 Today is all about throwing out what you've learned about concealer in the past and trying these five tips that I have for you and seeing whether or not it won't help your mature under-eyes look their very best they've ever looked. Hello friends, I am so glad that you're here with me today. I have been wanting to do this video for a while because I have been practicing this particular technique and it just seems to be for the first time in a very long time working so well for me. If you've been with me for any amount of time, you know that a while back, I threw away all my concealers, it was like no more. I can't do it because they looked so bad underneath my eyes. Then I found COSIS and COSIS was the one that got me kind of back into the concealer routine and I absolutely love COSIS. But once I started using these few tips and put them into practice, I all of a sudden noticed that at the end of the day, I didn't look dry underneath here is the Sahara Desert. There wasn't anything that I had to tap out as the day went on. Now I will say that since we are into the humid summer months, you might have to look in the mirror occasionally and do this. I mean, it happens to us all. But this gives me the best coverage I've ever had because my under-eyes are almost black. When I don't have all these lights around, they are so, so dark. I'm very self-conscious about them and I want to cover them, but it seems like the more product you put on there, the harder it is. Well, I've kind of found a way around that. We can use as much product as we need to, but they can still look perfected and beautiful. So those five tips are just ahead. Right here is a timestamp because right now I am going to go ahead and I'm going to show my shirt, my jewelry, everything for everybody. So there's a timestamp right here that you can go ahead and go to if you want to skip over what I'm wearing. So I have this pink shirt on today that has a great neckline on it and it has the cutout on it all the way around and I actually didn't wear or my strap was bra because I didn't feel like fighting that thing today. So you can get some of that two-sided tape and you can do your bra straps to right here so that instead of being all the way in, mine kind of sit normally out there anyway. So really easy to hide the bra straps if you need to. And the other thing about this is I would size up if it were me. I wear a large, that's my normal size, but I wish that I had gotten this in an extra large as you can see in the picture. It's just a little bit too tight even though I do like to wear my t-shirts a little bit tight. And by the way, this is a poly spandex blend. So it's not going to be your typical t-shirt material. It's just a little bit dressier than that and I really like it. And then I during Amazon Prime bought these cute little hoops. They are kind of a rope hoop and they aren't heavy at all. They're very light, they're gold and I'm not sure if they had silver or not but when you get in there, you can see if you like the silver better. And then what I was so excited and happy about is this adorable necklace. This is hearts and it's just linked hearts and I just think you're so, so pretty and I'm absolutely in love with it. And yeah, it's very dainty and just looks really pretty. And as always, I will put any makeup that I didn't talk about in the video down in the links below along with my Farinaw polish and all of my rings that I wear today. And speaking of links, right here, we're going to have a number come up and that number will correspond with whatever product I'm using at that moment. And you don't have to remember what that product is. All you have to remember is that you wanted number three or you were interested in number three. Open up the description box, go down in there and everything will be numbered. And so you can go to number three and whatever I was talking about will be right there along with the link and you can shop that way if you want to. All right, now it's time to get into the tutorial so that you can see how I do my under eyes for this 54-year-old woman that has creasing and crepey and wrinkles and dark, dark, darkness. And yeah, let's attack every bit of that in this video right now. All right, we are all zoomed in. Now, the first thing I want to tell you is we're not talking about wrinkles. We're not talking about the lines that we have underneath here and that you can get rid of them with concealer. They're there no matter what. At the very end of this video, what I'm going to do is I'm going to show you a close-up like this and I'm gonna smile so you can see that I have wrinkles and yes, they are shown up all the time. Now, when you see me under the lights and everything, it's a little bit harder to realize that when you see somebody up in person, they really do have a lot of wrinkles, especially at my age. I'm 54 and it's just one of those things about life. And I earned every one of these laugh lines, these frown lines and I am not ashamed of them and I think that you should not be ashamed of them either. Okay, so I've already done a primer. I did the New Essence gripping primer. I'm gonna start by using my Sephora Best Skin Ever. The color in this is 30P. So it's got a pink undertone of it. I'm gonna use two pumps and I'm just gonna pick it up on my sponge. It's usually what I've been doing these days to kind