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Makeup for Older Women

Don't listen to the anti-aging hype. Makeup for women over 60 isn't for looking younger. It's about looking and feeling your best. Find the best makeup for mature skin. Get makeup tips for older women from a professional makeup artist. If you have a makeup question, we have the answer!

3 years ago

Love the Sun, Hate the Skin Damage? How to Look Sun Kissed Without the Sun

I’m so excited. It’s spring! If you’re like me, getting outside and enjoying nature, sunshine, warmth, and family are top of my list. With that though often come sunburn, skin damage, and potential dehydration we all want to avoid…

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3 years ago

Top 13 Game-Changing Makeup Products for Older Women (2 Will Surprise You!)

I’m very excited to share with you today my picks for the makeup products that can absolutely make the biggest difference in how we look – especially for those of us who are over 50. They are game-changers. And I have a pretty good hunch that two of these…

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3 years ago

How to Create Sophia Loren’s Makeup Look (Video)

It was at the Milan, Italy, airport customs that I learned to lie and say I was a tourist. In truth, I was a 16-year-old model, and needed to avoid the all-important work visa. It was the mid-1980s and Julianne, my fellow model and deceiver, taught me to smile…

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3 years ago

How to Choose the Best Lip, Cheek and Eyeshadow Colors That Will Help You Go From Good to Gorgeous

A few years ago, I was teaching a makeup techniques class for those of us over 50. A woman came up to me and whispered, “I hope you’ll talk about wearing the right colors because everyone around here wears beige.” And quite honestly, that wasn’t far…

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3 years ago

10+ Tips for Sparse Eyebrows (Demos Using Different Techniques and Products)

If you are over 50, chances are you’ve noticed a few changes in your eyebrow area. Figuring out how to get the shape just right without making your brows look drawn on, too dark, too thick or uneven can be challenging. But with the right products, techniques…

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3 years ago

The Quickest, Easiest Eyeshadow Application for Older Women (VIDEO)

Eye shadow can do wonders to highlight our eyes and help us look our best. Yet I’ve heard from a number of you that eyeshadow application can be a bit challenging – and, frankly, just too time consuming and difficult…

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3 years ago

Lessons from Paris: Staying Current and Relevant in a Diverse and Complex World (VIDEO)

During my modeling career in the mid-1980s, Elite Models moved me to Paris, France, for two years to work. I was 16 years old, (where was my mother, you ask? A story for another article…) and fresh from growing up on a farm…

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3 years ago

10 Pro Makeup Artist Tips to Save Money and Help Us Look Flawless (VIDEO)

If you’d like to save time and money, prevent frustration, and help your makeup look even more flawless, here are some tips that can help you accomplish one (or more!) of these objectives. You know how you can still see product in a tube…

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3 years ago

Exploring the Makeup Line of Merit, a Clean Beauty Makeup Brand (VIDEO)

As we all know, just about any makeup will look great on us when we’re 20 or 30, but how products perform on our over-50 skin is a whole other ballgame! So today, we’re going to take a look at the six new makeup products…

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3 years ago

2021, The Year of the Older Woman: How to Find Your Sense of Self in Makeup and Style (VIDEO)

One of the greatest hindrances to older women consciously and courageously finding their Sense of Self is the notion that we are somehow incomplete for the task. That our untapped self-ness is underscored with not-enoughness…

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