The latest beauty trend taking over the cosmetics market is color correcting. Whether you are walking into Sephora, or browsing the latest product releases online, you are being bombarded with new color correcting products. Like the contouring trend that dominated 2015, the color correcting trend is one that should be embraced in moderation. For everyday beauty routines, color correcting is not necessarily something you may want to invest your time in, but it really can make all the difference in targeting some of your biggest beauty woes. Done correctly, color correcting can make many skin issues disappear without the need to cake on heavy concealers and foundation.
The new Urban Decay Naked Skin Color Correcting Fluid ($28 US/$35 CAD) is an amazing way to embrace this new trend because the beautiful Naked Skin formula and texture makes these correctors very easy to work with and blend for natural results. Denser, more pigmented cream products can be a little trickier to work with. Especially for someone that may not be all that comfortable with makeup.
There will be five shades of Urban Decay Naked Skin Color Correcting Fluid available. These shades will address most color correcting needs for the majority of skin tones.
- Lavender – Balances out the sallowness in yellow skin tones. Brightens medium complexions. This particular shade I found light enough to even brighten my fair skin tone.
- Pink – Cancels out darkness and brightens lighter skin tones and cancels out darkness. This is great for the cancelling out dark circles on fair skin when a peach/salmon tone may be too dark.
- Peach – Mask dark circles and spots on light to medium skin. This works great at cancelling out sun spots. It eliminates the grey/darkness that can peek through foundation.
- Yellow – Corrects dullness and reduces mild redness.
- Green – Reduces redness on all skin tones.
Like the Urban Decay Naked Skin concealers, these correctors have an absolutely beautiful formula. They are weightless on the skin and contain pearlescent pigments to diffuse light along with antioxidant rich vitamins C and E.
I absolutely love the packaging of these correctors. They are lovely to behold with their pastel hues and the doe foot applicator is very convenient.
Below is how I would utilize the various shades on my fair skin. I’ve applied the Green shade on my areas of most prominent redness, which is around my nose and a couple of blemishes. I’ve applied the Yellow shade to neutralize more moderate redness on my cheeks, chin, and nose. I’ve applied the Lavender shade to the centre of my forehead to brighten as well as above my nasolabial folds to brighten and lift the area. The Pink shade is applied under my eyes to cancel out my mild dark circles, and the Peach shade works magic to correct my more noticeable sun spots. I applied directly from the applicators and blended out with a mix of my fingers and a damp beauty blender. Even given the fact the products had time to start setting while I took photos they still blended out with ease. I am all out of my beloved Naked Skin foundation, and they are sold out of my shade on UrbanDecay.ca, so I applied Make Up For Ever Ultra HD foundation with a beauty blender as my foundation.
The key to color correcting is to only apply the product where necessary, and to blend it properly into the skin before applying your foundation on top. Once you have applied your foundation or powder you will no longer see the colour of the corrector peeking through. If after applying your corrector you still see strong tones of the corrector you have likely applied too much, or not adequately blended. The key to these products is neutralizing the offending colour, not adding a considerable amount of a new shade to your skin.
Have you experimented with color correctors? Will you be embracing this trend?
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