The right makeup techniques can highlight your best features and in turn, take years off your face. However, the wrong techniques can emphasise signs of ageing.
A professional makeup artist named the mistakes women over 50 should avoid if they want to maintain a youthful appearance. Middle-aged ladies might want to ditch their long-lasting lipstick.
Carmindy (known as @carmindy_beauty on TikTok) took to the sharing platform to provide some makeup wisdom.
As someone who has been a makeup artist for over 30 years, the expert named the “makeup situations” she would “never do over the age of 50”.
Middle-aged ladies have been given a makeup warning
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A loss of collagen as we age leads to lips appearing thinner and more lined than they did in our younger years.
While these are natural signs of ageing, it’s possible to disguise them with the right lipstick tricks. According to the beauty guru, swapping one type of lipstick for another works wonders.
Carmindy said: “Long-wearing lipstick – don’t do it. If it’s going to be long-wearing, that means it’s adhering to your lips and sucking every bit of moisture out of your lips. You’ve seen those people with the crusty lip situation.
“You always want to use a nice, creamy, hydrating pigmented lipstick to ensure your lips’ health and hydration.”
For those looking to up their lipstick game, women over 50 have been told to ditch three lipstick colours to look younger instantly.
Carmindy also encouraged women over 50 to ditch the setting spray after makeup application, as this can cause the skin to look drier.
With age, the skin becomes drier due to the slow-down of the skin’s metabolism, weakened barrier function, and slower metabolic system within the cells.
Adding setting spray to the mix might compound this existing dryness. Carmindy said: “Don’t ever use setting spray. It’s an alcoholic mist that’s supposed to set your makeup.
‘You always want to use a nice, creamy, hydrating pigmented lipstick to ensure your lips’ health and hydration’
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“When you have older, mature skin, this is just going to dry you out and suck all the hydration out of your skin.”
A second makeup enthusiast shared an anti-ageing hack. A lifestyle, fashion, wellness and age-positive content creator said that despite being 49, she’s able to trick people into thinking she’s younger with a makeup technique that “lifts” her face.
Women can also look younger in seconds with a concealer technique that guarantees an “instant eye lift”.