One or Two
A colour examination
20/200
C
1
20/100
O L
2
20/70
O U R
3
20/50
IS A THING
4
20/40
YOU SEE WITH YOUR EYES
5
20/30
SO WE WILL ASK YOUR EYES
6
20/20
AND NOT A MODEL THAT HAS NEVER SEEN YOU
7
Nothing you see here leaves your device
Camera required · dim room preferred
Framinglooking for a face
The sitting
Sit square to the camera, about an arm away. Push your hair back off your face and neck. Bare face if you can — foundation is someone else's guess at your undertone, and we would only be measuring theirs.
Dim the room. In a moment the screen will go white, then black, twice. That is not a flourish. Your camera is white-balancing on your face right now, which is the exact thing we are trying to measure, so we cancel the room by using the screen as a known light and subtracting.
What this can and cannot do. Lightness is a real measurement with published clinical cutoffs. Undertone is not — there is no validated way to read warm or cool from a photograph. So the machine will narrow it to four, and then your eye decides.
Live · move your head
The reading
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Turn the wheel · the drape follows, live
Better with one, or two?
Do not look at the colour. Look at your face. Which one turns the light on under your skin?
Live · both drapes, the same instant
One
Two
Round 1 of 6
Neither name is shown, on purpose
The prescription
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Your eye chose this, not the arithmetic