I had a Penultimate pen a couple of years ago and loved it. A standard black felt-tip liner kind of deal, nothing exciting but my old Smashbox has just about dried up. I also got a new foundation pump (these are sold separately from the foundation, but are only a couple of quid) and a new Penultimate eye liner. I picked up a tube of the Select Cover-up in NW15, and I’m looking forward to trying this out. The coverage you get with the Studio Fix Fluid is awesome, so much so that you don’t need much concealer if any. Not even the slightest difference between my chest and my neck and my face. Next she pulled out an NW10, and made an incredibly exciting gasp noise as she buffed it into my face. The lovely artist laughed when I said I’d been previously matched to an NC15 – “Oh no way, that’s far too yellow!” – and she sat me down to try out a NW13. I finally made time to do it earlier this week, I am so glad I did. So a couple of weeks ago when my last bottle of NC15 died, along with the Select Moisturecover concealer to match, I decided to pop along to my local Mac counter and get re-matched. And the quality never matches up to the beloved Mac Studio Fix Fluid. Every now and again I’d get frustrated and try something else out from another brand… but their shades are never right either. You can apply it with a buffing brush, a flat foundation brush, a Beauty Blender, your fingers… always good. In spite of all the perfection and love, NC15 has never been quite the right colour for me… passable, with enough work? But never perfect, certainly never effortlessly perfect. It’s the most perfect natural matte, medium-full coverage foundation I have ever used. I have gone through numerous bottles of this over the years, usually in the shade NC15. My holy grail foundation has always been Mac Studio Fix Fluid SPF15. I will however bore you with a little bit of context. I won’t bore you with the usual pale girl spiel, because you will have heard it a hundred times before I’m sure – too orange, too yellow, too pink, doesn’t match my neck, mix it with white, life is so hard etc. The full list contains all the MAC shades.I have a complicated relationship with foundation… and BB creams, and primers, and concealers, and base products generally to be quite honest. I wanted to make that super useful resource easier to use, so I’ve extracted the shade info from the thread and sorted it by MAC shade. And then I discovered this fantastic megathread at r/MakeupAddiction where the makeup aficionados there listed all the popular foundation shades that matched their skin tones. Somehow I always end up with a shade that’s completely wrong for me. MAC NW15 light beige with neutral undertone for light skinīuying foundation is such a hit or miss thing for me.
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