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I wear intensive medium concealer and olive light intensive. Right now I have apple blush and corner office but I feel like corner office is too red. I had my eye on waffle cone, plum dust, best friends, and walkee talkee. I'm not sure which one would look best. Which ones would you recommend?

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Hmmm... I myself am closer to Olive Fair, but a friend of mine (half spanish, olive skintone and dark brown hair) wears Light Olive Intensive and so far her favourites have been:
- Snooze Bar (I love this one too), a peach-brown w/ golden shimmer
- Evening Out, a slightly mauve-ish version of Snooze Bar
- Peach Tree, a deep brownish peach w/ white sparkles
- Girl's Day, a soft rusty coral red w/ gold sparkles

In our recent order she got Shortcake, Corner Office and Wake Up Call and really liked those too. If you would prefer a lighter, less red-brown and slightly pinker version of Corner Office you should try Theme Park. It's a peachy pink with maybe a bit of coral tones w/ golden shimmer. I once saw a swatch comparing Nars Orgasm and Theme Park and they were quite close.

By my own experience I wouldn't recommend Walkee Talkee as it was too much on the cool side for someone with a warm colouring. Salon Fun might work for you too if you like fresh and fun berry shades. Waffle Cone has a bit of a pink undertone and made me look kind of muddy. Another friend of mine who wears Medium Cool loved this though. I'd go for Evening Out or Snooze Bar if you're looking for a not-quite-a-bronzer but something that adds a bit of healthy glow. Plum Dust and Best Friends (Opening Day is a sheer, shimmery version of this) would probably be nice, soft and fresh colours for you.

EM have their own forum with lots of helpful members who have posted lots of swatches in there. Once the descriptions and photos on the actual site are so inaccurate those swatches are gold. You can find the forum under "Community".

HTH =)

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Thanks! You really helped me out. I recently signed up on everyday minerals forums and checked out all the swatches. I have corner office but I think it is too red for me. I think I'll try plum dust, best friends, theme park, and snooze bar! Thanks again.

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Does anyone know why Everyday Minerals stopped carrying their 100% Silk Powder? That was one of my favorite finishing powders!

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They had trouble with the batches varying too much in quality, so sometimes the silk powder was great, when the next batch might be grainy and another might have an unpleasant odour. They also wanted to become entirely vegan, first switched to synthetic brushes and finally quit abusing Chinese caterpillars.

I hear Dreamworld Minerals have a very nice silk powder. Meow Cosmetics have one, too.

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I just got my EDM samples the other day.

From the samples I ordered, Buff Beige Neutral (intensive formula) and Beige Medium Beige Neutral (matt formula) seemed to be decent matches, so today I wore Buff Beige Neutral, and I had to run errands by foot (I walk everywhere)... There was sweat on my forehead and the foundation turned orange, but only on my forehead

Does anyone know if this is more prone to happen with certain colors or formulas? Or if a problem with EDM? I really liked the coverage, feel, and the color match, but I just can't risk arriving into my apprenticeship with a normal face color and an orange forehead...

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Hey ladies! I'm hoping someone can help me. I'm pretty new to foundation. I've never really had a use for it until now!

I have a few foundation samples in cool shades (Fair Medium and Medium), and they make me look a bit pink and washed out. Does this mean I'm not a cool shade? Should I try a couple of the warm shades? I don't know why I'm having such a hard time finding a match.

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It's mission: impossible to present you the right colour out of the blue. Apparently you're not cool-toned if pink-based foundations make you look pink. You might want to try slightly darker shades if the ones you tried washed you out. Could you tell us a bit about your colouring? In natural light, does your natural hair colour have a dominant warm or a cool tone, do your veins appear more blue or green, which colours suit you best in clothing... That sort of stuff. If you feel you're not too clearly warm (warm meaning gold or copper tones in hair and peach or yellow in skin) you might be neutral or olive. The more pale you are, the harder it is to determine true colouring in my opinion. So now it should still be fairly easy if you have some natural tan left.

Meow Cosmetics have some nice advice to tracking down your true skintone in their foundation chart. EM offers a bunch of tips on their site (I think it's under "FAQ" or they might still have a link to the right place on the Foundation page).

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Thank you Applegreen.

Sorry my post was dumb. I've read on other websites where girls are like, "Oh this makes me look too yellow!" and someone would be like, "Oh try this shade." Haha so yeah, that's why I asked.

My veins look more blue to me. My hair definitely has natural red and golden tones. My skin looks more yellow to me, except I think my face does have some pink undertones. My face could just be a little red from all the bad sunburns I've had though.

