today we're going to talk about how to wear concealer how to apply it and the
very best makeup techniques for women over 50 hi I'm Schellea and welcome to
Fabulous 50's applying concealer as a woman over 50 is very different to
applying concealer as a young woman for us it's all about fresh looking skin
covering our imperfections yes but still creating a look that looks natural and
luminous and that's what we're going to learn about today I'm going to share my
concealer tips class I'm going to share with you the tips that I learned from
taking the Rae Morris master class last month so let's get started tip number
one most of us are going to need two colors for our concealer kit the first
color is to be the exactly the same color as your skin and that color is
going to cover things like any bumps or pimples or scarring or anything that's
raised on the skin and the second color is a color that's two shades lighter and
that color is going to highlight and lift and there's a big difference
between these two colors and the reason we use them and it all makes perfect
sense think about it in this way when you add light to any part of your face
or to anything it makes it bigger it brings it forward okay which is what we
want to do to some parts of our face but think about wearing white swimwear you
can be guaranteed for sure for sure that every single lump and bump in your
bottom and in your tummy and everywhere is going to be magnified and you just
know that's going to happen so most of us steer away from white as opposed to
wearing a black swimsuit and everything is smoothed out a little bit well the
same goes with our face if you've got something raised on your face like a
pimple or some little marks or acne scars if you add a light color highlight
or if you add a light color concealer to that it's only going to bring it forward
and as you move around in the light it's going to look the same as your bottom
would look in a white swimsuit so we want to steer away from that so choose a
color that's the exact same color as your skin tone and then that is going to
blend in with your skin and we use a concealer with a high pigment so it'll
cover our pigmentation and any of those marks that we want to conceal but we
don't want to bring attention to it I'm going to show you today this is called
derma color by Kryolan and it's a wax based concealer and it's a hundred
percent coverage but if you sheer it out it gives you the most perfect coverage
and it will cover any of your spots so just take the mirror and go over the
little spots on your face after you've applied your foundation and anything
that foundation hasn't covered you go on with a highly pigmented concealer okay
so that's got anything that's raised above my skin has been blended in with
the same color and the next shade that we use is going to be one or two shades
lighter and its job is to make bring forward and highlight and get rid of all
the red and purple undertones that are under our eyes around our nose and
anything else on your face that's uneven keep in mind that as we're getting older
we like to keep it more subtle and more natural-looking and it's okay to have
little bits of pigment and leave our little freckles and things like that
show through because that's you that's natural and that's beautiful and even
our lines like I showed you with the foundation video buff out the foundation
so that it's not packed up around your wrinkles and that'll really help with
minimizing any risk of foundation or product or concealer in this case
settling into your fine lines but this step I use the Too Faced Born This Way
concealer and this one is also very high pigment a tiny tiny little bit goes
very long way and don't do this because if the amount of product on here it's
just going to pack it onto your face and then there's going to be a very big
difference between the natural glow of your foundation and the heavy highly
pigmented concealer and now we're going to highlight the parts of our face that
we'd like to bring forward and these are raised tips so first of all you go here
in the socket so this part for many of us says what aging sinks in and what we
want to do is add light to it to make it look like it's as big as the rest of our
face so for you just check where that is you may not have any sinking but I do
right here and in here where your eyes are very dark now you may have a lot of
discoloration around here and if you do continue putting concealer under here we
don't want to add so much though that it's going to be thick and heavy because
you're going to notice that when you walk out into the Sun and another one of
rays tips is stay within the socket part because when you go out into the light
into the daylight all of this is brought forward so there's no definition between
the hollow and what you're trying to bring forward and your cheek which is
already forward so the illusion is you create light around here and then that
will come out and join where your cheek is so the hollow will be diffused also
around the nose because we get shadows here but the shadow is very aging so we
can get rid of that and then also here and the reason we do this part is
because we want to bring our chin forward because as we get older like our
Tunes kind of go up like that like an old lady chin if we didn't want that and
that's something we can avoid by adding a little bit of light to bring it
forward and Ray told the story of her friend who's a plastic
surgeon he said that the nose and the chin like to meet up as we're getting
older they want to get close to each other so that's why we do it here
fun fact and the other area is here around the Elevens
and she said the reason we do this is because our foreheads flatten out I've
had Botox here in the Elevens but I haven't up here and I find I've got a
really big Ridge going down my forehead so yeah I don't know if it's flattened
out it's kind of falling in for me but anyway this is where she said to put the
concealer and you can give this a try and let me know if you already wear it
here and if that works for you so there you go there's the points to put your
concealer then you go in and you can either tap it in with your fingers which
you're warming up the product and tapping it in or you can go over with a
Beauty Blender that's done and really get that in we don't want to be able to
notice that you've got concealer on your face needs to look flawless and tapping
everything in and making sure that it blends in with all of your other makeup
that's all you need to do use concealer sparingly as you're getting older use it
only to get rid of those bumps and the redness and the purple under your eyes
and that's all we need because we don't want to mask our face and sometimes
concealing particularly the way the young girls do it with this giant big
triangle and it's kind of like layers and layers and layers of thick makeup
and that doesn't allow for natural glowing skin okay so once you've done
that if you are going to apply a powder the smallest smallest amount I'm going
to use the RCM a colorless powder this is very very good
and you can use your Beauty Blender and you know only the tiniest amount because
you don't want to add more layers to where your creases are use a
colorless powder because if you're going to use powder with color in it the color
is going to be more color on top of your color on top of your color and it takes
away from the natural look tiny tiny tiny little bits and that's all you need
to do a couple of great colors for my skin color is the NARS 2.5 radiance
concealer that's really good for getting rid of the red and purple sort of
discoloration under my eyes or in this way two-faced
this one's light beige and get a little bit of a brightening effect to your
color because there's so many colors you can choose from so one or two shades
lighter that's a bit brightening and the curl in is d 51 and also D 56 is a very
good color for matching a lot of people's skin tones so those are three
really good ones to use and my last tip is if your concealer is creasing a lot
use less of it and use a highly pigmented concealer like these because
if your concealer doesn't have a high pigment you need a lot more product to
get the same coverage so tiny tiny bit less of it blend out and you're going to
look flawless let me know if you've tried the big triangle effect that all
the young girls are doing and let me know if it worked for you
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