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Welcome to our weekly column on the YOU magazine website, www.you.co.uk  Below you will find the current question and our advice, with a list of where to source the products mentioned.  To look at past columns, click here. And for lots more solutions to your beauty dilemmas, visit Q&A, just click here.

January 29th, 2012: Under eye concealers

Q Could you recommend a good under eye concealer that will cover dark circles but not settle into the tiny wrinkles/crease lines please?

A The top product in our latest round of Tried & Tested surveys for The Anti-Ageing Beauty Bible was that legendary standby YSL Touche Eclat (aka Radiant Touch), £25, now in 7 shades.  One tester commented: ‘perfect for dark circles, the best product in my opinion.  Didn’t cover completely but blended them in and made them less noticeable’.

As with everything else we recommend here, we do suggest taking time to go round the beauty counters in a big store and getting the specific brand consultants to show you how to apply their products.  The right application makes all the difference.

Make-up artist Trish McEvoy, who specialises in make-up for older women (like us!), says that brightening the eye area is the quickest 'youth-ifier'.  And having seen the results, we agree.  With any pump action, pen-style concealer, she suggests drawing an upside down triangle under your eye, along under the lower lash line, then meeting at a point near the top of your cheekbone.  Then very gently pat the product in.  Trish McEvoy's Correct and Brighten twist pen, £27 in 2 shades, is fantastic for brightening the area, and will cover all but the darkest circles.  

Remember you can also apply concealer to those little dark corners on the insides of the bridge of your nose, then over the first third to half of your upper eyelid.  Stand back, look in the mirror and watch your eyes pop out (in a good way…).

The other award-winning products in The Anti-Ageing Beauty Bible (which, by the way, has a section on dark circles, also puffy eyes) include Guerlain Precious Light Rejuvenating Illuminaton, which one tester said 'is fantastic at covering up quite dark circles under eyes, small scars and a pigmentation mark – made my eyes look younger'.  £29 in 3 shades.

We also had testers loving La Prairie Light Fantastic Cellular Concealing Treatment, £44 in 3 shades, and Bobbi Brown Creamy Concealer, £17 in 14 shades including some really dark options for Asian/Afro-Caribbean skins, which are often affected by this problem and often overlooked in the shade-creation process.

Jo loves Clinique Airbrush Concealer, £16 in 4 shades, which she also uses as an eyeshadow base.  I use the concealer bit in my Guerlain Lingerie de Peau compact foundation, which does the trick nicely (fantastic base, by the way), £44.

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Cowshed Manicure Kit, £19.50.  Seriously: this removes every last excuse for not giving your hands the TLC they deserve.  In a great little zip-up kit, find an emery board, luscious apricot cuticle oil, orange stick (for gentle cuticle removal), rich Cow Pat Hand Cream – and cotton gloves, to slip on after slathering.  Keep it on your bedside table and make a ritual of using it, last thing at night.  Even the driest, roughest hands will be rehabbed in no time.

 

 

 

Where to Find Products

YSL Touche Eclat, £25 at www.boots.com; click here to find it

Trish McEvoy's Correct and Brighten twist pen, available on-line at www.selfridges.com for £27

Guerlain Precious Light Rejuvenating Illuminaton, £29 at www.debenhams.com; just click here

La Prairie Light Fantastic Cellular Concealing Treatment, £44 from www.houseoffraser.co.uk if you click here

Bobbi Brown Creamy Concealer, £17 from www.bobbibrown.co.uk, just click here

Clinique Airbrush Concealer, £16, available on-line at www.boots.com; click here to find it

Guerlain Lingerie de Peau compact foundation, £44 on-line at www.debenhams.com

Cowshed Manicure Kit, £19.50 at www.cowshedonline.com; click here to find it

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