
by jhunie
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A breakout is a major bad-day bummer, just makes you flinch when you’re greeted with a red zit in front of the mirror. Even more horrible, is realizing you’ve practically lost your concealer out there somewhere, a typical beauty crisis. Instead of cancelling my entire day in contempt, I took it as a cue to finally replace my bb cream for a better one. I remembered a few days before. My sister borrowed my urban decay concealer. I phoned her confessing she had it in her case. Ignoring her chuckles, I just dismissed
the incident and bought this Benefit Erase Paste concealer. I wanted a multi-tasking concealer for purely cosmetic purposes than going for the same blemish creams that sting.
Blemish creams are medicated cover ups used to alleviate the swelling while camouflaging the redness. Though bb creams may dry out the zit fast, it burns and leaves ugly scarring such as dark spots. The benefit paste reminds me of MAC’s studio finish concealer. It’s an opaque over-all cover up. Benefit tends to settle in a powdery finish which is a bit drying for people who need ample moisturization.
I’ve gone through mineral concealers as well and previously pencils in solid preparations, some worked but only a few believably creates a blemish-free coverage, therefore, most of these products were not effective in concealing blemishes, other than erasing fatigued circles under the eyes.
This concealer is quite thick. In a way, it works to bring a fuller concrete covering but it creases if I apply it on corners. The fair shade appears too saturated, exaggerating the yellow tones of my skin especially when slathered under the eyes to cover blown up bags. The tacky paste doesn’t ...