PRODUCT REVIEW: Smashbox Pro Waterproof Second Skin Concealer

Photo: QVC.com

After viewing a particularly compelling presentation of this on QVC last week I finally decided to try it. I know, I know, you're thinking "the models on there have barely any facial failings so of course a concealer will work wonders!" and you're right, and I still bought it, hook, line and sinker. 

I FINALLY got this the other day, and ripped it out and started testing it right away...uh oh. Pretty thin. And Fair is pretty cool toned.  I figured "it's hot out so maybe it just needs to be shaken and set it out for a few hours to cool".  The next morning I decided to give it a go. Still no dice!  I seriously needed like 10x the blob I would ever need and it STILL hadn't covered anything.  It didn't really "dry down" much either, because every layer I added--I believe 8 was the final number--just smeared everywhere. I had to set with powder for it to dry at all. But after 8 coats you'd think the circles might be covered...well...we were both wrong there.

I decided to leave it on and hope that the waterproof claims might be true. Those are not true either. This stuff was gone in an hour, and I BARELY got rained on.

So I gave it one more try and I have given up and gone back to a concealer that actually conceals things. While it doesn't totally cover them, it definitely lessens the circles. And it isn't pink.

Cosmetics industry please hear ye:

NOT EVERY PALE GIRL IS PINK TONED. SOME OF US ARE OLIVE OR YELLOW, OR SOME COMBINATION OF THAT.  SO PLEASE QUIT MAKING EVERYTHING PALE PINK-TONED, AS PUTTING PINK ON OUR FACES IS THE EQUIVILENT OF CLOWN BLUSH ALL OVER.