Miss Universe Australia, Priya Serrao, has spoken out against colourism in the beauty industry and revealed makeup artists often still dont know how to work with her skin colour.

Three months since she was crowned, Priya says shes been left looking darker or way too yellow because makeup artists dont have the correct beauty products to suit her complexion.

The Indian-born model, who moved to Melbourne with her parents at age 11, admits theres times when shes only realised the makeup mismatch when the photos come out and your face is a different colour to the rest of your body.

My skin is olive and the number of times Ive had the wrong shade of foundation put on my face, the 27-year-old told HuffPost Australia. Its either darker or way too yellow or just the wrong mix of things they put on my skin.

And Im just too polite to say anything then I just go home and wash it off or I mix my own foundation and try to make it look better.

Priya acknowledges this isnt always the case but admits having it happen to her numerous times, even after Miss Universe is disappointing.

Even now, sometimes Im like, Oh please dont, she said of awkward situations in the makeup chair.