Choosing a Foundation Over the Internet By Sonya Spencer At Isnare.com Ezine Articles

Foundation is the base for your entire look and it is important that it matches your skin tone perfectly. Foundation should blend in with your skin tone to create a flawless complexion. It needs to camouflage redness, hide lines, and reduce other imperfections.

Foundation is the only colour that has to be perfect; you can make do with a lipstick, or tone down eye shadows, but get your foundation colour wrong and well I’m sure we’ve all been there.

So selecting the right foundation is vital to getting your look right. But when you purchase foundation or any other make up online it is hard to know exactly what colour the product is and how it will look on you.

So how do you get the right colour? Samples, samples and samples. The best chance you have at getting the right colour without mistakes is to invest in a small amount of samples, and take them home to try. Apply it to your whole face (not just the chin line, or your wrist!), play with your samples, look at yourself in different lights, daylight; night time; indoors, florescent light... etc. How does you're make up feel, how easy is to apply, reapply, does it stay on? Test the coverage, mix shades and create a unique colour, seek the advice of your friends and family. For a small investment, it really is worth while.

WHERE DO I START?

What shades of mineral make up will best suit my skin?

Although there are loads of different shades of Earthy Essences mineral foundation, they are formulated to suite your skin undertone as well as your skin tone. Your undertone will be warm, cool or neutral and your skin tone will be light, medium, tanned or dark.

IDENTIFYING YOUR UNDERTONE

Warm Undertones: Often referred to as having yellow, peach, orange undertone

* You look better in cream then white
* You wear more yellow gold jewellery
* The veins on your wrists appear more green
* You are drawn to more winter/summer colours

Cool undertones: Often referred to as having pink, red, blue undertones

* You look better in white than cream
* You wear silver or white gold jewellery
* The veins in your wrist appear more blue
* You are drawn to more spring/autumn colours

Neutral undertones: Normally found in those with a natural tan or dark skin. As the differences in undertone refers to the richness and depth of colour rather than an undertone.

IDENTIFYING YOUR SKIN TONE OR COMPLEXION

* Light or fair skin (burns easily)
* Medium skin (burns before tanning)
* Tanned skin (tans easily)
* Dark skin (naturally dark or olive skin)

COMBINING THESE TWO CATEGORIES & SELECTING THE BEST SAMPLE PACK

Naturally Safe Cosmetics have grouped sample packs of Earthy Essences Mineral foundation and Inika Mineral Foundation based on combinations of skin tone and undertone. You will find that in the sample packs some mineral foundations appear in more than one category. This is because skin colour is not standardised, so what one person considers light, another considers light/medium.

Cheers Sonya

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