5 Ways to Look Younger With Makeup Content Sample

No one can turn back the clock, but the way you apply your make-up and the kind of make-up you use can go a long way in making your skin look younger and fresher. Once you've accomplished the basics for healthy skin on the inside - healthy diet, plenty of water, and regular exercise - you can use these make-up techniques to help your skin look young and radiant.

1. Use Creams, Not Powders

Young girls often pile on a lot of powder, whether it's pressed powder or blush. Sometimes, young women do this to absorb oil and reduce shine. But as your skin ages, a certain amount of "shine" is considered a good thing and certainly better than dry cracked powder clinging to flakes of dry skin. A luminous, translucent look can help bring back the moisture-rich look of youth (that you used to cover up with powder!).

Another reason for using cream blushes, eye shadows, and other make-up is that it will be less likely to settle into the wrinkles and lines on your face. When powders fill in these facial lines, it can make them stand out and look like cracks. Creams have a gentle more smoothing effect.

2. If You Have to Use Powder... 

Make-up artists and other professionals recommend using a soft, fluffy brush to apply powder to ageing skin rather than the pads that come with pressed powder. Loose powder blushes, face powder, and bronzers work best with a brush and tend to have a more translucent quality than pressed powder. Also, powders with "shimmer" or luminescence are said to be a good choice for older skin.

3. Moisturiser

To achieve that young "dewy" look to the skin and to plump up wrinkled areas, moisturiser under your make-up is considered essential. You can also look for commercially prepared moisturiser that is tinted, so it acts as a light foundation and moisturiser in one.

4. Think Less is More

When it comes to applying make-up to mature skin, the days of heavy, caked foundation, blush, and mascara are over. Light coverage is the way to go these days, using such items as translucent, low-pigment foundation and translucent face powder. Experts recommend going a shade lighter than your skin tone when choosing foundation and concealer. If you add colour and depth in the form of a bronzer or blush, choose warm, light colours.

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