Hello, everyone. Welcome back.
Thank you so, so much for joining me.
So today I have half a face on and half a face off.
And what I wanted to do is
create this side on this side,
on this side.
But what I want to do is do it in
a way with techniques that make you look older.
Now, there's nothing wrong with looking older.
However, I get a lot of messages saying
my makeup is making me look older.
I'm like, okay, that's fine.
Well, we can fix that.
There are certain ways makeup is applied that
gives the impression of an older face.
So that's what I'm going to go through with you today.
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So we're going to start with a bit of eyeshadow first.
I'm actually using a bronzer for my
eyeshadow today, for what I did.
This is for the new ColourPop bronzers.
They are stunning.
So I'm going to do this on the other side.
And one of the main things around the
eyes that can make you look a little
bit older is darkening the inside area here.
When we think of being tired or we think
of being exhausted, or we think of older age,
we think of, some signs of that
is this area hollowing out a little bit.
So something that people are doing a lot of
the time to make themselves appear older by accident
is taking their eyeshadow too close and too high
up in this area here. Can you see
how it immediately hollows out that whole area?
And we just get this kind
of, like, deep hollowed out eye.
Even with, like, a natural color,
it's a little bit too much.
And I see people blend like this as
well, kind of like no precision or definition,
whereas you can see in this eye
I've kept all my darker shades to the
outer edge. And I've almost stopped any darkness from...
what's wrong with my lash?
Why is it like a solid line?
I've almost stopped any deep color coming
in any further than halfway or three
quarters of the way across here.
I've kept everything in here nice and bright and light,
or just your skin tone. If I'm to use the
colors that I've used on the other side, it's going
to add even more to that hollowed out dark depth.
So precision, definition, where you want
to apply your eyeshadow.
Next, let's talk about eyeshadow in this area here.
If you can see on this side of my eye,
my eyeshadow is very much following this line like this,
and nothing dips below this corner of my eye.
Even my lashes are straight out this way.
So if we bring eye shadow below the eye like this,
you're automatically dragging your eye down.
I'm doing this in quite a dramatic way so
you can see. You're bringing your eye shape downwards.
So it's not lifted. It's not anything.
It's not even straight out.
You don't have to go crazy and
lift the outside corner of your eye.
But I always like to imagine
this invisible line like this.
You can see how much, how far below the eye shadow is, this invisible
line going from the corner of my eye, perhaps to the corner
of your brow, or even just up in this way.
And I don't go past that line.
I keep it nice and lifted.
If I do, then I bring out the bottom here like this.
However, this is going to make us
look a little bit more tired.
Our eyes are going to sag down a little bit more.
It's not the best.
It's not the best look.
For me, liner is a big kind of like yes/no area.
I have seen 15 year olds do this
eyeliner technique and age themselves by decades.
And I've talked about this a few times.
It's the solid black line around the eyes.
So people will take a liquid liner and they'll do this, and
they'll also do a line on top as well, like so.
Now, this is one of the most horrendous eyeliner techniques
because just look how awful it makes my eye look.
It looks terrible.
There's something about it that makes this inside area look
like fleshy, almost like it's spilling over.
And it gives this really, like, sagging eye...
It's just,
It's just the worst.
And I don't know what it is,
but it immediately, it just immediately ages you.
I just think it's awful.
When I'm doing some kind of definition on the eyes around
anyone of any age, I always buff out underneath with eyeshadow
or I buff out a pencil, or I buff something out.
Nice and smoky and defined as well. Nice and
smoky and light and buffed out and blended.
It just doesn't give this harsh finish.
This reminds me of, like, the early days
of terrible tattooed on makeup, that just nobody
knew how to do it, and it's permanent,
and it just... something about solid, harsh lines,
unless it's a really nice winged
out liner, it's not complimentary to anyone.
But liquid liner or a solid pencil line that you're not
buffing out or blending under the eye is aging you.
I don't know how, but it does it.
Okay. let's talk about lashes.
Now, when we think about youth and things like that, we think
of like an abundance of hair, lots and lots of hair,
and we associate hair loss with aging, old men, you know?
One thing that I see a lot is clumpy, clumpy lashes.
And I mean lashes that have so many coats
of mascara that they look like there's like two
or three lashes giving the impression you only have
two or three lashes.
Now this... see? Like this.
So this can come from using just the tip of a brush.
I've seen some people apply their mascara like this,
which is great if you want like a clumped
together look, or not combing through your lashes properly
in general, it just gives like...
