Color Transforms-Make up product

Color forms a major part of life and visible range of reflected light, which is one of the design elements, it can also be a design symbol. As you look at the stop sign in different countries, even you cannot read the words but you can still realize that is a stop sign. It is because the red color already symbolizes the meaning to stop. Also people use to give a name to symbolize the color that they are talking about. For example, when I look at the red color, I will immediately think of fire, and it does make me feel warm. Or if I look at the blue color, I will think of the sky with ocean. Also it makes me feel cool and peaceful. That is why people like to add more names with their feeling on colors. However, different people will have different color in their mind even they are talking the same apple red, because everyone has different color sense. Therefore, in order to solve the misunderstanding and knowing which color it is, Pantone is one of the color matching systems that help people to match the color and contact with one another. Imagine if you can only see black and white, how will you feel? As Marco Boschini, Venice said without colors, design may be called a body without a soul. Colors can make objects to become more aesthetic also can help to improve our life.

Color Pantone from Wikipedia

Make Up for Ever's HD Microperfecting Primer

Goethe's color wheel from his 1810 Theory of colors

Recently, I bought a make-up product called Make Up For Ever. It is HD Microperfecting Primer, a color corrector product for balancing the skin tones. The special aspect of this product is there are seven different colors for different people’s need. I bought the green color for minimizing redness on the skin. I think it really works because as everyone knows, colors are distinguished into warm and cool shades. In the color wheel, you can see how colors are transformed and interacted by others and colors are separated into primary, secondary and tertiary. Red is a part of warm color and green is the side of cool area. Therefore, when the green color covers on the top of the red color, it seems to balance the color and reduce the redness. 

Moreover, mauve color can counteract sallow undertones, which is the contrast of blue and yellow to balance the skin tone. Also, pink and yellow can help to lighten the dark complexion and counteract the sallow underneath the skin. Basically, this product is using the theory of color contrast to balance the skin color.

Link: http://www.makeupforever.com/products/complexion/hd-primer.html