True Match

I was really intending to talk about some nail polish or other today, but I just found out that True Match is finally making my foundation color and I am so excited I have to talk about that instead. I've discussed it before, here, I know - I have been wearing True Match practically since it first came out, and it didn't take me long to figure out that C2 was too light for me and C3 was too dark. So I have been buying two bottles at a time and mixing them together for, like, ten years (ok, maybe not quite, but it's five years, at the very least, going from that link above) and guess what, as part of the color expansion they are actually making C2.5!!

I was aware that every company who makes foundation is now madly expanding their ranges in order to follow Rihanna's lead (go, Rihanna, go!). True Match had been making these halfway-between shades in some other colors already, but since they already had more colors than most (they had 30 shades from the start), when I saw "new colors!" I didn't automatically think that would include mine. But, hey, awesome! I can buy foundation one bottle at a time, now! (And I am incredibly lazy about stuff like this, normally, so it tells you how much I like this foundation that I kept on doing it.)

Note: picture ganked from Walmart, because that was the first place I saw this, and here's the link back to that page. Nothing here is affiliate links.


Come to think of it, I could have bought Rihanna's foundation for what I paid for those Clinique BIY drops, and I only thought about that because I had this picture of the box:

I took that not because I was intending to talk about the drops again (I've played with them a little, and I'm sure I'll get around to discussing that eventually) but because I was looking at the flower pattern on the box. Another thing I know I've discussed previously is that I've been using Clinique products for 40 years or possibly a little more (man, does it pain me to say that) and I'm pretty sure they've been using that same flower pattern - or at least an extremely similar one - forever, too. I was hit by a surprising wave of nostalgia when I looked at that box, and that was why I took a picture of it before I tossed it.