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Shade finder Find your shade in Essence Foundation Stick.

Start from a shade you wear, or describe your skin. The closest of the 43 shades of Foundation Stick, with prices.

Your skin, as described Very fair · Neutral

3 likely shades of Foundation Stickranked 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 Foundation Stick for very fair skin with a neutral 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.

  • Essence Foundation Stick in 10
    Most likely

    10

    Fair with cool neutral undertones

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

    $6.99

  • Essence Foundation Stick in 50

    50

    Fair with neutral undertones

    • Nearest depth in this range: Nearest: Fair
    • Matches your undertone: Neutral undertone

    $6.99

  • Essence Foundation Stick in 100

    100

    Light with cool neutral undertones

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

    $6.99

How they compare

Retailer descriptionFair with cool neutral undertones
DepthVery fair
UndertoneNeutral · neutral pink
Compared with 10Most likely shade
Price$6.99
Retailer descriptionFair with neutral undertones
DepthFair
UndertoneNeutral
Compared with 10Deeper
Price$6.99
Retailer descriptionLight with cool neutral undertones
DepthFair
UndertoneNeutral · neutral pink
Compared with 10Deeper and less pink
Price$6.99