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Find your shade

Two ways in: start from the shade you already wear, or start from your skin.

From the shade you wear

Give us the brand, the line and the code printed on the bottle. We look for the closest one in our range, and we name the gap that remains.

Brand, line and code. The code on its own is not enough: the 23 of one line is not the 23 of another. Any brand can be entered, American, European or Korean. We do not know them all equally well: when the starting shade is estimated rather than recorded, the answer says so. Three entries that work:
MAC Studio Fix Fluid NC30 L'Oréal True Match N3 Maybelline Fit Me 220
Does that shade really suit you?

No match between two brands is exact. Coverage, finish and oxidation shift the result on skin.

Find your shade in four steps

01

Find your depth

Depth only says whether skin is light or deep, never what color it is. Compare along the jaw and the neck, in daylight, never on the back of your hand.

Porcelain Very light Light Light medium Medium Medium deep Deep Very deep Deepest
02

Identify your undertone

The undertone is the color that shows through the skin. Here, golden means warm and pink means cool, with no exception. Some brands write it the other way round, and that is where most shade mistakes come from.

Cool: pink, porcelain pink Neutral: balanced between cool and warm Warm: golden, peach or yellow Olive: a gray green

Look at the veins inside your wrist, in daylight: bluish, you are on the cool side; greenish, on the warm side.

03

Choose your texture and finish

A cushion darkens a little once applied, a BB cream lets your own skin through, a matte foundation covers more and forgives a shade mistake less. Texture is chosen before color.

04

See your shades

A dot on a screen proves nothing, calibration changes everything from one screen to the next. So every shade carries its code, its depth written out in full and its undertone in words.

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