How to STOP Under Eye Concealer Creasing! Mature Skin

Hi everyone, I'm Angie and welcome to hunt the flashy. In today's video, I'll share my best tips and tricks on how to prevent under eye

concealer

from

creasing

on

mature

skin

so that as we age, the under eye area becomes one of our biggest problems. . areas I think we would all agree on that, right? Yes, I think it's something we can all agree on, so the

skin

under your eyes can become wrinkled, it can become discolored, it can become swollen or have bags under your eyes or you can have real wrinkles like on the outside area along to crow's feet and so I know that a lot of people just

stop

wearing makeup completely once they reach a certain age, they

stop

using

concealer

and they stopped using setting powder because when they put it on those areas they feel like it just makes wrinkles look bigger and look worse and no one wants that and I feel like if we continue to do our makeup like we used to without making some adjustments for the changes in our skin. so that causes problems and a lot of people ask me why my under eye area looks so smooth and why I don't have wrinkles under my eyes and you know, sometimes it's because I get Botox on my crow's feet, but currently My Botox has really worn off, the reason my eyes look so pretty and soft is because of the makeup.

You know, I'm 55 years old, of course I have under eye problems, while my under eye situation may not be the worst under eye situation. Out there I have a fair amount of things to deal with I have puffiness under my eyes I have discoloration in the inner corners I have small wrinkles in the inner corners and I have some good sized crow's feet in the outer corners with the tips and tricks that I'm going to show you today I'm going to show you how to use makeup to your advantage so that it enhances your beauty instead of detracting from it and making you look older.

Tip number one is, of course, Prepare your skin in the morning by moisturizing it. I have a skincare routine and I put a few things on and I put most of it right under my eyes so my eyes start hydrating first thing if you don't have a skincare routine. I would recommend at the very least that you use a moisturizer on your face. You don't need to get a separate eye cream. You know, I know a lot of people like us. Separate eye cream, in which case you can use one of those, but definitely put some on. moisturizer in the morning, so the moisturizers that I recommend the most are the Cera VPM Facial Moisturizing Lotion.

This one is really good to use all over your face, but you can also use it as an eye cream because it has everything you need. You need to moisturize and hydrate your eyes Moisturizers are really great to use around the eye area, they are things like hyaluronic acid and glycerin and they are molecules that bind water, so they draw moisture to the area and help plump and reduce the appearance of your eyes. fine lines and wrinkles, so it has a lot of great moisturizers, it also has niacinamide which is anti-aging, so if you want to just use a separate under eye cream, the one I recommend is also from CeraVe, their eye repair cream , it has quite a bit It's very similar to this one, it has a nice sinamide, ceramides, glycerin, hyaluronic acid, but it also has a little bit of almond oil and a little bit of vitamin E, and those things can really help soften the look of the area underneath of the eyes.

I just take a little dab between my fingers, warm it up and then just rub it and pat it under the eye area, working starting at the inner corners and working up to the outer corners. Tip 2 is to apply a tinted sunscreen or color corrector. So the best way to prevent under-eye wrinkles and sagging under-eye skin is with a non-irritating, mineral-based sunscreen every day. You should use one on your entire face, but when you apply sunscreen to your face, you should also apply it correctly. under the eyes and on the eyelids, and I know that a lot of the chemical sunscreens can be irritating in that area, so sometimes people avoid putting sunscreen on there, so in that case I would recommend getting a sunscreen to Separate mineral base that you can use around. your eyes without irritation and the ones I really like are this type of elta MD.

They are UV elements. This is a broad spectrum SPF 44. It is an all mineral sunscreen but has some moisturizing properties and has hyaluronic acid which again will plump. It brings up the wrinkles in that area, so this is a tinted one, it's more of a warmer based tint, which is what I'm using and then normally I would just apply this all over my face and also put it right under of my eyes and on my eyelids, another sunscreen that I really like if you're paler is the super light, polished option for daily wrinkle defense. This is an SPF 30 and this one has a cooler tint, more on the pinky side, a little bit paler. a thin layer of that will start to correct our color, which we need to do where we have a little bit of purple, red, blue or even green discolorations in the inside corner, so the one I want to show you that I'm going to use in today's video is this one from Color Science.

