Benefit Cosmetics: Lyin Eyes
December 28, 2006 by Shannon Nelson
Filed under Concealer, fake it
It’s ok to lie sometimes, especially when it comes to your beauty secrets. This handy little pen, has now become my biggest beauty secret when I have barely had sleep and have huge dark circles under my eyes.
Lyin Eyes, by Benefit Cosmetics, is a concealer that comes in only one color and goes on wet, but within seconds becomes powder dry.
Like my e.l.f. Hypershine Gloss (and Stila’s The Gift of Glaze), this concealer is a pen where you twist the top to bring the concealer into the paintbrush-like tip. Also like e.l.f.’s Hypershine Gloss, you have to twist the top about 60 times for your first use. On each follow-up use, it is about 2-3 times. The pen is mess free, which makes it a great product for you to carry in your handbag for mid-day touch-up’s.
When I applied Lyin Eyes, I had only gotten intermitten sleep the night before (darn kids) and had baggy, dark circled skin under my eyes with some slight redness on my lids. I first applied it to one eye to see if I could notice a difference. There was absolutely no foolin, the difference was dramatic. I simply swiped the pen under my eye 2-3 times and the entire area where I apply my eyeshadow. I then used my fingertip to gently blend everything with my skin, which you have to act quickly as it dries to a powder relatively fast. My eyes looked perkier…almost like I had 8 hours of sleep.
I haven’t gone a day without using this concealer on my eyes, it’s one of those products that are quite remarkable.
assuming it wont work for women of color then? any other great undereye circle solvers to recomend that are comparable?
Hi Liz,
There are two companies I can think of that might have what you are looking for. Jane Iredale, who has Global Beauty, which is geared to ethnic skin tones. She has something called “Cirlce Delete” for concealing dark circles, but it only gets as dark as “Golden/Brown.”
There is also Black Opal. They have a Flawless Perfecting Concealer.
I will ask two beauty bloggers I know with dark skin and see what they recommend and post it here. ;)
is this similar to the ysl touch eclat? i haven’t seen this around at all actually…this item seems so handy…a brush and makeup all in one click
It always makes me sad when makeup companies, of all people (!), make one-color-fits-all makeup.
Yes, why only one color. It’s a shame that such a great product isn’t available to all of us. I would love to try this since concealer makes a big difference in the morning. I have to check it out at the store to see the actual color and see if it matches my skin tone.
I’ve never found a concealer that works well for my DARK circles. Maybe I’ll try this. Can you recommend anything else for a person like me who suffers from severe dark circles (that won’t go away no matter how much sleep I get)?
Trudi, MAC’s studio lights doubles as a sculpting product and an under eye brightener. From what I’ve been told dark under eye circles are genetic, and the only thing sleep does is help w/ puffiness and bags.