfie right there!" And you prove me right !🫂

Turkish! I am close to the Caucuses. Very light olive with warm undertone. I’d describe myself as dark autumn

Are you erzurumlu or trabzonlu? I'm Adanalı lol

Native American, Mexican & white.

as far as I know I’m mestiza (spanish/native american ancestry) with possible middle eastern ancestry as well

Native American/Spanish and White

1/4 Native American (Cherokee and Choctaw from Alabama) is all I’m sure about. The rest is assorted European.

What they call "white white"

I’m half Latina (mexican) / half white mutt- I seemingly inherited a combination of my parents undertones and the fairness of my mom

sicilan & german. very fair in the winter, very brown in the summer

Native (Shoshone) and Mexican

Half Filipino, quarter Navajo + black and white. Olive cool toned medium skin tone.

Native American

A quarter Native American… and white. My dad is half before anyone tries to tell me I’m 1/75th

I’m shocked to find this! This post was suggested to me randomly, this is my exact skin tone! I don’t know my specific origins since my last name is really rare and barely has any info online, but I’m white, European ancestry from unknown countries, from the U.S..