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This tool looks like an artist’s palette. Green corrector masks redness, orange conceals dark circles under the eyes, pink corrector adds radiance to the skin. We tell the details.
Concealer palette: what is it and why is it needed
To make life easier for us, manufacturers collect color correctors in a single palette (or palette). Such funds save space in your makeup bag and money in your wallet.
Types of corrector palettes
There are basically two types of correctors.
Dry (powdery, compact)
Powder products for the visual correction of the cheekbones are considered easy to use, although there are nuances. For example, professional brands have more pigmented contouring powders: a pro makeup artist can easily handle them, while a beginner risks leaving a stain on his face.
Concealers are available in two formats: compact and cream
Cream
Most color-correcting products have a creamy texture – they are easier to apply and blend easily even with your fingers. Also, products for light-shadow modeling of the face are now popular: these can be both palettes and single products. Modern cream proofreaders are perfect even for beginners.
Remember: the fatter the product, the easier it is to blend, but the worse it will stay on the skin.
How to use the shades in the palette
We describe in detail which shade of the corrector is suitable for what purposes.
Green
The green corrector covers redness: pimples, inflammation, spider veins. Apply it with dotted driving movements, carefully blending along the edges.
Wait 30 seconds for the product to set, then move on to foundation and finish off with loose powder.
Yellow and orange
These shades neutralize the blue under the eyes. Apply this corrector to the appropriate areas with your fingertips. Then use a concealer with reflective particles.
Pink
Purple
Serves to cover yellowish and greenish spots on the skin (pigmentation, traces of hematomas after injections). It is applied in the same way as the rest. It is usually used around the mouth, where pigmentation appears with age.
Different shades of the corrector perform different functions.
Sculptor
It is designed for light and shadow correction of the face, and its ideal shade depends on the color of your skin. One suits a sculptor with a high content of red pigment, the other – purple.
The most popular color of the sculptor among Russian girls is taupe (from the English taupe). This is a gray-beige cold tone that suits most Slavs. If you are dark, you will need a warmer shade.
Highlighter
A highlighter is a stick, cream or fluid infused with reflective particles. It is applied to the protruding parts of the face: the cheekbones, the bridge of the nose, the area above the curve of the upper lip (the so-called “Cupid’s bow”) – to give the skin a glow.
Matte light beige tone visually adds volume. With its help, the space between the eyebrows, the area around the nose and the chin are highlighted.
How to apply corrector
The method of applying the corrector depends on its texture.
Dry
If the goal is to apply it pointwise, take a small flat brush and transfer the powder to the skin with applying movements. When it comes to shadow correction, take a medium-sized fluffy brush and blend the sculptor with soft movements from the bottom up.
Cream
Cream textures can also be applied with fingers. If you want a denser layer, use a flat synthetic brush. A damp sponge and a fluffy brush will give lighter coverage.
Apply concealer with a brush or fingertips
Scheme for applying correctors
The main rule is to darken everything that we want to hide, and highlight those areas of the face that we want to emphasize. For the ideal, we take an oval face shape.
Round face
Its characteristics are smooth transition lines from the chin to the cheekbones and then to the forehead. The difference between the height and width of a round face is small. Often it seems flat, which can be corrected with dark and light correctors and blush. Blend the latter over the apples of your cheeks.
Apply a dark corrector under the cheekbones, emphasizing their relief. To visually stretch the face, darken the jawline and highlight the chin.
Square face
The width of the lower jaw and forehead are approximately the same. Due to such proportions and right angles, a square face can look rough. Softness will be added by a sculptor shaded around the perimeter.
Triangular face
Oval face
An oval-shaped face is considered ideal. Judging by the proportions, in the owners of such a face, the width of the forehead corresponds to the width of the cheekbones, and the height of the face is 1,5 times its width. Correction around the perimeter is not needed here, but cheekbones can be emphasized.
The scheme for applying the corrector depends on the type of face
Life hacks for use
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Blend the sculptor by turning sideways to the mirror. So you will see how the face looks from the side, and the result will be more natural.
Set creamy textures dry to enhance the effect. This method works great with light and shadow modeling, spot correction of imperfections and highlighting dark circles under the eyes (use this set: color corrector + concealer + translucent powder).
Apply the concealer under the eyes, imitating the shape of an inverted triangle, and the corrector – only on darkening.
Sculpting cream-powder “Infaillible Sculptor”, L’Oréal Paris
Using the dark part of the palette, create shadows on the face, adjusting its shape and relief. And the light texture is suitable for giving volume to the cheekbones and emphasizing the back of the nose.