5 Makeup Tips

Keep Your Makeup from Aging You

You spend all that time putting on your face each day to look your best.

But do you keep abreast of current makeup styles and products?

Are you trying to hold onto or recapture how you looked in your 20s or 30s? Believe me, it doesn’t work. Styles - including makeup application styles - change.

Nothing dates one like sporting fashions (whether clothes, hair or makeup) that are 20 or 30 years out of date.

Then too, if you’re not taking advantage of new makeup products that promise easier more flawless application or reflective particles to deflect light and visually smooth wrinkles, etc., etc. you’re missing out on some really easy and affordable anti-aging strategies.

Here are 5 Tips to Keep Your Makeup from Aging You

1. Roll-on foundation applicators give you a flawless finish with very little blending.

Try

• L’Oreal True Match Roller Perfecting Roll On Makeup or
• Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Eraser Treatment Makeup

2. If you have a long day ahead of you, there are long lasting foundations which really go the distance.

Try

• L’Oreal Paris Infallible Never Fail Makeup SPF 18 or
• Maybelline SuperStay 24HR Makeup

3. Brows are full these days - more like what you were born with - not skinny little parenthesis marks that make you appear forever startled.

Read What Your Brows Say About You.

4. Lip liner is important to create a damn and prevent lipstick from bleeding into the small lines around your mouth, but it shouldn’t be obvious. Choose a lip liner no darker than your lipstick.

• If you want your lip liner to match your lip color, choose a neutral tone like L’Oreal Crayon Petite Lip Liner in Nude and use it to draw just an outline.
• If you want a bit more color, choose a tone close to or lighter than your lipstick and use it as a color base over the entire lip area.

5. Blush is more natural-looking today too. No slashes that run across your cheek or diagonally down from the cheek bone.

A translucent cream blush gives a lit-from-within effect and easily glides onto even the driest skin.

Place a dot on the apple of the cheek and blend in a circular motion. Try Cover Girl & Olay Simply Ageless Sculpting Blush in Lush Berry or Plush Peach.