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\u201cIn the same way I don\u2019t know anyone who wears wired bras anymore, a super bright undereye feels a bit overdressed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n
Honestly? I think all of this is a great thing. For one, wearing less makeup\u2014especially in an area as mobile as the undereye\u2014presents less chance of caking, creasing, and smudging throughout a day. I think we all got too comfortable doing makeup to be photographed but not to be worn out in the real world. The slow death of the impenetrably bright undereye is a sign to me that we\u2019re all really ready to be out in the real world again, and as Medhin says, \u201cLess makeup looks better in person.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s also a sign, I hope, that people\u2019s focus when it comes to beauty is shifting away from the manufactured perfection that\u2019s been expected of us by capitalism and is shifting toward personalization and authenticity. Rodriguez certainly thinks it is, at least for younger people. \u201cI\u2019m seeing this trend within Gen Z and millennials; both are experiencing a renaissance that challenges the status quo of what it has historically meant for them to be this age and gender in society,\u201d they say. \u201cWe\u2019re all about decolonizing beauty standards and creating our own rituals that serve our true selves, and for a lot of us that includes trimming down our makeup routines.\u201d<\/p>\n
This downtick in brightening undereye concealer could even be a reaction to a widespread overuse of dermal filler and other cosmetic procedures that can erase the face\u2019s natural definition when taken too far. The natural peaks and valleys that appear when light is cast on a face is what makes it unique and beautiful, and I think people are beginning to understand that covering up all<\/em> the natural darkness underneath the eye can have the same visual impact as overdone undereye filler. That\u2019s why many makeup artists have historically leaned into those shadows. \u201cTruthfully, I\u2019ve always loved having a little darkness on the bottom eyelid,\u201d Medhin says. Even when she\u2019s doing a heavier makeup look on a client, she\u2019ll use darker eye makeup to create a shadow so the look reads as more natural.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People started focusing on skin care more and makeup less, making this sudden societal hesitance toward concealer inevitable. They\u2019ve been<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beauty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/veefind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/veefind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/veefind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veefind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veefind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/veefind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veefind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/veefind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veefind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/veefind.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}