MAC Studio Fix Powder Plus Foundation NC40 for Women, 0.52 Ounce 4.6 out of 5 stars 2,053. MAC Studio Fix Powder Plus Foundation - NC25 - 15g/0.52oz. Offering more than 100 shades of professional quality cosmetics for All Ages, All Races, and All Genders. Enjoy free shipping and returns on all orders. THANK YOU ALL FOR SUPPORT!!!! Main Focus Monday is NC47. Mac Studio Fix Foundation NC47 Mac Studio Fix Powder Plus Foundation NC47 So happy Mac Cosmetics lis.
Placing An Order
- 1. How to place my order?
1) First, you'll need to browse or search for the items you'd like to order. Keyword Search boxes are located on nearly every page of our store.
2) When you find an item that interests you, click the title or name of the item to see its product detail page. Here, you'll find more information about the item.
3) If you want to order an item, click the Add to Basket button on the right side of the product detail page. Use the Continue Shopping button to keep searching or browsing until your cart contains all the items you want to order. You can access the contents of your Shopping Basket at any time by clicking the Shopping Basket icon at the top of every page of our website.
4) When you're ready to place an order for everything in the 'Shopping Basket Items, click the 'Proceed to checkout' button. And follow the quick and simple instructions to finish your payment.
- 2. How do I use a coupon?
You might find coupon in our emails，shipments, or on our website. We offer a wide variety of these coupons as a way of saying 'save6.99'. Coupon can be redeemed only at the time you place an order. You need to enter the coupon code along with the order information. Below the order information, there is a field to enter the coupon code. After entering the coupon code, click apply to deduct coupon amount from your order total. Simply follow the instructions and enter the coupon code on the order form. Contact us if you have any problem redeeming a coupon code.
- 3. Can I cancel or make changes to my order after it has been submitted?
It's only possible to cancel or make change to your order before we start to dispatch it. Usually we'll process and dispatch your order within 24 hours. If you want to make changes to your order, please feel free to contact us.If the item you want to cancel has entered the shipping process already, you can return the item upon the receipt.
- 4. How can I add items to my order which has been placed already?
If you want to add items to your order which has been placed already, please contact us to stop the shipment of your order first, then tell us the items you want to add. Later we will tell you how to pay the new items. Last we will ship your two orders under one package. If your order has already been shipped, you will not be able to add items to the previous placed order.
- MAC NC45 is described by the brand as 'Deep bronze with peachy undertone for dark skin.' It is a shade in the Studio Fix Powder Plus range, which is a pressed powder foundation with a matte finish and full coverage that retails for $30.00 and contains 0.52 oz.
- Deepest neutral w/ golden undertone for deep dark skin. Rich coffee w/ neutral undertone for deep dark skin. Rich mahogany w/ red undertones for deep dark skin. Rich espresso w/ neutral undertones for deep dark skin.
Payment
- 1. What kind of currency do you accept?
At present, we accept British Pounds, Euros and US Dollars. While ordering from another country, your credit statement should include your bank's foreign exchange rate on that day.
- 2. What are my payment choices?
We accepts Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, Maestro and Solo. You can enter your entire credit card number safely via our secure server, which encrypts all submitted information.
Order Status
- 1. How do I check my order status?
You can track your order status by signing in and accessing the 'My Account' link from the site header. All orders placed under your username will be visible under the 'My Orders' tab.
After you finish your payment, we will send you an email with your tracking number and tracking link, and then you can trace your order on line.
- 2. How can I look up my order number?
If you aren't able to find your order confirmation email with your order number, you can go to the ‘My Account' page and click ‘My orders' to pull up your order information. If you are still unable to find your order details, contact us and let us know the email address and the name you used to place the order and we can locate the order number for you.
- 3. What if my order never arrived?
Please contact our customer service with your order number and username. Please feel free to contact us by
We will investigate into your order and help you to find out your order. If it was our mistakes, we will resend your order or give you a refund as you request.
My Account
- 1. What if I forgot my passwords?
If you forget your passwords, please feel free to contact us with your user name and user email. We will reset the passwords for you.
- 2. Can I change my username and email address?
You can follow these steps to change your username and email address by yourself: sign in – my account –personal information. If it doesn't work, please feel free to contact us to ask our customer service team to change your username and email address.
Shipping
- 1. How long can I expect my order?
Generally, we will need 1-2 working days to processing your order and arrange the shipment. Your order will be shipped out next day or on the 2nd day after the payment has gone through. During the peak periods, please allow us 3-4 days to process your order and ship it out. Usually you can receive your order within 7-15 working days totally. We only offer EMS service currently.
- 2. What shipping options do you offer?
At present, we only offer EMS service (Express Mail Service). EMS provides you a tracking number and link so that you can trace your order. (We will send you an email with your tracking information once your order is shipped out). EMS also needs your signature when your parcel is delivered. It can make sure that it is you not anybody else who sign for your parcel.
