Mix and match your primers!

I don?t really have many areas that I feel would benefit from me doing a separate color-correcting step. The main area for me is under my eyes, so it depends on the person. It?s not something I do every day, just because I?m usually going for the natural look these days and I don?t want to be puttin? on layer upon layer of makeup, so I?d say that it?s moderately important to me.
Sometimes when my dark circles are particularly dark, I will color correct them first with a peach/orange primer, then set it with powder, and then I?ll top it with a concealer in a shade that?s closer to my natural skin tone. I?ll do this because my dark circles are a purplish blue, and if I just go directly on top of them with a yellow-based concealer, they can look grayish (especially in pics). But the orange corrector cancels out the blue, so that when I put my concealer on top, it looks natural.
There are other kinds of color-correcting products, too, and they can make a huge difference. In one of the free Sephora Beauty Classes I went to (you should totally go!), the model was very fair-skinned and had red spots on her cheeks, so the teacher used a green corrector to cancel out the red before she applied foundation and concealer on top.
It looked amazing. I couldn?t even tell there?d been any red on the model?s skin at all.

Here?s a rundown of my current skin care/skin prep/makeup process, except that my current concealer regimen has changed a little. Now I ...