Hey awesome ones, I want to say a big thank you to a lot of you that say my skin is looking really
nice for my age. But I gotta tell you I've got a few secrets and what I thought I would do is share
them with you today on how I get a bit more of a youthful glowing kind of skin. Don't forget I
always do say though embrace your age. All right well let's just get started with tip number one.
I prime my face like a painter primes a wall. What? Yep now in order to give you this full experience
what I have to do is I have to take off all my makeup. I'm going to leave my eye makeup on
but don't forget to stay till the end because this is not all makeup related. All right here
goes the makeup. Aahh...I only do this for you the awesome ones but anyway let's get to the primer
and this is the StriVectin. Let me read it here... instant wrinkle blurring primer and here's
the one that I've been using you can see that I love it and again just a little dab will do you.
I'll just show you how much I use right here and what we're going to do is we're putting on
the primer. Now not only is that going to act as a really nice base for our foundation but it's
actually going... you know my 11's here it's actually going in a lot of marionette lines yeah it's going
into a lot of the little wrinkles and cracks just like you know a painter when he puts the primer on
the walls the same sort of thing. So now if my face looks like it's getting a little bit red
that naturally happens with me but in just a few seconds it will disappear. And as usual I'll have
many of the products that I'm using it's going to be underneath in the video description and also in
the comments. Don't forget if you're wondering what my favorite skin care and makeup products
are all you have to do is go to amazon.com/shop/awesomeover50
scroll down and you'll find the sections and by the way you always pay exactly what Amazon usually charges. All right let's get
to tip number two. It has to be our concealer and today I have two that I usually apply and it not
only helps to you know get rid of a lot of the dark circles but also discolorations and also no
age spots. All right let's take a look. All right so let's start with just a basic concealer. This one
is from NYX it's called Bare With Me and my color is vanilla. All right so again just a little dab on
my hand here and I'm going to use a concealer brush like this and what I'm going to do I'm
just going to sort of go...see these dark lines and I'm only going to do half of my face just
for the sake of time I'll do the other half off camera. I think I'm going to use a phone [Laughter]
yeah I think I'm gonna use a mirror instead of a phone, okay anyway let's just go here
underneath. There's a second step to this. Okay so you might be saying well she's
not covering very well. I'm going to go up a little bit into the purpley parts of my eye
and then what I'm going to do is cover some of my dark spot spots the age spots right
there. All right so that's done and you're saying well I can still see lines well I
got a secret weapon and my secret weapon is Bye Bye Under Eye. My color is light fair. I
use the tiniest little amount of this like we're talking that much here and
bear with me I'm keeping it real here anyway I'm just going to put a little dab on a brush like
this and now this is when I really cover up a lot of things. I'm going to go you see this
purpley part here how dark it is. I'm going to go right up in there do a nice covering of that
brighten it up a little bit. Now underneath where I have still a dark line I'm going to go right there.
Bye bye Under eye circle. All right and then I'm just going to look around and see some spots some
little age spots and I'm going to cover them up here. Now this is really cool. I also go into my 11s
there's an 11 there I'm going to lighten it from the inside of the wrinkle down my marionette lines
just with a simple line like that. See what's happening. I'm reflecting the light upwards
so that they don't look so bad and there you go. Oh one more thing. Age spots on your hands
get a little bit of this can you see that age spot there I'm going to just cover it up
and age spot be gone. Nobody will be guessing your age by looking at your hands.
Okay for tip number three the next big difference is the foundation that I use and I gotta tell
you I tried a lot of different foundations before doing this video. I thought to myself
okay let's see if I can find another one that I can tell them about. I had to come back to
Shiseido Synchro Glow Foundation it's absolutely fabulous and it was the winner every single time.
So let's just take a look on how I apply it. I like to use two pumps and again just using my
hand as a palette here and I like to use these little white sponges. I really like them okay so
what I'm going to do again just half a face here I just kind of pat it and apply it. Okay
pat and apply not over the concealer just at the side of the concealer here and then down
just a little lightly on here and then on this my cheeks and that especially
over here where I have the age spots. I want to apply a little bit more a little thicker
and then what I have here is a nice even skin tone compared to this side.
So while you're waiting for the foundation to dry let's tackle these lips and again
I have a two-part kind of lip tackling team anyway and they're really really inexpensive.
So let's check them out. First let's use this super stay crayon by Maybelline and this is
a real natural kind of look and I like the fact that you can kind of adjust it a bit
but it also can be used as a lip liner. So let me just sort of outline my lips a bit.
See how natural it looks.
Now I'm just going to fill it in.
