Olive

So, I never really understood what and olive skin tone was. In my head, I would picture a Greek person, perhaps, eating black olives. But the image never really had anything actually correctly to do with the term. So, I looked it up tonight. Apparently, the whole olive term is to do with green olives in the first place, not black ones. And, just as some skin tones have an undertone of red and others of yellow, the (green) olive skin tone and an undertone of green. It is a secondary color instead of a primary color.

This information is wild to me. I must process this further over the never several days, and continue my research and reading on the topic.

It isn’t black olives at all. And it isn’t that the people eat olives. Golly, the small child of me who made that up sure held firmly to the idea for a long time. Haha

Post-a-day 2025