You’d think that at 25 I’d be too old to have zits, but they still keep coming around the chin area, especially before my period. While a little tea tree oil helps them go away in two days, there’s still the glaring red bump to contend with in the meantime and the stubborn acne scar to deal with after. I’ve been looking for good concealer for this reason, preferably one with green tint so I can hide the redness. Unfortunately, every concealer palette I find is either too expensive and/or has too many shades of brown that I probably won’t use.
The perfect palette fell into my lap when Carmen of CarmenClaire Cosmetics sent me an email introducing her Multiply store and a little about herself. Carmen started her brand CarmenClaire because of her passion for makeup as a way to “lovingly minimize” flaws. Her line of cosmetics feature everyday makeup suited for this purpose, such as blush, concealer, lipstick, and lashes, as well as skin care, makeup brushes, and fragrance. One thing you are never going to find in her store are whitening products. Like me, Carmen doesn’t believe in using skin whitening anything, which is awesome and rare in a society that still believes that white skin is beautiful, while our natural morena skin color is not. For these reasons, I happily agreed to review a product from her makeup line.
It took me all of two seconds to decide that I wanted to try out the Cover Operations concealer palette in Neutralize.
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