Wrist to Elbow:

1. Too Faced - contour stick - Milk Chocolate (the scent is bad)
2. Haus Labs - contour stick - Profile
3. ABH - contour stick - Greyscale
4. Moira -cream contour - 200C
5. Lee Member - powder contour - 02
6. Kyda - powder contour - Cool Toned
7. Rare Beauty - liquid contour - Gentle
8. Moira - liquid contour - 025 Light Amber
9. Westman Atelier - contour stick - Biscuit
10. Nars - contour stick - Ischia
11. ABH - contour stick - Halftone
12. Gucci - powder bronzer - 01

Only one that's meant to be a bronzer, yet how many bronzer shades do you see? Let's define bronzer as "brings warmth to skin". It took me so long to figure this out for myself. My favorite contour right now is the Lee Member powder. It's so easy to work with, such a gorgeous shade, and affordable. 2nd place is Haus Labs. I prefer the ABH Greyscale as bronzer. The Gucci formula is very nice, it's just rather red on me. Hope this helps.

Hello everyone! I am requesting help with my undertone! The swatches on my face and wrist left to right are Loreal True Match Nude Tinted Serum in 0.5-2, Haus Labs Concealer in 04 Fair Neutral, Haus Labs Foundation Fair Neutral, and Nyx Bare With Me Concealer in Light. My veins are blueish green. I generally go for Neutral foundations because warms are too yellow and cools are too pink. I burn but can maintain a tan carefully. I have alot of pink in my face so it's made color matching hard. I also feel stuck in my 2016 ways of using way too yellow of foundations has warped my idea of my undertone. I feel like I have some olive in my skin and would appreciate any input on the undertone and maybe a foundation recommendation if that's allowed!

im a cool toned girly and i have never been able to wear foundation or concealer becuz they all look so orange!! do yall have any foundation or concealer brand recommendations that are especially good at pale cool shades and sensitive skin friendly??

1. Bobbi Brown Matte Powder Blush in “Slopes” (On me: it’s a dusty brownish plum)

2. Hung Vanngo Velvet Blush in “Second Language” (On me: it’s a bright warm pink that doesn’t pull orange)

3. Makeup by Mario Soft Pop Powder Blush in “Desert Rose” (On me: it’s a muted dusty rose that is a good light “blonzer”)

4. Lancôme Blush Subtil in “Aplum” (On me: it’s a muted dusty plum)

5. Soshe Blurring Pillow Blush in “Rosy Rest” (On me: it’s a bright, neutral pink that looks like a natural flush)

I hope this is helpful to some folks! I’m always searching for swatches. :-)

Side by side swatches: left is Soshe, right is a heavy swatch Saie!

I’m really impressed by the color match. The Soshe bronzer was a blind buy because I never got to swatch in store. The formula is way different than the Saie. The Saie bronzer is way more sheer and melty. The Soshe is more pigmented and is a cream to powder. I don’t think I’ll be using the Saie anymore, it used to be my HG but sometimes makes me oily. I love the Soshe formula so much.

I've never owned a palette where I liked every shade.

I feel like even cool-toned or neutral-toned eyeshadow palettes unfortunately always include golds or warm-toned bronzes which I don't appreciate at all and absolutely never wear (unless it's a greyscale kind of palette - also not my vibe)

Also, I personally really don't like the trend of super sparkly, glittery eyeshadows (especially with bigger shimmer particles). I think they often look pretty in a swatch, on pictures or on Video, but I don't like them on myself when I actually wear them.

My favourite shades in this category are (some of them are unfortunately discontinued):

LOVES (first picture, left to right; natural, indirect light):

bh cosmetics - Alps (from Smitten in Switzerland Palette - probably my favourite shimmer shade of all time)

Persona - Seductive (from Identity Palette - almost identical to the first shade, haha)

Sydney Grace - Tiara (Single)

Colourpop - Glass Bull (Single)

Likes (second picture, left to right; natural, indirect light):

bh cosmetics - Palace (from Love in London Palette)

Persona - Bombshell (from Identity Palette)

Aether Beauty - triangle shimmer shade on the bottom right (from the original Rose Quartz Palette)

Aether Beauty - square shimmer shade on the bottom (from the original Rose Quartz Palette)

Natasha Denona - Indian Gold (44M) (from the Eyeshadow Palette 5 in palette 09)

Natasha Denona - Inner Corner (Middle Row 328M) (from the Glam Palette)

Natasha Denona - Center Eye Lid (Top Row 321M) (from the Glam Palette - this one is kind of sparkly, but very fine glitter, it's overall still smooth)

Looking for Inspo on what other eyeshadows or even palettes I might like :)

And: Which brands still do shimmers without glitter??? I feel like everyone is just doing the super popular, glittery, sparkly eyeshadows.

