The gradual changes to your appearance that come with age should always be embraced. They can also mean that your makeup and skin care routines require some shifting.
According to veteran makeup artist and makeup department head Lindsay Garrison, what worked for you in your 20s and 30s might not be serving you in the same way during your 40s and 50s.
″[You should] learn new techniques and don’t be afraid to try new products. Our faces are changing, and so should the products we use on them,” Garrison said.
Whether you’re feeling insecure about the appearance of a new wrinkle or volume loss in your cheeks, Natalie Setareh, a cosmetics instructor with a belief that makeup can be for everyone, said that makeup can also be a tool to help you feel more confident.
“I’m near 40 and I’m already using makeup to give me a more youthful appearance. It’s natural to want to do this,” she said.
Setareh said makeup is often just a play on light, and her techniques involve bringing focus to your favorite features using highlighting, while helping to downplay anything that makes you feel self-conscious.
Whether you’re feeling insecure about the appearance of a new wrinkle or volume loss in your cheeks, Natalie Setareh, a cosmetics instructor with a belief that makeup can be for everyone, said that makeup can also be a tool to help you feel more confident.
“I’m near 40 and I’m already using makeup to give me a more youthful appearance. It’s natural to want to do this,” she said.
Setareh said makeup is often just a play on light, and her techniques involve bringing focus to your favorite features using highlighting, while helping to downplay anything that makes you feel self-conscious.
Keep reading to learn just how Satareh, Garrison and other makeup artists achieve this, along with a description of their favorite products and tricks of the trade for achieving a youthful glow.
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An active enzyme exfoliator
For Bobbi Brown Cosmetics artist-in-residence Carola Gonzalez, exfoliating the skin regularly (about three times a week) is very important.
“When it comes to makeup application, mature skin needs to be polished to remove dead skin, dry patches, and increase skin cell turnover,” she said, adding that exfoliated skin will also make foundation look smoother and more even.
She uses this active exfoliator which uses potent fruit enzymes to gently slough off dead skin cells along with nutrient-dense plant oils and honey to help restore moisture and clear congestion.
A skin corrector stick
Gonzales recommends incorporating a skin corrector into your makeup routine, like this one from Bobbi Brown, because they cancel out imperfections on the skin like dark spots and under eye circles. This convenient glide-on stick promises to be comfortable to wear, is never cakey and is infused with ingredients to provide a dose of moisture.
A glowy medium coverage foundation
“As skin matures, it starts to lose luster and luminosity. Skin starts to become more dehydrated, dull, and wrinkles become more pronounced,” Gonzalez said. Because of this, she and nearly all of the other makeup artists we spoke to said that it was best to choose a foundation that’s hydrating, lightweight and has a non-matte finish.
Jeanette Aguirre, a Los Angeles-based lead makeup artist for Glamsquad, said that she loves this luminous silk foundation by Giorgio Armani on mature skin because it won’t settle into fine lines and wrinkles. The hydrating formula claims to blur imperfections and offer a glowy finish.
Other similar formula foundations recommended by our makeup artists include Future Skin Gel Foundation by Chantecaille, Koh Gen Do Maifanshi Moisture foundation and Dior Forever Skin Glow.
An SPF-infused color correcting cream
“I can’t stress enough how important it is to wear sunscreen daily to avoid premature skin aging,” Aguirre said, something repeated by many of the others as well.
For a more natural, everyday makeup look, Aguirre reaches for this color correcting cream from Supergoop that contains mineral SPF50 for protection against UVA and UVB rays. She said she likes the customizable and buildable coverage offered by most CC creams as well as the skin-perfecting, natural finish that it leaves behind.
CC Screen is also infused with some skin care ingredients, like apple extract to help brighten the complexion and red seaweed extract which can help protect skin against free radical damage.
A lightweight setting powder
Los Angeles-based makeup artist Susan Zeytuntsyan said that setting powder has a tendency to settle into and accentuate fine lines, so it’s important to only spot powder using a small brush, and only in areas you really need it, such as the T-zone.
“Use a very finely milled loose powder,” Zeytuntsyan said. “I love the Hourglass one because it has reflective particles that help maintain that glow while still setting your makeup.”
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