Over 50 Beauty Tips - Eyes

Our eyes are have the thinnest skin on our body and are usually one of the first places where our age shows up on our face. Fortunately, there are simple beauty tips for mature women which will help us to look and feel younger and more beautiful.

Tips - Working with Eyes

• Try not to pull or tug around your eye area. The more you tug around your eyes, the faster you will develop wrinkles in that area.
• When applying products around your eyes, try to use your ring finger. It is the weakest finger you have and will cause the lease amount of accidental tugging.
• When you can, pat instead of tugging... for the same reason as above.
• ALWAYS remove your eye makeup at night. When eye makeup is left on the eyes repeatedly, your eyelashes will become brittle and will have a greater tendancy to break off. And eyelashes that break do not grow back. Eyelashes need to be pulled out from the roots for them to regrow.
• Tips for wrinkled eyes - over 50 - it is vital to take care of the skin on your face, and especially around your eye area, with specialized anti-aging products.

Over 50 Beauty Tips - Eye Color

• Choose soft shades. Eye shades that are muted neutrals like soft brown, brownish gray, taupe, charcoal and mink are softer and more flattering to your eyes.
• Emphasizing the upper part of the eye is the secret to visually lifting them.
• Use an eye primer before applying eye color to ensure that it will the color will stay put and not settle into crinkles.
• Apply a light shadow to the lids but do not extend it downward on the side because this ages the eye area.
• End shadow just at outside corner and sweep it up to give the eye a lift. (Don’t extend shadow beyond the edge of the eye area, this tends to lower rather than lift the look of the eye.) Brush shadow just slightly over any saggy brow bone area up toward the brow. With fingers or sponge, blend edges. To create more depth, use a slightly darker shadow on the outer curve of each eyelid.

Over 50 Beauty Tips - Eyeliner

• Define eyes with eyeliner. When lining eyes, extend the liner slightly at the outer corner of the eye. Make sure the liner is thick enough and visible when your eyes are open.
• To further create "lift" to emphasize the upper part of the eye, use smudger/liner in brown or gray to line the upper lid. Apply line on base of the upper lid as close to the upper lash as possible. Then rub with smudger end of liner until there is no line edge there, only soft natural looking color. The end effect of the line should be that your lashes appear fuller at the base.
• Never line the inside of the rim of the eyelid.
• Use liquid liner for a more dramatic, evening look. Don't use liquid liner too heavily or to line the lower lash area because it tends to give you harsh look and can age the eye.

Over 50 Beauty Tips - Eyelashes

• Enhance the upper lashes with volumizing mascara. Wait a minute and then apply a second coat.
• If the lower lid is puffy, wrinkled or dark avoid putting mascara there because it will drag down the look of your eye.
• If you apply any mascara to the lower lids, do it lightly with the pointed tip of the mascara wand. This gives the lower lashes a natural look. Mascara applied heavily to the lower lids, gives a fake, raccoon look. Another way to add a little color to lower lashes is to place 3-4 dots, at the base of the lower lashes. Don't be in a hurry. Be sure to wipe away any stray mascara that may leap from your lashes to our lids.
• Mascara should be discarded after two months of use because it collects bacteria, becomes unsanitary, and losses moisture which results in clumping.

Over 50 Beauty Tips - Eyebrows

• Filling in eyebrows is a MUST. Full and natural-looking brows soften your face
• For the eyebrows, lighten the brows one or two tones if your hair has gone to a lighter color (gray or any other color) but don't over do it or you'll take away your expression.
• A rule of thumb is that the brows should start vertically parallel to the outer edge of your nose. The highest part of the arch should be just above the outer edge of the pupil and the end of the brow should connect an invisible 45 degree straight line past the outer corner of the eye to the outer edge of the nose.
• Use a soft brown, taupe, or gray pencil never black. Apply hair-like pencil strokes upward starting with the part of the brow closest to the nose. Using little strokes, not straight lines, will help avoid an artificial look.
• For thin brows, a pressed powder light brown, taupe or gray shadow can be used by filling in brow with light strokes to give a soft, natural brow line. Use a crystal clear brow fix to set brows and make them stay in place all day.

For more tips on choosing and applying eye color, click here.