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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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Hair style battles for over 50s
Spot the $500 do
by Tina Rogers
Over 50s hairstyles: before the two new hairdos
What do you notice first on a woman: hair or shoes? I’m in the hair first camp because it really does make a big statement about us, and within the first two seconds of meeting. Bad hair can drain your confidence – we rely on our hairstyles to make us feel, well, great.
Admittedly, with peri-menopause, hair texture seems to change – hormonal changes can cause hair to fall out, so it gets thinner. But these days there are no rules about hair length and hair style for baby boomers any more.
Canadian women spend a lot on hair – products and styling – to enhance our look. Have you noticed a big gap between what different stylists charge us?
What a difference a hairstyle can make
Getting to the point – a war between stylists. Not just on price, you understand, but on what you end up with for your money. I had a shocking surprise recently. It compelled me to ask can you tell the difference between a $500 style and a $45 do? Here’s a test … take a look at these two photos, and see if you can spot which cost the most. (These are not salon standard, retouched professional photos, so apologies for the quality … as long as you can see the hair.)
Guess. Then go to Pag2 2 (click below) and I’ll tell you which is the $500 Yorkville style and which is the $45 one.
Hairstyle A - $500 or $45?
Hairstyle B - $500 or $45?
Click on “2″ below to go to next page where the answer is revealed.
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