MAC Studio Fix Conceal and Correct Palette

COVERAGE: Medium to Full

FINISH: Natural

A ‘one stop shop’ professional correct-and-conceal product in a sleek flip lid palette offering a variety of skin finishes for all skin types to be used anywhere on the face (or body) for coverage of blemishes, dark cirlces, tattoos, birth marks and moles. This iconic product from MAC is part of the best-selling MAC Studio Fix Foundation range renowned for its oil control and matte foundation formula and like the foundation, this concealer palette also offers superb pigmentation, antioxidants to moisturise and long lasting medium to full coverage.

Depending on your preference of finish, Pro Makeup folk like myself mix this on the back of our hand with a small amount of moisturiser prior to application for a more natural, sheer finish. For more opaque and full coverage, simply apply directly to well moisturised skin and blend out with a finger, brush or damp sponge. You can build this concealer in layers to the coverage level you personally require but just be sure, like with all concealer and foundation products, to work in thin layers, building as you go. It’s always easier to add product that it is to take away should you apply too much!

MAC offer this palette in Light, Medium, Medium Deep, Deep and Extra Deep to cover all skin tones. Each palette provides 2 colour correcting shades (in the picture shown here, it’s the yellow and the salmon pink) and 4 concealer shades. The correcting shades are used to block out dark shadows or marks and pesky bluey veins before applying the concealer over the top or you can use the colour correctors to lighten and adjust the concealer shades to match your unique skin tone. After a thin wash of colour corrector has been applied, simply apply concealer colour either inidivudally or combined to match your skin tone… and voila!

The added bonus is, as your skin darkens in summer or pales down in Winter, you can be sure to have a concealer that matches your skin tone all year round without having to buy or carry around several products making this beauty a travel must-have product in your makeup arsenal.

£30 from MAC

MAC Pro Longwear Concealer

COVERAGE: Medium to Full

FINISH: Satin drying to more Matte

Banish the bags with this full coverage longwear work horse of a concealer suitable for all skin types and available in a multitude of skin shades!

Not only is MAC Pro Longwear Concealer water and transfer resistant, sweat and humidity proof, but it can be used to conceal dark spots, blemishes, discolouration and dark circles. Anything actually! And much like the Bobbi Brown option in this list, MAC products are all in shades with either a pink or yellow base ensuring you can match your unique skin tone.

This concealer blends best with a damp sponge as it does dry quite quickly (and the dampness in a sponge helps to move product about before that happens) but the finish is model-perfect flawless looking skin. The reason it dries quickly is due to the ‘longwear’ ingredients that make it adhere to the skin for long periods and therefore making it budge-proof but without appearing heavy; the perfect equation for normal to oilier skins in particular, or during the summer months.

If you are drier under the eyes, you could apply a thin layer of this mixed with a bit of your eye cream or serum or perhaps layer it with a dab of a lighter, more moisturising option on top for extra hydration (SEE TIP BELOW).

This pro MUA favourite concealer is very cost effective since a little goes a very long way and one of these will last you a long time before having to repurchase.

£20.00 from MAC

“‘Long wear’ products from any brand tend to set quickly as the whole point of their being is to sit where they are put and stay all day so be sure to blend them out quickly before they dry down and set.”

— The Good Tip Makeup Fairy