just kidding hi guys welcome back to
graceful beauty my name is sherry and
today I wanted to share with you
something a little bit different I
wanted to share with you how I used to
do my makeup compared to how I do my
makeup now as a mature woman I know
there's a bunch of videos like this out
there already on YouTube but I thought I
would just do something kind of fun
today
and mix it up a little bit instead of
just putting on my makeup in the same
way I always do I wanted to share some
tips and tricks and some things that I
am really guilty of but maybe these are
some things that you guys might feel
like you're guilty of also these are
things that make us look a little bit
older than we want to be if you're not
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these things that I'm going to share
with you today I probably will still
continue to do them even though I know
they're probably wrong but because
that's what I like and that's what makes
me look happy and that's really all that
matters
honestly are they're really rules in
makeup you know just put your makeup on
however you want except for the very
first step that I'm going to share so
the very first step in your makeup
application is also your very last step
in your skincare routine and it should
be done every single day of the year
rain or shine even if you're indoors
outdoors it doesn't matter but that's
applying a sunscreen this video is not
gonna be about specific brands it's just
the product in general so you can use
whatever sunscreen you want the problem
with sunscreen that I think a lot of us
are doing that could be aging us I see a
lot of people go like this this little
amount right here as literally all they
apply to their whole face and then you
know they'll rub it on and put little
dots and then they'll say help Brian so
Matt you come on out to get a little go
alright I already have a load of
sunscreen on by the way so I'm not gonna
put a whole nother amount on if you want
to know how much sunscreen I normally
use watch my very last video I'll link
it down below and I really quick morning
skincare routine how much
sunscreen I apply and then I also do
kind of like a natural everyday makeup
local don't get tricked by seeing that
the sunscreen says SPF 50 or SPF 100 or
you know I think that you should use at
least an SPF 30
but that little small amount that I just
used on this SPF 50 sunscreen I probably
dropped it down to like an SPF 5 I mean
there's just
I have no protection if that's all I use
is a little pea-sized on my whole face
the second thing that I think many of us
might be doing incorrectly or just
making us look a little bit older than
we are is number one using the wrong
shade of foundation but not just using
the wrong shade using too heavy of a
coverage especially like when I have
blemishes here when you have more mature
skin and you're getting wrinkles and
fine lines and you have large pores or
hyperpigmentation like what I have
piling on a cake face of foundation
actually doesn't make you look younger
and it doesn't hide those imperfections
or you know or make me feel better I'm
guilty of this because when I started
getting this melasma about 10-15 years
ago I thought okay I have melasma and my
face is breaking out I better add three
more layers of foundation to cover it up
and honestly it just it looked terrible
but I never realized that some people
would say why do you have so much makeup
on but I thought well at least they
don't see my hyperpigmentation so this
will be the side of the face that I'm
gonna put my makeup on incorrectly or
you know like I said I still do some of
these things now but this will be the
side of the face that now I'm not saying
this side is like perfect and a makeup
artist would approve I'm just saying for
me that's what I personally feel makes
me not look older than I really am if I
do my makeup the way I'm gonna do on
this side of my face summer time so I
feel like I should use a darker
foundation so I'll use the shade tan on
this side of my face and a lot of times
too I don't think it's so much the brand
or the product that we need to be
looking for so if you have a foundation
maybe you don't even need to go buy the
foundation that you see me using or that
you
see another youtuber using maybe you
just need to use less of your foundation
to make it look more natural and still
cover the flaws that you don't want
others to see okay so I'm just adding a
little extra here like what I used to do
because I really want to cover up then I
got to cover my neck too I want to cover
these blemishes I mean you can see how
dark this foundation is and sure I could
blend it all the way down but this is
just not the right shade for me so I
feel like I've got most of my
hyperpigmentation hidden but I still can
see these blemishes so I'm going to also
spot conceal over top of these blemishes
and make sure that redness is completely
not showing
it's pretty cakey on this side of my
face I am just gonna do a natural layer
