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Color cosmetics / Complexion, cheek, lip, eye

Color, close to skin.

Sheer, blendable color for complexion, cheek, lip, and eye. Built around naturally derived ingredients, and made to look like skin with a little more warmth.

Woman with soft, natural makeup and light freckles against a dusty pink wall
Pl. 01Soft color on bare-looking skin

The idea

We make color that sits close to skin sheer enough to let skin show through, soft enough to blend with a fingertip and built around plant oils, butters, waxes, and earth-toned pigments.

This site is about how color looks and wears: texture, finish, shade, and the small habits that make makeup look like your own skin with more color.

Shade explorer

Find the shade that disappears.

Slide through twelve depths and four undertones. The strip and the swatches on skin change color as you go.

Depth 05 / Neutral undertoneIllustrative

05 / Light medium
Undertone

Your strip, illustrative

  • Skin tint#C69774
  • Concealer#D2A584
  • Cheek#C9776A
  • Lip#9E4A48
  • Brow#5B4030

Light medium, neutral

Light-medium skin can carry a little more saturation. Warm rose, peach-coral, and rosewood show up clearly without looking painted on.

Neutral undertones balance warm and cool, so most color families work. Rosewood and soft terracotta are an easy place to start.

All colors here are illustrative, not product shades. Screens and lighting change how color looks, so swatch in daylight before you choose.

Texture, up close

Four textures. One rule: it should melt in.

A single smear of white cream on a warm beige surface

i.Cream

Melts at fingertip warmth.

Cream color is pigment carried in oils, butters, and waxes. It softens as you work it, presses into skin, and reads as part of it rather than a layer on top.

Warm a dot between two fingertips, then press it on and blend outward.

Crushed pressed powders in red, rose, and copper tones scattered across a pale surface

ii.Powder

Soft focus, in thin layers.

Pressed powder is pigment bound together with fine powders and a little oil. It lays down a diffused, velvety layer of color that you build one pass at a time.

Tap the brush once to drop the excess, then sweep in small circles. Add a pass instead of pressing harder.

Three pools of oil and balm in clear to golden tones on a peach background

iii.Balm

Sheer color with a soft sheen.

A balm is mostly oils, butters, and wax with just enough pigment to tint. It glides on, and the color stays see-through.

Swipe it straight on, or dab with a fingertip for an even softer wash.

Four smears of lip color, from brown and peach to pink and red, on a pink background

iv.Swatch

One swipe tells you most of it.

Shade, sheen, and coverage all show up in a single swipe. Swatch two or three shades side by side along the jawline, then step into daylight before you decide.

Daylight from a window is the most honest light for judging color.

Open jars of loose powder in pale skin tones with a powder brush and a mascara wand

Ingredients

Every ingredient has a job.

  • Iron oxides

    Red, yellow, and black pigments, blended in different ratios to build skin-tone shades.

  • Mica

    A mineral ground into fine, flat flakes that catch the light for a soft sheen.

  • Jojoba oil

    Chemically closer to a liquid wax than a typical oil. It carries pigment in creams and balms.

  • Candelilla wax

    A plant wax from a desert shrub that gives sticks and pencils their shape.

Journal

Notes on color.

Plain-spoken guides to undertones, textures, and keeping a small makeup bag.

Questions about color?

Product questions, press, and retail partnerships. Write to us and we will reply by email.

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