BEST CONCEALERS for Dry Skin, Dark Circles, High Coverage, No Creasing- Makeup Declutter Ep. 4

[@oceanbird.]

I saw a few comments about troubles with dark circles and creasing, so I figured I would share my routine since I struggle with that too, as well as dry undereyes. It's long, meticulous and a little ridiculous, but might be helpful for anybody struggling to get concealers to work for them. There are two likely causes of concealer issues, 1 you are using too much product (this is super easy to do under the eyes!), or 2 you need more hydration when blending. Here's what I do: Take a tiny amount of a full coverage concealer. Like, an actual dot from the doe foot. Use less than you think you need! I put one tiny dot in my inner corner where it's very blue, one along my inner bag area under my eyes, and one at the outer corner of my eye. Take your finger or a brush and move the product around gently. Focus on moving the product from your inner eye down and a little out (you can go onto your upper cheek), and the product from your outer eye up and out to lift. Then, take a lightly damp beauty sponge (wet it, squeeze it out, and dry it with a towel) and press the concealer into your skin. You can keep using the sponge until you feel like it's melted into your skin. Also!! If you have discoloration, the best thing you can do is use a color corrector. My absolute favorite is the Bobbi Brown corrector sticks because the texture is pretty much invisible. Use this before your concealer and again use less than you think you need and blend it into your skin with a brush or finger. I use a peach color corrector in my very dark blue areas in my inner corner, and a pink one where I have brown and yellow under my eyes and my outer corner. Also, for very dark undereye circles, make sure to use a concealer shade closer to your foundation color. On the Internet you see a lot of advice to use really light shades under the eyes, and this can really emphasize bags and darkness, so I try to use concealer that's just the tiniest bit lighter than my foundation color. This method gives your concealer a boost by cancelling out discoloration first so you don't need as much product. And then the sponge adds more hydration and really melts it into your skin. If you use a buildable concealer you can repeat the above process with a second very thin layer to get even more coverage. Use tiny dots!! Then once the concealer has been sitting for a minute, I go over it with my finger or sponge once more to pat in any concealer that settled into my lines while it was setting. If I'm not using a self setting concealer, I like to use a very light small fluffy brush and apply pat McGrath undereye powder or any very invisible non-drying powder (my other fave is loose powder from Saie). You can even use a fluffy brush for eyeshadow, just get something very fluffy and use a tiny bit of powder. Also make sure you patted in any lines right before you put on the powder. If I want to bake for super long wear, I take my damp sponge and put it right into the powder and place that on my undereye, then dust off with a fluffy brush. This will make your undereyes a bit more dry but it'll last longer. My favorite concealers to use are these: New Huda concealer, it's my dream concealer! It's so light and blurring but has high coverage and is buildable. Also I love the Josie Maran concealer for more hydration, and makeup forever hd that Mallory mentions it's so good, and for very high coverage makeup forever also has one called "high coverage concealer" which is great, and it cosmetics bye bye under eye is a beast too (just read the directions for this one and be really careful not to use too much). I hope that helps anyone else feeling like they really need concealer but also it never looks good. Now with this method I always feel happy with how my undereyes look, which is an incredible thing after years of struggling. Wishing you all the best ❤️

[@ImMalloryBrooke]

You’re amazing!!!! Thank you for helping out with all of our under eye troubles☺️🖤

[@kelbrl18]

Thank you so much for this! I'm getting to the age where there are more wrinkles and my under eyes are very dry. I also live in the desert so there is really no moisture in the air to help. I love your techniques to help it stay in place!

[@heathercordova2888]

You guys can I just say Mallory is the absolute best!! Taking time out of her busy day to read our comments and even respond!! I don’t know about y’all but to me that shows appreciation for her fans!! Mallory if you read this, thank you for taking the time to respond and read your comments it’s really appreciated!!!

