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Shade finder Find your shade in MAC Cosmetics Studio Radiance Serum Powered Foundation.

Start from a shade you wear, or describe your skin. The closest of the 56 shades of Studio Radiance Serum Powered Foundation, with prices.

Your skin, as described Light · Olive

Your pick from 3 likely shades of Studio Radiance Serum Powered 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 Radiance Serum Powered Foundation

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MAC Cosmetics Studio Radiance Serum Powered Foundation in NC11.5
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NC11.5

Fair beige with peachy undertone for fair skin

  • Matches your depth: Light depth
  • Differs from your undertone: Differs: Warm · peach
Why this shade
Light 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 NC11.5

Ulta BeautyUlta Beautyfrom $46 · product price
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  • NC12
    Light beige with neutral undertone for light skin
    Compared with NC11.5: Warmer
    $46
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  • N18
    Light neutral beige with golden undertone for light skin
    Compared with NC11.5: Slightly deeper, warmer and pinker
    $46
    This is my shade