25 Makeup Tips to Look Younger

 

Stay Away From Dark Lipstick

"As we age, our lips thin. Super dark lipstick on skinny lips isn't attractive. Your best lipstick bet is the shade closest to your natural lip color or if you like color, rosy reds. Orange lipsticks tend to be aging, but pinks are not. If your lips have thinned or are super wrinkly, play up your eyes instead. A bit of lip gloss makes lips appear plumper.

Not sure what color works for you? Hit the department store counter along with a friend you trust. Try on many colors with the help of a counter person and you'll figure out quickly what shades flatter your skin tone. 

 

 

Try Eye Pencils Instead of Liquid Liners

Eye pencils are softer than liquid liners, which can be harsh on aging eyes. To soften the line even more, smudge it with your fingers or use an angled makeup brush dipped in dark shadow as a smudge-y eyeliner. Don't line the inside of the eye if you have small eyes, it makes the eye appear smaller.

 

 

Make Your Eyes the Center of Attention

Enhance your eye color with eyeshadow shades that will make your eyes pop. For brown or hazel eyes, golds and browns are gorgeous. Blue eyes look great with blue-gray and lighter browns and dark eyes look fantastic with dark shades.

 

 

7 Tips for Concealing Crow's Feet (aka "Laugh Lines")

People start developing crow's feet around the eyes in their 30s. I consider my own "laughing lines" and believe they are a sign of a good life. I hope to develop many more as I grow older. But not everyone loves crow's feet. You can freeze them with Botox or fill them in with fillers (read more about these in Hollywood Secrets to Looking Younger), but there are few other non-invasive ways to conceal them or diminish the signs of them.
Find out how in How to Conceal Crow's Feet.

 

 

Don't Overdo Your Makeup

Less is more when it comes to makeup as you age. You don't want to pile on the foundation, the eyeliner and the heavy lipstick. Instead, you want to use tinted moisturizers and a lighter touch with the shadow and lipstick. Oh, and you might want to get some bangs.

 

 

Adopt a Great Skincare Routine

The key to looking younger than you is to get your skin in tip-top shape. A good skincare routine will create the illusion of youthfulness. You shouldn't just cleanse and moisturize your skin, you should also exfoliate weekly and consider antioxidants or Vitamin A products. Super hydrating masks can do wonders to mature skin (see my list of the Best Face Masks). And if you really want to get rid of those wrinkles, you might consider lasers, Botox or fillers.

 

 

How to Conceal Sagging Skin

As we age, we may begin to notice a big change taking place under the chin. And I'm not talking about excessive growth of chin hairs. You may develop a turkey wattle or you might what you consider a double chin. Either way, you might want to conceal it. You could see a plastic surgeon and have lipo under your chin or a facelift, but if you don't want to spend the cash or endure surgery, there are inexpensive ways to conceal sagging skin and a crepe-y neck.

 

 

How to Conceal Droopy Eyelids Without Surgery

Drooping eyelids are another natural part of the aging process but there's no need to invest in eyelid surgery. You can spend thousands on an eyelift or you can try these beauty tips that cost nothing. Find out how in How to Conceal Droopy Eyelids Without Surgery.

 

 

Thinning or Bushy Eyebrows

I'm a stickler for good brows and am known for making my friends let me tweeze theirs. Keeping your brows done nicely is like having a facelift without surgery, according to author Charla Krupp's brow guy. Here are some tips for perfect brows:

• Get your brows professionally done. Nothing opens eyes up like curled lashes and neat brows. If you can't afford waxing or threading every few weeks, use the professional's job as a map for your own tweezing. Simply pluck the stray hairs that grow in between professional tweezing or waxing. How to pluck your own brows.
• Drawn-in brows are a no-no. You know the pencil-thin line you see some of your friends or women in your town wear? Well, they only age you and they're somewhat tacky. Learn how to properly fill in sparse brows.
• Avoid tweezing gray brow hairs. Instead, conceal them with a brow powder or pencil.