[@Makeupbymunira]

My favourite concealer as someone with extremely dry skin and occasionally eczema on my face is the glossier stretch concealer. Its the only concealer i know i can 100% count on to never cling or exaggerate to dry flaky skin. It’s the concealer i know will work irrespective of the condition of my skin, i have plenty of other favourites but none are quite as reliable as this one. I highly recommend it if you have undereyes/skin that really dry to the point you can’t really use powder. The glossier stretch concealer doesn’t actually set, it can sometimes move about (really easy formula to reblend or reapply) but thats not my main priority with concealer. This video is great, you’ve got me really interested in checking out the laura mercier concealer, it looks really creamy and moisturising!

[@ImMalloryBrooke]

I feel like if you like the Glossier Stretch, you’ll like the LM for even more coverage. Not too much more, but a little, and has the same feel❤️

[@BethaneyLilly]

Nars Soft matte is such a surprising one. For me, it works really well in the summer when my skin is a more “normal” kinda dry, really holds its own in the heat and humidity and doesn’t wear off or break down. Preforms shockingly well on me for a matte concealer. Its also my go to for quick no makeup /makeup ….love how it diffuses into bare skin, especially using a fluffier eyeshadow brush.

[@ImMalloryBrooke]

It surprised me too! I really thought I was going to HATE it when it was first released😂

[@denise8791]

Its in my cart as is the radiant creamy version. I've tried both but only ever purchased the creamy one.... I'm reaaaaaaally considering the soft matte but I just can't decide haha

[@bekkiwagner3192]

I love all your info on dry skin -keep it up

[@ImMalloryBrooke]

As long as I have dry, angry skin, I will!🤣 I’m so glad it’s been helpful to you!

[@monamasood]

For mature dry under eyes I’ve been using Lancôme Teint Idole Ultra Wear and Anastasia Magic Touch Concealer. The best in my opinion for mature skin

[@ImMalloryBrooke]

Oh I need to try the ABH one! Thank you for the recommendations. Since trying the new Lancôme foundation I’m scared to try any of their other products😬

[@emmanuellecolombani]

I've used several Nars creamy councealers but I have recently found the Dior Backstage concealer and it's lighter and thinner for my mature undereyes, ther result is more natural, and absolutely no creasing 😉😉 Btw, I love your nails, perfect for the beginning of Fall 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼 Have a great day 🍃😘😘😘

[@heathercordova2888]

I tried this one too and it was so desert looking on my eyes ☹️

[@emmanuellecolombani]

@@heathercordova2888 oh really, that's sad, it's perfect for me although I'm almost 54 (but I don't have dry undereye skin) 🙁

[@heathercordova2888]

@@emmanuellecolombani it’s like my under eyes are the only skin that keeps changing. Right now it’s so dry and irritated and puffy 😞

[@emmanuellecolombani]

@@heathercordova2888 I guess it's not easy to find the right treatment 😕 I use reusable undereye patches every morning that really help a lot with the puffiness.. 😉

[@DefinitionOfBoddie]

All I can say is YASS Mallory YASSS!!!! Thanks so much for this! I was surprised not to see the Hourglass and Armani Beauty concealers listed. Any particular reason they weren't?

[@ImMalloryBrooke]

I didnt declutter those❤️ These were just my picks from what I had to throw out from the declutter ❤️❤️❤️

[@DefinitionOfBoddie]

@@ImMalloryBrooke Ahhhhhh gotcha, totally understand.

[@heathercordova2888]

Mallory, No matter what I do concealers crease on me. Iv tried setting, baking, not setting, super creamy formula, matte formula, hydrating…. I tried the hourglass and it was terrible on me. I have nars, it’s nice but creases. I hate setting with powder bc I feel like it dries me out and I have tried so many setting powders and nothing works. Do you think the make up forever would work. FYI I use an eye serum, then the kiehls avocado eye cream and then an oil. I tried the OleHenrikesn vitamin c and it destroyed my under eyes so I’m still healing. If you can recommend it would be most awesome!! FYI you look beautiful love the eye look and lips!!

[@oceanbird.]