of just have things be just a little bit easier and quicker for me and just pick up a little dot of it and then I dotted around. I did do my forehead because if I hadn't done my forehead before I did this, I would not have been able to do my eyebrows. The biggest way that you can fight those wrinkles is to Uber hydrate your skin. So I would suggest that you put on a super hydrating essence that's very watery that can sink in really quickly. And then I would suggest that you use my Trident True Suco Yacca Sujada Urea Moisture Cream and I just slather it. I will link down below two essences, one from this company and another from Rovectin that I think are fantastic. Let me show you how much I actually used. That's how much I used. That's a lot. And this tube is almost two ounces so you can use that and be very comfortable with it. So I'm gonna use that on the back of my hand because I don't wanna waste it. But yes, you have to hypermoisturize. Now the second thing about it is that, and I've said this in many videos too, is that now that you have that super slathered all over, if you have too much on after you let it sink in, at that point I took a microfiber, very soft microfiber cloth and then I padded away everything that was extra under my eyes. But now those eyes are super hydrated underneath here. So that's the only thing that you can do that will truly plump up that area and then it will help so much with that under eye look of having lots of wrinkles. The only way that you can not have wrinkles when you smile or not look like you have more wrinkles when you smile is to go around all day long like this and don't smile and don't move your eyes up and down and don't squint or anything. Don't go around like that. You need to be happy and expressive. It's just good to be yourself. Besides the wrinkles are you, they're a part of you, it's okay, it's okay. I guess that's what I'm just trying to say, it's okay. All right, here's the part you've been waiting for. What are you talking about Melissa? What are you talking about when you say throw away all the rules of concealer? And that is this tip. Now, first of all, I have never been able to wear the Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Eraser. Never been able to wear this in my whole life because it was too thin and I could not get it to work. It didn't have enough coverage, but since I've been doing this technique, this tip, I've been able to wear just about any concealer unless they're super drying and you can do this. So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to put a lot of this one on because this is a super thin formula. So see how much I'm putting on? I know, I know, it looks like a ton. What are you doing, Melissa? Okay, I just completely covered that. Now here's my COSIS, this is the one I love, this is the one I use every day and it is the one that never fails me. If you guys have the chance to try it, I just say go for it, it's so good. So on this one, I'm completely covering everything as well. I know that's a lot, but you are gonna completely let this set. Let it set 100%, don't mess with it. You can have expressions, whatever, just let it set. Okay, so what I do is I'm gonna do everything that I can that doesn't involve the eyes or getting close to the eyes. So I'm taking my Milani, this is the Sunkist Silky Matte Bronzer in Sunkist and this is just an angled brush from Real Techniques and I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna do my contouring and my bronzing with this. Staying away from that under eye when you do that cheek. But right now I'm gonna do my lips because I still want that to set. I'm using the Rimmel, this is the Lasting Finish Exaggerate Pencil. This is a liner that is for your lips and it has an angle on it already, so it kind of stays sharp and I'm just gonna go ahead and line my lips with it. I'm taking the Sephora Matte Lip Stain in a color that I could not see even if I had three pairs of glasses on. So I'll make sure that I list it below for you. Real Pretty Pink that kind of matches my shirt today, so I'm liking that. Give that a few seconds to dry down and then just pop a little bit of gloss on there. I'm using the Fenty Gloss Bomb in Diamond Milk. I just rediscovered this and I forgot how much, I love this stuff, it's so pillowy and yummy. Okay, this has set and what's the nice thing about that is now you have a thicker consistency but you still have the hydration from whatever you chose in your concealer. So I'm gonna go over here and do the coast's side and I just start from the outside and I try to look straight up and I am really buffing in that outside and I take my time and I'm gonna bring that down on my cheek and it's just going to look absolutely lovely. I love that. I'm gonna do this side and because this is a little bit thinner formula because I let this set up a little bit longer, it should be all right. Can you see how smooth and how pretty it looks? And that's because I let it set up but look at my sponge. My sponge picked up the majority of it. Now, if you still feel like you have too much on, take another part of your sponge and just go across it a little bit. I don't feel like I have too much on because I've really worked with it. I don't want you to make a bunch of expressions right now. I want you to just kind of let that set. What you're gonna do now, oh