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- Hey guys, I'm Nina and I love makeup,
but it can be really difficult as a person of color
to find makeup that works for me.
So I'm gonna be going to four different stores,
and buying four different foundations
based on the help of the clerks.
Based off of previous experiences
I've had with foundation matching,
I'm not super confident that this
is gonna be a good experience.
I just finished my shopping spree.
I went to Chanel, Sephora, Target, and Ulta.
Let me tell you about each one.
So I went to the Chanel counter
and the saleslady was very nice,
she was very helpful.
She sat me down and she was trying to match me,
and she informed me that this is
the darkest shade that they had.
Look at me!
One side is the alive me,
and one side is the ghost me.
Just like super ashy, super pale,
no warmth or life in my skin at all.
I feel exactly like Mulan when she like
looks at the sword and like wipes away one half of her face.
So I went into Ulta and she was like
I know exactly what you need.
Gonna test these three different shades on you,
and the whole experience probably took about a minute.
It matches like the warmth of my skin.
I don't feel like ashy or that I look
pale or dry or anything.
There's like a little bit of difference in my forehead,
cuz my forehead tends to be,
is like really darker then the rest of my face.
But overall it's like, it feels like a perfect match.
So, I went into Target.
At our Targets they have like specific beauty people
in the beauty isles to help people out.
She was like very sure this W6 Warm was gonna work.
I look so sweaty and greasy,
and I feel like honestly, if I did actually start to sweat,
you'd get like these lines of color coming down on my face,
it's like my natural skin tried to break out of its prison.
I couldn't walk around outside like this,
people would wonder what was wrong with me.
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I went into Sephora.
She pitched two shades to try out on me,
and she got it right on the first try,
which I was really impressed by.
They were almost identical to me honestly,
I couldn't even tell the difference.
If you, I couldn't even tell that I was wearing foundation
when she tested it on me.
There isn't much of a difference
between my face and my neck.
It's very like, warm and bright,
like how I want to be.
And it takes out any like weird discoloration
that I have in my skin.
I went in really thinking none of it
was gonna work out for me,
but I ended up coming out of it with two
really nice foundations
that I'm probably gonna use for a long time.
It's nice to know that there's a brand out there
that like has a perfect match for my skin.
I think it's just better to test all of your options,
and see what works best for you.
One person doesn't necessary have
the best eye to match you,
so it's better to get you know four or even more
different opinions on what looks best for you.
She told me that this was the darkest shade that they had,
but she was like oh yeah we're,
we're kinda waiting on the darker shades to come in,
and I was like are you?
Are you really?