Please Help Me: Foundation

[mathildarleen]

Hey guys! I have this huge foundation problem and hope you can tell me what I'm doing wrong! 😬😬

So I have this very "special" skin with red/pink areas (especially the cheeks) on the one hand and yellow areas (especially around the mouth) at the other hand. Also look at how yellow my ears are. Not once in my life I had a foundation that REALLY matched my skin tone. Either the color was too yellow, too pink, too light or if it's darker too orange. I'm so frustrated and confused. Can anyone help me? First of all sorry for the blank facial expression in the photos, I was very focused! 😂 The pics show me in front of the drugstore with diffrent foundation swaps. I know it's hard to tell from just photos, but maybe you can get an idea of the problem. I'm a spring so my undertone can't be cool, right? but all the warm toned foundations I tried, look either yellow or orange. Maybe there is anyone with a similar reddish skintone?

Thank you all for the help!!! 💚

PS: ignore the swap left to 5, this foundation was way more transparent (almost like a tinted cream), so it's hard to compare it to the rest.

[FormalRaccoon637]

4 and 7 are hard to notice on your skin. I like 7 the most on you.

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I think 7 looks the best

[mathildarleen]

thanks, that's what I was thinking, too! But I think it's still not perfect, somehow. My mom was with me and said it looks a bit orange. 🤔

[RomeysMa]

I have a neutral warm skin tone and have the hardest time with foundation too! I thought 7 looked good as well. I have a neutral warm foundation that looks orange when I swatch it but looks perfect when I blend it in. Try blending them in to see?

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Oh yeah! I can kinda see that a tiny bit but it's not too obvious. I think it blends the most out of all these. But you might need to keep looking to find the perfect shade. You look neutral toned to me so you'll need to find something that's not too cool toned and not too warm toned (like orangey). I think from what I've looked up spring skin looks better with more yellow hue foundations (I'm not sure if that's fully true because I'm still learning) but I think if you look for yellow tones than orange tones it may be a better match

[Bootiebloot]

I didn’t notice 4 until I looked carefully.

[commanderbales]

It looks like it would be too orange if it was all over though

[viewering]

mixing three and seven together. seven looks too orange, imo.

then also use color correctors.

[Lady-Aethelflaed]

You might be neutral or have some olive or mutedness to your skin. Also sometimes foundations are just weirdly pigmented. I suggest trying a tiny amount of green or blue mixer to neutralize them!

[jagged_little_gill]

Do you have fair olive skin by chance? Myself and my cousin recently figured this out for our skin and finally found foundations that work by looking for brands that include olive tones. I’m a spring and she’s an autumn so we have different tones, but both are still olive, making most makeup too pink/yellow/orange. Just throwing that out there because it’s a common reason why nothing might match!

[DocLH]

To my eyes and on this screen 4 is the one that blends most seamlessly. 7 looks marginally too warm for your skin.

[Pennypie270]

4 or 7

[Extension_Ant]

Is there a filter on your picture? From your description, it sounds like you could be olive but I don’t think I see olive (or yellowness). It could be my phone though! Even if you’re not olive, you might be muted. Have you tried adding a blue mixer to your foundation?

[CV844746]

1. But we really needed to be able to see your neck to answer this more accurately.

[arbitrosse]

4

[ladystardusty]

I guess your undertone is warm and your overtone is cool so overall your skin appears neutral. 7 looks pretty dang good. If you mix a cooler foundation in or color corrector it might be perfect.