If you talk to three different people, they might give you three different ‘best’ ways to test out your foundation – and they might all be right! The most accurate way to swatch comes down to your skin tone. Our Perfect Foundation is available in a duo or six-shade palette that’s perfect for experimenting. If this is your first time choosing a foundation, we recommend trying at least a couple shades to make sure you find the right one.
For neutral undertones, you’ll want a neutral shade. For warm undertones, you’ll want a shade that has a gold or yellow base. Now that you know your undertones, this and your skin tone will help you determine what foundation shade you need. If your skin has cool undertones, you’ll want to look for a red or pink-toned shade.
Step 2: Select shades for your skin tone. If they’re blue-green, you have neutral undertones. If they’re green, you have warm undertones. The easiest way to assess your undertones is by looking at the veins in your wrist. If your veins are blue, you most likely have cool undertones. Neutral means you have a combination of both warm and cool tones. For warm undertones, your skin has gold, yellow or peach tones. There are three categories of undertones: cool, warm and neutral. Having cool undertones means your skin has tones of blue, red or pink underneath.
The brand's own website recommended shade 350, which is too deep and too orange, and Findation recommended 370, which is great on me! I would say so far that both the finish of the formula and colour of Fenty's Pro Filt'r Soft Matte Longwear Foundation are the best I've found," she says.This is probably the most important step when matching foundation to your skin tone. "The results are actually better than the Fenty online quiz.
If you already have a shade and formula that you know matches you perfectly, you can plug it into the search bar and it will comb through its comprehensive database of thousands of shades and hundreds of brands to produce dozens of alternative matches for you.Īdele entered her shade of her beloved MAC Pro Longwear Foundation (NC45) and Findation recommended a number of corresponding shades from a range of other brands, including Fenty Beauty. It's an independent search engine that's not tied to any single brand. The most universal foundation finder we found (by far), is Findation. She says it's an even better match for her skin tone now that we're heading into winter. Adele was recommended NC44.5 (a honey with neutral golden undertones) which is the shade lighter than her favourite NC45 and guess what. Then, when she tried the tool in the evening with a face of makeup on, she was recommended NC41 (a medium beige with a neutral golden undertone for medium skin). GLAMOUR deputy beauty editor tried it twice, once in natural daylight with no makeup on and was recommended N4.75 (a beige with neutral undertones for light skin, it looks as though it has more pink in the base than the Il Makiage foundation) which matched her skin with no tidelines whatsoever.
These brands are sure making the most of the opportunity to collect your data and do some market research - let's hope they put the findings towards some amazing new products. Considering the brand has only one foundation option currently (the Woke Up Like This foundation), there's a lot of superfluous questions around your skin type, favoured finish, method of application and age, plus, as with Cult Beauty's service, you have to enter your email address at the end to get your results. Il Makiageĭisclaimer, this quiz is a bit of a "you scratch our back, we'll scratch yours" situation. The only disclaimer is that you will have to enter your name, email address and tick that you'd like to receive emails from Cult Beauty in order to get your results, which is a little annoying - but you can always unsubscribe after. Then, the algorithm will match you to your perfect shade from Cult Beauty's beauty brands including Huda Beauty, Too Faced, Charlotte Tilbury, NARS and so many more. All you have to do is answer five standard questions to establish your perceived skin tone and the kind of coverage you want and upload a selfie.