the perfect bronzer

Struggling to find the correct bronzer color for your skin tone? For years I struggled to find the right shade of bronzer, too. I tried many of the top-selling brands.

One by one, I scratched each bronzer off my list of possibilites. I wasn’t finding a bronzer that worked for me, and soon began running out of new bronzers to try.

I was stumped. Unlike with foundation colors, most cosmetic companies only offer 1–2 bronzer colors. Why didn’t my skin tone work with any of the one-size-fits-all bronzers out there?

And then BAM! it hit me.

One-size-fits-all foundation color is impossible, so stop trying to find a one-size-fits-all bronzer color.

If people’s skin tones are so different that they require such different foundation colors, why would they be able to use the same bronzer color? A good contour color for my face (a few shades darker than my natural skin tone) may be many shades darker/lighter than the next person’s and may have very different undertones.

So instead of using a bronzer color for my contouring, I chose a foundation color a few shades darker than my own skin tone. It was embarrassingly easy, since there are so many different foundation colors out there.