if they allow swatches hi everyone welcome back to my channel if you're new
welcome my name is Christine today I'm gonna be sharing with you guys my tips
and tricks for always finding your foundation shade whether it's from a
place like Sephora or if you're buying foundations from like Target so if
you're interested first make sure you hit the subscribe button if you haven't
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with the video tip number one that I have is to make sure you know your
undertone one easy way to find that is to go in a store where you can swatch my
favorite place to go is Sephora just because they have so many different
foundations to choose from so you can always find your shade I will usually
grab a couple colors especially when you have a couple shades swatch on your face
it's much easier for you to tell what undertone each shade is I switched three
different foundation shades on my face to show you guys like how to compare the
different undertones so the first shade that I swatch was this Catrice HD
foundation and this one is in the color 38 honey beige as you can see as I
swatch it you can't really tell what the undertone is it just kind of looks like
yellowish but this one actually has a neutral pink undertone it looks really
close to my skin tone but once I swatch the other colors you can see more
clearly what the undertone of that color is I really like that country's
foundation actually talked about it in my 5 best and worst foundations so if
you haven't seen that video yet I would highly recommend checking it out the
next foundation that I swatch was this Giorgio Armani maestro foundation this
is in the shade 4.5 compared to the Catrice you can see it pulls a little
bit more of a neutral undertone obviously it is way too light for my
skin tone but we're just comparing like undertones here the my show is
definitely a little bit more neutral I can't tell if it's really yellow or pink
so that's how you know if it's more of a like neutral undertone the next
foundation that I swatch on my face is the BB cream bounce foundation this one
is in the shade 3.5 so watch next to the 3 you can see that this one pulls a
heavy yellow undertone and for me I prefer having like a yellow olive
undertone in all my foundation products and really see the undertones the crease
you almost can't really tell if it's like pink or yellow
but once you see a compare next to the bean cream you can tell that there
definitely is a little bit more pink in there so that one I would just
categorize as more of a like neutral pink undertone my show you can see is
more neutral than the other two and then the BB cream despoil is really really
yellows I prefer having a yellow olive undertone in all my foundations but if
you are around my skintone we usually are more of a like all of yellow
undertone then there's a little clip of me applying the BB cream all over my
face you can see that first it looks really really yellow but once I blend it
in with the rest of my skin it really matches well with my neck a lot of these
foundations - when you swatch it it's obviously a lot more concentrated on
your face and when you blend it out it's gonna be more natural-looking so it's
not gonna look quite so yellow or Pink's your much lighter than I am you might
even be more of a like pink neutral skin tone so I would just kind of play around
with it and swatch lots of foundations on your face to kind of decide what type
of like undertones that you prefer for your skin tip number two that I have is
to find your correct shade you want to swatch three different colors you want
to do one that is what you think is your skin tone one that is lighter and one
that is one shade deeper and that way you can compare all three and see which
one matches you best and another way that you can find out is to kind of
blend it along your cheek and you want to find the one that best disappears
into your skin so as you can see with the BB foundation as I kind of buff it
in with the brush it really sinks into the skin and kind of disappears and so
that is like the perfect shade for me obviously in the summer you're gonna be
a deeper skin tone than that and then vice versa in the winters we want to
find a shade that matches your undertone and disappears when you blend it out
into the skin next thing you would do is to either if you feel comfortable I
would actually purchase it from Sephora but if you don't feel comfortable
purchasing a high-end foundation I will just go ahead and grab a sample of it
and then just bring this little sample with you the next time you go foundation
shopping when I go to a place like Target and I wanna buy foundations there
I would bring my foundation with me to the drugstore and that way when you hold
it side by side with the other shades you can clearly see all the different
undertones compared to each other and it's much easier to tell what foundation
you are you guys know I'm a big drugstore junkie so I actually know
exactly what shade I am my Maybelline fit me foundation I'm
always in the shade 220 every time I go to the drugstore and I want to buy a
drugstore foundation I will go ahead and go to the maybelline section grab the
fit me 220 because I know that has my perfect undertone shade and all that and
I will compare with any other foundations that I want to buy and I'll
hold it next to my fit me and compare it side-by-side and see what foundations
have Pinker undertones and which colors have more of a like yellow undertone I
want to find one that best matches my Maybelline foundation in my shade and
that way I know that that foundation when I go home and try it on its gonna
match me perfectly see how this one's like yellow and way too light hmm this
one's like pinky so has pink own so I'll be way too pink for me oh yeah see
that's good this one looks so yellow and this one actually looks pink next to
this you're like okay that's a very similar so this is a good one and you
can also see sometimes they have an undertone so I have like warm undertones
so I'm gonna make sure I'm getting things that are warm the same thing is
true if you have a foundation from Sephora that you purchase whenever I go
to the drugstore and I know I'm gonna be purchasing a foundation I would just
pack that foundation with me like say if I had the BB cream foundation or the
Giorgio Armani I would just put it in my purse and then when I go to Target I
would take it out and compare it to all the other foundations and in that same
as that I described earlier find my shade through that see now you can see
next to it looks way too pinky but like if you're just looking at by itself you
would never be able to take anything
this color here is a little bit too beige it has a slight hint of pink
whereas this one is really really yellow I prefer yellow over pink so I'll
probably just reach for this one this is 475 I think that's the actual color I
have this was too yellow although now this one looks too pink a good mix
between the two no I would say in this case I would just do this one yellow
it's much easier if you purchase a drugstore foundation and you know that
shade is perfect for you that way the next time you go to the drugstore you
can just go over to grab that same one and then use that to compare it that is
all the tips that I have a hope you guys found this video helpful if you did make
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like to see next make sure you watch my foundation video
if you haven't already and I have a couple more videos here as well be sure
to check those out before you go and thank you guys so much for watching and
I will see you in my next video bye