Buying foundation is such a hit or miss thing for me. Somehow I always end up with a shade that's completely wrong for me. And then I discovered this fantastic megathread at r/MakeupAddiction where the makeup aficionados there listed all the popular foundation shades that matched their skin tones.
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I wanted to make that super useful resource easier to use, so I've extracted the shade info from the thread and sorted it by MAC shade.
The full list contains all the MAC shades.
Nc40 Mac To Other Brands
Enjoy!
medium beige with golden peach undertone for medium skinTry these foundation shades if you are matched to NC40.
Mac Nc40 Equivalent
| Bare Minerals Matte Foundation | Golden Medium | review |
| Bare Minerals Original | Golden Medium | review |
| Benefit Hello Flawless Oxygen Wow! | 'I'm all The Rage' Beige | |
| Bobbi Brown Foundation Stick | 4.5 Warm Natural | review |
| Bobbi Brown Long-Wear Even Finish | Warm Natural or Honey | |
| Bourjois Air Mat foundation | 04 Beige | review |
| Bourjois City Radiance | 05 Golden Beige/Beige Dore | review |
| Burberry Beauty Compact foundation | Trench 07 | |
| Chanel Perfection Lumière Velvet | 50 Beige | |
| Charlotte Tilbury Magic Foundation | 7.0 | review |
| Clinique Beyond Perfecting Foundation and Concealer | 08 Golden Neutral | review |
| Clinique Stay Matte foundation | honey 11 | |
| Estée Lauder Double Wear | Shell Beige | |
| Estee Lauder Double Wear Nude Cushion Stick Foundation | Honey Bronze 4W1 | review |
| Estée Lauder Double Wear Stay-in-Place | 3N1 Ivory Beige | |
| Estée Lauder Double Wear Foundation | 3W2 Cashew | review |
| EX1 Cosmetics Invisiwear Liquid Foundation | F200 | review |
| Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk Foundation | 6 Golden Beige | review |
| Giorgio Armani Power Fabric Longwear High Coverage Foundation | 7.5 and 8 | review |
| Lancôme teint idole 24hr | 410 bisque w | |
| Lancome Teint Idole Ultra 24h Wear | 045 Sable Beige | review |
| Loreal infallible matte | 108 caramel beige | |
| MAC Face and Body | C3 | review |
| MAC Mineralize Moisture Foundation | NC40 | review |
| MAC Pro Longwear Foundation | NC42 | review |
| MAC Pro-Longwear | NC 40 | |
| MAC Studio Fix | NC 40 | |
| MAC Studio Fix Liquid | NC37 | review |
| MAC Studio Sculpt Foundation | NC40 | review |
| Makeup Forever Ultra HD | 153 = Y405 Golden Honey | review |
| Maybelline Fit Me Dewy+Smooth | 220 Natural Beige | review |
| maybelline fit me matte & poreless | 220 Natural Beige | review |
| Maybelline FITME matte and poreless | 238 | |
| Mehron Celebre HD Cream Foundation | Eurasia Japonais | review |
| Milani Conceal + Perfect Foundation | Sand Beige 06 | review |
| MUFE HD Foundation | Y375 | |
| NARS All Day Luminous Weightless Foundation | Stromboli | review |
| NARS Natural Radiant Longwear Foundation | Stromboli | review |
| NARS Pure Radiant Tinted Moisturizer | St. Moritz | review |
| NARS Radiant Creamy Concealer | Ginger | review |
| NARS Sheer Glow | Stromboli | review |
| NARS Velvet Matte Skin Tint | St. Moritz | review |
| Sephora ColorIQ | 3Y07 | |
| Soap & Glory Instant Retouch Kick Ass Powder | Totally Translucent | review |
| Too faced born this way | Sand | review |
| Urban Decay Naked Skin foundation | #4.0 | review |
| Urban Decay One & Done Hybrid Complexion Perfector | Medium | review |
Mac Nc40 Drugstore Matches
OK here's the question- if she originally matched me up with C4- is it that much different than C35? I thought C35 would have been a better match since it seems like the NC line doesn't have enough yellow or is C35 much more 'Olive' than C4?
Side by side it doesn't look that much different- I was too tired to try out C35 and just got NC35 but should I really have gotten C35 instead and not listen to the MA and trust my instinct?
TIA!
