Does this ever happen to you?

[ladycattat]

Hi everybody. I am wondering if this tends to happen to anybody but me? I have very fair skin with freckles. Years and years ago when it was popular to get one's *colors done* I was classified as an *Autumn*.
At 46 years of age, I never, ever wore a liquid foundation....I just never liked the feel of them, and I was lucky enough not to need the coverage, I just used a concealer for boo-boos, and undereye circles and a face powder.
Like a lot of gals here, my first try with MMU was with BE. I think I found a match with their lightest shade. I didn't have much of a problem with them, except the price. Again, like most of the gals here, I discovered all the wonderful online MMU companies and started sampling. I thought I found an HG with another company that shall remain nameless, but there was way too much drama there, so when my good buddy JenW, discovered SN, I was hooked!
Ok, long story short, I found my match pretty easily; back then. Now it seems that either I can wear several different variations of *my mix*, or I am going around looking really cruddy, and no-one is telling me!
This winter I am really, really pale, but I know that JenW(who has coloring sorta-similar to mine(but darker, since she easily tans in the summer, and has dark features, where-as I have lighter features and I burn, then maybe tan) has been wearing 16ivory-1peach. I tried 18ivory-1peach and I think it looks good, but I had been wearing 12ivory,1wg, 1/2bg, and I thought it looked good, too.
I guess what I am am trying to ask......is MMU THAT forgiving???? I don't want to walk around with my face looking different than my neck or chest. Or am I just lucky that I am one of those people that is able to easily find a match and I don't have to worry too much about undertones and stuff and I should just shut the heck up and not worry about it???
Laurie

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I added my pic so you can see
Edited to add: Colors worn in pic:
Foundation: 18ivory, orig-1peach
Finishing Powder-Original, with a little SIAJ to add a little matte yellow tone
Blush-Maybe Baby
Eyes-Primer, Fire, Danny, and Peacock as liner
Lippie-Temptation

[marina16]

Yeah, I know what you mean. I started of with BE too but it made me itch pretty bad so I found EDM and it took me almost a year to find my exact shade. But in the meantime I was wearing their Olives in all ranges! Sometimes I looked too orange in them, while other days that same color looked fine on me. Ever since I switched to SN I've been using Warm Gold but am thinking of trying out others and see how they work for me. I think MMU is pretty forgiving.

[JenW]

Laurie,

I have found that I can wear at least three colors of SN foundation, too. It especially works with the lighter coverage foundations. Think of it like this. We all have many tones that make up the color of our skin. With one foundation (e.g. Warm Gold) you match a certain group of the colors in you skin, while another (e.g. Peach) more closely matches a different group of colors in your skin. Both look good, but usually you settle on one that enhances the colors that are most pleasing with your other features. Lighter coverage foundation is more of a blending powder than a masking powder. With lighter foundations, you usually aim to blend your imperfections and color variations.

Unfortunately, some of that 'matching in many foundation bases' kind of goes out the window as the coverage gets heavier. Since the purpose of a heavier foundation is to even everything up and cover imperfections rather than blend it all together, you have to be a little more vigilant in matching your undertones. Less of your own color shows through, so you need to match it more closely.

And yes, I think mineral makeup is some of the most forgiving makeup as long as it does not drastically change color from when you put it on to later in the day. I have had issue with some other brands turning quite a different/darker shade on me. If that happens with SN, I just add a little more Ivory or switch my color base (as I do tan rather quickly, and fade almost as fast).

I hope this explains some of it!!

P.S. Your pic looks awesome! Love the colors you chose!

[Cupcake]

Just wanted to say that I think that's a really good explanation, Jen. There can be a mere whisker of a difference between MMU foundations shades and, speaking for myself here, we can become spoiled in a nice way with being able to be so very precise and discerning in our choices.

Before MMU, all we had to choose between was eight shades of liquid sludge on a drugstore counter - and lets face it, at least five of them were so orange that you'd wonder who bought them! MMU is a revolution to the very pale like me, who previously had no choice other than to use talc as a dusting powder to whiten the sludge.

Now, although I don't tan, I can subtly change my mix from a hint of buttery gold to a hint of ebony and warm gold and that enables a wider variety of bolder eyeshadow / lippy / blush colours to compliment my skin, whereas before, they'd be the wrong tones. I'd like to think it brings out the chameleon in me. I love SN as a brand for many reasons, and one in particular is the flexibility their style of foundation blending gives.

[tizzylou]

Laurie, Like you and Jen and several others on this board, when I started with MMU I used BE, I wore their medium beige and looked ok, and itched alot. I then changed to a brand offered by the local day spa here, it had slightly more yellow undertones to it, and looked really good, except that it like BE was way to expensive for my budget, I then experienced EDM and wore warm medium beige, since I have switched to SN I have worn successfully, a WG/Ivory mix, a BG/ivory mix and at the moment a 1WG:1peach:11-12 ivory. this mix and the buttery gold have been the best matches for me. So yes MMU is more forgiving, and Jen is right the heavier coverage, the less forgiving it is.

Hollis