How To Understand Foundation Colors via Color Theory

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Creating foundation colors is harder than creating just the normal color for painting because you are dealing with matching a color to a living organism with many variations.  However, there is a set calculation and that is color theory.
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The Skin Tone Color Theory

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Color theory in general is easy when applied to coordinating colors, but when it comes to skin tone, it gets harder.  You are incorporating colors onto a canvas created by the human body, the skin.

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Know Your Color Basics

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This may be re-hashing what I wrote for hair color guide but bear with me.  Different people absorb information in different forms.  For those of you who didn't quite understand color theory via hair color, then maybe you will understand it with this post.

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Color Theory & The Color Wheel

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When I was about 5 years old, I asked my mother how blue turned into green.  She explained it all to me with a glass of water and drops of food coloring.  Right before my eyes, I saw the transformation of drops of blue and yellow colors mixing into green.  I was mesmerized!  And, from then on, I didn’t give a [bleep] about colors!  I saw, I understood, that was it. I was just a kid.

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