What color of skin does this person have?

[alpacinou]

Hello.

Can I use Mediterranean skin about a person who is not from Mediterranean countries?

Can I use it to describe this woman's skin?

https://www.hairstylemagz.com/wp-content/uploads/The-general-rules-of-hair-color-for-olive-skin.jpg

Also, can I use Mediterranean skin to describe suntanned skin?

For example: She had Mediterranean skin when she came back from the beach resort.

 

[Skrej]

You'll note the term 'olive skin' in your own link above.

Olive skin is a standard term for a particular skin tone, so if someone's skin tone falls into that category, you can use it regardless of where they're from. Even then, there's a lot of range in skin tone of what broadly falls into 'olive skin'.

Many people from Latin America and even India have an olive complexion, although we tend to think of it as being especially common in the Middle East and Mediterranean.

 

[GoesStation]

Also, can I use Mediterranean skin to describe suntanned skin?

For example: She had Mediterranean skin when she came back from the beach resort.

No. A Mediterranean complexion is something you're born with. Of course the color changes with exposure to the sun, but we'd use other words to describe it.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

You can say she was tan (adjective) or tanned (verb).

 

[alpacinou]

No. A Mediterranean complexion is something you're born with. Of course the color changes with exposure to the sun, but we'd use other words to describe it.

I see. Okay but if a person has olive skin, I mean was born with an olive skin, can I say she has Mediterranean skin? Let's say that person is born in the U.S or in a country that is not near the Mediterranean at all.

I already knew olive skin but I want to know how I can use Mediterranean skin.

 

[Rover_KE]

I'd avoid any mention of a person's skin colour.

It's a minefield these days.

 

[alpacinou]

Should I completely forget the words Mediterranean skin?

 

[GoesStation]

Should I completely forget the [STRIKE]words[/STRIKE] phrase Mediterranean skin?

Yes.

 

[Tarheel]

I don't think it would mean much to most people. There's no point to using a phrase you have to explain every time you use it.