Revisiting Maybelline SuperStay 24 hr Concealer

** read original review

I couldn't resign myself to the idea that SuperStay was just a bad concealer with limited colors and tones. So, I kept looking for reviews and comments from other bloggers, trying to see what they saw in it that I didn't. Finally, one day I had an epiphany!

SuperStay is not a good concealer for me, but it's the perfect corrector.

The difference between a concealer and a corrector is that while a concealer is there to hide your dark circles and is usually skin colored [sometimes with a bit of yellow in it,] a corrector uses colors to mask other colors in your face.
Example: My NC35 concealer makes my dark circles the same color as the rest of my face, but sometimes [most of the time,] they're too dark and the darkness shows through. Putting a pink-based corrector on my yellow toned skin cancels out my dark circles and brightens up the eye area. [I've been doing a bit of reading about all this and it seems that pink based correctors aren't necessarily just for yellow toned skin, so feel free to give it a shot.]

Although SuperStay isn't marketed as a corrector, I found that it is much too pink to work as a concealer, but as a corrector it works wonders.

I apply the too-pink SuperStay to the inner corner of my eye and first half of my under eye area where the circles are at their worst.

I blend blend blend blend until it looks passable [though always a bit powdery,] and then I put my MAC Pro Longwear concealer in NC35 over all of it. Sometimes, I skip MAC and go for the Maybelline FitMe concealer in 25 because the color looks really great.

By mixing the two colors, my circles are effectively wiped out [or at least, as much as they'll ever be.]
I'm really really happy with SuperStay now that I've figured out how to use it to my advantage. I still say that as a concealer, it's incredibly limited because of how thick it is and the very few color options, but as a corrector, it rivals Bobbi Brown's line [that's right, I said it.]

** As a way to deal with how powdery SuperStay is, I always make sure I put a little bit of extra moisturizer under my eyes and I apply the concealers right after so the area is still smooth enough to work with.