Tips on how to look young at 40 and after with mineral bronzer! All natural beauty secret to looking younger with cosmetics!
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Makeup colors enhance the womans natural beauty using a healthy glow foundation and makeup bronzer. These free and simple makeup color tricks for women at 40, past 50 and over 60 can help to achieve the so called natural beauty look. Total nude look won’t work on older women, you do need some strategic makeup color. The objective is to add color and life to your facial features without it looking obvious.
Over forty natural beauty tips to look younger
Well I am no super model yet every so often I will post some photos of myself to show something that I learn from looking at photographs of women over forty, both celebrity and models, and reading tips, beauty secrets and books and tutorials. In this post I will give you a few tips on perfecting your makeup at forty, fifty and after sixty. These are do’s and don’t that I picked up from having a beauty blog! My mature beauty tips should give you an idea of how to play around with makeup colors.
Natural Beauty is en Vogue, but be careful of going over naturale after forty!
Natural beauty is definitely in style right now. That means, less of the plastic surgery double DD frosted makeup platinum hair bombshell look and more of the down to earth woman next door oh she’s just naturally beautiful look.
But wait a minute here. I want to say that there is only one thing that rivals over plastic-ness as a beauty blunder and that is what I called excessive au naturale-ness. What I mean is being at forty and older and rolling out of bed running out the door with little to no care about makeup and hair. Oh yes that is clearly natural don’t we know it, but not the type of natural beauty that Hollywood refers too. Particularly with older women, going too au-naturale can lead to you looking unmade up, unkempt, undefined, too tired, old and um, not pretty! So if you need a tip for looking good after forty, it’s to use a little color strategy and work the natural beauty look. Don’t just expect it to happen on it’s own because it won’t.
To demonstrate, at left is a photograph where the woman is doing the natural look. But if you look at it, it’s too natural for over forty. Why? Because it really isn’t doing anything positive, it’s just doing nothing. It’s true natural which is too natural. The hair does not stand out, the makeup does not stand out, and the facial features don’t stand out. The natural beauty is not put on display, so to speak.
On right is an adjusted photograph with a more strategic hair and makeup application. I would say it still portrays a natural beauty type of look, but it’s more strategic. And in my opinion, this is good for the older woman. She needs strategy. She can no longer jump up from scratch and be naturally beautiful. But with a few little subtle beauty tricks and secrets, she can make her self look more naturally beautiful.
Cosmetics and natural looking makeup on mature women
Here is my biggest advice for women who want to apply makeup so as to enhance their natural beauty. Get the right concealer, foundation, and bronzer combination to enhance your skin tone such that you get a healthy natural glow to it.
Conceal dark bags around the under eye and inner eye areas
In the photo, she shows blackened or darker area around the inner eye area. That can have an aging effect and can be addressed with a tiny bit of flesh colored cream concealer. Lighten up the blue black color if you have any around your inner eyes (or under eye bags which are similar). The concealer has to be light and creamy, not cakey. If after makeup you still see shadow, you can use a touch of pressed beige powder with a makeup brush to conceal. Brightening up dark skin discoloration around the eyes does wonders.
Use a foundation, bronzer combination that instills some life into your face
You don’t want to look overly tan, but at the same time you don’t want to look overly pale either. Choose a foundation and bronzer in earth tone colors close to your natural skin color yet a teensy bit darker so as to give you that sun kissed glow. If you are too pale, it can look natural but washed out. So try to add just a little bit of vibrancy. Try a bare mineral bronzer with makeup brush, or a pressed powder compact in a bronzer color and apply with a large round makeup sponge.
A hint of eye liner
Older women have this thing where their eyes start to just blend into their face. Let your eyes stand out more prominent (thereby making crow’s feet and surrounding wrinkles less prominent). Just a touch of earth tan color shadow on the eye lid and a hint of black eyeliner in the lower inner rim can define the eye and separate it from the face making it look better. Black eyeliner can be strong so alternatively use brown. Get a sharp pencil and just a little lining can add definition, then mascara.
Natural Lips
Lips that are too dark or too glossy bring attention downward on the face. Don’t over accentuate your lips unless you have ones like Angelina Jolie. A subtle matte look with a very subtle shine is better than high gloss or strong color on the lips.
Hair color and fluff
Having a vibrant hair color framing your face can do wonders for your facial skin color. That’s why stylists constantly urge older women to find the right color for their face. Hair dye that has faded is the worst offender. If you are lucky enough to have longer hair still, take advantage of having volume around eyes with some natural looking bangs and create volume around ears rather than letting your hair lay flat.
Hopefully you enjoyed these simple tips. For years I did not understand how the color of makeup and hair color affected beauty. Color choices and applying it to the right places for the proper effect matters way more than the specific makeup brand names! I just didn’t get it. Over time I gained a better understanding of the aesthetic. Don’t know if I am explaining it any better or less confusing than a professional could. I am just trying to convey a few things that I learned. I don’t always succeed in following my own advice but needless to say I have a much better grasp of color importance with regard to hair and makeup. It costs nothing to fix makeup color and move it around and you’d be amazed how much better you can look.
Remember, that natural beauty is a Hollywood term now. While it means that the plastic surgery frosted blonde look is out, it doesn’t mean the total natural look as in the literal connotation which would imply don’t do anything. Older women can still use makeup and hair and every trick in the book but the idea is to accentuate your natural beauty in a subtle effective way. It can’t be obvious. To sum it up, I’d say that looking like a natural beauty is not equivalent to doing nothing about your beauty, at least not for women in our advancing age bracket.