Heather I used to have this problem too. I have dry, somewhat textured undereyes with bags, very dark circles, and mid -30s fine lines starting. There are two likely causes, 1 you are using too much product (this is super easy to do under the eyes!), or 2 you need more hydration when blending. Here's what I do: Take a tiny amount of a full coverage concealer. Like, an actual dot from the doe foot. Use less than you think you need! I put one tiny dot in my inner corner where it's very blue, one along my inner bag area under my eyes, and one at the outer corner of my eye. Take your finger or a brush and move the product around gently. Focus on moving the product from your inner eye down and a little out (you can go onto your upper cheek), and the product from your outer eye up and out to lift. Then, take a lightly damp beauty sponge (wet it, squeeze it out, and dry it with a towel) and press the concealer into your skin. You can keep using the sponge until you feel like it's melted into your skin. Also!! If you have discoloration, the best thing you can do is use a color corrector. My absolute favorite is the Bobbi Brown corrector sticks because the texture is pretty much invisible. Use this before your concealer and again use less than you think you need and blend it into your skin with a brush or finger. This method gives your concealer a boost by cancelling out discoloration first so you don't need as much product. And then the sponge adds more hydration and really melts it into your skin. If you use a buildable concealer you can repeat the above process with a second very thin layer. Use tiny dots!! Then once the concealer has been sitting for a minute, I go over it with my finger or sponge once more to pat in any concealer that settled into my lines while it was setting. If I'm not using a self setting concealer, I like to use a very light small fluffy brush and apply pat McGrath undereye powder or any very invisible non-drying powder (my other fave is loose powder from Saie). You can even use a fluffy brush for eyeshadow, just get something very fluffy and use a tiny bit of powder. Also make sure you patted in any lines right before you put on the powder. If I want to bake for super long wear, I take my damp sponge and put it right into the powder and place that on my undereye, then dust off with a fluffy brush. This will make your undereyes a bit more dry but it'll last longer. This method may be meticulous and a little ridiculous, but it really works! My favorite concealers to use are these: New Huda concealer, it's my dream concealer! It's so light and blurring but has high coverage and is buildable. Also I love the Josie Maran concealer for more hydration, and makeup forever hd that Mallory mentions it's so good, and for very high coverage makeup forever also has one called "high coverage concealer" which is great, and it cosmetics bye bye under eye. I hope that helps! If you want to find your own method just remember the 2 tips, less product and more hydration.

[@heathercordova2888]

@@oceanbird. thanks so much!! I feel like I have tried everything. I started using less concealer but obviously I’m using too much since it creases with concealer in my lines in less than 5 min. I will use less and I use a pink/ orange blush for my corrector. The Pat MG powder cracked and settled sooo much so does the Dior back stage and the Jouer, bite beauty and ilia powders all crack and separate. I was at Sephora today and my under eyes looked like the Sahara desert. I added La roche posay b5 balm right over my concealer it helped but I’m dry again!!! What the heck. What eye cream do you use? Why do you like the gifs one? I’m using lancome ( the new one) or ilia or saie or kosas. I used kosas today and set and it looked terrible.

[@oceanbird.]

@@heathercordova2888 I actually hate the kosas concealer. I could never get it to work, it made my undereyes look so dry too!! Everybody online loves it, but it did nothing for me. And the colors were so bad on me, plus it goes bad in like 3-6 months. And I also hate the ilia, the Saie, and the lancome concealers. I've tried all of those bc everybody says they're so good, but none of them worked for me. Then I started trying ones that didn't have as much hype and that's when I found the ones I like. Although the Huda totally has a lot of hype, but for good reason imo. How are you applying the Pat McGrath powder? Do you blend in your concealer really well with a damp sponge, then let it sit for a minute first? If you powder when your concealer is too wet then it will catch too much powder and cake up. Try using a fluffy little eyeshadow brush with the pat McGrath powder, just barely touch it with the brush, then tap the brush off, then apply it to your undereyes.

[@oceanbird.]