All right so it looks a little bit dull because it is a matt and this is all about having a glow. So
what I like to use is this. It's also from Maybelline so it's really inexpensive it's called Lifter
Gloss and this color that I love is called Sun. And what I do with this...look at that applicator
there. I just put a little bit on my bottom lips here and then I kind of blend it in and I have a
beautiful gloss and the color of this lipstick by the way is called Lead the Way. All right for my
next tip it's tip number five I'm going to combine the blush the contouring and also the highlighter
with an emphasis on the highlighter because this is really really important to help you get your
glow on. All right let's take a look. Now I know that many of our grandmothers would not leave the
home without wearing a little bit of rouge so for us today we have blush. I like the powder blush and
my favorite is Nars and the name of this one is... wait for it, Orgasm. Okay? Anyway it's got a little
bit of a sparkle sparkle. It really is a lovely lovely product. I use a brush like this and I'm
just going to kind of put it on the apples of my cheeks I think they're called and I'm also going
to put just a little underneath my eyes along here just to tame the brightness of the concealer.
And there you go. Now for my contouring I'm actually using Park Avenue Princess from Tarte
and it's a bronzer but it's not shiny so it's really really nice on. Just a little bit here
and I'm going to go down along my cheekbones and also a little bit on the bridge of my nose here
and also underneath on our jowls. What I'm trying to do here is I'm trying to give a little
bit more of a lift to some of my naturally sagging features and now for the highlighter
it's definitely my number one favorite to give me a glow. This is from E.L.F. and it's called
Moonlight Pearls I believe. All right I use a brush like this and just it's just amazing how it just
wakes up your face gives you that nice glow. I put a little bit here on this side you can see the
difference a bit I put a little bit here and then what I want to do is use a little tiny brush like
this. I'm going to put it just dab it inside my eyes here just to wake them up a little bit and
there you go. Now let's take a look at the before and after photos. So you can see the difference
that a little bit of makeup makes. I've gone from a dull complexion to a woman with some radiance.
Now don't change that dial because I have more tips for you that don't involve makeup.
By the way if you're wondering about my eye makeup what I'm going to do for you is
at the end screen of this video I'm going to put a link and it's going to be especially for
women who have you know downturned and hooded eyes. All right let's look at tip number six
now as most of you know we recently moved and our furnace does not have a humidifier and we went oh
well but then we started noticing that our lips were getting cracked our face was getting all
dried out and uh we had to do something. Now if you have the same kind of situation you might
want to use one of those big humidifiers and if you have a small room like we do now because we
downsized I'm just using my little diffuser here which when you plug it in all the steam comes out.
I don't even have to use the essential oils for it and it's just giving me enough moisture to
kind of put that moisture back into our skin. For tip number seven you know it seems so ordinary but
always have water next to you. I have water next to my bed. I have it next to my desk. Whenever we're
in the car I have water and also I have this handy water bag. It's just a crossbody bag and
when I'm going for a walk I always have my water there to hydrate me because they're saying that
we're mostly water so we might as well get that glow from the inside. And for tip number eight how
about giving our bodies a nice glow and for that I love the Vaseline intensive care Coco Radiant and
it's made with cocoa butter and what I really like about it is it moisturizes without feeling greasy.
So you know I just you can put this everywhere and it's such a nice product giving you a glow
but it also smells a little like going on a tropical vacation. So all round I love it. Tip
number nine is exfoliate. It's really not a great idea to work on a blank canvas that's got all
kinds of dry skin and it's really rough and so again this is really inexpensive. I use the Saint
Ives Fresh Skin Scrub and it's natural. It has all I think it has apricot pits and also walnuts in it
and I use it about once a month and it literally makes my skin baby soft. Next maybe ask yourself
the question, what am I wearing? Because today I decided to wear red. I find that it just really
brightens up my face and gives me such a lovely lovely glow. I also found that jewel tones like
purples and royal blues they really really help me to have a glow. So what you might want to do is
just try some different tops on and look at the color swatches and just see what really livens
up your face. Now let's think for a moment of what this tutorial was all about. It wasn't about... you
know go get some fillers and go get some facial surgery to make you look 30 years old. But hey
if you want to do that that's fine it's just not for me and what I was trying to show you here is
how you can look more refreshed and therefore more youthful. You know I've been reading the comments
and some of you have said that your grandmothers used to say even an old barn looks better with
a coat of paint. I just love that. You know I even when we take our paint off our our love our
beauty from within it really still will radiate. But for me I just feel that confidence when you
know I got a little sparkle sparkle on and it's just one more way to keep it awesome.