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Shade finder Find your shade in MAC Cosmetics Studio Fix Powder Plus Foundation.

Start from a shade you wear, or describe your skin. The closest of the 71 shades of Studio Fix Powder Plus Foundation, with prices.

Your skin, as described Very fair · Olive

Your pick from 3 likely shades of Studio Fix Powder Plus 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.

Your shade in Studio Fix Powder Plus Foundation

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MAC Cosmetics Studio Fix Powder Plus Foundation in NC5
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NC5

Very fair beige with golden undertone for very fair skin

  • Matches your depth: Very fair depth
  • Differs from your undertone: Differs: Warm · golden
Why this shade
Very fair depth, inside the band you chose, undertone differs (warm), swatch colour measured.
Confidence
A starting point. Your skin is described, not measured, so no shade can be confirmed from here. For a measured comparison, start from a foundation shade you already wear. Start from a shade.

Where to buy NC5

SephoraSephora$39
SephoraView at Sephora
Ulta BeautyUlta Beautyfrom $39 · product price
Ulta BeautyView at Ulta Beauty

Prices are shown and never change the recommendation. Shade details

Choose a different shade

The next closest in this range, and how each differs from NC5.

  • N3
    Very fair with neutral peach undertones
    Compared with NC5: Pinker
    $39
    This is my shade
  • NC10
    Very fair beige with neutral undertone for very fair skin
    Compared with NC5: Pinker
    $39
    This is my shade