Facial skin discoloration can make you feel self conscious and unattractive. Blemishes, rosacea, age spots, scars, and other imperfections can make you feel undesireable or unappealing. Hiding skin imperfections can be easy and can help boost your self image.
The trick is to use a color correcting concealer before you apply foundations. There are five correcting colors that will help lessen or blend unnatural tones or flaws in your complexion. Many are available in liquid or cream form. Color correctors help counterbalance underlying undesirable skin tones.
Green for example, helps conceal redness or broken veins, purple helps correct a yellowish complexion, white helps to cover and correct dark under eye circles and skin dullness, beige helps cover age spots and blemishes, and blue helps make a blushing complexion seem paler.
Of the five of these, green, beige, and white are the three correcting colors used to hide facial skin discoloration most often.
When correcting colors are worn under foundation, they provide a good base for the rest of your makeup and can help your makeup stay fresher longer.
Suggestions to Hide Facial Skin Discoloration
1) Pull your hair back out of your face. Thoroughly wash your face and apply a moisturizer. Wait about 5 minutes so that the moisturizer has time to absorb into the skin.
2) Choose the best correcting color for your complexion. Put a very small amount of the color corrector either on your fingertip or on a makeup sponge. Dab first, then spread the correcting color ONLY to the problem area(s). Make sure you get an even application and reapply the corrector where necessary.
3) Apply your foundation as normal. It does not matter what kind of foundation you use. I often use a cream beige concealer with mineral makeup. You can mix and match them just fine. Just be sure that the color corrector is hidden. If not, then reapply your foundation until it disappears completely.
Concealing Undereye Circles
Great care must be taken when hiding black under eye circles. You won’t want to go from looking like a zombie to looking like a clown! Many women overuse white concealers under their eyes. If you do, you will go from one unnatural look right into another one! That's a total blunder!
If you use a white color corrector under the eyes to hide dark circles, so please don’t use much.
Use petite small amounts and blend them thoroughly. Keep applying small amounts until your coverage is even. When you use concealers, a good idea is to warm it up by applying it to the back of your hand first. Just be sure your hands are clean when you do this. Warm concealers spread and blend more evenly than cool ones.
Instead of using STANDOUT WHITE, I suggest that you use a light beige concealer. WHY?
Because beige is not as stark as white and will blend into your natural tone more evenly. Just be sure to cover any concealer appropriately, with the right foundation for your skin tone.
You can also help diminish dark undereye circles by using Vitamin K creams regularly. Brands to try are Swanson Vitamin K Cream and Vita-K Solution for Dark Circles Under the Eyes. Vitamin K has a proven track record of helping fade most skin discolorations no matter where they appear!
Used correctly, color correctors help hide and conceal facial skin discoloration. They can help any problem complexion look healthy and radiant!
I have even used concealers on the backs of my hands when one of my puddy tats got hold of me playfully and wouldn’t let go!
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