The Truth About Color Changing Foundations | Why they are a scam!
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- Hello everyone! Let's talk about colour-changing or colour-adapting foundations! Let me know your opinions on these down below!
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Just a quicky!
BB/CC creams aren’t colour adapting foundations. They come in shades that can suit 2-3 shades lighter or darker than that shade in a lot of cases.
Colour adapting foundations literally come in one shade.. but pretend they can physically adapt to a range of shades.
The color shifting concept has no actual functionality to the skin. It’s just a wow factor 😂 for entertainment 😂
So the Cle CCC Cream “matches” me because BB/CC creams have lighter coverage, thus, their ability to match a wider skin tone? I LOVE your educational content! I have learned so much from you and your brother!
Give us some makeup (eye makeup) tutorials, whilst giving your expertise. I want fun eyeshadow 😍
I love Korean bb creams because they often have a greyish undertone (nro 21) which really matches my light olive skin. I don't find greyish or olive undertones usually in western bb products. I hate the yellow ones😬 I've tried a color adapting foundation and I absolutely hated the rubbing part and the finish didn't wow me. I do apply foundations always with fingers but it's different when the color is the exact right one and not some random one tone suits everyone shit... My skin gets red if I rub it and gentle application is different than trying to mix foundation on your face from white paint with sand particles in it!
These foundations would never scam me because I know I'm too dark for their target audience
Right!!?? Yet the ads are like … it’s fits everyone!!!!
Those foundations are usually 4 shades of ashy. Where does my rich skin tone come in?
Same, I also fall outside their range, except I’m too pale. I tried the lightest shade and it gave Oompa Loompa from Willy’s Chocolate Experience.
@@noidea4254 Yikes!
I’m light medium to light tan with a sort of yellow-leaning undertone and most of the time these look ashy on even me. It seems like a lot of them have white bases or something… [edit]: if I just waited a little longer into the video before replying, I would have heard this point mentioned LOL
"it intuitively transforms to your skin tone". When they start assigning emotional abilities to a foundation you know it's time to move on.
Exactly! 😂😂
As/Is!?!? I miss the days when buzzfeed didn’t suck. Good thing all the good people left and started their own channels.
I know me too!!
My brain hemispheres fused when they said their product does something "intuitively". Like it has a brain that houses intuition. 😂🖤
i’m shook that this is still a thing in 2024. if it was truly adaptable to individual skin tones it would be patented technology that would put other brands making foundation out of business. or it would be obscenely expensive. sad to see it still being peddled to people now 😢
Unfortunately, I think as each new generation starts to enter makeup wearing or other respective stages, we’ll continue to see the same tired old things recirculated as though it’s new and exciting.
As always, forever loving your content🖤🖤
That’s exactly it! It’s a vicious circle! 😂🖤🖤🖤
Yes! L8ke the pH glosses and blushes 💄💄
So true! I tried this "revolutionary" type of foundation in like 1997. It was from Cover Girl or Maybelline or something and it was chalky and strange 😂. You could actually feel the grit of the little balls when you were rubbing it in. Not the experience I want to have when I'm putting on makeup haha.
There isn't any blush/gloss that changes with ph either. They are all typically colored with Red 27 (also listed as CI 45410), which reacts with the water in your skin. The blushes/lipsticks only look different on people due to undertones affecting the appearance.
Agree. The pinky red and maybe an orange tone. It looks the same one anyone. Lip balmy ones - if light, do add some colour but it's the same colour. Some may stain a bit.
It seems the list of reputable makeup artists are getting smaller and smaller. So glad you’re still at the very top!
Hey, Robert. I suffer from chronical depression for a long time now. It's not easy, but since I found you and your brother James here on CZcams, there is a lot more light in my days! I watched EVERY video on your channels❤ i love the episodes with both of you the most. Thank you for being so authentic, funny and smart.
I remember when I was in jr high, Almay came out with a shade-adapting range of foundations with little pigment pearls that burst to adapt to your skin. I am super fair, and most drugstore foundations don't work for me, and this was no exception. I bought the fairest shade that was supposed to be fair to medium. It was either white, or if I tried to blend it in, it was light medium and very yellow. It was a fool me once situation. Never again.
