I SUCK at picking out makeup. I grew up with a stepmother that hated me, and no females to show me how to do all the feminine girly things that most acquire the knowledge to in their teens. One of the things I never got, and still haven't figured out, is makeup for skin. Whenever I do it, it looks SO fake. Or, if I happen to match my skintone, my bad skin shows blatently through the makeup and makes it look strange or tacky. I think the main problem is non-professional grade makeup and the inability to match my own skintone. I'd like to order some MAC studio FX makeup, but none of them look like my tone, at all. I'm guessing I'm just looking at them wrong. They all seem too dark or too orangey/pinky for me.
I hate doing this (who doesn't hate exposing their flaws?), but here are some pictures to give you an idea of what I'm dealing with, skin-wise.
Me: makeup free (aside from the obvious eye makeup), in natural lighting. If you can show me the shade of studio fx I need, I'll love you forever! (PS, you can't see it, but I have a VERY pale yellow asian-type tone to my skin, so I probably need something very pale but olive based as opposed to pink-based).
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I am not sure how good CG is, but it's a start. 

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