Makeup Artists and Beauty Editors Say These 19 Concealers Help Banish Creases, Cracks and Flakes

Key ingredients: Floral extracts, glycerin

Coverage: Full

Creamy, hydrating and lightweight on the skin, there are so many reasons to love DIOR's Forever Skin Concealer. Alongside full coverage pigment, it also contains glycerin, which works to hydrate dry skin while the rich formula melts in for a seamless finish.

"This has a serum-like consistency that is perfect for dry skin. It provides lasting coverage and additional hydration, leaving a beautiful finish on the skin." —Sara Talias, editorial makeup artist

Key ingredients: Goji berry, glycerin

Coverage: Light to medium

Maybelline's Instant Agre Rewind concealer has been a beauty editor favourite for longer than I can count; however, it's still one of the best concealers available, especially for its under £10 price point. The formula is creamy and pigmented yet doesn't settle into fine lines or go cakey throughout the day. Plus, it's got glycerin again making it perfect for dry skin types.

"The Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Eraser Dark Circle Treatment Concealer is a tried-and-true formula that creates a thin veil of coverage under the eyes. The light texture provides enough moisture for dry skin and lasts all day." —Talias

Key ingredients: Hyaluronic acid, peptides, caffeine

Coverage: Medium

If you're looking for an undereye concealer that won't crease or settle into fine lines, I'd highly recommend this one from Kosas. Alongside peptides, to plump and hydrate, you'll also find caffeine, which works to brighten dark circles as it conceals.

"The Kosas Revealer Concealer is so dewy and creamy, creating a radiant finish for a dry under-eye area. I love the clean ingredients and the skincare elements. This is a great concealer to dot under eyes during the day." —Talias

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Key ingredients: Shea butter, olive fruits, hyaluronic acid

Coverage: Medium

ABest Knockoff Luxury Clothing UK team favourite is Beauty Pie's Everyday Great Skin Hyaluronic Blur Concealer, which contains hydrating hyaluronic acid to moisturise and plump wherever you apply it. It has a creamy consistency that's so easy to blend before it dries down into a radiant matte finish that looks like your skin, but better.

Key ingredients: Cica, chamomile

Coverage: Full

While all of the concealers on this list are expert when it comes to blurring and concealing blemishes, for a true airbrushed effect, I love this formula from Hourglass. The creamy texture turns almost powdery on the skin, leaving skin looking perfectly blurred and blended with a soft-matte finish.

"I love the Hourglass Airbrush Concealer. It is so creamy and hydrating for a dry under eye!" — Allison Kaye, celebrity makeup artist

Key ingredients: Chia, camelina, and kukui nut oils

Coverage: Medium

You'll no doubt know how Estée Lauder's holy grail Double Wear foundation is one of the best long-wearing foundations out there, but if you're yet to try to the concealer in the range, take this as your sign. It provides medium to full coverage, and offers a radiant yet matte finish, making it ideal for both highlighting and concealing.

Key ingredients: Glycerin, hyaluronic acid, mango butter, prickly pear, avocado butter, and shea butter

Coverage: Full

Tarte's cult-loved formula is my go-to everyday concealer. This particular version of the formula is great for dry skin because it provides the same amount of coverage with a few added hydration boosters like hyaluronic acid, mango butter, prickly pear, avocado butter, and shea butter. I can also personally vouch for the fact that this formula never creases, cracks, or flakes.

Key ingredients: Glycerin, rice extract, sunflower seed oil, lotus, white water lily and gardenia extracts

Coverage: Medium to full

Rare Beauty's Liquid Touch Foundation is one of my top formulas, and the concealer of the same name is equally as good. I love that it's so lightweight but locks in serious moisture with a blend of botanical ingredients like sunflower seed oil and lotus flower extract.

Key ingredients: Magnolia bark extract, grape seed extract

Coverage: Medium

A multi-active blend of magnolia bark extract, grape-seed extract, and vitamin E in this formula helps to hydrate, firm, and strengthen the skin barrier, making it a great option for dry, compromised skin. It's an iconic concealer that still stands the test of time and the creamy formula is great underneath the eyes.

