I prefer using BB creams and skin tints because most foundations I buy from around here leave a super white cast or look weird. I use Ayna Beauty skin tint and BB cream from Sapphire. Both of these products give a very lasting natural finish and don't make my base look overdone. They don't have much tone variety in FitMe foundations here either but you can try the shades 125 or 128.

The best foundation is fouji cement i don’t know if that comes in a brown shade

Am also looking for brand with wide shade range. It's hard to find good ones here

Heard alot about MM foundation but didn't use personally.I useJ. BB cream and it works fine for me.

Massarat Misbah foundation is the best for brown skin tones. I’ve been using it since six years never found a better foundation

I use the Morphe foundation in the shade F2.50. I don’t love the formula, but it’s the absolute closest shade match I’ve ever found for my super olive skin. Definitely try that range if you’re looking for deeper olive shades!

It looks like we are super close in shade depth, and I lean olive and yellow so we might be skin twins!! I've spent a lot of time sampling foundations so here are some suggestions:

Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk in shade 6.0 is the holy grail for medium olive-AF tones. It is too light for me and not yellow enough; I can get it right if I mix, but this is way too expensive for me to not get right on the first try. One of my best friends is of north African/Mediterranean descent and is the most olive person I know, and this is her perfect match. Also this shade is available in a mini version, which makes it a little less painful I suppose.

Nars Stromboli but ONLY in the All Day Luminous Weightless formula was my perfect match. Olive, claims "neutral" but all Nars foundations have a yellow tint in my experience. It sat well and I found it more mattifying than "luminous" which was fine with my skin type, but I never purchased the full size. Nars makes their formulas to be applied optimally with your fingers, and I'm real petty and do not like that with my daily routine so I passed.

Fenty's medium olive shade 290 was a bit light in depth and not warm enough; I mixed it with the shade 300 (two sephora sample pots of each) and it was a pretty good match. Wasn't a huge fan of the texture and finish, just a personal preference but it was fine overall and I finished the samples with few complaints.

I currently wear Make Up For Ever Ultra HD in shade Y365, which is a little light in depth but I warm it up with some bronzer. Perfect amount of olive, yellow, and beige. Buildable and comfortable; I wore it on my wedding day and only noticed it breaking up by hour 8 once my setting powder had been breached (I blame the rain).

Sometimes I'm in a hurry and just cannot spend time blending, say 3 out of 5 days of the work week, and I need a quick powder foundation to slap on with a buffing brush before I run out the door. I wear MAC Studio Fix powder in C40, which is a tad too dark, but not quite noticeable if I bring it down my neck. It is also a good match for me in the summer so it'll be my primary go to when I get some color. This plus some MAC Fix+ sprayed liberally to avoid looking cakey and I'm out the door.

Hope this helps! I've tried some others but narrowed it down to give you a moderately long essay vs. a novel. Happy to answer any questions as well, good luck!

Wow I was just thinking about this exact same sentiment and my struggle to find a super green olive undertone foundation!! It definitely sucks that they never consider our undertone in Foundation!!!!!

OP, just for reference, what is the depth of your skintone in reference to MAC foundations? I’m NC42 and obviously it’s too orange for me but the closest thing I’ve found that’s olive enough is the CoverFX Natural Finish Foundation in G+60. The +G range is meant to be for olive undertone :) tbh, it definitely could be more green!! Maybe we just have to try mixers :/

Thanks everyone for the suggestions on here too - they’re great :)

For a quick fix for your current foundations, you can add a few drops of blue mixer to make your foundations more green :)

The la girl one is cheap and pigmented, but a lot of people swear by the makeup forever mixing drops.

Try Nars!

Also Ulta beauty sells Black Opal cosmetics, an old school black makeup line. I hear the foundation sticks are devine.

Also Elf has a really good drugstore foundation.

Use Fenty Beauty it was made for black women of different shades

after years, i finally settled on il makiage. its more than I want to spend on anything but I like how it blends. try it. they can send you colors twice or three times to help you find a match

That’s a tough one, for foundation I use high end but I make them try so many to find my perfect shade lol I heard revlon is really good though for drugstore brand. Specifically this one https://www.amazon.com/Revlon-ColorStay-Cover-Foundation-Medium/dp/B07B4P4L6D

Drugstore try Maybeline fitme foundation. I’d guess you’re about 350 if you’re carmel complexioned.

I want to love Fenty foundations because I can actually find shades that suit me in both summer and winter. However, it does this thing where it settles in all the micro lines between my pores and doesn’t seem to want to stick to the actual skin, if that makes sense. Basically, my face ends up looking like hardened clay soil that has cracks all through it.

I actually love the finish of the Fenty powder foundation I have, but when I last went to look for a winter shade, I couldn’t find any due to it apparently being reformulated.

Match is good tho

This kind of buttery lemon-y shade really suits olives who are neutral leaning a bit cool!

I've worn it in the past but I tossed it because of how it wears. It was definitely a good match here too though.

This is my best shade and best damn foundation! Try mixing a little of a glowy base. I mix the charolette tilburry hollywood flawless filter teensy bit with one pump of this foundation. Also. Try doing the katie jane hughes priming the brush technique with this foundation, it looks undetectable, doesnt look dry and you can set witha powder if you're oily. Hope thie helps!

Milani looks like a perfect match! I agree about Fenty eaze drop looking slightly peachy. My shade also does pull a bit orange/peach on me, but I use such a small amount that it usually doesn't look too bad.

thank you for posting this! i def wanna try the milani after seeing your swatches, not sure between shades 9-11 in winter but a good match for me rn is about face lm2 olive

The Milani and MBM swatches look really good. Thanks for showing these.

