The starting point for any stunning beauty look is a perfect complexion, however this can often seem like the most difficult thing to achieve. However, colour-correcting is the latest thing to become a major focus for the beauty industry, and a whole host of new products are being launched to help us with our problems in this tricky area.
Colour-correctors can combat a whole host of complexions woes, from dark circles to redness and dullness. They tackle problems that foundation and concealer don’t fix on their own, and means you can create a more natural and fresh look as less make-up is needed overall; great news for faces crying out for a rest from heavy layers of product.
The idea behind colour-correction stems from the concept of the classic colour-wheel; each colour has an opposite and the effect is that they neutralise and cancel each other out.
For example, yellows calm mild redness and greens calm intense redness on all skin tones. You can defeat dark under-eye circles and unwanted shadows with pink for fair skin tones, peach on light/medium skin tones, orange for tan/dark skin tones and red for deep skin tones. Purple is used to brighten up a dull or sallow skin tone to give a luminous complexion.
Check out our top picks of the new colour-correcting products out there ready to help you achieve the perfect skin you’ve always wanted!
Marc Jacobs Beauty Cover(t) Stick Colour-Correctors
These easy-to-use cream sticks come in three shades and have a marbleised hue to help brighten, neutralise and conceal hyper-pigmentation to achieve an even complexion. ‘Co(Vert) Affairs’ is lime and citron and is best for neutralising redness. ‘Bright Now’ is pink and lilac and is designed to enliven dull and sallow complexions. ‘Getting Warmer’ is peach and caramel and evens skin-tone as well as correcting dark under-eye circles. The sticks are perfect for layering so if you have more than one issue you can use more than one Cover(t) stick at a time!
Available at sephora.ae
Urban Decay Naked Skin Colour-Correcting Fluid
Urban Decay have formulated this innovative and lightweight fluid that instantly corrects colour and blurs flaws, leaving bright and illuminated skin.
Available at sephora.ae
Dior Fix-It Prime and Colour-Correct 2-in-1
Dior has invented its first multi-purpose colour concealer. Inspired by make-up techniques used backstage at catwalk shows, the stick has two textures, is designed for three application areas and comes in four shades. Each shade targets and neutralises colour imperfections of the complexion and around the eye and lip contours.
Available at sephora.ae
Clarins ‘Mission Perfect Yeux’
Clarins have focussed in on a major concern of many women and are making it their mission to help us fix dark under-eye circles!
Dark circles are often a sign of lack of sleep, fatigue and stress and correspond to a blue or brown pigmented area under the eye which can appear from time to time. The extremely fine skin on this area makes blood vessels even more visible. Clarins Laboratories have now gone a step further and revealed the impact of skin tone on the colour of dark circles. They have shown that the darker the skin tone, the darker and more pronounced dark circles are under the eyes. Persistent dark circles are formed and women with darker complexions tend to look tired, whatever they do.
Mission Perfection Yeux is a fine, tinted emulsion applied with the built-in bevelled brush which ensures optimal application and has demonstrated an effective action on reducing melanin and haemoglobin at the origin of pigmentary and vascular dark circles. The eye emulsion is complemented by the Mission Perfection Serum; a dark-spot corrector to help even complexion for a healthy radiance for all skin tones.
