why influencers are comparing youthforias foundation to blackface paint.

youthforias shade 600 foundation has TikTok talking, it's rac!st and disrespectful.

[@yomigonzalez9870]

The first girl made the best point that the second girl completely missed. No one is black. Shes saying it needs a brown undertone and thats important.

[@tintamanengu]

❤️💚

[@katinkaraab1964]

I hate to correct you but just like there are about 2% of population who are actually blond, blue eyed, white, there are also people who are actually black haired, black eyed and with a black skin (with an almost blue undertone). They exist, there are not enough of them, to be a desireable market, but they are there. The Girl in the first video isn't even that dark brown.

[@yomigonzalez9870]

Blue with blue undertone. Not straight up black. The undertone is key. Thats what she said and what i agreed with. ​@katinkaraab1964

[@tintamanengu]

@@katinkaraab1964 while that's true, you're still admitting that they still have an undertone which the foundation lacks and the girl is well aware that she's not the darkest shade and she's addressed that already. It's not just that it's also the big jump in shades.

[@davidmiranda4745]

@@katinkaraab1964 Black eye color don't exists gweer 😂

[@memymo1310]

It isnt that nobody is that dark. It is that they just put black face paint in a bottle with no nuances. Even if a person is that color they still want depth and sheen. There are undertones to black skin. Come on. This is the same thing that you would paint a wall in. Flat. Black. They went to Home Depot and squirted some Behr flat black interior paint in a bottle and called it a day. It is the lack of trying for me.

[@CaliforniaGirl49]

Exactly. I swatched it and the shade became MATTE MATTE BLACK with grey tones to it.

[@dinkyboss]

That’s not true, there are people that dark and they’ll likely use that shade as a contour shade tbh. That said idk about this particular brand but it has its uses. Also a lot of brands are releasing odd foundation shades in white, red, green and even black for cosplay/ theater as well.

[@Galworld761]

@@dinkybossThis is not as cosplay brand. Where is the White Out White for Caucasians? Or the sunset yellow for Asians/Latinos? This can’t be used on skin because the only tint is black oxide, therefore when you mix it - you get gray. It is literally the color of my black eyeliner. This woman is supposed to be a make up expert. She is running around looking for some to match tar black. The darkest black skin has a blue undertone. This was flat black paint. The model did the side by side, you could barely discern the difference.

[@chelsea_withan_a618]

I’m less mad about the foundation and more disappointed in the jump between Shade 600 and the next shade down. There’s so much missing between the two. I just think if you’re not going to make an obscene number of complexion products these days, just don’t make those types of products. In the world of 50+ shade ranges, you will always look bad by releasing less than half of that (unless you’re just putting out a tint).

[@tintamanengu]

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[@briannabanks1659]

For sure that’s the real issue here.

[@MsXxICExX]

i think she truly believed someone out there had that skin color and she wanted her rihanna moment

[@YAWSSSSSS]

Fenty Beauty really has become the standard to make your completion products actually inclusive. Kinda crazy because they’ve been out for less than 10 years!

[@AbbygaileHearne]

@@YAWSSSSSSfacts I use to paint she got the undertones down!

[@Ohhhoneyyy]

The fact that it turned grey when mixed with another lighter shade….there wasn’t brown in that shade at all looks like 🤔 they lightened it on the website too, that says a lot.

[@tintamanengu]

I thought my eyes were deceiving me. I noticed that too.

[@DavidRodriguez-ih3es]

I get the other woman's point about dark skintones but the color lacks dimension. That being said a foundation should be used as a foundation. Like if you have to find uses for a formula then this is a failed product

[@tintamanengu]

❤️💚 exactly! It should save the basic purpose before thinking of using it for something else

[@BlissfulProblemsTv]

That second girl just wanted to be seen She clearly said it had no undertones not that it couldn’t be the darkest shade🙄🙄🙄

[@valerierae76]

An argument I be seeing is that it's just a "mixing shade" for black people to use to make another one of their shades darker to make it match. First question, why should black people HAVE to mix their shades while light skin people can just take their shade off the shelf. Second question, WHY SHOULD THEY HAVE TO BUY TWO BOTTLES?? It is $48, buying two bottles is $96 not even counting tax and shipping. Korean, or just most Asian, brands are always known to not accommodate to dark skin, which is why people including Golloria are mad about it. They are trying to claim they are inclusive to dark skin while not actually being inclusive.

[@yashaswinikrishnan1878]

Also, black is not a mixing pigment. It will just make the foundation look ashy/grey if it doesn't have any undertones

[@PeacefulSeraph]

If you are very light or very dark, you almost always have to buy a mixing shade. I have to buy white to add to concealer & foundation to even come close to my shade. When I was growing up, they only sold clown paint as a mixer, & that rarely mixed well with anything, but I didn't have a choice. People also shame you to buy bronzer or self tanner & tell you to go to "Asia" for products... but no one sells them light enough. They shame you if your skin is dark too, offering lightening or bleaching products instead of products that match your skin color. This world is f&d up if you aren't a tan or medium shade, which is 90% of the products on the shelf. And the 10% will never get a single product because we don't make up enough of the population for these makeup brands to make money. Honestly white & black mixers aren't too expensive if you shop around (& they're not opaque like shoe polish- they'retranslucent). I don't see there ever being a time when people don't clown on people with pale or dark skin offering them goth colors instead of real skintones. One can dream I guess...