I remember it too!! It was straight up orange on my extremely fair skin! What a joke. If you’re a cool toned fair skinned person, it’s nearly impossible to find a match in the drugstore. My first matching foundation came from KatVonD’s brand. Her brand understood that not everyone has warm tone. 😂
I remember that. It would always turn orange on my skin.
THE FLASHBACKS!! I experienced the exact same thing. L'oréal True Match was the ONLY drugstore brand that had a foundation close to my skin tone.
That stuff went straight yellow on me.
Thank you!! I’m sick of the people on TikTok shilling the dr jart green paste. They all claim it cancels out redness because it’s green! It turns beige though! It’s just a pot of concealer!
And so overpriced!
These have been around awhile, early 90's or so. They worked for me since I am pretty white bread (light to medium, neutral undertones). The problem I had with them is they never stopped, they oxidized to the uppaloompa stage fairly quickly. Horrible, just horrible.
They do oxidize horrifically!!
Hahaha yeah me to thankfully mine doesn't oxide
Maybe that's what a certain "politician" wears 😂
Hey Robert! I’m chronically ill and I’m currently in the hospital or in bed all the time. I love watching your videos for comfort. They’re so fun, informative, and entertaining.
Love you!!!!
Disabled and fellow chronically ill person here who loves the Welsh twins (along with Marcus and Asthon too!) Their vids are a great mood booster and a lovely distraction.
Hope you're back to your normal soon and out of the hospital ❤
@@-xxMelissaxx- aww this means so much! Thank you ❤️
I have mature skin and have the worst time finding and applying foundations and blush withis out feeling like the crazy old lady with the obvious blush and crooked lipstick (i dont wear lipstick but you know what i mean right?) Ive akways worn makeup and dont understand what im doing wrong as ive tried to make changes to adapt over the years. Can you please do an episode for us older (59) folks so we dont look like scary clowns? Please? I trust you!
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Did anyone else giggle when Robert said "sit on your face"? My mind is clearly in the gutter 😂
😂😂 staaaaaaaap
Get your mind out of the gutter so mine has room to float by❣️😂
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It's ironic how they claim these are so "intuitive" and "personalized", as if this *single* shade would give literally everyone a better shade than a foundation that comes in 50 shades. So backwards and misleading.
i have wasted so much goddamn money on color changing nonsense, including a Shiseido “color adapt” sunscreen. I foolishly thought Shiseido would be different 😅
Oh… Shiseido should have known better. That’s disappointing
Sometimes the Japanese disappoint us...but only Sometimes
“Intelligent” foundation that “reads” our skin tone only 5 tones it seems-lol) and acts like a concealer?! 😂 Makes no sense to anyone w common sense!
It's like The Emperor's New Foundation
As soon as I saw that lying Mikayla using one I knew it was lies
It probably suited her because she is that “medium” shade
@@RobertWelsh I didn’t watch the rest as soon as I heard it’s amazing blah blah cause she is full of it
@@RobertWelsh and it was prob one of her paid for ads she does not declare and as she has shown she hates brands until they pay her then there the best thing since sliced bread no one should believe someone who bases there opinion on if there being paid or not she is for sale to the highest bidder would never believe anything she says
@@RobertWelshI think the shade was called “KIMMM KAHHHHDASHHHHIUN” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 -I had to. It’s a joke of course. 😂😂😂
@@greeneyedsoutherngirl6468I almost spit my drink out 😂
I also hate those “ph/ color changing adapting” lip products that change to your “perfect pink shade” when in reality, everyone’s ph skin levels are virtually the same and the same shade of pink will show up on everyone. It only looks different because of people’s skin tones and undertones😵💫🧍🏾♀️
I think you’re better off using pigments that you add to foundation to alter the color. LA Girl Mixing pigments are great. They come in white yellow orange and blue to help alter the color or undertones of a foundation so they’re not rendered useless. And if you’re a POC forget about it. It’s not happening. The mixing pigments are fabulous and you only need a tiny bit to foundation chemistry experiment.
Oof this! Back in like 2010 ish I bought a drug store brand of "color match" foundation. Was so excited bought it. Put it on, looked ok. Went to work then went to the bathroom a couple hours later and saw myself in the mirror and I literally had to wash it all off. I was so embarrassed, it had turned 100% orange! Nothing remotely close to a skin tone. Learned my lesson lol never again!
Almay!
