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Bare With Me Concealer Serum.

NYX Bare With Me Concealer Serum
Concealer

About this product

A lightweight serum concealer with caffeine designed to provide buildable coverage while maintaining a skin-like finish and hydrating the under-eye area.

Full ingredients

Guru Score

77%

Yay

6 experts · Strong agreement
6Gurus
5Yay
1Mixed
0Nay
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What they liked

  • Skin-like texture that does not look cakey
  • Buildable coverage without heaviness
  • Lightweight and hydrating

What they flagged

  • Does not wear as long as some prefer

What the gurus are saying

This serum concealer earns consistent praise for its thin, skin-like texture that doesn't cake or feel heavy, even with layered coverage. What stands out is how well it works for those who dislike thick formulas: it delivers visible coverage for discoloration and redness while staying hydrated and blendable, and reviewers note it works just as well as many high-end alternatives at a fraction of the price. For best results, those new to makeup may want to choose a shade that matches their skin tone rather than a brightening one, so it works across the whole face without looking overly highlighted.
Synthesized from 6 expert reviews · most recent take June 2026

Type

ConcealerLiquid

Key actives

Vitamin E

Formula notes

Fragrance-freeNo drying alcohol

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What the gurus are saying.

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Yay
"I've always loved my NYX concealer, when I run out of this I always restock on Amazon. [...] This one's a little more airbrushed looking, which also blends out quickly and gives a little more soft focus."
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"The color is great, it comes in many different shades, so if there's a certain color you're looking for for your skin tone or for whatever thing you're trying to kind of correct, they have more shades. [...] I'm going to use my NYX Bare With Me Concealer Serum just right over top, underneath the eyes."
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"I'm taking a bit of the Nyx Bare With Me serum concealer. It's so good and I'm just applying a bit of concealer under the eyes and a little bit through the T-Zone just to brighten it slightly."
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"This is the best concealer from the drugstore hands down in my opinion. This is what works for me better than so many of my high-end concealers. I love it because it just looks like skin but you still can build the coverage. It's so stunning and very hydrating, looks especially nice underneath the eyes, and it just never fails me. I love that you can build the coverage without it looking or feeling cakey or heavy on the skin, or you can sheer things out. You can actually use this all over the skin if you're in a pinch and you don't want to wear a foundation or a skin tint. You can just buff this over the areas that you want to even out and it works really well as kind of like a skin tint as well. I love this concealer so much and I would never be able to live without it. It's so good."
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"This is one of my personal favorites. I love how much coverage and hydration you get with it, and you can use it all over your face as a foundation. A little goes a long way with just a dot you can achieve a lot. For me as a person that keeps things simple and minimal this is a magical product. The formula feels so high-end, which is why I love this. I love how it looks around my eye area especially. It wears well all day, isn't too thick or too thin, and works well both under the eyes and on the face."
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"I'm going to reach for my NYX Bare With Me Concealer Serum and I'm going to put it on the back of my hand. [...] This is going to help us kind of create a little more structure and have a little more precision. We're going to [...] brighten up the eyes and also take it under the cheekbones. We're using a little bit of product with a lot more precision to [...] brighten up the center and a bit on the chin."
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"It's been a minute since I've worn this concealer and I forgot how much I love this. It looks so good. [...] It's a serum concealer so it does kind of have a little more of like a skin-like finish. But you can build the coverage, which I love. And it kind of plumps the skin, too, which I also love."
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"This is the next Bare With Me Concealer Serum. If we didn't talk about how incredible this is, [...] just the littlest bit in there and it brightens up so so good. I've never had a concealer in my whole life stick into my routine the way this one did without a doubt. High-end and drugstore, yes, I love it."
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"The NYX Bare With Me Concealer Serum is what I feel like is the best concealer at the drugstore. It's just so versatile you can use this for every day but it's also going to give you great coverage if you want a little something for more glam situations. I love the texture of this, it's so beautiful. I use the shade light which I feel like is actually a pretty close match to my skin, so I actually use just one shade to conceal my under eyes and over blemishes. You could technically pick up two if you wanted a little bit more of a brightening under eye effect but this works for me. I love how hydrating this feels especially around the eye area. It is such a beautiful luxurious feeling formula that just looks good no matter what."
