Five Lucerna products standing in a row on a blush backdrop: concealer, Lanternlight foundation, an open red lipstick, lip oil and mascara

Complexion-first color, tested under real light

The shade on your screen should be the shade on your face.

Forty-eight foundation shades across twelve depths and four undertones, each one photographed under daylight, warm indoor light and phone flash before it launches. And if the match is still off, one exchange per order is free, even after you have worn it.

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Same-day dispatch. Order before 12PM PT, ships from Ontario, California.
30-day returns. On unopened products, with a prepaid label and no original box needed.
The Shade Promise. One free complexion shade exchange per order, within 45 days.
Refillable cases. Keep the case, replace the color.

Best sellers

The five most people start with

A foundation in forty-eight shades, the concealer mapped to it, a refillable lipstick, the lip oil that keeps selling out and a mascara that does not smudge.

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- Best seller
Foundation

Lanternlight Skin Foundation

Medium, buildable coverage with a satin finish, in forty-eight shades across twelve depths and four undertones

48 shades

$42

4.7 2,895 reviews
Concealer

Halo Blur Concealer

A creamy, crease-resistant concealer in thirty-six shades, mapped shade for shade to the Lanternlight foundation

36 shades

$28

4.6 2,268 reviews
- Best seller
Lipstick

Velvet Verse Lipstick

A soft-matte lipstick with a velvet feel in twenty-four shades, in a case you keep and refill

24 shades

$24

4.7 2,416 reviews
- Low stock
Lip Oil

Glasslight Lip Oil

A non-sticky tinted lip oil with a glass-like shine, in nine sheer tints and one clear

10 shades

$22

4.7 2,088 reviews
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Mascara

Lumen Lash Tubing Mascara

A tubing mascara that wraps each lash in a water-resistant film: no smudging, no flaking, off with warm water

2 shades

From $14

4.7 2,067 reviews

Shop by line

Six lines, starting with the skin

Complexion comes first, because every other color sits on top of it. Lips, eyes and tools follow, with the sets we actually recommend and the editions that are here for a season.

The Light Test

Every complexion shade, under three lights

A swatch shot in a studio tells you how a shade looks in a studio. Before a Lucerna complexion shade launches, its swatch is photographed on a gray shade card under the three lights you will actually wear it in, and the photos go on the product page.

See how the Light Test works

48

foundation shades

Twelve depths, from 100 to 430, in four undertones: cool, neutral, warm and olive.
3 lights

for every complexion shade

Daylight, warm indoor light and phone flash.
3 depths

of skin in every wear test

In the lab, each shade is worn on light, medium and deep skin before it launches.
4 hours

before we read the color again

The foundation is oxidation tested at four hours, so the shade you put on is the shade you finish with.

Six bottles of Lanternlight foundation in a row, from the fairest shade to the deepest

Shade Finder

Six questions, one shade, and the reason for it

Tell us how deep your skin is, how foundations usually go wrong on you and how much coverage you like. The Shade Finder returns your Lanternlight or Dewlight shade, the concealer mapped to it and the setting powder that will not flash back. It takes about two minutes, and you see the result without leaving an email.

1Depth
2Undertone
3Coverage
4Your shade

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What we believe

A screen is not a mirror. So we stopped pretending it was.

For twelve years on film and television sets, Maya mixed foundation by hand, because the shade ranges on the shelf never covered her cast. The deepest shades went red, the olive ones did not exist, and the fair ones were pink whether your skin was or not. Lucerna started as the range she wished she could have bought.

Then came the harder problem: selling it online. A camera shifts color, a screen shifts it again, and the light in your bathroom is not the light on your commute. We cannot fix your screen. What we can do is photograph every complexion shade under three lights, wear it in the lab on three depths of skin, test it for oxidation, and tell you plainly what a photo cannot show.

And when the match is still off, we take it back. One exchange per order is free, swatched or lightly worn, with the label on us. We would rather ship a second bottle than have you wear the wrong one.

Maya Okafor-Reyes and Daniel Sato, co-founders

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All forty-eight Lanternlight shades as round pans in a grid, six across, running from fair to rich

An open Velvet Verse lipstick and its cap beside a refill bullet in its aluminum cup and clear travel cap

Refill Program

Keep the case. Change the color.

The Velvet Verse case is anodized aluminum with a magnetic cap, and the Soft Focus compact is built around a magnet. Both are meant to be kept. When the color runs out, or you want a different one, the refill twists or clicks in.

Velvet Verse refill: $16, against $24 for a new lipstick
Soft Focus refill pan: $24, against $34 for a new compact
All twenty-four lipstick shades are sold as refills
No glue, no tools: twist the bullet, click the pan

How the Refill Program works

Four foundation swipes on a gray shade card, photographed three times: in daylight, in warm indoor light and with a phone flash

Shade Promise

If the shade is off, the second try is on us

Foundation, concealer, skin tint, setting powder and bronzer are covered. Within 45 days you can exchange one for another shade of the same product, even if you have swatched it or worn it lightly. It is one free exchange per order, and the return label is ours.

1Order your best guess
2Wear it in daylight
3Exchange once, free

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Sets

Two ways to start

One is the matched complexion routine: foundation, the concealer the shade card picks for it and a sponge. The other is the ten-minute face, in the order it goes on.

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Set

Shade Match Starter Set

The Lanternlight foundation, the Halo Blur concealer the shade card picks for it and a Bounce sponge

48 shades

$78

4.7 1,018 reviews
Set

Everyday Face Set

Skin tint, blush balm, tubing mascara and lip oil: the ten-minute face, in the order it goes on

18 shades

$86

4.6 860 reviews

From verified reviews

What customers write once the shade is right

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Every warm foundation I have owned goes orange on me and every cool one goes gray. 250O is the first bottle that looks like my neck in daylight and in my car mirror. I did the minis first and I am glad I did, because I was sure I was a W.

Camila R.Medium to tan skin, olive undertone, wears 250O
Lanternlight Skin Foundation
I wear 350N in the foundation and the page told me 8.1 to match and 7.4 to brighten. Both were right. I have never bought a concealer online without returning it before.

Oluwaseun A.Deep skin, neutral undertone, wears 7.4
Halo Blur Concealer
I keep one gold case and rotate refills. It costs less, and there is one less tube rolling around my bag.

Henrietta D.Light skin, cool undertone, wears Plum Theory
Velvet Verse Lipstick Refill
I have oily lids and every mascara ends up under my eyes by the afternoon. This one has not moved once. It comes off in the shower in little tubes, which was strange the first time.

Rosalie T.Oily lids, wears Carbon Black
Lumen Lash Tubing Mascara
I have ruined so many pictures with white setting powder. Translucent Rich is invisible on me in person and in a flash photo. That alone is worth the price.

Nkechi O.Rich skin, warm undertone, wears Translucent Rich
Soft Focus Setting Powder
I have never known whether I am warm or olive. One day in 250W, one day in 250O, and it was obvious by lunch: the W went orange and the O vanished. Fourteen dollars well spent, and I got it back on the bottle.

Leilani T.Medium to tan skin, olive undertone, wears 250O
Shade Match Duo