Beauty Bible Loves... Lisa Eldridge Pinpoint Concealer Micro Correcting Pencil
If you are always looking for ways to wear less make-up – as we are – here’s a brilliant new innovation from the always-inventive Lisa Eldridge.
Lisa Eldridge Pinpoint Concealer Micro Correcting Pencil has a tip roughly the size of an eye pencil (and similarly, with a propelling design). Compare that with your typical corrector pencil or doe-foot wand – never mind the tip of your finger, which is how many of us still dot on concealer – and it’s a fraction of the size.
What that means is that you can literally ‘spot-correct’ tiny flaws, in particular red veins or perhaps a small sun spot. Here’s Lisa’s how-to:
Step 1. Take your Lisa Eldridge Pinpoint Concealer Micro Correcting Pencil and scribble softly over, on and around the small area you wish to micro camouflage, and then blend, using fingertips (or a small brush) to buff the coverage over the area and make sure the edges of the concealer are not visible.
Step 2. To help not have any visible edges, don’t apply the concealer in a completely round circle over the area, it's best if the edges are non-uniform – You want to cheat the eye away from thinking it’s been concealed! The trick is to thin out the edges so it blends in with the surrounding skin and for everything to look like it’s in one, seamless continuum.
Step 3. Go back in for a second time with your Pinpoint Concealer, this time working more directly, stippling further coverage over the center of the area you wish to conceal.adding tiny strokes with the pencil, then tapping into skin with aforementioned warm fingertip, to press it into skin.
In our case, this is all done with a magnifying mirror (a years-old press gift from Clarins which is still one of the best freebies we’ve ever been given). Whatever mirror you use, it certainly pays to do close work on this.
What we would add is: it’s absolutely vital to get the colour right. We’d just like to big up the sales assistant in Liberty who Jo bought her pencil from, last week. She’d been sent one to try, but the shade was way too dark – Shade 13, whereas Jo is a 5. ‘Use it as a lip liner,’ was the consultant’s advice. And you know what? It’s perfect for that.
Trying this product on for size is easier now that Lisa Eldridge is stocked in quite a few Space NK stores, but before you make a special pilgrimage, visit the Lisa Eldridge stockists map – here – then search for your nearest store. (These now range from Exeter to Liverpool, Harrogate, Belfast, Dublin and more.)
We think you’ll be dotty for it.
£27 – buy here
