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I'm a Hispanic woman with olive-neutral undertones. I spent most of my life being told I was "medium warm" by every beauty counter I visited. I wasn't. And that small mismatch meant every foundation I bought slowly turned orange by lunch.

I built Solaris because I was tired of "close enough."

Here's what we believe:

• Your undertone matters more than your shade depth

• "Universal" products serve the average, not the individual
  

• Everyone deserves makeup that disappears into their skin — not sits on top of it

• The beauty industry has a blind spot for olive, neutral, and combination undertones

If any of that resonates — you're in the right place.

The Inner Circle is free to join. You'll get shade guides, undertone education, a full mini-course on finding your match, community chat, and first access to every new drop.

The individual products (foundation, concealer, blush, bronzer, setting powder, highlighter) are all available on the Products tab — each one formulated around undertone science.

Ask questions. Share your shade journey. Tag me anytime. This is your community. ☀️

— Kylie

We're building Solaris around real problems — not trends. Tell us what drives you crazy about makeup shopping and we'll keep solving it. 👇

Your foundation might look fine indoors. But these 5 signs mean it's not actually your match:

1. It looks different in photos vs. real life

If your face looks noticeably different from your neck in photos — especially with flash — your undertone is off. Depth might be right, but the base color is wrong.

2. It looks great at 9am and weird by 2pm

This is oxidation. Your skin's oils and pH are reacting with the formula and shifting the color. This almost always means you need a cooler or more olive-adjusted shade than you think.

3. You need color corrector underneath

If you're using green, peach, or lavender corrector under your foundation just to make it look normal — your foundation isn't the right undertone. Period.

4. Your face and neck are two different colors

The classic. You matched to your face skin but forgot that your neck, chest, and ears are all part of the picture. Always match to your jawline/neck area in natural light.

5. It looks "fine" but not "wow"

This is the most overlooked one. When your foundation is actually right, your skin looks like skin. It disappears. You look like the best version of yourself with nothing on. If it just looks "okay" — there's a better match out there.

Most people are wearing the wrong shade not because they picked badly — but because the right shade doesn't exist in most brand's ranges.

That's exactly the gap Solaris fills. We build for the in-between. The olive-neutrals. The cool-warms. The people who've never seen their exact undertone on a shelf.

Join the Inner Circle for free to get shade-matched → it takes 2 minutes and might change your whole routine. ☀️

Every brand has them. "Universal bronzer." "One shade fits all highlighter." "Universally flattering blush."

Universal for who?

Let's break it down:

The "universal" bronzer

Usually a medium-warm brown. Works great on light-to-medium skin with warm undertones. On cool-toned skin? Muddy. On deep skin? Invisible. On olive skin? Orange.

The "universal" blush

Typically a dusty rose or mauve. Gorgeous on cool-to-neutral light skin. On warm undertones? It reads gray. On deep skin? Can't even see it.

The "universal" highlighter

Almost always a champagne/peachy gold. Beautiful on warm-medium skin. On cool-deep skin? Looks like a stripe. On olive skin? Turns oddly yellow.

The math doesn't math. If there are 5+ undertone families across dozens of skin depths, there is no one shade that flatters everyone. "Universal" just means "we picked the most marketable middle ground."

What actually works:

Matching products to your undertone family first, then your depth.

An olive-toned person needs a bronzer with a slightly green-brown base. A cool-toned person needs blush with a blue-pink base. A warm-deep person needs highlighter with a copper or bronze base.

This is what Solaris does differently. Every product in our line comes in undertone-specific variants — not just light/medium/dark. Because "close enough" shouldn't be the standard.

Your makeup should look like you, not like you're wearing someone else's colors. 🌞

This is the shelf I kept in my bathroom for two years. 47 bottles. Not one was right.

Some were close. A few were good for about 3 hours before they oxidized. Most were wrong from the jump — too pink, too orange, too ashy, too gray.

I'm Hispanic with olive-neutral undertones. The beauty industry doesn't really have a category for me. I fall somewhere between "warm" and "neutral" with a green-ish tint that most brands pretend doesn't exist.

So I started mixing. Two drops of this, a pump of that, a little color corrector underneath. Every single morning, I was doing chemistry just to look like myself.

That's when I knew the problem wasn't me. It was the system.

Mainstream beauty brands build shade ranges on a spectrum of light-to-dark with maybe 3 undertone variations. But there are people with deep skin and cool undertones. Light skin with olive undertones. Medium skin with neutral-warm undertones that lean slightly green.

We exist. And we deserve foundation that works on the first try.

That's why I built Solaris. Every formula starts with undertone science — not depth. We match the color under your skin before we match the color of it.

If you've ever felt like no shade was made for you — welcome home. ☀️

You've probably seen the advice: "Look at your wrist veins. Blue = cool. Green = warm."

That's oversimplified to the point of being useless.

Here's why: lighting changes vein color. So does skin depth. Someone with deep olive skin might see green veins and assume "warm" — but they're actually neutral-olive, and warm foundation will oxidize orange on them within an hour.

The real way to find your undertone:

1. The white paper test

Hold a plain white sheet of paper next to your bare face in natural light. Does your skin look:

• Pinkish/rosy → Cool

• Yellowish/golden → Warm

• Grayish/ashy → Olive

• Neither pink nor yellow → Neutral

2. The jewelry test

Which looks better against your skin — silver or gold? If silver, you lean cool. Gold, you lean warm. Both look great? Likely neutral.

3. The sun test

Do you burn easily (cool) or tan easily (warm)? Burn first then tan? Probably neutral or olive.

4. The oxidation test (most important)

Put your current foundation on your jawline. Wait 2 hours. If it turned orange — you're cooler or more olive than you think. If it went pink — you're warmer than the shade assumes.

Most people are some combination. That's exactly why Solaris exists — we don't force you into "warm" or "cool." We shade-match to where you actually live on the spectrum.

Drop your results in the comments 👇 I'll help you narrow it down.

Most foundation shade guides are built around three undertones: cool, warm, neutral. That's it.

But here's what they don't tell you:

Olive undertones exist — and they're way more common than people think, especially in Hispanic, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and East Asian skin. If every foundation looks either too pink or too orange on you, you're probably olive. Most brands don't even acknowledge this.

"Medium" is not a shade — it's a marketing term. Your perfect match depends on your specific combination of depth + undertone + surface tone. That's three dimensions, not one slider.

The lighting test matters — swatch on your jawline in natural light, never under store fluorescents. If you've been matching in Sephora lighting, you've been matching wrong.

I'm Kylie — a Hispanic woman with olive/neutral undertones. I spent years buying foundation that "kind of" worked. Cool undertone products pulled too pink on me. Warm ones looked orange. Turns out I'm muted olive — and almost no brand was making shades for that.

So I'm making them myself.

Join the Solaris Beauty Inner Circle (it's free) for undertone guides, shade-matching help, and first access to our product drops. This is for everyone the beauty industry forgot about.