i also feel like 90% of the employees at my store who work in makeup are competent in color matching. as much as we are certainly trained to help you find everything you’re looking for and be experts, we are also encouraged to try to keep things sweet and simple (so we can move on to the next person).Īs someone who works in makeup quite often, i do feel my color matching skills are strong. what it does mean, though, is that likely, as we’re helping you, we probably have 4 more people waiting for another one. that being said, it’s easy to get tired of them, and by no means does that mean that someone should take it out on you. I’m speaking for myself and myself only, but as an employee who works at a fairly high volume store color matches come a dime a dozen and it is the most common request we get from clients. Sometimes a brand just won’t have a perfect match, their undertones might skew towards warm yellow or cool pink, or they’ll have your shade but not the right undertone, so just keep on keeping on until you find it! I’ve found that Fenty, Smashbox, Pat McGrath, and believe it or not the Sephora Collection lines all have a wide variety of undertones.
#Perfect color match foundation trial
There will be a lot of trial and error until you get it right, but once you do, you can spot the right shade a mile away (or sometimes you’ll need to buy two shades and mix). Also please note that the lighting in sephora is horrible, get to a window or go outside and check, but also account for possible oxidation changing the color. Anyway, I think that for most people, it’s easier to match yourself with trial and error than to have a Sephora employee match you. I even had an associate that didn’t know color theory. I’m pale olive, and I’ve had people match me to peachy, yellow, super white, and pinky shades.
She was super punky with bright fuschia manic-panic hair and I just did not want to ask her, but i was so wrong- she found a Make Up For Ever concealer that was a dead on match (sadly discontinued). I’ve had so many people color match me over the years at Sephora, and only one person got it right. How accurate is the machine they use to color match? I’ve never been offered that. She goes wow you used to be dark and hands me Y315 (cool tone) which was darker and gives me a swatch and then had nothing else to say. I told her I was matched with Y245 before (warm undertone). I recently got color matched with a MUFE foundation stick. Before the sale I bought a Giorgio Armani one that was too pink and a shade too dark. I never questioned it until recently shopping in store during the sale and overheard newbies being trained on “what to say” about a product as if it’s a generalized sell pitch. Tracing back to every time I have asked to get color matched, I noticed some of the employees were either in a rush and swatched something quickly or just incompetent and did a random swatch.
#Perfect color match foundation full
I always noticed how pink I looked in my car after I do a full face of makeup. Can I trust any employee at Sephora to do a color match for me? I have bought numerous foundations and was convinced to this day that I was “warm” tone.
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