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Summary: Concealer hides skin imperfections. Learn tips for applying concealer in this free video clip about how to apply day time makeup.
Kelli LaBar is a practicing aesthetician and makeup artist in Wilmington, N.C. She graduated from Miller-Motte Technical College as a certified aesthetician, and she currently works as...read more
"The next thing we are going to do is apply a little bit of concealer so any areas of concern that we may need to cover a little bit more and also to the under eye. So we have chosen a concealer that matches her skin tone. We are going to use a concealer brush, a synthetic bristle brush that gives a little bit more of coverage so you can get a bit of heavier coverage in areas where you need it. Any areas just like around the nose here, where she has a bit of redness, you just pat on the concealer. I like to conceal after I do the foundation, because the foundation is doing something healing for you, so you don't want to necessarily cake more products on the base than you need. Also, too, if you conceal before you do the foundation, you end up actually wiping a lot of it off, so I like to do it more after I use the applicatiin. This eliminates using excess products, caking too much product on the face, and it will also keep your concealer on longer for you versus putting in on before you use foundation and end up wiping a lot of it off. We're going to pat some around the eyes here with a concealer brush. I'd like to do some concealer on the eyelid as well. That helps to neutralize any discoloration that everybody has on the eyelid, and that can interfere with the color of your eye shadow. It also blends the eye in with the rest of the face a lot better, gives it a much more even palette of colors. You always want to make sure when you do under eye areas, to get right in the corner and along the lower"
eHow Article: Applying Concealer