How to Hide Dark Circles Under Your Eyes Like a Professional Makeup Artist

While some under-eye circles are caused by fatigue or dehydration, others are passed down from mom and dad and just won't go away no matter how much time you spend in the sleeping city. While eye creams formulated to lighten under eye dark circles are a great way to reduce the appearance of dark circles with regular use, the only way to make those suckers really disappear is with cosmetics. Want to know how to hide dark circles under the eyes like a professional makeup artist? Keep reading. Whether your dark circles are caused by too many late nights in a row — it's summer, after all — or they're just a facial feature you've learned to live with, this step-by-step guide will help cover them up without any extra effort. visible evidence that they ever existed at all.

Step 1: Eye Cream

While eye cream cannot make your dark circles disappear into thin air, using a brightening eye cream over time can seriously reduce their appearance. Before touching any concealer, use your ring finger to gently pat the eye cream around the orbital bone of your eye. This method helps to avoid undue stretching of the delicate skin under the eyes and prevents the product from getting into sensitive eyes. Another tip? Look for eye creams with SPF. UV rays can make dark circles look much darker, so filtering the sun's rays with a broad spectrum SPF is key. Bienfait Multi-Vital Eye by Lancôme contains SPF 30 and caffeine to help protect the eye area from sun damage and visibly reduce the appearance of puffiness, dark circles and dehydration lines around the eye area. 

Step 2: Color correction

Have you ever seen a beauty blogger use red lipstick under their eyes before applying concealer? This, my friends, is color correction. A reference to a high school art class, color correction is based on the assumption that colors opposite each other on the color wheel cancel each other out. In the case of dark circles, you use red to dispel the blue. Luckily, you don't have to sacrifice your favorite red lipstick for this cause. Get out the color correcting cream - these are the easiest to mix and apply over - for example, Naked Skin Color Correction Fluid by Urban Decay peach if you have olive or dark skin tone, or pink if you have fair skin tone. Draw inverted triangles under each eye and blend with a damp sponge blender.

Step 3: Hide

The next step is your real concealment stage, concealer. Again, choose a creamy formula and use the same inverted triangle technique. This not only brightens the under eye area, but also the skin around it, allowing you to really highlight and brighten the look of the under eye skin. We love Dermablend Quick-Fix Concealer- available in 10 velvety shades that blend perfectly with your skin and give it a flawless look! For dark circles, choose a concealer that is at least one shade lighter than your skin tone to highlight the area.

Step 4: Foundation

Then apply foundation by lightly tapping under the eyes to make sure everything looks natural and there are no obvious lines of demarcation between the products. For our base, we refer to L'Oréal Paris True Match Lumi Cushion Foundation. This liquid foundation comes in 12 shades and offers fresh looks and buildable coverage!

Step 5: Install it!

The final step in applying any concealer makeup is the fixing step. Before continuing to apply bronzer, blush and mascara, spray quickly onto face NYX Professional Makeup Matte Finish Setting Spray to keep your freshly erased dark circles hidden from morning to night!

Note: If you still see shadows, use a little concealer at the corners of your eyes after applying foundation.