As much as we love a makeup-free natural look, not all of us are blessed with flawless healthy skin. But thankfully, there’s foundation. And as the beauty community has evolved, a diversity of shades is outpouring to cater all skin tones as well as different budgets.
How to match your foundation shade in a store?
Drugstores (Pharmacies) are notorious for their bright light settings which may not truly reflect your skin complexion accurately. Even if you spend hours in store swatching every colour, you may still end up with the wrong shade. Here, let us simplify things for you.
- Know your undertone: The general undertones include cool, warm and neutral. To determine yours, take a look at your veins. Blue and purple veins indicate cool whereas green/olive indicates a warm undertone. A mixture of them means you’re neutral.
- Determine your undertone: For cool undertones, the ideal foundations to go for would be slightly pinkish in the bottle. Yellow or golden ones for warm undertones whereas peach will suit neutral the best.
- Swatch on neck/jawline: Testing out the colours on your hands will not give you the ideal shades due to the uneven skin tones varies from different body parts. Thereby, dab the tester on your jawline to find the matching colour that blends perfectly from your face to neck.
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