I wish I had more information. It'd be more helpful huh?! I've never been matched to MAC so I don't know what shade I am in their foundations.

I was planning on ordering a third sample kit from EM... just not sure what shades to try next.

And thanks for those websites. I'll check them out right now.

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You're welcome.

Based on this I would recommend trying colours from Beige and Warm families. Do take at least one sample from Golden and maybe Buff or Olive, too. I'm no expert, but I think natural redheads usually tend to have peachy undertones (pink + yellow). EM's Beiges are neutral-ish with a bit of warmth and peach (pink-yellow) tones. The Warms have more yellow and a little pink so they're peachy yellows IMO. The Goldens have little to no peach (Golden Light is a bit peachy) and a dominant yellow tone. In any case, try a little darker colours this time. If you had fairs, try fairly lights and lights, if you started with lights try mediums and so on. EM's charts aren't very accurate and in some cases they're just illogical (for example Light Olive is darker than Golden Medium). I myself love EM, but for beginners the colour chart is just too confusing. Meow, LaurEss, Lumiere and Lily Lolo have some more sense in theirs.

The trickiest tones to track I think are neutrals and olives. Both gold and silver (warm and cool colours) suit the neutral and olive type. On these skintones most foundations just seem too colourful. The best way to determine between these two that I've come across is to bend your arm and look at the darkest spots on the inside of your elbow and wrist. You really need to do some serious staring. If the colour is clearly brown you're probably neutral and if there's a tinge of green you're most probably olive. It took me two years to finally figure out I was in fact olive, but most olive foundations being dominantly yellow or even too olive I had to make my own blend. I noted earlier in this thread that after discovering mineral make-up I've become obsessed with finding the perfect match, which I think is because of the abundance of colour options and the ease of mixing. It didn't really help that I hadn't used any foundation (not even loose powder) in years and that I wasn't used to the look of it, so the finish had to look as natural as bare skin, only better.

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Sorry if this has been discussed already, I searched the thread and came up empty. Has anyone tried the pressed foundations? I'd love any input on them!

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I've never tried mineral makeup before and I'm thinking about ordering a free sample set. First I wanted to try BE, but I can't find any site that sells it in sample sizes... I'm a NW20 in MAC foundation (i.e. the second lightest shade, pink undertones), I don't have massive pink undertones but I do have some red areas in my face. I don't think I have any yellow undertones, though. I think I'm somewhere between pink and neutral undertones.

The foundation shades I'm thinking about getting are

- Cool - Fair Medium
- Beige - Fairly Light
- Buff - Fairly Light Neutral

Am I on the right track here? Or should I choose completely different shades for my skintone?

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Sephora was giving away free samples. If you have one close you might be able to get one still.

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Kiss and Makeup: Unfortunally, we don't have Sephora in Sweden

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You might start with those, but I wouldn't recommend Beige - Fairly Light if you're absolutely positively sure you have no yellow in your skin whatsoever - unless you want to neutralize some redness. Beige - Fairly light is on the neutral side of a slightly yellow-ish peach. All in all that's a great sampler set to start with. It's always good to try shades from different colour families for starters if you're even the least bit uncertain of your true colouring. I think those foundations should be ok by colour depth at least.

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Applegreen: Thanks for your reply! Hope one of the shades will fit me then

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Has anybody tried the new shades yet? The descriptions aren't properly up yet and I want to try some of the new olive shades. Are there any good sites with swatches.

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Could someone help me find some shades? I used everyday minerals about a year ago and the shade that I used, prob. won't fit me anymore. I used golden fair.
I use Mac's face and body foundation in N1, which matches perfectly with my skin. I also use Mac nw15 studio fix fluid.

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The Flat Top brush is excellent! I use it for my foundation and find that it actually gives a more even coverage as compared to other round headed brushes!

I dont particularly like the baby kabuki cause it's a little too small for me (it IS baby afterall) so I use it for concealer under the eyes.

Anyone knows what happened to their Peach concealer? I had one previously and was about to get another one but the colour swatch on the website looks so dark!

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Just in case this helps someone:

I'm NC20 in all MAC foundations. I have a normal skin on cheeks and oily T zone, that's why I use intensive formula. I find it easy to blend, but I still need to use blot paper/powder in a few hours on my forehead and nose. Sometimes I mix different foundation colours together, depends on the time of the year.

