you've got your eye makeup on a little bit of lippy but what do you do with
this area here well today I'm going to show you the five biggest mistakes that
women make when applying contour blush and highlight to mature aged skin hi I'm
Schellea this is fabulous 50s a Lifestyle channel for women over 50 and if you are
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every time there's a new video and they'll all relate to you I'm so excited
to be sharing my blush and contour tips with you today because wearing blush and
contour in the wrong places can actually add about 10 years to your face in fact
in the movies there's a trick that the makeup artists use and they apply blush
to the wrong part of the face to make a woman look much older and blush for me
was one of those things that I couldn't master until I learned how to do it
properly and after taking them makeup classes one day it just clicked and the
technique that I learned that made me understand is what I'd like to share
with you today so I'm really looking forward to getting into it and showing
you what to do and I'm going to show you on this side the correct way to do it
the way that I was taught and on this side I'm going to show you how to do it
the opposite of the correct way and the reason I show you the wrong way to do it
is because that's a way that many of us can learn a lot quicker so I encourage
you to experiment also with doing it the wrong way on your face and that way
you'll just get it you'll understand it and it will make so much sense to you
okay let's get started the first big mistake women make is when they apply
contour in the wrong place in the wrong color in the wrong texture product and
this is why I think so many of us can get confused so contouring is meant to
create a shadow imagine a young woman okay she's got no makeup on and she's
got great cheekbones and she's got like a little shadow underneath her
cheekbones and that's natural so when we're doing contour we're trying to
recreate that look we're not trying to create a
look that's or bronzey and glowy because that's not the natural look of a contour
line this photo here is my Mum would you believe this is when she was about
thirty and I love this photo so much she was a yoga teacher and this was back in
the 60s and when I was looking for photos I came across this one and my mum
had no makeup on she had a bit of lipstick but she had dark features and
beautiful skin and that was just the natural shadow on her face and you can
see on her jawline as well so these are the shadows that I'm going to show you
how to create and it's really easy once you know what you're doing the first
thing I'm going to do is draw some lines on my face to show you the area that we
stay in between okay so from your pupil to the bottom of your nose and across
and then you'll have a little bit of cheek bone that you'll be able to feel
or see and we can go half way down and a little triangle like that so you stay
within these lines when you're doing all of your techniques clearly you don't do
this I'm just doing it to show you okay so the three tips for contour were color
texture and position now the color is to be three to four shades darker than your
natural skin tone and like a brown to grayish tone so we don't want to go
golden and bronzy because that's not going to look like a shadow that'll look
like something else altogether I've got some products to show you that I'm going
to demonstrate with and I'm just going to show you some different price ranges
but they've all got the same coloring so this one here is just Revlon sculpt and
highlight contour kit and this is the light to medium color range and then
there's a darker one for darker skin as well as this but just to show you as a
comparison this is my Tom Ford cream contour and see how the colors are very
similar they're not gold and they're not and they're not glittery but what they
are is three to four shades darker than my skin tone and I've also got the
Charlotte Tilbury but just to show you again see the similarities in color so
you don't have to go high-end these two products here are high-end and they're
beautiful but this one will do the same job and it's the same color so get the
right color and you'll avoid making a big mistake
Plus this is matte we want Matt the next trick with contour is to use a brush
that's not thick so like you'd never apply a contour with a big thick brush
like this or you know a brush like this is you'd put too much product because a
contour should technically be about the size of your finger the line should be
the size of your finger not a whole lot of contour we're creating something very
subtle and that you can't notice so I'm using this size brush and I'll leave a
link below where to get something like this you get a little bit on your brush
and then take it off because you don't want to overdo this and then you find
your cheekbone underneath your ear and some people have trouble finding their
cheekbone but you've just got to push in and find where the bone is and we're
going directly under the bone and you draw a line see how I've got this little
triangle coming down and you draw a line note so the line is the size of your
finger it's not wider and you're creating just a shadow and then you
blend it in so you don't want to be able to see this line you want to see the
color but not the line and this color really is as good as the other colors
it's perfect so I've created a shadow under here I've followed my line
and that's the difference between the two sides and that is very very similar
to what's on my mum's face from when she was thirty so I'm kind of happy about
that without cheeks we're going to add a
darker color which means that we're going to recede this area and using the
same color principles that we use with our eyes we recede something that we
want to make disappear and we bring light to something that we want to
accentuate so it's the same if you'd like to make your legs look slimmer
you'd wear dark colored pants and if you'd like to make a room look bigger
you paint it white so this whole technique is that principle we're going
to recede this which is going to pop our cheek up and then we're going to add
color and light to our cheek so it's going to sit out and this is going to be
pushing it up so this is how it works now I'm going to show you how to do it
the wrong way and you should try this too so that you get it and you
understand but I don't have the wrong color to show you so I'm just going to
make it a little bit darker so that you can see and you'd go under your
cheekbone and you'd come down like this this is what a lot of people think that
you're supposed to do and it's and it's bringing it down and this is what the
young women can do because their faces are different to ours ours are sort of
heading down south and we need to push them up but on younger scheme it's very
dramatic and that looks great but for us over the age of 50 I think it's much
more subtle and perfect to do it this way so see how this isn't blended I'm
not blending it in you don't want to have any lines at all on your face ever
we've got to blend in everything so even when I blend this out I've gone too far
I've dragged my face down the second big mistake that we can make when applying