@@heathercordova2888 also, you asked why I love something but I think autocorrect changed it. Did you mean the Huda faux filter concealer? If so, I love it because the texture is super thin so you can barely see it, but it's still blurring and has great coverage. And you don't need to set it with powder. So I think that could be one you could try and not use powder with it. For undereye prep I use a ton of hydration in my skincare routine. And I sometimes change my eye cream and it doesn't seem to have too much effect. I've had good luck with biossance eye gel and cream, as well as a handful of kbeauty eye creams. Underneath that I use a hydrating serum (anything with hyaluronic acid, or one I've been loving is the biossance rapid hydrating serum with copper peptides), then I layer on stratia liquid gold mixed with a light squalane oil, and a gel moisturizer on top of that. I put that all over my face and eyes, then the eye cream just on my eyes. It's all about layering hydrating watery stuff, then thicker oily stuff on top to seal it in. Maybe adding some hydrating steps to your routine would help? Also if you're not getting enough water every day I feel like the undereyes are the first place to show it

[@oceanbird.]

@@heathercordova2888 I wish you could send me a video of your routine lol! It would be so much easier to help you if I could see what you're doing. Try one of the concealers I listed and use the sponge trick and way less product, let it set for a minute, tap out any lines with your finger, then powder with the tiniest bit of the PMG powder. Or if you try the Huda one you don't need to powder

[@faithfully722]

I really enjoy the Kosas concealer for my mature, dry skin. I've been searching for something else to add to my collection and I think I will try the hourglass you suggested, Mallory. I have the Nars Radiant Creamy concealer but it's probably expired...that's a concealer I have repurchased as well. I'm just excited to try something new that will work on my dry and dehydrated skin!!!

[@amberwright3373]

No freaking way. 😩 Lol (so I bought the nars creamy concealer already cus of your recommendation awhile ago now) so I finally caved and said I'm going to buy a full face of high-end but can't decide what to pick, so minus the nars I mentioned above,I have all 3 in my cart trying to decide which 1 to get.... So I saw this video and said PERFECT! She will help me pick which one.... Lol

[@ImMalloryBrooke]

Awesome lol!!! We are on the same wavelength 🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@amberwright3373]

@@ImMalloryBrooke I stayed away from high end because of my very dry sensitive skin problems, I hated wasting SO much money on products, then someone recommended to check your channel out! And for the few months that I've been watching I'd say every product I've purchased from your recommendation has been great!

[@hollydean4274]

Thanks Mal! My favourite concealer is the IT Cosmetics Bye Bye Undereye one (in the tube). Best coverage I've tried without making me look dry (although I'm always looking for even more coverage!).

[@ImMalloryBrooke]

Omg I used to love that one! Thank you for reminding me about it❤️

[@tmhart43]

My problem with that is how shiny it is. If I use it JUST where I need it it looks really odd, and I hate using powder!

[@hollydean4274]

@@tmhart43 Yes it is a bit shiny. I do not powder my undereyes either/every time I do I look like the sahara desert - not attractive, lol!

[@netta2themax967]

Thanks for the video! Curious which one of these would be your pick if you could only have one.

[@ImMalloryBrooke]

Out of these... it would have to be the Laura Mercier Flawless Fusion Concealer

[@sarahnewman7025]

I love to use the Bobbi Brown under eye corrector and the Laura Mercier secret concealer

[@ImMalloryBrooke]

Oh my gosh YES the BB corrector and the LM is so good. I need to start using those again.

[@kelbrl18]

I need to give these a try! Can't wait to see what else you recommend

[@ImMalloryBrooke]

Thanks girl! 🥰

[@dalebullock810]

Can you tell me what the sparkling white things are just beneath your brows is? It is mesmerizing and doesn't look like the highlighter you mentioned - but may be. Thank you!

[@anastasiaschultz5719]

I have extremely dry skin, but also am just a high school student, so quite broke lol. I've tried some concealers before but they all look so cakey!! Just watched a video, and they claimed that the Fit Me concealer from Maybelline is like a cheaper version of the Nars concealer used in this video. Anyone here with dry skin that has used both of them? Any advice you could give? I just don't want to spend $45 on concealer alone 🥲

[@ashlaww]

got a deluxe sample of the new Charlotte Tilbury concealer and its my abbbbsolte new fav :) would love to know what you think if it!