I haven't got mascara on my bottom lashes here.
You can see very fine little lashes, whereas this
just gives off like clump, clump, and you don't have
any lashes left and they're slowly falling out.
One thing to be very wary of as well is if
you have fairer lashes, that you're not leaving that gap between
the base of your lash and the actual mascara because you
get this white line. And again, it gives off like,
lashes are going.
Okay, let's move on to skin.
Something that is particularly aging on anyone is using
a foundation that is too pale for you.
Now, it doesn't mean go and use one darker.
Get your skin tone and bronze up
if you want to be deeper.
But using a foundation that is too pale gives
off this almost like ghostly kind of tone.
And not because it's pale.
There are pale people.
But what the skin tone won't do is match
all the areas where you aren't that skin tone.
For example, your ears, your lips, your
neck, and then it's very obviously pale.
If you were to cover the whole of your
skin showing skin with a paler shade, then sure,
maybe you can get away with it.
But it is very obvious when a
really pale foundation isn't your skin tone.
There's a huge dead giveaway.
The same with a darker one.
Just look, just look. It's obvious
it's not my skin tone.
It's obvious that it's the wrong shade.
My hands don't match.
My neck doesn't match, my ear doesn't match.
You may be thinking, you know
what, let's add some bronzer.
Sure, why not?
And here's where we're going to add it
to the, this side of the face.
You can see where I've put it on this side.
It's all kind of lifted up.
That needs to be blended in a bit more.
You can see where I've put it on this side of the face
it's kind of lifted, it's in this area.
Even though I do have a longer face, I
will always wrap it around here a little bit
to cut off underneath the apples of my cheek.
You guys, you know I hate this technique.
The apples of your cheeks, smiling and just
doing it anywhere, very old fashioned.
So if you are a little bit older and
you have quite heavy set kind of like jowls
or a heavy set cheek, this is only going
to accentuate it because you're darkening this area here.
This area is going to look lighter and
this area is going to look lighter.
So you're going to get this sagging motion.
We all know somebody who does this
and it just doesn't look right.
It looks like you're doing this.
And this isn't just like an of-the-moment thing.
This has always been more
complimentary in terms of blush.
In terms of placement.
You can absolutely do this if perhaps
you have an extremely long face.
But don't take it all the way up here.
You just tap a tiny bit and almost like
on the cusp of the apples of the cheek.
I wouldn't take it up here either.
Remember, with blush, contour and everything around this
area we have this comparison of light.
So we're pushing in this, we're making
our faces look a little bit gaunt.
It's just, it's just... yeah.
Something that can really, really age you is a solid
line around your lip with a lip liner that is
extremely, extremely dark in comparison to your lip color.
It's cool if you're going to use
a dark lip color on your lip.
And it's cool if you're doing like a particular look.
Just not this look.
Like this.
And people might be like, that's ridiculous.
I've seen it.
I have seen it.
And then they'll go in with like
a bright pink or something like that.
Let me show you what I would prefer on myself.
Let's do it with the same lip
liner so you can get an idea. I'm going to go in very
lighthanded on my actual lip shape.
I'm then going to shade in this outside corner.
I'm just going to blend it in a tiny
little bit around these edges so it's faded.
So by shading in these outside corners and
leaving the middle lighter, we're getting kind of
like a natural boost in volume.
I added the lipstick, and I'm just going to gently,
again, brush in on these outside corners.
So we get that fade.
Would I necessary choose this color combination?
Not really.
But I just wanted to show you that you can do like a drastic...
two kind of different tones and make them work for each other.
This kind of jagged line where we just
put on the lip color just doesn't work.
And even when we try to overdraw it and you
can just see your lip underneath, it's yeah. It's really not.
Okay, let's talk about lashes.
I just want to stick this one on.
As I mentioned earlier, you can see with this
lash that it sticks straight out like this.
Or I would stick it up like this.
What you don't want to do with your lashes
is have the curve on your lash droop down
further than that invisible line we were talking about.
Because again, what that does is it brings down your
eye as opposed to bring it up or straight out.
Oh no, I've done the wrong lip on the wrong side.
I just realized. I'll have to change that around.
Why do I do this?
Okay, I'm back and better than ever.
Okay, so these are makeup techniques that
make you a little bit older.
I'm just going to cover half my face here.
It's mainly about precision, definition, application, and
kind of like harsh lines, I guess.
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