What are concealers for the face and how to use them?

The tool that conceals dark circles, spots and freckles on your face and instantly makes it brighter and fresher is called a concealer. It comes in different textures and several shades depending on what you want to hide. From the correct choice of his depends on the relief of the face and its color, and hence the entire makeup.

Concealer from English translates as "hide." This is a tonal tool that allows you to mask certain skin imperfections, such as:

1. Acne, inflammation, post-acne, allergic reactions.
2. Bruises and circles under the eyes, capillaries.
3. Brown spots, moles and freckles.
4. Black spots, pores and uneven tone.

Depending on the texture and consistency, concealers are divided into several types.

1. Liquid. Suitable for full coverage of the face, especially for the area around the eyes, as it creates a light refreshing glow. However, the liquid concealer should not be too heavy, otherwise it can emphasize wrinkles and peeling. Suitable even for the area around the eyes and dry skin.
2. Concealer stick suitable for concealing post-acne, freckles, age spots and scars. It is applied and bleached harder than liquid, so it is applied dotted and under the foundation / powder. Suitable for problem skin.
3. Concealer pencil. In fact, the same as the stick. It is also impossible to apply to the skin around the eyes and thin sensitive skin.
4. Creamy. It is usually used for contouring or sculpting, as it is very easy to quench and look natural. Often produced in the form of pallets with different colors or in the form of a pencil with a sponge instead of a slate.
5. Dry concealerthat looks like contouring powder or rouge.

Despite the fact that concealers in most cases are common bodily shades, there are also color options. Use and pick them a little more difficult, you need to use the color scheme, but more on that later.

1. Green (Mint) Concealer hides redness, inflammation, allergies, post-acne, acne and all red spots. He can also hide the capillary reticulum. It acts by dispersing the red pigment, creating a haze effect and making the redness less noticeable. However, the green color is very noticeable in healthy areas of the skin, so it should be shaded very carefully. Over necessarily use a foundation. Ideal for problem skin with acne. The most convenient option is to purchase concealer-powder of a green shade to even out reddened skin without excessive layering.
2. Yellow. Disguises spots of purple and blue, for example, circles under the eyes, bruises, veins. It may help to hide at the time of the tattoo.
3. Orange (apricot) performs a similar function - hides bruises and circles under the eyes. It is very important that the shade is not a bright carrot color, since this is difficult to shade and it suits not every skin tone.
4. Blue able to even out the tone, if there are pigment spots, freckles, circles under the eyes of warm shades, and the skin in general has a yellowish tone.
5. As for siren, then it hides freckles, brown spots, also evens out a yellowish skin tone and acts precisely against yellow shades.
6. Pink removes the gray tint of the skin, so it is ideal for aging dull skin. In addition, copes with the masking of greenish veins, bruises, circles under the eyes.However, it is necessary to use pink carefully, as falling on the blue areas (veins or blue bruises under the eyes), it gives a purple hue.
7. White acts as a highlighter and is used together with dark brown, replacing the bronzer.

Concealer appeared on the market not so long ago, but already many famous brands began to produce such palettes of various shades.

So y Catrice there is a palette of color concealers "Allround", including five colors - green, pink, light beige, beige and brown. With this set, you can even out skin tone, make a light correction, hide redness, acne and circles under the eyes. It is a universal palette.

The company also represents "Liquid Camouflage - High Coverage Concealer" - liquid concealer, ideal for bruises under the eyes, presented in two shades and cream "Camouflage" in three fairly light colors. The price of each is about 300 rubles, and the palette costs about 400.

Mac It is considered almost a pioneer in the field of concealers. This company has several palettes - cream Mac Professsional Color Concealerconsisting of three skin shades and having an additionally large enough mirror in the set, and Mac Pro Studio Conceal and Correct Paletteideal for contouring (it has four flesh shades, including quite dark and light, and flesh with a pinkish subtone to mask bruises under the eyes). It costs about 2000 rubles, but the shades are well pigmented and they last for a long time.

From single concealers can be distinguished Mineralize Concealer for 1800 rubles, liquid "Select Cover-Up" for 1500. Moisturizing concealer deserves special respect "Select Moisturecover" with SPF 35, "Studio Finish" with SPF 35 and "Studio Sculpt Concealer", designed specifically for sculpting, but also suitable for hiding bruises under the eyes. They cost about 1600 rubles, but justify their price.

Concealer from Max Factor "MasterTouch Under-Eye Concealer" It costs about 400 rubles and helps you to hide both dark circles under the eyes and skin flaws. It is produced in the format of a bottle with a sponge and in three shades with different subtones.

