today I'm going to share my top 10 makeup tips that every woman over 50
should know hi I'm Schellea and welcome to fabulous50s today I'm going to share
with you my top makeup tips that have been taught to me by my teachers and
educators who were all makeup artists and they're used on celebrities and
everyday women just like you and I and one of my favorite teachers is Rae
Morris and she's renowned as one of the world's most influential makeup artists
and I've just done a masterclass with Rae and she has lots of really great
makeup books that teach you different techniques so these techniques here that
I'm going to show you today relate to you a woman over 50 with mature skin
and they're really cool so let's get started tip number one is so cool and it
helps you work out how to do your eye makeup so you do one of two things
ask yourself do you like to wear your hair in a high ponytail or do you like
to wear your hair in a back ponytail and if you answered a high ponytail it means
that you want to bring your face up which is probably most of us because we
all would like to bring our faces more up than down and if you do wear your
hair in a high ponytail to get that look you use an eye makeup that comes up like
this and it brings your eyes up and if you chose the behind ponytail just one
pulled back behind your head it usually indicates that you like to widen the
look of your face because that's pulling your face that way
so this is a really great tip to know because you automatically if you go to
pull your hair up you pull your eyeshadow up and it's going to give you
that lift whether your hair is up or down and if you pull your hair back
normally you bring your eyeshadow out this way and your eyeliner and that
widens the look of your face I will do another video on those makeup looks but
that's a whole big video but just to get you started work out high
or back ponytail and play with your eyeshadow up or out tip number two how
to get rid of dry flaky lips I learnt this tip from dr. Obagi and he has a
skincare range called ZO health and before that it was called a Obagi like
his surname and his tip is to get your finger and rub your lips vigorously
while they're clean before you go to bed and stimulate all the blood flow and
just go to bed with no lip balm on them and do this for a week and by the end of
that time you will have exfoliated all of the dryness out of your skin and if
you do have very very dry lips it could be because you're dehydrated so make
sure that you keep your water up and try this trick and see if it works for you
let me know if it does tip number three staying with dry lips is this product
here it's lansinoh and it's a nipple cream but it is amazing this particular
product only has one ingredient and it's a lanolin and you put it on your lips
and I feel amazing and look how big it is really a lip balm
usually comes in a size like this for about $20 or you know you can get them
cheaper but for this quality but for this you can decant it into a smaller
container like this and you can keep one beside your bed and in your handbag and
in the bathroom and in the car and then also with your leftover you can get some
of these and gift them to your friends or your children my boys would love this I
think so yeah this is a really great tip and try this let me know if you've tried
it because I love it tip number four is about highlighting
now this is a really great tip so when you highlight you curve the highlight on
your cheek slightly because when you're curving it you're going to draw the eye
up and when you actually highlight down like this you're making your cheek look
longer and that makes you look older so oh my highlighter I dropped and it broke
but I have a trick to fix that but for now I'm just going to show you this is
the Becca highlighter and the reason we use it is to make it look like our skin
is naturally glowy and luminous but if you can see product on there and if
there's a heavy amount of product or if there's a straight line of product when
you go outside it's really noticeable and then it defeats the purpose of it
looking like your naturally really healthy and glowy so I'm going to show
you the way to do it so you just gently curve up like this and you're sort of
following your cheek so see here and go up and up instead of going all the way
down so I really love knowing that it's just little tweaks with makeup
application that make all the difference tip number five is adding the contrast
color to your eye color on your eyes to make them pop and this is perfect for
mature women because if we just want to use a minimal amount of makeup using a
contrasting color on your eye even if it's just in a small way makes your eyes
pop so it automatically brings your face alive I've got these color charts here
for each color eye and you can see for your particular eye color what colors to
use to make your eyes pop the only one here I don't have is grey eyes and the
reason is because grey eyes are considered neutral so grey eyes can be
brightened using any of these colors but you can use these colors as a light
dusting of eyeshadow or an eyeliner I'm not saying to cover the whole eyelid in
in this color that would look not great but if you use a color that's on this
chart for your eye color it will enhance today I've got to go
old eyeshadow on top of my eyeliner and because it's gold and my eyes are blue
it's in the family the golden orange kind of family and it makes my eyes pop
and it just lifts them that little bit more as mature women we all love a lift
and this will do it for you for sure tip number seven this is more of a
recommendation than a tip and this tip is for women who get mascara bleed and
that's when your mascara ends up under your eye or on your eyelid and it's
really annoying and the reason for this is the product mascara when mixed with
oil dissolves and it's just like if you use an oil makeup remover to take your
makeup off it'll take it off straight away and we have oils in our Foundation
and our moisturizer and our serums and we have lots of natural oils in our eyes
as we're getting older there's one product that I know of that does
actually work and doesn't bleed it's the Mac it's in a blue container and it's
the only blue one Mac have and I'll leave a link where you can buy it but
when you put this on it won't dissolve with the oils in your skin so this is a
really good tip for those of you out there who have that panda eyes problem
tip number eight is about lipstick on mature lips so lipstick is made up of a
waxy substance and because it's a waxy substance it melts as our body heats up
just like normal wax does so if you'd like to avoid lipstick bleed the best
thing to do is get a lipstick with a high pigment and wear a lot less of it
if you're wearing a creamy lipstick with a low pigment and more cream it's going
to melt off you during the day and there's lots of products that have a
high pigment color that you can either tap on to your lips so you've just got
the color and it stays there all day or that you can layer on as a lipstick I'll
share a list of lipsticks that are high pigmented and they're really great for
mature women because we don't want that bleed and adding a little bit of color
to our face just lifts us so much so try that next time you're out
shopping for a lipstick and you can do something like you know just take a
little bit of lipstick and Pat it on and just get that color and when it's a very
high pigment it'll just stay and a high pigment means that the color is the
ingredient with a few other things added and some other lipsticks are the colors
added with a whole lot of other ingredients so great tip for women with
mature lips to stop all that bleeding tip number nine when you're wearing a
lipstick particularly a red lipstick without foundation the color of the
lipstick is going to draw out the red in your face
so as mature women that can be a problem for many of us because we get these
little red veins here and our skin can be blotchy so the perfect thing that we
can do is to get a really good base on our skin first and then add color so if
you're going to wear lipstick to lift your face which is great make sure that
you've even out your skin tone first so that you're not bringing all that
attention to the red in your face tip number ten is to reapply to freshen up
your makeup during the day as opposed to packing on a whole lot of makeup in the
morning so what you can do is buy something like this
and this is just a three compartment little container and if you put your a
little bit of foundation blush and highlight in here and carry a Beauty
Blender and then put it in a little case or something that you can throw in your
handbag and your makeup will look a lot more fresh and dewy and youthful
if you reapply during the day after lunch or after a meeting or before a
meeting rather than pack it all on so it stays all day because when we have that
look and you go outside it might look good in the mirror but when you get
outside it just screams I've got a lot of makeup on so you're better off to do
something like this and reapply during the day and you're going to look more
beautiful and more fresh more alive and more awake I would love
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a beautiful week