Innisfree Mineral Stick Concealer

Having seen a related product (the Innisfree Mineral Dark Circle Concealer) featured on Jungsaemmool’s channel, I decided to give this this concealer stick (also by Innisfree) a try!

Brand: Innisfree
Name: Mineral Stick Concealer
Color: No.2 Natural Beige
Actual Weight: 16.1g
Price in Korea: 8,000KRW

It comes in a little cardboard box—simple, and no extra plastic to trash!







[ Length: 11cm ]

(⇩ stick color shown here is accurate for natural-lighting ⇩)



Small problems with the packaging: (This may not happen to you, of course!)
The stick had become dislodged by the time I got this. This means that:

• 1. The entire stick may fall out if tilted downwards while uncapped.
• 2. It sometimes doesn't screw dow properly and requires a bit of tapping.

Here is a demonstration of the stick pressing against the lid. It also gives you an idea of the texture:


Other than that, even though I don't put it in my bag, the casing has cracked slightly after a few weeks. Not a big deal, but a headsup~




Color: It’s an orangey tan color. It gets slightly browner as time goes on. It’s definitely more of a No.23 than a 21 in the Korean coloring system. Here’s a comparison with two of my BB Creams:

natural window lighting on a cloudy day
It’s too dark for me, but I do find it useful as for layering! I use it underneath my BB Cream. (If I put my BB Cream directly over my dark circles, they just end up looking grey... ㅜ.ㅜ )


Pigment: While its swatches are very thick and opaque, it of course also depends on how much you blend~ Here's a little demo:

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It’s very creamy! It glides right onto my skin as a nice, thick layer. It’s much creamier and thicker than my Canmake color sticks, which looks powdery and settles into my fine lines.

Here's a comparison! Can you see the difference in the zoomups?

natural window lighting on a cloudy day


There's a bit of a liquidy glide with the Innisfree concealer. The difference is even more apparent after blending. Can you see the dry, powdery finish with the Canmake?


However! Because this concealer is too dark for me, I have to blend it out quite a bit. And as you can see, blending ends up taking away much of the thick and creamy niceness anyways...Now don’t get me wrong! It’s still creamy, but scaling down on the thickness also scales down on the creaminess—because you do have to blend, right?





Some things covered up better than others. Overall, I'd say my blemishes were less obvious, but still there. Not completely hidden. Here are some examples!

Undereye Fine Lines: Two things to notice here: 1) It has a smooth, noncreasing finish.
2) While it does brighten my eyes, it doesn't completely conceal all of the darkness:

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My better eye, without BB Cream:

My worse eye, without BB Cream:



Speaking of texture, if I blend it out *over* BB cream, it does acquire a slight powdery look which can accentuate fine lines--though it's really only noticeable close up:


While it's still superior texturally to other concealers I’ve tried, I nonetheless use it *under* my BB Cream, not over. And combined with BB Cream, the color situation is resolved!


Discoloration, smooth surface: With several layers and delicate blending, I was able to completely conceal this depressing nodular pimple!

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It seems that purple discolorations offset the fact that the concealer is too dark for me.


Discoloration, uneven surface:

Deflated mole: No matter how much I put on, it just couldn’t seem to cover this medium-brown, crater-shaped mole.

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Pimple Aftermaths: Similarly to the mole, I couldn’t compleeetely cover up these:

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Here's a zoomed out version, so you can see how it looks from a normal distance!

Now again, remember that this concealer is too dark for me! If you notice the pre-blending pictures, it’s is very opaque. If you are able to minimize blending—that is, if your skin tone matches it well—then I reckon you can cover up just about anything. That's just my guess though!






I like it for my dark circles! I know it's not great for covering up most of my other blemishes--also due to the fact that it's too dark for me--but the texture is what gets me! I like how it sits on my fine lines: it doesn't crease, it doesn't clump, and it doesn't look awfully powdery. I've tried the Tony Moly Babydoll Pot Concealer which is also very creamy, but it always clumped when I tried to blend it over uneven surfaces. Not with this one! I bet if I were a bit tanner, I would really love this concealer. I'm so curious to try the lighter shade!



