Hyperpigmentation Makeup Tutorial | Cover Dark Spots Flawlessly

For those of you who struggle with hyperpigmentation, this video is for you. So let me explain what hyperpigmentation is first because some of you might not even realise that you have it. Hyperpigmentation is when you have an overproduction of melanin and it's basically where you have dark patches on your skin. It could start off with sun spots or age spots and then gradually become darker over time. It could be larger areas, it could be smaller areas and it really starts off sometimes small and then kind of like it can change accordingly. Sometimes it just disappears as well so it's really one of those things which is unfortunate we can't figure out and we can't like fully know when it's going to happen or if it will happen but I'm here to show you how you can get a flawless base using real life techniques. So obviously I don't have severe hyperpigmentation but I'm going to show you the technique. So this isn't about showing you before or after, this is about teaching you how to actually cover hyperpigmentation whilst getting a flawless base that actually looks natural because I think you all know by now if you have hyperpigmentation that the struggle isn't always just covering it, it's also having it look natural through the day and for it not to just randomly appear because sometimes you can pack on the makeup and you're like okay great I've got rid of it but it looks heavy or later in the day it just starts to reappear and you're like because the makeup's coming off. So I want to go through all of that with you and show you exactly what the right technique is. If you like this kind of real life practical kind of educational video make sure you hit the like button, subscribe and hit the bell button so you don't miss my next video. Hyperpigmentation is actually very different to redness. Some of you may not know that right because it can be a little bit confusing with all these words thrown around like rosacea and then you've got hyperpigmentation you're like which one which one am I am I a bit of both. Hyperpigmentation is usually deeper in tone, it's a bit more stubborn and it's also kind of like uneven patches. If you add one layer of foundation it kind of doesn't cover it but then if you go in with another one it just starts to look thick so that's like basically what I mentioned earlier. That's why the approach that we have today that I'm going to be showing you is a lot more targeted. Step one is making sure that you actually prep your skin correctly. I have no skincare on whatsoever, skin is feeling a little bit dry. Now when it comes to hyperpigmentation I would say I don't have hyperpigmentation but I do deal with darkness in certain areas and I definitely have age spots, sun spots, I don't know what you want to call them. My mum has them in the same places, I have them scattered around here, little kind of dots, brown dots. I have them coming up on my forehead, I have them scattered around my nose, it's mainly my the top of my cheekbones which is exactly where my mum has them and yeah I've got them kind of spread out in different areas and sometimes they look darker than usual, sometimes they're not so bad and I do have a little bit of darkness around this area here. It's always stuff that you know you can see close up yourself but may not be that visible on camera. So yeah, that's what we're going to go with. Now ultimately we want hydrated skin. I'm going to go in with my Drunk Elephant Be Hydra Intensive Hydration Serum. This is a really good product when you want intensive hydration basically. I feel like this alone really does help if you need extra hydration during the day. I don't rub it all in, I just kind of like pat it on and then let it kind of do its thing. Then I'm going to apply my Drunk Elephant Ceramite AF Eye Balm. Do you remember I used to use these all the time? I've gone back to it because it just feels so good. I don't even know if it actually does anything but it feels really good on the eye. It's just super balmy. Okay, just patting that all over. Next I'm going to go in with my moisturiser because by now the serum that I applied has dried down. I'm using my Hourglass Equilibrium Restorative Hydrating Cream. I quite like that as my day cream. So we've got really well hydrated skin. The only way I can describe how my skin feels right now is hydrated. It doesn't feel dry, it's got a nice layer of hydration on it so my finger kind of glides across without taking off product. It's a smooth surface, it's hydrated but it's not overly greasy. It's basically balanced skin and that's what we're dealing with right now. Now I talk a lot about stuff like this over on thebeautybreakfastclub.com. 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Something that is going to kind of really nicely kind of smooth our skin even further, create a barrier between our skincare and makeup so that our skincare can get to work and do its job and not be interfered by the makeup and the makeup can get on with its job and not be interfered by the skincare but also to kind of just give us a nice kind of finish for the foundation so nothing too overly greasy. It really depends on what your skin type is like here so I'd think about it. Do you have dry skin? Then go for a hydrating primer. Do you have oily skin? Then go for a matte blurring primer. Do you struggle with texture? Go for a blurring primer. Like think about what it is that you want in terms of like your primer. I'm actually going to go for the Pore Vanishing Photo Finish Primer from Smashbox. I really do like this, I love Smashbox primers at the moment and I'm just going to apply this everywhere where I have a bit of texture. This is really for kind of perfecting your base before you apply your foundation so it's really