Let’s give each other some tips we’ve picked up and use.
Here’s mine. I have eyes that have a little sag at the corners. / \ An eyeshadow application tip that I read about and works is after you put the neutral shades on throughout, then look straight ahead into the mirror. Do not raise your eyebrows or tilt your head back for the darker definition eyeshadow.
Take a thinner brush and starting in the middle or a little more towards the inner eye, pull the color in a straight line across. I know that it looks weird at first, because we are used to starting our eyeshadow further down and rounding. Then, take a fluffier brush and blend outwards and underneath where you drew the line, not on top. For some reason, this helps hide where the skin folds. I then put a little highlight at my arch.
Silver eyeliner on your waterline (inside your lower eyelid) makes your eyes look bigger and brighter.
Alcon Opti-Free Replenish contact lens solution is hands-down the BEST eye makeup remover. I know; it’s contact lens solution. But it will take off eye makeup (even waterproof mascara) super fast and not make your eyeballs feel greasy.
A well groomed eyebrow that is not too darkly drawn in will make you look a million times better and younger. Our brows tend to thin out as we age (women-men just get crazy long hairs in their brows that need to be destroyed, lol), and invisible brows do not read young. Neither do darkly drawn in brows; that just looks weird. No matter how dark your eyebrows are, use a taupe or blonde eyebrow powder, then set it with a brushed on eyebrow wax, THEN set the whole thing with whatever powder you use on your face.
A good colorist is worth her weight in gold. It took 20 years of me using boxed color and finally going to a colorist, spending a year growing out the box blonde, and getting some professionally done highlights for me to see just how good my hair can look and feel.
Unrefined coconut oil is the best moisturizer on the planet and it smells amazing. I go through tubs of it (buy it at walmart). Make sure it’s the unrefined kind-don’t cheap out and get the refined stuff, it’s not nearly as good.
+1 on the coconut oil. I buy the organic brand in a jar from Whole Foods. That is my all over moisturizer. For my face I like the artisan avocado oil put out by La Tourangelle - also available at Whole Foods. While I guess both are technically “food” products, they are 100% pure - there is nothing else in them.
Be a person who used sunscreen religiously in her teens and twenties (all life really). I can really see a difference in my friends who were sun worshippers. They have all sorts of lines and crows feet that I do not.
Well conmama, I put on eyeshadow for the first time in months, thanks to you. lol. Can you find a link to a video explaining that method? I think I did what you described- but I’m not sure it looks ok but I did get a good laugh at myself in the mirror this morning.
! second or third the eyebrows. I recently asked an Ulta person how she got her eyebrows to look like “that” and she showed me so I can now do them much better than before.
^^ Yup! I was never a face tanner – mostly because I didn’t tan, I turned red – so I boycotted tanning while seething with envy at the honey-colored flesh around me. (I was a California teenager.) I also married into a family of tanners, so more insecurity on account of my fair skin.
Today I am by far the least wrinkly person in my husband’s family. My nieces can’t believe my age since I have fewer wrinkles now than their parents did 15-20 years ago.
I preen with pride, a wounded teenage ego finally assuaged. Ha!
@dragonmom is it the Donald Trump of eyebrow hairs? Can you zigzag it back and forth and create a larger eyebrow?
Seriously, though, I’ve gotten really careful with not over-plucking, and I will trim eyebrow hair rather than pluck it. Although I REALLY want to yank out the white eyebrows. I do not want to look like Elsa.
Thank you for the Ponds tip. I was thinking about trying it anyway. I bought a travel/sample size yesterday and this morning my skin feels sooo much better - and it looks better too! After one application. Yay!
Eyebrows? I never had eyebrows. Mine have always been blonde. I finally went to a MAC counter and got a full makeover and the makeup artist taught me how to do eyebrows. She matched the shade to my hair color. (It’s actually eye shadow so they have many shades to choose from.) I’ll never go back. Even on Saturdays if I’m out the door sans makeup, I manage to put on some eyebrows! Or I wear sunglasses until I can do it.
