Saturday, April 17, 2010

Asian Color by Bare Escentuals

Sorry to be so MIA with studying it gets hard to update all the time.  However, I really wanted to let people know about a new asian color by bare minerals.  
I'm not sure where I've been for the past year and a half since this color came out with Bare Escentuals but I had no idea they had a color for asians (maybe they didn't do a good job marketing their new shades or maybe I'm just a dummy).   
The only reason why I find out is because I was starting to run out of my normal color medium.  I always thought the color was pretty close but didn't quite match me all the way. So being inquisitive I checked out the BE site and found out HEY what do you know there's a new asian color in my shade range called Golden Medium.
I wanted to see if it matched so unfortunately I went to Sephora to have them match me which was a horrible idea.  The girl tried to convince me I was light, which I am not, and then I said I just wanted her to try the golden medium.  Clearly, compared to the light swatch she put on me it was a better match.  This all took place last week on Thursday?  So I tried it out and was telling my boss about how great this new asian color was.  
She gets all excited and wants to buy it as well!  However, she also makes the mistake of going to Sephora to get color matched....somehow they matched her to tan which you will see in the picture below there's a pretty big difference (they also give her a tinted mineral veil to make her even darker.....):
The next week she comes in to work and she's not quite sure if she made the right decision. Ok I get it she's half Chinese half Filipino and that might be confusing for someone to match her color if they haven't dealt with asian skin types.
Anyway, she looks pretty tan the second week I see her and I can't tell if it doesn't match or if she's just looking tanner than usual.  She keeps pretty covered up so it's hard for me to compare it to her normal skin color.  
All week she keeps getting comments from people like, "Oh wow where did you go you got so tan!," and she starts freaking out and doesn't know what's wrong.  She feels self conscious and hides her face behind her hair.  On Friday, the last day of the week :), it finally gets to her when our director, who hasn't seen her in quite some time, says the same thing again wow when did you get so tan!  This is the last straw for her and she makes a sad frowny face at me and says she needs to get her face fixed.  So after we go to lunch in the SF circle mall we decide to go fix her face at an actual Bare Escentuals store.
One of the makeup artists, an asian girl with similar colors to my boss, helps her to figure out what her right match is.  She ends up telling my boss that she was matched to a color that was WAY too dark for her and to top it off the idiot Sephora salesperson had given her tinted mineral veil to make her even darker!  
We get back to the office after she's all spruced up and I ask our Manager what he thinks.  He says, "It looks like they undarkened you and you look more natural."  We all laugh and then she and I swear to never ever ever get color matched at Sephora since they clearly have no idea what they are doing AND to only go to an Asian girl to get color matches.
My happy ending story of the week!

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