targeted. What we don't want to do next is add a full coverage foundation. I know it's tempting because it can immediately cover kind of anything that you need to cover but the problem with that is is it provides unnecessary thick coverage immediately and it looks heavy. It emphasizes texture and it can also end up actually emphasizing the dark areas because sometimes those dark areas can look different with a certain foundation compared to how that foundation looks like on your normal skin color because your normal skin color might look fine right when you've got that foundation on but the minute it goes over an area which is darker it can end up making the area almost look covered but gray you know and I'm sure you guys have probably noticed this when you're working with or when you're dealing with kind of like more severe hyperpigmentation is that the actual tone of that area changes when you put the foundation on because it looks the foundation looks great everywhere else on the major like on the main surface areas where you don't have hyperpigmentation but you can't like you know use a different foundation on the hyperpigmentation areas and then your normal foundation on the areas that like not you don't deal with hyperpigmentation because it's just gonna look really weird and that's just way too much going on so this is what I want to explain to you we're gonna go in with a lightweight foundation first I know you may be wondering do we not apply color corrector at this point but this is a different technique I'm showing you because it's gonna make sense as I go through it so we want a lightweight foundation first so the foundation that I want to use and don't get worried about this because I know you're probably thinking well how is that actually going to cover anything but just trust me so the foundation that we're going to use is the hourglass illusion luminous glow foundation my shade is number 10 and this is a really nice lightweight foundation I'm going to get a thin layer of this on we're not focusing on covering hyperpigmentation at this point we want to get an even layer all over I just want you to get a nice thin layer all over your skin all over your face and at this point this is where you will be able to see once you've got this layer on what your hyperpigmentation looks like with this foundation on now for me like I mentioned you may not be able to see the areas that I find a little dark because it might be really kind of minor in comparison to what you're dealing with and you may not just generally be able to see it because of the camera and everything but I don't know why my words going coming all out weird I have a little bit of kind of darkness that I deal with just around this area here and a little bit around here but more so around this area here what we want to do is let this settle down and dry down so that it's not so wet so don't go immediately with your next product at this point you will see what your hyperpigmentation looks like so it may be very slightly covered because it's a lightweight foundation you've used but ultimately it's going to show you like how much more work you need to really do right rather than pack on a thick foundation so at this point you'll be able to see that okay it's toned it down a little bit but I do need to work on those areas and it's a little bit more gray on those areas so it's important to understand how that hyperpigmentation looks after you've got that first layer of foundation on so that you're not struggling after you've kind of applied all of your layers if that makes sense so this first layer gives you a really good indication to what you're dealing with is it a bit more gray now is it a bit more kind of like brownish now like what am I dealing with so I know how to counteract it the reason you need to know what kind of tone it's turned into right now is because then you know what color you need to neutralize it so if that area if the pigmentation is looking a little bit more brown or grayish or even bluish you need a specific color of color corrector to neutralize that a peach or orange tone color corrector is going to cancel out any kind of darkness so if it's looking dark that's where peach and orange will come in nine times out of ten that's what you're dealing with after you've put the first layer of foundation on because that's generally how hyperpigmentation looks so what we're going to do is use a color corrector and I want something that isn't going to be too fluid for me because I want it to stay in place and I think this one in particular works great this is the Charlotte Tilbury color corrector in tan it's a bright orange so it works really well for hyperpigmentation but obviously if hyperpigmentation is not so intense you might be able to go for a peach tone this is where you want to use the smallest amount possible and you just want to kind of pat it on top of the areas that you have hyperpigmentation only on the on the pigmented areas so I'm going to be applying it here this is where I said I deal with darkness and you really don't need a lot you don't want it to fully disappear because we're going to deal with that in a bit I'm also going to apply this just around here because I do have some darkness around here and just there I always struggle with this inner eye area it's very dark there you go this next step is when we go in with concealer now right now I want you to let this settle down because it needs to dry down before you move in with concealer in terms of concealer you want to use something which fits in well with your general routine like it's not just about covering the pigment the hyperpigmentation it is also about getting the coverage that you need maybe for your dark circles so I personally really do like the Tarte shape tape so I'm going to use my normal Tarte