Makeup for Older Women

I like to know what I’m putting on my skin and especially on my face. Makeup brands are turning the page on using harsh chemicals and leaning towards natural ingredients to create their makeup products. Our skin loses elasticity as we age…

Foundation is an essential item in all makeup collections. As the name suggests, it’s the foundation upon which to build the rest of your makeup. We all know the expression, “You can’t build a great building on a weak foundation”…

Every year, Pantone arrives at a color that (in their opinion) best represents the upcoming year. Because our world is on a hamster-wheel of perpetual turmoil, Leatrice Eiseman, Executive Director of the Pantone Color Institute, has declared Peach Fuzz…

We don’t usually associate keeping a journal with our beauty products. Neither skin care or makeup. I have certainly never done so, but in review, it seems to be a good idea. No more buying something that gives you a rash…

Does it seem to you – like it seems to me – that the period between mid-October and the winter Holidays goes at supersonic warp speed? The Holidays are – indeed – fast approaching so today I thought we might have some fun looking at 8 different ways…

Glitter fairies unite! There’s nothing like the holidays to bring out the girlie-glitter-glamor-gal in all of us. This goes for holiday decorating as well as makeup, and in my house, it looks like a glitter fairy dropped acid and tossed multi-colored sparkles…

As a makeup artist, I always find it fun and interesting to check out the latest celebrity makeup hacks just in case they might offer quick and easy options that might work beautifully on our more mature skin. And while some of these hacks might, quite honestly…

It’s pumpkin time! What is your favorite pumpkin-type food? Pumpkin bread? Pumpkin soup? Pumpkin latte? I make a mean pumpkin bread that used to last maybe six hours in my house, but, now that the kids are grown, might last a bit longer…

I’ve never taken the step of actually doing a head-to-head test by taking photos and directly comparing a makeup look done with high-end products vs. a makeup look done with drugstore products, but today is the day!

Remember when you looked cute with blue eyeshadow plastered all over your eyelid? Or when you wore that bright red lipstick and about a pound of glitter and everybody loved it? My 20-year-old daughter can get off scot-free with nearly every trend…