How to Find your Perfect Foundation Shade

Finding a foundation is hard. Remember growing up and learning about foundation? Remember when people would tell you "just match it to the inside of your wrist" well those people lied and they have absolutely no idea of what they're talking about. Hell, I've gone to makeup counters to get precision-matched only to leave looking like a weird ghost-goblin hybrid (how they ended up making me both pale AND obscenely green is beyond me).

Good news is our agony is over. I did a  research and finally got some info from Marie Claire magazine on how to pick the foundation that just so happens to *perfectly* match your skin.

So here we go:

Don't test on your wrist or neck like everyone tells you to

"Besides your jawline, I recommend testing foundation in the *center* of the face, where women often need the most coverage."

Follow the five-minute rule

"The biggest trick I can give to finding the best color is to give the foundation a few minutes to 'bake.' Shop for your other beauty products, look at new lipsticks, then double check the color of the foundation. Five minutes is a foundation lifetime."

Leave the store and walk outside

"Natural light is best for color matching. Be sure to check the foundation in various lighting, though, to make sure you are choosing the right color—lighting can manipulate yellow undertones and make them appear more green, while making red undertones in skin appear dark or even brown. You want to see the makeup in all conditions."

Also, try this crazy new service

A little tip from us: CoverGirl came out with a new innovation called Embrace Your Face Makeup Finder, which is like your own personal match guru (but for free, AKA the best kind of guru). Upload a picture online and it'll help you sort through every type of shade to find the one ideally suited to you—there's some straight-up magic in there about the color of your veins and what that means for your undertones.

I hope this helps ....