shape tape so right now what I want to do is just add this where I usually would so that would be just here and I'm also going to do this here because this helps to actually brighten it up for me but also give me a little bit of a lift and then right here now what I do here is I get my sponge I spray this with my setting spray make sure there's not like it's not too wet and then I pat this concealer down and you're going to see it's going to cover up that area brighten it you're not going to see the colour corrector there you go immediately it's bright I personally can see a huge difference there because it's not as dark it's like brightened it all up we're going to do this area here the trick is here is let that colour corrector dry down first and also when you are patting your concealer down don't press so hard be very gentle because you'll realise that actually you get a lot more of the coverage that way and you get more of a flawless finish without it looking heavy immediately we've got a really nice finish there I'm just going to take whatever's left on this sponge and add this to my lid because we don't have anything there it's pretty crazy isn't it because we had like orange there a second ago if you feel that you want a little bit more foundation on this is where you can go in with a very thin layer but not a lot so I don't personally feel like I want more foundation I actually feel like I'm really happy with this because ultimately what I'm trying to show you is how to cover like hyperpigmentation but still have it look natural right and it's that layering technique that really works here now at this point you want to make sure that you're going to set everything but you also don't want it to look so dry you want it to look very natural so don't pile on the powder because I know it's easy to think that that's what's going to work but you want to kind of layer on very lightly now I like using my Huda Easy Bake in and rather than kind of press on with a powder puff that can sometimes be too much for a natural base I would suggest using a brush so this is where you're going to get like a real techniques brush the setting brush dip into the powder and this is where you want to really kind of get under the eyes here that would be the first area that I would suggest doing and then press over very lightly where you've added the colour corrector that for me was there now very quickly I just want to use this sponge to get rid of any creasing that I have on my lids because it's probably started to crease because I opened my eyes let's now set this right those are the main areas that we've done now it's up to you whether you prefer a fully matte finish or if you'd like to have some dimension in the face personally I feel like you should have some dimension in the face only set the areas that crease very easily or that tend to come off and the areas that you've got hyperpigmentation if you don't have hyperpigmentation on key areas that kind of are the areas where light hits very easily then don't powder it down you don't need to so like I'm only going to go through the centre of my face because I like that area you know down middle to look nice and matte but all this area here I tend to leave because it adds a bit more dimension like for example if I turn to the side you can still see there's kind of like that nice kind of glow coming through which is natural at this point you want to get your spray and it melts everything in now you can use whatever spray you like this is not about setting this is really about melting your powder in so it doesn't look so heavy and I personally really like the Save Beauty City set because I feel like it's a spray that really does melt everything together there's a few that I like but that's one of my ones I'm using at the moment really that's kind of how you will get your base to a point where it is going to cover the hyperpigmentation still look natural and look kind of like flawless and kind of like you know like you've smoothed and smoothed and evened everything out but it is going to stay put all day because you've been very clever with the thin layers that you've applied I'm just going to curl my lashes more so so that you know it just opens up my eyes because I'm not putting mascara on just so that it looks you know doesn't look flat so going through some of the things that I feel like are mistakes when it comes to dealing with hyperpigmentation is number one going for a full coverage thick base immediately thinking it's going to cover everything up because you're not going to get a natural finish that way and it could potentially end up almost changing the colour of your hyperpigmentation like it's covered but that area just tends to look a little grey you know so you really want something that's going to brighten the area up and neutralise that hyperpigmentation so skipping colour correction is honestly a mistake I think when it comes to hyperpigmentation over powdering is another thing that I feel like can really be detrimental to your base when you are dealing with hyperpigmentation and applying too many layers can be we've applied I think three layers of cream liquid cream form and then one last layer of powder if you go any more than that it's going to end up looking too much and it can end up even taking off whatever you've kind of put all that hard work into applying right at the beginning so that is how you cover hyperpigmentation for a natural base something that looks very natural and lasts all day I really do hope you try and I hope it's helped you out let me know if you have any questions in the comments don't forget everything is listed in my description box and don't forget to hit the like button and subscribe and the bell button so that you don't miss my next video and I will catch you on the next video