"olive-skinned"

[Spearmint Rhino]

Why are people with medium-tanned complexions known as "olive-skinned"? Olives are either green or black.

[Wyatt Earp]

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Not round Green Lanes, they're not.

[Spearmint Rhino]

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Even so.

[Femme Folle]

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It's because their skin has yellowish-green undertones, as seen in Mediterranean people, as opposed to red (ruddy) or blue, as seen in Nordic types. I have one sister who has an olive complexion, and I was always jealous of how quickly her skin tanned. Mine only burned and got freckles.

[Spearmint Rhino]

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An actual olive complexion, yesterday.

[Stumpy Pepys]

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[Spearmint Rhino]

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Femme Falafel wrote:

It's because their skin has yellowish-green undertones, as seen in Mediterranean people, as opposed to red (ruddy) or blue, as seen in Nordic types. I have one sister who has an olive complexion, and I was always jealous of how quickly her skin tanned. Mine only burned and got freckles.

Hang on, what? Who are these blue people you've been seeing?

[G-Man]

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I was disappointed to find out that the lady covered in shaving cream on the Herb Alpert cover is in fact not olive-skinned, or even Mexican, as I had presumed. And that her name is Dolores Erickson.

Erickson looking olive-skinned:



Erickson not excessively olive-skinned:

[Femme Folle]

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Spearmint Rhino wrote:

Hang on, what? Who are these blue people you've been seeing?

I hate to say it, but I think you're one of them (unless the lighting in your FB photos is changing it).

[Ek weet nie]

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Spearmint Rhino, yesterday.

[Incandenza]

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Yeah, I've seen people so pale that they seem to appear to be slightly blue. "Whiter than skim milk," as my wife would say.

[Wyatt Earp]

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Scottish people arenae white. You're white. We're blue! (Billy Connolly.)

[Guest]

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I have one sister who has an olive complexion, and I was always jealous of how quickly her skin tanned. Mine only burned and got freckles.

Huh. My skin is all over the place. Like, my forehead/nose/chin are an unpleasant shade of that yellow/green you describe, but my cheeks are my mum's English red. Likewise, milk bottle legs, weirdly jaundiced-looking stomach, etc. TMI, I know, sorry.

Anyway I burn and freckle AND have to deal with being sallow. It's no fair. I actually find tanning unpleasant anyway, at least.

[erwin]

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Another olive-skinned person:

[Bruno]

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I will be making a puttanesca sauce this evening. I thought you all should know.