Welcome to the Clarins Foundation Finder

We’ll help you discover the perfect foundation for you depending on your skin tone, undertone, complexion concerns and preferences on finish, coverage and texture. Use our foundation match finder to find your perfect foundation.

Step 1: How to find your skin tone for foundation

Find your foundation shade by matching as closely to your skin tone as possible. This is important as a good colour match enhances your natural beauty and makes your foundation look like perfect skin! Use the images of our Clarins models to help us match your skin tone, choosing from Light, Light Medium, Medium, Medium Dark, Dark. The next step of our intuitive foundation shade finder will take into account your skin undertone (warm, cool or neutral) to help us discover your ideal shade.

Step 2: Discover your skin undertone

Not sure how to find your foundation shade? Now we have your skin tone covered, we need to find your skin undertone. This is best found by looking at the inner part of your arm, if it’s pink and your veins appear blue, you have a cool undertone. If your inner arm is more golden and your veins are more green in tone, then you have a warm undertone. If your inner arms and veins are somewhere in between these two, you have a neutral undertone. If you’re not sure, don’t worry! Our foundation match finder will help us to match your overall skin tone, plus we’ll send you a foundation sample so you can try before you buy.

Step 3: What are your complexion concerns?

In order of preference, select three skin concerns that you’d like to address (including visible shine, imperfections, open pores, dark spots, yellow complexion, signs of fatigue, dullness, redness and signs of aging). With the right foundation and concealer, these skin concerns can be blurred or masked for a more even finish. Our clever foundation finder will match your concerns to your ideal coverage and texture. The result? Your perfect foundation, matched precisely to your skin tone and minimising any imperfections for a truly flawless finish.

Step 4: Choose your foundation finish and coverage

A luminous finish will give you a ‘natural glowing complexion’, whereas a velvety-matte finish will minimise open pores and shine. When it comes to choosing coverage, a light-coverage foundation will give you a more natural, fresh-faced appearance that’s subtle and radiant. Alternatively, a full-coverage foundation will even out any unevenness of tone and mask imperfections such as redness and dark spots with long-lasting hold.

Step 5: Explore your ideal foundation texture

Finally, choose your favourite foundation texture; with a range of finishes and coverage depending on your personal preference. Not sure which one to pick? Simply choose ‘Either one - as long it looks amazing on me’ and we’ll sprinkle a little Clarins magic to find the perfect foundation for you. Your ideal match (and free foundation sample) is just a click away!