- 3. How much shipping will be charged for each order?
As for shipping fee, Order 1-49usd, shipping fee:30usd, 50-149usd shipping fee:20usd, above 150usd free shipping fee. Please note that usually we will have some free shipping promotions; please subscribe our newsletter so that you won't miss any promotions which can save you a lot of money.
- 4. How can I track my parcel online?
The tracking information will be sent by email once the items have been shipped. You can trace your order with tracking number and link within the email.
- 5. Why does my tracking number not work?
In most cases, that means your order was just shipped. Tracking numbers can take up to 72 hours to be updated. Check back in 48 hours and the information should be updated. If there's still no updating information in 48 hours, please contact us immediately. You can contact us by Tickets system.
- 6. Will my order be charged a customs fee when it was delivered?
Usually, there will be no Customs fees since we will mark all our parcels as 'Gifts' or 'Samples'. But the customer will fully responsible for it if there is any. We apologize for any inconvenience, but we have no control over the customs authorities in your country Contact your local customs office for more information about customs fees, duties, and taxes.
Return
- 1. What is your returns policy?
The customer has to contact us to get a return authorization and return address within 15 days upon receipt if you want to return your purchase. For more details, please view our return &policy.
- 2. Can I have full refund if I return the unsatisfied item?
Postage is not refundable. 15% handling fee will be deducted from the refund if the received package has been signed up and opened. 15% handling fee will not be charged for those who have not signed for their received packages. Only postage is not refundable.
Promotions
- 1. Will I get a free package when I order?
Yes, each item will come with a free package which can protect the items during the transportation.
- 2. Is there any promotion activity?
We have a variety of promotion activities that you can enjoy regular special offers. Sign up to our email list to stay updated.
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I've been a part of the internet beauty world for AGES it seems. Before the proliferation of YouTube and blogs, there were beauty message boards and LiveJournal. I'm STILL friends with people I used to follow on LiveJournal from back in the early to mid 00s. I was a member in a VERY popular MAC Cosmetics LiveJournal community—this was back when MAC was practically the be-all, end-all in the internet makeup world (my, how things have changed) and practically everything in makeup was MAC-centric especially when it came to describing your skin tone. It was not uncommon, and still not uncommon today to describe yourself as being an NC45 or NW47 or NW58. I even used to use MAC foundations as a reference to help you guys figure out your shades when I would review other brands' foundations. But then some years ago I stopped comparing foundations to MAC. I even wrote a post about it and link to it every time I do a review. But I still get tons of questions referencing a MAC shade, so I figured let me do this post.
Using MAC as a guide can be helpful to a point, but as more and more brands start to expand their shade range beyond Beyoncé beige, it's practically impossible to keep comparing to MAC shades. Why? Because there's no uniform guide anywhere with foundation shades. Some brands are a little heavy handed with the red, some go ham on the yellow, some act like brown doesn't have variations in undertones at all. We beautiful Black and brown women come in all types of gorgeous shades and undertones—some of us might find a brilliant match in a foundation line that tends to go very yellow-based while others in one that goes very red-based. Then there are those of us with neutral undertones (like me). And then many of us tan in the summer—I say this a lot in reviews and other makeup posts, but I don't always simply go a shade or two deeper when I tan, many times I get redder in undertone–so I didn't get 'darker' so to speak but my undertones changed (and not every tan is the same). So I typically would go from my usually N110 in Cover FX to the P110. But even that isn't always going to be an exact science—I can tan a little or tan a lot. Which is why things like powders (I have Cover FX powders in N110, P110, and then I use P125 to contour or bronze) and Pro Foundation Mixers are amazing.
But here's another reason why I stopped using MAC foundations as a guide (aside from times when brands themselves supply them like SheaMoisture did for their Serum Foundation):
EVERYBODY AND THEIR MAMA IS NC45 OR NW45.
So my thinking behind this phenomena is a bunch of things 1. Some MAC artists were getting really crafty with shade-matching and trying to make their quotas so they put folks in whatever somewhat closely (or in some cases nowhere near as closely) matched their client 2. MAC was the most popular choice of makeup because it's EVERYWHERE (there are a lot of folks out there who still haven't heard of brands like BECCA, Cover FX, or Make Up For Ever) and in some places it's practically the only choice for women with deeper skin tones—I see this a lot when I'm in Europe 3. People were getting shade-matched back when social media wasn't as popping as it is now so you weren't taking a gazillion pictures of yourself and then later looking back on those same pictures like 'OMG, my foundation wasn't matching AT ALL.'
