November 12, 2010

The Best Concealer and Primer I've Ever Used

Right before I got married I asked my boss at the time if he had any advice for me before I ran off and tied the knot.  "Don't drink the Dom" he said.  Come again? He explained that someone was bound to give us a bottle of Dom Perignon as a gift and that I'd better not even try it because I'd love it and I could never go back to drinking the cheap stuff after that.  I've found his advice to be true with a lot of things including beauty products.  Sometimes they're so amazing I wish I'd never tried them. Cle' de Peau concealer had intrigued me for ages, winning Beauty Best awards left and right, but I steered clear due to the whopping $70 price tag. 


I mean, it's concealer - how great could it be? But one tiny swipe of the beige color while perusing a cosmetics boutique and I was stunned.  The saleswoman actually laughed and said "Perfection, isn't it."  I had been mixing two concealer colors together for years and I still never felt like I had a perfect  color match like I did on this day, let alone the feeling.  The texture is so interesting.  It's light but it covers.  It's solid, but one touch turns it into a smooth-gliding cream that's moist enough to use under the eyes but dry enough to use on the face (usually you have to use two separate concealers for these areas).  After I took it home I realized that I needed to prep the eye area with a lot of eye cream for it to look smooth.  Still the finished look was worth the extra step. Then I read a tip in Lucky Magazine by the fab beauty editor Jean Godfrey-June who said to try using L'Oreal Studio Secrets Professional Magic Perfecting Base under the eyes before applying concealer and it will look "1,000 times less crinkly."  I was already obsessed with the L'Oreal primer but had never tried it under the eyes.  That combo really is perfection.  

Two years ago I spent countless hours scouring every makeup and skincare line looking for a primer that was thick (think spackle) that I could pat into the deep wrinkles of my mature clients.  The best I could find was that smooth silicone-feeling stuff but it was too thin and barely washed over lines and bumps.  L'Oreal's primer is thick and scoopable.  It's velvety texture gives the skin a diffused soft-focus look, even without makeup on.  I use this on almost every client and definitely on myself.  Try a light touch if you just want makeup to go on smoothly and stay on longer or use more to fill in nooks and crannies.  It's perfect for all skin types and luckily sells for around $12!

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