Makeup Creator Begs Brands for Better Shade Range
Makeup · Video Essay
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A creator discusses the difficulty of finding foundation and concealer shades that match their skin tone, highlighting the limited options available. The creator showcases three products that work for them and expresses a strong desire for more inclusive shade ranges from makeup brands, particularly for olive and neutral undertones.
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Okay now that TikTok is not going away it didn't feel like it made sense to make this video when it was but now that it's not um I am begging begging makeup brands to make true like light olive neutral shades. Begging these are quite literally the only three products that I have found that are accurate to my skin tone. Like I don't look like I should be an issue to match with. Like I should have a lot of options based off of what we know makeup brands typically their shade ranges right don't agree with it. But the reality for most brands right now. These are the only three products. There's one skin tint by Milani. Perfect shade match and it is in shade four. Which is supposed to be warm neutral. It is not warm neutral. I have absolutely zero warm undertones. This is a true neutral like olive neutral shade. The Kosas concealer in oh shoot I think it's 3.2 or something. Its sticker fell off. It's their one shades and it's supposed to be neutral but definitely has the green undertone. I don't know what they they cannot seem to understand like when they put the green undertone in it. That's an olive shade. It's warm. It has orange in it anyway. And then this is L2 olive from About Face. Only foundation I have that matches me. Everything else that I try is either orange or yellow. Even if it says true neutral. Only ones I'm begging About Face. Please put out a concealer. I've been looking for a concealer one for other than this one for months. I have tried every single concealer at Sephora. Like tried to shade match it. This is the only one and I like it. But it's not that much coverage. It does kind of act weird with um skincare sometimes. And it's almost a tad bit too light. Like it's my skin tone does make me look a little tiny bit weird way pale. This I thought was really good for my skin tone. Even see like in it's not showing up on camera. This one definitely has more orange to it. And it was okay at first. But then it oxidized. I really like the formula though. So if they could do like more of a true neutral. They don't have any like true neutrals and if they do. It's literally like the first shade. Like fair but pale. If they could do like a true olive neutral shade. That would be really cool. Um, this is a small issue like keep turning. I'm lucky I have anything in my shade, you know but um I know there's more pale olive girls out there with the true olive undertone. Begging y'all. Please. But about face you are that girl. So please come out with concealer. Okay, bye.
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