AllerNote Lab
Shade Translators
Find your shade across every brand.
4 tools in this category
Foundation Shade Translator
MAC NC42 → Fenty, NARS, Maybelline, NYX, Hourglass, Charlotte Tilbury.
Concealer Shade Matcher & Dupe
MAC NC42 → Fenty, NARS, Maybelline, e.l.f. Find your concealer in any brand.
Lipstick Shade Translator
Find your lipstick equivalent across brands.
Hair Color Cross-Brand Translator
Wella 7N is not L'Oréal 7N. Translate any level across brands.
Popular shade matches
Cross-brand foundation equivalents — curated, not AI-guessed.
- MAC Studio Fix Fluid NC42
- Fenty Pro Filt'r 330
- Fenty Pro Filt'r 290
- Maybelline Fit Me Matte + Poreless 220
- Maybelline Fit Me Matte + Poreless 330
- MAC Studio Fix Fluid NC30
- MAC Studio Fix Fluid NC25
- NARS Sheer Glow Stromboli
- NARS Sheer Glow Punjab
- Fenty Pro Filt'r 240
- MAC Studio Fix Fluid NC20
- Fenty Pro Filt'r 200
About shade translators
Every brand uses its own shade vocabulary. MAC has NC and NW. Fenty uses numbers. NARS uses named shades. Wella 7N pulls warmer than Igora 7-0. The result: a shade you love at one brand becomes guesswork the moment you try another. The Shade Translators centralize cross-brand matching for foundation, lipstick, and professional hair color — curated, not AI-guessed.
Use these before you buy a new brand online, before you grab a sample in store, or when you want to find a cheaper drugstore match for the luxury product you have been re-buying for three years. Confidence levels are explicit: "exact" (verified equivalent), "close" (within one shade step), "best available" (the nearest in their range when no true match exists). The honest "no" is worth more than a forced bad match.