Beauty Expert Shares How To Get An ‘Instant Facelift’ Using A Brightening Concealer: ‘So Simple, So Easy’

1. First, Purchase a Brightening Concealer

A brightening concealer is different from the everyday concealer that you use to cancel out pigmentation on your skin or under your eyes. It shouldn’t be the same shade as your skin, but lighter and brighter. Think of it as a highlighter, but in a stick format that’s simple to apply. There are a number of brightening concealers from which to choose, so find one that suits your skin tone (warm or cool).

Apply Brightening Concealer in a Strategic Way

King doesn’t just dab some brightening concealer on random spots of her face and hope for the best — her method is strategic. To create a lifted look, she applies a line of concealer from the outer corner of her eye up and upward, then from the outer bottom of her nose (and upward), and finally from the top lip corner and, you guessed it, outward.

The final step is important: take a makeup brush and blend the highlighter with upward strokes, but not so much that it vanishes from your skin, which would defeat the purpose of application. As we see on King, the effect is natural, luminous, and lifted — and it didn’t take a lot of makeup to achieve.