We Tried 6 Foundations With The Same Color Name • Ladylike

foundations can have all sorts of interesting names for their colors deserts and mocha nude beige your foundation color name can tell you a lot about how the beauty industry feels about the shade of your skin but our two foundations with the same color name actually the same shade or even close it's ladylike and we're gonna try six different foundations with the same color name foundations yes they are the foundation of our beautiful tan it's going well well so when was the first time you got professionally matched I was getting matched on the regular you've had your breasts measured multiple times you've got your skin match to multiple times what haven't you done I don't everything else once I found my color at Sephora and then I found my foundation at Sephora I didn't veer away ever I just stuck to that foundation because I knew that it felt legit I was like okay this is what they told me to wear it match my skin tone done when I've explored and experimented with drugstore foundations it's interesting because hey you can't really swash in the drugstore and be the colors often look very different in the bottle than they do IRL like once you pour it out I've definitely picked up a foundation at the drugstore and been like this matches and then I'll put it on and then I'll turn my head and it's like oh I'm wearing a mask yeah I've see a lot of mocha I see a lot of cinnamon a lot of nuts different types of nuts nutmeg almond it's almost like they feel like it's a compliment maybe like yes my mocha Queen but it also feels fetishizing in a way it seems to me what it would feel kind of Center yeah it's just like you can't think of anything else which is why I love how fenty she just named all her foundation of numbers which is a great way to go about it because you're not attributing shade to different things in life I tend to get colors associated with like purity and like dating is it's almost as if those color names and shades are the song after yeah in in the eyes of the beauty industry yeah you want porcelain yeah but I guess here's hazelnut yeah but I guess here's macadamia Queen nuts are great they're yummy they're tasty do I want my skin shade to be attributed with the nut no you're not a nice a nut color another color I get a lot is nude in 2017 it's 2017 yes nude the beauty of history is still producing products that are new they're one color yep I feel like the implications behind cinnamon are spicy and then I feel like spicy is just kind of like a trope of women of color or being sassy or not taking any you know what I mean like I feel like cinnamon just has like implications that feed into stereotypes yeah I would just love to be color 450 and keep it going so we thought we'd do a little experiment where we would find six different foundations from different brands all of the same color name and then we would see what they actually look like on our skin out of these six brands there'll be some just for prints and there will be some high-end grands so wouldn't we go to Sephora we're gonna get matched we're gonna see what color names come back to us in terms of what is the closest to our skin tone and then we're gonna pick one of those colors and then by five other foundations all with the same color from different brands we're gonna do three days where we wear half of one foundation on one half our face and then the other half is gonna have a different color we're gonna really explore and dive deep into the differences of the shades of different brand names we're gonna see if we notice yeah or I mean I think it's learn some truths about the industry in ourselves let's do it let's go buy some stuff spread when you were Manchus Sephora what were all your colors almond hazelnut so all my nuts apparently I am nude is my color so I'm gonna be looking for a nude I picked all of these foundations at random I basically was just like what's nude and I picked up like just a bunch of nude foundation experiment day number one I'm going to be putting Milani on my right side and Maybelline on my left side on this side of my face we will have this Revlon Colorstay in nude and on this side of my face we will have this Neutrogena Healthy Skin also in nude one thing I did notice is when I was looking at the NARS foundation they named their colors by geographic places and so they had some lighter colors that were called Finland and Alaska and then a medium color called Cuba and then the darker colors were Martinique and Polynesia now Maybelline for the left side this nude has been to the beach more recently than this nude I had the maybelline superstay better skin on the left side and I have Milani on the right side I could tell a huge difference in putting them on this one was much thicker and I had to blend in a lot more and I used my hand this one was much lighter and I applied it with a brush those my foundation actually look different from one side to the other yes it does okay okay because I didn't think I could tell that much and then like I was looking at these photos this side of me has been to the beach and this side of me has not have hibernated yes the first day of the Milani and the Maybelline actually both were very similar in shade they're both named almond you honestly couldn't even tell the difference between the two sides the first day I wore Revlon Colorstay and then Neutrogena on the other side of my face the Revlon Colorstay is actually the color I'm wearing right now which one do you think actually matches my skin better one yeah I think it's this one too yeah I rotate your head slowly like you this is what jigsaw did on saw yeah so I can kind of tell a little bit on your forehead but like not really I'm I have to be kind of looking for it yeah I can tell my face middle line mm-hmm I've ever sure that we would both start with ones with a huge contrast I'm actually really surprised that yours is brick goes together in shade mind like a before-and-after vacation photo I'm like a really budget to face I could tell out of the bottle this was gonna be too dark but I actually it works better than I thought it did like I bet if this is on my whole face you wouldn't be like oh it'd be like close enough exactly let's bother our friends we're gonna see what had to be linked yep I can tell it is subtle okay but which sign do you think is actually more of my face this one feels more natural really this light kind of feels more like I'm like a newspaper that's been out on the neighbor's porch for a few months literally it looks the same on folks I know I used to do yeah I can see a difference you can see it if I can see a difference on your nose this side is a different color than this side and I was sure just from looking at the bottle maybe there that Maybelline wasn't gonna imagine at all and it did Wow they both match you have to get so close to your face though to figure it out no one no one's gonna do that can you tell what I'm wearing two different foundations I see now that you pointed it out I like can barely see that line which color do you think is actually more suited for my face yeah yeah yes so this one looks like it has a little bit more of an orange