Eye cream that works under concealer

Clinique All About Eyes Eye Cream with Vitamin C has the best record at 18 of 19, though that rests on a small group of shoppers, and it is also the best pick sold on Amazon. Ole Henriksen Banana Bright+ Vitamin C Eye Crème (25 of 29), The INKEY List Caffeine Eye Cream (20 of 23) and Shiseido Benefiance Wrinkle Smoothing Eye Cream (18 of 21) come next, close enough to each other to read as a tie, while IT Cosmetics Bye Bye Under Eye Bags has the weakest record here at 2 of 11. Each record counts just shoppers who said how concealer sat over it.

Clinique All About Eyes Eye Cream with Vitamin C
Top pick Clinique All About Eyes Eye Cream with Vitamin C 18 of 19 say concealer went on smoothly over it
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  • 195 store reviews counted
  • Ulta and Sephora shoppers
  • Nov 2015 to Oct 2026

Updated . How we count

Did concealer go on smoothly over it? What shoppers said
  1. Kiehl's Avocado Eye Cream 27 said either way

Share of reviewers who stated an outcome for pilling or creasing. Ranked by the lower bound of a 90% confidence interval, so a product needs both a good share and enough reports to rank high.

Clinique All About Eyes Eye Cream with Vitamin C Best record Clinique All About Eyes Eye Cream with Vitamin C 18 of 19 say concealer went on smoothly over it See price & reviews on Amazon
What stands out

Price draws complaints on several creams: 7% of Clinique reviews, 9% of Ole Henriksen reviews, 10% of Kiehl's reviews and 12% of IT Cosmetics reviews say it costs too much.

The ranking, product by product

Praise and complaints are the points reviewers repeat most, shown as a share of each product's counted store reviews.

1 Clinique All About Eyes Eye Cream with Vitamin C

Clinique

All About Eyes Eye Cream with Vitamin C

18/19 say concealer went on smoothly over it

Shoppers bring up hydration in 33% of its 30 reviews and good value in 13%.

What buyers praise

  • Hydrating 33%
  • Good value 13%

What buyers complain about

  • Too expensive 7%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 18 of 19
By skin type (from reviewer profiles)
  • Combination4 of 5
  • Normal4 of 4
  • Dry4 of 4
2

Ole Henriksen

Banana Bright+ Vitamin C Eye Crème

25/29 say concealer went on smoothly over it

More shoppers stated a result for this cream than for any other here. Hydration comes up in 29% of its 56 reviews.

What buyers praise

  • Hydrating 29%
  • Good value 4%

What buyers complain about

  • Too expensive 9%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 5 of 6
  • Sephora 20 of 23
By skin type (from reviewer profiles)
  • Combination9 of 12
  • Oily3 of 3
By skin tone (from reviewer profiles)
  • Fair to light4 of 5
  • Light-medium to medium4 of 4

Share of 56 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

3 The INKEY List Caffeine Eye Cream

The INKEY List

Caffeine Eye Cream

20/23 say concealer went on smoothly over it

Of its 31 reviews, 19% call it good value and 32% call it hydrating.

What buyers praise

  • Hydrating 32%
  • Good value 19%

What buyers complain about

No repeated complaints yet.

Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 0 of 1
  • Sephora 20 of 22
  • Brand site 4 of 4 shown, not counted
By skin type (from reviewer profiles)
  • Combination7 of 8
  • Normal6 of 6
  • Dry3 of 3
By skin tone (from reviewer profiles)
  • Fair to light11 of 12
  • Light-medium to medium5 of 5
4 Shiseido Benefiance Wrinkle Smoothing Eye Cream

Shiseido

Benefiance Wrinkle Smoothing Eye Cream

18/21 say concealer went on smoothly over it

It is described as hydrating in 44% of its 32 reviews and as good value in 9%.

What buyers praise

  • Hydrating 44%
  • Good value 9%

What buyers complain about

No repeated complaints yet.

Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 1 of 1
  • Sephora 17 of 20
  • Brand site 4 of 4 shown, not counted
By skin type (from reviewer profiles)
  • Combination6 of 8
  • Dry5 of 6
  • Normal3 of 3
By skin tone (from reviewer profiles)
  • Fair to light10 of 11
  • Light-medium to medium4 of 6
5 Kiehl's Avocado Eye Cream

Kiehl's

Avocado Eye Cream

20/27 say concealer went on smoothly over it

Concealer creasing, slipping or breaking up is what its 7 misses reported, though 50% of its 30 reviews call it hydrating.