It is your three and one total eye renewal therapy. This is an SPF 35 and it is specifically for the eyes so no matter what sunscreen you use on your face you can get this just for your eyes which is great. about this is that it already has a peach tone color concealer so this really helps to start brightening the eye area so you can see the color. It has a metal applicator so you can apply it with this, but I find that using it I end up getting too much out and if you use too much it will settle into your wrinkles, so if you are going to get this and use it I recommend doing a small dose.

I like it. just 1/4 or 1/8 of a pump, then I just dip my finger in that and take a little bit and then I start pressing it on the inner corners of my eye because that's where I want most of it to be. concentrated and then I just press it on the outside corners of my walk and make sure you have such a nice, thin layer that it doesn't sit in your wrinkles. Now the sunscreen should sit for 15 to 20 minutes before you do it. I apply makeup, so these first two steps have to be done in the morning at the bathroom sink, then I usually dry my hair, go get dressed, that will give me 20 minutes for those things to dry and settle in nicely, like this that this is not going. take forever even though it's taking a long time as I'm talking about it, tip 3 is that for the under eye area, less is definitely more, so the more products you apply under the eyes, the more cakey looking you'll get.

So when I apply my foundation, I don't put it under my eyes. Tip 4 is to use a foundation under your eyes so that really helps keep the concealer in place and will help smooth out wrinkles. I found that if I don't use a foundation, my concealer always breaks down in the inner corner of my eye within 4-5 hours, but by using a foundation I can make it last all day in the inner corner, it's not necessary. purchase an under eye primer separately. I only like a couple of regular face primers. The thing is, I wouldn't use a heavy silicone primer because it will make the makeup slide and tend to settle into wrinkles.

The best is Laura Mercier. foundation, this is the original formula and the reason it's so good is because it's very lightweight and sheer, so it really helps the makeup stay in place, but it doesn't add volume, and for a version of pharmacy, what? I like the NYX hydro touch primer. They are both very lightweight and hydrating primers, so they are great to use under the eyes. Tip number 5 is to use a lightweight hydrating concealer instead of a heavy super emollient concealer. I think the emollient concealers like the creamy concealer from NARS, even the eye concealer from it cosmetics, they are too greasy and emollient for me, they tend to slide off even if I put them on, they still sit in my wrinkles and make my wrinkles they look worse.

I know. Many people swear by them, so it will depend on the type of skin you have. They are probably best for people with super dry skin. I feel like the lighter concealer you can get away with, the better, so my current favorites are these two from Lancome and from the drugstore is the Maybelline Instant Age Rewind. This is excellent. It came in tied with my Lancome episode in my last round of under-eye concealer testing. These two are amazing, but lately I've been staying away from the Lancome FS. I won the Lancome full makeup mainly because it's winter here and the air dried out very quickly and I felt like it wasn't as hydrating as it could be and this was the winner in the first round of under eye concealer testing.

I did that and they are a more hydrating version, it is also a little thinner formula than this one, so I prefer this one for these dry winter months and for the shade you should look for something that is a half shade for a full shade lighter than your foundation because you want to brighten that area as well, especially where we may have eye bags or puffiness, you want to really brighten the dark side of the eye bag which will help highlight it so it doesn't stand out. Looking so deep in the dark Tip number six is ​​to apply as little product as possible to correct the darkness and even out the under-eye area, so when you see YouTubers making a giant stripe under the eyes, that's it. a lot more makeup. which even people that age need, I mean, the thing is, your under eye skin is beautiful with whatever concealer you use.

I never use doersfoot or sponge. I always take my concealer and put it on the back of my hand, so I make sure to pick up a small amount. I use this little lipstick brush that I bought at Sephora. This is your professional brush. First I pick up a little bit from the back of my hand on the brush and swipe it directly into the darkest part of my eye bag, then I go ahead and fill in the smallest little triangle on the inner corner of my eye and sweep it out towards the outer corner of my eye again following the contour of the darker eye. side of the eye bag, but where you don't want to put a lot of product is on the crow's feet, most people don't really have discolorations on their crow's feet, so you don't need a ton of concealer.

