Kamu beli cushion online dan yang tersedia cuma tiga angka. 19, 21, 23. Nggak ada satu pun di halaman itu yang menunjukkan bentuk warnanya di wajah. Jadi kamu ambil 21, karena 21 yang paling sering disebut orang, dan begitu sampai warnanya meleset setengah tone. Penjelasan yang biasa muncul: brand-nya bikin kelewat terang. Kadang memang begitu. Tapi lebih sering angkanya memang bukan hasil pengukuran apa pun. Nggak pernah ada dua brand Korea yang duduk bareng menyamakan angka 21 mereka. Penomoran ini sudah dipakai di base makeup Korea puluhan tahun. Di dalam satu brand angkanya konsisten, karena shade-nya...

You buy a cushion online and the listing gives you three numbers. 19, 21, 23. Nothing on the page shows you what they look like on a face. So you take 21, because 21 is the one everybody seems to mention, and it turns up half a tone off. The usual explanation is that the brand ran light. Sometimes it did. More often the number was never a measurement in the first place. No two Korean brands sat down and calibrated their 21 against each other. Korean base makeup has used this numbering for decades and...