I still have you know a lot of this
hyperpigmentation and acne scar that's
healing here and these are spots that I
do want to cover but I'm not going to
pile on the foundation so I have the
shade medium and then I have the shade
medium tan but you don't have to go out
and buy all different shades of
foundation if you want to just stick
with medium or whatever shade you are in
that range and then just buy some color
correcting these or shade adjusters
these are by Physicians Formula and you
can adjust the shade of your foundation
so if this is too dark I add a little
bit of the white if it's too light I can
add a little bit of the dark that's
medium and then this is medium tan so
I'm probably just going to mix the two
of these and get the perfect color first
I want to blend what we have here
because this might be enough for almost
my whole face
now on this side I'm not going I'm just
blending it on this side I'm not putting
the foundation all the way up underneath
my eye because then when I put on my
concealer it's going to start getting a
little bit cakey but on this side I did
put the foundation all the way up
underneath my eye so now I have my
layers of foundation and then my layers
of concealer so a lot of times it's not
your concealer that's making you have
Creasy under eyes it's because you're
putting on maybe too much and again this
is something that I have been guilty of
for years so this is the dark cakey side
and this is the color that matches my
skin tone the best right now I'm not
going to put a second layer of
foundation on I'm going to just spot
conceal any areas that need a little bit
more coverage versus piling it all over
my face now I want to put a little
concealer underneath my eyes this is one
by L'Oreal I do really like this but I'm
really loving the candid concealer by
Revlon but I'm trying to use this one up
so on this side I'm going to put the
concealer on the way I used to and then
let's just blend that out
and then I just like to add a little bit
extra underneath this line here just
kind of blend it in
and then on this side since I am getting
older and I already have wrinkles and
fine lines underneath my eyes I have
this hollowed out area which you know a
lot of people get filler to fix this but
I'm just too chicken for that so I want
to put a little makeup there to help to
disguise it a little bit so now I just
kind of put a few little drops but I
don't bring it all the way up underneath
my eyes I put them right underneath
where that hollowed out area or where
the eye bag is and then same thing I
just kind of blend it out and it
eventually works its way up anyways
because there's still some on my
blending sponge and then I might apply a
little bit more especially in this dark
hollow here and then just a couple
little drops underneath and then I'll
just use my finger and then just kind of
lightly blend and now I'm just gonna set
my face with some powder and since I
used to watch a lot of the younger gals
on YouTube I thought this was the right
way for a 46 year old woman to set her
face with powder get a little more to
make sure we really set it all under the
eyes really good because we don't want
our concealer to crease on this side and
then I just kind of lightly press it on
everywhere else just to set that
foundation I never really let this sit
and bake like a lot of people did I just
would kind of brush it off right
afterwards but still regardless I still
have a thick cakey layer of face powder
on which is going to settle in my pores
and it's gonna eventually just kind of
make my face look dry and wrinkled out
versus natural and dewy looking so now I
do want to set the side to take down
some of the glow and usually I do that
at the very end with some different
products I'm gonna tap off any of this
excess and then I'm just gonna lightly
dust this on my face one thing I want to
do before I ever lightly powder
underneath my eyes I always look in a
zoom in mirror and I take my finger and
I might have just accidentally gotten
some powder there but I like to take my
finger and kind of make sure that
concealer that I just put on is
already Preston because if I don't then
I'm just going to be setting the
wrinkled area already so I want to make
sure it's not all wrinkled and then I
just kind of lightly powder everything
so next I'm just gonna go ahead and do
my blush and highlight and then I'll do
my eyes afterwards so I'm going to use
this pretty palette now again you can
use any blush any eyeshadow but this is
one that I love and I think right now
it's on like half off sale at skin store
I'll link it down below I paid full
price for it but this is by Sigma has a
little mirror inside but then it also
has four eyeshadows a blush and a
highlighter and I absolutely love this
palette as we're aging we want
everything to look lifted not to look
down not to go down now blush is one
thing that I know I always wear
incorrectly because I wear a lot of
blush and the way I like to wear it I
don't know if it's right or not but I
