Mac Face Foundation

A creamy gel foundation that delivers luxurious hydration, while instantly revitalizing the look of dull and dry skin. Its gel-based system provides outstanding skin-feel and medium-to-full buildable coverage. MAC Cosmetics is all about makeup artistry: turning everyday foundation, concealers, blushes, eye shadows, and more into tools for creating looks to express your own individual personality and creativity. A champion of diversity and a front-runner in trendsetting, MAC Cosmetics is a household name synonymous with fabulous quality. What it does: Formulated with a unique blend of emollients, this foundation is a comfortable, lightweight formula that glides onto your face and body, providing stay-true color. Best mac mail client 2018. A fluid foundation that provides low-to-medium buildable coverage and a flawless, natural satin-shine finish. Skin conditioning, water-resistant and long-wearing. Product Size: 1.7-oz.

Choosing a foundation can be really daunting, but it's a key part to our makeup and can make or break a flawless face so it's important to get it right. Many clients ask me about the labelling of MAC foundations as they don't understand what NC and NW means and how to colour match themselves.

In colour theory, we're taught that cool undertones are reds, pinks and blues and that warm undertones are yellow, peaches and golds. However, in MAC labelling, the undertones are the opposite.

NC: Neutral Cool – golden beige undertones.

NW: Install a virtual machine on mac. Neutral Warm – red, pink or blue undertones.

N: Neutral – beige undertones.

C: Cool – Yellow, golden or olive undertones

So a person with yellow, peach or golden undertones would be suited well to an NC foundation whereas a person with red, pink or blue undertones would be better suited to an NW foundation. A person with a beige undertone would be perfectly suited to an N foundation.

You might have heard that some ladies use an NC foundation but have been given an NW concealer, this is because the pink undertone of an NW concealer helps to cancel out dark green under eye circles. For blue tinged under eye circles, you could cancel them out with an NC concealer.

My client Nina has warm undertones (reds in MAC terms) with cool under eye circles (yellow). I used MAC Studio Fix in NC20 over her face to even out and correct the redness and NW10 concealer to correct the dark circles

The number that follows each NC, NW, N or C is simply the colour of each foundation. Sharon, from Sharonthemakeupartist.com explains this perfectly:

'…there are some odd numbers peppered along the way in some of the foundations. For example there is an NC27 or an NW18 in Studio Fix Fluid . These colours don't have quite as strong an undertone as those that end in 5 or 0. These odd numbers have more of a neutral undertone. So an NC27 is not as yellow as an NC25 but it is a little bit darker.

Conversely there are also plain C's and plain N's. These have a stronger yellow or pink undertone than their NC/NW counterparts. Very few of the foundations in the range now have these strong undertones, it's mostly the old school formulas like Face and Body, or Studio Fix Powder.'

The shade I wear myself is NC15 – this is much more flattering to my skin tone and helps to cancel out any unwanted redness over my cheek area. This is my personal preference too and I find that the NC blends seamlessly into my skin. I find that with the majority of my clients, an NC foundation always looks better and evens the skin tone beautifully.

The most important thing is to make sure that your foundation matches with your chest and looks natural. If you are still struggling, don't be afraid to ask a counter makeup artist for advice and a colour match. Makeup is all about having fun so there is no wrong or right way to wear your foundation, as long as you have a good match and avoid the dreaded ‘tideline' around the neck, you're good to go!

© This post is copyright of Rachael Divers 2015.

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• Benefit
• Lancôme
• Urban Decay
• L'Oréal
• Max Factor
• Maybelline
• Revlon
• Covergirl
• Clinique
• Illamasqua
• Estée Lauder
• NARS
• Chanel
• Bobbi Brown
• Elizabeth Arden
• Shiseido
• MAC

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• Enter as many shades as possible that you've used before. The more shades you enter, the better your recommendations will be.
• Only tell us colours that are a good match for your skin. Would you buy that same colour again? If not, don't enter it.
• Don't guess, if you can't remember exactly which colour you used. Go check the packaging just to make sure!
• If you've worn two different shades in the same foundation before (e.g. one in summer and another in winter), just tell us the one that is the best match for your skin for most of the year.
• If you only tell us your matches in sheer coverage foundations or tinted moisturisers, we may not be able to give you a perfect match in a full coverage foundation.