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Shade finder Find your shade in Clinique Superbalanced Makeup Foundation.

Start from a shade you wear, or describe your skin. The closest of the 10 shades of Superbalanced Makeup Foundation, with prices.

Your skin, as described Light · Cool

3 likely shades of Superbalanced Makeup Foundationranked on depth and undertone, never on price

Skin depth

Undertone

How to tell your undertone

Undertone is the colour beneath the surface of your skin. It is separate from depth: deep skin can be cool, and fair skin can be warm or olive.

Vein test

Veins on the inside of your wrist, in daylight.

What you seeUndertone
Blue or purpleCool
GreenWarm
Blue-green, or hard to tellNeutral
Green with a grey or ashy castOlive

Sun test

How your skin reacts to the sun.

What you seeUndertone
Burns easily, rarely tans, goes pinkCool
Tans easily, rarely burns, goes goldenWarm
Burns a little, then tansNeutral
Tans quickly to a greenish or grey tanOlive
  • Fabric. Hold white, then cream, fabric against your face. White flatters cool, cream flatters warm, both look right on neutral.
  • Jewellery. Silver flatters cool, gold flatters warm, both look right on neutral.

If the signs disagree, choose Neutral, or choose Not sure to match on skin depth alone.

Most likely shades of Superbalanced Makeup Foundation for light skin with a cool undertone

Ranked on depth and undertone, never on price. Prices are shown for each. Choose one to see why, where to buy it and the shades either side of it.

  • Clinique Superbalanced Makeup Foundation in 28 Ivory
    Most likely

    28 Ivory

    Very fair, cool-neutral undertones

    • Matches your depth: Light depth
    • Close to your undertone: Close: Neutral · neutral pink

    $43

  • Clinique Superbalanced Makeup Foundation in 70 Vanilla

    70 Vanilla

    Moderately fair, cool-neutral undertones

    • Matches your depth: Light depth
    • Close to your undertone: Close: Neutral · neutral pink

    $43

  • Clinique Superbalanced Makeup Foundation in 34 Light

    34 Light

    Very fair, cool-neutral undertones

    • Nearest depth in this range: Nearest: Light medium
    • Close to your undertone: Close: Neutral · neutral pink

    $43

How they compare

Retailer descriptionVery fair, cool-neutral undertones
DepthLight
UndertoneNeutral · neutral pink
Compared with 28 IvoryMost likely shade
Price$43
Retailer descriptionModerately fair, cool-neutral undertones
DepthLight
UndertoneNeutral · neutral pink
Compared with 28 IvorySlightly deeper
Price$43
Retailer descriptionVery fair, cool-neutral undertones
DepthLight medium
UndertoneNeutral · neutral pink
Compared with 28 IvoryDeeper, warmer and pinker
Price$43