hello gorgeous welcome back to my channel i have not been here in a hot minute it's been so long
and it's just because i took a break from liking making the longer form videos and was making the
shorter ones especially on instagram reels and then just popping them here on youtube shorts but
i missed y'all i missed sitting down in front of the camera and just filming
so matt and i are back better than ever i don't know oh he says no but
i'm here to do an updated under eye routine okay so i get so many questions
all the time about dark circles and how do you correct them and what do you do and yada yada
and so um that's one of my more popular youtube videos that i've done on my channel throughout
the years and so i thought let's it's time to just do a new one just to update it
so here we go okay so first of all i feel like my dark circles don't look bad but the thing is is
that i've got studio lighting on me that's like blowing me out and making them look way better
than they actually do i feel like the older i have gotten the better my dark circles look as a kid
i had the worst dark circles and i just people always thought i was either super tired or sick
because i just i looked like it all the time and i just feel like as i've gotten older they've gotten
better probably my face is filled out you know because that happens with age but um really it's
one of those things that you're either blessed genetically and you've got these dark circles
or you're super tired or you're unwell and that's what happens so these are the tips and tricks
that i have that really work to cover them up first thing you're going to want to do is start
with your skincare and eye cream is absolutely essential if you have dark circles the other thing
that's essential is under eye gels i feel like that makes the biggest difference in the world
eye cream is not going to lighten your dark circles but what it is going to do is add
hydration so that you're going to fill in any fine lines and really help kind of plump the area
which is going to help it's going to make it better but it's not going to take away the dark
circles the eye gels on the other hand i have had experiences with certain eye gels that i really
feel are brightening and they they help a lot i have a whole blog post about that i can link that
in the comments or in the description below if you want to see it so i started with eye cream
i used skinceuticals i love their products i think they're fabulous
and then the next thing we're going to want to do is some primer so i have one here from becca
and this is actually an under eye primer becca's going out of business and that makes me so sad
because their products are so good so all i'm going to do is just dab this in under my eyes
got the primer around my eye area and as you can see i was tapping it in
don't rub around your eyes like we don't need any extra wrinkles you know like let's keep it
simple um okay i'm gonna do primer on the rest of my face i'm just gonna apply with my fingertips
here i'm using the dermablend instagram jelly primer and i'm just gonna tap that into my skin
having a really awesome breakout on my forehead which i'm just super stoked to introduce to you
guys but yeah primer is done and next i'm going to apply foundation all over my face
now i haven't watched my original dark circles video in a very long time so i do not remember
in what order i applied my products last video which was years ago because it's you know you
know how you apply makeup throughout the years you evolve and you change and that's what has happened
here so some days i apply my corrector before i do my foundation i like to apply foundation first and
then corrector because i feel like sometimes the foundation application being blended just kind of
like subtracts from the color correcting if that makes sense so we're going to do foundation first
so i'm just going to mix that up really quick i am doing a mixture of my holy grail it cosmetics
cc cream i'm doing light medium which really i should be medium tan right now because it's
august and i feel like well it's the last day of august and i feel like i'm a little bit too
tan for it um but it is what it is i'm gonna put on some pacifica a light clean this is my
favorite drugstore foundation currently and i'm just going to apply the two with my marc jacobs
foundation brush now here's the thing you want to make sure that you're applying your foundation all
around your eyes like when i was first applying makeup i never used to apply foundation to my
eyes or like my under eyes because i thought oh well that's where my eyeshadow mascara and uh
concealer go not the case you still need to have a base there so go ahead and just blend it all out
and make sure you get those eye areas too so after i apply with my marc jacobs brush
i like to just buff everything out with my it cosmetics fluffy brush because i just feel like
it does a really good job of like making sure you don't have any weird lines or anything like that
and i like to take my blender and just like pounce it all over and make sure that everything is just
flawless another thing i like to do sometimes is take my blender and go like this
and just really get a good especially if my skin's dry i just feel like it really
just helps make my makeup settle and right you know so if you guys want an updated foundation
routine or like a new video about foundations about like what i'm loving especially like now
that i'm in my 30s like let me know i'm happy to do that this is what you need right here
still the same girl guys i'm still just as clumsy as ever this is peach corrector
okay i've explained this a million times before but when you are color correcting you go opposite
color of the spectrum color your under eye circles are purple right peach is going to be opposite so
you're going to take this and i'm using a brush you want to use a brush because you want to be
precise you do not want peach anywhere other than where you are correcting because your under eyes
are going to look peach and you don't want that so i'm going to take a little bit of my brush right
