The Top 3 Beard Concealers
CommentsOf all the beauty flaws out there, nothing is as bad as having a visible beard shadow!
Your best bet is to get rid of your beard through laser hair removal or electrolysis. If you can’t do that you’ll need a close shave and a good concealer.
There are a lot of options out there, but here are the top 3 beard concealers I recommend:
1. Dermablend Cover Crème
The “mother” of all beard covers and a TG favorite, Dermablend Cover Crème ($32) is heavy enough to cover scars, tattoos, bruises, and beard shadows. On the down side, it’s very thick and can look cakey. Dermablend is best for evenings or low light situations when you can get away with heavy makeup.
2. MAC Full Coverage Foundation
MAC Full Coverage Foundation ($26) is another TG favorite. It’s a cake foundation that offers great coverage and is used by pros for beauty photography. The MAC foundation is lighter than Dermablend, so it looks more natural.
Note: MAC Full Coverage Foundation is only available in MAC Pro stores or by calling 1-800-866-6464 to order.
3. Colortration
Colortration Super Concealing Liquid Makeup ($37) is another great option for covering your beard shadow. In fact, many girls swear by it. Colortration is a highly concentrated liquid concealer, so it goes on smoother and looks more natural than crème covers.
Your best bet is to order Colortration’s six color trial kit ($17) so you can find your best shade. Order online or by calling 1-888-350-4505.
No matter which concealer you use, keep these two things in mind:
- Pat (don’t rub!) the concealer on.
- Apply powder between concealer layers.
What’s YOUR favorite beard concealer? Let me know by leaving a comment below! I’d love to hear from you.
Love,
Lucille
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I have been using Dermablend for a while but recently started using Ben Nye Five O’Sharp Beard Cover. It works great.
so far not alot of luck tru match by loreal
I use colortration for beard coverage. Apply their face primer first, it smooths out your skin, then use the colortration it goes on really nice over the primer
the best is for me to take it away definitively
asselle
PS, as you can see from my picture, I have a very masculine jaw, so my problem is not hiding the shadow but the jaw itself. This Christmas, I made a new Drag Queen friend, who wants to put me in a Drag show (at my age even!). He went through High School as a girl but then changed his mind about SRS, so he knows how to do “Real Girl” Drag. He is going to show me how to do contouring to diminish the size of my jaw.
It helps so much to live in a city (pop. 1 million) with a big tranny and drag queen scene. Trannies used to come here from all over Canada to qualify for SRS. In May, the Alberta government stopped funding SRS, but that’s when I found your site.
I believe that liberation of medicine is a revolutionary act, and people like you are the vanguard of the revolution. Right on Sister!
Hi Lucille,
After reading your booklet “Hair Secrets from the Pros” I purchased an epilator and Kaloe hair inhibitor lotion and creme. I had good results with this.
I was very hairy, so I had to work my way into it, but every session got easier, due to the hair inhibitor effects. After a couple of months, I got up the courage to work on my face. Here too, I got good initial results.
Now 4 months into the hair removal process, the results are less dramatic. Part of that is the law of diminishing returns. Another problem is that this process seems to work better where the skin is close to bone or muscle not flesh. What this means is that my hair is gone from my upper chest, legs, and chin, but it’s taking longer on the underside of my breasts, and the underside of my chin. Maybe, the epilator isn’t getting the roots out there or maybe it takes longer for the product to sink in.
I’m going to keep at this for a few more months and then if I’m not satisfied, I’ll try that “Hair no More” spray used by body builders. From the advertisement, it appears that you don’t need to epilate with this, but you apply it daily.
With the epilation and the hair inhibitor, covering up my beard is not a problem, so I can use any foundation.
I just got back from my favourite herbal store to pick up supplies. There was a different salesman there. I told him what I was doing with the herbs. He asked me if it was working, and I just smiled and unzipped my parka.
I am so happy going into the New Year with breasts. Thank-you, Lucille and Happy New Year to all you girls.
I use Revlon Color Stay also. But just in the need areas, otherwise I use Avon smooth minerals as foundation. It looks very natural and covers very well.
I use the same way, with aMake Up for Ever concealer.
Gwenola
Before using any concealor I start by applying a red lipstick to my skin, smoothing it over my beard, then after letting it dry a few minutes I apply my concealor and foundation. It works great to hide the blue beard shade.
dina amber u are a cosmetics genius. dee
I have used several differant methods over the years abd recently came across a new product (at least to me anyway). It’s called Cover FX. It is a full coverage creme/cake that goes on very easily and adheres well to facial hair that may arrive later in the day. I have found that it is easily worn for 8+ hours without any facial hair showing through. I found this little gem in Sephoras for about $25 for 3.75 oz container.
Good luck ladies,
Katie
I use Pan stick from Max Factor! It works great! Diana
None… Getting rid of my beard has been the best thing I have done. I do think there are better and worse laser centers. Three trips to the laser spa did marvels and I was able to stop using foundation most of the time since then, I got laser about eight times at the low cost of $400. Still I have lots of gray hairs and some black, so I have been getting electrolysis weekly for a year and probably have another year to go. I would estimate that I am going to have about $2500 to $3000 in getting rid of my beard.
When I used foundations, I did this.
I covered my dark beard with clown white… that made my dark beard white and easy to cover, then I put on my foundation. I was actually a clown in the circus was where I found this, I never knew that anyone else had figured this out.
Very late in my make up, I learned to use no powder, and instead dabbed moisturizer on top of the foundation which got rid of the cakey look.
I still use a little Yves Rocher Age Solution Creme de Jour Naturel which blends nicely without covering all of my face, but only what I want to cover. Still I do the moisturizer over the foundation. I have been using a couple avon moisturizer lately.
Really, aided by my poor eyesite, most of the time I am able to feel good with just moisturizer some lipstick and sometimes brown eyeliner and eye powder.
First and foremost I am in transition from male to female and though my hormones have not eliminated my facial hair (they did get rid of all that horrible male body hair…how I love my hormones) they have made my facial hair finer. Now here is what I do..first I shave twice a day with an electric razor (once in the morning and then before I go to bed) then I go over that with a blade razor to remover any stubble that the electric razor didn’t remove. Then I go over that with some hydrogen peroxide and wait 30 minutes as it will lighten up aka bleach the hair. Now I use a cover stick put out by Covergirl #730 neutralizer, then I use a liquid foundation by Covergirl called Honey Beige and then I use a loose powder and vola.
Also if you are like me and can not afford laser hair removel there is Vaniqa cream.