Beauty

[Harpa]

On 2/24/2015 KatCat1 said:

Here's a tip and I'm older than you. Use a light shade of eye shadow just on the lid like an almond, light pale gray, etc. & some mascara. Use some blush and wear a lipstick or gloss with some color. Nudes make you pale unless you have on tons of eye makeup. Good luck. P.S. Exfoliate once or twice a week too and start using Marula oil.

KatCat, that is perfect advice! The simpler, the prettier, I think!

I've pared down quite a bit, but it is harder for me because I am brunette, and my definition has to match that.

One other idea for petepetey, and that is to use a stiff angle brush or a brow brush after a few light pencil strokes on brows. Too light of a brow can make the whole face look tired or off kilter.

[pinkberry]

First, I would say 'less if more'... heavy eye makeup can be very aging. I would recommend eyeliner that is smudged so as not to look harsh. And mascara. I personally like a pencil eyeliner because you have control on how much you smudge it. Gels and liquid liners give too hard of a line that tends to be aging and can make your eyes look smaller. I also don't wear eyeshadow. I find if its matte it can often look powdery and make your lids look dry, and anything with shimmer will absolutely accentuate wrinkles. If you really like eyeshadow, go with a light neutral matte color. But I find that eyeliner and mascara is enough. Also, curl your lashes before mascara as it will open up your eyes. And picking the right colors is important... for example, black, violet, and navy blue are all flattering with my eye color, but browns make me look tired.

[KateChopin]

Some ideas: Get Mally's eyesahdow base. Apply on lid. You might want to try a good BB cream on your face for moisture, spf, light coverage. If you need concealer, try Maybelline's Fit Me---it is light weight and does not settle into lines.

Shadow? I like Bobbi Brown's cream shadow in Slate or IT's Naturally Pretty MATTE palette or the new Tartlelette MATTE palette. For the powder shadows, I might use a light shadow on my lid to start, but I use a slightly darker shade a bit higher than my crease. I find just using light shadow washes me out. Then I blend well.

On lids, use a navy or dark grey liner to tightline. If you use a gel liner like Laura Mercier, give it time to set (after using the smudger on the other end)) Then use a dark brown or dark grey long lasting liner ike Bobbi Brown's gel or LM's pencil over the lash line on top and under on bottom.

THEN---and this is the part that makes the biggest difference, IMO, buy a shadow or liner brush that has short, thin bristles. Dip it into a dark brown shadow and smudge over eyeliner on top and bottom. This really makes the eye makeup last. This whole thing only takes me two minutes.

Eyebrows---never touched mine until I saw how washed out ( I am blonde) I looked in photos. Started using Mally's tinted eyebrow gel stick in taupe for quick looks, or IT's brow pencil (the long skinny one) or the Anastasia Brow Wiz. Makes such a difference!

Before I use mascara, I spray a little MAC Fix Plus over my face---or if I really want it to hold up, I use Urban Decay's All Nighter or one of the others by UD. Don't forget a tiny bit of blush if you are looking washed out. Good luck!

[beautylover101]

Great post and great suggestionsand I am past 50 ~!

I have found a few tips and also was confirmed when watching Oscars and actress's over 50 up close and make up looks and how their eyes looked---granted they had makeup artists apply, yet still some great looks.

I saw glowing skin a must, soft curled eyelashes, a soft blush and soft eyes shadow colors, so my favorites.

Clarisonic for me before going out a must! gives my skin a natural clean glow

Hot Lashes heated eyelash curler only thing i have found to keep my lashes really curled and make my eyes look more awake, a must have

Mally's under eye concealer..only one I have found that lasts all day and I have tried so many. gets rid of under eye darkness.

Mally eyeshadow kits that come with her eye shadow primer. Best colors and some natural shades and they last and donot crease into eyelids

It cosmetic gel eyeliner...only one I have found that lasts and does not run. I have in dark brown and navy blue and they look great

Hope this list helps..beauty is important to me at any age and the more natural we look the better.

These are my tried and trues~!

[Himi lover]

I'm 62, and what I do is use Benefits pale pink highlighter under the brow bone area, (that really opens and lifts up the eye area) and either use Bare Minerals Well Rested or Laura Gellers highlighter (it's a a very pale yellow color) on my lid area. I like Peter Thomas Roth's mascara. Sometimes I'll very lightly line my my lower lid with a brownish powder, no hard liners. I use nothing with shimmer, that accentuates my lines. I haven't used colored shadows for ages. The light shades I use open up my eye area and look more natural on me anyway. HTHs.

[doglover3]

I use ELF lid primer, $1 at Target, comes in a glass see through tube with a sponge tip applicator, doesn't take much so go easy and let it completely dry.

then use a soft light brown or soft light grey shadow and use a matte only, no sheen, shine or glitter. I line the lower lash line only with Mally's deep olive, plum also works or brown, no black. When I do line the upper lid I do it with a soft color, no black and line only from the center out to the outer corner, not the whole upper lid. For this I like Laura G eye rimz in plum like it hot(the color). This you can use either dry or wet.

I do have a nice soft shadow palette from HSN that is from Stacy, ybf, which is very nice and can use those colors wet or dry to shadow or line as well. Any brand you like or prefer drugstore or whatever just find the shade that works best for you and your eye color. I have hazel eyes.

I do my brows with a brow pencil than brush to get a natural look. I put a soft yellow or pink shadow under the brow area(brush it and don't use much)

I think this opens my eyes. As for mascara if I do use it I use Mally's volumizing mascara.

[Dusty1]

As you can see we all have tried different things to see what looks best on each of us. Please, try a few things to see what looks best for you. I like a soft shimmer, most of the time, on my lid area. Flower brand at Walmart has pretty cream shadows. Wild Geranium & Mum's The Word are my 2 favorite colors. I still do my primer & a soft satin or matte on my crease (I use Mac Soft Brown, Wedge, Soba, Texture or Saddle-shades similar to those). Then I need just a touch of a deep shade on the outer crease where I have an extra droop/puff of lid. I like to use a deep purple (Like Mac Fig 1 or a deeper shade like Sketch-which is a good liner color for my hazel eyes), but deep brown or green works too. You don't really see color when I do this, but it can bring out the color of my eyes. Don't be afraid to try some color. It can make a big difference. You don't have to use just beiges to keep it soft & natural looking. Like I said earlier, I have been using a deeper color on my lids, not black, but if you have a palette of colors I will use the mid tone color on my lid, instead of one of the lightest colors. Blend that up to the crease, soften that out with the skin tone color (the Mac Soft Brown, Wedge, Soba, Texture or Saddle shades) & then a soft color under my eyebrows. Colors like Mac Vanilla, Brule, Dazzlelight, for me. Primer helps keep all of the colors from fading/creasing. ELF, WnW Fergie, both make primers that a lot of people like, but they are too drying on my lids. I use Nyx Shadow Base, Mac or Too Faced, but most lines now have an eye shadow primer. When you use the primer you may find that your shadow "grabs" onto the primer (which is sort of the point), but it can make the shadow hard to blend. You can very lightly brush your face powder or any light shadow across it first to make the eye shadow blend easier. Those are some more thoughts I had.