COLOUR CORRECTORS: Are they needed? Sometimes. Are they important? No. I rarely use colour correctors, they can sometimes be an extra layer to the makeup that is not needed, making you add more weight to your skin and in fact, if done incorrectly, can draw more attention to the area you are trying to correct. So what is happening in this video? As you can see, I have DARK circles, the camera doesn’t do them justice and I have very bright lights and they still show 😂 so there’s no cheating happening here, I have also used the EXACT same formula of @xxrevolution concealer, just in two different shades. My dark circles are more purple in tone, so if we apply colour theory rulings to this, we need to put the colour opposite that to cancel this tone out, right? Which in this case is yellow. BUT. My undertone is neutral Olive, which sits leaning more to green/yellow Does the yellow on the right side still look good on my skin? Yes.. because yellow is still a neutral tone BUT. This tone is TOO yellow for the Olive in my skin, so whilst it may cancel out the darkness under my eyes, the tone then doesn’t sit with the rest of my skin tone, which then would require me to go over the top with MORE makeup in the same tone as my skin to pull all the shades together so they blend. 80% of the time, if you dab your same shade concealer over the darkness of under your eyes it will do a better job at blending seamlessly from your under eye to the rest of your face than the colour correcting side, and look more uniform. Whilst it may not give you the initial brightness satisfaction of the colour corrected side, you can clearly see that the same shade side looks visibly smoother and therefore better. Shade is SO important when concealing, as you can see I have used the SAME formulas but that subtle shift in tone makes the under eyes look visibly different. (And may be a factor as to why you prefer one brand of concealer to the other, it may be more to do with the shade, not the formula!) So when would I colour correct then? AFTER I have used the same shade, If I feel that area still needs a boost I would add the tiniest of tiniest amount of the corrector to boost it