Oat, Maple or Truffle? How to Choose Your PINKYFITS Shade (And Why the High Street Never Got This Right)

If you've ever stood in a high street aisle turning a pack of nipple covers over in your hands, you'll know the drill. One shade. One size. And that one shade is almost always a pale, pinkish beige that doesn't match anyone's actual skin — let alone the range of tones sitting on the shelf of real bodies buying it.

We built PINKYFITS because "nude" should never mean "one colour that isn't even close." Here's how to find your shade in Oat, Maple or Truffle — and why it actually matters.

The problem with "one shade fits all"

Most high street nipple covers are designed around a single assumption: that "nude" means light beige (Or best yet.. pink). If your skin runs warmer, deeper, or anywhere outside that narrow band, you're left with a cover that sits on your skin like a spotlight instead of disappearing into it.

It's not just a cosmetic miss. A cover that's the wrong shade defeats the entire point of wearing one — it draws the eye exactly where you didn't want it. And when the only option is one size on top of one colour, you're compromising twice before you've even left the house.

We built our range around a simple idea: your covers should disappear, not stand out. That starts with getting the shade right.

Meet the range: Oat, Maple, Truffle

Oat is our lightest shade — a soft, warm ivory tone. It's built for fair skin with warm or neutral undertones, the kind that high street "nude" claims to cover but usually runs too pink or too grey to actually match.

Maple sits in the middle — a warm caramel tone designed for light-medium to medium skin. This is the shade most high street ranges skip entirely, leaving anyone in between to round up or down and hope for the best.

Truffle is our deepest shade — a rich, warm brown. If you've spent years being an afterthought in beauty aisles that stop at "medium," Truffle was made with you specifically in mind, not as a token addition.

Three shades, developed to sit seamlessly across a genuine range of skin tones — not one beige circle trying to do a job it was never built for.

How to actually pick your shade

A few honest tips, because guessing under bad shop lighting is how most of us ended up with the wrong shade in the first place:

• Check your inner arm in daylight. Artificial lighting (especially the cool, bluish kind in most bathrooms and shops) will throw you off. Natural light is the most honest test.
• Match to your chest, not your face. Skin tone can vary across your body, and the chest is often a shade or two different from your face or hands.
• When between two shades, size down in depth. A cover that's very slightly deeper than your skin blends more convincingly than one that's too light — lighter shades tend to look chalky and visible, while a closer, richer match reads as shadow rather than colour.
• Think undertone, not just depth. Oat, Maple and Truffle are each designed with warm undertones, since cool-toned "nude" is usually where high street shades go wrong first.

If you're genuinely torn between two, our product page has close-up shade swatches so you can compare against your own skin on screen — always more reliable than a stock photo of one model in one shade claiming to represent everyone.

Why this actually changes how the covers work

This isn't just about looking good in a drawer. A shade-matched cover:

• Sits invisibly under fabric that a mismatched one would show through
• Reads as your own skin under low necklines, sheer fabric or backless styles — instead of as "a sticker"
• Lets the actual engineering of the cover do its job. Our tapered 0.03mm edge is built to blend into skin without a visible line — but that only works if the colour is right in the first place. A perfect edge in the wrong shade still shows.

Shade and shape aren't separate problems. They work together, or the whole thing falls apart.

One shade was never the answer

The high street built nipple covers around the idea that most people would just make do. We didn't think that was good enough. Oat, Maple and Truffle exist because "nude" isn't one colour — it's a range, and you deserve to actually find yourself in it.

Confidence in every move. Gentle on skin. Built to last. Designed to disappear.

Find your shade at www.pinkyfits.com