Is it OK to test foundation on my face in store?

[Plimfoot]

I bought a foundation yesterday that blended perfectly on the back of my hand but when I got home and put it on my face, I looked like Donald Trump.

If I talk an antibacterial wipe with me to clean the pump would it be gross just to try a little on my face?I am so sick of spending money on foundation only to get home and it not be the right shade.

Why can't companies produce £1 sealed samples of foundation?!

I know that sometimes bigger brands do free samples.But when it's like loereal or maybelline you have to buy the whole product.

I think it is. I’d put it on the back of my hand, then put it on my face from there. I do also think it’s the store lighting things look massively different, it’s often cold so when you’re in light with warmer tones or daylight then you look like you’ve been tango’d.

I wonder if you took a teeny sample pot and asked if you could put a squirt in to test if they’d let you.

I wouldn’t bin the foundation straight off if you mix it with moisturiser it’ll lighten a bit and you get that soft dewy bb cream effect.

I have taken my foundation brush to the store, pumped on my hand, gone outside and used my brush to put the foundation on my face.

It’s the only way I’ve got a proper match. As @Secretseverywhere says you can’t trust the shop lighting.

If you ask in Boots they have little sample pots and can let you take a small amount home to test, they get peeved if you take the piss and go back every day for more but if you’re just checking a couple of shades they’re really helpful.

It's already a tinted serum. The loreal plumping one?

Even outside in natural light it looked right on my hands but thinking about it my moisturiser has SPF 50 in it so maybe my hands are a lot darker than my face.

I was thinking of maybe buying the lightest shade of same product and mixing it?

I always pump or squeeze a bit onto my hand, then onto my face with my finger using their mirror, then go outside to have a proper look, or at least to the front of the store and look in daylight in the window. I don’t pump straight onto my face at home either, always hand first.

I bring an old one and compare the samples/ the bottle to that. I put some on my hand then put the sample next to it and blend them both out to compare.
Of course you have at least the remnants of one that was the right shade previously.
Loreal Skin Paradise was perfect for me, but they discontinued it 😩
I have spent ages trying to find something similar and bought about twenty similar products but I can’t find anything that’s right. It’s very frustrating.

It's no more 'gross' to put it on your face than your hand (i.e. not all). Squeeze some on to your hand then apply to your face, don't touch the bottle to your face (despite what people on social media do).

If you go to a counter, they test it on your face. So yes, it’s fine.