The perfect match means you set yourself up to serve flawless face. Mismatched foundation, which is way easier to end up with than I’d like it to be, can throw shade on your entire look. These days, it’s easier than ever to find your perfect foundation match — there are skin-reading devices at makeup counters, shade-finding apps, and personalized mixing services. But until recently, all this technology hasn’t been a lot of help for people with deeper skin tones. It doesn’t matter if an app tells me what Pantone shade my skin is if few brands make foundation dark enough to match me. But times have changed — ahem, Fenty Beauty, anyone? — so I wanted to see how accurate shade-matching is NOW. I went to two different beauty counters to see how well their technology and customer service would work to color-match for my oily, deep brown skin. Since I have oily skin, particularly in my T-zone, I knew that liquid foundation may not be best for me — but the Sephora employee that I was working with insisted that liquid options look better on deeper skin tones, and that I could find one that balanced my oiliness. Deep 78 ($35, Sephora) is a foundation with neutral undertones. “It will give you the best coverage,” said the Sephora employee. She swatched it on my skin, then blended it in. I’m not sure if it was the bright Sephora lights or what, but I felt like the foundation matched my skin perfectly. I bought it, and couldn’t wait to test it out the next morning. Even with my front-facing camera, it’s easy to tell that my face is shiny AF, even though I was sitting down most of the train ride with the air blowing. That isn’t highlight, people — just my oily skin being the star of the show once again. After our quick convo, the artist selected two different MAC shades. She swatched both, then decided that the Matchmaster Foundation ($32, Nordstrom) in the shade 8.5 worked best for my skin tone. I loved it the moment I looked into the mirror. does the bounce I was seriously so happy — it has been a struggle to find a foundation that works for my skin tone, minimizes shine, and also provides full coverage. I was afraid of liquid foundations because of my skin’s oiliness — but this MAC foundation took care of ALL of that. While I don’t have a four-digit skin tone number now, I do have a foundation that matches me and that I feel good wearing. That’s way more important. If you do opt to try the Color IQ test, hopefully you have a much better experience than I did. Handle it, Sephora.
title: “I Got My Foundation Shade Matched At 2 Stores” ShowToc: true date: “2024-10-17” author: “Richard Garcia”
The perfect match means you set yourself up to serve flawless face. Mismatched foundation, which is way easier to end up with than I’d like it to be, can throw shade on your entire look. These days, it’s easier than ever to find your perfect foundation match — there are skin-reading devices at makeup counters, shade-finding apps, and personalized mixing services. But until recently, all this technology hasn’t been a lot of help for people with deeper skin tones. It doesn’t matter if an app tells me what Pantone shade my skin is if few brands make foundation dark enough to match me. But times have changed — ahem, Fenty Beauty, anyone? — so I wanted to see how accurate shade-matching is NOW. I went to two different beauty counters to see how well their technology and customer service would work to color-match for my oily, deep brown skin. Since I have oily skin, particularly in my T-zone, I knew that liquid foundation may not be best for me — but the Sephora employee that I was working with insisted that liquid options look better on deeper skin tones, and that I could find one that balanced my oiliness. Deep 78 ($35, Sephora) is a foundation with neutral undertones. “It will give you the best coverage,” said the Sephora employee. She swatched it on my skin, then blended it in. I’m not sure if it was the bright Sephora lights or what, but I felt like the foundation matched my skin perfectly. I bought it, and couldn’t wait to test it out the next morning. Even with my front-facing camera, it’s easy to tell that my face is shiny AF, even though I was sitting down most of the train ride with the air blowing. That isn’t highlight, people — just my oily skin being the star of the show once again. After our quick convo, the artist selected two different MAC shades. She swatched both, then decided that the Matchmaster Foundation ($32, Nordstrom) in the shade 8.5 worked best for my skin tone. I loved it the moment I looked into the mirror. does the bounce I was seriously so happy — it has been a struggle to find a foundation that works for my skin tone, minimizes shine, and also provides full coverage. I was afraid of liquid foundations because of my skin’s oiliness — but this MAC foundation took care of ALL of that. While I don’t have a four-digit skin tone number now, I do have a foundation that matches me and that I feel good wearing. That’s way more important. If you do opt to try the Color IQ test, hopefully you have a much better experience than I did. Handle it, Sephora.