[@larapetty]

More vlogs of your daily life please!!! 🥰🥰

[@ImMalloryBrooke]

🤣I have so much footage from the summer up to now, that I just haven’t had the time to edit yet. But I should be back to Sunday Vlogs by next weekend 🤞🤞🤞

[@marye813]

Thank you for the concealer reviews - products I wouldn't have considered otherwise. I've tried a lot of concealers from drugstore/Ulta/Sephora. Shape Tape was my biggest fail. Huge doe foot and lots of product but middling coverage. Thanks for heads up on Sephora product. I like their translucent setting powder as well as eyebrow color sticks. imo dupe for Laura Mercier.

[@yasssgawwwd5643]

I wonder in the Nyx hd concealer is a dupe to this makeup forever concealer ❤

[@ImMalloryBrooke]

It might be!

[@rosygarcia6442]

I find the Nars radiant concealer to be drying and not easily blended. Is it one that I should immediately blend out rather than give a minute?

[@wenderella81]

I don't like it. It's completely sheer on me and comes off minutes after applying.

[@tadams422]

All four of these are my all time favorites for my Sahara desert dry skin.

[@ImMalloryBrooke]

They’re all really good products!!

[@lyneae3786]

Anastasia of Beverly Hills concealer is the best for dry skin, but with full coverage.

[@deannahockenberry5806]

My skin has been driving me crazy. It's oily one day and dry the next. I have to keep changing what I'm using.

[@ImMalloryBrooke]

Oh shizzzz yessss my skin will do this a few times a year! I think it’s hormonal, but could totally be wrong.

[@rexhinakulla765]

Really helpful! Did anyone else read the @ as i am really broke, or is ti just me ? 😂😂😂

[@ImMalloryBrooke]

Hahha great now I’ll never unsee it🫣😂

[@Jolielovesu]

She has the same manurisums as mandy moore

[@Strawbettys]

Nars vanilla still reign supreme even with the millions of concealers coming out today in end of 2023. The color is perfect too. We are foundation twins

[@donnadrane4977]

There is no concealer that works on my Italian dark circles. Whatever I’ve tried, even high end, just highlights and calls attention to them.

[@tiahnarodriguez3809]

Have you tried using color corrector? I have the same problem, but applying color corrector before concealer has been working well for me.

[@donnadrane4977]

@@tiahnarodriguez3809 yes and it doesn’t help.

[@heathercordova2888]

Have you used dermacol? And tried Mallorys trick of blush up near eye area to help dark circles?

[@oceanbird.]

@@donnadrane4977 do you ever watch Wayne Goss? He just posted a video which might help. It's about bags under the eyes and how to deemphasize them. You might want to check that out! Otherwise I would say it sounds like you're not using concealer with high enough coverage. I have very dark blue/purple/red Irish circles and I struggle to cover them too. I use Bobbi Brown concealer sticks first, then the highest coverage concealer I can get. If you have blue or green, go for peach color corrector. If you have red or brown, try a pink corrector. I actually use a tiny bit of both, peach in my inner corner where it's most blue, and pink in my outer eye where it's most brown to brighten it up. Another tip is to get a darker concealer shade, one closer to your skin tone. Don't go for the bright shades like they recommend on the Internet, too bright of an undereye just emphasizes dark circles and bags. Try to get one that's just very slightly lighter than your foundation color. Here are the concealers I love: Huda beauty faux filter concealer. It's a dream! It's so blurring and light under the eyes but it's high coverage. And you can put on several thin layers to get higher coverage. Also the makeup forever "full cover concealer" might get you the coverage you need. It's different from the hd skin one that Mallory mentions. I like that one but the full cover one has even more coverage. Also the other one is bye bye under eye from IT cosmetics which is super full coverage (follow the directions on that one and don't use too much!). Also, I just posted another comment on this video with my concealer routine. It's very detailed, but it changed my life since I felt the same way as you for years, and now I love concealer and it works like a dream for me with this method. I'm wishing you the best luck from one dark undereye beauty to another ❤️

[@lilovs9952]

What’s an Italian dark circle ?