tint and then this one like actually looks like more of a natural shade yeah that's really tricky I honestly they look really similar this one looks warmer oh yeah that's what this is a little warm eh yeah day two on this side of my face we will have Maybelline and on this side we will have Revlon again but in a different type of product today I'm gonna be trying Shea Moisture and else they're both almond now let's try the Maybelline mood on this half I feel like a character in the movie white chicks but this is what the Shea Moisture version of almond looks like now I'm gonna use elfs Oh what I'm amazed about is a foundation that's so Orange still cannot cover my redness oh yeah okay so we're heading outside when you did the first day I was just like wow like I thought you got extraordinarily lucky yeah I did and I was like oh maybe you'll be this lucky that was very dave beautiful leaning hot boy it literally looks like I picked out a foundation in the dark yeah hey guys and then you applied it in the dark and then you just live the rest of your life in the day yeah yeah so the inside of an almond is white yes so it was like the inside of an almond yeah it wasn't almond in the most technical sense of the word right I'm this side of my face I look like every rich person in The Hunger Games you need the metaphor like to see what color almond actually is yeah yes they really leaned into the inside of the almond they did they didn't even do a good job because I split the difference between the outside of the inside color right it's either like if you're gonna do it do it right you're the crazy thing is that I tried another Revlon yesterday and this Revlon is not quite right either no it's like pink yeah this Revlon is pink yeah that crazy and they're both the same color from the same brand both of them are kind of a travesty on my skin tone yes however I think the elf color foundation could work if it were a concealer for me so the elf benefited from having a really crappy dance partner yeah and that's why it ended up looking much better than it actually does like you really do attitude yeah Wow look at that start different I know it's like I have a 5 o'clock shadow I tried almond oh you know it is so ambiguous you actually don't look bad on this side yes this is a really bad look a yellow yeah like it's a bronzer I think I your face yeah I can still see the left like you still look a mess I kind of really dig both of your left side more than your right side yeah Freddy your right side is especially bad yeah closer to your skin tone my right side is definitely closer yeah whatever this is the last day of the experiment today I'm using to high-end foundations on my right side I'm gonna use Laura Mercier in almond and on my left side I'm gonna use Bobbi Brown also in almond so we're gonna see how they look on this side of my face I'm going to be using Too Faced nude and on this side of my face I'm going to be using Estee Lauder's nude how are you oh you know on this fine split person day this part of the ghost went tanning and this half of the ghost did not I thought it was interesting that it was much easier to find the color nude in drugstore colors many high-end stuff I'm gonna do this nude ivory from Estee Lauder on the side of my face I mean I'm not a rocket foundation scientist but I'm guessing it's not the same color it's like that side of your face is phoning it in today it is barely making it my right side of the face is dead left side of that man hat it's the Bobby Brown I feel like foundations can't decide if nude means you've been in a tanning bed or not yeah nude is a white person who may or may not like tanning but unclear I just don't happen to pick pairs of foundations where one half of them was like winter coat Kristin and one half was like summer coat Kristin if Kristin really is not wearing sunscreen this year moisturized ready ready laura mercier was more of a tinted moisturizer than a full on foundation still it was very a she looking I looked pretty solid it was like one side of you was haunted inside of you was like not daunted okay so we're doing a thing where we are trying different foundations that the same color name from different brands I didn't think you were wearing makeup on this side right which is how a foundation you have no idea which color do you think is better that type yeah I feel like it looks more natural which one looks better that's I thought this is foreign person didn't wear makeup that everything just worked together the same like no matter what the name was no matter what the brand everybody was she's like a universal Spectre yeah yeah apparently who's not yeah you think that no the fact that all the news you chose were white people news but they were still very different yeah even all the white people nudes like still can't agree on what white people look like I think this goes to show like no one no one should call their foundation food yeah for a variety of different reasons both like ethical and practical between day one day two and day three this is like the happy medium from my actual experiment it's not as bad as day two and it's not as seamless as day one it's kind of like in the middle yeah I mean I think every day we had one side that was okay and then one side that was made I thought this was the sides of mastery better and then this side yeah it's actually it's actually this side is that well shoot my face and my neck and my arms are not the same color and so what happens is I can never match all three so I just gotta like guess but yeah I mean usually my foundations this light and this is too light this is the this is the right color are we learning things I mean I think the thing might when we mostly learns that no one can really agree on what color Newt is or almond some brands for me almond is the inside of the almond and for other brands almond is the outside of the it's almost like nude and almond our eye collars [Music] [Applause] [Music] we tried six different foundations with the same color name but from six different brands out of the six foundations I chose I feel like four out of six were in the same ballpark range of shade the other two were way off but I think I was surprised that even four out of the six were somewhat similar this experiment really worked out for you in terms like how you paired everything yeah this experiment really worked out for me in terms of how ridiculous it ended up being I feel like this was a real education for me in terms of like what kinds of ridiculous coloring names there are I mean the bottom line is which we knew going into this let's use numbers for foundation colors yeah it takes away any implication that the BBU industry has about skin tones and different shades I think it's okay to have color names for like lipstick totally like weird silly like handbag red no way wine stain red this is fun though I'm really happy I found a new like favorite foundation I think to actually like I really like this Revlon it looks really good we didn't expect to find anything we like yeah maybe the real foundation was the Foundation's we found along the way like I'm - Barbies melted together from different seasons we got hurt by it [Music]

