Hi everyone! As a former 80s model... I'm 62 years old now. I was watching a lot of
mature women making a few mistakes with her makeup so I thought why not do
a YouTube channel, do some videos and teach you what I think are the 10
biggest mistakes? And by the way some of you are already subscribing and thank
you so much! You know it really eggs me on to make more of these videos. But
let's start with these 10 mistakes... here we go!
The number one mistake that I see a lot of women doing these days, some young
people who are doing it as well, but especially for mature women, way too much
of this lovely sparkly highlighter, I mean as soon as we saw it us older
women or mature women we thought... oh that's the Fountain of Youth I'm going
to shine and I'm going to look younger, but you know what happens we put this on
and it actually accentuates our wrinkles and it really, it doesn't look natural at all,
it starts to look really, really shiny. I think I'll put a little on my nose.. no!
I'll put it here, oh look at that, but they're also putting way too much in the
center of the eye and that's just one of the things that I've noticed
and you can see sparkle city here and believe me it starts to accentuate your
wrinkles and just a more natural look over on this side. Now I'm not saying we can't
sparkle a lot of things up a little bit, maybe a little bit of highlighter here, looks
very natural not accentuating any wrinkles and I also like to put with a
little, little brush, not a big brush, a little bit of sparkle in between my eyes
and that's about it. Number two is the actual disappearing
cat eye look. Watch this, this is you know, we go out of me buy these special felt
tip, not felt tip markers , but felt tip eyeliner and we're just all crazy about
that cat eye that those younger people are doing, but I've got hooded eyes,
you probably do too. I've got mature kind of droopy eyes what? What?, this is going to amaze you,
watch this, so don't spend the money on this if this is
you. Putting on the cat eyeliner, oh it's going on so perfect this is gonna be the
perfect eyeliner, there's my big cat eye they're gonna go like that and you're
looking at you going , Heather that looks fabulous what are you talking
about ? Well where'd it go ?It disappears because we have droopy eyes and I
also think now this eye makes me look older than this side . So I think I've got
an idea especially if you have droopy or hooded
eyes, just to sort of go on the liner like this a little bit in the corners
and just kind of smudge it upwards. Can you see? That's I think a much more
natural look and I don't know, it works for me
All right so Number three is that dark lip liner, where did this even come from?
like I've never thought It looked pretty on anybody but let me just show
you. I don't have any lipstick on right now and I'm going to show you . You know
you've seen everybody, well not everybody but you've seen a lot of women doing
this and after your first beverage that lipstick that you put in the middle is
gone and you're left with the dark lip liner Here we go and they also a lot of times
over emphasize their lips too, so
all right I'm just gonna put a little bit of lipstick on.
After a couple cups of coffee this is going to be just about brown lip liner
No not pretty. So I like this natural lipstick look a lot better. You can choose
whatever color you want if you want a peach if you want pinks whatever color
that works for you. Now as you can see it's very natural and I'm using a
lipstick but the the liner is almost the same color as the lipstick now how about
this kind of glossy shiny, well I just put that kind of in the middle just to
give a little bit of a sparkle but I don't overdo it .What perfect timing, it's
raining now, and this is great because I'm going to show you about over
bronzing, you know when we have those summers that there's hardly any sunshine
we're not supposed to get too much sunshine, remember your sunscreen
everybody, but ah we're looking at...oh I want to look like I have a glow and you know
all those people that went away I want to look like them so we buy this bronzer
and some women they're just overdoing it. Look at how much powder is in this
thing so they're going, well you know what I'll also put some bronzer on me
I'll shake that all over my body and let's just see how this looks. Okay,
Cough, cough, so powdery, it's crazy. Under our eyes all over the place on our
foreheads, oh wow look we, wait under here so I got to put some down here and down
with the girls you know, and all that sort of thing and like I'm just feeling
my skin just dry up right now and it may look, it may look like you have bronzing
and that you have a nice color and everything but just let's go in a little
closer here it totally looks like makeup and believe me a lot of people are going
to tell. Where's your natural skin? Where's your glow? It's just all covered
up, now better you have a natural glow and hey I need a bronzer.
I've got really white legs and so I'll use a little bit of bronzer and I sort
of wipe it down with a paper towel and and give myself a nice healthy glow and
that's what we're talking about, we're talking about a nice healthy glow not a
really painted on bronze look.So you glow girl
Number five is overdone brows, I know, I know we watch all these videos of these
younger people and they're filling in their brows and you know, I've got
sparse brows so I mean it's kind of a groucho look for some of us.
Let's just see what they're doing, what they're doing is they're actually, if we
can get a close-up of this, you'll probably see they're actually putting a
little bit of a square here and they're using it kind of ,and again it might look
great for younger people I just don't think it's working for us mature women
So you be the judge
Some women are even shaving their eyebrows off and doing this as a line
but this is, it's really, really not for me. I'm going to fill it in with a little
bit of powder here, there it even goes a little bit bigger than that you know...
