You can see the swatches on the right- the Bourjois Healthy Mix, Bourjois Air Mat and the Revlon Photoready all tend towards yellow and do not match. Four of them have the same name and only one of those is the right colour. We have Revlon Photoready in Vanilla, Bourjois Air Mat in Vanilla, Bourjois Healthy Mix in Vanilla, L’Oreal Infallible in Vanilla, Revlon Colourstay in Medium Beige and I’ve swatched the Clinique Beyond perfecting alongside for comparison. I don’t think the names of the shades have any bearing on the colour. I repeated the process with my drugstore foundations. Pop them on your jawline and check it in different lighting in the comfort of your own home. You’ll look bonkers while you’re doing all this, of course, but it’ll be worth it.īetter still, if like me you have a collection of a few old foundations hanging around at home, then do what I’ve done. Say to the lady, “give me a mo”, then run outside, find a mirror or take a photo on your phone to check it. So you can go and get a lady at a beauty counter to try some products out on you, but don’t trust her! Based on the rubbish shade matching I’ve demonstrated above, you’d be a fool to. You do need to see the swatches in natural light. I find it hard to see colour properly in the bright electric light of a shop. What does work is swatching different foundations on your jawline.
#MAC FOUNDATION MATCHING SKIN#
If your veins appear green then you have warm or yellow toned skin and need a yellow looking foundation. What it really means is- if you have blue wrist veins then you need pink foundation.
#MAC FOUNDATION MATCHING HOW TO#
I find this confusing, I don’t know how to look for a cool toned foundation.
If they look blue, like mine, then you have cool toned skin. I have also read that you can tell the undertone of your skin by looking at your wrist veins. The Vichy is nearly there, perhaps a bit pale, but the yellow ones look plain weird. It seems obvious to me that the Clinique is the best match for my skin.
#MAC FOUNDATION MATCHING MAC#
So looking at the swatches you can see that the Mac and the Smashbox foundations are yellow (aka warm) toned and the Clinique and the Vichy are pink (aka cool) toned. It stands to reason that you need your makeup to match your neck, otherwise you would have a mask-like appearance. The MAC Studiofix is brown! So I tried them on my face, I took a swatch of each and ran it from my jawline to my neck. I mean, really?! How could I possibly be all those colours. Clinique beyond perfecting is by far my favourite (here’s my Review), closely followed by the Vichy Dermablend. We have here, Mac Studiofix in NC30, Mac StudioSculpt in NC25, Clinique Beyond Perfecting in 2 Alabaster, Smashbox Studioskin in 2.1 and Vichy Dermablend in 15 Opal. These are expensive foundations which I had colour matched for me by professionals. So first of all I swatched all my high end foundations. I decided to have a really good look at all the foundation I already own and find out if I could get to the bottom of this “My skin could be light yellow but I’m not entirely sure” uncertainty. Now I’m sorry if this goes on a bit too much for you, here come lots of photos of swatches.
I don’t know what undertone I am, yellow? So I’ve been choosing foundation my whole adult life based on the assumption that I appear to be a light yellow colour. What colour is this? A bit red, a bit yellow, a bit freckly. I don’t know about you, but when I look in the mirror, I see my skin as skin colour. If you google “How to shade match foundation” you are told that you need to know your undertone. I find the whole topic baffling, or at least I did. If you get the shade of foundation wrong you can look odd, the whole point of foundation is to make you look better, making sure it matches is key to looking natural. The next foundation issue I’m going to look at is shade selection. Like a painter and decorator would tell you, preparation is everything. In the same way you wouldn’t start painting over a dirty old door and then say “This emulsion is rubbish” when the door looked crap, the same goes for your face. So in my last post I talked about Skin Prep. Part 2 of my indepth guide to foundation is Shade Selection.
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