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"I'm back on the NYX Bare With Me Serum Concealer kick. This was literally the concealer that I wore for like probably 2 years straight. I swear it's such a good one, and then I just kind of switched up my routine a little bit, but now I bought a fresh bottle and it's back in my routine."
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"For a starter kit at the drug store, this NYX Bare With Me Concealer Serum is my favorite concealer ever. I wear the shade light, and what I would recommend if you're just starting out is choosing a concealer that more closely matches your skin tone than one that's super brightening, just so that you can use it all over. [...] If you're just getting into makeup and you have acne, I would recommend getting something that will be able to both cover your blemishes if you want to and also something that will help conceal the under eye area. [...] What this does when it more closely matches your skin tone is you're able to conceal blemishes without them being highlighted, but when you do go around the eye area it doesn't look as obvious and makeup-y, you're not going to get a super highlighted and brightening effect. I like this for every day to just use something that matches. The shade light for me is perfect. [...] I also love to apply a bit on the eyelids just to cancel out any discoloration."
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"I've always loved my NYX concealer, when I run out of this I always restock on Amazon. [...] This one's a little more airbrushed looking, which also blends out quickly and gives a little more soft focus."
Yay
"Concealer, I really, really like this. This is something I would consider putting into my everyday makeup because it has that skin-like texture. It looks like skin. It has this shine to it. It doesn't look cakey on the skin, which some concealers can cake up and look a bit like old school [...] makeup. But this is really, really nice."
Yay
"The NYX Bare With Me Concealer Serum [...] is $12 for 0.32 ounces, so you get slightly more product for a more than slightly less price. Concealer serum to me sounds more lightweight."
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"The NYX Bare With Me Concealer Serum [...] is $12 for 0.32 ounces, so you get slightly more product for a more than slightly less price. Concealer serum to me sounds more lightweight."
Yay
"It's giving pretty good coverage. I feel like it's going to be really hydrating, it's lightweight, it's not super heavy feeling. It definitely is covering like if you look at the difference from this side of this eye you can definitely see all the purplish discolorations under this eye and this eye it's definitely covered and concealed. [...] It never tugs at the skin of my under eye."
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"It's giving pretty good coverage. I feel like it's going to be really hydrating, it's lightweight, it's not super heavy feeling. It definitely is covering like if you look at the difference from this side of this eye you can definitely see all the purplish discolorations under this eye and this eye it's definitely covered and concealed. [...] It never tugs at the skin of my under eye."
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"Another one that I tried that I liked a lot was the NYX Bare With Me Concealer Serum. This is a serum concealer, so it's going to be more hydrating. I didn't find this one to be drying at all, it didn't settle in my wrinkles. It didn't wear as long as I wanted it to, but it was a good concealer."
Yay
"This is the Nyx serum concealer. [...] This is very very thin. It has caffeine. [...] This is not a very heavy coverage one and I don't personally go in for a lot of heavy coverage so that it works for me. [...] I've just used very little of it and I have just color corrected my face a little bit, [...] which looks very very natural."
Mixed
"I'm going to do a little bit of spot concealing using the Bare With Me Serum Concealer from NYX. Light is a little closer to my skin tone. I'm just going to put this in areas where I have some redness, and I'll conceal underneath my eyes."

What the evidence says.

Independent of what the gurus think, this is what the published research supports about the main active ingredients here.

Humectants and emollients

Ingredients like these draw water into the surface layers and slow how fast it leaves. The evidence is for comfort, softness and hydration rather than for changing the structure of the skin.

Source: DermNet

Vitamin E

Vitamin E is an antioxidant, and it is often in a formula to keep the other ingredients stable rather than as the active itself. It pairs well with vitamin C, though on its own the evidence for visible change is limited.

Source: NIH, National Library of Medicine

Frequently asked.

What is NYX Bare With Me Concealer Serum?

A lightweight serum concealer with caffeine designed to provide buildable coverage while maintaining a skin-like finish and hydrating the under-eye area.

Is NYX Bare With Me Concealer Serum worth it?

Mostly yes. 5 of the 6 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 77%.

What is NYX Bare With Me Concealer Serum's Guru Score?

NYX Bare With Me Concealer Serum holds a Guru Score of 77%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 6 expert reviewers we have collected. At least one expert has named it a Top Pick in its category.

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