Color Correcting For Beginners | color wheel, what each color is for, what I use, how to do it

Hi everybody, welcome back. Today I am doing a post all about color correcting. I got inspired to do this post, when my friend was asking me how she can cover redness on her face, a couple of days ago. I helped her find the right product and then I thought of doing this post for anyone else who is interested in color correcting and doesn't know how, or what colors to use.

The first thing I want to mention is the color wheel. This basically explains everything - so whatever color you want to get rid of, you just look at the opposite side of the wheel and that will be the color you use to cancel it out.

Before color correcting, it is important to cleanse and moisturize your skin as well as use your primer. Keep in mind that you are adding an extra layer of make up when color correcting, so start with a clean base to avoid ending up with make up that looks too cakey !
This is something that should be done anyway to take care of our skin.

Now I am just going to be going over each color, to explain what does what, and what you can use each one for.

Orange - Cancels out blue undertones, under eye darkness, hyperpigmentation or veins. This is great for light and medium to dark skin tones. If you have a very dark complexion you might want to consider using red instead of orange.

Green - Neutralizes redness - great for covering pimples.

Purple - Neutralizes yellow tones. Covers age spots and bruises as well. You can also use a purple setting powder instead of a concealer/corrector to brighten your skin.

Yellow - Brightens and evens complexion, covers blue under eyes, neutralizes purple tones and even sun spots.

Salmon/Peach - Cancels out blue, green and purple. Great for fair-medium skin tones. You can also use this under your eyes instead of the orange.

Pink - Cancels out any dullness or grey tones. You can also use a loose powder in this color to add it on top of your concealer to brighten your under eyes.

White - Highlight. (cheekbones, brow bone, middle of your nose, cupid's bow)


When it comes to color correcting, even though I mentioned all of the colors you do not have to use all of them on your face. Just look in the mirror and see what you really need, instead of using extra unnecessary product.

As I already said after cleansing and moisturizing your skin, use a good primer all over your face, use a concealer brush to add whichever color/s you think you need to use to color correct and after that add foundation. Make sure to use a light hand when blending in your foundation so the color corrector doesn't lose it's place. You can then continue with your usual make up routine.

The palette that I use to color correct is the Make Up Revolution Ultra Base Corrector Palette. As I just mentioned you probably won't need all of the colors, so you can definitely buy them individually instead.

I have the Santee Super Blendable Concealers in the green and purple colors too, which I got from the website Shop Miss A for only $1 each and they work pretty well as well.
The difference that I find between the Santee correctors and the ones from the Make Up Revolution palette is that the Make Up Revolution ones are creamier and easier to blend than the Santee ones.

This is going to be it for this post. I really hope that you guys enjoyed it and found it helpful, or that you learned something new. Let me know if you want more of these kind of informative beauty related posts. Have a great Sunday and I'll talk to you guys very soon!

xoxo, Fran

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