Have Stellary There is a cream concealer in the assortment that will suit even the “snow white” because of its bright tone. It comes in several colors, looks like a pencil with a sponge, but it costs only 400 rubles.

Enjoys popularity “Perfect Look” by Divage. Available in the format of the same pencil with sponge, it is easily quenched and suitable for masking bruises, as well as veins and small reddenings.

Nyx - a well-known company, and many concealers also know its concealers. The range of the company shines with diversity, and it is here that you can find those shades that other brands are not very common. For example, "Concealer Stick" is a concealer of green / blue / skin tone in the form of a stick, "Above and Beyond Full Coverage » - cream, and "HD Photogenic" - liquid concealers of all colors from the palette, equipped with a brush with a sponge for applying, and the consistency is thick and dense. The cost of each - within 500 rubles.

From the body concealers of this brand, you can select the palette "Conceal.Correct.Contour", already by the name of which it can be understood that it is universal. It includes six tones, one of which is olive-white with a green subtone, which can also mask redness on light skin, the other is pink from bruises, and the other four are beige shades, including dark brown for contouring. Their finish is matte, the degree of coverage is medium, the texture is creamy, and the durability is high.

Another interesting instance - pencil "Covered Concealer". Because of its texture, it can emphasize peeling, so it is not suitable for the skin around the eyes, but it can hide minor imperfections and moles. It contains castor oil, jojoba oil, carnauba and candellilla wax, vitamin E.

Maybelline - Another company, interested in the production of concealers. In their assortment there is an illuminating concealer pencil. "Dream Lumi Touch Highlighting Concealer", which consists of light reflecting particles. It is due to their view becomes the most fresh. It costs only 400 rubles, and comes in a bottle with a brush.

In addition, the company has cream concealers. "Dream Brightening" and "Better Skin". The latter is very popular, as it not only masks imperfections and bruises under the eyes, but also is sold in a large enough format for concealer - 11 ml. Economical, budget (300 rubles), copes with its responsibilities, and if anything, you can resort to the same cream.

But "Dream Mousse" It has a thick creamy texture, which is why it looks like, really more like a mousse. It guarantees a dense coating without a mask effect, is invisible on the skin and evens out its tone.

"Instant Anti-Age Effekt" sold in the form of a bottle with sponge. It does not get wrinkled and does not emphasize desquamation, hides inflammation, pores and bruises under the eyes, well shaded.

Every girl should have at least two concealers in her makeup bag — colored to conceal her flaws and bodily to even out her tone.

Colored are selected on the basis of skin problems. Green - to mask red spots, pink to give a more vivid look to the face, orange and yellow - against circles under the eyes and bruises, and blue and lilac - against pigment spots and freckles.

Also note the kind of concealer. Liquid is suitable for oily skin only in the case of spot application and under the foundation or powder, pencil and stick are universal, and creamy textures are ideal for dry and normal skin.

If you want to do face contouring, you need to choose one light shade and one dark. Cream textures are best applied and bleached. It is the hardest to work with liquid, and dry ones are not always resistant.

In order for concealers to give maximum results, they need to be properly applied. To get started is to prepare the skin. Use a scrub or peeling for the face, wash your habitual means, apply tonic and base under makeup / primer / moisturizing / matting cream. Now grab the concealer. Colored are applied before the physical.

This is a purely individual moment, however, makeup artists recommend applying foundation before the concealer. In this way, you can see which flaws they did not overlap with and deal with them, and after that, with a correction with a highlighter and a bronzer. But to conceal concealer in this case will be quite difficult, so this option is not recommended for beginners. Focus primarily on your own feeling.

Concealer of any texture, except for powdery, is applied dotted on problem areas. In the case of bruises under the eyes you need to put it in the form of an inverted triangle. You can use a brush for this, and you can use your fingers, applying a hammering motion, but the layer must necessarily turn out to be thin. Remember that face makeup with concealer should be applied step by step: first moisturizer, then tone, then concealer. The last two stages can be swapped.

As such, there are no instructions for applying concealer in zones.

As a rule, acne and post-acne are located on the cheeks and cheekbones, so there is applied a green tint.

Freckles and age spots can be located anywhere, from the cheeks to the neck.

Yellow and orange shades are applied under the eyes and on the temples, on the wings of the nose, in general, in the places where the veins are located.

White and light beige are applied to the tip of the nose, cheekbones, corner of the eyes, hollow on the upper lip, and brown on the wings of the nose, chin, cheekbone area and face contour.

