Cosmetic Shades is your foundation shade finder across 24+ brands. Foundation, concealer, lipstick, lip gloss - matched to your actual skin tone with calibrated camera analysis. Not the store lighting. The best free makeup app for iOS to find your foundation shade in seconds.
Download for iOSFree on the App Store
You know the feeling. Standing under fluorescent lights, holding two foundations that look basically identical, knowing full well one of them is going to look completely wrong once you leave the store.
Or finding your holy grail shade in one brand - then wondering if that other brand has a foundation shade equivalent just as good. Maybe better. Maybe cheaper.
That’s exactly why we built this.
Foundation, concealer, lipstick, or lip gloss. Browse products from the brands you love.
Use our shade matching app to swipe through shades on a product. See the foundation colour match fill the screen. Found it? Tap it.
Instantly see your foundation shade match across brands. Save and compare every concealer shade match and lipstick shade finder result.
Our skin tone analyzer app uses your camera to detect your exact shade. Hold up a white card for calibration, then point the camera at your face. The app locks your exposure and white balance, cycles through multiple torch intensities, and captures frames at each level - giving you a lab-grade skin tone match, not a guess based on room lighting.
Prefer to skip the camera? Use the built-in undertone finder to set yours manually - warm, cool, olive, or neutral - and jump straight to browsing. Whether you have an olive skin foundation match to find or need a warm cool undertone quiz, we’ve got you covered.
Save any shade to your personal collection. Mark it as “Owned” or add it to your “Wishlist”. Attach notes like “too dark in winter” or “buy during the sale”.
Can’t decide between two (or three) shades? Use the foundation shade comparison tool to pick up to 3 from your collection and compare them head to head.
Take a selfie once and virtual try on makeup applied to your actual face. The app uses face contour detection to place shades realistically - lipstick on lips, foundation on skin.
Find any shade, brand, or product instantly. Search your saved collection too. Recent searches remembered.
Easy on your eyes, accurate on colours. Shade swatches stay true regardless of theme. Follows your system setting or set it manually.
Heart any shade. Choose Owned or Wishlist. Add a personal note. Build the collection that’s actually useful.
Send your full collection or individual shades to friends via any app. Complete with shade codes and brand names.
Subtle haptic feedback on every interaction. Swipes, saves, selections - the app responds to your touch.
No ads. No account required. Just the tools you need to find your shade.
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Yes. Completely free to download and use. No hidden fees, no ads. We’re building something people actually want to use.
When you select a shade from any product, our foundation shade finder algorithm compares its colour value against every shade in our database of 4000+ colours across 24+ brands. You get the closest foundation shade match across brands ranked by accuracy, with a percentage showing exactly how close each one is. It’s the easiest way to find my foundation shade in another brand.
We currently cover 24+ popular brands across foundation, concealer, lipstick, and lip gloss. We add more regularly. If your favourite brand isn’t there yet, it probably will be soon.
Our skin tone matcher starts with an optional white card calibration so the app knows what “true white” looks like under your current lighting. Then the camera locks exposure and white balance and captures multiple frames at different torch intensities. The result is processed through CIELAB colour science - not a single snapshot in whatever light you happen to be in. Most users see confidence scores above 85%.
Absolutely. The camera analysis and virtual try-on are optional. You can pick your undertone manually - warm, cool, olive, or neutral - and browse, save, and compare shades without ever using the camera.
Your selfie stays on your device. It’s never uploaded to any server. You can delete it anytime from the Profile screen. Check our privacy policy for full details.
We’re iOS-first right now. Android is on the roadmap. Follow us on social media for updates.
Download Cosmetic Shades - the free foundation shade finder and skin tone matcher app - and stop buying makeup that doesn’t match.
Download for iOSFree on the App Store · No account required