Three reasons to own a good concealer:
1. Too much fun occurred the night before.
2. A good brand shaves a few years off your real age if applied properly.
3. No one wakes up wanting to look like Wednesday Addams. Be gone, dark eye circles.
So what three concealers are best to have at the bottom of your new Stephanie Shih makeup bag?
1. L’Oreal Visible Lift Under Eye Line-Minimizing & Tone-Enhancing Concealer ($11.95). Why this one? Because the clickable brush makes application a cinch, and the de-puffing formula works like you got your eight full hours of beauty sleep. Oh, the trickery!
2. NARS Concealer Anti-Cernes ($18). Packaged conveniently in a lipstick tube for better mobility (read: throwing into your Hayden-Harnett for Target bag), this concealer gives solid coverage and doesn’t crease, hiding any redness and offending blemishes. Bonus: This baby also moonlights as an eye shadow base.
3. Yves Saint Laurent Touche Eclat ($35). This YSL lifesaver appears on best beauty product lists year after year without fail. Is it because it comes in a clickable gilded gold pen dispenser? Possibly, but the lightweight, universal color (covers skin tones from fair to medium to olive), luminous concealer is probably the real reason for its popularity, despite the higher pricetag.
New Year’s Eve might have taken a toll, but being bright-eyed and bushy-tailed is just one concealer blend away.
I’ve tried a lot of different concealers. I have really dark under-eye circles but don’t like to wear tons of makeup. After experimenting with lots of different brands – some were too cakey, some disappeared after an hour – I discovered the perfect combination for me. I use a half and half mixture of MAC Studio Finish SPF 35 in NC20 and MAC Select Cover-Up in NC20. When you mix the heavier Studio Finish with the liquid Select Cover-Up, you get the blendability of the liquid with the coverage of the cream. It’s great. It disappears right into my skin and lasts all day. I use my fingers to apply because the heat helps it melt together and blend out more easily. I recently featured the combination on beautycall – http://bit.ly/fYm9m