there and so this is where this is what i have perfected throughout the years that i feel like
i didn't know and you don't know what you don't know you know so what you're gonna do is take your
mirror directly in front of your face and you are going to look down like that and look at how much
you can see exactly where my dark circles are whereas here you can't see my dark circles so
if you're looking in the in the mirror doing your your makeup for dark circles you're really
playing a guessing game but then the second the second you put your head down you're like oh wait
right there is a circle and right there is a circle and you know what i mean so it makes
the biggest difference so i'm gonna take it and i'm gonna apply it right where i see the purple
and like right here in the inside corner is always so dark on me which is if you have dark
circles it probably is two and then right there on the lash line another area and like look at
how much brighter the side is than this side like this is so much brighter and more awake
and just like softer so i'm going to just repeat that on the other side so put some more on the
brush head down and i'm going to apply right where i see the purple nowhere else i'm going to be very
precise in my application and i'm not going to blend it out isn't it insane how much brighter
my undereyes look like it's just insane so for concealer i have really been loving
this one which i'm sorry it's pricey but it's not uh close clothing cloth to pay
that one a lot of pew however you say it that one is pricey this is the dior um forever skin correct
i buy it from nordstrom and it is in the shade what shade am i why doesn't it say shade angela
what's up with that 6m i think is my shade i think so this is what i do here take the tiniest bit
and i'm going to pop it right there on the inside corner one spot and then another spot that's it
one spot another spot like super simple right and then i'm gonna take my
pointed foundation brush from real techniques guys if you were in the market for brushes and
you don't want to spend a ton seriously consider real techniques it's a drugstore brand and like
they could not be more affordable and i'm just going to lightly tap that into the area and and
feather my way down and out so kind of recreating that triangle thing
that was so popular a couple years ago but not really so just keeping it super natural right
and then i'm going to do the same thing over here tapping tapping tapping into the skin
down and then out and carry it up under the eye because you want the brightness to be continued
and you want to go up because you want your eyes to have the appearance of this because
you never want to drag your skin down and then whatever is left over i'm just going to take it
and press it into my eyelid kind of as a base now that that's done we're going to go in with
holy grail drugstore see it like i like to balance the highs and lows so you got a high here with
dior and you got a low with maybelline the instant age rewind like this is so much better than
shape tape like i am so tired of every blogger talking about heart-shaped tape i i think it's
just overly hyped and not worth it whatsoever so if you disagree i apologize i just don't like it
even toddy likes that which shocks me i'm just not a fan okay this is the neutralizer
so this is going to do a fabulous job of neutralizing any darkness that shouldn't
be there under your eyes so i'm just going to tap tap tap tap tap tap okay tap tap tap
tap tap tap so i'm creating a little bit of that triangle shape just a little bit and it's going
to just brighten so much taking my beauty blender here sponge and just pressing that into my skin
working my way up my face again up up up never down up up up lift those eyes girl i feel like i'm
teaching a pilates class right now this right here is my other secret sauce right here holy grail
it's the laura mercier secret brightening powder y'all if you don't have this in your
makeup kit like you're seriously missing out it's bright it's white it does all of the things
here's where i think is super important is that you need to apply it with a sponge and then you
let it bake while you do the rest of your face i'm telling you it makes the biggest difference
so i'm going to take a little bit and i'm going to just press it right here under my eyes and get a
good heavy coat in there because we're going to let it bake y'all we are going to let that bake
i go from a pilates class to a baking a cooking class okay super heavy right who cares it's fine
i don't need it on my nose so that's gonna sit there i'm gonna do the rest of my makeup and
then i will be back and we will blend it out and you guys are gonna see like the under eye dark
the dark under eye circles will be a vanished gone that is it okay got my makeup done so now
i'm gonna just take my little fluffy brush again real techniques this is the setting brush i love
this brush for around the eyes i love it and i'm just gonna blend out around my eyes and y'all look
how bright my under eyes are right like so bright like no detection i mean if i go like this you can
see where the dark circles were unbelievable this combination i'm telling you works like a
charm y'all it works like a charm the one thing that i can't remember if i mentioned was talking
about the peach corrector i'm using charlotte tilbury in two medium um there are several
brands that make great peach correctors bobby brown makes a great one pixie makes a great one
for looking for a drugstore um this one is just my go-to lately i feel like it does an amazing job i
feel like it's so creamy and it just it doesn't like it doesn't um press in too much and it
doesn't um it blends well and it just sits on the skin really beautifully which is super important
around the eyes so yeah i hope you enjoyed this video please leave a comment with what you want
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out a lot of makeup fashion all of the things and thank you guys so much for just hanging out
with me and i miss you all so much and I'm just so happy to be back all right guys au revoir