you've all seen it right and dark, dark let me just do a little
before-and-after here. I like natural, hmm so for me personally I like a natural
look in a brow and as you can see these are very natural and I've got sparse
thinning brows I mean there's a spot that I don't even have any brow so I've
actually done a video for you guys where I showed the pencil and even a wax to make
brows look better, especially for us mature , over 50 women. So Number six is using
these blues and greens and ughh, really it's it's a throwback to the
1960s again and not only that but people who are using it I kind of find are just
using way way too much and I'm going to show you here on this side I mean it's
pretty I mean there's no question that it's very pretty but for us, older
women people are going to think that we never changed our makeup , and you
know so as you can see it's just so overdone and I'm just going to separate
the two looks right here, so you can see sparkle city over here and this is also
more natural and hey if you have hooded or droopy eyes and you want to get an
idea of this kind of look for your eye makeup I have done a video for you so
yeah take a look. So you know when I bought this blue eye shadow it was just
for the don't look but for some reason when I walked out of the store I just tried
this, watch this I put a little dab here on top of my eyes and a little dab here
on the top of my eyes really, really, really subtle as you can see it's really subtle
and it just made my blue eyes sparkle and probably for green eyes as well so
who'da thunk it ? Alright so Number seven is over contouring. This one actually
scares me when I see videos of women putting on the contouring before their
foundation what I'm seeing is I know because when I was modeling and even now
when I'm modeling if you have a little bit of a red undertone you're supposed
to use a green so I'm seeing women putting green down their nose and then
they're, you know, they're just kind of blending it in a little bit and then
they're going underneath the eyes and they're going like opposite of raccoon
eyes, they're doing sort of this. I know this might be concealing but it also is
contouring the face so you'd have the light in the dark but so I'm going to
blend this in and I'm going to do the contouring under here and it's wild, like
what I've been seeing is just absolutely wild and so they're using like a brown
for contouring and make sure you get it right in there and
and go right down, you know and blah blah blah and of course we've got to go
underneath the chin and we have to go here oh and don't forget between the
girls, oh yeah we got... It's contour city it's just too much and even if I'm
going to put on my makeup, just a second oh here we go this is very thick powder
foundation am I going to put that over top of all this contouring and I
literally have to lather it on so much
under my eyes okay, now look at the wrinkles coming this side
compared to this side and I'm just going to have to really lather it on to me
it's it's over contouring and it's, it's all the rage right now I mean you see it
everywhere and you can buy a hundred products for it but in my estimation I'd
rather be kind of more natural now than way to, and it's, it's like a pancake
makeup now . So it's better to use two brushes, I've got a nice pink here but
maybe you'd like a peach or another colors the natural color and then I use
another brush for the contouring and I only go about here . I don't go right
down to the mouth, just a little bit of contouring like that . Pretty, I think it's
natural I think it's pretty. So the Number eight faux pas I see a lot of
women still using that 1960 kind of lipstick, you know the kind that,
I mean that's super glossy almost pale in color and
you know the big look, kind of look. Myself I like to go for a more natural
look after all what people want to see is your big bright smile not shiny lips
coming at them and I'm going to show you what I mean about these throwback to the
1960s. So I took all my makeup ,my makeup, my lipstick off and I'm going to
show you what I mean by this over gloss look and throwback to the 60s... here we go
I'm not using a lip liner because it's almost acts as a lip liner , alright so as
you can see these lips are coming at you they also make my lips look a little bit
more wrinkled than before even in the this kind of state so you know we don't
want them just to see our lips as we're walking along. So I like this lipstick
look a lot better, you can choose whatever color you want if you want a
peach if you want pinks whatever color that works for you. Now a lot of us
learned our makeup tricks from our Moms, God bless our mums but using the powder
and powdering your face all day long it's just not thing to do, a lot of us
women well I used to, I don't anymore take our little makeup compact and think,
oh I'm going to run to the washroom and I'm going to take care of this and I'm
going to take care of that and I'm going to take care of, you know we're taking
all our blush off girls this isn't working and not only that but the more
that you put this on the more you're emphasizing ,see these wrinkles here the
more I put this on and the more I put it on here the wrinkles are getting worse
I'm looking paler oh and I don't even want to try to go underneath my eyes
because you're gonna see a hundred, I'm not even gonna do it
so this makeup in our compacts or in our purses we lather it on all day long so we
don't look shiny you know, what we're starting, here I'll show you, we start to
look older, so see the difference here and see the nice natural look over here
and I'll show you my little trick to how I make this still look natural. So we're
in the new millennium ladies and putting on all that powder like Mom used to do
it's just not the way to do it, anyway I found this fabulous anti shine and you
know I've got a little bit on my nose there, got a little bit down here,upper lip
it's just fabulous so they've got this at drugstores or makeup counters so just
ask for an anti shine cream and you're not just lathering on a ton of powder
and making those wrinkles look worse. So Number ten is an overdone smoky eye, now
I have a smoky eye on right now and I'll show you more about it in a minute a lot
of women what they do is they think smoky eye means this black eye shadow
and you know what it might look great on some people but if you're fair like me
or mature woman and you put it on wrong it's going to look absolutely, absolutely
scary. Watch, watch what happens here. So here I
am oh my gosh I got this great black, just gonna put this in her,e I'm gonna bring
it out so when I have a cat eye, I'll go right in here and I want to put
this underneath because I want to be super glam so even if we're smudging and
blending and everything I'm gonna tell you after a couple of hours at a party
this is going to look it's going to start to crease it's going to look like
black lines all over the place and even at the beginning of the party
what do you want to do it you want to sort of say Hello
I'm at a party or would you like to go... Hello... I'm at a party. You know it's just,
they're gonna be looking at your makeup It's it's just ugh. Now I'm all for a glammed
up look and I have done a smokey eye on this and I've been using a lot of,
there's all different colors on palettes these days
I chose a purple look for me today but I could have very easily used a
brown, I could have put a nice little highlighter in the middle and yeah just
do a little bit, look a little bit like that, but I think it's it's glamorous but
not scary. So I really hope you enjoyed this video and I'm still modeling so I'm
learning from makeup artists and I'm still going to the drugstore and the
make-up counters and learning more tips, techniques so I really want to share
with you so please subscribe and it will encourage me to keep making these videos
for you, which I actually love to do and in the meantime I got my little Yorkie
here and he's been patiently waiting to go for a walk so Hurricane shall we go for a
walk? Would you like to go for a walk? Yeah I think he does so, I will
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