Any WOC ladies get this problem?

[Elle93]

or is it just me?

I have a sample of Make Up For Ever HD in 173 and it looks great on the top part of my face but at my mouth and lower i get a little darker and the foundation looks ashy =/ anything darker will be too dark for my top of my face -_-

Any of you ladies had this problem? and how did you fix it?

 

[sss215]

maybe get a darker color and mix the foundations. a lot of WOC have to do that to get the perfect shade. They even mix colors for you at the MUFE store in NYC

 

[Curly1908]

I use a lighter concealer to blend my skintone variations with my darker foundation.

 

[reesesilverstar]

Me too... Around my mouth I mix a lighter concealer with orange to take down the darkness and ash then blend foundation over it.

 

[shontay07108]

Oh man, I was just thinking about this. The lower half of my face is darker than the upper half. I didn't really notice until a MUA at Mac told me and now it's all I see.

I wear mufe #173 also as well as Face and Body. I try to get my face as clean as possible, moisturizing and then using the lightest hand so that I don't over apply my foundation. Sometimes I use mufe's mist and fix. Now, the darkness around my mouth and jawline isn't so noticeable/annoying.

 

[kaliraksha]

I have that problem a bit... I use concealer to lighten those areas and to even out my skin tone before I put on foundation. I know plenty of ladies that use two different colors of foundation to help with the problem... mix and blend!

 

[Sojourner]

Yep, me too...I use concealer also but I'm not quite happy about it since it can look cakey around the mouth/chin crease...that whole area can look grey on me sometimes, like man-shadow - ugh!!

 

[jazmatazz]

I brush bronzer on those areas to deepen the color. It works for me.

Or there's always mixing your own foundation, takes longer but looks nice.

 

[Ingenue]

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Originally Posted by jazmatazz I brush bronzer on those areas to deepen the color. It works for me. Or there's always mixing your own foundation, takes longer but looks nice.

Yep... I tend to color 'down' as well with any uneven skin tone. It looks more natural that way. I find that when you color 'up' -- it tends to separate after a few hours and doesn't look so good.

I also get my foundations from companies that go VERY warm (which is why I don't mess around with MUFE on the regular, unless I use the orange primer) with my shade, because they can tend to ash out for me over the course of wear.