Holistic make-up artist Sjaniël Turrell shares her favourite natural and organic foundations and concealers for darker skin tones.
Now that the mainstream make-up market seems to finally be catering well for women with dark skin, the natural beauty world still has some catching up to do. It is a formulating challenge to create the myriad of darker skin tones that are out there and even more so if you are limited to using only a selected number of ingredients and pigments. That being said, the clean make-up brands that have been around for the longest are now starting to add more and more colours to their offerings.
As a makeup artist, I find that most of the darker colours available are still lacking in yellow and golden undertones or appear too ashy on dark skin. The brands below are getting the undertones right and offer a better selection for darker skin tones, but still not for all of them. It is also important to understand that no one person has only one tone of colour on their face, but when you have darker skin these differences become more visible and one colour may not be able to work well with your entire face. Either find a colour that matches mid way between your forehead and cheeks or find two colours that you can use both separately and mix together. There are of course more brands with options for darker tones, but most include only one or two darker colours or may not have enough yellow undertones to work for the majority and that is why I have not included them here.