Dior’s luxurious offering in the category forms part of its Backstage Pros collection: Fix-It Colour, which come in four key shades. Packaged like a DiorShow lipstick, each twist–tool not only helps correct colour skin imperfections, but has added skincare benefits too.
The central, white core in the stick acts as a primer to even skin texture. Then, the coloured product on the exterior is where the magic happens. Green helps neutralise redness (around the nose, chin, and cheeks); blue combats sallowness and dullness; yellow is ideal for dark spots (hello under-eye circles); and apricot lifts greyness out of dark skins.
They’re all inspired by creative director Peter Philips’s professional backstage techniques, and work beautifully to enhance your makeup routine.
It might seem bizarre to draw and crosshatch (that’s the technique Lori Taylor, global pro lead artist for Smashbox favours) these colours across your face, but the results are astounding and achieve what a washed-out concealer always fails to do. So, what are you waiting for? Start collecting your colouring crayons for adults… now.
August 2016
Colour correcting: the makeup fix you need
Colour correction sticks have become 2016’s version of 2015’s contour kits. All over the show, brands are adding apricots, greens, and yellows, in both powders and sticks, to their makeup offerings. These are not as eyeshadows or nailpolishes, but to do exactly what the colour wheel predicts: counteract colour tones in your skin.
Smashbox is the only brand we know of that tests all its products in studio in every lighting scenario. The products are designed to enhance your good features and blur the bad ones. This September, three colour-correcting sticks will join its bevvy of best-selling primers in store. Affectionately named after what they fix, Get Less Red is a green crayon to combat redness, Look Less Tired Light, is a light peach shade, and Look Less Tired Dark is a deeper orange – both of these beat sallowness and dark spots
Dior’s luxurious offering in the category forms part of its Backstage Pros collection: Fix-It Colour, which come in four key shades. Packaged like a DiorShow lipstick, each twist–tool not only helps correct colour skin imperfections, but has added skincare benefits too.
The central, white core in the stick acts as a primer to even skin texture. Then, the coloured product on the exterior is where the magic happens. Green helps neutralise redness (around the nose, chin, and cheeks); blue combats sallowness and dullness; yellow is ideal for dark spots (hello under-eye circles); and apricot lifts greyness out of dark skins.
They’re all inspired by creative director Peter Philips’s professional backstage techniques, and work beautifully to enhance your makeup routine.
It might seem bizarre to draw and crosshatch (that’s the technique Lori Taylor, global pro lead artist for Smashbox favours) these colours across your face, but the results are astounding and achieve what a washed-out concealer always fails to do. So, what are you waiting for? Start collecting your colouring crayons for adults… now.
Dior.com
Smashbox.com