One of the reasons I like getting to Canada is that I can actually get makeup that works for my skin tone. As I joked to my hairdresser, when we were discussing a "beauty tip" that said if you were going blonde, you should colour lighter than your skin, that if I followed that and allowed him to do that to me, I could stand next to an eggshell white wall, and all you'd see was a pair of green eyes staring out at you. When I say I'm looking for foundation in porcelain, I mean it!
For some reason, California hasn't figured out that there are people who take shade 01 of cosmetics, so just try and find it. The first shade in the bin is the ubiquitous rose beige, which is a pretty nasty piece of work. Unfortunately, it's also the most used colour by American women whose ancestors wandered in from Europe. And it's so wrong for so many women. You just don't need that sort of "colour correction", and foundation is the wrong place for that anyway.
Guys, if you come across a group of women who all seem to be wearing the same oddly pink masque, you can blame the bubble-pack cosmetics industry for that.
Posted by lsefton at December 26, 2003 03:15 PM