Budget Beauty: Collection Illuminating Touch Concealer Pen in Natural

Collection Illuminating Touch Concealer Pen in Natural / 2 (£4.99, link)

It seems like there are a million and one highstreet/drugstore versions of the much loved Touche Eclat by YSL on the market, and with good reason.  A brightening concealer is an essential, everyday make-up item for me, and they can work all sorts of wonderful magic tricks on the face if used correctly.  I've tried out a lot in the past, but a new one I'm playing with at the moment is Collection's Illuminating Touch Concealer Pen. 

The packaging of this is cheap and cheerful with a simple turn-click mechanism that you twist at the end to release the product.  When you first use it, you'll need to twist it a couple of times before anything comes out, but eventually you'll start to see the concealer come through on the inbuilt brush.    

I chose the shade Natural / 2 (above) which is a good fit for me at the moment, but I know it will be definitely too light for my complexion in the summer months.  For now though, it works really well.   The formula is incredibly similar to Collection's more famous other concealer, their Lasting Perfection Concealer, in the respect that it's quite thick, but the overall texture seems to be thinner and much easier to blend with.  

The main difference of course, is that it has those all important 'light diffusing particles', which help to brighten up the face, but there are a lot less of these in the formula than what I was hoping for.  In fact, the concealer is more standard matte than shimmery, which makes the coverage it gives under the eyes really good (though bear in mind it can feel a little drying and does crease slightly), but it doesn't make a huge difference brightness wise.  

For a fiver, it's a good coverage concealer as long as you apply it sparingly and blend properly.  But if you're after a proper illuminating concealer, you'll probably want to try something else instead.

Have you tried this?  

Do you use it?

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