I used to use and love the smashbox ones back in the day! For the last year or so, the morphe concealer in the dark brown cool shade has been working really well. I got this one from the dark trio instead. The “correct” match for the shades in the 200 range is the medium matchstix trio which has a very cool undertone but it wasn’t strong enough for me (ya girl needs to draw on her cheekbones ygm). The Mocha contour stick is from the Dark matchstix trio, it’s cheaper to buy the trio instead of the sticks individually but I didn’t care for the highlight stick or concealer stick. It just melted into my skin and gave me the warmest peach glow I could imagine. My artist kind of sold it to me as a blush topper but tbh it wasn’t dark enough to be a blush topper. The highlight duo is the less popular one, it’s slightly more peachy than the gold sister duo but it’s so unique!! I don’t have any highlighters like it and I have A LOT of highlighters. I also bought the highlight duo in Girl Next Door and Chic Phreak, and the Mocha contour stick. Pay special attention to the labels and corresponding undertones! For olive girls (or NC girls), the 270 + 280 shades will pull too pink/muddy. My advice is to trust these women! They literally have matched thousands of people with your skin tone to the foundation. I probably will purchase 290 as the summer months roll around again. I liked this! But it dried down in about a minute and the difference between the foundation and my face was too stark. My undertone is super neutral but yellow always looks more flattering than any other shade on me. Annoyingly, there are no real olive shades in the range. So, 260 is neutral, followed by 270 which is pink, 280 which is pink, 290 which is yellow and 300 which is yellow. They go up in undertones that are (loosely) in groups of two. Ordinarily I would just go up a shade BUTTTTT you can’t do that in Fenty Beauty BECAUSE the shades don’t go up chronologically. I did ask to try shade 270 but she said she didn’t bring it out because I’m not the right undertone for it. However, she was adamant that this was the right shade. I avoid this look and pile on bronzer like it’s going out of fashion. It reminds me of a not very nice time when I was very sick and didn’t have my thyroid under control. I never try to match it because when my face is the same colour I look ill. 2 shades lighter than my usual face shade. She shuffled the neckline of my jumper slightly and said “yes, this is why I bought 260.” Basically, my neck and chest is approx. Now, I’d done a little research online and assumed I was in the 300 range as this shade on all the models is what seemed most similar to my skin tone. She came back with 3 bottles: 260, 290, 300. The girl picked up a shade swatcher aka a reel of different shade cards and held a couple to my face before disappearing off to collect some sample bottles. She sits me down in a very cramped Harvey Nicks surrounded by boisterous women who on one side are trying to break into the enclosed Fenty scene to avoid queuing, and on the other, knocking over products and giving the staff hell. She asks me what I’m after and I tell her it’s the foundation but I’m interested in some other stuff too. They have been trained to pick the best match out of 40 shades for each skin tone. She is a legit makeup artist, and not a sales rep that you would ordinarily find on a makeup counter. I get inside and I am greeted by a makeup artist. I didn’t even have headphones to listen to the hot fire that is Jhene Aiko’s new album.Īnyway, time trickled on. How wrong I was!! I went on a weekday, a Monday in fact, because who wants to trek to Knightsbridge in the midst of Hurricane Ophelia and 70mph winds after work, to wait outside for some makeup?! Yeah, apparently like 50 people wanted to do that so I had to wait outside in the storm for like 67 minutes. I waited a while, because I naively thought the ridiculous queues outside Harvey Nichols in Knightsbridge would fade as the buzz died down. She is gorgeous, tanned, unpredictable and sassy so I KNEW I was going to spend some dollar on Fenty Beauty and the utter chaos it has caused. (Or so we thought…) I thought the launch was cool, she dropped it so nonchalantly and effortlessly and I thought that was cool too. Sooo, big news in makeup community – RiRi has entered and seemingly, monopolised the “hot new product” market.
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