Make up to Look Younger

Free makeup tips to look younger. Learn to be gorgeous and be beautiful at any age. These simple tricks absolutely do work for for older women.

Skin

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tips for skin

Ever wonder how models get that dewy flawless complexion? Clean your skin in the morning and evening with a gentle cleansor. Then apply a toner to your skin to make it feel fresh. Next, before applying makeup, prepare your skin by moisterizing. For daytime, add sunscreen with SPF to protect your skin from the harmful rays of the sun. Treat yourself to a mild at home home facial scrub a few times a week that will exfoliate your skin.

For a natural flawless look use a foundation in a color closely matching your skin. For a sunkissed glow, go barely one shade darker than your natural skin color. Apply foundation to your cheeks, forehead and chin being sure to blend carefully with your fingers, a makeup brush or sponge. If the color is perfect and the consistency is right, your skin will have a matte uniform appearance. Check your foundation in good natural light making sure it looks natural and blended.

If your have flaws such as dark under eye circles or red spots apply concealer first rather than caking on the foundation. A concealer is thicker in consistency than foundation and should always match your skin color exactly or even be lighter by a touch. Concealer is the most important makeup so try different brands until you find one with good coverage and staying power. Moisterize before applying concealer so it goes on smooth.

To set your look after moisterizing, concealer and foundation, use a loose or pressed powder. Match your powder color to your foundation color, or go a shade up or down depending on if you want achieve a sun kissed glow or lighter natural look. Avoid putting the powder near areas with wrinkles such as the eyes as the powder can set into the wrinkles and make them more obvious.

Eyes

how to apply eye makeup
tips for eyes

Well groomed eyebrows define your eyes. Use a tweezer to clean up eyebrows. The inner edge of the eyebrows should line up with the inside corner of your eyes.

Use an eyeliner pencil to illustrate a line from the outer nostril to the outer corner of your eye and up. The eyebrow should end where the eyeliner pencil is. Now put the pencil from the outer nostril to the iris of your eye and up. Where the pencil hits the brow is the top of your eyebrow arch. Make sure to tweeze under the brow to create a pretty arch. Another tip is to use a sharp little eyebrow scissors. Brush long hairs upwards and trim too long eyebrow hairs to create a clean polished look. If eyebrows are sparse use a eyebrow pencil or brush in a brown shade to fill in.

To make your eyes look bright and wide, use an eyelash curler to make the lashes curl slightly. Then always apply mascara! Mascara will make your eyes enhanced. Let one coat dry for a quick second before applying a second coat of mascara. Replace mascara often as putting the applicator wand in and out dries it. Mascara is one cosmetic that needs regular replacing to prevent drying out and clumping.

For natural looking eyeliner use a brown eyeliner pencil that is very sharpened. Carefully dot the liner along the lash line. If eyes need to look bigger only line that outside half. For a more dramatic look, use a black eyeliner pencil and draw inside the lower lashline as well. Eyeliner pencils with mineral ingredients will have good color and adhere to your eyes nicely. Get a good sharpener and use it.

For a natural and classic look apply a beige eyeshadow across the entire eyelid in a natural tone. Choose a slightly darker shade shadow to put in the crease of the eye, depending on how dramatic you want the look. To brighten eyes you can put a little bit of a highlight shadow at the inside corners.

For a night time look you can get more smokey eye and use three colors. Use a brown on the lids, a tan color in the crease, and a beige color above. Make sure to blend in the colors. Use eyeliner to add more drama. Blend eye makeup and use a makeup remover or toner pad to clean up stray powder. On mature eyes natural brown, tan and beige shades tend to look more age defying than brights and pastels.

Cheeks

how to apply blush
tips for cheeks

Blush that is not blended and too obvious can easily add a decade to your looks. This is the one makeup step that you must be careful with. When applying blush to your cheeks you want the color to look completely natural yet add a naturay rosy radiance to your face. You can use two shades, use the darker one just on the apples of your cheeks. Use the lighter blush to blend into your face seamlessly so that no edges show. Choose blush colors that are a close match to your foundation color but have a subtle rosy tone to them. They should be really subtle.

The blush should be used to enhance your complexion and should not be obviously visible to the eye. If your blush shows in the daytime daylight, then opt for the lighter shade of blush that is a closer match to your foundation. When using a powdered blush tap the makeup brush to prevent applying too much of it. If your cheek blush is too obvious then skip blush altogether or choose shades closer in tone to your foundation. If you can see the blush you know you need to blend more or choose a subtler color.

Lips

how to apply lipstick
tips for lips

You can shape up your lips by lining them to make them look plump and creating a more noticable attractive mouth. When applying lip liner start at the cupids bow of the lip and work outwards. Follow the natural lip line all the way around the lips. If you want to enhance your upper lip stay towards the outer edge of the upper lip line, to reduce your lower lip stay towards the inner edge of the bottom lip line. This will accentuate a nice lip shape.

In addition to accentuating the shape of your lips, lip liner can keep your lipstick from feathering, particularly if you have vertical wrinkles. Always keep the lipliner matching your lipstick or natural lip color. Flesh toned, nude or a close match to your natural lip color works best as a dark liner color will have an aging effect. Apply lipstick starting at center and working your way out making sure to blend into lip liner. Use tissue or fingers to gently blot the lipstick and make the color look natural. Repeat.

Use lipgloss for a sexy effect, lip balm for a creamy natural effect, or lipstick in a natural shade for a matte look. Wash lips with a wash cloth which will exfoliate them, then moisterize and condition with a lip balm to keep them hydrated and young looking. A natural lip color and liner in a pale neutral shade followed by lip balm will give an older woman the most age defying look.