Hi Lovelies! Today's beauty topic is on skin undertones--something that is vitally important to understand as it affects how you match foundations, powders, eye, cheek and lip colors so that your makeup always looks right on point. Basically, your undertone will fall within one of the following three categories: pink/red, yellow/yellow-green, or neutral (neither pink/red or yellow/yellow-green).
In order to have a perfectly matching foundation, you should match both the skin tone (i.e.: beige, ivory, caramel, mocha, etc.) and the skin's undertone (i.e.: pink/red, yellow, yellow-green (also called olive)). For example, if you need to use an ivory colored foundation on a client and your client's undertone is pink, but you use an ivory colored foundation with a yellow undertone the result will be flat and unnatural looking.
The Pixiwoo sisters, (Samantha and Nicola Chapman), have a wonderful tutorial on their YouTube channel that explains this concept. Here is another article that includes an explanation for how MAC cosmetics categorizes their foundations, concealers and powders according to skin undertones. Once you've mastered this concept, it will make choosing your colors so much easier! Until next time Lovelies, blessings, hugs and peace!
Friday, May 27, 2011
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You certainly know how to mix and match cosmetics. Many women do not have such understanding and skills that you have.
ReplyDeletewell, thanks so much for the compliment! i'm a fledgling makeup artist, so i'm trying to learn all i can! blessings!
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