After their forties, some women tend to make make-up mistakes that make them look older. However, by adopting the right gestures, you can easily reveal all your beauty. Here are 12 basic rules to know before applying makeup at 40.
This is 12 basic rules for making up at 40
1. Go for liquid materials not powders :
Applying too much foundation or too much powder does not mask imperfections. On the contrary, it freezes the skin and brings out all the fine lines. Opt for a light moisturizing foundation in pink or beige tones. Apply it in small touches on the T zone and the cheekbones to give a boost to your complexion.
Forget dull formulas and the overly orange tones. If you want to use powder, prioritize light formulas that you apply with a large brush, making a movement from the center to the outside of the face.
2. Nude and satin lipsticks :
Feminine and sensual, matte lipstick is to be avoided after 40 years. The matt texture tends to visually shrink the mouth and mark any small defects at the corners of the lips. In terms of color, avoid excessively dark reds which age the face and harden the lines. Instead, choose nude tones and soft, satin colors.
Neither is the gloss a beauty ally for women over 40. Thicker than lipstick, it marks even more fine lines. If you like to have shiny lips, prefer a lipstick with a glossy shine.
3. A natural and discreet cheek far :
After forty, the complexion becomes duller, so using blush to restore radiance is therefore an excellent solution. Be careful all the same not to have too swift hand and not to choose too strong shades.
For your blush, therefore, favor the pink and peach tones that you apply on your cheekbones while blurring and stretching towards the temples.
4. Draw the outline of the lips :
The natural lip contour tends to fade with age, which will make your mouth more erased and make your lipstick run. Redraw the lips with a flesh-colored pencil to reveal a nice regular outline.
Then powder the lips and apply a satin lipstick, preferably in light shades. Avoid loud colors or overly dark tones that accentuate wrinkles, cause the mouth to fall and the face to appear hollow. Also pay attention to the gloss, which might leak.
5. Avoid dark pencils :
The black pencil applied under the eyes tends to narrow the eyes and harden the look, it is a make-up gesture to avoid after 40 years. In addition, at the end of the day, the black may leak and accentuate your dark circles. So prefer a fine line of brown pencil, softer, which will emphasize the look without hardening it.
6. Keep your hand light on concealer :
A concealer will be necessary after the quarantine, but be careful with the choice of the color under penalty of having the look of a panda. Concealer is essential to conceal puffiness and dark circles under the eyes. However, keep your hand light and not put a ton! All of a sudden, your eyes light up!
7. Bright and natural eyebrows :
From 40 years old, it is better not to wax any more. Indeed, the gesture of regularly tearing off the strip on the eyelids risks accelerating the loss of skin tone at this location. So prefer to maintain your line with tweezers.
8. Avoid glitter :
Glitter, excess highlighters or pearlescent powders accentuate wrinkles. It is therefore better to abandon these products which put too little emphasis on the small defects of your skin. If you are addicted to these glitter products, prefer the subtly iridescent shades that you will only use with very small touches.
9. Find the right eyebrow pencil :
When the eyelid becomes a little drooping and you start to have wrinkles around the eyes, redrawing your eyebrows becomes an important gesture. prefer a brown pencil to fill in the gaps. avoid black, brown or dark gray pencils.
You can for example use a pencil or powder to correct their shape before applying a gel containing fibers to give them a little more density.
10. Stay away from illuminators and highlighters :
the highlighter is an “illuminator”, a clever product to enhance the complexion. This powder is applied on the cheekbone, that is to say just above the area where you apply your blush. That said after quarantine, this sparkling powder slips inside of wrinkles and marks them even more.
11. Always apply a moisturizing base :
The skin becomes drier over time so its preparation is important to smooth and create a natural luminous skin.
If you apply a foundation without preparing your skin, the material will tend to get into the folds and wrinkles more easily. You will probably look older and too made up.
To avoid this, you should absolutely moisturize your skin with a good moisturizer or serum, then apply a base. You should banish the basics with sparkles, glitter or mother-of-pearl.
12. Put as little as possible :
Make-up at 40 is not an impossible mission! To enhance mature skin, the key word is natural! Do not overdo it, opt for a FRESH and BRIGHT make-up so as not to age.