Okay lets admit it, im sure this has happened to almost every desi girl…Were going to a party/wedding, we put on our foundation (a little lighter shade than our everyday wear), and love the way our makeup looks…we go to the wedding and take bunch of pictures, as you look through the digital camera to see how our pictures came out…our face looks horribly bright white! compared with our body…your makeup looks soo fake and you look washed out, and you immediately hate the pictures…
I’ve had this happen to me soo many times… I wear regular color foundation everyday, however when I go to parties I apply a foundation shade a little lighter than my regular shade…and I think I look great and everything, but the camera flash totally kills your look…and I end up hating my pictures for looking like my face got dipped in an atta tin, when in reality my foundation looked fine in the mirror…
Now, we can all admit that we don’t want to look “gori” wearing foundation, but i’m POSITIVE alot of you girls do have a different shade foundation (lighter) for parties…
so admit it, how many of you has this “picture flash” incident happened to???
Foundations containing spf are often the cause of this. Most professional foundations don't contain spf.
But also, if they are crappy small digital cameras, it's just the rubbish flash. In professional photos or even the serious amateurs that have slr's with mountable flashes, the flash is usually bounced.
It is said that foundation that is a bit darker than ur skin produces beautiful photographs.
My worst incident was last year at my brothers wedding......i looked perfect in the salons lighting but when the pcitures came out ....i looked like as if i took a dunk in cornflour
and now i wonder if i traumatized the people with that ghostly white look at the shadee
Is it just me, or is the solution quiet simple? :khums: Stop pretending to be something you’re not, and use regular colored foundation that is actually your skin tone. Foundation isn’t meant to be a lightning miracle cream. It’s supposed to give you an even skin tone. It’s a foundation. Not **whitening **gel.
lol...... I always use one shade darker powder foundation then my skin tone... I read somewhere that darker people should use
one shade lighter color foundation and light color skin tone should use one shade darker.
I think it mostly happens to people using liquid foundation, if you cover it with loose or pressed powder then result is much better.
Thanks God i never had such photo. :D
My cousin always used a shade lighter than her skin, when the photos came out she looked like a panda, cause she had not touched up her eye bags and whole eye area, it was really funny
I just bought foundation for myself the very first time ever and i went a shade darker as oppose to 1 shade lighter cuz i think thats a better option always. Otherwise you end up looking like a bhoot whether with flash or otherwise.
Foundations containing spf are often the cause of this. Most professional foundations don't contain spf.
But also, if they are crappy small digital cameras, it's just the rubbish flash. In professional photos or even the serious amateurs that have slr's with mountable flashes, the flash is usually bounced.
Omg I had no idea foundations with spf caused this! I recently bought the MAC prolongwear foundation to wear at parties (cause it will last the whole party) and it has spf 10...and I bought the shade matching my skintone...however in pics...whenever I wear that foundation...I look like a bhootni! Well this explains it! I wonder why though?
It happened with my dark circles area, I guess I just keep on buyin the wrong foundations :(
Ahh, eyecircles. That is a tale of woe!!! I also have dark circles and they are hereditary so can't do much about them. Been to dermatologists and all of them say to cover with a concealor. I have yet to find a concealor that would hide them without making the undereye area appear grey!
I was told to try dermablend, but it is too thick and heavy for my skin. It irritated my undereye area within two days of use!!!
Omg I had no idea foundations with spf caused this! I recently bought the MAC prolongwear foundation to wear at parties (cause it will last the whole party) and it has spf 10...and I bought the shade matching my skintone...however in pics...whenever I wear that foundation...I look like a bhootni! Well this explains it! I wonder why though?
the spf component is usually something like titanium dioxide which reflects the flash.
I think you should always wear a foundation that matches your skin color, whether or not it's for a big occasion. Also, some foundations such as Revlon's PhotoReady and Makeup Forever's HD Invisible Cover have tiny, tiny specs of mica (or something similar to that) that reflect off of camera flash, which is why they can make your skin look brighter on camera. You should probably try some sort of matte foundation like Estee Lauder's Double Wear that matches your skin tone.
I used to think it was my foundatino or camera or something but then I just took a whole bunch of pix and it turns out…my face really IS lighter than my neck!