Miss Darcei testing the "color changing" foundations out always gives me a laugh. 😂
This reminds me of that L’Oréal magic bb redness thing from a while ago. I saw it and thought omg something that will neutralize my rosacea! Turned straight orange on my light olive skin tone. Just the worst. I’d rather have my extreme redness
I guess kinda the “flip side” of having a wide variety of foundations, is that now it seems as though some brands have overwhelmed you with shades and if you’re at a store where you can’t access a sample,it makes it even more of a guessing game. Revolution foundation is one that instantly comes to mind (at Target anyway).
I'm so glad you did a deep dive on the color-changing foundation nonsense. Thank you for busting this myth!
Good timing for this video as I was just trying to dissuade my mom from buying that Perbelle stuff. Of course she’s seen ads and wanted to try it, but I told her basically what you covered here as best I could. I told her that I’d rather take her to Sephora or Nordstrom to find a good color match for her in a nice foundation for sensitive skin.
“Comment something” 😂😂 done!!! I just love how you help so many people that fall on everything showed online 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 love you 💖💖💖💖💖💖
Miss Darcei is my fave influencer who tests all of these B.S. makeup items that do NOT work for darker skin. She tests soooo many brands.
I love her
Robert your channels are both amazing, i appreciate sooooo much your videos.
It happens the same with me many times when it comes to skincare. I buy something but they never work like the brand says it does.
😩 saaame! Thank you! 🖤🖤
That's why I don't buy literally anything (unless it's super cheap and I don't mind wasting the money) before I have done research, watched UNPAID reviews, and only from people I trust. I have literally never bought something because some random person says it's good, if I don't know / trust their opinion I'm not buying it 😂
Oh boy! I tried one of these color adapting foundations years ago and it turned orange on me! Literally Oompah Loompah orange 😳 I’m very fair with cool pink undertones. I never tried another one 😂 love your content and always look forward to your uploads on both channels 😊 have a great rest of your day!💜🖤
I used one of these years ago, I think it was a Loreal one. It was straight up orange, it wouldn’t have looked good on anyone!
The only reliable product I've ever found that can actually change your foundation color is buying pigments and mixing them in with your foundation. La colors used to sell for pigment colors. Blue, red, yellow and white and I use them pretty often when the season was changing and I was getting more or less sunlight on my skin
omg the Kitchen and Jorn/Robert Welsh crossover of dreams!
I have green olive undertones. Even foundation ranges with 50 shades dont have my shade😂
That's where the Zombie in my handle comes from. The pain of being Southeast Asian and your skin came out of a Mediterranean appetizer plate is just 🤬 when shopping for stuff.
Unironically what I do for my olive skin is but a green color corrector (some brands make inexpensive ones) and mix a tiny bit into my foundation. It's another product yes, but also means I'm not limited in trying to find my specific olive shade when brands all seem to think olives only exist in three medium shades if we exist at all.
@mortuuscerebri950 yeah I got the elf green color corrector and I'll use that. Right now I'm not using foundation, I just use the NYX serum concealer, and it has a pink undertone, so it works perfectly for my under eyes(I have dark circles), but I don't use it everywhere. I do like using the CC+foundation, but I have eye problems, so I haven't been doing a lot of makeup this last year or so cuz my eyes have gotten pretty drastically worse (I have exotropia, which is where my eyes drift outwards whenever I try and look at something close up)
Just want to say ty for never being problematic and never going for the rage marketing, that seems to be the new trend now. You truly are one of the few influencers that I truly trust.
Something 🖤 idk if you watch Hannah Louise Poston, but she talks about having a desatured skin tone often. She showed a chart once that made me realize I'm a desatured fair neutral!
Love her!
I love her voice! And her color advice is spot on.
Thank you, Robert, for the thorough explanation. Warning received; I will pass on these kinds of products when I see them
Always depend on my Robert to give honest reviews. Thank you again.
I remember using a colour adapting foundation years ago! It didnt even match me and im white as.
These brands need to stop scamming people.
Not sure if concealer would be the right term to describe the coverage but to a full coverage lover this is a skin tint in my opinion
Being a light to medium ivory, I found an easy match for my skin. Having anything other than a yellow undertone would be an issue though. If I want more coverage, I use something else.
