Hey awesome ones, did you know that the way that you apply your eye makeup can actually make
you look older? Well I have discovered by trial and error a way to really kind of camouflage
our wrinkles a little bit and not accentuate them as we put on our eye makeup. So let's take a look.
Let's take a look at the two ways that women apply eye makeup. If you take a look at this
photo you'll notice on one side the lid is more wrinkly and also underneath where the concealer
has been put on it's also more wrinkly. So let's talk about the do's and don'ts and what's right
and wrong for applying the eye makeup. But in order to do that I have to take all my eye makeup off so...
ahhh! You know what? I don't even go to the grocery store without eye makeup but I'm doing this for
the awesome ones. Here I am. No eye makeup. Let's start with step number one and for step number one
I'm using a primer on my eyelids and this one is from Urban Decay. And by the way I'll have a list
of the products that I'm using underneath the video description or also in the comments.
And by the way I use this Strivectin. It's anti-wrinkle primer on the rest of my face.
You might be asking yourself you know what's a primer? Well a primer is something that you put on
before your foundation and what it does is it kind of sinks into the fine lines and the fine wrinkles
the way when you're painting a wall you know that it takes care a primer takes care of a lot of the
cracks in the wall. So I guess we're talking about the cracks in our face, but anyway let's get back
to the primer that i'm going to use on my eyes. This primer is from Urban Decay and it kind
of looks a little bit like a a concealer and all I do is I just put a little bit, let me see here,
I'm going to put it on this finger here just put a little bit on my fingers kind of oily and I'm
just going to put it all over my lid here and by the way for the sake of time I am going to
do both eyes but I won't be applying all of it over you know each eye. So just one for now but
you will see the finished product. I guess I'm the finished product of both eyes done correctly. Now
you should let that eye primer dry just a little bit and while we're letting it dry let's talk
about my brows. My brows are pretty well done and I did use the eyebrow stencils and you know I love
the stencils. The kit it comes with powder for filling in your brows and shaping them perfectly.
However sometimes what I like to do is I like to use the NYX I think it's called Fill and Fluff
and I just sort of fluff up after I'm done and maybe you know how you're supposed to start with
your brows right about here sometimes I just fill in where the stencil kind of left off.
Now another great product is the NYX Brow glue. And you're thinking to yourself glue? No it washes off
really easy at night but what I love about it is it really kind of makes your brows stay in
place. I'll just kind of show you what we can do here. So it helps to keep them staying in place
and what I usually do is I put a couple of coats on. It's kind of like mascara
but it really really helps to accentuate the brows and of course the brows really help the
whole look of your eye makeup. Now let's talk about the eye liner and by the way
please don't use a dark black if you're a little bit older. It's really really harsh. We want to
soften up the eyes a little bit and what I would suggest I have a navy and I also have a soft brown
by L'oreal Infallible. I think it's called soft brown let me just see here...black brown sorry
about that and I'm just going to make a very soft line on my eyes and because I have the hooded eyes
I'm going to do a slight swoosh on the side. So let's just take care of that here.
There's my little soft swoosh that I've done and I'm just going to go very close to the eye lashes
and notice I didn't just go...I kind of dotted it along and now I have a soft eyeliner. And now
let's talk about the lids of our eyes. What you don't want to do you don't want to use
a shiny glossy even creamy kind of you know I see them wrinkles that I have in here.
I don't want to accentuate them and if I'm using that kind of eye shadow that's what I'm going to
do. I'm going to accentuate. So what I would rather do is use something like this matte
palette which is absolutely incredible. It's from NYX and it's called warm neutrals.
And I think I do want to highlight my eyes. So I'm going to use this one right here
and just it just gives a little bit more life to your eyes. So here we go
and I'll blend that in a little bit. Okay see how this eye has a little
bit more life than that eye and I'm also going to put just a little touch
underneath the brow bone. And now for the crease of the eye I'm actually going to use two powders
but i'm going to start off with this oops this lighter one right here.
And what I will be doing is using a brush like this and just sort of going into the crease.
Now I do have hooded eyes so I'm going to do a little bit of a swoosh at the side here as well
and I don't go right into the middle I start about about here three quarters I guess it would
be. Now you're probably thinking to yourself oh that looks horrible, but what you need to do is
you have to blend it and I have a very nice blending brush here and so what I'm going to
do is I'm just going to blend blend blend blend blend blend and just blend it out a little bit.
In a second I'll show you step two of the crease. So if you look closely you'll see all
the wrinkles that I have in my crease here and what I want to do is camouflage them a little bit.
So what I'm going to use is a darker brown and the reason I'm using brown today and not purples
or some of the colors that I wear a lot is because this palette is good for almost everybody.