think it looks pretty the way I like to
wear but the way I used to wear it I
would always put the blush too far down
on my cheek now I'm not gonna do a
contour or anything like that today
because you know a lot of people don't
even use a bronzer or contour and I
never used to until maybe a couple years
ago but this is where I used to put my
blush I kind of put it right here or I
see a lot of people doing it you know
like this or I see a lot of people kind
of just putting it right here on the
apple of their cheek and then you know
they like to brush it down and then
blend it that way so now I do try to do
it on the apples of my cheek but I try
to keep everything lifted and blended so
I'll just put a little here and then I
just blend you know very very lightly in
little circles and I feel like because
you know look at little kids when they
blush when they their cheeks are flushed
they don't get red down here their
cheeks are flushed up here so they
always look like that they have those
big chubby cheeks that you want to pinch
now I want to put on a little bit of
this highlight it's such a pretty
highlight you guys I love it but if you
get too heavy-handed
I think it's aging I think a highlighter
this is just my opinion I think a
highlighter especially for daytime
should just look natural like highlight
where the Sun you know would make your
face glow not so much look at your face
and you see a thick white stripe if
that's the style that you're going for
again totally do what makes you feel
comfortable but in my opinion
and even any age I just don't find that
very attractive so I used to do this
when I thought this was the end thing to
do and just take the highlighter and put
a nice white streak of it here you know
to really highlight that side of the
face I'm gonna use the same little brush
but I've just kind of tapped off the
excess and and then usually what I'll do
with my highlighter is I just very light
handed put a smidge of it on to just
highlight the top of my soup bone this
way you don't see like a streak anywhere
it's just like a beautiful glow one that
I love I've talked about this in many
videos if you're just looking for that
natural glow but you do want it to look
you know like the Sun is hitting your
cheeks and you have that beautiful
highlight this one by essence is called
B my highlight I think you have three
different colors but I think this one is
so pretty it's such a natural looking
highlight and it's perfect for mature
women it's great for younger women also
but my channel is about mature skin and
so that's what this is about
all right next I'm gonna do my eye so
I'm just gonna prime my eyes real quick
with my Milani eye primer now if you've
watched any of my videos you know I have
hooded eyes this is not something that I
got from Aging I have had hooded eyes
like this ever since I was born but I
never used to understand how to do my
eye shadow so on this so this will be
the eye that I'll show you the proper
way that I feel to do eyeshadow with
hooded eyes is and then this sign I'm
going to show you how I used to do my
eye shadow because I didn't realize that
there was a special way that if you have
this kind of droopy looking upper eyelid
that kind of you mine aren't terrible
but their hood it and it makes your eyes
kind of look down turn so if you have
this little extra skin that's kind of
pulling down on your eyes
then maybe this side is how you might
want to do your eye shadow I'm just
going to use this shade all over the lid
here I might put a little bit of this on
the eyelid and under the brow bone and
then we use this shade right here in the
outer V
and then I'm gonna use this really small
brush this is great if you have really
small eyes or if you're trying to get
into the crease this is by Vasanti I
think I got this in one of my like hypsi
beauty boxes now I'm just gonna use this
dark shade called elderberry and that's
what I'm gonna do to make my outer-v
oops
I almost started trying to do it the
right way I'll do it the way I used to
do it make this nice little V on the
side and then I'd also blend it into my
crease darken that V up some okay then
I'll just take this fluffy brush and
blend it cuz I did at least you know
blend everything I didn't try to look
crazy I just used to put my eyeshadow on
wrong and I feel like I needed a little
bit more of an outer V now I also didn't
use this dark of eyeshadow but I feel
like if I use more light natural looking
eye shadow you won't be able to see what
I'm doing and then I would blend and I'd
make I'd always blend it down you know
pull it down so already you can tell it
just kind of pulls the eye down the
other thing I would do is I would take
this dark color on a brush and I'd also
use it as eyeliner underneath and then
blend that put this here and you know
you see so many of the really pretty
girls on YouTube the younger gals it's
messed up you see a lot of the younger
gals on YouTube and they are able to
bring it down this way and then they
