Help Please

I do always ask the people working in Mac to help me out but one lady gave me a match which was exactly my color but just after looking at other things in the shop when i looked at myself in the mirror i looked really dark..like muddy..and then i asked another one to help me out and she was like since you have a oily skin use a foundation thats one shade lighter then your shade that way it wont make you look dark i did that and now all of a sudden i am not liking it :s it makes me look weird in pictures..i don't know if the camera is bad or the foundation..but yes i still get dark every time apply anymake up and when i wash my face people are like fair and lovely say moo dho kar aayi ho ;S which is pretty embarressing you know..