4 Positive Aging Makeup Mistakes
“I realize as you age, the less makeup you wear, the younger you look.” — Halle Berry
We did our makeup one way for years.
Now, when we get done and look in the mirror, it just feels off. The eyeliner droops, the foundation feels caked on, and our eyelids look split and atrocious.
What happened? Since when doesn’t our makeup routine work?
Don’t worry – you didn’t just suddenly lose your skills. Our skin is just in a different place, and we must adjust our routine to fit it.
Vibriance has you covered! Read on for tips on how to avoid the four most common makeup potholes for mature skin.
“I realize as you age, the less makeup you wear, the younger you look.” — Halle Berry
We did our makeup one way for years.
Now, when we get done and look in the mirror, it just feels off. The eyeliner droops, the foundation feels caked on, and our eyelids look split and atrocious.
What happened? Since when doesn’t our makeup routine work?
Don’t worry – you didn’t just suddenly lose your skills. Our skin is just in a different place, and we must adjust our routine to fit it.
Vibriance has you covered! Read on for tips on how to avoid the four most common makeup potholes for mature skin.
“I realize as you age, the less makeup you wear, the younger you look.” — Halle Berry
We did our makeup one way for years.
Now, when we get done and look in the mirror, it just feels off. The eyeliner droops, the foundation feels caked on, and our eyelids look split and atrocious.
What happened? Since when doesn’t our makeup routine work?
Don’t worry – you didn’t just suddenly lose your skills. Our skin is just in a different place, and we must adjust our routine to fit it.
Vibriance has you covered! Read on for tips on how to avoid the four most common makeup potholes for mature skin.
1. Put down the eyeliner
Remember the days of thick, charcoal eyes? Do you recall seeing Elizabeth Taylor’s eye makeup and trying your best to emulate it?
In our younger days, heavy eyeliner made our eyes pop. We could paint on black to draw more attention to the eyes.
Yet, as we age, the skin around our eyes gets thinner. Heavy eyeliner no longer hits the same way.
1. Put down the eyeliner
Remember the days of thick, charcoal eyes? Do you recall seeing Elizabeth Taylor’s eye makeup and trying your best to emulate it?
In our younger days, heavy eyeliner made our eyes pop. We could paint on black to draw more attention to the eyes.
Yet, as we age, the skin around our eyes gets thinner. Heavy eyeliner no longer hits the same way. Because our skin has thinned, the eyeliner often drops and sags from where we intend it to be.
Furthermore, when the skin falls around our eyes, adding dark eyeliner to the top and bottom will cause the eyes to look smaller.
That doesn’t mean you can never wear eyeliner again! We just need to put on eyeliner in the best way for where our skin is today.
First, use a softer color for your eyeliner. Jet black is pretty harsh and draws attention to lines. Instead, choose a liner that is a little more subdued.
Avoid using eyeliner on your bottom lashes and pulling at your eyes. Pick a pencil that is soft and able to sweep on versus requiring you to yank around the delicate skin by your eyes.
Bonus tip: find a worthy mascara. Often, you can skip the eyeliner altogether. Vibriance’s Volumizing Mascara does double duty of eyeliner + mascara!
1. Put down the eyeliner
Remember the days of thick, charcoal eyes? Do you recall seeing Elizabeth Taylor’s eye makeup and trying your best to emulate it?
In our younger days, heavy eyeliner made our eyes pop. We could paint on black to draw more attention to the eyes.
Yet, as we age, the skin around our eyes gets thinner. Heavy eyeliner no longer hits the same way. Because our skin has thinned, the eyeliner often drops and sags from where we intend it to be.
Furthermore, when the skin falls around our eyes, adding dark eyeliner to the top and bottom will cause the eyes to look smaller.
That doesn’t mean you can never wear eyeliner again! We just need to put on eyeliner in the best way for where our skin is today.
First, use a softer color for your eyeliner. Jet black is pretty harsh and draws attention to lines. Instead, choose a liner that is a little more subdued.
Avoid using eyeliner on your bottom lashes and pulling at your eyes. Pick a pencil that is soft and able to sweep on versus requiring you to yank around the delicate skin by your eyes.
Bonus tip: find a worthy mascara. Often, you can skip the eyeliner altogether. Vibriance’s Volumizing Mascara does double duty of eyeliner + mascara!
Because our skin has thinned, the eyeliner often drops and sags from where we intend it to be.
