Color Corrector- melasma

[Anonymous]

I have melasma above my lip and on my cheekbones. I am looking for something that will mask these marks. I've tried Kat Von D concealer, Estee Lauder concealer, BOING concealer, dermablend concealer and nothing is working. I'm wondering if a color corrector is the way to go at this point. I have olive skin and any product that i put on over these areas you can still see the shadows of the melasma. Any suggestions?

[Anonymous]

have you tried tarte shape tape yet 

[xulybet]

I have it, too. I think it's all in how you apply the concealer. A Sephora SA applied CoverFX's concealer on me and it covered every brown spot. It was the first thing that ever did. When I tried to replicate it myself at home, the brown spots still showed. Ask a good SA for tips. I've found what works is a medium coverage foundation with multiple, thin layers of a full coverage concealer (the Cover FX, or Nars also works well. So does Lancome's) over it. It's better to let a little melasma show through than to wind up caking on makeup to try to cover it all. That looks worse! Hope that helps.

[kaelaaamorgaan]

go check out Bailey Sarian's youtube channel! She has the same condition and she has lots of videos you can check out to see what products works for her (: 

[TheAdmiral]

If you want a cheap but good color correcting palette just to see if color correcting could help, the NYX Color Correcting Concealer palette is great ($12 for six colors and you can find it at the drugstore, Target, etc.).