Everyone knows that liquid foundation can create flawless and shiny skin and that mastering the skills of liquid foundation is the most important basic step of makeup. But we don’t know how to choose the color of liquid foundation, which is probably a common problem. Today, we will teach you the color selection skills of liquid foundation! You should know that the purpose of liquid foundation is to even the skin color and present a natural and good skin color state.

How To Choose Foundation Correctly?

If the excessive pursuit of concealer will make the base makeup very heavy. If there are any defects on the face, sisters still need to buy a professional concealer to partially treat the defects on the face. The air cushion is generally used as a tool for makeup. Of course, when Han makeup was popular, many bloggers would use air cushions for makeup because it was convenient and fast, but it was not as durable as a liquid foundation.

If you want to explain the relationship between the liquid foundation and other foundation products in one sentence, it is generally said that liquid foundation is the backbone and other foundation products are branches. It belongs to the improvement and extension of liquid foundations.

 

Step 1 – Determine skin tone

Generally speaking, skin can be divided into three tones: cold tone, warm tone, and neutral tone. So, how to determine what color you belong to?

Cool skin tone: the tendons are blue or purple, and the skin is blue or red in the sun. And with silver decoration, it is more suitable for cold liquid foundation. The color number is C.

Warm skin tone: the tendons are light green olive, and the skin is light yellow in the sun. It is more beautiful with gold ornaments, suitable for warm liquid foundation, and the color number is indicated by W.

Neutral tone skin color: the tendons are blue-green, and the skin is green in the sun. Gold and silver will look good if you try them at will. The neutral liquid foundation is selected, which is represented by N.

 

Step 2 – Confirm skin color scale

After confirming your own color tone, you will enter the stage of color scale selection. What is a color scale?

It is the degree of skin brightness, which is easy to understand: for example, the yellow one white/yellow two white that often appears in the liquid foundation can be understood as that in the yellow warm tone, the yellow one white is more white than the yellow two white.

Many people do not know where to define your skin tone. Set up a simple formula. If people often say you are white, it may be yellow and white; If someone occasionally thinks you are white, it may be yellow and white. If someone says you have a healthy complexion, it is basically yellow. There is also the pink tone we usually talk about. The pink tone is more suitable for cold skin. If the yellow tone person uses the powder liquid foundation, the upper face will be gray.

However, if your base makeup color is too pale, resulting in disjunction with the skin color of your neck, then this is certainly not a suitable liquid foundation for you.

 

Step 3 – Choose a foundation makeup color number

We must remember that the purpose of using liquid foundation is to make the skin feel textured. Including (correcting skin color, and concealer) So, when choosing the color number, you must choose the one that really suits you. It is much easier to choose the color number after knowing what color tone you are.

Generally, there are many color numbers for brands. For novices, color numbers are really difficult to choose. At the same time, you need to know that different brands, even with the same color number, have different colors. So I suggest you go to the counter to try it for the first time.

The color test should not be on the wrist or back of the hand but on the junction of the mandible and neck. After applying foundation makeup at this position, if the color of liquid foundation can make the two places transition naturally and there seems to be no shadow, then this foundation makeup color number is the most suitable for your foundation makeup color number. There are errors in human vision, and reference objects are needed for comparison. You can choose three or four similar color numbers to test the color together, which can more accurately determine the liquid foundation suitable for your skin color.

Cold tone skin: It is more suitable for cold-tone liquid foundations such as green, white and blue, which will make the skin look more transparent.

Warm tone skin: the yellow liquid foundation is most suitable for warm white skin, which can make skin look cleaner and brighter. If the skin color is healthy and natural yellow, you can choose the natural color number with orange/pink.

Neutral tone skin: many colors can be easily controlled

 

Step 4 – Selection of texture

The texture of liquid foundation can not be selected blindly, and there is much more emphasis in the middle! Buying the wrong texture is just as awkward as buying the wrong color number: card powder, peeling makeup, mottled…… How to choose a liquid foundation for different skin types?

For dry skin and mixed dry skin, the liquid foundation with high moisture content should be selected. This liquid foundation usually has a poor concealer effect. It is recommended to use special concealer to deal with subsequent defects.

For oil skin and oil mixture, choose refreshing oil-control foundation makeup products. This liquid foundation generally has low water content, and some of them are oil-free formulas. Therefore, the texture is usually thick, with high concealer and strong durability. However, because of the thick texture, it usually has a heavy sense of makeup and low moisture. Some girls with alcohol, oily skin, and sensitive skin should pay attention to the anti-allergy test before use.

Sensitive muscles should choose special foundation makeup products that are mild and less irritating. Many liquid foundations contain alcohol. Sensitive muscles should be avoided as far as possible.