What you need is just the smallest amount so that it evens out and unifies the entire area with a slightly brighter color than the rest of your makeup. Tip number seven is to blend the concealer in an outward pressing motion if I press it towards my nose. what I'm actually doing is creating wrinkles and the makeup doesn't reach the depths of the wrinkles, it just sits on the surface and skips the depths and that's what makes it look all wrinkled, which most people just does. habit is to press towards the nose and that really makes my concealer a mess.

I prefer to use my fingers alone because it warms up the concealer and helps blend it into my skin a little better than the blending sponge, so I just blend outwards keeping most of the concealer concentrated in the inner corners and on the dark side of my bag. eyes and just extending a little bit under my eyes to the outer corner where my crow's feet are so that I don't have a lot of concealer built up on my crow's feet, tip number eight is to check the concealer closely in the magnifying mirror , but also stand back and look at it at arm's length so you know that as we get older and we can't see.

Well, we use our magnifying mirror a lot to help us put on good makeup, it's like my best friend and my worst enemy because it shows me the worst things, but when you look at your makeup very closely, it magnifies everything. things that aren't covered and somehow encourage you to add more concealer when in reality you probably don't need to add more concealer, even though you may not have one hundred percent full coverage from a distance, it's giving that illusion of full coverage. The right tips 9 and 10 have to make a setting powder and if you're thinking you're going to review here, bear with me for a minute, okay, because I've tried a lot of concealers and I've tried a lot of setting powders and I can tell you that my concealer is it sits 100% on my wrinkles, it wears less and looks better and the whole under eye area, my bags look softer when I use a mattifying setting powder, so they sell me setting powders, but you know, it's You may have been using the wrong setting powder, a lot of people use that Laura Mercier powder because people on YouTube love it.

I don't like that because under my eyes it never worked for me, it never looked good and it always makes my makeup look moody. It makes me in a bad mood it also makes my makeup in a bad mood, so the powder that I use and the one that I recommend that I did all my tests with is it cosmetics, goodbye to porous powder, so tip number nine is to use setting powder, but the correct tip number for the setting powder. tenis applying it by pressing it into your makeup and sliding it on, so let me show you this.

I think you'll like what you see so look at my under eyes with the concealer on and you can see it's a luminous concealer like most are which means they reflect light and the problem with things reflecting light is that they create texture and make shadows appear larger. I'm taking a little powder. I'm not taking a ton of powder. I'm not picking up. I pick it up with a wet Beauty Blender and get a ton of powder and it bakes underneath. I take a little bit of powder on my brush and I press it again with that outward pressing motion and you'll see that you can.

I don't even see any powder on the surface of my skin and I check the difference between the eye with the powder and the eye without the powder whichThe eye bag is barely visible under the eye with the powder and in the eye without the powder it is still visible. can see and it makes me look tired, so what I'm going to do is extend my fingers and run the brush over them. to get all the excess powder off the brush and I'm just going to gently sweep it over the powder to remove the excess, so that was easy, right?

I know it seems like a lot when I talk about it and go. I'll dig into it and really explain it, but once you start doing this every day and really see how soft and great your eyes will look underneath, you'll be very happy with this technique or at least I hope you will be. The products I've recommended here today will help you get back to wearing makeup if you stopped using under-eye concealer completely or if you did something to fix your under-eye problems. I hope you try the makeup again and maybe use it. some of these products and some of these techniques and see if they work for you, but make your expectations realistic, without thinking that you know that putting on concealer and powder will magically make your wrinkles disappear because it won't be your wrinkles that will be there, but try it. adjust your makeup to make it so that it doesn't settle on them, it doesn't crease, it's not heavy, it doesn't look cakey and then I think you'll be much happier with the way you do it.

Look at the way you can wear makeup, so that's it for today's video. I hope you found it useful and if you like it and don't forget to subscribe to my channel, I have many anti-aging products. tips and tricks here on an attractive and eye-catching topic and I would love to have you, so thank you very much for your time. I really appreciate you seeing me. Have a great day and see you in the next video. Take care everyone, goodbye.