The Flesh Tone Fan by Terri Tomlinson

The Flesh Tone Fan by Terri Tomlinson

The Flesh Tone Fan by Terri Tomlinson is a handheld fan deck built around skin tones instead of standard colours. Where the color wheel gives you the full overview, the fan lets you study skin tone up close and hold it straight against an actor or client, so you can read undertones and check matches shade by shade.

• Handheld fan deck built around skin tones, not standard colours
• Study skin tone up close, one swatch at a time
• See how neutrals and undertones read against the skin
• Useful for foundation matching, colour correction and building colour stories
• Developed by professional make-up artist Terri Tomlinson

What is The Flesh Tone Fan?

The fan works with the same skin-tone based colour theory as the Flesh Tone Color Wheel, but in a portable fan-deck format. You flip through the skin-tone swatches and hold them directly against the skin, which gives you an up-close, active way to study colour. It is a practical reference for on set or at the chair, next to the wheel you use for the bigger picture.

Why choose The Flesh Tone Fan?

Most colour tools are built around paint or general design theory. This one is built around how skin actually reads, from warm and cool undertones to light and dark values across the full range of human skin. Because you can isolate a single swatch and lay it against the skin, the fan makes it easy to compare, neutralise an unwanted undertone, or pick the direction for a foundation or prosthetic pigment. Compact enough to keep in your kit and bring anywhere.

When do you use the fan?

• Determining skin tone: hold the swatches against the skin to find the closest match.
• Foundation matching: read the undertone and value before you reach for a shade.
• Undertone correction: use complementary tones to neutralise red, yellow or blue in the skin.
• Prosthetic pigmenting: choose the right silicone pigments to match a prosthetic to the actor's skin.
• Building colour stories: plan how neutrals and skin tones work together on a look.

Useful companion products

• The Flesh Tone Color Wheel by Terri Tomlinson for the full overview alongside the fan
• Mouldlife Silicone Pigments for tinting silicone prosthetics using the skin-tone guide
• Key-Pigments Silicone Pigment Dark Flesh as a ready-to-use skin-tone pigment