Concealer compare

Concealer is a must for the older woman. While there are various colour correctors, a light beige/flesh toned concealer one or two shades lighter than your natural skin tone will work best. Older women have drastically more substantial problems with their skin. Dark circles or bags under the eyes and around the eye lids can really have an aging effect on a face, not to mention fine lines. After forty, concealer is one of your biggest anti-aging weapons, believe it or not. You absolutely need to perfect your concealer application technique in order to have that illusion of flawless looking beautiful skin.

Liquid concealer is too Soft

Liquid concealer comes in a squeeze tube, in a lip-gloss like style, or as a click pen with a sponge tip applicator. The main advantage of liquid concealer is that the moisturizer is combined into the concealer itself. This lets it go onto delicate skin smoothly and easily. For smaller areas you can use a Q-tip or a concealer brush (often comes with the click pen or lipstick gloss concealer as a sponge applicator wand) to cover. After some liquid concealer is deposited onto the skin, the best is to use clean fingers or a latex makeup sponge to pat, gently press and cover flaws. The area you cover will look lighter than the rest of the face once it has been applied. When you go onto the next step of applying foundation you’ll even out the skin tone color and the concealed areas will no longer be visibly whiter than the rest of your skin.

I really don’t like liquid concealer for the older woman – it’s not opaque enough. I actually do like it for the younger generation but once you are over forty, I seriously don’t think the liquid concealer is opaque enough to give you the best possible coverage. The fluid moves around and inevitably you end up with sallow skin seeping up to the top and showing through the concealer. In conclusion I like that liquid concealer can glide on etc, but I don’t think it gives ample coverage and you’ll be patting and re-patting it in frustration. You’ll inevitably be trying to fix missed spots with pressed powder after the fact. If you happen to have rather nice plump smooth skin to begin with, then liquid will work well for you.

Stick Concealer is too Hard

On the opposite side of the pendulum is the hard stick concealer which comes in a fat twist up tube or as a solid lipstick. A hard packed solid concealer stick is more for coverage of a zit, scar or blemish, than it is for covering wider areas of skin discoloration (such as bags) that older women have. It’s too hard and dry and generally doesn’t work for creating a flawless smooth skin tone. Hard packed concealer works well for coverage of a single blemish or small scar. It will hide a bad mark for sure. But it is definitely not going to glide smoothly onto delicate facial skin and will be way too harsh to smear or apply to a larger area of the face. It does not spread onto the skin easily enough. Thus, I don’t really like the pancake stick concealer for older women either.

Cream Concealer is just Right

For the mature women, crème concealer is the bomb. It’s creamy and opaque, and will give you serious aging skin flaw coverage. Usually this type of concealer comes in a little pot. You can try Mac NW or Bobbi Brown creamy concealer, among others. I like to choose a color that is two shades lighter than my natural skin tone for total coverage of sallow darkened skins, under eye bags, broken capillaries and concealment of fine lines.

Creamy concealer can be applied with one of those classic makeup sponge wedges. I really love the round version of the wedge sponge however, but a good round sponge (made of the same material as the classic makeup wedge) is hard to find. Sometimes a variety pack of mixed sponges will have a few larger round ones in them and that is what I look for. I like to use the round sponge and round it over my finger sort of like a pig in a blanket. I dip in the concealer pot and apply as needed. With creamy concealer I can get perfect coverage with the sponge, no finger patting required.

There are two caveats to cream concealer. This first, is that you must apply a moisturizer to your skin first before the concealer. Because the concealer is not liquid, moisturized skin is mandatory! This makes the crème concealer glide onto the skin easier and it stays in place. The second caveat is that this opaque concealer is going to look rather obvious once it is applied. You always, always should follow the crème concealer step with a pass of light liquid foundation over the face. The liquid foundation is going to be soft and smooth and cover the concealer evidence perfectly.

Providing that you moisturize before applying it, then follow it up with a light liquid foundation matching your skin tone (which makes the concealer imperceptable), then cremey concealer is the best. It’s going to cover your skin discolorations and fine lines better than anything other cosmetic out there. The best concealer for mature skin with under eye circles is creme concealer applied after skin is adequately moisturized. It’s opaque consistency will cover sun spots, age spots and discoloration effectively. Follow with a liquid or light creamy foundation to blend it in.

I hope you enjoyed this free makeup tip about the best type of makeup concealers for aging skin.