Young faces need not apply here.Women and men who are older worry and comment about those lines and wrinkles that are perfectly natural but I am not a believer in doing nothing about it just to be "natural". Nope. I take a good hour for myself in the morning to pay attention to what everyone else has to look at. Being no beauty, even cute or pretty, people like me have to work at it a bit more than those who are. Good make-up doesn't have to be the most expensive.The cheapest ones are just as useful. In many franchise drug stores starting at the cheap end and on to the more expensive lines, stop in the cheaper section. These products are almost the same as the costly ones other than a load of chemical additives, gorgeous factory buildings and ritzy ads in the best fashion mags. The same colours are here,the same basic items, the same shaped packaging but with less gold print.If you want to spend a lot of dollars on what really works, go to an expensive anti-aging serum but use it very sparingly. Skin is a kind of pre-leather and if you want tanned wrinkled leather, go sit in the sun and your wrinkles will blossom. Sun screen isn't the answer because you can't keep enough on long enough to do much good. Keep out of the sun!!! Begin your session, by washing with soap and water and dry with a clean cotton towel. This rubs off dead skin cells. Immediately after, smooth on your serum and/or moisturizer. Don't forget your neck and chest area, too. Let it soak in. If you like wrinkle serums or creams, pat them on under the eyes, line between the eyebrows, along the upper lip line and your centre neck. Let it penetrate. Next is your base colour that matches your skin tone and please do not forget to take it down below the sides of your jawline. One lady I know, persists in going just along the jawline and consequently, shows a line for all to see. Uh uh, and oh oh. Blend and pat in smoothly. Using a powder, a touch warmer in colour but darker, have a big brush to shade a line under your cheek bones along to your ear lobes. Bring it down along the jawline and across the chin. too. Now you have outlined your face. A portrait. Add some to your forehead topline and just above your eyelids on that bony structure. Blend. Now take a very, very light colour and dab the cream in the middle of your forehead, just under your brow, the bulge of your eyelid, the length of your nose and your chin point. Blend them all in. This gives light to lift your look. Your eyes are usually your best feature. Use a narrow brush and lift with grey or brown in a dark shade to each end of your eyelids at the outer corner. Make eyebrows but not big dark ones and keep the ends up not down. See how open your look is now. Shade with grey or brown, the eyelid. Heavy at the ends with none toward the inside. Practise getting it right. And don't forget to use a thin brush to line each eyelid along the top and the bottom. This is careful precision work. Now you have big eyes. Next mascara, not the lumpy clumpy kind. No flakes or gloopy lashes please. Brush it until no lumps. Finally, overall use a skin tone loose powder to dust all over. Then a big brush and dust off. This step sets your make-up. Finally, a dab of pink powder on each cheek apple, brushed up toward your temples. Just a pink hint. Make sure it doesn't look clown-like but as natural as possible. Seems a "ton of makeup" but with practise you will have it looking "natural", but fresh. Secret: no sun and no touching that face. Last, use and re-use lip liner to add to or correct your smile. Now go and glow for the rest of the day.
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