topic Re: Concealer/Color corrector help please 🙏 in Beauty

Concealer/Color corrector help please 🙏

Laura14 — Sat, 03 May 2025 12:53:10 GMT

I went on a mission to find a concealer after having my passport photo taken this week.

I have no idea what I am doing. I don't know what tones I am and nothing seems to cover them. I think I'm fighting not just the dark circles which are a light black but shadows too.

I have done every online beauty try on and nothing seems to look perfect. I spent a day in Ulta once trying to find my concealer shade to help cancel the darkness with no luck. I think my skin tone and a corrector/concealer to match doesn't exist.

I remember my mother gave me something of hers years ago that literally wiped the darkness away and neither of us can remember what it was. We think it was a Cover Girl shade in a small pot that doesn't exist anymore.

I have bought several color correctors and concealers this week. I seem to be in the beige category rather than light that I have always done and I finally found one that seems to help but not completely.

Maybelline neutralizer with Cover Girl Buff Beige concealer is my best so far.

That seems to go with the beige, honey, and sand recommendations the online beauty scans think my skin is. I've never considered myself in the medium realm ever, but apparently I am completely blind.

Does anyone know where I should be looking if I am apparently a beige, honey, or sand person? What shades of concealer for really dark circles should I narrow myself into? The same tones or does a different color match or correct with these shades?

TIA. 🙏

Re: Concealer/Color corrector help please 🙏

katie1859 — Sat, 03 May 2025 13:10:54 GMT

You best predictor is daylight

then determine if you have pink or yellow undertones

meaning do you look pink or sallow

Finally choose a concealer with your foundation

purchase them together so they have the same value/ intensity

believe it or not, you put your concealer on after your foundation

because this will reveal what needs elevating and highlighting

Remember, a little goes a long way and you should not use it as a base or

spackle

Re: Concealer/Color corrector help please 🙏

Laura14 — Sat, 03 May 2025 13:21:36 GMT

@katie1859 I have heard this, but doesn't the foundation then throw off the color correction? Or is that my issue? Trying to cover a color makeup isn't meant to fix without help?

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FranandZoe — Sat, 03 May 2025 13:36:55 GMT

What kind of foundation do you use? Since I've been usig IT CC Cream for a few years I no longer need a concealer.

Re: Concealer/Color corrector help please 🙏

Laura14 — Sat, 03 May 2025 13:43:46 GMT

@FranandZoe Currently using Beekman tint in Light.

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wagirl — Sat, 03 May 2025 13:43:49 GMT

I would go to a make up counter like at Sephora or Ulta or Nordstroms and ask the ladies there. Or any other prestige make up place. they can tellyou better than you trying 100 different products that will be mentioned here. No offense to anyone here--but you need an in -person consultation, IMO. I went to Ulta and had them to tell me what shade skin tone I was --am a light warm-- and they did that by matching the foundation to my neck and not my face. They were right on too.

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LTT1 — Sat, 03 May 2025 13:45:11 GMT

@Laura14

My best ones so far:

cle de peau...Stick very excellent coverage

Sisley... photo cernes eclat...shade 1 this one as additional magic because it contains an ingredient that tightens and provides moisture at the same time!

Re: Concealer/Color corrector help please 🙏

Laura14 — Sat, 03 May 2025 13:51:18 GMT

@wagirl @LTT1 Thank you and will do!

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LTT1 — Sat, 03 May 2025 13:57:01 GMT

@Laura14

If you are a person with OLIVE in your complexion, I understand foundation and concealer are very tricky to find.

Reddit has an entire section dedicated to olive beautified.

I have been season typing women who post to ask, and I’m finding the olive-containing ones are typed as everything under the sun.

If you want to study what they are saying, go to Reddit and choose a user name and go for it.

In addition, these ladies are referred to as "neutral" and oh yes I have tried to type them!

Re: Concealer/Color corrector help please 🙏

Laura14 — Sat, 03 May 2025 14:03:44 GMT

Thank you @LTT1 . I am Italian, but easily burn so I think that's exactly what's throwing me. I am on my way. Thank you so much!

