![]() 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. ![]()
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