Concealer Tricks You Should Do Tomorrow.

This is Michael Brown. He's a Makeup Hero for Lancome.

He looks very serious here, but he's really nice and funny, and wouldn't at all poke your eyes out with a shadow brush for blinking while he applied your liner, although you could be forgiven for thinking so looking at his serious and mildly frightful facial expression. (For the record, he didn't want me to use this shot. Yeah, I'm nice like that.)

So I asked him for his best concealer tricks. He said 'Wear a balaclava'. We laughed. I may have even slapped his back in a friendly fashion, the way friends do sometimes. Then i asked him again, with a fierce look in my eyes. Oh yeah, he got it.

Here is part one of Michael's Concealing Wizardry Course.

1.  Apply concealer after foundation. Apart from being more economical as you use less product, the concealer will blend easier into foundation leaving no edges.

In other words: Concealer as underpants; foundation as clothing.

2. To cover imperfections (blemishes/Dark shadows) on the skin you should use press and roll type motions as that will layer the product by building up a coverage. Sweeping motions will thin out the product.

Wow, nice shade of blue, Michael. Oh, that was me. Nevermind. Carry on.

3. Always use a concealer around the eye area rather than a foundation, as the concealer (preferably a lancome one as they are made for the eye) should have a more oil based texture for the eye, making it less cakey and looking smoother. Foundations being more a lightweight texture tend to be more flexible and can move into the curves of the eye! Concealer stays put!

I like his use of exclamation marks. He loves his job. He is a good little banana.


Okay. Go home and learn your new trickery now, fruits.
More concealer tips from Mikey Mike and The Makeup Bunch as they come to face.

Post fruit bowl: One Lancome concealer Michael and I both agree is Definitely Excellent: Effarcernes Longue Tenue Concealer. Superb for under the eye.