부산대학교 도서관

Makeup base can be very important because it does not only involve covering skin pigments and matching skin tone before base makeup application, but also it has various colors, which can evoke a completely different feeling. However, a limited knowledge of the effects its color has on people makes it difficult for every woman to choose her right color to correct skin tone. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to verify the effects of makeup base application by color on skin colors among the Korean women in order to help select a right makeup base color. To this end, preliminary literature review has led us to selection of Korean skin colors by skin color type. And we carried out a skin color measurement on the makeup base - applied Korean women by color, accompanied by an expert evaluation of the effects of makeup base application on them in terms of a covering of skin pigments and a matching of skin tones. The findings in this study are as follows: First, as for reddish skin with medium brightness, a synthesis of the color measurement and the expert evaluation proves yellow the most effective of the makeup base colors. Pitch and purple are less effective in correcting skin color because of higher increase in brightness and less reduction in the chromaticity value of red. Especially, purple reduces the yellowness of skin too much, causing an overall uneven skin tone. The color measurement shows that the green is the most effective in reducing the redness, yet remaining less effective than yellow in the overall evaluation of brightness and chromaticity values of red and yellow; Second, considering yellowish skin with medium brightness, the synthetic evaluation shows pitch the most effective of the makeup base colors. Green, purple, yellow all are less effective despite their tone-up, which is due to the decrease in brightness, and also give rise to much fall in the reddishness of the skin, making a imperfect complexion. Among them, green result in such reduction in reddishness and in yellowness of the skin as to make a somber looking with a most darksome complexion; Third, as to very bright reddish skin, the synthetic overview proves green the most effective of the makeup base colors. With little changes in brightness measured, pitch and purple are the least effective in correcting reddish skin color, while green is the most effective in it. Fourth, in respect of very bright yellowish skin, the synthetic evaluation proves purple the most effective of the makeup base colors. Green and yellow results in such brightness as to make the originally bright skin a pale looking. Especially, yellow bring down the chromaticity value of red, making the originally yellowish skin a imperfect looking, with less lessening in the chromaticity value of yellow rendering the correcting of yellowish skin less effective. As for pitch, little changes in brightness makes it suitable for a bright skin tone, yet resulting in less effectiveness of covering yellowish pigments.