Had a few late nights out on the town, hormonal breakouts or not drinking enough water? The right concealer can brighten the dark circles under your eyes, cover and help heal blemishes and help correct your skin tone.
Apply concealing products after foundation, sometimes your foundation will conceal more areas than you think.
Concealing
Benefits
A gently pigmented, light reflecting cream formulation makes shadows and fine lines disappear and gives a fresh appearance, so that your complexion looks more even and youthful.
Begin with using a light reflective cream under the eyes, around the nose and along the brow bone.
Use a yellow/apricot concealer one to two shades lighter than your skin tone to neutralize dark shadows, illuminate tired eyes and conceal any pink tone in the skin around the eye. A small amount of concealer can be swept across the top lid if your foundation contains and SPF and you have not used this on the eyelid. This creates a neutral canvas so your eye shadows will be true to their colour. (Artdeco Perfect Tint Concealer # 9 yellow/apricot based, #5 neutral).
Remember the eye is the oiliest part of the face and will need to be lightly powdered or use an eyeshadow base for a crease free and smooth eye shadow finish. A little powder will make it easier to blend your eye shadows.
Application
Use your concealer brush, the brush applicator of your product or your ring finger to gently pat around the inner corner and socket line. Leave for a moment for the skin to warm the product then pat and melt the product into the desired areas. Do not rub the product in as you will only lift the product off. Blend close to the lash line to reduce pink tones if required. (2) To cover up shadows around the eyes and tiny lines and wrinkles, apply a tiny amount of Perfect Teint Concealer to the inner and outer corners of the eye.
http://www.artdeco.de/en/cosmetics/makeup/face/concealer/perfect-teint-concealer/
Lightening
Benefits
Illuminating is the ultimate tool for achieving radiance. Sweep the illuminator on top of the cheekbone, under the eyebrows, down the centre of the nose and on the middle of your chin. Lightening the magic triangle will leave your skin more radiant and fresher. Illuminating can be done with special illuminating concealers.
(Artdeco Perfect Tint Concealer # 8 yellow based or #1 pink based). (3) Apply Perfect Teint Illuminator to the middle of your forehead and nose, the cheeks and the middle of your chin, and work in gently.
Professional tip: Always choose a concealer that is one shade lighter than your complexion.
The other option for a more luminous finish is with shimmer pigments ranging from eggshell, cream, gold, rose gold and bronze tones depending on your skin colour which can be cream or powder based.
http://www.artdeco.de/en/cosmetics/makeup/face/concealer/perfect-teint-illuminator/
Application
Use a concealing brush to press the product along the desired areas and then blend outwards for a seamless finish.
Watch the Artdeco video to see where exactly the concealing, illuminating and camoflauging product should be used. (.54 seconds into the video)
Illuminating powders can be applied with fingers, small brushes or a fan brush to highlight the cheekbone.
Blemishes require a different kind of concealer. A creamy, slightly thicker texture will provide more coverage without looking heavy and ideally should be one shade darker than your skin tone to diminsh the appearance of a raised blemish. The most common mistake is using a shade too light. Look for a yellow base shade.
We lighten to bring something forward and we darken to set something back so to make the blemish disappear into the skin we do not want to use an illuminating concealer. Use a green toned concealer stick to reduce redness and one containing Tee Tree oil will help to heal the blemish quickly and act as an antiseptic on impurities.
Never use a healing concealer under the eye area as tea tree oil is far too volatile and will irritate the delicate eye tissue.
http://www.artdeco.de/en/cosmetics/makeup/face/concealer/perfect-stick/
Camoflauge
Benefits
Camoflauge products are perfect for optically neutralizing skin irritations, red veins, pigmentation, birthmarks, scarring and tattoos. These products are thicker and a little firmer in texture. Artdeco camoflauge creams can be mixed together to create the perfect shade.
Yellow based cream will neutralize blue tone from dark shadows or moles and some birthmarks.
Green based cream will reduce high colour in couperose skin and scars.
Red based cream will successfully cover black tattoos.
Neutral skin toned cream can be matched to skin tone to blend away pigmentation spots.
Application
Use a spatula to take up a small amount of product and warm the product on the top of your sanitized hand to soften and then apply with a slightly dampened sponge for a faultless finish. This will ensure that a smoother consistency is achieved as the product will heat and blend easier. After camoflauging the area, a neutral skin toned camoflauge cream can be blended over a fixed neutralizing cream to blend it perfectly into the rest of the skin.
Camoflauge cream becomes waterproof once sealed with a fixing powder. Use a powder brush and fixing powder over the area and leave for 5-10 minutes, then dust excess powder away.
The neutral shade will ensure the camoflauge cream is smear proof and waterproof.
Skin toned camoflauge creams are excellent for wedding and photographic makeups for a smooth, flawless finish.
http://www.artdeco.de/en/cosmetics/makeup/face/camouflage/
Contouring is all about changing the look and shape of the face. It can be used to accentuate, define, disguise and hide certain features of the face.
Camoflauge cream and cream based foundations used in a natural skin tones 2-3 shades darker ( never shimmery ) are used to shade and create:
* Defined and chiselled cheekbones
* Narrow a wide nose
* Define the jawline and disguise a double chin
* Soften a square jawline
* Minimize a large forehead or rounded face
Application
Apply the contouring product with a foundation brush or latex sponge to the desired areas.
For a more defined cheekbone
Draw an imaginary line from top of the ear to edge of the mouth, shade under this line as contouring will set the feature back and thus lifting the cheekbone.
Blend from the ear forward, the darkest area should be from the ear not in the middle of the cheek area.
Draw a second imaginary line from the outer corner of the eye and outer corners of the nose. Blend the edges away and this will indent the temple and make the cheek look more prominent.
http://www.artdeco.de/en/cosmetics/features/make-up-school/basic-guide/covering/
* Contouring will be discussed in a future post in more detail. The below video is in german however you can take a look to see the placement of product and how the end blended result should look.
Accentuating
(4) Bronzing Powder Compact SPF 15 is ideal for accentuating and contouring your face. Your complexion looks quite natural – as if you had been kissed by the sun!
Application
Use a bronzing brush and sweep across the areas of the face the sun would generally hit the skin: cheekbones, chin, down the nose and above the brows.
A bronzing powder 1-2 tones darker than your skin tone and with duo tones will look most natural.
Do not apply evenly all over the face or you will just look orange and muddy looking - not a good look!
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