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Length: 16min 19sec (979 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 09 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/fauxkaren]

I REALLY wish brands would just go to the MAC/MUFE/Fenty style of naming with just using numbers and then maybe letters to indicate undertone.

[u/Inspiredlikearabbit]

Kristen wouldnt have looked anywhere near as bad as they did if she had actually blended it and used like a quarter of what she actually used.

[u/makeupholly]

Really interesting video idea, I don't think I've seen other people do this yet. Freddie has great skin tho. Kristen really piled on the foundation, I wonder if they would've looked more similar if she blended more.

[u/shaycode]

This was a really interesting videos; I never put much thought into the names until searching for a new foundation and noticing that the shades were associated with wealth/luxury (Aspen, Cashmere, Silk, Ivory) and the darker shades were named after foods/drinks, spices, animals, and wood (Hazelnut, Chai, Toffee, Camel, Teak). I also remember seeing on Findation that my recommended shade in Becca was formerly called Tobacco. Aside from the implications of that, as many have mentioned, names really don't do much when selecting a color.

[u/alexturnerftw]

A user made a comment about hating food names for darker colors in the kylie concealer post and got downvoted to hell. hope yall understand now....

i prefer number systems, its easier to remember too

[u/bierra17]

I cringe at the fact that I’ve been sent samples from Sephora for Becca products named “tobacco” and “driftwood”

[u/Fave71171]

Why don’t companies just make it easier on themselves and clients by making foundations based on undertone and color!

This is actually a case where we just want to be a number, not some fabric/food/whatever. It makes the most logical sense!

[u/sweetcreature]

So they try out foundations from different brands that have the same shade name and somewhat unsurprisingly the shades are not all similar. I thought the discussion about foundation shade names was interesting, as a white girl I never really thought about it that much but it's nice to hear what Freddie feels and I definitely see how there is an issue there. I also haven't seen a video like this from a beauty youtuber before and I hope Ladylike will continue coming up with videos like this instead of the mess they sometimes produce.

[u/adompenelope]

As someone who has quite deep skin, I think it's interesting that Freddie is less than pleased with the names of our foundation shades. I personally love shade names like nutmeg, almond, and cocoa. Yes, the shades for deeper skin tones are usually food-based names, but I think that's amazing! Nuts come in a wide variety of brown-tones, and i think they work perfectly as foundation shade names.

Cinnamon? Nutmeg? Hot Cocoa?! Yes please!

Freddie's comments sound like the production team is grasping at straws for something to seem offensive, and they decided to use foundation shade names to do so.