It is best to use a synthetic flat rounded brush, but in the case of problem skin, the concealer is driven in with fingertips. For shading, you can use a sponge egg or a beauty blender - this is a universal option.

Sculpting or contouring is a very popular technique that often uses concealers.

The whole essence of the technique lies in the contrast of dark and bodily colors, because of which certain areas become narrower, while others become wider. On those places that need to be narrowed, a dark shade is applied, which increase - light. The method is similar to the gradual application of a highlighter and a bronzer.

In order to narrow the face, you need to put on the cheekbones a dark brown shade and shade it well. This method works on wide faces, round and rectangular.

But in order to make the facial contour less round, the same tone is applied on the cheeks in the form of a half-moon almost like a blush.

To widen the narrow face, a dark color is applied on the cheeks in the form of elongated ovals.

To visually get rid of the square jaw, you need to put a thin layer of dark shade on the transition of the cheekbones to the chin and the upper part.

Light shades are applied to places that need to either highlight or create a contrast with the dark ones. This forehead, cheeks, area under the eyebrows, the center of the chin.

You can use light and brown tones separately from each other. This will create a more natural and natural look.

In order to visually reduce the nose, you need to apply a dark solid shade on the wings of the nose.

Concealer-pencil or concealer-stik is applied dotted on the problem area and is carefully shaded, stretched along the entire perimeter.

To smooth the skin tone or remove bruises under the eyes, you can use the body corrector. Unlike concealer, it is applied point and bleached with a drive-in motion.

You can use the corrector from adolescence, when there is a need to hide adolescent acne and circles under the eyes from lack of sleep.

Concealer Catrice "Liquid Camouflage - High Coverage Concealer" has generally positive reviews and a rating of 4.3. It is creamy, applied with an applicator, but it is better to distribute or drive it with your fingers or a brush. Suitable for use under the eyes, as it does not dry sensitive skin, applied to moles, pimples and minor imperfections.

Of the minuses - a small number of shades - only 010 and 020, the first of which is perfect for "snow white". It is waterproof, will withstand a little rain and will last on the skin all day. Neither the photo nor live on his face is visible. The smell is perfumed, floral, quickly disappears. Because of its consistency, it does not fall into wrinkles and does not emphasize flaking, does not roll.

Conceal.Correct.Contour by Nyx styled almost perfect concealer for contouring due to the large variety of shades. It is versatile, suitable for skin of any type and tone just because of the six shades of body color presented. Available in three versions, among which there is what to choose and dark skin, and fair-skinned girl. Using the suggested colors, you can hide circles under the eyes, freckles, pigment spots, as well as contouring, since dark shades are perfect instead of bronzer, and light shades are the highlighter. Please note that after removing the top layer of each shade, the color under it will be a little less saturated, more natural. Easy to extinguish and apply. But based on the density, these concealers are not suitable for everyone around the skin around the eyes - they mask well, but they can become hidden in the folds, creating the effect of visibility.

Special attention is paid to the packaging - this is a nice medium-sized book with a transparent lid; it may not fit in a cosmetic bag, but it will not take much space at the mirror. Rating it - 4.5.

Another concealer from Nyx - “HD Photogenic, Which has a rating of 4.3.It is layered, so the coating can be both medium and high density, it looks natural, does not clog up in pores, wrinkles or peeling (if you apply a moisturizer under it), and also has caring and nourishing properties. The texture is creamy, it is best to distribute this with your fingers, driving in, although your own applicator is quite comfortable. It may not last all day in its original form, but it will go unnoticed.

Of the great advantages - a large palette of colors. You can choose from about five skin shades - from the lightest, almost white to brown, orange, yellow, blue and green. Thus, with the right choice of remedy, you can hide not only bruises under the eyes, but also freckles, redness, acne and post-acne, pigment spots and capillaries / veins. It is very easy to make up such a concealer, it is quenched and distributed a little.

Concealer from Maybelline "Better Skin" has a rating of 4.1. This is a persistent beige concealer designed for the area around the eyes and the overall tone alignment. Its texture is plastic, medium liquid, the coating is loose, which is why it is easily quenched. Immediately a minus - even the lightest shade of the concealer is dark, and since the area under the eyes needs to be lightened, Snow White and girls without tan will not work. It can help to close the wreaths, not hide the red, for this you need a green concealer or concealer with a large coating. It does not dry the skin under the eyes, and according to some girls, even moisturizes it. Does not roll, does not get into wrinkles and peeling. Calmly can withstand half of the working day.

How to use concealer for the face, see the following video