my gosh, you guys, have you discovered the new Max Fix Stayover? Okay, this is alcohol-free. It's a long-lasting setting spray. It's really good. Okay, this trick right here and I've been doing this for a long time was started by a TikTok gal named Kendra. I'm gonna say her name wrong, Aris. She's beautiful. Anyway, she's a makeup artist. I watch her all the time. She has the best tips. I'll make sure that I link her TikTok candle down below. Now, what she does is she sprays the back of her hand with a setting spray. So I've got quite a bit on there. Now, what she normally does is use your finger. I don't do that. So I just pick up what I've sprayed on the back of my hand on my sponge and I'm just going in very lightly and I'm just touching that with the spray. I don't spray it right onto the sponge because I don't want quite as much as that. I am picking up quite a bit off my hand but I don't want as much as that. This is her trick to set them. My trick is the coverage part. Now, the final tip is letting that sit one more time. I had, the last time I talked about letting products sit before you do your next thing, I had a lot of you say, I don't have time for that. Well, you almost have to make time if you want these things to work because as we get older, it just takes longer than just putting it on and we look great and we can go. This is the way you get it to not crease, not look super dry during the day and completely cover. Okay, on the side that I had the Maybelline, I'm gonna take the number seven, lift and illuminate. This is almost too light for me right now with what I'm doing but I'm gonna take that pressed powder and I'm going to pick up a little bit of it and I'm going to just very lightly again set right here underneath the eye. Okay, I'm in one of my Hourglass Ambient Lighting palettes and I'm going right in here. I think this is dim light or diffuse light. I actually just go between those two right there. I'm really trying hard to use these up and then I'm going to again, just touch this a little bit and set it. I'm actually gonna take just a little bit more of that and I'm gonna set the places where I know I get break apart, especially around my nose. I just want you to look now. Look how perfect they look, how beautiful they look. I'm not gonna do the smiling thing but in a second when I'm done with everything I'm gonna smile and let you see that yes, I have the creases and the wrinkles just like you do. I'm also going to try the new elf. These are the luminous blushes. I've really been anxious to see what these look like. Now you can put a little bit of that blush up closer to your eye. That's gonna be a pretty look on you if you wanna try that. That blush is beautiful. Do you see the tiny bit of sheen in it? Oh, it's so pretty. Oh my goodness, that's so pretty. What a beautiful color that is. Oh my gosh. I'm gonna take one of these Sephora pencils, eye pencils. This is called shimmering taupe. This is one of my new favorite colors. It's got some dimension to it. So I'm going to take that out here just on the outer part of my eye, just barely. And I'm gonna take my trusted Sigma E2, I'm sorry, Sigma E3 zero brush and I'm just gonna buff it a tiny bit out and then I'm gonna do that on the other side as well. And then I've been working with this waterproof mascara from Makeup Revolution. I really like it. It's called 5D Lash Lift and Defined Waterproof. Kind of a really straight brush, actually. And I'm just gonna put a little bit of mascara out here. Okay, so here's the part I've been talking about. I'm gonna zoom you in so you can just see the eyes. Okay, this looks so good and this is gonna stay on all day. It's covered completely, but when I smile like this, you can definitely tell that I have a ton of wrinkles in there. So if it's really super humid and you're smiling, you're gonna have to do this during the day once or twice, but I very rarely ever find myself doing that. And by the end of the day, my under eye makeup is still there. You might need to use a little bit more powder depending on who you are, how you feel about it. Now, I want you to know that this might not be the exact thing that you need. You might need to tweak this whole routine for you so that it's personalized to you. If you have the creasing during the day, you might need to be using your sponge a lot more and wiping a lot more away. If you actually, throughout the day, you're noticing that it's wearing off, you might need to be using a little bit more fixing spray, a little bit more powder. If you're noticing that it looks super dry, you might be using too much powder underneath there. A little bit of tweaking for you because this is my routine and this is what works out the best for me. I hope that you all did enjoy this tutorial. Thank you so much. Don't forget to give it a thumbs up on your way out of here and way in down below about what you thought about it. So what I'm gonna do right now is I'm gonna put up another video right here. It will have some tips and tricks for you. Hopefully that you haven't seen before, especially if you've just been with me for a year or two. I'll put up an older tips and tricks video right here so that you can see that. Thanks so much for spending time with me. I love you all so very much and I will talk to you and see you in my very next video. Love you friends. Goodbye.