Shades in EDM that I swear by:

• Multitasking concealer
• Golden Fair (Golden range) foundation
• Light (Golden range) foundation
• Sunkissed Fair (Beige range) foundation
• Back to school blush is a great contour or just a neutral blush (it looks dark brown, but dont get scared, when you buff it on with the kabuki it blends lovely. Plus you can see some tiny shimmer in the pot, but no shimmer once it's on the cheeks)

Another thing that you gotta try is their face brushes - baby kabuki, long handled kabuki, the flat top kabuki...so unbelievably soft, very dense and they blend very well, they can easily compare to 182 by MAC. I have both and use EDM kabuki and MAC 182 equally. I have yet to try their eye brushes.

I'm lucky EDM doesn't break me out, I know this has been an issue for some girls

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I haven't checked if anyone has posted swatches on EM's forum yet, but I ordered samples of Linen, Sweet Almond, Light Almond and Light Martian a while ago. Linen is a nice neutral, about as deep as the fairly lights but on me it was too pink. All the new olive shades are about as dark as Light Olive. Light Almond might be a little lighter though. Sweet Almond has a lot more yellow in it than the other two and in general I'd recommend the new olives to people who found Light Olive and Golden Medium too orange/peachy and are looking for more olive in the mix.

I finally found my own perfect mix. Last time I thought I already had it with Light Medium/Medium Beige Neutral with some Olive and Golden Fairs, but that turned out too pink/orange in the long run. Now it's mainly Olive and Golden Fairs that are both too pale for me on their own mixed somewhere around 50/50, a little Sunlight color corrector thrown in for a clean yellow undertone and a little Light Martian or Olive Medium to give depth. So now I finally have a light but not risen-from-the-grave-pale depth that's not too yellow, gray, orange, pink, green nor peachy, but a moderately neutral fairly light olive with a clean yellow undertone and the slightest tinge of peach to keep it soft and natural. Ooh how I love mineral foundations for the ease of customizing foundations... and curse them for feeding the manic perfectionist in me.

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EVERYDAY MINERALS has exceeded my expectations. Their customer service and delivery is exceptional. My samples arrived in just a couple of days and I found a good color match for my dark skin (MAC NW43). Many powdered mineral foundations look "ashy" on dark skin. By using a light touch of the TAN, I get just enough coverage to even my skintone with no ashy look. THE EM B&B blush looks lovely on my dark skin. too. I love the EM brushes too. They are so soft.

BARE MINERALS has a new color that works fwell or me too. However, I really wanted to find a good match in mineral foundation that contains no bismuth oxichloride. I really disliked the BM brushes. They felt very rough on my skin.

I am continuing my search for liquid mineral foundation. So far the ones I've sampled look ashy on me. The search continues.

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Have only tried the samples from the range but I'm really impressed with what I have tried so far... I also absolutely love the flat top kabuki brush they do, so so soft and lovely to use on the face, but applied the foundation with a really good level of coverage. I find the original glo and intensive formulations last the whole day on me too...

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I am loving the EDM B&B blush. I layer it over MAC MSF So Ceylon. Can anyone recommend other blushes that that will look good on brown skin (MW43). I have a sample of SUNDAY BRUNCH, I like that too.

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hey you guys so iam running out of my BM, and wanted to get everyday minerals iam NC -44 does a anyone have any recs for foundation color for me

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I'm darker than you (a NW43/NC45 mix). The TAN original formula works for me so you should go lighter. Order samples in several shades so that you can test them.

hth

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I have been trying to get the right shade down for my skin and the sample kits are such a great way to figure it out. I'm lighter than NC15 and it's soooo hard to find the right shade. So after my 3 sample kit I am pretty sure I found the perfict shade. So I went with Olive Fair for my foundation and it looks perfict on me! I'm so happy!

Oh and I picked up one of their new eyeshadow colors in Dandelions and it is sooooooooooooo beautiful !!!! For those that love vanilla pigment, white gold pigment, or and whiteish colors you gotta give this a try! https://www.everydayminerals.com/ind...d=29&Itemid=99

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I just ordered some samples and if it works out for me I was going to use the foundation over my MAC concealer, but I was wondering if anyone else does this. I am moving away from all MAC foundations because I get such horrible breakouts.

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I recently ordered from everyday minerals again and they have made some changes to their packaging. The large jars now have closeable sifters which is really neat. They also have new white lids, they ones for foundation say "base" on them and the blush ones say "cheek". Really neat!

I also got their skunk brush and it is really weird.. It isnt anything like the 187 brush, it isnt even really duo fiber. The bristles are just dyed on two colors. I really dont know what to do with it. It isnt even all that soft to me. :/

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I have been using EDM off an on for the past few years. I find them a bit hit and miss for shades. Each time I order the same shade when it arrives is slightly different from the last time. It doesn't bother me too much as I usually mix a couple of different shades together to get the right colour for my skin at the time.