blush to our face is to put it in the wrong place so a couple of things we've
got our parameter where we've got to put our blush the
blush sits directly on top of the cheekbone so you feel where your
cheekbone is and you put the blush in that area so it goes on top of your
contour you lay a contour blush highlight and we're going to get this
part of the cheek so we're going to make that pop and sit forward okay when
you're applying blush it's subtle it's not overdone and it's not too lined and
using a brush with an edge like this it's a perfect way to get a good
application we're going to not go outside this white line and we're going
to find the cheek and just go up towards the ear so you feel for your cheekbone
and you just go along it with the brush and it's sitting right on top of the
contour shadow that you've created and you blend that in the other thing that's
really important with blush for anti-aging is that a matte blush
actually makes women look older because it flattens out the cheek okay so when
you're choosing a blush choose a blush with a little bit of Sheen in it and
then we can add a highlight on top of that but remember that flat matte blush
actually makes us look older so don't do that I'll give you a list of all of the
blushes that I think are great and then have a little bit of Sheen if you've got
a cream blush just warm it up a little bit in your fingers and then tap it on
and blend it out remember keep within those lines and just fill your cheekbone
and that's where the blush goes okay now for the wrong side and I encourage
everybody to do this so that you really get it the mistake side of blush is
where I was getting it wrong because I was coming down too far I was come
outside this line because I thought that's what you're supposed to do and
coming down too low so watch what happens when I do that this color here
is a really beautiful color blush I'll use it on the mistake side to show you
and I'll do it a little bit darker so that you can see but if you smile like I
showed you before and put the blush on the apples of your cheek when you stop
smiling they're going to fall down so we'll start doing that so you smile and
put it here and then it goes down so it goes flat but because I've gone a little
bit too close outside this line you can see that it's already making my face
droop and that's the result of putting it when I'm smiling my face drops ok now
the trick I was telling you about before that they use in movies is this they're
going to go down a little bit further and to make a woman look old in a movie
this is what they do and that's the trick how good's that so it's bringing
my face down whereas this sides bringing it up and another way that we can do it
as a mistake is to go all the way up and bring it down and so it's just a hot
mess that's why I encourage you to try smiling and applying blush and then
letting your face drop to see what happens and then putting it down here
which is the trick to make you look old and just see what happens on your face
because we've all got different sized faces and cheeks and it's a little bit
different for everybody and you know just for your face what works perfectly
for you another thing that happens when you smile is you get lines across here
and when you're smiling and putting your blush on and stop smiling
those lines are still there with the blush in the crevices so up close that
doesn't look great either so this sides really subtle and
it's giving me a lift and this side is like well what happened there and I love
that I know that trick because just don't do it another mistake we can make
when adding any product to this area of our face is to use the wrong textured
products and consistency for your skin so the general rule of thumb is cream
blush on top of a creamy foundation and powder blush on top of a powder
foundation or a cream foundation with a powder on top of it so that's the
general rule I use a combination of cream blush and powder blush and when I
use a powder blush I will powder on top of my foundation with a light
translucent powder or it will be the powder from my mineral sunscreen the one
I use this unforgettable so I'll put that on and that gives a powdered base
to apply my powdered blush on top of so cream with cream and powder with powder
and that will give you the best look and everything will be in unity and it will
look flawless on your face another big mistake that we can make is using
highlighter in the wrong way so the way to use highlighter is to gently apply
product to the top of the cheekbone so that when you're turning you can notice
a beautiful Sheen and the way to get that wrong is by using sparkles and
glitter and shimmery highlighter in the wrong place but all that does is bring
attention to any lines that you've got going on in your face and if you put it
too far out here or it gets in all the laughs lines and it looks like a mess so
it's got to be very subtle and very gentle so if you're out in the Sun
talking to a whole lot of people they're not going to notice any lines between
any of your products it's all going to look like it was meant to be as opposed
to on this side they're going to see that product and that product and that
product and it won't be seamless so I'm going to show you the right way to do it
first and that is to use a product that doesn't have sparkles or shimmer or
Polly but has a beautiful Sheen and I've got
two products that I love that I'm going to show you how to apply one of them is
just a shimmer stick and this is by Maybelline it's a very subtle sheen it's
got a nice glossy finish but no sparkles and the way to test if anything has got
a sparkle if your eyes aren't great is to go out into the sunshine and see if
the Sun brings out the glitter because sometimes you can't tell and then you
get it outside and it's got glitter in it so this is a great one and you just
apply a tiny bit to the top of your cheekbone okay and then you tap it in
that's all you need you want it to be light and subtle and that light is going
to make the chick pop and the other thing I love using on my cheekbones it's
a Charlotte Tilbury flawless filter and the reason I love this so much there are
many reasons but one of them is that you can apply this to your cheekbones and
nobody can tell that you've got product on and it just looks seamless and it
blends everything in together so you just add a little bit to the top of your
cheek and it adds that beautiful Sheen you can take another brush like a fluffy
kind of a brush when you finish doing your whole look and just make sure that
everything is sort of blended in so just give it a little tap with something more
fluffy we're going to apply a highlighter in the wrong place on this
side of the face the wrong way is to put too much product into where all the
lines are they smile and you doesn't put it all up here so all these lines here
are getting glitter in them and so that's just a little bit too much this
side here is subtle and beautiful for mature women and this side is if you're
younger and Kim Kardashian I guess so there you go I hope you've
got a better understanding of where to apply your contour blush and highlight
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