Hey ladies this is Erica Johnston and welcome back to my channel
a lot of you have been sending me messages lately that you're finding your
gray hair transition a little bit difficult it's making you feel old and I
hear you so in today's video I'm gonna give you some tips and tricks to help
you feel a little more youthful alright so a while back I did a video about this
and I gave you five different ways to look more youthful I'll link that here
in case you haven't already seen it the first strategy that I'm going to give
you today is to think about where you're parting your hair and whether or not
that's the right part for your face shape so I have a heart-shaped face as
you can see I've got a really pointed chin I've got just like that slight
little widow's peak here and then I've got a lot of volume I guess in the cheek
area here so I can part my hair in the middle and then I can also part it on
the side which you've seen me do a lot when it hurt on the side it sort of
de-emphasizes my pointed chin so I want you to take a look at your face shape
Shelly from fabulous 50s has an amazing video about how to tell your face shape
if you don't already know I'm going to show you how to choose the
right hairstyle for your face shape some people think they're an oval and turns
out they're you know a diamond or something like that so she's got a great
video I'll link it below so the best thing to do is just play around with it
a little bit part your hair in the middle part it over to the side do a
deep side part that might even change things up a little bit and there's also
the zigzag part where you take your comb and zigzag it and then let it fall and
that looks really pretty as well once you get to the end kind of use your
finger on one side and then lift and separate lift and separate so play
around with different parts and see if maybe that might change up your look a
little for you alright so your second youthful
strategy is with gray hair it can tend to look kind of dry dull maybe brittle
you know so you want to give it some shine and luster and make it look really
pretty I recommend using some kind of serum I've got to you that I'm going to
show you today but there are so many out there in the market and maybe you have
some already of your own that you love let me know in the comment section below
so this one I really like it's a bit heavy though just be careful you don't
want to use too much of it but this is original root stimulator or ORS olive oil
silken and shine and it's also heat protection serum I've talked about this
one before but it's so nice and I actually put a little bit on before I
started filming and I just rubbed it into my hands and then I put it on and
it just gives me so much shine you could also probably use coconut oil straight
up I have not tried it yet but a lot of you have said that that works and it's
very very natural this one is goldwell dual senses just
smooth it's a six effects serum I also really like this one for flyaways so
that's another thing you can do it really it really does make a difference
that's shine it just brightens you up and it makes you look more youthful so
give it a try so the third thing you can do now this
is a hard one if you've been plucking your eyebrows
for many many years you may have found that they're not growing in any more or
maybe you're getting white eyebrows like myself you know these are all things
that we have to deal with as we get older so one nice thing that can really
make you look more youthful is if you've got really over plucked thin eyebrows is
to pencil them in to make them look a little bit thicker and that's a more
youthful look also look at the color of your eyebrows and if you have very very
light eyebrows you might want to use a powder and make them maybe
little bit darker not too dark but that does frame your face nicely you also
want the edge of the eyebrow to come out to almost the edge of your eye and not
be too short in here and also you don't want to over pluck in this area either
you want to try to keep some eyebrow in here
beware of the dreaded sperm eyebrows as I call them and that's where you have
sort of that thick part here and then it goes really really thin and that's very
very dated look as well when I was a little girl I had like pretty much Bert
and Ernie eyebrows Think Brooke Shields alright so number three is how
you're doing your makeup and you want more of a natural look I did do a makeup
tutorial for hooded eyes I'll link that above here as well but it is true that
as you get older you know less is more so you really want to go for a more
natural look try to steer clear of too many trendy colors that sort of things
so for your makeup just go easy you know forget the 80s blush remember the blush
one used to do really really you know solid line up the cheek that's just it's
not good anymore you just want to have a little color in the apples of your
cheeks you know you want to open up your eyes under-eye concealer is always my
best friend a little bit of color on the lips and that sort of thing so just try
to go really light on the makeup but makeup is nice right I mean it kind
of makes us feel good and and wakes us up sometimes that's a natural never goes
out of style alright so my fifth strategy to
incorporate in your lifestyle is to get fit and active be active this brings you
know blood to our faces it makes us feel good it gives us endorphins you know
that sort of feel-good way of being so just get moving
and you will feel so good I've got a few workout videos on my channel that you
can do I do plan on making some more workout videos for you so the only thing
that I'm not sure is what kind to do for you
I don't know if you want to have beginner workouts you know more advanced
that sort of thing so you'll have to let me know in the comment section okay all
right so the final strategy for looking more youthful with gray hair is to kind
of lose the preconceived notion that gray equates with old and I know it's
hard it's really really hard to do but if you feel old
inside then you look old on the outside it's just the way it is you know what
you what you feel inside projects outwardly
I just want to tell you no matter how old you are you are only as old as you
feel and I truly have believed this my whole life I remember when I was 16
years old I could actually connect with 80 year olds you know because the 80
year olds that I connected with were youthful on the inside and I still feel
like that today my next-door neighbor who passed away a few years ago I loved
her so much she was 90 years old and still kicking she is one of my major
role models she lived alone you know her husband had passed away a few years
earlier and she was still mowing her lawn
she was grocery shopping she was getting together with friends and she just had
such a zest for life she was funny you know and she could just relate she used
to make cookies for all the kids in the neighborhood and like give them you know
the cookies before their dinner but she just was such a great lady and I've
always looked up to older women who live like that because that's my goal a
hundred percent and you know I remember when I was in
my I'd say late 20s and I met this woman who was the age that I am now early 40s
and I remember her saying to me cuz I didn't know why she didn't
like me and I really wanted her to like me but you know she said to me Erica
it's not you it's me she said I am an old woman in a 40 year old body and I'll
never forget that like that moment stuck with me for the I mean I was gonna say
for the rest of my life but up until now and I just I never want to be like that
I I never want to feel old inside of my heart and you know I'm really lucky
because my parents are like that we have so much fun with them my in-laws are
like that you know and I choose friends like that as well right who always want
to learn and and just want to get the the best out of life so I hope that this
video helps you a little bit I'd like to know if you've got any other ways any
other strategies that you use to stay youthful and as always I'd love to hear
from you so if you enjoyed this video be sure to give it a thumbs up subscribe to
my channel if you haven't already done so and until next time bye for now
weird face shapes welcome my god yep my little Bert and Ernie broad brows
okay I mean have to see if I can dig up a photo of me with blue eye shadow it's
it's not good it's not a good look I thought looked like a giant blueberry I
had blue eye shadow I had a blue dress on and I really thought I'd look like a
giant blueberry it was really bad okay