ONE beauty fan has found a way to make pesky under-eye circles a thing of the past.
She said her specific makeup technique works “like a boss.”
Redditor Sea-library9139 explained that her dark circles are hereditary.
“People who don’t have them cannot understand that dark circles are often not able to be ‘fixed,’ it’s in our skin pigment,” she said.
“I accept that nothing short of a professional stage-makeup artist living with me will cosmetically erase my circles 100% as an at-home consumer.”
She added that despite the setback, she still finds a way to make it work.
She said she uses a holy grail product, but it has to be just right.
“I use an orange-toned corrector first, in the inner corners of my dark circles, and feather it out. Mine is Catrice Camouflage, but there are other brands,” she said.
She said that when it comes to buying a color corrector, she’s not as brand loyal as she is with concealer.
“You could pick deeper or lighter oranges depending on your own skin tone. The orange neutralizes the blue,” she said.
“Then I use MAC Pro Longwear Concealer over top,” she said.
The Mac Pro Longwear Concealer is sold for $31.
“Not the ones in the tube with wands, it has to be the Pro Longwear with the stupid messy pump,” she added.
She acknowledged that the price point may not be in everyone’s budget.
“I know you’d prefer drugstore prices and I get it, but for the cost of a few useless tubes of stuff that doesn’t cut it, it’s worth every nickel and lasts a long time,” she said.
“It’s very thin and light, but it covers like a boss. Then I let it dry down after patting out creases.
“I use a quick blast with a warm hair dryer.
“Then I pat on, with a velour puff, a light layer of Rimmel pressed powder, but any fine powder applied with a light hand works.”
She said that her routine came after long-term trial and error.
“I have tried every concealer out there. I have a huge collection,” she added.
“And I’ve decided I’ve wasted enough of my hard-earned money on concealers others say are great, which sure, they are, but not at the level I want.
“I always will return to MAC Pro Longwear forever and if it gets discontinued one day, I will buy out every remaining unit on planet Earth that I can find.”
