Olive is a color. To be olive toned, is to simply have coloring that tends to have golden undertones that can be yellow/green in winter and in a paler state. It’s not a racism term. |
She had white blonde hair as a child and teen. The OP said she had strawberry blonde hair, which she's never had. |
Younger Taylor Swift was not strawberry blonde. She was/is a true blonde:
I would say George Clooney has a somewhat olive complexion. Mainly, he just tans easily.
And this is strawberry blonde: |
Girl, what are you talking about? I've never heard of ditchwater hair. Ever. But I've heard of dishwater blonde for decades. DISHwater, which yes, is kind of gray brown. That's what people mean when they talk about dishwater blonde hair -- sort of a dull, dark blonde that is too gray to be brown. Also do you think ditches only exist where there is red clay soil? Are you seriously this dumb? I believe you grew up somewhere with red clay where people called reddish blonde hair "ditchwater blonde" and that this is a weird colloquialism in whatever small podunk town you grew up in, and you think it's a universal term. |
Would you prefer sallow or swarthy? |
Jaundiced? Consumptive? We really should be grateful we aren't coded into bile, phlegm and sanguine. |
No it’s not. I regularly describe my skin as olive. We have green undertones. |
I don’t know why but I find it hilarious someone has been calling it the wrong term their entire life, and is now yelling at people for using the correct term. Babe, it’s dishwater. You can google it. |
No it's not. Don't be ridiculous. Almond is a shape. Just like round is a shape. (Asians refer to Euros as "round eyes") The silliness and pettiness of the -isms in everything crowd has to stop. |
Exactly. Skin undertones are: Blue (get your circulation checked, unless you are deep Kentucky inbred) Ash Red Pink Coral Peach Yellow Olive/green All of these except for blue can be seen in various races, while some trend to specific ethnic backgrounds. - In my job I do a lot of pigment mixing to match skin tones. People are not white, tan, brown or black. The undertones are what give humans our vibrancy and richness. These undertones are critical if you want to match things like make up, or in the old days pantyhose. You can have a dark skinned, almost black woman who has pink undertones, a very pale white woman with yellow undertones, and an asian woman with peach undertones, which completely defies the cultural tropes from the last century regarding associating colors with specific groups. Olive is an undertone. Not a racial slur. |
This. |
Yes. Olive is green undertone. |
No. It is not racist. Stop being foolish. |
+1 This is vital for skin matching some prosthetics as well. The people calling this all racist can just opt out of colors completely and sport smurf-blue or alien green makeup. We don't care. |
You are the only person in the world who thinks it is ditchwater blonde. |