14 Pro Makeup Tips for Older Women from Professionals

Every woman is born beautiful, so she must age beautifully. No one but a woman herself can benefit if she focuses on her health and beauty throughout her life, yes, even after she is sixty or seventy.

Makeup Tips

  • For a smoother and better application on wrinkly and dry skin, never forget to apply primer before the actual makeup.
  • Make sure the primer is not fatty or oily and suits your skin.
  • Get yourself a lightweight foundation because a heavier foundation will make you look older. Make sure the foundation is moisturizing and fits your skin-type.
  • Avoid putting your concealer right under your eye. 
  • Using a dark-colored concealer will help you hide any acne spots, age spots, or wrinkles.
  • Cream eyeshadows work best for older skin. Regarding the application, limit the eyeshadow to the top of your eyelid.
  • While applying mascara, focus on volumizing your lashes rather than lengthening them. A volumizing mascara will help you achieve this look.
  • Using different colored mascara like dark blue also helps your eyes look less tired and more rejuvenating. 
  • Highlighters and illuminators make you look gorgeous! Apply them in the inner corner of your eyes and on top of your nose for a more glamorous look.
  • Put a natural blush on the apple of your cheek instead of your cheekbone and blend it in thoroughly. Use a natural and light-colored blush.
  • A heavy eyeliner does not look good on women older than 50. If you are going for an eyeliner, make sure it is thin and delicate.

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↓ 14 – Using A Colour Corrector

Makeup artist Callista Lorian who is very widely known for her over-the-top makeup looks on older women, says that colour correction is everything you need for a gorgeous makeup look. Professional makeup artists mostly use colour correction to hide blemishes, acne spots, and age spots with different colour creams. The idea behind this is to hide the scars under different colors before covering them up with a concealer. Lorian suggests using peach-toned correctors on Caucasian skin tones. Orange colour correctors work best with dark-colored skins and pink color correctors for olive skin. Following this tip will make you notice visible differences in your entire makeup look.

14 Pro Makeup Tips for Older Women from Professionals

↓ 13 – Choosing the Right Foundation

You have always been told to use foundations that match your skin tone perfectly. Well, that should not be the case after you have aged a certain age. The same colored foundation will make your skin look pasty. For this reason, makeup artist Linter advises older women to use a warmer shade of foundation. You can also avoid making your skin look cakey to mix your exact-match shade of foundation with a darker foundation. Also, do not forget to use a lightweight foundation that is also moisturizing. also, remember the following two points

  • Using a foundation brush ensures a better application, and it helps your foundation stay for a much longer time.
  • Please do not put a concealer on after the foundation but before it. This will help the concealer stay on the area under your eyes.
Pro Makeup Tips for Older Women from Professionals

↓ 12 – Focus on Your Lips!

As you get older, your lips also get saggy and asymmetrical. Focusing on your lips can improve your whole look a lot. Use a lip-liner to shape your lips the way you want to. For filling the lipstick in, use a lipstick brush instead of applying directly from the tube. Blend your lipstick in thoroughly, and if it’s too matte, do not shy away from adding gloss. Try using different-colored lipsticks to refresh your entire look. Linter says that severe colors age you, so if you are going for a red, make sure it is a sheer one.

Pro Makeup Tips for Older Women from Professionals

↓ 11 – Highlight All the Way

A highlighter can make your face look a lot more radiant, and it accentuates your face structure as well. Makeup artist Jami Svay has a fantastic makeup tip for you concerning applying highlighter! She advises older people to only use a highlighter in the places where the light falls on your face, for example, nose bridge, cheekbones, brow bone, inner corners of your eyes, and even your collarbone if you want to! 

↓ 10 – Brows Matter a Lot!

As you age, your brows start lessening. So, every brow hair is essential and must be taken care of. Do not tweeze your eyebrows at all; instead, use an eyebrow brush to make them look nice and clean. Makeup artist Linter is of the view that an overdone eyebrow can ruin your entire makeup look. Therefore it is essential to use a light-colored brow pencil and apply it with a soft hand. Do not give yourself cartoonish brows, and always try to keep your eyebrows’ natural shape.

Keep the following two points in mind.

  • For eyebrows, always brush them up and then fill them in with your eyebrow pencil.
  • Do not try to make your eyebrows look identical, instead fill them according to their shapes.
Pro Makeup Tips for Older Women from Professionals

↓ 09 – Adding Color to Your Face

You have always been told to direction your blush from your mouth to your ears for accentuating your face structure. But as you grow older, this rule does not apply anymore! Older peoples’ faces tend to look more gaunt if they apply blush that way. To avoid this, you can apply blush only on the apple of your cheeks. It will give subtle colour to your face, making you look refreshed.

Pro Makeup Tips for Older Women from Professionals

↓ 08 – Putting on Eyeshadow

Older people usually have the misconception that they can only wear brown and bone-colored eye shadows. These colors are very light and cannot hide any discoloration on top of your eyes. Makeup artist Laura Geller says that it is high time older women start using jewel tones and sage colored eyeshadows. It will make your eyes look less droopy and fresher.

Pro Makeup Tips for Older Women from Professionals
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↓ 07 – Applying Eyeliner

It’s only a mere misconception that older women cannot look gorgeous with eyeliner. Eyeliners accentuate your eyes and take the attention away from your eyebags and droopy lids. You don’t need to use black colored eyeliner; you can look just as lovely with light-colored eyeliner. You can also line your lower and upper waterlines with beige colored pencils to make your eyes look bigger.

Pro Makeup Tips for Older Women from Professionals

↓ 06 – All You Need to Know About Coverage

Instead of directing all your focus on hiding blemishes and acne marks, try covering the center of your face first with foundations or BB creams. This is the place that needs the most attention. For the best coverage, use a foundation brush and move it in back and forth strokes.

Pro Makeup Tips for Older Women from Professionals

↓ 05 – Primer is Essential

Using a good primer suitable for your skin type will turn your face into a smooth canvas and make the makeup stay put for an extended period. You can also use lots of moisturizer before applying makeup to hydrate your skin.

Pro Makeup Tips for Older Women from Professionals

↓ 04 – Embrace the Imperfections

Freckles are super trendy these days, and every other girl on TikTok is faking them. Lucky are those who got them naturally, so why not embrace them! There are numerous products in the markets used to enhance your natural freckles and make them look popping.

Pro Makeup Tips for Older Women from Professionals

↓ 03 – Don’t Overdo

You cannot hide your freckles or wrinkles, so applying a generous amount to them would ultimately draw more attention. Instead, use a wet sponge to apply a sheer layer of specifically a hydrating foundation not to look plastered. I also recommend that you go through these Dating Outfits For Women Over 40.

Pro Makeup Tips for Older Women from Professionals

↓ 02 – Conceal It

Applying a creamy and lightweight concealer over the sheer application of foundation would do the magic for you and give you a perfect look. The undereye bags and inner corner of your eyes need the most focus for your eyes to look more awake and bright.

Pro Makeup Tips for Older Women from Professionals

↓ 01 – Skip Powdering the Face

The days of touching up your face with a face powder may have gone when you cross 50. But do not worry, it is only to make your makeup look even better. The face powder may give it a dehydrated look enhancing your facial hair, fine lines, and wrinkles.

Pro Makeup Tips for Older Women from Professionals

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