I remember like 12 years ago when the body shop released their BB Cream, this was also one of those “colour adapting” formulas with the tiny beads. It was terrible and I’m glad to say I never fell for anything like that again
Not sure if y'all have this brand or if it goes by another name overseas, but Almay came out with a product like this decades ago. I used to use it. It was okay. But, I'm very fair...so, there's that. I have such an issue finding something to match me. For the longest time, my options were pink or yellow. It got expensive on my limited budget (as a young woman) trying to find that match or buy two shades to mix myself. Very thankful that the shade ranges have expanded over the years.
Now that I'm dealing with very different skin due to aging, I have found that CC creams work much better. Finding one with a bit of coverage took me some time. But I finally found one that has sunscreen, coverage, moisturizing, and the closest match I have ever found.
You are one of three beauty youtubers that I pay any attention too. So, I hope you won't be offended that I don't watch ALL of the videos. Have you done any videos on Purlise/Yensa Beauty?
I'm loving the Youth Glow Vitamin C CC Cream. (Ugh...that name is too long😂)
Never bought one. I'm too light with cool undertones. They usually are always too dark and warm toned.
Thank you for sharing Robert.✌️😘
This marketing shouldn’t be legal. Saying a product “intuitively” changes implies a level of consciousness in the product. Lawyers out there, tell me how you would argue this! I’m so interested in what qualifies as false claims and what doesn’t.
Fun fact: Those As/Is peeps are now independent creators. I follow Jen & Kristen, as Kitchen & John but I don’t remember the other ones name, maybe Freddie, and she left as well
Also fun fact: the video was from LadyLike channel, but Buzzfeed moved it to As/Is
I actually tried that TLM brand, and it had the fragrance and performance of sunscreen. There was no color coverage at all. I passed it along (with her father's permission) to a young teenage girl at church, so she could learn and experiment with make-up.
Thank you as always for educating us Robert!!! 🖤💜🖤💜
Don’t ever change ❤ is hard to trust influencers and you always keep it real❤
I tried a colour adapting foundation years ago, as I struggled to find a proper colour match for my very pale skin. It went on white, but as I blended it went a sort of orangey brown which did me no favours! I learned the less I blended it, the paler it stayed which was better for me, but once I discovered BB cream I started using that instead!
Although I feel like I’ve forgotten all about BB creams now, since it is possible to find pale skin foundations now - from what I remember, I did like them 🙂
Thanks for explaining the colour wheel and addition of black and white (gray). Also, the way the pigment balls pop and release. I have been leary of anything one size fits all colour changing make up. I do like and have used a UV light BB in a tube by Lancome off and on years. Ulta released a similar product later. Those are light cover with sunprotection and look super natural. The shade range was limited but two shades could be blended to a better match need be. In summer or warmer temps these BB cream types offered a nice base and day look with some added perks of hydration and sun protection. For work, all day, I would use a setting powder and they held up well with a super natural look. Not ashy. That video you inserted shows exactly why these colour changing varieties don't perform for every one. They look pastey. I would like to try a good one though beacuse of being curious. Thanks for sharing.
Even if such technology existed, it would be useless in a foundation because if it adapted to the colour of the skin, how could it possibly cover discoloration, dark circles, etc...?
It would be the same thing as applying a transparent moisturizer
Thank you for your reviews..always honest!
Thanks robert for the quality content that enlightens my day each time u post ❤❤❤
Thank you! 🖤🖤
I never trusted the color changing makeup trends to begin with.
Love that you are keeping us informed 🎉❤
I remember the first time I saw this when I was in maybe high school (mid 2000s) from one of the major drugstore brands (my brain keeps picturing Hayden Panettiere in an ad but I think I’m just defaulting to her Neutrogena ads). I remember being so excited about it, but then I realized - I am FAIR. Like, almost to paper fair, and I have a lot of redness in my cheeks. It basically turned me a few shades darker and was constantly changing color throughout the day (like oxidizing, but obviously there was shifts in the pH of my skin through different amounts of sweat). It was hideous and I went back to my dream matte mousse haha. That was also orange and hideous, but I thought it would make me “tan” and no one would notice my glowing white body.
Saying the foundation reacts "intuitively" to your skin implies the foundation is sentient 😂😂
So glad you covered this ❤
I recently saw a shampoo ad that claimed to penetrate the hair to the molecular level. Unless it’s been heavily irradiated, I highly doubt a shampoo can do that.
