today I'm going to talk about my top foundation tips for women over 50 and if
you're a woman over 50 getting your foundation right is the most anti-aging
thing you can do hi I'm Schellea and welcome to Fabulous 50's it's been said
that if you want to make a woman look younger the number one thing to do is
even out her skin tone with a good foundation so that's what this video
today is all about making mature skin on women over 50 glow and create the
perfect canvas for any makeup look these tips are used by makeup artists on
film TV and weddings and shoots but the same tips apply to everyday women and
everyday faces and particularly to mature skin so let's get started
Foundation applies best to a moisturized and primed skin so if you're not used to
using anything under your foundation this tip will really make a big
difference this one has been around for so many years it's what makeup artists
use underneath their foundation and it is very very very moisturizing but can
be used on oily skin as well and this is so perfect underneath the foundation and
if you've got dry skin oh my goodness this is beautiful so put that in and let
it sit for a little bit and you can either apply your foundation straight on
top of your moisturizer or apply a primer
I love primers because that's my thing and I'm obsessed with foundation so
these two things are my favorite and I have found this Kryolan and primer and
it is so beautiful and Kryolan is a professional makeup artist range and
what this primer does is it makes the foundation stick to it so it gets much
longer where the goal of foundation application is to even out your skin
tone while you can still see your actual skin underneath the foundation you
decide what coverage you want first so you want a full coverage and
medium coverage or a sheer coverage then you apply product sheer out and then
layer and that's the trick with foundation and it works a treat and I'm
going to show you how to do that and today we're going to use wax based
foundation which is a lot different to liquid foundation that you may be used
to but I say give this a try because we're all into trying new things and
experimenting but these foundations these wax bases this is RCMA and this one's
Kryolan and I'm obsessed with these they are the most beautiful foundations and I
think you're going to love them and the reason I love them so much is because
they're 50% pigment which means that it's all about the color so you're
putting product on your skin that's a color rather than a lot of product on
your skin mixed with a color so these ones for example are around 50% pigment
and a normal liquid foundation is anywhere between 18 and 25 percent
pigment so with less pigment in your foundation you need more of it to cover
all your uneven skin tone redness blotchy sunspots and all of that tools
that apply foundation is either a brush or a Beauty Blender or your fingers and
technically a brush is for blending and shearing out and Beauty blenders are for
layering you can use either of these tools to apply your foundation but it's
just good to know what they're for and what the purpose is I'll apply RCMA
to this side of my face and the Kryolan to this side just to give you a
comparison and if you buy a palette like this you can combine the colors you
can't get it wrong because whatever your skin tone is a combination of these
colors will suit you perfectly and when you find the color that you absolutely
love you can buy them in this size which this will last me a year or more because
you need such a small amount I'm going to combine these two colors for my skin
and you just take a small amount and put it on your hand and these two colors
that's all you need it's such a small amount and with a wax foundation you've
got to heat it up first and it becomes creamy and then you apply it I apply it
with my finger and this is just all pigment it feels so luxurious and
beautiful and it feels different to liquid foundation I'll go in on the
other side with my Kryolan and this is my exact shade and if you happen to live
in Sydney you can go to the Kryolan store on Oxford Street and
they'll do a color match for you and if you happen to go there the makeup artist
that helped me was Raja and he was so helpful he was amazing and full of
wisdom and information and his service was 10 out of 10 so if you are lucky
enough to meet up with Raja ask him to color match you and if you're
not in Sydney I'll link all the places that you can get these colors and you
can have a test for yourself so this is the Kryolan one
the coverage is so beautiful let's get to the technique part now that I've got
it on my face I'm going to blend out and sheer out and lay out and this is the
way to get that most beautiful look that the professional makeup artists get when
they're doing you know work for TV or film and a brush like this
that's dense that can buff out a kabuki brush this is like a Rea Morris sort of
beautiful brush and these kind of brushes so we're going to take one and
we're going to start blending out
and here's the kicker with foundation this is what we can get very very wrong
because we're over 50 with mature eyes we don't often see everything and I have
to be the first to admit that because we can be doing our makeup and miss parts
if you're just doing this and when you go outside your skin is blotchy and
there's parts that sort of have a lot of pigment and parts that you've missed so
buffing out your foundation means that that doesn't happen and that's probably
the number one mistake I would see with foundation on older women is that
blotchy application because we don't know what we don't know and it's one of
those things that people aren't going to come up to you and say hey you missed a
spot with your foundation so this is something make sure that you have a
beautiful brush to buff out your foundation and you can't go wrong
take it down to your neck and if you're using a liquid foundation you do the
same thing because we don't want our eyesight to fail us and we don't want
any bits missed if I want to make this a little bit more full coverage I would
add a little bit more to my hand warm it up and again I'm going to buff it in and
