Simple Skincare & Beauty Tips ~ Just for You!
1-For a light sheer look, dampen your facial sponge before applying your creamy foundation. If you are into wearing mineral foundation don’t forget to tap then apply to your face in circle movement.
2-Use foundation all over your eyelid, powder with a mineral veil before eye shadow application. This helps to keep color truer and it will last longer. Use one that is transparent so as not to take away from the eye shadow color.
3-Make sure to blend the foundation on to your jawline and slightly on to your neck. Otherwise you will have a line from your jaw to your neck and it looks like you didn’t go past your chin. If you are not sure you got it, check yourself before leaving your home.
4-Don’t test foundation or concealer color on your hand. Match the skin on your face and neck. Try it on your jaw line and walk out into the sunshine if you can to view it. That way you will know that you have the most natural color for your face.
5-Be careful with shimming eye shadows, they tend to collect in the creases specially if you are over the age of 40. Some makeup that you wore when you were younger will not work now. Read Makeup Tips for Over 40
6-Take a look at what you have in your makeup drawer and see if what you have isn’t too old. Each time of the year has colors that work best for it, winter time is darker colors of eye shadows and nail polishes, springtime its pastels and light colors. But always go with colors that work for you.
7-If you have large and open eyes, do not use loud or bright eye shadow colors that will over emphasize the fullness. You want them to be soft.
8-On deep-set eyes, you should use eye shadow colors that are on the light side of the color spectrum.
9-To avoid lipstick from feathering, line your mouth with a lip pencil and apply powder over foundation.
10-As you get older your natural color fades. You need to wear a little brighter of a lip color. Don’t go really wild with the lip gloss either or matte dark lip stick colors. Matte or super dark lipsticks just doesn’t look good for women over 40. They make your mouth look smaller.
11-Always choose a lip liner that matches your lip color. Don’t line your lips with a lip liner that is darker because it shows up. You want your lips to speak for themselves as soft and kissable, not hard and out of date.
A diet is a plan, generally hopeless, for reducing your weight, which tests your will power but does little for your waistline
~ Herbert B. Prochnow
