Color Correcting Powder: Your Power-Concealer

By now, you are probably well aware of the ways that color can help you contour your makeup to provide the profile you want. What you might not realize, though, is that this is not the only way to control your appearance and to gain the upper hand in the presentation of your complexion. Using a color correcting palette as a base before you begin to lay down the foundation can not only help you with contouring, it can also hide blemishes, including injuries. Here is how it works.

Color Correction Through Cancellation

When you look for color correction, what you are really doing is mixing opposite colors to even out your skin tone, producing a net effect that neutralizes blemishes and other problems so that it appears your skin simply has one even tone. To achieve that effect, it is not enough to simply use a mixed color correction base, you need to be able to specifically match the colors to neutralize the problem areas without introducing new color to the rest of your face. This can result in a bit of a patchwork appearance at first, but that doesn’t matter, because by the time you put on your foundation, the color correcting steps will have become invisible.

Color Matching for Blemish Elimination

There are four basic colors to most color correcting palette kits, and they each have different uses:

• Red: You use red to neutralize blue areas on your face. If you have the kind of skin that easily shows veins and blood vessels, this can work to conceal them better. It also helps with unsightly hair, as shadow tends to be blueish. If you are looking to minimize telltale signs of female facial hair, this is your color. Apply it until your skin looks slightly sunburnt.
• Blue: If red takes out blue, then blue also takes out red. Use this for evening out facial redness in all its forms, from the beginning signs of acne to blood vessels and even excessive redness that can come from having a very active blush reaction. This is also useful when combatting the side effects of waxing and other facial hair removal methods.
• Green: Green is one of the most useful colors for concealing facial injuries like bruises. Use it to cancel blue-purple blotches and to even out the bright yellow faded areas as the bruise ages. Since bruises can change color over time and they can also vary in color over their area, you may have to use several layers of different colors to help the green mask a heavy-duty blemish.
• Yellow: Yellow can be useful for “fairing” the skin, covering freckles, and generally evening out your other color correction. It also masks the brown-green phase of facial bruises well. Used as the “wash” layer, your yellow can easily help you finish your color correction and prepare for neutral concealers that will finish the job.

Our Color Correcting Choices

At Lala Daisy, we curate our store selections to help make sure our customers will be able to find all the right products to put their best face forward, which is why we offer a variety of color palette choices for when you need new color correction makeup.