{"id":1655,"date":"2019-05-01T23:25:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T23:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlemakeupschool.com\/Blog\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2019-05-01T23:25:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T23:25:45","slug":"getting-the-proper-color-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seattlemakeupschool.com\/Blog\/getting-the-proper-color-match\/","title":{"rendered":"getting the proper color match"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"700\" src=\"http:\/\/seattlemakeupschool.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/make-up-1209798_1920-1024x700.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1656\" srcset=\"http:\/\/seattlemakeupschool.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/make-up-1209798_1920-1024x700.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/seattlemakeupschool.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/make-up-1209798_1920-300x205.jpg 300w, http:\/\/seattlemakeupschool.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/make-up-1209798_1920-768x525.jpg 768w, http:\/\/seattlemakeupschool.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/make-up-1209798_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve all done it.&nbsp; We\u2019ve stood in the cosmetics department of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riteaid.com\/\">Rite Aid<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walmart.com\/\">Walmart<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.target.com\/\">Target<\/a>, even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maccosmetics.com\/index.tmpl\">MAC<\/a>\nand <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esteelauder.com\/index.tmpl\">Estee\nLauder<\/a> and searched for that right color of foundation.&nbsp; We\u2019ve\neven asked for help and still we\u2019ve gotten home to find it\u2019s just not right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So frustrating, so annoying and so damn expensive!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is a girl to do? Well, first off, trying to match ourselves in\nflorescent lighting at a Walmart is never easy.&nbsp; And second most of us are\nmatching the wrong part of our body!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At makeup counters you tend to test foundation colors on your hand.&nbsp;\nBig mistake.&nbsp; Your hands tend to get more exposure to the sun and to the\nelements than our faces do.&nbsp; So they are not the same color as our face,\nor our neck or our d\u00e9colletage.&nbsp; So how on earth would the color that\nmatches the back of your hand match your face?&nbsp; But it\u2019s not like we were\never taught how to really get the right match, right? RIGHT???? &nbsp;So, then we do the time tested holding it up\nto our cheek test only to get home and find we have become a floating\nhead.&nbsp; God I hate floating heads!&nbsp; Or worse we find that nasty line\nof demarcation.&nbsp; That thing will kill the best makeup in a heartbeat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the answer?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The best place to match your skin is your collarbone, first because your\nface, chest and neck all tend to be a little bit different from each\nother.&nbsp; 2<sup>nd<\/sup> you won\u2019t be comparing color to sun damage that can\ndevelop on your chest.&nbsp; So if you are\nmatching your collarbone and blending your foundation nicely from your hair\nline, down your neck and feathering to a finish at your collar bone you will\nend up, most of the time, with perfectly matched foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One more bit of foundation advice:&nbsp; The color you use in the winter is\nnot going to be the color you use in the summer, so don\u2019t feel bad about having\ntwo colors on hand.&nbsp; You can use the two either by themselves or by\ncombining them to create your own custom color match, no matter what time of\nthe year it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well I hope this helps.\u00a0 Have fun out there shopping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Method Makeup Academy, Seattle\u2019s Makeup School<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve all done it.&nbsp; We\u2019ve stood in the cosmetics department of Rite Aid, Walmart, Target, even MAC and Estee Lauder&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seattlemakeupschool.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seattlemakeupschool.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seattlemakeupschool.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seattlemakeupschool.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seattlemakeupschool.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/seattlemakeupschool.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1657,"href":"http:\/\/seattlemakeupschool.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions\/1657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seattlemakeupschool.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seattlemakeupschool.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seattlemakeupschool.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}