What buyers praise

  • Hydrating 50%

What buyers complain about

  • Too expensive 10%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 20 of 27
By skin type (from reviewer profiles)
  • Combination5 of 9
  • Dry4 of 5
6

IT Cosmetics

Bye Bye Under Eye Bags

2/11 say concealer went on smoothly over it

Its 9 misses mostly said concealer caked, pilled or looked patchy over it. Reviews first posted on the brand's own site, which we show but don't count, point the same way at 1 of 6.

What buyers praise

No repeated praise yet.

What buyers complain about

  • Too expensive 12%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 2 of 11
  • Brand site 1 of 6 shown, not counted

Share of 16 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

Where these numbers come from

The 6 products ranked here carry 67,114 reviews at Ulta and Sephora. We searched them for pilling or creasing and read the newest matching reviews, up to 40 per product and store, posted between Nov 2015 and Oct 2026.

A review counts only when the reviewer used the product themselves. We drop reviews written in exchange for a free product or a sweepstakes entry (0 on this page), and products that are no longer sold.

Ulta also shows reviews first posted on brands' own websites. They run much more positive than store reviews of the same products (across 19 products with both, 76% of brand-site reviewers said the product solved the problem, against 55% of Ulta shoppers), so we show them on product cards but never count them.

Because we searched for the problem, people who had it are overrepresented. Compare products with each other rather than reading a share as your own odds.

Skin type, skin tone and age splits use what reviewers chose on Sephora's review form (and age on Ulta's when given). We only show a split when enough reviewers fall on each side.

Amazon buttons appear only on products that most reviewers here say fix the problem (at least 60%, with enough reviews to trust it). Everything else gets no buy link.

An AI model labels each review against a fixed list of points, and we spot-check the labels before publishing. We publish counts, never the reviews themselves.

Read the full method

Product pages we read

  1. Clinique All About Eyes Eye Cream with Vitamin C Ulta and Sephora (30 reviews counted)
  2. Ole Henriksen Banana Bright+ Vitamin C Eye Crème Ulta and Sephora (56 reviews counted)
  3. The INKEY List Caffeine Eye Cream Ulta and Sephora (31 reviews counted)
  4. Shiseido Benefiance Wrinkle Smoothing Eye Cream Ulta and Sephora (32 reviews counted)
  5. Kiehl's Avocado Eye Cream Sephora (30 reviews counted)
  6. IT Cosmetics Bye Bye Under Eye Bags Ulta (16 reviews counted)

Questions buyers ask

Which eye cream works under concealer?

Clinique All About Eyes Eye Cream with Vitamin C has the best record (18 of 19), followed by Ole Henriksen Banana Bright+ Vitamin C Eye Crème (25 of 29), The INKEY List Caffeine Eye Cream (20 of 23), Shiseido Benefiance Wrinkle Smoothing Eye Cream (18 of 21), Kiehl's Avocado Eye Cream (20 of 27) and IT Cosmetics Bye Bye Under Eye Bags (2 of 11). The three after the leader are close enough to treat as a tie.

Why does the Ole Henriksen cream rank above The INKEY List cream with a lower share?

The ranking weighs how many shoppers stated a result, not just the share. Their shares are nearly the same, at 86% against 87%, but 29 shoppers stated a result for the Ole Henriksen cream, against 23 for The INKEY List cream, and the larger group earns more trust.

Which of these eye creams are sold on Amazon?

Clinique All About Eyes Eye Cream with Vitamin C, the leader, is the best pick sold on Amazon. It is sold there by the brand or Amazon itself, as are The INKEY List Caffeine Eye Cream, Shiseido Benefiance Wrinkle Smoothing Eye Cream and Kiehl's Avocado Eye Cream. We found no official Amazon listing for Ole Henriksen Banana Bright+ Vitamin C Eye Crème, so it has no buy link here. IT Cosmetics Bye Bye Under Eye Bags has no buy link here either, because too few shoppers reported a good result for us to recommend it.

Do these records say anything about dark circles or puffiness?

No. We count just whether concealer went on smoothly over the cream. The counts are what shoppers said after using each cream, not a lab test, so follow the label directions.

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