Curse my nearly translucent skin!....

[lysimache]

Today I was a big brave lysimache, and I went to Sephora, and I TALKED to the people, because I really, really wanted to try their "Pantone Color IQ" thingee. Basically, it's a camera that's supposed to take pictures of your skin (right up against it with I presume its own light so that ambient light doesn't interfere with accuracy), and average all its

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[squeeful]

Lol, cotton candy person! Yeah, I turn bright red really easily. That color match machine thingee has scared me for a while; glad to hear my fear is justified! I cheat and order a lot of my foundation type things from Asia, land of pale love. Some of them are reasonably neutral and help knock out the obvious pinkness of my face.

Oten I photograph with a really obvious purple undertone. It baffles me.



BEHOLD MY LOVE OF DORKY HATS AND BRIGHT LIPSTICK! I managed to not be purple in this; I was so proud.

[lysimache]

Ahhhh, I LOVE your hat!!!! And your lippie! What a pretty pinky red! <3

I was so sad the color matchy thing didn't work. I'd imagined it as being magic and that from then on I would know what would be the right colors forever... :( But I do turn red when at all anxious/upset, so I guess it's not surprising that it didn't work; it just had never occurred to me it would be a problem.

I guess yellow-toned things would cancel out a purple undertone?...