Furthermore, when the skin falls around our eyes, adding dark eyeliner to the top and bottom will cause the eyes to look smaller.
That doesn’t mean you can never wear eyeliner again! We just need to put on eyeliner in the best way for where our skin is today.
First, use a softer color for your eyeliner. Jet black is pretty harsh and draws attention to lines. Instead, choose a liner that is a little more subdued.
Avoid using eyeliner on your bottom lashes and pulling at your eyes. Pick a pencil that is soft and able to sweep on versus requiring you to yank around the delicate skin by your eyes.
Bonus tip: find a worthy mascara. Often, you can skip the eyeliner altogether. Vibriance’s Volumizing Mascara does double duty of eyeliner + mascara!
2. Powder is for your nose
We didn’t always have fine lines and drying skin. In fact, many of us lived on powder during our teenage years – using it masterfully to soak up excess oil and shine.
Throughout our lives, we used eyeshadow to paint everything from smokey eyes to wild colors.
And it looked ah-maze-ing… until it didn’t.
One day, when we put on the eyeshadow, it settled in our lines and cracked akin to dirt after a drought. Not exactly the “boom” moment we hoped to create.
Luckily, there are options for our eyes. Cream-based eyeshadows do not settle into wrinkles and lines the way powder does. In fact, many cream-based eyeshadows contain ingredients to help nourish the skin and eyelids.
Vibriance’s Makeup Simplified is a cream stick containing moisturizing ingredients. When you use Makeup Simplified, the shea butter and oils massage into your skin while bringing color and highlight to your eyes.
2. Powder is for your nose
We didn’t always have fine lines and drying skin. In fact, many of us lived on powder during our teenage years – using it masterfully to soak up excess oil and shine. Throughout our lives, we used eyeshadow to paint everything from smokey eyes to wild colors.
And it looked ah-maze-ing… until it didn’t.
One day, when we put on the eyeshadow, it settled in our lines and cracked akin to dirt after a drought. Not exactly the “boom” moment we hoped to create.
Luckily, there are options for our eyes. Cream-based eyeshadows do not settle into wrinkles and lines the way powder does. In fact, many cream-based eyeshadows contain ingredients to help nourish the skin and eyelids.
Vibriance’s Makeup Simplified is a cream stick containing moisturizing ingredients. When you use Makeup Simplified, the shea butter and oils massage into your skin while bringing color and highlight to your eyes.
2. Powder is for your nose
We didn’t always have fine lines and drying skin. In fact, many of us lived on powder during our teenage years – using it masterfully to soak up excess oil and shine. Throughout our lives, we used eyeshadow to paint everything from smokey eyes to wild colors.
And it looked ah-maze-ing… until it didn’t.
One day, when we put on the eyeshadow, it settled in our lines and cracked akin to dirt after a drought. Not exactly the “boom” moment we hoped to create.
Luckily, there are options for our eyes. Cream-based eyeshadows do not settle into wrinkles and lines the way powder does. In fact, many cream-based eyeshadows contain ingredients to help nourish the skin and eyelids.
Vibriance’s Makeup Simplified is a cream stick containing moisturizing ingredients. When you use Makeup Simplified, the shea butter and oils massage into your skin while bringing color and highlight to your eyes.
3. Less is more
When we were younger, we used foundation to cover our every flaw and dark circle. At that time, concealers, bronzers, contours, and color-correcting pallets were unavailable.
So, we did what any resourceful person does and used what we did have at our disposal. Thus, we lathered on a full face of foundation and called it a day… being extra careful with white turtlenecks and hugs.
But what worked for twenty-year-old us doesn’t work on mature skin.
Less is more these days. Full coverage foundation gives a weighed-down look. In addition, it emphasizes wrinkles, drawing attention to an area we may be trying to diminish.
Instead of layering foundation, try a lightweight hydrating foundation… Even better, find a sunscreen like Vibriance’s Sheer Zinc Sunscreen. It combines the power of SPF and includes a slight tint to double as foundation.
3. Less is more
When we were younger, we used foundation to cover our every flaw and dark circle.
At that time, concealers, bronzers, contours, and color-correcting pallets were unavailable.
3. Less is more
When we were younger, we used foundation to cover our every flaw and dark circle. At that time, concealers, bronzers, contours, and color-correcting pallets were unavailable.
So, we did what any resourceful person does and used what we did have at our disposal.
