Make Up Tips For Women Over 40

August 4, 2007 by Loma Gregg
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Make Up Tips You always want to always look beautiful as a 40-something! We offer you some quick and easy beauty makeup tips used by some of the top beauty professionals in the industry and us! These fast and simple beauty tips will instantly improve your appearance and correct some of today’s most common beauty problems on women over 40….

First and foremost – I cannot recommend lash growth products enough!!! Mine lashes would not even make themselves available to an eyelash curler. Just 10 days after using Latisse from Ambrosia MedSpa, my mascara hit the lashes and kept going, and going… Now, I don’t really need to use the eyelash curler, but I do for extra emphasis! I’m telling you – money well spent!! And a double hooray from my friend Holly, another Ambrosia fan! Okay, since we’re real women with real stories… Holly is my ex husband’s ex girlfriend. Yes, there’s a story there - What a hoot!
Eliminate the white eye!!! I just hate it when I see women who have applied their under eye cover up – and not gone over it with a little blush. Step back, look at yourself from a distance – can you see white circles? If so, apply a little power over and under your eyes to even out the tones.
Mary and I both agree – PED EGGS RULE! Other than we’re addicted, the only other thing I can say about these is be sure to use a fine file as a finish, then apply liberal amounts of moisturizer. I use the file every night along with a layer of moisturizer. After all, you never know where those heels will end up!! (You’re welcome sweetie:)
SAVE TIME AND MONEY!! Shave your legs with lotion. No shaving cream, no wondering if you remembered to lotion your legs!
To reduce the redness and shrink the size of a blemish: Soak a cotton ball with visine. Place the cotton ball on the blemish and hold it there for one minute – this will reduce the redness. Next apply a small drop of toothpaste to the blemish. This will shrink the blemish. Also, try applying toothpaste at night. A small dab on a blemish will dry it out overnight.
Use cracked and leftover blush: Put those broken pieces in a tightly closing jar, apply with an angled or large blush brush.
Bonze your legs: Using a large brush, apply bronzing powder like our favorite Sephora Brand Bronzer Powder SPF 15 to lightly lotioned legs. As Mary does, be sure to stand in the bathtub so you don’t have to clean up excess powder!
For longer eye lashes: Use a small makeup brush to dust your lashes with face powder before applying mascara and between coats.
To minimize dark under eye circles: Before applying your foundation use an orange tone concealer mixed with your foundation to cover under eye circles. Apply foundation and set with face powder – or see above – broken blush. Avoid using blue or purple eye shadows.
To instantly lighten eyebrows: When you’ve lightened your hair do NOT tolerate dark heavy brows! Either get them tinted or rub a small dot of foundation through your eyebrow and gently brush eyebrows with an old toothbrush.
To disappear wrinkles: After applying your foundation use a thin small makeup brush to apply highlighter directly in the crease of the wrinkle, blend and set with face powder. This also works well for shadowing areas… believe me, I know!
To whiten and brighten your teeth: Use lip colors with blue undertones such as cool red, berries, burgundies and wines. Or buck up and get you dentist to give you a whitening tray
To refresh oily hair: Sprinkle baby powder onto your hairbrush before brushing your hair. Careful however when you have dark hair… work it in well.
To remove yellow discoloration on nails: Soak nails in any over the counter denture cleanser for 5 to 10 minutes. I know, but it works.
To assure your make up looks its best, get regular facials and peels! Having the dead layers removed not only allows the moisturizers to do their jobs, but your makeup simply looks better! Check out the information on our pages, as well as from our favorite medspa!
Eliminate scaring. I’ve been pregnant 15 times. No, I’m not kidding. I’ve had many pregnancies end in miscarriage (and thankfully one live birth who is at this moment playing with his life by using my leather ottoman as a catch for something under his truck…) And I’ve not had one – not one – stretch mark. I use a combination of vitamin E and cocoa butter. I take the E orally as well as poke a pin in the gel vitamin and mix it with the cocoa butter… spread it all around where you think you may stretch! I’ve not thought to try this with other scars… note to self.