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Originally Posted by Sanne

half of the foundation ended up in my pores instead of on my skin!!!

Sounds like your skin is either too oily (large pores) or not moisturised enough, which is when your skin 'drinks' the foundation because of the moisture content.

Wait at least twenty minutes between moisturising and applying foundation, so your skin can drink up all the moisture without inadvertantly sucking down the foundation as well. If this doesn't help with the pore problem, look at getting a primer - they aren't the be-all and end-all of solving foundation problems, but they can help stop foundation from pooling in large pores.

As for the colour problems, sounds like you're an in-betweener - was the nc 20, regardless of the orange, the right shade for your skin? If it was, you can negate the orange by either mixing in a little of the NC15 to create a custom shade, or add a weeny bit of liquid green colour corrector to your orange foundation. Green cancels red (orange).

Don't be put off by it. Very few people fit an off-the-rack foundation colour, and most people are wearing tints that don't match their skin. More people need to learn the art of making custom foundation mixes, as unfortunately MAC foundations run either very orange, or very pink.

HTH!