"If you look at your veins, and they’re more blue and red, that means you have a lot of pink, red, and brown undertones, so your foundation should have similar tones. "If your veins are green, that means you have a lot of olive, yellow, and golden in your skin tone, so your foundation shades should have similar tones," Jackie says. To determine your undertone, look at your veins. Pro tip: Match the foundation shade with your undertones. It's important that makeup brands capitalize on every shade of beauty and make sure their foundation line is inclusive to everyone." Now, I speak up at shoots if I don’t feel like my foundation fits my complexion. So I made it a priority to learn about the right foundation shade for my skin tone and the elements of my face.
I felt left out because every other model on set would look so beautiful and my makeup didn’t look half as good as theirs. When I first started modeling, I felt like there was always some form of neglect with my makeup.
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"But even still, it’s been difficult because on photo shoots, some makeup artists don’t know how to find the right match for my foundation just because I’m a woman of color. When I was 19, I was color-matched for the first time. I came to school the next day wearing it, and one of my friends looked at me and said, 'That foundation is not your right skin tone.' During that time, I was going through puberty and finding my womanhood, so I had no idea what I was doing. So I went to the closest Duane Reade after school one day to find a drugstore foundation. I didn’t see any other girls in school who looked like me wearing foundation but I wanted to look just as beautiful as all the other girls. They all came to school with their makeup done and I thought it was so beautiful. I went to a suburban school with all white girls. "The first time I ever used foundation was in the sixth grade.
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