It was that day that I decided enough is enough and I needed to find a suitable dupe!Ī few months ago I went out to restock on my favorite MAC Foundation which is the Studio Fix and to my shock and horror I came to the realization that the price shot up again! R380 for a MAC Studio Fix Foundation! Now I was almost certain that the price had already gone up the previous time I purchased the foundation but I couldn’t be certain.

The beauty community is one that always has each others backs so I decided to turn to my blog readers and followers to find out whether they knew of any good dupes. We recommend shade NC45 for deep tan skin tones with yellow, moderately yellow undertones. Obviously L’Oreal proved to be a strong contender so I went out to my local Clicks store where all the colors were in stock plus they were running a promotion so I saved sum $$$ too! I ended up picking the L’Oreal Infallible Stay Fresh Foundation (not the Pro Matt as that was too drying on my skin) I didn’t expect it but so many suggestions started pouring in and some of the popular ones that popped up were L’Oreal Infallible Pro Matt and L’Oreal True Match. : ( yeah all my drugstore experimentations kind of showed that there were no golden foundations but im still holding out hope. If you're skin tone is like mine, you'll need a golden color and I haven't found one yet. I ended up paying about R150 with the discount I got for the foundation so already I was winning! The color I got was 230 Radiant Honey which seemed as close to my MAC NC37 as can be. Even those colors that are named Amber or Caramel are more of a reddish brown. I think I might actually need to go one shade lighter in the L’Oreal Infallible so I’ll test another one next time round.

Mac nc45 dupes