Thank you for your service!!!!! 🙏🏾

Products from top to bottom:

It Cosmetics CC+ Cream Natural Matte Foundation with SPF 40 in Shade Tan Warm

Milani Conceal + Perfect Blur Out Skin Tint Stick in Shade 12

Fenty Eaze Drop Blurring Skin Tint in Shade 11

Huda Beauty Easy Blur Natural Airbrush Foundation with Niacinamide in Shade 340G Baklava

Makeup by Mario SurrealSkin Luminous Hydrating Foundation in Shade 15N

ABH Luminous Foundation shade 270C. It’s olive and a shade or so lighter than Luminous Silk in 6. I would describe it as a medium coverage, but you can apply it very thinly or mix it with a dewy primer/serum/moisturiser to thin it out. 

When you go into to the store if they have Anastasia try shade 100N and go from there. It is very neutral so it will likely be too light but it will show what direction to go. Haus labs neutrals are also a good starting point. I know many swear by NARS but I tried every shade with no luck. Also, I bring a mirror and make up wipes. I put some unblended on the opposite of my face and go outside and look at it in the light then in the car. And check the blended after 30 minutes because sometimes they oxidize to different shades.

still cant believe after all these years foundations can be so OINCH

I think you’re light-medium. Try searching for posts here catering to that depth. There are lots of options these days.

I think i know the problem. You're bright/saturated and not desaturated. Use the green color corrector, not the blue one. Also mix what you have with any foundation that is lighter and close to your needs. Lastly you can get the white color corrector to lighten.

Not sure who is recommending what you're trying, but go into Ulta or Sephora and test the shades yourself.

Here's an olive-skintoned people tip:

Find any foundation in a formulation you love that's as close to your overall skin color as possible—which usually means its "value" matches (not too light/not too dark) but it's still looking orange (or pink) on you.

Get a bottle of Mehron Makeup Liquid Face and Body Paint (n your case you can get white to lighten what you have) in green and/or blue to use as a foundation pigment corrector. Europe source. Mehron is used by makeup artists in the film industry. Mehron also carries cream foundation many here have found relief with not only in color match but also in affordability. [In the drop down, select for Light Olive, Mid-Light Olive, or Medium-Olive Cream Foundation] 

General principle: Use green if you have a bright/saturated skintone. Use blue if you have a muted/desaturated skintone. Either is better than none to adjust an existing foundation that is closest to your needs to an olive-undertone. Barely 1/16th of a drop per daily foundation application will allow you to achieve your color match.

It works for all foundations, will last five years and save you $$$ as it is only $6.95. These are completely different than "color correctors" meant to be applied to the skin before applying foundation and can change the formulation of your foundation.

The recommendation above is pure pigment meaning it will not change the formulation of your foundation.

Flormar foundation ita a turkish brand.

Unfortunately if you’re looking for deeper shades you will not find them in any local brand that is budget friendly and BDS safe. You can see if LA girl or makeup revolution are BDS friendly. Depending on how tan you are maybe the darkest shade in bba by suleman might work. same for massarat misbah. Zero makeup also makes a dark shade palette but its cream and horrible for summer

Tbh I would kinda use a hack of sorts for this so when you go down to memon foundation near FB area they sell these fake knock off LA Girl pro concealer pens I would get three or four the in the shades green , red , orange and the lightest yellow one

Next I would also get a BB cream or something from a brand I like J. Isn't half bad you can also try the miss rose ones

First I would just mix up the la girl concealers to get my shade on the back of my hand Next I would use that on all my problem areas , even do an under layering if you want using extra orange around your mouth and eye bags can really help with that greyness that shows up later

Anyway then mix the remaining concealer on my hand with the bb cream Not too much at all just enough to give me one coat with a soft sponge

Dab that all over and blend as necessary Set it with a powder if you want but I would air dry it first

See if that works for you the fake LA girl ones are not actually the brand so they're not going to Israel anyway but do be careful they don't suit everyone use a tester to be sure it won't have a reaction on your skin

Masarrat Misbah

I got 1 from Kashees recently, seems good.

Check out the Olive MUA subreddit for recommendations. You might have to get a very yellow foundation and mix with a blue corrector.

I love my Armani Luminous Silk 4.5 I'm also a fair olive. I have the Lisa Eldridge but I only use that when I need more coverage.

Lisa Eldridge has a great shade range for olive undertones in her foundation and also on the skin tint line. Quite expensive, but very effective products. Before having found this, I used to mix drugstore foundations like L’Oréal perfect match with blue and yellow pigments to customize my ideal shade. It works great, but so much effort..

Here you go! :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/OliveMUA/s/Q0SsdggxX4

Go to Olive MUA! And I wear Mac foundations Studio fix tech and Studio Radiance. Also Too Faced Born This way.

I feel the need to keep trying!

I resisted wearing foundation until literally my late 20s because of this but then a friend took me to Sephora and had them scan my face with their fancy little skin-analyzing-thingy. Idk if they're accurate for everyone but honestly it really helped me narrow it down. I probably would be dead before I figured out I had yellow undertones and that's why everything looked a little off

Il Makiage quiz

Changed my life especially in the pandemic. Sephora was closed. No stores let you try anything on.

Il Makiage quiz identified my undertones (always been told yellow, turns out is yellow and red). And I found the perfect shades for me and my roomies and my mom.

I’d definitely recommend it. They have a great return policy.

Findation.com is an awesome tool to use once you find the foundation that suits you.