Makeup Revolution Fast Base Concealer ($8) is a new brightening concealer that promises to conceal darker circles. I’m sure you’ve watched endless youTube videos with your fav guru that applied layers and layers of a too light shade of concealer under their eyes to produce a highlighted effect. Tarte Shape Tape Concealer actually produces this effect. They intentionally made the shades a bit paler which makes them ideal for contouring and highlighting the under eye area.
As a fan of Makeup Revolution’s Conceal & Define Full Coverage Conceal & Contour Concealer I decided I definitely needed to check out Fast Base Concealer as well but I was concerned about the shades. From my experience with Conceal & Define Full Coverage Conceal & Contour the colors really run quite light, again, intentionally to contour the under eye area and highlight it. This however, made it challenging finding a shade that worked for me. This fear extends to Fast Base Concealer as the shades all run really light. I ended up going with C9 which is for light medium skin tones with peach undertones. Not quite my shade of choice but the next shade up seemed to dark and the shade down seemed to light. I was right, the shade was all wrong. I’d go so far as to call it fair with a cooler peach undertone. None the less, I’d still like to share some thoughts with you about it.

Makeup Revolution Fast Base Concealer comes housed in a 0.15 oz twist up barrel with an a...