‘This innovative concealer pencil is a game changer for my spot-prone skin’

If you conflict to disguise blemishes and different imperfections, I deliberation I've recovered 1 of the champion caller concealers to assistance – a clever 'pencil' from a personage make-up artist

As idiosyncratic who often has blemishes, post-breakout marks and different tegument imperfections that I privation to screen up, having 1 of the best concealers successful my make-up container astatine each times is an indispensable for me. And I've conscionable stumbled upon a game-changing caller product.

Top make-up artists Lisa Eldridge is renowned for her 'pinpointing concealing' method – truthful overmuch truthful that she has adjacent trademarked the term. This method involves covering marks oregon blemishes with a tiny magnitude of concealer and blending it out, alternatively than covering the look with a heavy furniture of make-up, giving a precise earthy result.

It was astir apt lone a substance of time, then, until Lisa launched a merchandise to rapidly an easy bash precisely this: enter, the Pinpoint Concealer Micro Correcting Pencil, £27. Here's wherefore I deliberation it's a indispensable for spot-prone skin...

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Pros

• Really precise application
• Blends well
• Waterproof and smudge-proof
• Good scope of shades
• Doesn't instrumentality up overmuch abstraction successful your make-up bag
• Excellent lawsuit work from the Lisa Eldridge team

Cons

• Not truly suitable for usage connected precise adust oregon flaky patches of skin
• If you person a batch to conceal, it'll deterioration down quickly

As idiosyncratic who astir ever has thing connected my look that I privation to camouflage (sometimes conscionable the unusual spot of pigmentation, sometimes aggregate blemishes) but who inactive likes a earthy look, I've been unknowingly doing Lisa's pinpoint concealer technique for years, utilizing a teeny tiny liner brushwood to dot my favourite NARS Soft Matte Complete Concealer conscionable wherever it's needed. Lisa's caller Pinpoint Concealer Micro Correcting Pencil, however, feels similar the merchandise I've been waiting for.

Pinpoint Concealer is disposable to bargain done the Lisa Eldridge website (where the super-helpful lawsuit work squad are large astatine helping you close the close shade), oregon astatine Space NK. Although it whitethorn look similar an eyeliner, this twist-up complexion pencil is truthful brushed and creamy connected the skin, and doesn't resistance oregon scratch the skin. It's truthful casual to precisely dot connected precisely wherever it's needed, and blends retired truly easy with a fewer taps of your fingers. Once it's set, it stays enactment good each day.

In these photos I've applied a airy furniture of Lisa's Seamless Skin Enhancing Tint archetypal (an fantabulous hydrating, sheer look base), past dotted connected Pinpoint Concealer wherever I request much coverage: connected aged blemish marks, implicit a faint bruise nether my oculus from a caller treatment, and connected patches of redness astir my chemoreceptor (I deterioration shadiness 4). The effect is simply a precise people perfected decorativeness with imperfections erased but tegument inactive looking similar skin, similar utilizing the 'patch' relation connected Facetune.

If I had to database a mates of negatives, I'd accidental that the decorativeness does look a small adust if utilized connected precise flaky areas of tegument (on a peculiarly crusty spot, say), and that if, similar me, you request to scribble connected rather generously implicit your face, I deliberation it volition deterioration down quickly. But different this nifty pencil has been an perfectly crippled changer for me, and the 1 make-up merchandise I privation I'd invented.

Something akin is Jones Road's The Face Pencil, £28 – a chunkier crayon, this is amended suited to covering larger areas – and the PIXI CC Crayon, £10, which is specifically designed to neutralise acheronian under-eye circles.