Best face forward over 50

No-make-up make-up in 5 minutes

by Roz Mogani

My work revolves around real women, real beauty, real life and real budgets. Having worked on numerous faces – from makeovers on City TV’s CityLine to celebrities and women of all ages and stages of health, I have learned a few tricks that I am excited to pass on to you. In my experience there are a few issues that continue to intimidate us.

Eyeliner “It runs down my face, I can’t make it thin enough”.

Concealer and foundation. “It gets into creases and emphasizes my lines – makes me look older,”.  Or, “How can I wear makeup when I have the sweats randomly throughout the day?”

My five-minute no make-up look, perfect for anyone especially women ‘of a certain age’, goes like this: face, eyebrows, eyes, cheeks, lips.

Face

When choosing a foundation or tinted moisturizer (remember it should contain an SPF), match to skin tone of neck and décolleté. If you have more than a shade or two difference, pick a shade that’s in between. Use tinted moisturizer instead of foundation or alternatively mix a bit of foundation with your moisturizer (for a lighter look) over face and neck. Creamy concealer in a few shades lighter, applied with a light hand on and under eyes before your eye gel or cream is completely absorbed, is best to avoid creasing. Extend concealer up to brow and blend down and out on to cheekbones. Dust with a powder brush, and blot powder all over, but try and avoid right under the eye.

Eyebrows

No one is going to pay attention to the painting (our eyes) if the frame is unbalanced or unruly. It’s best to visit your aesthetician to get a flattering shape to start with. Try not to take too much hair. Instead trim the longer hairs first and then you will have a better idea of what needs to be cleaned up under the brow. Fill in lightly with a shadow a shade that matches your brow with an angle brush (synthetic).

Eyes

With a fluffy eye-shadow brush lightly blend in crease with either a flesh tone shadow that is a few shades darker than your skin tone, or the shadow you used for your brow can be applied in crease and outer third. Using the same angle brush, apply your brow shadow on upper and bottom base of lashes – difficult to mess up, and won’t run down your face. Apply mascara starting at base of lashes, holding at the base every few strokes so it draws and sets the lashes up and out. Talk about instant eyelift! Apply a very light coat on bottom lashes, if at all.

Cheeks

Dust and sweep same flesh tone as used for eyes across cheeks with either your powder brush or a blush brush.

Lips

Apply lip balm. Line and fill lips with similar shade flesh tone liner. Follow up with flesh tone lipstick and/or gloss.

Face Notes

Exfoliate and moisturize daily from head to toe. Always tap brush to remove residual powder after dipping into product. Have tissue handy to pat face as needed throughout the day or evening

Never take eye rolling personally (even when you are in the middle of a hot flash) when it comes from an adolescent child. This too shall pass. Now if only I can remember where I put my keys…

Roz Mogani is a professional make-up artist who specializes in making TV celebrities and prominent women look their best. She has a special skill in creating the flawless skin look required for HD television, and was the make-up artist who did just that for the Cooking With Rose Reisman TempoTV series just launched on Tempo Toronto. Roz’s blog is muchmoremakeup.blogspot.com and her email is realethics (at) rogers.com.

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