 

 

Thinning Lips

Personally, I love a thin lip. I read somewhere once that it's a sign of intelligence. As we age, our lips lose some of their fat. Here's how to plump up thin lips.

• Picking the right lip color is a must. Makeup artist Bobbi Brown suggests skipping the bright colors and opt for a color that's just a shade or 2 darker than your natural lip color. Check out 16 Lipstick Tricks and Tips.
• As you age, your natural lip line fades. Create a lip line by coloring in lips first with a lip liner, then apply gloss or lipstick over the liner.
• Consider getting rid of lipstick and using lip gloss instead. Gloss creates the illusion of puffed-up lips, especially when applied to the middle of lips.
• Lip plumpers do work, but the effects don't last long (we're talking under an hour). So skip the plumpers and save your money. Even Vaseline on lips will make them appear larger."
  
  
  

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How to apply eye shadow

Applying Eyeshadow – How to apply Eyeshadow 

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How to Apply Eye Shadow
Applying eye shadow can be a little tricky, but once you know the basics, you get to play with the colors that you have. A lot of women try one technique, like it and never vary it.. ever again.

Select a light base shadow. Using a shadow brush, sweep it across your entire lid, from brow to lash line.
Prime the eyelids by dusting them with a small amount of loose powder.
Blend shadow by stroking the lid gently with an eye shadow brush. Don’t use your finger you could wipe off the shadow entirely.
-Use a medium-toned shade to cover your lower lids.
-Use a cosmetic puff and a little pressed powder to tone down heavy shadow. Shake any excess powder off the puff, then press it gently on your lid.
-Contour the crease of your eyelid with a dark shade, using a smaller eye shadow brush.
Choose three shades in the same color family – light, medium and a darker shade for contrast.
Apply the lightest shade on the entire lid from brow to lash line.

Eye Shadow Applying Tips

Eye Shadow Applying Tip 1: First decide the color you want to use. Almond color is considered best for eye but using three to four color will look good only if they are mixed well.

Eye Shadow Applying Tip 2: To give a smoky look to your eyes, prefer using dark colors, like blue, grey or black. Brush them at the outer corners and blend them well. Don’t move further more than quarter inch away from your eye.


Eye Shadow Applying Tip 3: If you have a thin eye shadow brush you might want to try darkening the crease area with a little more dark shadow, just along the crease though……gives a different type of effect.

Eye Shadow Applying Tip 4: Use two shades of the same color for that exotic look. The inner corner of the eye area is lighter in shade and the shadow deepens in color towards the outer eye.

Eye Shadow Applying Tip 5: The shadow is applied only on the upper eyelid, leaving the space beneath the brows. If you wish, you may apply some shadow on the lower lash line to add color.

Eye Shadow Applying Tip 6: Apply the dark shade to the eye lid area. It is best to start in the middle of the eye lid and work out towards the outside, cover the entire lid. Blend the crease area in well. If you have a thin eye shadow brush you might want to try darkening the crease area with a little more dark shadow, just along the crease though……gives a different type of effect.
Here are some of the choices for shading and highlighting that you can try:
Highlight the eyelid, round the shading: Best suited for hooded eyes and older deep set eyes.
Highlight the eyelid, wing the shading: Best suited for younger deep set eyes.
Shade the eyelid and round the shading: Best suited for prominent lids and younger deep set eyes.
Shade the eyelid and wing the shading: Best suited for younger deep set eyes.
Eye shadows come in in several textures, powders (compacts), pencils, and creams:
Powder can be used either dry or wet and it’s really easy to control. Make sure you look for a powder that feels moist.
Pencils are fairly easy to use, but you need to remember to smear the line as you go or you’ll have lines all over your face.
Creams tend to be hard to control. They can look beautiful and stay that way if you use a good quality eye foundation (eye primer), otherwise they can slip and slide into the creases on your eyes and eyelids.