Newbie asks - what will suit me?

[astralpantheress]

Hello Silk Natural lovers!

I'm new to Silk Naturals and haven't made my order yet, so I thought it would be nice to ask all of you of some tips for me.

I have only tried one other brand of mineral makeup before and it was Bare Minerals. In their colouring system Fairly Light fits me the best (if I'm not tanned). I think I would describe myself as having neutral skin undertone (I'm Caucasian, from central Europe), there are no strong yellow nor pink undertones, although I tend to have quite a bit of redness in my cheek during winter months. I tan averagely, I get sunburt very rarely. My friend has been telling me that I'm Deep Winter, but I think I may be a borderline between Dark Winter and Dark Autumn (my natural hair colour is deep neutral brown). I have combination skin with quite oily t-zones and average breakouts.

Having said that, what colour of mineral makeup kit would you recommend? I was thinking Ebony, but it says that it's more neutral-to-cool and for those who burn easily, which is not my case.

Another thing is that I would like to try brow creams, but I'm struggling between two (maybe three) colours. My eyebrow colour is somewhat neutral brown. Most often when I try brown eyebrow pencils at drugstores, they have excess reddish understone which I cannot pull off with my colour. But then again if I try those which are almost black, it is too dark and too cool for me.

I was thinking about Medium Ash, Medium Brown or Deep Brown, but I cannot decide, hence I'm attaching photo with my eye + eyebrow!

Thank you in advance for any answers.

P.S.: If you want, please feel free to recommend any eye shadow that might suit me, I would be very glad!

[JenW]

Try the Olive foundation. I am guessing you will need 1 scoop color to around 12-15 white.

Medium Ash for the brows.

[Oxana124]

What colors of eye shadow do you typically wear? I could suggest some based on your answer.

Also, Silk Naturals has the BEST lip products, and I have tried a ton of others brands. I would highly suggest picking up at least one lippie to try

[astralpantheress]

Thank you both for your answer!

As of eye shadow colour, I usually wear pretty much neutral colours varying from beige to brownish shades (or even a bit golden), to greyish shades or taupe. Other than that, I sometimes like to wear green eyeshadow. I was actually thinking of getting either Doubloons or Model, but I don't know which would suit me the best. But I love both colours LOL.

Talking about lippies, I'm considering Damsel, because I like wearing not to strong pink lips during the day (and stronger, darker - going to more darker fuchsia perhaps - for special occassions). I would probably even like pink, which is more toned as coral pink, but I haven't tried any lip product with such colour, so I'm clueless about the shade.

[Oxana124]

Doubloons is very popular, it is very unique. I also love Sonic for a light colors, it's an ivory that has really pretty iridescence to it, hard to capture on camera, but so pretty in real life.
Model is super pretty too, I can't wear anything too close to bronze, and so wasn't sure how that one would turn out for me, but it is very wearable and has a nice golden sheen to it.

I think Damsel would be good for you then if you want something sheer. I am liking Shock these days, it is also a sheer pink, I wear it lightly over clear lip balm for a hint of pink to my lips. And when I want something brighter I wear it on its own, about 2 layers, and I have a nice fuchsia pink.