Foundation Too Light For Your Skin Complexion? 6 Simple Ways You Can Make It Work

Did you buy your foundation online and end up purchasing a shade evidently lighter than your skin tone? We understand. The struggle IS real and such are the tribulations of selecting foundation shades based on website pictures. You obviously don’t need any more lectures on why and how you could end up with the wrong shade while shopping online. Because having to deal with your bad shopping decision is painful enough. But what now? Do you just give away the foundation to someone whose skin tone it actually matches?

Well, if you are in a giving mood and can spare those bucks, by all means, go ahead. But if you are really keen on trying to make your lighter foundation purchase work for you, I’m happy to inform you that that isn’t as bad an idea as some may make it seem. From making tweaks with your complexion makeup to following strategic base makeup steps to correct your foundation when applying it, here are the best tips to help make your light shade of foundation work for your skin tone.

Tips To Make A Lighter Foundation Shade Match Your Skin Tone

Before & After

Colour correct your skin with an orange colour corrector before applying the light shade of foundation. This will help neutralise the base and make your foundation more warm toned. After applying your foundation, set your base with a darker shade of compact powder as this will also help make the light foundation shade dark and work for your skin tone.

Tan Tie

As a bronzer is used to help make foundation application look more seamless while adding warmth to your complexion, it can come to your rescue when the foundation is a shade lighter too. Blending a bronzer on your hairline, jawline, cheeks, and the contours of your nose, and mouth will add warmth to these specific places and make your foundation look more natural on your complexion. It warms up your complexion making the foundation shade look like it matches your skin tone. Apply bronzer to your collarbones and neck as well.

In Bloom

Blending blush after bronzing your skin or by itself is the next best way to make your foundation shade look like a true match. You can blend blush on your cheeks and cheekbones extending them up to your temples in C shape for adding a natural flush of colour and lift to your visage. Also dab the blush above your forehead at the hairline, on the bridge of your nose, on the centre of your chin, and right below your ears on your neck. This step makes it look like you’re blushing and takes the focus off the lighter foundation shade. Using blush like this also sculpts the face; just make sure to blend well.

Olive Choice

Is your skin tone neutral with olive undertones? Try mixing a turmeric essential oil with your light shade of foundation. Turmeric essential oil has a yellow tinge and just like how raw turmeric has the ability to stain your skin, this oil does too. Mixing a bit of turmeric oil with your light shade of foundation will help make the shade a true match for olive skin tones. The finish looks natural and this hack warms up your foundation shade seamlessly.

Think Pink

Does your skin have pink undertones but the foundation shade doesn’t? Scrape out some pink blush that best suits your skin tone and mix it with your foundation. Gradually mix until you get the desired effect. You will find that this hack helps the foundation match your undertone and makes it more wearable.

True Match

Do you own a darker shade of concealer or foundation? If so, add a pump of that to a pump of your lighter foundation shade. Mix the two shades together and you will get a foundation that better matches your skin tone. Do the mixing on a clean palette and gradually adjust the amount of each foundation as you apply it.