Oh What Dark Circles You Have

OMG, Dark Circles

Oh, my goodness, can dark circles been hidden? I mean seriously, can dark circles that make you look like the night of the living dead zombie's, actually be hidden? YES! Yes, my friend the dark circles can be hidden... but first, what causes dark circles?

There are a lot of different things that causes dark circles.. some medications you may take can contribute to dark circle because some medications causes blood vessels to dilate.   During the wonderful allergy seasons, when you are rubbing your eyes a lot because of the pollen, it can cause dark circles. During my research, I found that sleeping on your stomach causes dark circles, I never knew that!! Of course not getting enough sleep causes them, as well as being fatigued.  Now this is something I found really interesting, when we have those wonderful horrid bags under our eyes, it cast shadows and that makes us look like we have dark circles.  And of course let's not leave our aging. Yes, beauties, aging causes our skin under our eyes to get thin and because of the loss of fat and collagen like magic, we have dark circles appear!! Lovely, right?

Don't give up hope, that is the most important thing.  There are different makeup techniques you can do that will help to hide the dark the circles, and believe it or not, this can be done without having the makeup crease under your eyes to make them look even worst.  I have watched A LOT of videos by some fantastic Makeup Guru's and I am in the process of trying the techniques as well.

You will Need:

-Under eye Moisturizer
-Foundation
-concealer (one shade lighter than your foundation)
-Setting Powder
-beauty blender 
-concealer brush

Start by placing a good moisturizer under your eyes and allow it to set and/or absorb for a least five minutes or so.  Next add your foundation to your face with a dampened beauty blender and try to avoid putting foundation under your eyes. Next 'pat' the concealer on your under eye area with a concealer brush.. remember pat the concealer on.  Next take your dampened beauty blender (yes, the one you used for the foundation will be fine) and pat the concealer into your under eye area until it is smooth. DO NOT RUB the concealer onto the eye area or anywhere else. Once the concealer is placed and you feel it looks smooth, take a small fluffy brush and dip it into your loose powder and tap the brush to knock off any excess powder.  GENTLY, and LIGHTLY apply the powder over the area's you placed the concealer.  Apply the rest of your makeup the way you normally do.  Place some highlighter over the concealer, but use it sparingly.

DO NOT FORGET to use a setting spray-that will help set your makeup and it will also give you some hydration.  Evian has a fantastic mineral water mist that is great to carry along with you and during the day if your eyes begin to look like they are creasing.. use this misting spray, it feels great, hydrates your skin, and smells really good to me for some reason!!

**Please note:  if your dark circles are VERY DARK you may want to consider using a peach correction concealer before you place the lighter concealer under your eyes.

To Young To Know Better

Unfortunately, we did not know until later in life about all of the damage we were doing to our skin. As teenagers growing up in the late sixties and seventies our main concern was getting as dark as we could, as fast as we could.  I personally remember using a lot of baby oil and of course I had to use the silver blanket sheets because I had to draw as much of the sun to me as possible! The more sun, the more burnt, the darker the tan. A motto used by a ton of teenagers when I was young.

One of the best or should I say most beautiful things about being so tanned was wearing soft colored clothing, pinks, lavenders and even white just enhanced our skin so much. Those colors just looked so beautiful with the bronzed skin, oh man did we look good!!

A few years down the road you begin to notice these crazy little brown spots appearing. Like one day there were none and the next day like magic, wham... there they were!!  What in the world? Then brown spots start appearing on your face, except now they are large brown patches! You try a thousand and one different concealers, along with foundation and the darkness still sneaked through!  You try adding color correction concealer along with regular concealer and foundation now not only can the brownish color still be seen, but now your face looks cakey, ashy, and you feel like you just want to give up and just wear a mask!

This is my own experience because my only concern as a teenager was worrying about how dark I could get. Today I have a lot of sun damage on my face, not the best place for discoloration. I have literally tried so many concealers, that I felt there would never be any hope in hiding the patches. I have wrote a few articles about some good products I have tried. Like Julie August correction concealer pallet, Mac has a peach correction concealer that is semi ok, Ben Nye has a pretty good correction concealer pallet and neutral set colorless powder, but to be honest nothing seems to work as good as the product I am about to tell you about.

Younique Cosmetics has three different kinds of foundation, cream, powder and liquid. Since my skin is mature, I wear the cream foundation. Along with the foundations Younique has a very good concealer called Touch Mineral Skin Perfecting Concealer. Remember, I have tried a lot of different products and this one is among one of the best I have used. But there is a trick to applying the concealer and cream foundation that will indeed help to hide brown patches.  Always try to apply a primer first.  Next take a concealer brush and pat the concealer onto the brown area you are trying to conceal.  Let it set for a moment, if you do not have the coverage you want, pat another coat of the concealer on.. be sure to smooth out the edges!  Wait a second and take a small brush and use a colorless powder and lightly tap the powder over the areas you added the concealer.  This helps to set it. Tap on the cream foundation and you will be amazed of the coverage you will get.

The whole point to this post is just to let you know I am fully aware no matter what you read, often in life we need to experience and learn things the hard way.  Now I often wonder, if the beautiful bronze skin I had as a teenager (which was temporary) was worth all of the imperfections I have today which are now permanent.

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