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Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:28 am  |
My perfect foundation colour for years was Revlon colorstay in Buff, the second lihtest shade, which to me indicated that i have fair skin/neutral tone. Just the other day, for fun i tried the shade converter at lorealparis.com True Match. I plugged in my shade and was informed my matching colour was Sand Beige Warm 5 which means warm medium. I have the palest skin of almost everybody i know and with my current MMU, i use the second palest shade in the palette of the brand i wear. in photos, my face is stands out as a glowing white compared to everyone else in the pictures so my question is, how do you really know what your skin colour/tone is?
i don't have a clue anymore how to really determine this. Does anyone have any thoughts? Am i the only one suffering this confusion? |
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oily tzone;fair; mild roseacea;PCOS symptoms-hirsutism,occasional cystic acne. Mid 30's-light-med brown hair, light brown eyes |
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Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:57 am |
I feel the same way! Even the undertone thing (which is the same as warm/cool, right?) yellow or pink or neutral, so confusing. I've heard you should hold your arm up to a white piece of paper in daylight. Never tried it, but it still seems subjective to me. Someone should invent a pee test- pee on the strip and it tells you your skintone.  Also all makeup brands should have standard shades! (I know, then people w/ hard to match skin couldn't shop around....) Just dreaming... |
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Tue Mar 28, 2006 1:26 pm |
| I never knew until I went to prescriptives and had a colour print done. They said I'm y/o (yellow orange) so I knew I have warm undertones. |
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Combination - dehyrdated, acne, sensitive, late 20's. |
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Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:55 pm |
that's because different companies use different color scales. Some line their colors up based from lightest to darkest, and others group them first by tone, and line them up... I am usually the 2nd lightest in most scales, but with some, even the lightest is too dark for me, while others I have to go to the 3rd or 4th lightest.
Like cloud_9 said, it would be really nice if all companies use a standard scale, but then I guess we wouldn't get a many color selections we get now...  |
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Wed Mar 29, 2006 7:38 pm |
| I use MAC and the tones match perfectly. You just have to ask the sales rep. |
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Wed Mar 29, 2006 7:45 pm |
| Speaking of foundation tones, I am a fair skinned asian and I have been wearing light neutral MMU forever. I always looked too pink in photos. Until recently, I tried on light warm tone and finally finally a colour that makes me look nice. |
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