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Posted by Dain, Sunday, August 26, 2007 1:14 AM (Eastern)
Finish is pretty self-explanatory, I think, but tone may require some explanation. This should not be confused with "warm" and "cool", which are more or less static (peach is warm, blue is cool, brown can be both). Tone, as I mean it here, might be better termed as "hue", the intensity of a color, but then that seems rather like color, so tone it shall remain.
Take the pure form of a color, say pink (candy pink, barbie pink): what art would label as a primary tone—I guess you could say that pure is the absence of tones. Primary tones are not common in cosmetics, because complex shades look better on people than pure ones. Notable exceptions are black (eyeliner, mascara) and red (lipstick).
NOTA BENE, throughout the tone series, I will use pink as recurring example, so it's easier to differentiate between the different tones. I chose pink because it is the most common color of all (yes, even more than brown, think of blushes and lipcolors). You will from looking at the swatches that tones tend to blend into each other: a pastel may be muted or pure, a jewel tone may almost be a bright or muted, as the case may be. They're not hard and fast distinctions, just terms you will find in shade descriptions within reviews and such.
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