Concelear tips

It's been a long time since I first discovered make up and although there is so much more to learn I have had my fair share of experience. Concelear is often the area in make up that is the hardest to get right so I wanted to share with you my tips and advice.

In no particular order ... 

Set your concelear straight away

I don't know if this tip is obvious but I always thought that I should let my concelear settle before I set it. However to avoid creasing under the eye or around the mouth you should set your concelear with a powder straight away. 

Two different concelear work best (a light one and a skin tone one) 

If you use a brightening concelear under your eyes then also use it on your spots you will be highlighting the spot which is the opposite of what your trying to achieve. You need a separate concelear that matched your skin tone to cover any imperfections. 

Concelears can change colour 

Some cream and liquid concelears (and foundations) can oxadise meaning that they react with the oxygen and turn a darker, more orange colour. I suggest that you leave the concelear on your hand for five minutes before you choose your final colour. 

Avoid using fingers under your eyes

If you use your finger your are more likely to tug at your eyes which will cause premature wrinkles. If you prefers to use your finger (to avoid cleaning brushes or because your using a solid concealer) use your least dominate finger, your ring finger, to avoid tugging to much. 

Warm up any solid concelears

Solid concelears, like stick concelears tend to be harder to work with as the just sit on the skins and slid around. If you rub the product with your finger first it will warm up a bit and melt into the skin, making it appear less cakey and stopping it sliding around. You can also use a lighter to lightly heat the top but this isn't as effective as you can risk melting the product. Also you have to wait for it to cool down so you don't burn your skin. 

Use coloured concelears 

To fight redness use a green coloured concelear as it is opposite in the colour wheel and will neutralise the skin. Obviously you will have to go over it in your normal concelear after. You can also do this for green undereye circles using redy pink concelears. If you don't want to buy a concealer you can get using a red lipstick instead but this might feel a but oily on the skin. Here is a colour wheel so you can hide any colour you want. You cover it with the opposite colour.

Matching your foundations and concelears 

Try using this website to see what what shade you should be according to past foundations and concelears. Or you can start fresh and see what colours it suggests. http://www.temptalia.com/foundation-matrix?fm=find

Obviously this is not a complete list as there is so much more to learn. Let me know in the comments your favourite concelear tips (whether I mentioned it or not).
I hope this helped :)
Emma x