Tips on applying concealer.

Aug 19, 2015

Hannah K.

Do it in a v under your eyes, not a semi-circle as it brightens that whole area :)

Aug 19, 2015

Nancy L.

Just apply concealer all over your under eye area and you can bring it up toward the temples to give a lifting effect on your eyes! I love applying it with the concealer wand or a brush and blending it out with my beauty blender!!

Aug 20, 2015

Kitty K.

To cover up the darkness you would need a colour corrector.. I use a peach/salmon shade to correct my under eyes than go in with my normal concealer or a brightening concealer. 

Aug 20, 2015

Kitty K.

You can find a very detailed post made by Jacqueline H on this thread ; http://www.beautylish.com/t/imavru/need-a-good-concealer-help-please

I'd use an orange or a deeper color as she suggests. I will go ahead and copy/paste her information on this thread as well ☺



'Concealer alone for the most part does not hide those under-eye discoloration, in my opinion, color neutralization needs to be employed first.

Most discoloration under the eyes is due to blood leakage from fissures in the capillaries/veins under your eyes. This is a very very common occurrence, so don’t freak out. ;) The skin under the eyes is much much thinner than the skin on the rest of the body;therefore making it more translucent. Gravity causes that leaked blood to pool up in the lower portion of the eye socket and the thinner, more translucent skin amplifies this. To disguise this effectively, one needs to go beyond concealer and color correct.

Here's a mini color correction lesson when it comes to neutralization of this area, and why some colors just simply don't work.

Deoxygenated blood is a deep dark red. Most veins carry deoxygenated blood, that's why it is a darker color than oxygenated blood. The deep color of blood makes veins appear dark as well. Skin flat out absorbs blue light, and subcutaneous fat( the fat layer between the skin and muscle,) only allows blue light to penetrate skin all the way to veins;hence, this is the color that reflects back. Blood also absorbs light, so blood vessels appear darker.

When veins and the blood that has leaked pools up, it is easily seen through the very thin translucent skin under your eyes; and it is when these the two colors mix that create that muddy color underneath your eyes. This muddy color can range from purpley grey (most commonly seen with light/fair skin depths) to taupe (medium skin depths) or sometimes even blackish brown (more common to those with deeper-dark depths). That's why your everyday concealer won't disguise these types of discolorations. That being said, this is when color theory is applied to “correct” or neutralize the discoloration. Colors diagonally that are opposite each other on the color wheel will cancel each other out. The color that cancels out blue-violet discoloration is yellow-orange (not straight up yellow), so that's the 'tone' you will need to use to correct that discoloration under the eyes.

Now, just what determines our complexion color, and how does it relate to color correction? Melanin. Our skin tone is determined by how much melanin (pigment) there is in our skin. The lightest-fairest complexion has the least amount of melanin. A deeper complexion means there is more melanin present. This is so so so important to keep in mind when choosing your corrective color. Complexion products (foundation/ concealer) are a combination of iron oxides and ultramarine mineral pigments blended to produce a variety of colors. Titanium Dioxide is the white mineral pigment used to lighten them up, and because a deeper-darker complexion is more pigmented (with melanin), it requires a corrector with a larger amount of “color” pigment and a minimal amount of white. When complexions become lighter (less melanin), the corrector remains just as opaque, but the “color” pigments are diluted with different amounts of T.D. How does this apply to correction? Here's a list of shades that'll work for varying skin depths to correct discoloration;

Pale Coral (pale orange-pink) for the fairest/lightest skin tones.
Salmon Corrector (light orange-pink) for medium skin tones.
Orange Corrector (deep yellow-orange) for medium deep skin tones.
Rust Corrector (dark orange-copper) for the deepest skin tones.

I primarily use Cinema Secrets – Ultimate Foundation – 600 Series (Corrector Colors) and Graftobian's Glamour Creme Corrector Shades. Both palettes are fairly inexpensive, $28. Sonia Kashuk's Hidden Agenda Concealer Palettes are nice because they contain 2 shades of concealer,1 neutralizer and 1 translucent powder for varying skin tone depths.  :)'

Aug 20, 2015

Sabrina H.

Do it in a triangle shape under your eyes & make sure the "triangle" is wide to the top of your cheekbone area.

Aug 20, 2015

Monet R.

Make sure you apply your concealer after your foundation, other wise you will bland it away while applying foundation.