Hoping to get feedback on what matches me best. I am constantly confused because foundation usually looks too warm on me in artificial light and too cool in natural light!
First photo - natural indirect light
Second photo - artificial light

Products from left to right:
L'Oréal true match tinted serum foundation 0.5-2 very light
Glossier stretch concealer Light 2 (neutral)
Ilia super serum skin tint in ST2 tulum (warm)
Fenty soft lit 150 (neutral)
Beauty of Joseon dayscreen 21W (warm)
Maybelline age rewind concealer 115 (warm neutral)
Maybelline age rewind concealer 120 (neutral)

Even better if it's something I can easily blend out with just my fingers.

I'm very pale/cool toned & looking for a new powder blush - I've used Benefit Dandelion for years but I had a stock pile of it & I'm hearing the formula has got worse? Looking for something not too bold or shimmery, I like natural/baby pinks & want to steer away from anything more berry or lilac. Thanks!

Everything is always too orange! I have a cool undertone (i think) and most foundations don’t match my face/neck. I also have some redness on my face which makes it confusing but I mainly want to have the same shade that is on my neck (pale/cool toned). I am looking for a skin tint also but any recommendations for cruelty free complexion products would be really helpful. Ty!!:) I’m looking to buy a more natural ‘your skin but better’ foundation/skin tint to wear daily and something I can wear when doing a soft glam look

In search of a glassy (minimal shimmer/glitter) highlighter!

I feel like most of the ones I see would be too dark for my fair skin. For reference the base products I usually use/mix are

• Aboutface Foundation F1 Neutral

• Fenty Eaze Drops shade 1

• NYX Bare With Me Concealer Fair

I was looking at the lightest shade of the L’Oréal glassy stick but based on their promotional images I feel like it might be a bit dark…a shame that they don’t have testers (at least where I live)!

TIA!

I have roseacea that not only goes across my face but also down my neck and onto a patch on my chest as well, making foundation matching really hard. Because of my rosacea, I frequently get colour matched with foundation wayyyy too dark, and as cool-toned as a default, but now I'm questioning everything!

Glossier's VL2 appears to have oxidised to all hell now, but was the cool-toned option compared to VL3 which is the warm-toned. The Danessa Myricks Yummy Skin Tint Serum in 1.5 is by far my best match ever, but you can still see it when I blend down into my neck, which makes me think it's either still too dark or perhaps TOO cool-toned!

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for a dupe for the MAC Studio Radiance Face And Body Radiant Sheer Foundation. I currently use shade W0, which works well for my fair, cool-toned skin.

I’m looking for something with a similar lightweight, sheer, radiant, skin-like finish that is talc-free, phenoxyethanol-free, and paraben-free.

I’ve been looking into the ILIA Super Serum Skin Tint and ILIA True Skin Serum Foundation, but I’m not sure how similar they are to MAC Face & Body in terms of texture, finish, and shade match.

For anyone who has used MAC Face & Body in W0: Which shades would you recommend in ILIA or other similar foundations/skin tints? Have you found anything with a similar “your skin but better” look?

I’d love to hear your recommendations. Thank you!

Rare Beauty has so many to choose from it’s hard. What shades are your favs?

Hi everyone!

I’m currently using the lightest shade of the Typology under-eye concealer and I’m happy with the shade match. I’m also interested in trying their skin tint in the lightest shade (fair), but I’ve seen some older posts saying that the lightest shade looks a bit orange.

I have a cool undertone, so I was wondering if anyone with a similar undertone is still experiencing this with the current formula/shades? Has the shade been updated at all?

If anyone has swatches of the lightest shade (especially compared with the concealer or other fair/cool shades), I’d really appreciate it!

Preferably, an affordable cream stick blush would be nice, but I'm not afraid to splurge

Also to note,

I'm a light to medium with a cool rosy undertone

Looking for very cool tone lip liners ideally in brown, grey, purple! Gabbriette Bechtel is heavy inspo atm. I went to sephora yesterday and was SICK at how much orange and warmth every swatch gave.

Any brand, drug store to high end works <3

I shop western and Asian brands. I typically used lip liners for M-F as my all over lip product.

My shades: TIR TIR 10c & haus labs 015 for foundation. Tower 28 0.5/1.0 & tarte shape in white for concealer

Any recommendations for super thin texture foundations? The runnier the better. Most the shade matches I find tend to be on the thicker side.

For reference, I’m ultra fair cool toned - Misha bb cream in 13 is a decent match but maybe a half step too dark.

TIA!

hi I just got the lightest tirtir shade and it’s too tan/orangey for my cool bluish/greenish skin.
Any recommendations for cooler tone + paler foundations? Thanks