TEMPTU S/B Silicone-Based Shade Adjuster: Long-Lasting, Highly-Pigmented Formula For Customizing S/B Foundation Shades, Available in 7 Primary Colors

For over two decades I have struggled to match makeup to my skintone. My face has pale areas and pink areas, and even when I buy the "coolest" shades of coverup, it ends up looking yellow or orange on my skin. If I cool it down further with a blue tint, it starts to look ashy or green. Enter this Violet tinted Temptu shade adjuster--apparently the issue is that my undertones are both red and blue (red+blue=purple). I am now using the violet to tint my base coverup with much better results.The photos show the base makeup I was using (L'Oreal Paris True Match C3 - Creamy Natural) on its own and then with the Temptu violet shade adjuster mixed in first on a white palette and then on a part of my skin that shifts from the pink to more pale. Once blended in, it becomes nearly invisible on my skin. I do usually use a white lightener to lighten up the mix a bit for blending around the edges of my face where the skin is lighter.

I am extremely cool toned, to the point where I look more pink than normal flesh colored. Every cool toned foundation either isn’t pink enough, or looks straight up yellow on me. I found a foundation I loved, but of course I couldn’t find a good shade match, so I decided to try a foundation mixer before I returned it.I ordered the red mixer, and… it worked like a dream. My one word of caution is that it does darken the foundation, but that actually worked out for me as mine was slightly too light. If yours is the perfect shade minus the undertone, I would order the white one as well to counteract any darkening. But, as far as the general performance? Amazing. It didn’t impact the coverage, texture, finish, or anything else—it literally just changed the shade, which is all I needed.It is a fairly small bottle, but one tiny drop is all I need per application. I’m expecting it to last quite a while for me. It’s also a whole lot cheaper than buying tons of different foundations!

As with anything else, this product has its pros and cons. Depending on what you're looking for, this could be your holy grail product or a complete waste of your money. I can only speak to my own experience, and my own expectations.Personally, I am extremely pale and extremely olive-toned, apparently. I don't feel like I have an outlandish skin color or anything, but every foundation I have ever bought has been either too dark, too pink, too orange, or an unlovely combination of all three. Makeup companies don't cater to us outliers, as our beautiful sisters (and makeup-wearing brothers) at the opposite end of the spectrum also know.Tired of my head looking like a persimmon perched on top of my neck, I thought it was time to give foundation mixers a try. The first one I bought was LA Girl's yellow pigment mixer. That one comes in a full sized (1 oz) pump bottle, like a foundation except that it is a rich pollen-yellow. As I recall, I bought it from the Ulta website and it cost under $10.That was some help, but of course it couldn't make my foundations lighter, nor did it make them more neutral (or as I think of it, khaki) so I figured I needed a dedicated "olive" green mixer, plus a white. I decided to give Temptu brand a try because they make both colors (LA Girl makes white but not green, or else I would have gone with them again, as you get much more product for you dollar - Temptu's bottles are miniscule in comparison). Unfortunately, Temptu's green was sold out (or discontinued?), so I ended up buying white and blue, thinking I could mix my own green.I did manage to make my own personalized "pale olive" mixer drops, and I guess I'm satisfied with them, but to anyone facing the same problem that I am, and looking for the same solution, let me advise you to just buy all three colors (white, yellow, and blue) from LA girl. You will save money, have much more product to experiment with (and tailor-making your own perfect foundation shade can take a lot of experimenting), and, if coverage is something you look for, you will be much more satisfied with the results.These little Temptu mixer drops are surprisingly sheer. I used up nearly half of my bottle of white trying to lighten a too-dark foundation, pouring it recklessly into the larger bottle, but nothing seemed to be happening. Just trying to lighten a single pump of my favorite foundation required more than five or six drops of white. When I had, I guess, wasted that much of the white, I decided on a different approach. I added one pump of LA Girl's yellow and about six drops of the Temptu blue into what was left of my tiny bottle of Temptu white. This produced an excellent green-white-khaki, exactly what I needed.The trouble is that I have only half of an itty bitty bottle of it, and it requires six drops or more to "correct" a single pump of ordinary foundation. I'll probably run out of the stuff in a couple of weeks. I wish I had just stuck with LA Girl.All that said, I want to be fair to the Temptu brand. They make foundations for use with their proprietary airbrush machine. The sheerness is probably a necessary feature for that to work. I was mixing them with regular drugstore foundations, which they were never formulated for. And I will say, the Temptu drops have such a finely-milled texture that they produce a wonderful "refined" appearance to the skin. They weren't quite ideal as a solution to my issue, but for what they are, I think they're pretty impressive. I won't be buying them again (unless I decide to buy their whole airbrush system - unlikely), but if tiny bottles of highly refined sheerish foundations are what you're looking for, these would probably be perfect.I hope this is helpful for someone out there, since I know I cannot be the only very pale, very neutral skinned person in existence.

The media could not be loaded. I have never been a super make up artist. I truly spend time on YouTube with videos and make up in front of me practicing my techniques every now and then. But one thing does bother me. When I finally find the perfect foundation for myself it kills me that I then have to look for other shades so that I can contour and highlight as I wish. Not anymore!With one bottle of this in white and the darker one, you can make all the shades you need with one foundation. Now when I highlight under my eyes all I do is take a little bit of foundation and drop one drop of this in it on the back of my hand to lighten it perfectly. I don’t have to worry about the undertone being wrong or anything. No more insane makeup mismatches in my drawers and cabinets. I’m currently using Milani concealer and foundation in Chestnut with this. I don’t need anything else.Why didn’t I know this 20 years ago? All that wasted money.(Btw, The one thing I didn’t do in the video is I forgot to shake up the white. You have to shake it well before using it.) And be sure to use one drop at a time because it’s very dense. One bottle should last you a very long time depending on how often you wear makeup.

Every time the mfg changes the color choices of my foundation, I end up going through several bottles before finding the one I need. With this blue color corrector, I'm going back and using the foundation that i just through into a bag from before. I got the bottle because I put enough on to my palm to do the job and put the drops on top and mix them together with the handle of a small brush. I've went through two older bottles and you have to determine the ratio of foundation to color corrector. Once you figure it out, you have saved the money from all those other bottles you bought.