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I worked this out when I was younger because I got super excited that a foundation would match my SUPER pale skin tone when everything else was too dark. Turns out it was just orange beads, the disappointment was real 💔😂
I've looked daft after buying various cc/bb creams so haven't even bothered to try these but the ads are tempting
SUMFINNNGGGG for the schmalgorithm! 😂💜🖤
Yes, and in winter you are paler and in summer you are tanned. It's natural beside you are always in a dark room and never go out.
Never understood the idea 8fcolor chanhing foundation. If it would actually work then all big makeup brands would have done it by now.
Something something thank you Robert, you're lovely, something something something
Great consumer information. I love when you expose these snake oil salesmen. Thanks Robert ♥️☮️🖤
Dating myself: I remember my sister and I getting really excited about color changing lipstick back in the 1980s. They were green in the stick. It was fun and a novelty, in the vein of mood rings. Everything old is new again.
I remember buying the TLM one after watching Jeffree's review. Mind you, I was new in the beauty world and had no clue about make up.
The finish itself was very nice, but my skin broke out badly. Let alone that it was most likely too dark for me, but I can't remember.
The color changing stuff is just annoying to me😂 my favorite brand makes a color changing lipgloss, and i just dont understand why people like them. They all turn the same hot pink color, and they tend to wear off on the inner lips, so then you look like youre wearing hot pink lip liner and you didnt even blend it into your lips😂
It annoys me when brands say they are reacting to your lips ph level, and that everyone will have a custom shade. Idk, maybe its cuz im 34, but i just dont get why people like them. Even my favorite brand makes a couple different ones, and some people are like me, but i see a ton of comments of people saying they love them🤷♀️ i feel like its an r/whooosh type thing, i just dont get it
I have one of these but it only works because it was already my shade
What frustrates me the most is verrrry big influencers/celebrities who have a lot of followers promoting these types of things. They know exactly what they’re doing with clickbait-y videos, and they should be doing better. It’s just disappointing to see 🤥
The closest thing I’ve found is Mad Hippie tinted sun serum. Still have to do spot concealer but I got tired of dealing with trying to match foundation, I can see why the color changing stuff got a lot of attention.
the top is soooooo cute robert!❤
Robert, OH my goodness, your skin looks like GLASS today! Stunning 💜
Those “pH” blushes are BS. It’s just color theory-like where the exact same lipstick color looks different from me to you because our skin tone/color is different.
Comment something...ok here it goes get ready for it...SOMETHING!😂😂😂😂😂😂. ❤❤ Your channel Robert💖💖
Thank yoooou! 🖤🖤
Helllloooooo! Happy Sunday!! 🖤 🖤🖤
"SOMETHING"
...did it ❤
Love your educational content- thanks Robert!
It's lovely that we can trust you to tell the truth. It's very rate online.
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I tried the Almay color changing foundation way back in the day. It just oxidized to oompa-loompa orange on my fair skin. 😆
‘Something’ 💃💃
We love you Robert
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when you started talking about undertones, i thought "we should make these foundations in light, medium and dark shade ranges and split them by undertone too", and realised i circled right back to a regular foundation😭
I bought this brand years ago, it wasn’t great it really dried my skin out. What’s concerning though is that I bought it for $5 but some places were selling it for $20-$30 😅
Even L’Oréal or someone had like color correcting type foundation where you get green or pink and it’s supposed to help redness and changes to match your skin tone. But it always goes too deep for me to get rid of red so it ends up looking like I out the wrong color foundation on my red parts lol it’s awful. It came in a tube! 😂 can’t believe people buy stuff like the TLM stuff and think it’ll really work
I know this is a bit tricky but I think you're so creative you could do it but I would love to see how you would fix a collection 😂
I'm still mad about the sailor moon collection 😭 I just think we could have done so much better.
1st collection inner scouts and 2nd collection outer scouts 😭
My favorite is when Miss Darcie tries these 🤣
Robert video! Hope you're feeling better, sir!
I'm so sorry, Robert, but this video just made me think that I maybe want to try one of these if I ever see it 😅 I call my skin tone "pale ghost", and I think that with the complexion a shade away from white paint that would be exactly what I need!
Off topic, but you look great even if you don't feel it. That shirt style is very flattering on you too. Go cocoon up and feel better please 😁
Are those the gals that used to be on Lady Like? I haven't watched them in years!
Omg this is crazy lol😊thanks for sharing 😊