Key ingredients: Vitamin C, aloe leaf, mastic, albizia julibrissin bark extract

Coverage: Medium

If you're a fan of Ilia's cult-loved skin tint, the brand's serum concealer will also be right up your alley. It's infused with nourishing ingredients like vitamin C to brighten, aloe leaf juice, and albizia julibrissin bark extract to promote smooth, supple skin. The creamy formula feels very hydrating and blends effortlessly.

Key ingredients: Hyaluronic acid, aloe vera, caffeine, arnica

Coverage: Medium

Milk Makeup's Future Fluid is another creamy formula I love because I've never seen it crease once and it smooths out the skin like no other. That's all thanks to powerhouse ingredients like hyaluronic acid, caffeine, aloe vera, and arnica in the formula that support and protect the skin barrier while adding a serious dose of hydration.

Key ingredients: Hyaluronic acid, rose flower water

Coverage: Full

This full-coverage formula from E.l.f. hydrates and soothes the skin with hyaluronic acid and rose flower water. I've put this product to the test myself as well and really liked it for the price. It features a full coverage formula in a satin finish, which lends itself well to concealing your under eyes as well as blemishes.

Key ingredients: Caffeine, vitamin E, glycerin

Coverage: Full

This is another favourite of mine along with Armani's Luminous Silk Foundation. Both provide such a gorgeous, airbrushed finish on the skin. This concealer also provides up to 24 hours of hydration so you can guarantee it won't crease or look crazy by the end of the night.

Key ingredients: Green tea, cacao extract

Coverage: Light

Flawless Fusion provides up to 12 hours of crease-resistant wear and contains an exclusive blend of flexible, long-wearing polymers that are transfer-, sweat-, and humidity-resistant. Silk powder and silica also help create a smooth, light-diffusing film on skin that blurs the look of fine lines.

Key ingredients: Ginseng, niacinamide

Coverage: Full

A spin-off from Erborian's cult BB cream, this concealer brings together the skin-loving benefits of a serum with the coverage of a concealer. The medium to full coverage pigment is also packed with ginseng and niacinamide to calm the skin, making this ideal for use on breakouts or any pigmentation that may arise.

"I'm obsessed with this concealer version of Erborian's best-selling BB cream—perfect for no makeup-makeup days. It works as well for brightening dark circles as it does concealing spots and scarring." —Grace Day, freelance beauty editor

Key ingredients: Glycine, Persian silk tree bark extract, wild indigo extract

Coverage: Medium

Makeup artist Charlotte Tilbury knows a thing or two about making products that work seriously hard in your makeup bag, and this concealer does exactly that. The hyrating formula is ideal for use on breakouts or undereyes; however, it can also be used to sculpt and contour, too — just choose your shade accordingly for your desired need.

"If you like a concealer that multitasks as a skin-brightener and sculptor, look no further. This creamy formula is easy to blend, lasts all day (and night), and hydrates skin in the process." —Day

Key ingredients: Hyaluronic acid, niacinamide and Vitamin C

Coverage: Medium

This MAC concealer is a skincare-makeup hybrid, and is designed to work alongside their Studio Radiancce Foundation, but works perfectly with other bases also. It is packed with nourishing ingredients that also brighten the skin over time, rather than just covering it up. It's very lightweight and has a radiant, luminous finish - there's pearlescent particles in there to reflect light.

Key ingredients: Hyaluronic acid, peptides, gentian root, coffee leaf and licorice extracts

Coverage: Medium to full

Westman Atelier's concealer is lightweight and offers buildable medium to full coverage. It looks like real, dewy skin and doesn't require a powder to set it. This skincare-makeup hybrid plumps and firms the under-eye area as well as offering superb coverage of imperfections.

Key ingredients: Hyaluronic acid, glycerin

Coverage: Medium to full

Vieve's Modern Radiance Concealer was created by MUA founder Jamie Genevieve, so the formula is perfection. The coverage is buildable and it does a great job of concealing dark circles and redness, as well as plumping and moisturising the skin. It has a natural skin finish.