Thus, we lathered on a full face of foundation and called it a day… being extra careful with white turtlenecks and hugs.
But what worked for twenty-year-old us doesn’t work on mature skin. Less is more these days. Full coverage foundation gives a weighed-down look.
In addition, it emphasizes wrinkles, drawing attention to an area we may be trying to diminish.
Instead of layering foundation, try a lightweight hydrating foundation…
Even better, find a sunscreen like Vibriance’s Sheer Zinc Sunscreen. It combines the power of SPF and includes a slight tint to double as foundation.
So, we did what any resourceful person does and used what we did have at our disposal.
Thus, we lathered on a full face of foundation and called it a day… being extra careful with white turtlenecks and hugs.
But what worked for twenty-year-old us doesn’t work on mature skin. Less is more these days. Full coverage foundation gives a weighed-down look. In addition, it emphasizes wrinkles, drawing attention to an area we may be trying to diminish.
Instead of layering foundation, try a lightweight hydrating foundation…
Even better, find a sunscreen like Vibriance’s Sheer Zinc Sunscreen. It combines the power of SPF and includes a slight tint to double as foundation.
4. Glow, baby, glow
Why do you think that we shouldn’t get to indulge in some color just because we are older?
Instead of skipping the blush, reach for it! Rosy cheeks make you look lively!
Pick a pink or peach blush and run it across the top of the cheeks and forehead.
Vibriance’s Radiance from the Makeup Simplified line is one such example.
Bonus tip: a pigmented cream blush will soak into the skin for a beautiful glow while providing some moisture.
4. Glow, baby, glow
Why do you think that we shouldn’t get to indulge in some color just because we are older?
Instead of skipping the blush, reach for it! Rosy cheeks make you look lively!
Pick a pink or peach blush and run it across the top of the cheeks and forehead.
Bonus tip: a pigmented cream blush will soak into the skin for a beautiful glow while providing some moisture. Vibriance’s Radiance from the Makeup Simplified line is one such example.
Do your thing
At the end of the day, do what makes you happy. You have earned that.
But if you are looking at your makeup, thinking, “Why doesn’t this look right anymore,” change your routine.
Not only can these tips help your makeup sit better, they will also save you time.
If nothing else, using less makeup puts money back in your purse and space in your medicine cabinet.
4. Glow, baby, glow
Why do you think that we shouldn’t get to indulge in some color just because we are older?
Instead of skipping the blush, reach for it! Rosy cheeks make you look lively!
Pick a pink or peach blush and run it across the top of the cheeks and forehead.
Bonus tip: a pigmented cream blush will soak into the skin for a beautiful glow while providing some moisture.
Vibriance’s Radiance from the Makeup Simplified line is one such example.
You deserve to glow!
Do your thing
At the end of the day, do what makes you happy. You have earned that.
But if you are looking at your makeup, thinking, “Why doesn’t this look right anymore,” change your routine.
Do your thing
At the end of the day, do what makes you happy. You have earned that.
But if you are looking at your makeup, thinking, “Why doesn’t this look right anymore,” change your routine.
Not only can these tips help your makeup sit better, they will also save you time.
If nothing else, using less makeup puts money back in your purse and space in your medicine cabinet.
Don’t be afraid to let go of a tired routine. Like your favorite sweater when you were ten, sometimes we outgrow things.
That just means the door is open to finding a new favorite.
So, try out some of these tips from our Positive Aging community and see what becomes your next new favorite secret... and look fabulous while you do it!
Cheers to Positive Aging and Avoiding Makeup Potholes!
Don’t be afraid to let go of a tired routine. Like your favorite sweater when you were ten, sometimes we outgrow things.
That just means the door is open to finding a new favorite.
So, try out some of these tips from our Positive Aging community and see what becomes your next new favorite secret... and look fabulous while you do it!
Cheers to Positive Aging and Avoiding Makeup Potholes!
Not only can these tips help your makeup sit better, they will also save you time.
If nothing else, using less makeup puts money back in your purse and space in your medicine cabinet.
Don’t be afraid to let go of a tired routine. Like your favorite sweater when you were ten, sometimes we outgrow things.
That just means the door is open to finding a new favorite.
So, try out some of these tips from our Positive Aging community and see what becomes your next new favorite secret... and look fabulous while you do it!
Cheers to Positive Aging and Avoiding Makeup Potholes!
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