Home-Made Concealer

So, most of us have experienced the frustration with rising cosmetic prices, and a lot of us have decided that they just aren't worth that extra money you may need for milk later this month. Here's a little solution that might get you through for a while. Sure you can go to a drug store or a super market and pick up a concealer stick for $7, or you can make your own at home. This is really cool!

*Above are all the tools and products that

were used to make this concealer*

1) This can be so versatile. You can make it for covering up blemishes, smoothing out your skin, and even to help contour, and simply cover with a translucent finish powder.
2) This can be made with any array of products, colors and scents even.
3) It only requires 2 ingredients. Thats right! Only two!

And what are these ingredients? Moisturizer/Primer, or something like those thats not going to dry out, irritate or damage your skin. You can use your favorite moisturizer or liquid primer. You can even use your favorite lotion, provided it doesn't cause blemishes later on. You want something that will help your skin stay and feel healthy. The other ingredient is any shade of loose powder. If you don't have loose powder, you can use packed powder and shave it off then crush it up until its smooth like loose powder. If you don't know what it should look like because you've always used packed powder, it should look something along the lines of flour or powdered sugar.

I'm gonna be as honest as possible and let you know that there really is no specific quantity to either of these things. You just have to do what you think is gonna make the best consistency for your liking.

I used a little more complex recipe, and included a tiny bit of a soft blush I love, to make it look more natural for my skin. Like I said, you can do this however you feel is right for you. Here's what I did, and you can change this however you want.

I started with a little clear container from a sample of wax melts from Avon that I had from when I used to sell it. You can get little containers like this with screw caps, and snap caps pretty cheap online. You can also use an old powder container. If you buy stick concealer, I would not recommend using those containers, as they have holes in the bottom under the stick that your homemade concealer, especially if very thin and liquid-y, will sink into and you won't be able to use every bit you made. You can use any little container you have lying around. If you have any old lip gloss containers, or anything similar, clean them out really well.

I used a little antiseptic towelette to help sanitize my hands and my container, along with my work bench and my tools and products. You don't want any nasty bacteria in your make-up.

Here are the products I chose, and just what I had on hand. I didn't purchase these, I've had them for a while.

Avon Ideal Shade Foundation Lotion; medium moyan (This is a white primer-like lotion with spf 15)
Rimmel London Stay Matte Pressed Powder; Creamy Natural 011
      *I would suggest buying a few different shades to get the right one for your skin. Your press powder may work alone on your skin perfectly, however, mixing it with a liquid form of anything may make it darker. This happened to me, so I ended up using a lighter color from an eye-shadow palette which I would not recommend because this makes the make-up very shimmery and is harder to wash off even with towelettes.
The eye shadow I used is also an Avon product.This one is the Baie d'amour (Berry Love) F1703. It has four different colors, as part of a 4 step process to get that nice cat-eye shadow appearance. I used the lightest color in the palette to help even out the darkness on the concealer.
I also added a little bit of light blush which is another avon product. Smooth Minerals Blushing Mauve M301 and this is a very light, shimmery, soft pink blush that I really love to use, and its perfect on my skin tone, which is a very light ivory color.

I started with 1/4 Teaspoon of both the foundation lotion and the Rimmel London powder.
This was a little bit too liquid-y for me, so I added a bit more powder. After getting it to the consistency I wanted, I added a little bit of the smooth minerals. This made it darker. I added a bit more of the lotion to get it back to consistency, and then added the lightest shadow I had. Again, I would not recommend this, I would recommend buying a powder that is a shade or two lighter than your skin. If you want a concealer thats lighter, but you can't find a powder thats lighter, you can use a translucent powder. If you just want a thicker translucent coverage, you can use just a white moisturizer and translucent powder. You can also use air-brush foundation for this, but use less moisturizer or it will become very thin. I also suggest, if using air-brush foundation, you use translucent powder to make it thicker. You can also add some blush powder, but don't use a dark blush, get a very faint pink color, or a faint color of whatever you like, and only add a tiny pinch. Remember that any colors besides your skin color will make this darker. If you get darker color that you can't seem to brighten up, you can use this for contouring by making it a little bit darker and then using a beauty blender to help even out your colors on your skin.

Keep repeating your process until you have the shade, consistency and amount that you're happy with. If you try this, show me pictures and let me know what you did down in the comments! If you have any recommendations, also share those for all other users!!
I hope this helps you save a bit of money on concealer, and I know this way goes a lot longer than buying it. Good luck and have fun making your own make up thats good for your skin!

I'll be trying out a home-made foundation Powder here in the near future. If you have any recipes for those, let me know also in the comments!! Thanks for reading and I'll see you next time!