Everyone's an oyster with their grain of sand
Tuesday, 7 October 2025 04:25![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)

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Randomly, a Stop & Shop I went to for groceries had some makeup discounted, so I picked up an e.l.f. Camo CC Cream that's usually $15.99 for $3.99. I don't know what the undertones of my face actually are, but the only one of these Stop & Shop had in the sales bin was full-coverage Fair 100W, with warm golden undertones, so that's what I bought. (Someone once told me the color of the veins in your wrist can help you identify, and my veins are dark blue and a light greenish blue.) One of my complaints is having unwanted redness/pinkness in my face, so I try to avoid things that might make me look pinker.
The result was a bit too uncanny valley for me, someone who goes out bare-faced a lot of the time and with a light veil of bareMinerals' "fairly light" foundation the rest of the time. This might look less unnatural as what summer color I get on the edges of my face fades as the autumn and winter come in. Hilariously, "full coverage" didn't do much to my undereye shadows.