u/Brill_1193

I refuse to spend $50 on a glorified lip balm. The Westman Atelier hydrobalms look gorgeous, but I've seen some people with my skintone say that cafe creme barely registers on them.

To scratch the itch I bought the Covergirl Clean Lip Color in Bamboo and the Dinto lip tint 219 Ave Maria.

Bamboo looks like what I want cafe creme to look like on my lips. Slightly sheeny neutral cool nude beige color with a brown lip liner it looks great! I also tried Rimmel Light Cappuccino, but on me it reads warmer than Bamboo does.

I emailed LE about their skin tint because shade T5 isn't 100% right on me. I sent them a picture of me make-up free and a picture of T5 swatched on my chest and asked for advice on the right shade in their skin tint.

I got a response fairly quickly in a few hours and they said my best match would be mixing T5 with T6.5. Or if I don't want to mix the next best option would be T6. T9 is too deep and warm for me.

Anyway, I thought the swatches they sent me were very helpful. If you're considering buying something from LE, I highly recommend emailing them for shade matching help before purchasing!

My flabbers are ghasted. I shade matched using the Nars shade matcher online to Vienna.

It doesn't look too bad, but then I went into Sephora to exchange the Refy skin tint 150N to 140N and a Sephora employee shade matched me to the Nars Light Reflecting Foundation.

Shout out to Mateo who shade matched me to Lima instead. When I saw Lima I was like no way, that's too light for me, but it's probably the best shade match of my life. I can probably get away with wearing Vienna in the summer.

Arm 1: From top (wrist) to bottom (elbow):

Milani stick skin tint in 04 light

NYX skin tint in Cashew Butta

Wet n Wild skin tint in Med/Tan

Loreal Lumi Glotion in 903 Med

NYX stick concealer in 07 soft beige

Kiko Milano stick concealer in 05, 07, and 03

NYX stick concealer in Green

Arm 2:

NYX Bare with Me concealer in Vanilla

NYX Bare with Me concealer in Beige