subject: Makeup Tips for The Over-Fifty Woman Crossing Fifty Years of Age [print this page] Makeup Tips for The Over-Fifty Woman Crossing Fifty Years of Age
Are you over fifty and feeling a little frumpy about the way you look? Has making up your face become a chore, rather than a way to explore the contours of your face, highlighting the best features, while playing down others? Are you often dissatisfied with the results, even after you do manage to spend a quick 10 minutes slapping something on?
Well, to start with, applying makeup shouldn't be a slap-dash-that-will-do-ma'am kind of thing at all. Making up your face, especially after you are fifty, can be an artful way of subtly enhancing every feature on your face, and therefore ought to be applied with due thoughtfulness.
With increasing age, the texture of the skin changes. Hence, the methods and products you use should be according to those changes. Here are some makeup tips that will help you to look your best each morning:
One of the first tips is rethinking you're makeup routine that you have been following since you were in your twenties or thirties. Techniques of makeup that may have worked twenty years back will add age to your face in your fifties.
One of the best things about making up after you're in your fifties is that women generally tend to look better with much less on their face as the old adage goes less is more'.
The fundamental factor about skin that looks wonderful at fifty is a great complexion. Hence, before you start your makeup routine, see that your skin is clear of dead skin cells. If you have never followed a skin exfoliation routine, this is the best time to begin. Foundation can only look good according to the skin it is applied on.
When choosing a blush, pick one that is muted in color and is cream based, which blends easily. Smile and apply the blush on the apples of the cheeks, and then blend well. Blush should appear as if your cheeks have a natural glow, and not end up making your face look gaunt.
Now that your skin is exfoliated, it is ready for makeup. Begin by applying a moisturizer, and then a foundation that is moisture based. When applying the foundation, make sure to use it sparingly - just a light coat in a shade that is as near the natural color of your skin as possible. As for the areas under the eyes, use a concealer that is lightly textured, blending it with moisturizer before you apply it.
Then, apply a light dusting of powder. You can use a powder brush to apply it all over your face evenly. See that the resulting effect is not blotchy.
The next thing you need to apply is the mascara. Make sure to apply only a single coat, and only on the upper lashes. The same principle applies to the eyeliner as well. Eye makeup that is applied to the lower lids inevitably smudges down, creating that aging black-eyed look.
After applying the mascara, if you want longer looking lashes, curl them with an eyelash curler. Next, apply your eyeliner with a light hand.
The next step is coloring your lips. If you simply can't do without the lip liner, choose one that is neutral in tone and apply it lightly and on the lip line, not outside them. Also, lips should be colored very lightly, with natural colored lipsticks being the best. When you wear cools, choose a rose shade of lipstick, and for warms, coral shades are great.
To look your best after fifty, avoid using vivid colors of makeup as well as shimmer eye shadows. Loud colors and shimmer just accentuates fines wrinkles and lines. Also, avoid using matte makeup products, which are meant for oily skin, for they look dry and pasty, particularly matte lipstick.
And finally, don't let yourself be defined by the makeup you wear, use it to enhance and decorate the features of your face.
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