Re: Concealer/Color corrector help please 🙏

Laura14 — Sat, 03 May 2025 14:17:47 GMT

@LTT1 This is me! I found a video from a reddit link to youtube about telling olive skin clues and I match just about everything about it down to the colors that I wear best. Thank you! I literally teared up. I've never heard of olive skin and makeup being a whole other category. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for helping me!

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LTT1 — Sat, 03 May 2025 14:29:18 GMT

@Laura14

You cannot imagine how much I appreciate this!

will you please let me know how your search for concealer works out!

Re: Concealer/Color corrector help please 🙏

Laura14 — Sat, 03 May 2025 14:34:48 GMT

@LTT1 Will do. She is recommending buff shades which is what I've found worked the best on me so far, but she is also showing me better techniques so I will definitely update my skills and makeup. Thank you so much! You made my life!

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ellaphant — Sat, 03 May 2025 14:49:46 GMT

Impossible to help you on a website. I would go to one of the better department stores and find an expieranced makeup.sales person.

Re: Concealer/Color corrector help please 🙏

katie1859 — Sat, 03 May 2025 16:17:26 GMT

Concealer is not intended to be used along with your color corrector

Meaning that is your first step, then your foundation and last your concealer

color corrector will not really conceal but rather correct so when your foundation is applied the skin tone is the same hue in either cool or warm

That seems to be a mistake used if you choose the corrector application

Re: Concealer/Color corrector help please 🙏

Laura14 — Sun, 04 May 2025 21:03:18 GMT

Huge thank you to @LTT1 and everyone else who helped me. I literally took your suggestions, watched youtube all weekend, did every virtual makeup try on online, and did a couple makeup hauls to teach my tomboy self how to do makeup.

I learned a lot and took some advice and did my face countless times. I found a combo that isn't perfect under my eyes but it's light years ahead of the crypt keeper mug shot the passport office took of me a week ago.

@LTT1 I am olive! Yellow color corrector works unbelivable wonders for me around my eyes. I mix it with my buff beige concealer shade and a pink brightener and it's light years ahead of what I was doing. No wonder nothing ever worked for me. I have never heard of yellow corrector before let alone for dark circles. Above my eyes it's beautiful and opens my hooded eyes right up.

I also learned about highlighters, what people my age should not use or do anymore, what I should be using that I never have (eyelash curler), and another trick was to use a darker concealer.

I actually found one that's for a person of color, I am not, but if I put it just under my dark circles on my cheekbone, I am gorgeous! It compliments my complexion and draws attention away from my eyes to focus on my bone structure which is my genetic blessing from my great-grandmother.

There are a lot of things I am grateful for on this board. The helpful strangers who took time out of their lives to make mine better for a skill I should already have at my age, but didn't, I love. ❤️

Thank you all so very much. I will feel like a new, much more confident person when I walk into work tomorrow.

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LTT1 — Sat, 10 May 2025 10:12:42 GMT

@Laura14 @katie1859 @ellaphant @wagirl @FranandZoe

I just read something else endorsed by the "olive-toned girls"!
There is a blue (!) concealer by elf

that they are saying to add a drop or two to your foundation (only if you are olive toned) and this will automatically give you a perfect shade!

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AngelPuppy1 — Sat, 10 May 2025 10:29:39 GMT

@Laura14

You mentioned Cover Girl, so I will post that I use a CG concealer that I have used for years which is in a tube and it is called CG Smoothers. It doesn't come in a ton of colors so I don't know if any of them would be suitable for you. However, it does provide good coverage and the price is great. You could purchase a coule different shades and always return one that isn't right.

Re: Concealer/Color corrector help please 🙏

Laura14 — Sat, 10 May 2025 11:13:46 GMT

Thank you @AngelPuppy1 and @LTT1 !

Re: Concealer/Color corrector help please 🙏

katie1859 — Sat, 10 May 2025 13:15:05 GMT

Color correction as nothing but another thick layer under the eye

The dimension of these do help other face discoloration but your under eye

skin is thin and sensitive

Foundation then concealer is sufficient

Generally to conceal fine veins and a dark impression which will be lightened by concealer

A good foundation will adjust color tones so backtrack steps and start with the right tone and coverage then a concealer one shade lighter.