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This page should be able to help you choose just the right shade and tone for your skin. If you are still having trouble deciding, try our Foundation Trial Kits to pick your perfect shades! If you find that you are between two shades that we have, you can either purchase the two shade and mix them yourself, or make a purchase of the base color and in the comments section of the check out page you can request a custom order and let us know which two shades you would like us to mix in one foundation jar!
Choosing Foundations
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The first step in choosing the best mineral makeup for your skin is to determine your shade. That is how fair or dark your skin color is. Below is a general guideline of skin shades based on your natural hair color.
Choosing Your Shade
Determining Your Skin Tone
Once you have chosen your shade it is time to decide your skin tone. This is the underlying color of your skin. Most women have a cool skin tone because the melanin in your skin usually produces that undertone color to the skin.
A simple method of determination is to consider whether your skin burns or tans when exposed to sun:
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If you tan easily and do not burn, your skin's natural melanin (the pigment that gives skin its color) level is higher, and you most likely have a COOL (yellow-to-olive) undertone.
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Those who burn and either tan minimally or not at all have significantly less melanin, which results in a WARM (pink, bluish-red, or ruddy) skin tone.
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If a sallow (or too yellow & gray) tone is predominant, you'll notice that a foundation, consealer, or powders with too much yellow will make skin look worse, not better.
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Neutral skin tones are those with no obvious overtones of olive, sallow, or pink. In this case you may want to use a cool shade underneath and a warm color setting powder to bring out the color to your face.
Native North American or South American women, a tiny percentage of African-American women, and some Polynesian women do indeed have a red cast to their skin. Because their skin has a slightly reddish cast, they need to look for foundations that have a slightly reddish cast to them—but that's only a hint of brownish red, and not copper, orange, or peach.
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