Almost all of us are on the same boat, irritated by those under eye bags, puffiness and dark circles.
They are stubborn like really stubborn and when most of us have a life where stress, extended working hours and not even a 6 hours of complete sleep is like a normal routine…how do you even imagine getting rid of these dark circles naturally? It is not possible until you complete that decade worthy of incomplete sleep, have that amazing routine and take that perfect diet.
Nevertheless, sometimes even after completing those 8 hours of sleep and having that amazing sorted lifestyle, people still get those dark under eyes. The reason is that the skin under our eyes is thinner with lots of blood vessels. Also, it is the most sensitive part of our face. So, it needs the most special care when it comes to skincare and makeup, which do get missed out by us.
What you can do is hydrate the skin under your eyes, appl moisturizer, put that night eye cream there and massage the area. However, even if these are important things to do and are so effective, it still will take a long time to actually show effects (Patience is the key after all).
So, here comes the role of the makeup in it. We can temporarily conceal these dark under eyes using a perfect shade concealer for us.
How to Conceal Your Dark Under Eyes?
Prepare
Let’s go to the end of your makeup journey, when you see all the makeup and the concealer you had put under your eyes to hide those dark circles. You see it and make a face but why?
Your makeup looks cakey and uneven. It looks like a dry mask on your face with colors on it. The reason is your skin being undernourished and dehydrated before you applied your makeup. This pre makeup hydration and nourishment becomes more important for your under eye skin because of it being sensitive and more dried than the other parts of the face.
What you can do is take a drop of an eye cream and put it under your eyes before starting your makeup routine. Let it get absorbed and do its work. It will help with typically plumping the skin, thereby making the veins underneath a little less visible.
The best eye cream is one with light-reflecting pigments, caffeine (it’s a vasoconstrictor, meaning it compresses blood vessels in the skin), or a gentle skin-lightening ingredient, such as vitamin K.
Another thing is maintaining a regular nourishment under your eyes. Apply a night cream under your eyes and sleep with it. It will help with repairing and hydration under those eyes overnight. This way, yourn preparation won’t start with just before your makeup but even the night before applying makeup.
Color Correct
Just before applying the skin tone matching concealer, priming your eyes with a color correcting concealer could make the effect of the skin shade concealer more.
Color correctors help with cancellation of shades appearing on the face like those dark circles, hyperpigmentation, acne red marks, etc. When mixed with the skin tone concealers, they blend and cover those blemishes and dark under eyes.
You just need to understand the color theory and know which color cancels out another color, like when it comes to correcting under-eye circles sunny colors like peach, yellow, and orange will do the job best.
Contour
Why contour before concealing the whole area? Because it creates an illusion of lift, just like contouring does on your cheekbones.
Take a concealer two to three shades lighter than your skin by drawing dots on the orbital bone under the eye and trace the shadows the bags create. This will help in creating the illusion of lifted cheek bones under eyes and will recede any ballooned creases, this will lead to less eye bags to be visible.
Conceal
Try a creamy liquid concealer. Draw inverted triangles under your eyes and then blend it till you can’t differentiate between your actual skin tone and the concealer. Mind it, don’t spread the concealer, but tap-tap it to blend with the help of a blender.
Powder to Set
Stamping a translucent Loose Setting Powder under your eyes after completing all the above 4 steps will help you to prevent that cakey and textured look as the creases under eyes make the makeup look cakey.
Lastly, yes a concealer is there to blend out those dark under eyes, there is also a need for other products like a color corrector or a loose powder to get that smooth finish. At the same time, we should not entirely depend on makeup to hide all that lack of sleep and nutrients our body is going through. Makeup is a temporary solution, take help but don’t depend on it. Sleep good, eat good and feel good from inside to actually get rid of these dark circles and swollen eyes.