A big big thank you to ibuybeauti for helping me look more youthful and less tired, haha~! No but really, I am indebted for this!

You can check out this and many other Korean products here. Ibuybeauti also has a fantastic Facebook page, where they post translated versions of beauty shows from Korea!! Omg, I know right?! Go check it out~~


What's your current favorite concealer?

From a brand that I don't typically buy, presenting the Innisfree Eye Primer!

These days, I’m all about eyeshadow. And as I’ve come to learn, an eye primer is ever so crucial! But I, of course, reached for the cheapest one…so let’s see how this little one fares!

Name: Eye Primer
Brand: Innisfree
Actual Weight: 16g
Price in Korea: 6,000KRW
Price on Koreadepart: $5.62 (click here!)

Very simple and unassuming, the tube is off-white in color:



[ Height: 8.4cm ]





When I first started using it, the formula was very sticky and pasty (see above picture). I’m not sure if it’s the heat, but the formula has since then thinned out quite a bit! It's now a more liquidy paste--though in no way is it runny--and is consequently much easier to spread/blend:

Recent pictures, all in natural lighting:




But fear not; this doesn’t mean it has lost its adherence as a primer! It still becomes sticky after blending, comparable to a (weak) glue stick:


This likely applies to primers in general, but the glue stick factor causes a bit of tug when I apply my eyeliner gel. Similarly, blending eyeshadows also becomes a little challenging.



Evening out skin pigment:
It comes out of the tube as a light beige. It’s sheer for the most part upon blending, but it's still able to lighten/even out the color of my eyelids:

(natural lighting)




Eyeshadow Vividness:
Here I’ve used nude colors, which by nature don’t show up well because they blend in with my natural skin. With the primer, the colors are more vivid, and you can actually discern between the subtly different shades:

(natural lighting)

I will say that I also notice a “rougher” appearance of my eyeshadow/eyelids (refer above). The primer+eyeshadow seems to accentuate the texture of my eyelid, thereby making my eyeshadow look slightly grainy.


Here are some more examples:

(natural lighting)

▼ Now, the eyeshadow actually shows up muuuch better than in the following picture, but the relative difference is accurate:








Smudgeproofness:
You know when you yawn, cry, and then wipe your eyes? The primer helps my cheap ELF eyeshadows stay put through all that! To demonstrate, I've wiped the eyeshadow with a wet tissue--but mind you, I wiped it much harder than you'd ever rub your eyes:

(natural lighting)

Notice how much more the tissue wiped off for 'without primer'.

But as far as eyeliner goes, I’m not so sure. I'm using Maybelline Eyestudio gel, and it doesn’t seem to help with wipe-induced smudging:


About the same, with or without primer.
In other words, if I scratch my eyelid, my eyeliner still rubs off some. But if we’re talking general smudging (no fingers involved), then the primer does help. I also get absolutely no creasing with this eye primer! My lids stay dry and matte throughout the day:

(natural lighting)

After 7 hours, there's a bit of eyeliner smudging (from scratching my itchy eyes), but that's about it. My eyeshadow is still very vivid, and this is on a hot summer day.




I like it! Admittedly, this is only the 3rd eyelid primer that I've tried, behind Urban Decay and Avon. I reckon it's probably a decent-but-standard primer, but I am satisfied nonetheless! I only wish my eyeliner wouldn't smudge, though I must wonder if that’s an issue with the eyeliner itself. I am, however, grateful that the primer thinned out over time; I wouldn't have liked it had it stayed pasty. Would I buy again? Well ignoring the fact that I want to explore what else is out there, yes, I would! And it's cheap~! *_*



Huge kisses to Koreadepart for sponsoring this product for me! You can check it out here, as well as browse tons of other goodies from their homepage here. And thank you for reading my oh-so-long review!

Share and tell~ What eye primers have you tried? Liked? Didn't like?