sheer it out that's going to give you such a
beautiful look as opposed to foundation that's sort of full coverage and 24-hour
wear and thick and heavy because all that's going to do is make us look like
we've got a mask on and we don't want to make that mistake as we're getting older
because we can't get away with it because of our lines and wrinkles and
what happens is around our eyes and around our mouth here we're moving all
day and if we're going to have that much movement with this heavy mask on it's
going to crack but doing something like this this sort of technique you don't
get the cracking because you have buffed and sheered out and then reapplied
here's another tip if you've got oily skin or you're having hot flushes all
the time you can layer that with a setting spray so you can use a I've got
an urban decay mattifier and you can spray on like this and this spray is a
layer so sticking with that principle we're going to use this for the layering
product and we're going to tap that in and that's going to help with oil
control during the day and you can also spray it on your Beautyblender and again
layer layer layer layer it's all about technique and layering and blending and
shearing out if the way to get perfect foundation and nobody has ever said I
want to see a woman with a face full of thick foundation because that just
doesn't look great now here's the thing if you've got lots of wrinkles and lines
around your face which many of us do you can't get rid of wrinkles with
foundation it's it's it doesn't happen that way because wrinkles are crevasses
in our skin so unless we're going to fill the crevice up with some putty
they're gonna stay there okay here's what you do you buff out the area
on your face where your wrinkles are so for me it's around here and around my
eyes and the goal is to sheer out your foundation as much as possible around
those areas so by the end of the day you don't have a gathering and a collection
of foundation inside your lines because you've sheered it all out another tip is
to rather than apply a ton of foundation in the morning decant some of your
foundation into a small container and then during the day just touch it up
it's so easy you only need the tiniest tiniest amount rub it into your
fingertips to warm it up and then just apply it so for me I like to reapply
around this area because that's where it gets a little bit thinned out for me and
that's all I do it takes two seconds and then because we're layering we use the
principle of layering and using a sponge and you just tap it in and that's going
to give you a beautiful fresh look halfway through the day when you need it
the most when you've got your foundation to this stage you can add powder and
there's a couple of things I want to say about powder the first thing is if
you're going to apply a powder with a color in it or a pigment in it it can
end up looking not great at the end of the day and the reason is if you get
oily and you've got a colored powder on your skin the oil and the powder and the
foundation all mix in to create a different color on your skin and that
can look really ashy you know halfway through the day so if you don't powder
here and your powder here this area can have a completely different color and
you can really tell when you're outside so I have found this product this is a
Ray Morris invisible mattifier and it's clear it's it's invisible and it's the
strangest consistancy but it does an amazing job and it
feels like a gel no it doesn't feel like a gel it sort of between a powder and a
gel and it's sort of soft but what you do is you put your brush in it's
actually a powder and then you dab it on to the areas that you'd like to mattify
and instantly it takes down the shine so if you're someone who gets hot flushes
or has oil in this area this product here works like amazing and
that's all you need to do just a small amount and it takes away the shine but
the thing is it's invisible so if your skin continues to produce oil during the
day or get very very hot the foundation that you have on your skin isn't going
to mix with a color and create another color again and another product that I
have is the RCMA which is the same company I told you about before this is
a no color powder and you can put a little bit of this powder it it appears
to be white which it is but when you put it on your skin it becomes invisible and
it completely takes down the shine I like the shine but I'm just showing you
and this is really great if you're having hot flushes this one is really
inexpensive and look how much there is i decant it into one of these little
containers and then you can carry that around if oil is your problem you can
carry one of these around and this and this and you're set you're going to look
fresh all day every day and to hold your foundation and all that
work you've just done in place you can use a setting spray and I love the Too
Faced hangover 3 and one but Raja told me to get this one he sold it to me it's
the derma color fixing spray and he said that this would
give this a run for its money and it's true I love it it's different it kind of
feels it's different to this one as it's not as dewy-lookin but it gives just
that perfect perfect satin look to your face this has a sun protection SPF 20
and again this is a makeup artist one which they would use for a wedding to
keep the makeup long-lasting for the whole day and then on top of my
foundation every time I make it 3d I put a Charlotte Tilbury flawless filter on
and it gives a beautiful dewy luminous glow and I just apply that
with a Beauty Blender and apply it here and that lifts my foundation and makes
it look even more dewy and more beautiful I really hope you got some
value from those foundation tips and I encourage you to try new ways of
applying foundation and try some of these techniques and you can't get it
wrong just have fun experimenting with new different ways and use the
foundations that you have at home just try buffing and blending and layering
and see if you get a different result please give a thumbs up if you enjoyed
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