Looking younger, I’m afraid, has more to do with makeup than I want to accept. But I’d rather accept makeup than color my hair. Maybe I can just find a couple of easy things I can do …
Kathy Peel got a makeover from Robert Jones, author of Looking Younger: Makeovers That Make You Look as Young as You Feel
From Kathy’s website, which also has a list of the 10 mistakes Robert sees most commonly: If you only have a few minutes, Robert says these things will make the biggest difference:
- Curl your eyelashes. This will open up your eyes and make them look bigger
- Apply a little mascara-starting at the base
- Put a dab of concealer under your eyes
- Brush some blush across your cheekbone
- Groom your eyebrows
- Apply lip gloss
Check!
Check! I am currently using the two different mascara method.
Yes. I use Bobbi Brown creamy concealer.
So far, so good. (He also recommends bronzer in the video. In the past, I have used it, but I don’t have any now.)
Here’s my problem. I’ve tried several kinds of magnifying mirrors, but I still have trouble tweezing. Also, I asked my hairstylist last week whether she thought I should dye my eyebrows and she didn’t think I should. (She also didn’t think I should dye my hair.)
Y’know, my hero prefers that I don’t wear any lip product. We compromise. I wear a frosty pink all-day lip stuff which literally will not kiss off. (That is, I wear it when I remember to put it on.)
Here’s my remaining question: how to keep my mascara from melting into my concealer. Suggestions?
Choose a mascara that is one of the new tubing ones – they don’t flake off.
Use a taupe pencil lightly on your brows to make sure they’re long enough and not sparse – be light with it.
Lips and eyes, then stuff on the skin if you need it, but I have always though a lot of facial care is a scam:: apply astringent to ‘clean’, which removes all oils, then slather on greasy cream to replace what was stripped off- and drop $75 or so? No thanks.
I have always believed (and read, which makes me feel vindicated) that exercise that makes you break a sweat is the best thing for skin, which is a porous layer. Flush it out, clean gently and let it breathe. Anxiety about pore size is an invented way of making women buy more stuff/
Getting eyebrows groomed professionally is worth it to me, ever since I waxed my curious cat.
Rebecca, my mom has a nice mirror that flips between a normal mirror and a somewhat magnified mirror, and it’s great for tweezing. I don’t like to tweeze exclusively with a magnified mirror because I’m worried that I’d overdo it. The Tweezerman angled tweezers also helped a lot because I could be sure I’d grab specifically the hair I wanted and not pull out too much.
About a year ago I decided I wanted to *slightly* carve my brow arch out a bit more, but I was super paranoid about ending up with pencil-thin brows. I literally would take one or two hairs out per brow each day, look at it, and then a few days later decide what else to try. If I thought it looked good, or close to good, I’d stop and wait for new growth to come back before I tweezed some more. The gradual process worked pretty well for me to learn what I liked best on my face, and it also prevented people from noticing that I’d made a sudden change.
Kari: Excellent ideas. I especially want to warn about ‘pencil-thin’ which may be “in” at one time and “out” once your brow hairs stop growing.
Rebecca: I solved the mascara under the eyes blot with a pencil line on the bottom lid (either under the lashes or on the flat – whichever works for you) and NO mascara on the bottom lashes. Makes a very simple, but profound, difference.
Opps, that’s eyebrow pencil. I use silver-gray now, but used to use soft brown.
I keep thinking about having my eyebrows waxed, but the one time I did it dd complained that she liked the shape of my eyebrows better before.
Imogen – I’ve never heard of a tubing mascara. Must look it up. A pencil is a good idea – easier to control. Plus, they aren’t expensive. 🙂
Mom – I haven’t worn mascara on my lower eyelashes for about 10 years. I suspect my problem is that I squint when I smile. Yesterday I tried a fairly heavy layer of powder after concealer and before mascara; it seemed to work, but maybe I just didn’t have as happy a day. lol
Since I’ve never really tweezed to thin, I keep hoping that the ones I pluck won’t grow back. 😉
I wear L’Oreal waterproof mascara except on days I won’t be at the pool or in the lake.
I don’t use concealer, I use a little Clinique city block (SPF 30 with a tint) and a little powder. But something I find makes a huge difference is an application of near neutral eye shadow — it seems to open up my eyes.
I’m a confirmed lip gloss wearer — Clinique’s tenderheart has been my colour for decades I think — it also has an SPF in it now so it does double duty.
For several months now, I’ve been doing the powder thing and it’s working! 🙂 Concealer, powder, mascara, in that order.
Still working on the eyebrows thing, but I think they are getting better.