Aging is inevitable, but we have the tools to age gracefully, and even cover up the aging process almost completely. However, it is important to know how to use these tools or they can be ineffective, or they can even have the opposite effect. The use of appropriate skin care products is your first step, and knowing a few good trips with makeup is your next step in looking younger.
Take It Easy
The first rule in using makeup to look younger is that less is more. The key in applying makeup is to use just enough to mask your blemishes and highlight your best features. More than that will only accentuate lines and even add lines that did not already exist. A reliable concealer, dotted lightly over blemishes, followed by a light powder and foundation are just enough to give your skin a youthful glow and mask those signs of aging that are giving you away.
Go Light And Bright
When you choose your concealers, you should go for a shade lighter than your skin. Matching your skin or going a little darker can accentuate
blemishes and flaws, rather than covering them up. When you choose your foundation, your goal is to choose the shade that most closely matches your complexion. Lightweight foundations that contain tinted particles for luminescence will give your skin a subtle glow that hints at youthfulness. The results are beautiful.
Keep Your Lips Warm
When it comes to lipstick, you should think like Goldilocks when she was in the cottage of the Three Bears. Bright red and coral lipstick will
Lipstick
provide too much contrast between the color of your lips and the shade of your skin, highlighting fine lines around your mouth. Nude and very subtle lipsticks and glosses will give your overall look a flat, lusterless look that is equally unflattering. Warm shades of pink, mauve, brown, and coral are “just right,” giving your look a warm youthful look, drawing the eyes away from lines and blemishes.
Draw New Lines
A common aspect of aging is a thinning in the lips. There is nothing you can do about it, but you can hide it. By using a lip liner in subtle tones, you can draw new lines where you would like your lips to be. The key here is not to make drastic changes, or it will be obvious that you have redrawn your lips. However, by tracing just outside your lip lines, you can make your lips look plump and you will be amazed at how many years you can shave from your look with just millimeter more added to your lips. Next, you should use that lip liner to fill in your lips. Of course, you will then cover the lip liner with a lipstick or gloss shade that matches your lip liner exactly.
Widen Your Eyes
Tired eyes are major culprits in making us look old, often older than we are. When you take steps to make your eyes look wide, you draw attention from the fine lines you may have, as well as dark circles beneath them. The first step in making your eyes look wider is by applying eye shadow, with the darker shade on the outside of your lids, and a lighter shade on the inside. Next, before applying mascara, be sure to use your eyelash curler. When your eyelashes are curled away from your eyes, it gives the illusion that your eyes are larger and wider than they really are. Finally, swipe the tops and bottoms with a light mascara. It is tempting to apply thick layers to thicken your eyelashes, but keeping it light prevents the counter effect of dark smears beneath your eyes.
Makeup should be used to enhance your appearance and not destroy your self-esteem. Remember that thought that next time you are applying color to your pale face. It should do you good rather than make you look awfully bad. One more thing that you should understand is that makeup is just an enhancer. It will still matter a lot how your physical state currently is. Your appearance will depend on your inner health as well so take care of yourself from the inside and out so it radiates in your look.
The right shades of makeup can certainly flatter one’s skin tone. Always look for what may enhance your look than one that may damage it. Also, it is best if you combine a good makeup and hair style with an outfit that looks great on you and which you are comfortable with. That’s called the total package!
Thank you for your bright tips. I’ll follow them to the letter. I have been working doubly hard to hide my skin’s flaws that are starting to crop up, including all those lines. I think all of us are afraid to age, basically because we don’t want to look ugly. And aging has always been connected to being ugly because it causes some changes that may not make us look as good as we did before.