I'm going to use this darker color now and what I'm trying to do is kind of camouflage
those wrinkles. So let's go ahead put this right over top of the wrinkles...
bring it out a little bit...
and again don't forget to blend. I'm using a blending brush like this
and I want to get it right in there into the the wrinkles and it's making my eyes, even though
they're hooded, they look a little bit more set in. So this is doing a lot of different kinds of
camouflaging and blend blend blend. Sorry I'm looking off to the side, but there you go. So right
about now I can do a layer of mascara. I absolutely love the Covergirl Exhibitionist mascara and I use
the color black brown not intense black because again we want to soften this look a little bit.
I'm just going to put one layer on right now. I usually put three and only one layer
on the bottom lashes. I'm not going to do them yet because I haven't put the concealer down here yet
but you can see how that's already making a difference. And by the way if you like this
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an awesome community here and I would love you to join in in the comments. Now just before I explain
the do's and the don'ts about putting concealer underneath our eyes I just want to tell you that
I did a live event where I actually put on all my makeup in front of the camera
live! So there was no room for mistakes or anything and you can find that at amazon.com/live/awesomeover50
where amazon has all of my live events and just look for the thumbnail
with the makeup one and you'll see me putting on my makeup. All right so I was mentioning about
the do's and the don'ts of concealer. Let's take a look at a photograph here and what you'll notice
is a real difference between the two applications of concealer. So let me explain what I did right
and what I did wrong. So the problem was that on the don't side for the concealer
I just applied you know a regular thick kind of concealer like this and put it all over underneath
my eyes to hide my dark circles. Well the more makeup that you put on underneath your eyes
the more your wrinkles are going to show. So what I have found
is the Neutrogena Hydro Boost and you can see it's got moisturizer right in the center here
and my color is light and I just use a concealer brush like this kind of a little dab will do you
and I have a two-step for my concealer so all I'm going to do is just put this lightly
very very lightly...
underneath my eyes. I just go into the purpley part a little bit here so because this has got
moisturizing it's so light it's taking care of covering and kind of matching my foundation.
But let me show you what I'm going to do for still the dark circle that you see here. All right so I'm
going to use a little bit, this is light fair of IT Cosmetics Bye Bye Under Eye and I'll tell you
this IT cosmetics it's going to last me. Look at I just used a little dab like that it's going
to last me forever and what I do is I just use a little bit on a brush like this and then I'm going
to go into that dark circle ever so lightly and you see how I'm just lightening it up a little bit.
Okay and I have a dark spot over here I don't know if you can see it but I will put a little bit of
camouflaging over there as well and those purpley parts in between my eyes if I wanted to I could
also put a little bit of lightness right here and right here let me just do that properly here
and that's going to kind of brighten up my eyes as well. Now because this is looking a little bit
greasy we want to set it but please the reason that the 'don't' side looks so much more wrinklier
is because I set it with a powder like this do not do that. There is a magic product out there and it
is called Revlon anti-shine and it's fantastic. It's going to take the glare away but it's
not going to go in and make your wrinkles look worse. So that's what it looks like. It's a balm
but you just sort of go like this and you go underneath your eye. Let me just get the mirror out...
go underneath your eyes it's going to take the shine away
let me just see you can see how that's a little shiny there. Watch it take it away
there and if I got some on my nose...
So now when I go to the ladies room and I want to powder my nose I don't powder it I anti-shine it!
By the way skin care and eye creams are so important as a base before you do put on
your makeup and I did do a video on skin care it was actually my nighttime routine
so what I'm going to do for you is I'm going to put it on the end screen of this video so you can
check it out. All right what we don't want to do is put a heavy black liner underneath our eyes. That's
really really aging. So what I want to do is just use this dark brown, again I'm just using a little
brush like this and I'm just going to lightly go underneath my eyes this will be my liner
just like that and I'm just going to do the other side quickly because I just want to show you
a little bit of mascara that I'll put on as well even that out a bit and I'm going
to put a second layer on the top of lashes. I'm just going to show you how I do the bottom
lashes. I'll do the top ones off camera. So what I'm going to do is just very lightly
and this mascara is fantastic it doesn't make you have the raccoon eyes and it comes off
very very nicely at night. I showed you my do's and don'ts for applying the eye makeup
but let's take a look at how I looked before I put on the makeup and then when I had the makeup on. So
here you can see that I have my makeup on but I don't know I just look a little bit more youthful
and it also is a really natural looking makeup. I've got to tell you something too. There was a lot of
trial and error as per how to put this makeup on as we age and make it still look natural.
So on one of my live events and by the way they're every Wednesday at 8 p.m eastern standard time at
amazon.com/shop/awesomeover50 I talked about you know how we're so easy for us just to upgrade our phone
or upgrade our tv or upgrade our car but we really don't think about upgrading our makeup or our skin
care. And you know as we're aging we really really need to do that. So if you're still using the same
old cold cream that your mom used or whatever for the last 20 years or you're still using
let's say the same kind of concealer just what I want to do on these videos is I want to be
your tester. I want to be the guinea pig and I'm going to try all kinds of things and when I find
some good ones I'm going to show them to you and I'm going to help you to keep it awesome.