- Hey guys, welcome to "Beauty in Five Minutes."
Today we're gonna chat about colour correcting.
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Okay, so when you look at your skin,
you may see some redness in your skin
or some colours that you wanna neutralise,
so skincare can definitely help with that.
But today we're gonna talk about the makeup category
and how makeup prep and colour correcting can help your skin.
So when we talk colour correction,
we need to understand a little bit about colour theory.
So thinking of a colour wheel.
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Anything opposite each colour on the colour wheel
will neutralise each other.
So when you look at a colour wheel,
you'll see green and red are opposite each other.
So when green and red are put side by side,
they actually enhance each other.
But when they're layered on top of each other,
they actually neutralise each other.
Purple and yellow will help to neutralise each other
as well as orange and blue.
So if you're ever confused,
look to the colour wheel and whatever is directly opposite
is what's gonna counteract each other.
For example, the Make Up For Ever primer
is shaded in green and it clearly says redness corrector.
So this is gonna be great
for anyone with slightly redness in their cheeks
or anywhere on their skin that they wanna neutralise.
And I love that the packaging is green
and it tells you redness corrector.
So handy.
Also, they've got the yellowness corrector,
so this is gonna be a lavender based corrector.
We also have the greyness corrector,
so anyone maybe with a deeper skin tone.
This is quite a deep orange tone
so it's gonna help to neutralise
if you have got any greyness or darkness
around the mouth or under the eyes or pigmentation as well.
So thinking of your face, areas you might wanna neutralise.
Again, if you've got some redness in the cheeks,
adding a bit of the green colour corrector can help.
If you've got any blueness under your eyes
or that purple kind of colour,
any of the warm tones are gonna help
to counteract that as well.
So steps that you can maybe combat
and neutralise your skin tone.
You can always use your foundation,
which would maybe have more of a golden undertone
or a beige undertone
and that can help neutralise your skin tone.
Or if you've got a bit more of a severe case
of rosacea or redness or some pigmentation,
again, that's where our colour correctors come into it.
So you can start off by colour correcting certain areas
and then going in with your foundation
to neutralise and blend it into your skin tone.
So for example,
Designer Brands make a cute little quad compact
to meet all your needs.
In terms of application, you can always pop your finger in.
I like to use the finger
'cause it helps to warm up the product.
And then press it in on the skin, blend it all through,
and then you can go in
and apply your foundation and concealer on top.
So you can also spot correct as well.
So if you've got red pimples,
you can spot correct with the green.
If you've got any pigmentation or acne scarring spots
that are a little bit darker,
you can always correct with either the orange
if you're a deeper skin tone
or the light peach if you're a lighter skin tone.
Another option is from Praline,
and they do a great wheel which has the colour correctors
and really soft neutralizers as well.
So not as extreme in colour correcting as this,
but still some nice neutral tones to help neutralise.
And then you've got your concealer in there as well.
So we have Maddie here who has no makeup on,
so we are going to show you how we can colour correct.
We're gonna do a little bit under the eyes,
maybe any redness in the skin.
We're just gonna neutralise her.
- Yeah, I've got tired eyes today.
- Is it working?
- Right away it worked.
- Well, it worked.
- Yeah, but you've got like...
- I look a bit bright now.
I'm like...
I'm a bit bright.
- So we're just doing a little bit of the green,
just on the tip of Maddie's nose.
Slight redness.
Less is more, especially with colour correcting.
So you wanna start off with a little bit.
So you'll see it does neutralise,
but you still wanna go in with a skin tone
to blend it all in.
- Oh, that's fixed all that right up.
- Yeah.
- Yeah, that's so much better.
I need to do that.
Whoa, my nose.
Yeah, I do look a little bit Dopey in the nose, don't I?
- You can see a bit more colour here
and then we've neutralised it on this side.
So remember, uneven skin tone is completely normal.
We all have it and that's what makes our skin real.
So colour correcting is there
if you want to really neutralise it.
Otherwise skincare and foundation
can do the job for you too.