Tarte

 Shape Tape Creamy Concealer

Most Helpful Critical Review

It's been traumatic...

I have been in LOVE with the original Tarte Shape Tape Concealer for a while now and have been using it for years. Even while having to work during the pandemic, I left all of my other face makeup products except for the concealer and I would use it on a daily basis. In mid-December, I was heading... over to my cousin's house for a fun all-girls weekend and was super low on the concealer. I headed out to Ulta late the night before to make sure to buy my concealer! Nearly close to closing, I walked over to the concealer section and looked for my shade (light medium). I look at the packaging and noticed that the title seemed a bit different...Hmm...I thought to myself...they re-formulated or changed the packaging... Either ways, it didn't even occur to me for me to even think that something was up because I have been in love with the original for so long and it works so beautifully. I looked and purchased my shade and left right before it closed that night. I used it the next day and late into the night at my cousin's house, my eyes started to itch... Maybe it's her cats I thought... The next day I woke up with swollen and reddened eyelids and pulled out my handy dandy concealer to conceal the darkened eyes... And that was the start of a traumatic three months... My eyes became puffy and deformed and reddened... And each time I didn't even think it was the concealer because to me, the concealer was the one product that I have been using for so long that there wasn't any way that it was the problem... Even throughout the months, I would stop eyeliner, curling my lashes, mascara, shadow, brows, etc. but I would put on the concealer thinking that at least my darkened eye lid concealers would be concealed... And it would get worse and it would flair up at different times and they would get different shapes, and swollen and red... I went to speak to nurses, doctors, and they would tell me to try hot compresses to help (which I did) and a prescription but it would get better but never go away... I had been going to work for over 8 years with makeup on and even though I was told to give them a break, I would just put a "little" concealer to cover up (with the medicine on the eyes) to help conceal... I would stop using makeup entirely, they would then get better, but as soon as I would try makeup again, they would flair up. First I thought it was my mascara (I threw it out and purchased a new one), then I thought it was my eyelash curler, and then finally, thank God, one night (after wearing the concealer in the day), my eyes flared up and my mom noticed that the redness was also on my forehead a bit on my cheeks (exactly where I apply the concealer) and then it hit me... I went and did research and I was like, this is a different one! With a totally new formula with different ingredients that I am probably allergic to one of them... I finally went on a two week long absolutely no makeup regime (the first time in over eight years!) and I am reintroducing back a different concealer pretty soon. I never thought that I would go sans makeup to work, but this experience had at least that positive effect! The silver lining :) I would absolutely NOT recommend this concealer to any person...