[@enfpchick]

The 2nd girl with the blue shirt is advocating that human skin is literally pitch black, no undertones, nothing. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 That was the dumbest reasoning I've ever heard

[@DavidRodriguez-ih3es]

I couldn't when she was suggesting to just use it as everything else but a foundation. Like no if people bought foundation why are you trying to suggest it as a creme eye liner or lip liner?

[@silversmoke6]

Right?! Lmao what living human has actual black skin. Im super pale with a neutral undertone. I am not actually white lmao. How tf can people think super dark people are actually black

[@enfpchick]

@@DavidRodriguez-ih3es Great point!

[@enfpchick]

@@silversmoke6 They took the term black people literal 😂

[@DavidRodriguez-ih3es]

There is no warmth in that color at all. Like how does trying to get deep brown go black? Black is a fantasy make up color like white Blue, Green etc. How did that even make it out of the development phase

[@tintamanengu]

❤️💚

[@miclovesart]

Yeah it’s the same as having a paper-white foundation. Except that actually has uses, especially for goth people. Pure black foundation has absolutely no acceptable and respectful uses.

[@firediamond7214]

They should get a lab test on the darkest shade and see what comes up 🧐

[@Merrybethable]

The comments on how the street cast models were "so sweet" is very condescending. I hope that they were paid well.

[@tintamanengu]

❤️💚

[@LisePlansandJournals]

The minute we start building our own tables instead of begging for seats at other people’s, we would be in a much better place and much more respected. The original tiktoker said ‘all you have yo do is tell us your brand isn’t for all complexions’ and I think even she knows that’s no true. If the owner said that she would be drug through the mud by black women online.

[@tintamanengu]

❤️💚

[@BlueberrySummertime]

We built our tables

[@wheresyourscooter1628]

They will never learn that though…

[@Hunnibeeeatwr]

Girl, even when we do build our own tables were not "more respected", in fact people use us as an example of wanting to create division even though their exclusion is the reason why we had to build our own. Look at Black Rodeos, BET, BHM, natural hair movement, etc. few examples of us creating our own tables and others either wanting to be apart of it or wanting to get rid of it

[@Thescreenaddict23]

What sucks about this situation is I actually do know people with this shade/ skin tone

[@tintamanengu]

You know someone that's completely black without any undertone?

[@0_mfg]

all skin tones have undertones

[@dinkyboss]

@@tintamanenguthey have undertones obviously and they’re that dark. I just left a comment stating the same. I know people this dark but are cool toned so their undertones aren’t red or yellow but blue. Like the foundation. I think if they released a version for warm toned people there would be a different reaction.

[@Thescreenaddict23]

@@tintamanengu what I meant is that I know people that are close to if not this dark I said it sucks because the shade itself looked so close to perfect for one of my friends but it was grey when we (I was there) tried it on sorry if it was misconstrued

[@tintamanengu]

@@Thescreenaddict23 ....well understood now, if they did a little more work on it. It actually would have been great, probably the darkest acceptable shade even.

[@west_coastjen509]

I’ve never even heard of this company before this! I feel like it got her name out there! With it being 2024 shame on whoever created “black” foundation. With zero undertones! Again everyone knows her name now…

[@tintamanengu]

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[@kshillingford4921]

As an artist I can say that: Yep, that is definitely black paint. Looks like a"Mars Black". Aint' no blending that. Also, WHY the emphasis on pictures of MALES especially for the sample card "street casting" instead of the primary target, WOMEN?

[@Spicegal44]

This is all publicity for the company. I had no idea of this brand. So now it’s all bad but then she’ll come back with approved foundation shades for black women. After that hype will pick up that she “finally got it right” and she makes lots of money from fairer skin women from the start who of course is who they prefer to market to and then now they’ll have the darker skin girls money as well. Sickening 🤢

[@tintamanengu]

My thoughts too

[@merrickc.155]

I feel like im just not gonna give my money to brands that dont give 2 damns about us. Like people beg Korean brands to make darker and deeper shades of some cushion foundation when im like screw them how about when a brand makes a cusion foundation that.caters.to deeper and darker skin tones ill buy that instead of waiting for a brand that values white skin to do it.

[@LaPetiteMort715]

This is soo soul crushing. It happens at the exact opposite end of shade ranges as well. Everyone should be able to feel beautiful.

[@CaliforniaGirl49]

I went to ulta to see the shades in person and I swatched the darkest shade and it was literally just black like charcoal with GREY undertones. It’s so bad.

[@thesussexbunion]

Has anyone had the ingredients lab tested to see if it's the same thing as the camo paints? Because that's what it looks like to me.

