In 2018 scientists looked inside her face. Her skin comes down to five main pigments, and I mix it from tubes you can still buy.

The same pile of paint looks warm next to blue and cool next to orange. Warm and cool live on the palette, not on the color wheel.

A lot of white with a touch of red looks pale, until you hold it next to a face. Here is how I mix pale skin in three parts.

Mud is not a color you can buy in a tube. It is what happens to a mix, and you can stop it while you mix.

Cadmium red and white makes pink, and nobody's lips are that color. I mix lips from Indian red, titanium white and a tad of viridian.