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What's a color IQ

could someone explain what a color IQ is
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Re: What's a color IQ

A color IQ is a type of program that Sephora offers so you can find your perfect foundation, concealer, and nude lipstick shade. At Sephora stores, at least the ones near my house, you can ask to find your color IQ. The employee puts a small handheld machine thingy to different parts of your face to find you perfect foundation shade, for example. Then, you can enter your shade (mine is 2Y07) into the Sephora website and a ton of foundations with your perfect shade. Its not a flawless system, so I recommend going to a store to test your shade before you buy it. Hope that was helpul:)


KiraPloof wrote:
could someone explain what a color IQ is

 

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Re: What's a color IQ

Thanks for your help 


@NataliaMcIlvery wrote:

A color IQ is a type of program that Sephora offers so you can find your perfect foundation, concealer, and nude lipstick shade. At Sephora stores, at least the ones near my house, you can ask to find your color IQ. The employee puts a small handheld machine thingy to different parts of your face to find you perfect foundation shade, for example. Then, you can enter your shade (mine is 2Y07) into the Sephora website and a ton of foundations with your perfect shade. Its not a flawless system, so I recommend going to a store to test your shade before you buy it. Hope that was helpul:)


KiraPloof wrote:
could someone explain what a color IQ is

 


 

Re: What's a color IQ

Thanks for asking this.. I didn't know either! Next time I go into Sephora I'll have to ask about it. 🙂

Re: What's a color IQ

Hi @Anonymous. Color IQ is a way of classifying your shade in colour products based on your skin tone. You can go in-store and have them match you, or you can find it based on products you already use. Then you can get recommendations based on your colour code. For example, my Color IQ is 2Y02, so I can use that to determine my shade in other products. For context, that roughly equates to MAC NW 10-15. 

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RE: Re: What's a color IQ

Thank you so much ❤️
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