Back when I wore MAC foundation, I wore Select Tint, a tinted moisturizer that made my skin look FAN-FRIGGIN'-TASTIC but I had to buy NW45 and NW50 and mix them together to get my shade. No bother for me because that was my foundation jam back then. Then MAC discontinued it, replaced it with something else that goes nowhere near my shade (as of now—who knows if they'll extend the shades later on), and I moved onto BECCA foundations and then ultimately added on other brands like Cover FX. I haven't even worn MAC foundations (aside from the random review) in probably a decade. I hadn't even had a clue as to what the shade extensions MAC came out with some years ago looked like.
But because I do know how hard it is for us women with deeper shades to find a good foundation can be and because I still get people asking what shade would be an NW46 or whatever in another brand's foundations, I figured I'd put this post together. I wanted to somewhat familiarize myself with the MAC shades again (and get to know the 'newest' ones) and also help more people understand why there can't always be a MAC equivalent to another brand's foundation shade. Especially since I'm going to be swatching a lot of new foundation shades from brands like Hourglass and Anastasia Beverly Hills this month for #SwatchesInSeptember.
EVERYBODY AND THEIR MAMA IS NC45 OR NW45.
So my thinking behind this phenomena is a bunch of things 1. Some MAC artists were getting really crafty with shade-matching and trying to make their quotas so they put folks in whatever somewhat closely (or in some cases nowhere near as closely) matched their client 2. MAC was the most popular choice of makeup because it's EVERYWHERE (there are a lot of folks out there who still haven't heard of brands like BECCA, Cover FX, or Make Up For Ever) and in some places it's practically the only choice for women with deeper skin tones—I see this a lot when I'm in Europe 3. People were getting shade-matched back when social media wasn't as popping as it is now so you weren't taking a gazillion pictures of yourself and then later looking back on those same pictures like 'OMG, my foundation wasn't matching AT ALL.'
Back when I wore MAC foundation, I wore Select Tint, a tinted moisturizer that made my skin look FAN-FRIGGIN'-TASTIC but I had to buy NW45 and NW50 and mix them together to get my shade. No bother for me because that was my foundation jam back then. Then MAC discontinued it, replaced it with something else that goes nowhere near my shade (as of now—who knows if they'll extend the shades later on), and I moved onto BECCA foundations and then ultimately added on other brands like Cover FX. I haven't even worn MAC foundations (aside from the random review) in probably a decade. I hadn't even had a clue as to what the shade extensions MAC came out with some years ago looked like.
But because I do know how hard it is for us women with deeper shades to find a good foundation can be and because I still get people asking what shade would be an NW46 or whatever in another brand's foundations, I figured I'd put this post together. I wanted to somewhat familiarize myself with the MAC shades again (and get to know the 'newest' ones) and also help more people understand why there can't always be a MAC equivalent to another brand's foundation shade. Especially since I'm going to be swatching a lot of new foundation shades from brands like Hourglass and Anastasia Beverly Hills this month for #SwatchesInSeptember.
Side note: This is also why highlighting and contouring is important for women of color (which I really explained in my Why One Foundation May Not Cut it for Women of Color post) because of the way so many of us are naturally colored. Many of us are lighter in color in the center of our faces and darker around the perimeter—highlighting and contouring is a way to mimic that—and no, it doesn't have to be super dramatic all the time. Because if you were to just put one foundation shade over all those beautiful natural shade variations, it can make you look very flat and in some cases unnatural. It's not about being all one shade when it comes to doing makeup for women of color—it's all about harmony and balance. You'll get a more natural look.
Mac Nc47 Powder
OK so enough rambling—but I hope you did read above and didn't just scroll down to the pics…lol.
(I have no idea why NW50 looks lighter than NW48—unless my NW50 bottle was mislabeled. I do know that NW50 came first before NW48 and maybe they didn't want to name NW48 NW51? I dunno)
I remember wearing NW45 in some MAC foundations and NW47 in others. It's not uncommon to wear a different shade depending on the foundation formula because water content can affect the shade. I don't like Studio Fix Fluid foundation (it breaks me out, I don't like the smell, and I don't love the finish) but I first tried NW45. Way too light. Then I tried NW46. Too light. I tried NW47. A touch too light and off in undertone (NW45 and NW46 were probably off in undertone as well but them being too light was the first dealbreaker). NW48 was the closest match but it still was off in undertone.
To drive the point home about MAC equivalents, I swatched a NW47 and NW48 in MAC alongside some other brand shades that are somewhat close in shade (essentially dark brown colors) but as you can see in the pics, they're far from being good matches for each other.
So how do you make sure your foundation is a good match??!?!
Mac Nc47 Studio Fix Powder
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BECCA Ultimate Cover Concealing Creme (full coverage foundation that is pretty undetectable but covers well) Mac copper color lipstick.
Milani 2-in-1 Foundation & Concealer (another fuller coverage foundation that is pretty undetectable but covers well)
Mac Nc47 Powder Foundation
This post isn't meant to bash MAC foundations—if you have a great match and formula from the brand, of course continue to rock it. No foundation-shaming here ;)
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