DUSK

The art of the perfect shade

Scan.Match.Own It. Find your exact foundation shade from your skin tone and undertone.

Point your camera, find your flawless foundation shade in seconds, and make it yours.

Start your match

Find Your MST

KnowYourExactSkin Tone

At Dusk, your skin is read in CIELAB — the colour space built to match human vision. One photograph, four hundred and sixty-eight facial landmarks, and your tone lands on the Monk scale as a number.

Then we score a brand's range against where their shoppers actually fall. On one Indian catalogue we measured, three of the ten levels had nothing wearable at all — about a fifth of everyone who scanned.

MST 03
Foundation swatch for Monk Tone 03
MST 03Soft Dawn
HEX#F7EAD0
LIGHTNESSL* 93.1

Light, with a clear yellow cast. Almost every foundation range starts near here, which makes it the easiest level to shop — and the weakest test of whether a range is actually inclusive.

MST 06
Foundation swatch for Monk Tone 06
MST 06Amber Dusk
HEX#A07E56
LIGHTNESSL* 55.1

The middle of the scale, and the warmest of the ten references — b* reaches 26.7 here, golden rather than olive.

MST 07
Foundation swatch for Monk Tone 07
MST 07Warm Sand
HEX#825C43
LIGHTNESSL* 42.5

Deep brown. Past roughly this point catalogues thin out fast: on one Indian range we measured, three of the ten levels had nothing wearable at all.

MST 10
Foundation swatch for Monk Tone 10
MST 10Nightfall
HEX#292420
LIGHTNESSL* 14.6

The deepest reference on the scale. Our own capture code used to throw this tone out as too dark to read — the same failure most cameras make here, and the reason we rewrote the floor.

THE INTELLIGENCE OF COMPLEXION

Meet DUSK

From a single camera feed to sub-millimeter CIELAB shade coordinates — calibrated across all ten Monk Skin Tone levels in seconds.

01SCAN

Spectral Facial Capture

Isolates true melanin pigmentation across 468 landmark nodes, neutralizing ambient glare in real time.

02MATCH

CIEDE2000 Accuracy

Scores cosmetic ranges in perceptual 3D color space to calculate undertones with sub-millimeter delta.

03OWN

Precision Try-On

Simulates photorealistic texture, depth, and finish directly onto your complexion before you decide.

See It On You

Virtual Try-On

Try on lipstick and blush shades matched to you, in real time. Drag the slider to compare, and shop what actually suits you.

Bare Skin

Your true undertone, before anything is applied.

Analysis Complete

Warm Beige

Warm · Golden Undertone

Depth
MST-04
Undertone
Warm
DUSK

Stop Guessing. Start Matching.

  • 1,631Shades scored
  • 17Brands
  • 468Facial landmarks

Ready to find your exact shade?

Scan your skin, see how 1,631 shades across 17 brands actually score against it, and know before you buy.