Hey, I would like to know what comes to your mind when you read/hear that someone has “olive skin”? Greenish skin?
Hey, I would like to know what comes to your mind when you read/hear that someone has “olive skin”? Greenish skin?
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Italian lol
I’ve always imagined it as an italian/greek type of complexion ??♀️ Never green though ???
When I was a kid, I loved olives so I always thought green…it took me a long time to get that thought out of my head ?
Greenish undertones. Greeks, among other Mediterranean, Balkan, and Eastern Europeans have olive skin. They’re Caucasian, but not the typical “white”.
I have never been able to picture this because I have no idea. Because I agree it could be the green olives or the black olives ??♀️
@Risha someone who’s melanin is amazing and they never burn
@Leah lol essentially! I assumed it just meant not pale
@Risha all the people I “hate” since I’m 45% Italian
Mediterranean
This!
I’m Italian (though I inherited my mother’s pale complexion), so green never occurred to me…not to mention we typically ate black olives in my house. ?
Lisa Leaheey haha!!! I totally received my moms Irish complexion opposed to my dads Italian Olive skin lmao
@Leah Yup. Mom is English, Irish, and Scottish. Ah well. ?
I think of it like mine, which does have a green undertone. Green gold. But I think it’s any tan skin that doesn’t have a pink undertone.
@Jessica nope, it’s the one you described, a bit tan with a soft greenish undertone. Pink undertone skins are different.
It’s mostly Mediterranean so Greek. My fiancé mom is from Greece and she has olive skin.
@Dani Sophia Loren!
@Leah I love her!
i just imagine what i consider a typical Mediterranean person. tan skin, dark hair and eyes, etc. usually Italian or Greek. (i should know lol, my family roots are from Greece)
golden
I think of Mila Kunis. She is someone I can never picture as being so white she’s practically translucent or described as pale as ivory.
Like olive undertones. I think Italian since that is what my mother is, and that’s the type of skin tone she has.
It’s a light tan, typical from Mediterranean people.
I have olive skin. It’s dark with yes, olive undertones.
I’m from Middle East, so when I read about Olive Skin, I just picture them like from Middle Eastern
@Rita +1
I have olive skin if I tan. You can tell the most if I’m sick because if I’m low blood sugar or pale I’m realllyy green and pale. Also I have dark circles under my eyes that are intense and trouble matching lipsticks and t-shirts to “bring out” my skin tone. But that’s the best I can think from experience. I feel like authors use it as a generalazation to either make sexy/pretty or ethnic.
It’s the beautiful brown hue that my daughter has. I’m instead pale like a ghost! ?
Apparently me! I have been told I have olive skin my whole life.
I think of me!
Mediterranean skin tone. Darker, no pink undertones, kind of a green-gold hue
I know its wrong, but my mind immediately goes to a greenish skintone! ?♀️
I feel like golden-tan with green undertones but whenever I read “olive toned” I always pictured the character with green eyes lol
I think naturally tan, doesn’t burn and great complexion.
Yes
I think tan tbh
I think of someone who is white but can tan (so not me!). I think of Italian or Spanish (Spain not south America)
I’m South American with olive skin. I’m white with a green undertone, but I tan easily in summer.
My ancestors were Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.
I picture kinda Italian, and Dewey ish colour. Like an off white almost.
I think of light tan.
Me ??♀️ EGYPY?
Here in my country they prefer the soft, pale or anything as white as possible??.
It’s not sexy or what so ever for them, but it just means you are a common hybrid or just not the preferably popular skin undertone with men.
The tragic thing is that my mom is so pale and white with a pink undertone(soft), so they always ask me why you don’t have that beautiful skin of your mom???.
It’s a sad world when white as a sheet is preferred. Also like India or Korea. They really want that white skin over there.
Morgan Morawski yeah
And white people want tanned skin…. it feels like we are never enough for men out there.
They build up our beliefs and standards of beauty as they want… as if we are a marionette in their hands??♀️.
Very true. I have seen creams that whiten your skin and sprays as well. My skin is, I really don’t know. I’m white but I spent to much time in the sun as a kid and I’m covered in brown freckles. My families background is Polish/Dutch.
Morgan Morawski we have to believe we are enough …. we are beautiful inside out…. thaaaat our core is the thing to look up to and work on to enhance and upgrade. Our shapes are important, but we should prioritize.
Yeah I believe I’m enough. Just wish I didn’t have so many freckles lol
@Morgan I adore freckles????
Gimme some???
Medium skin tone, golden or brown tones in the summer, greener skin in the winter. I have olive skin thanks to my southern Italian heritage.
I have very pale olive skin, I’m almost green in the winter, but if I lay out in the sun I tan quite well.
@Judy YES!! Me too!! Pale, winter me looks sickly cause I have such green undertones. But in summer, I tan so nicely!
Tan skin
Okay as a kid I was obsessed with black olives and didn’t know that there were green olives so I always thought olive colored skin meant someone with black olive skin tones… I believed this until I was like 14 years old…. so I was always really confused that people said their are no black characters in books because I read most characters as black… When I found out authors meant a white person with a tan I felt like my whole life was a lie and had to rethink a lot of characters.
@Bobbie that is so wholesome. Thank you. The beauty of interpretation…
I imagine a talking olive ??
My mother in law and husband have olive skin tone. It’s not a golden brown, it’s more of a green hued brown.
Mediterranean
Mediterranean – brown tones with an olive undertone
An Italian person
Usually someone Greek or Mediterranean area??
The beautiful tones of Mediterranean skin.
I’ve been in love with Lorenzo de’ Medici since I learned about him in history classes back in 1974, and when I think of him, his family, and his friends (including da Vinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Niccolo Machiavelli, and so many others, as well as the one I detest, Savonarola), I picture them all with an olive complexion. It’s taken me 45 years, but I’ve finally written a love story about these people (not naming it – I’m not promoting), and I don’t think I used the expression, ‘olive complexion’, as it is just assumed.
Not…
Someone with a Mediterranean appearance.
They have a tanner skin tone rather than pink/ yellow
haha green skin. Suddenly: Lovecraft.
? I always think of Mediterranean skin tones
Greek?
Usually it’s meant to describe someone with Mediterranean heritage.
@Natalie or maybe a light Indian/Arab?
Mediterranean
Definitely Mediterranean ? usually white with no red undertones, could be tan or tan easily, think Italians and Greeks
Smooth tan skin
Tan skin
I know what it is supposed to be but I definitely picture green
Me personally… I think Latino/a/x
I think of Southern European because my mother’s side is Spanish so that’s what I associate it with.
Spanish Or Mediterranean heritage
Greek, spanish, etc ?
Tanned.. Like Mila Kunis kind of complexion. Well in some pictures, others she looks too pale. You get the idea. Think more tanned European or Mexican type and you’re there ?
This was definitely a confusion for me as a younger reader! Now I assume Latin American/Mediterranean tones
I used to think green skin, but now I think of the Mediterranean tones. Someone who tans easily. Also, a real good quality olive oil is like a deeper bronze colour instead of the yellow green, so I think of that?
I never thought about it but it depends on the type of olive meant, maybe a Kalamata olive?!?
That means they have that darker Greek complexion
I picture it as tanned and smooth
Well, yes. Greenish-golden. And I hadn’t overthunk that particular point until just now…
My mother’s skin tone which I did not get ? (thanks dad for giving me the palest skin possible which gets red the second I step out in the sun… ?)
Myself ?♀️
Olive skin? Someone of southeast European ethnicity.
Greenish skin? Little green men NOT of southeast European ethnicity.
a mediterranean look