blazeno.8
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Well, I said in another post that I would put this up and since it deals with the difficulty I've had due to the undertones of my skin, I thought this would be the best forum. It's very embarrassing and now looking back and acknowledging that I actually wore some of these. If anyone else has found the perfect foundation and has duds lying around, please share if you don't mind.
Disclaimer: if your screen is like mine, everything will look ashy, including the bare one.
Bare faced:
Notice how dark my skin gets around my hairline? This is part of the problem I had when getting color matched.
First department store foundation every bought: Clinique's Golden Walnut.
Talk about ashy! I didn't want to go back to the brand because the names were too vague in relationship to color matching. When I saw Mac's more descriptive names I was hooked. The first one I bought was Satin Finish NW 43. I'm not a 43. So then when I went to be color matched again, I got mixed messages between NW and NC, but everyone agreed on 45. So I bought Hyper Real. Big mistake, it's not a good finish on me. NC 600 was too dark for me and NC 500 was too light. So I got the idea to mix them together.
I grew very tired of the shine very quickly. I went into get Studio Fix NC 45 (what I thought was the equivalent of this NC550 blend) and the MA kept telling me that NC was too cool and that NW 45 looked the best. My friend agreed that NC made me look sallow and said I should go with NW 45.
The color is very beautiful, but something never sat well with me about it. I didn't like the fact that the inner part of my face looked very bronze in comparison to what it normally looks like. If I even tried to add my favorite blush, I felt it looked clownish or too heavy. I felt the color was good for the outer edges of my face, but not for the inside.
This is when I realized that my face might have two undertones, and not just one.
I finally decided to go to Perscriptives and get color matched and ended up with Ginger, a Yellow-Orange color (a slightly cooled neutral, but not as cool as Mac's).
the bottle is upside down because the lid reflects too much light for the pics.
I really like this color. I feel that it is the one that captures the true color of my skin the best out of anything that I've tried. As always my forehead is a trouble spot. So I blended a bit of the warmer NW45 into this one and then buffed it in.
Hey not bad! That was just the foundation, now time to find the perfect powder! *_*
Disclaimer: if your screen is like mine, everything will look ashy, including the bare one.
Bare faced:
Notice how dark my skin gets around my hairline? This is part of the problem I had when getting color matched.
First department store foundation every bought: Clinique's Golden Walnut.
Talk about ashy! I didn't want to go back to the brand because the names were too vague in relationship to color matching. When I saw Mac's more descriptive names I was hooked. The first one I bought was Satin Finish NW 43. I'm not a 43. So then when I went to be color matched again, I got mixed messages between NW and NC, but everyone agreed on 45. So I bought Hyper Real. Big mistake, it's not a good finish on me. NC 600 was too dark for me and NC 500 was too light. So I got the idea to mix them together.
I grew very tired of the shine very quickly. I went into get Studio Fix NC 45 (what I thought was the equivalent of this NC550 blend) and the MA kept telling me that NC was too cool and that NW 45 looked the best. My friend agreed that NC made me look sallow and said I should go with NW 45.
The color is very beautiful, but something never sat well with me about it. I didn't like the fact that the inner part of my face looked very bronze in comparison to what it normally looks like. If I even tried to add my favorite blush, I felt it looked clownish or too heavy. I felt the color was good for the outer edges of my face, but not for the inside.
This is when I realized that my face might have two undertones, and not just one.
I finally decided to go to Perscriptives and get color matched and ended up with Ginger, a Yellow-Orange color (a slightly cooled neutral, but not as cool as Mac's).
the bottle is upside down because the lid reflects too much light for the pics.
I really like this color. I feel that it is the one that captures the true color of my skin the best out of anything that I've tried. As always my forehead is a trouble spot. So I blended a bit of the warmer NW45 into this one and then buffed it in.
Hey not bad! That was just the foundation, now time to find the perfect powder! *_*