[@silversmoke6]

The ingredients on the Youphoria darkest shade only contained one tone. Black iron oxide. No other pigment. No human being has only black pigment in their skin.

[@alnsubuga]

Javan Ford breaks this down in his IG post.

[@eventhorizon2264]

Nobody is pitch black there are so many undertones this was a total flop

[@tintamanengu]

❤️💚

[@KeepTheDoubleSpace]

I really wanted to watch this but i couldn't hear the narration over the mic distortion

[@lalruatpuiikhiangte7030]

The shade 600 is literally vvvv dark grey! lol.. which person on God’s green earth has this skintone … except maybe a corpse 🧟‍♀️

[@elyssamorris3156]

Shoe polish definitely 💯

[@DeneshaPrescott]

I mean....u can just NOT purchase it.

[@user-kys673]

Well one of these influencers Golloria was actually sent one of their foundations before they expanded their range and even though it was the darkest foundation it looked very yellow on her. So the company issued an apology, decided to expand the range and this time around literally added black face paint as the darkest shade. We know this because when you look at the ingredients of this foundation it literally has only ONE pigment CI 77499 which is just black iron oxide…pure black pigment. Unlike their lighter shades that combine at least 3 in order to create various colors and undertones. No one has a skin color that’s just pure black just like nobody has skin color that’s as white as a piece of paper. The person who created this foundation couldn’t even find a model that matches this shade.

[@Hunnibeeeatwr]

The company sent the foundation to her and when they did the foundation was way lighter and yellow tone. When they made a second it was just pure black no undertones or anything.

[@suavesweett]

Brands need to stop sending PR packages to people who cannot find their shades in their box. I’ve seen countless of brands send people who don’t have a shade in their brand PR boxes.

[@silversmoke6]

Or they could actually make conplexion products that have, you know, complexion.

[@mandeanraje2300]

Lmao well no one will because no one can wear it… hello.

[@olymolly3637]

Came here from a commentary video about your review in this video, and both are randomly recommended to me. I'm digressing here but I throw the same shade at her for you as I did in the commentary video earlier; she is what Chinese novels describe as Bai Lianhua aka White Lotus. A naive and gentle looking lady with soft words and behaviour, but the inner quality is malicious and shady af. The best thing she could've done is to accept the criticism as the best way to expand her business and clientele ranges, but she just went "I apologised and acted busy, and did produce what you asked for so here it is, black paint because you're black. Am I a genius or are you using this asap? I'm catering to you, so buy it then" but put out the laziest and cheapest shade she didn't have to think about twice. Spam her IG with White Lotus lol.

[@AndyyWithAY]

The product is only sold in America I heard, but they couldn't find anyone to match the shade in America. What is the point in wasting money on a shade that will match very little of your clientele. Zero percent considering the lack of undertone. It was giving minstrel show and I think she did it on purpose to be dirty. I hope her business quickly goes bankrupt.

[@serenasongbird]

Never heard of this brand until this video- Definitely aint supporting them jfc 💀 Aside from us YT ppl, east asians are just as racist- Also rlly hope that Golloria starts her own brand 🩷🩷

[@briannabanks1659]

I’d say East Asians are even more overtly racist than white people in America…

[@Linds-pp3lz]

I was thinking the darkest shade you could buy and add a drop to foundation that's too light. I've heard of ppl adding white or black to foundation to make it lighter or darker I like having a light or dark foundation.or concealer and mixing them to match the color my skin is at that time

[@honks9484]

Ok but why should black ppl have to mix their shades JUST BC they’re dark, something they can’t control?? It’s unfair. I’m brown skin (I wear a fenty shade of 330 for reference) and I can find my shade easily in any store or flea market and just pick it up and pay for it. Darker ppl should be able to do the same.

[@briannabanks1659]

@@honks9484 Well that’s nice for you but plenty of lighter skinned people have trouble finding shades and often have to mix shades to get the right one too. I’m one of those people. I never can find something that matches me completely and have to do a mix of two or even three to really get the proper shade that fits my white skin tone and undertones… I’m light but I’m not like super light. People assume there would be plenty of ready made shades for someone like me (maybe there are somewhere that I just haven’t found it) but I haven’t been able to find one in my decades of trying different foundations and shades…

[@alnsubuga]

They showed this in the video. It turned grey.

[@caley1115]

Who cares? Just dont buy from them its that simple 😂

[@imanigabbana6629]

Exactly

[@mandeanraje2300]

Why are you watching the video? People are having a conversation. You’re not interested? Move on. You’re adding nothing here.

[@caley1115]

@@mandeanraje2300 I'm adding common sense to the argument they are trying to make 😂 this company isn't the only one that sells brown foundation... you asking a stupid question is adding nothing here

[@simonealexis3062]

​@@caley1115 Your not bringing common sense your bringing ignorance to the actual problem. Yeah you don't have to buy from the company but the fact they made pitch black foundation and assume that it there is black/Africans out there that are pitch black shows that they didn't put care and research when they were making this foundation.

[@caley1115]

@@simonealexis3062 so?