Hooded Eyelids

Mature Eyelids-YES you do have them!!

One of the beautiful (*cough) aspects of getting older is all of the wonderful (*cough) changes our bodies go through.  Awww, yes, the eyes.  Once so youthful and sharp now well.... oh, hell we can fix this!!!  So most mature features has hooded eyes, SO WHAT!! Makeup is one of life's miracles, heck it can fix just about anything that needs a little enhancing or coaching!

So, you cannot notice it that much in this photo because when you are doing selfies, you NEVER EVER look straight on in the phone... I guess you can, but not being photogenic myself, many I have to tilt, look side ways and so on to get a half okay photo!  But I have extreme hooded eyes. I am also learning to work with them instead of disgusted, and dreading looking into a mirror.  I mean, come on... all of us 'mature' women, have worked hard to get to this age... why fight it?  Learn to love what you got and be thankful you got it!! 

1. I have found putting on a good eye primer first all over the eye area works great. It enhances the pigments of the eye-shadow and it makes the eye-shadow long wearing. 

2. Use a light colored cream eye-shadow base. I have two I love, either a solid white base or a pink frosted base.  Place this on your eye lid only!!

3.  Use a light colored dry eye-shadow and PAT that on over the eyelid onto of the cream base. I promise your eyelids will pop!!  Which makes for a great looking eye when you place on eyeliner.

Of course how you wear your eyeliner is your preference.  I have been doing mine two different ways.. but both involve using a Liquid long wearing eyeliner used tight up against my lash line.. and I have started bringing the inner corner down like a cat eye.. just to be different. 

Using this technique will help your eyeliner to not get onto your crease.. of course you need to allow the liquid liner to dry for a few a seconds. By using these simple tips it has helped me a lot. If you have different techniques, please share below!!!

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To Young To Know Better

Unfortunately, we did not know until later in life about all of the damage we were doing to our skin. As teenagers growing up in the late sixties and seventies our main concern was getting as dark as we could, as fast as we could.  I personally remember using a lot of baby oil and of course I had to use the silver blanket sheets because I had to draw as much of the sun to me as possible! The more sun, the more burnt, the darker the tan. A motto used by a ton of teenagers when I was young.

One of the best or should I say most beautiful things about being so tanned was wearing soft colored clothing, pinks, lavenders and even white just enhanced our skin so much. Those colors just looked so beautiful with the bronzed skin, oh man did we look good!!

A few years down the road you begin to notice these crazy little brown spots appearing. Like one day there were none and the next day like magic, wham... there they were!!  What in the world? Then brown spots start appearing on your face, except now they are large brown patches! You try a thousand and one different concealers, along with foundation and the darkness still sneaked through!  You try adding color correction concealer along with regular concealer and foundation now not only can the brownish color still be seen, but now your face looks cakey, ashy, and you feel like you just want to give up and just wear a mask!

This is my own experience because my only concern as a teenager was worrying about how dark I could get. Today I have a lot of sun damage on my face, not the best place for discoloration. I have literally tried so many concealers, that I felt there would never be any hope in hiding the patches. I have wrote a few articles about some good products I have tried. Like Julie August correction concealer pallet, Mac has a peach correction concealer that is semi ok, Ben Nye has a pretty good correction concealer pallet and neutral set colorless powder, but to be honest nothing seems to work as good as the product I am about to tell you about.

Younique Cosmetics has three different kinds of foundation, cream, powder and liquid. Since my skin is mature, I wear the cream foundation. Along with the foundations Younique has a very good concealer called Touch Mineral Skin Perfecting Concealer. Remember, I have tried a lot of different products and this one is among one of the best I have used. But there is a trick to applying the concealer and cream foundation that will indeed help to hide brown patches.  Always try to apply a primer first.  Next take a concealer brush and pat the concealer onto the brown area you are trying to conceal.  Let it set for a moment, if you do not have the coverage you want, pat another coat of the concealer on.. be sure to smooth out the edges!  Wait a second and take a small brush and use a colorless powder and lightly tap the powder over the areas you added the concealer.  This helps to set it. Tap on the cream foundation and you will be amazed of the coverage you will get.

The whole point to this post is just to let you know I am fully aware no matter what you read, often in life we need to experience and learn things the hard way.  Now I often wonder, if the beautiful bronze skin I had as a teenager (which was temporary) was worth all of the imperfections I have today which are now permanent.

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