![]() About My Under-Eye Area: Visible darkness and pronounced tear troughs Now, It Cosmetics has grown into a global beauty brand. Using her personal experience to inform the products created, founder Jamie Kern Lima initially wanted to help herself. Hero ingredients: Niacinamide, collagen, cucumber, hyaluronic acid.Ībout the brand: Working with insights from plastic surgeons and dermatologists, It Cosmetics is a company focused on providing makeup-wearers with solutions that address concerns while also being good for your skin. Potential allergens: Magnesium ascorbyl phosphate, tocopheryl acetate, ascorbyl palmitate, retinyl palmitate, potassium sorbate. (I may or may not be speaking from experience.Uses: Hydrating and concealing uneven pigmentation and dark circles, especially under the eyes. watching every single music video your favorite K-pop group has ever made. Once you put all these dark-circle-disguising tips into action, no one will know that you stayed up until 2:30 a.m. You can also set the concealer with a brightening powder. This step also helps add moisture to your under-eyes as some of the thicker concealers can be chalky and drying. Hughes recommends dotting the concealer only where your undereye area is dark and blending downward.įor extra brightening and priming, Hughes likes to tap the Shiseido Benefiance WrinkleResist24 Intensive Eye Contour Cream along the same area before applying concealer. As long as the concealer is opaque, you'll be set, she notes. Not sure which concealer to use? Hughes' top three picks are the Innisfree Matte Full Cover Concealer, the Wander Beauty Dualist Matte and Illuminating Concealer, and Nars's beloved Radiant Creamy Concealer. Once you blend it out, though, you'll notice your undereye concealer coordinates perfectly with the rest of your face. Hughes says the shade you pick based on that random area may seem to be too dark at first. This prevents you from picking a concealer shade that is too pink or too light, which can create "a much muddier version of what you already have under your eyes," she adds.īy Elle Turner, Lottie Winter, Fiona Embleton and Sheilla Mamona Hughes says she happened upon this trick by accident while on set one day and now she swears by it.īecause this little region isn't as susceptible to redness as the rest of your face, "it's the most neutral-toned part of your face," she tells Allure. However, it's the key to making concealer look seamless with the rest of your makeup and not like ghostly pale rims around your eyes. I don't even know what to call that part of the face because I rarely consider it an individual region that needs attention. ![]() She looks to the area between the nose and apple of the cheek when picking which shade of undereye concealer to use on herself or one of her clients. Instead of reaching for a thick, peachy colour corrector or a brightening concealer, Hughes uses a colour-matching technique I've never heard of before. ![]() Yes, I felt like a teacher's pet, but it was necessary. It was so unexpected that I had to catch up with her afterward because I needed to know everything. At a master class with Katie Jane Hughes recently, the New York City-based makeup artist revealed her trick for concealing dark circles. ![]()
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