Fun fact: You?re probably wearing the wrong foundation shade right now. Sorry, but someone had to tell you. It?s not totally your fault, though, because finding the best foundation (or tinted moisturizer or BB cream) is a weird, difficult game of guesswork that usually results in you with a mismatched, slightly-too-pink-and-pasty face that nobody has the heart to tell you looks weird as hell. And the reason behind it" We?re all deeply, terrible wrong about our skin?s actual undertones, which, you know, is only the most important factor when choosing makeup.
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So we went to the mother of all shockingly pretty makeup, Robin Black, makeup artist and founder of Beauty is Boring, to tell us exactly why we?re all basically colorblind to our undertones, and how we can stop the vicious circle, so we can all look our most flawless a.s.a.p. And no, her advice doesn?t require you to hold silver or gold jewelry up to your skin to ?determine? your undertones. (Which, by the way, is almost always bullshit.) Photo: ImaxTree
First off: You need to stop thinking your undertones are pink. ?I?m always surprised by how many people tell me that they have a pink undertone,? says Black. ?Pink undertones are the least common of all complexions, and they generally only occur in those with very fair skin?like, if your skin is the same shade as snow?but even people with very light complexions often have neutral or even yellow undertones.?
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