blend it down and it just looks so
pretty the way they blend it you know it
looks so nice and smoky so that's what I
would try to do and then I would always
just take a little bit of the lighter
shade and I put a little bit of that on
the eyelid
just blend that together and now I'm
just gonna do this I how I would
normally do it with this pallet so I'm
just gonna do the same thing put this
pretty peachy shade all over the eyelid
and then just kind of bring it up just a
smidge above where my crease is so my
crease is actually down here but what I
want to do is look straight into the
mirror which this is a camera but I'll
look straight into the mirror and see
where I would want the crease to be and
then I'm going to make my own crease
even though I do love this palette
since I have hooded eyes I don't want to
use that super dark shade and make a
crease with that so usually what I'll do
instead of just getting out of separate
eyeshadow palette or something I will
just use my bronzer so I'm just going to
use this one by Maybelline it's their
City bronzer and this is I think the
shade 200 and I'm going to use this the
bronzer to make my crease so I'm gonna
keep my eyes open and look straight in a
mirror and instead of putting it down
here where the crease really is I'm
gonna go above and kind of make my own
crease so right here that's why this
brush is so perfect for hooded eyes and
small eyes like mine because you can see
I can get right in there where I'm
trying to make that crease and then once
I make the crease then I can kind of
blend it out so I'm not using a super
dark shade to make the crease because I
feel like the older I get now I'm not
saying you can't wear heavy dark
eyeshadow if that's what you like to do
go for it I think it looks so pretty on
so many people but I am NOT that skilled
to wear really dark eyeshadow
especially when I have hooded eyes
because then I end up just looking like
I would have punched in the eye and then
what I do since I have hooded eyes
instead of making my triangle go this
way the outer V like everyone does I
like to do it in the shape of a martini
glass so or like a backwards 7 so a
martini glass if I held a martini glass
up to my eye the sides of it would go
this way and then the top of it would go
this way now I don't necessarily do a
straight line I just kind of go with the
shape of my eye but I always will find
the edge of my eyebrow
I will do it at this angle so that this
way my eyeshadow and everything looks
lifted and I try to always blend in
upwards strokes now I am going to use
this darker shade the dark purple shade
I'm now going to kind of just follow
along where I drew that martini glass
and just lightly draw this and use this
as my eyeliner actually I will use a
different brush because it makes it
easier so I like to use something like
that's thin and tightly packed like this
and and then I'll use this as an
eyeliner and I'm still going in that
same shape of the martini glass I'm just
kind of keeping it super close to the
lashes honestly I'm just kind of filling
in between the lashes and then just
blending it a little bit and then what I
do same thing I'll take this light shade
and put some of this on the eyelid and
then I'll take this fluffy brush and
just kind of blend all that together
now I'm gonna put the eyeliner on this
eye I'm just gonna use a black eyeliner
which you know I use I still use this
every now and then I'd do a real thin
line normally but I'm just gonna show
you how I used to do my eyeliner because
that's how I saw everybody doing it so I
would just line my upper eyelid and I
would do a nice you know pretty thick
line because that's what I see a lot of
people do and then I would also do a
wing to go with that cat eye there so
what I like to do on this eye if I want
to darken this up instead of putting
this black eyeliner on the upper part of
my eyelid near my eyelashes I like to do
like a tight line and go up inside and
I'm not like stabbing my eye but I like
to line in between my eyelashes
basically where they're coming out of my
eye and then this way it helps to make
your lashes look a little bit thicker
but I'm not taking away from any of that
precious eyelid space because that's
what I need since with hooded eyes you
usually don't have much eyelid space
showing so now this way since I'm tight
lined I do have a waterproof eyeliner on
you could use black or brown but I try
to keep it close to the same color that
my eyelashes will be with mascara and
then this way it helps to deepen it up
give some definition but it's not
shrinking my eye and I also still use
eyeliner underneath my eye but I just
don't use it dark and I don't do it that
thick so what I like to do I'll still
take some of that deep purple color just
a smidge of it and I will draw a super
thin line kind of just to connect where
I did that light wing where I made the
upper eyeliner and I just only bring it
maybe just see how thick this is it's
almost like the length of my finger I
will only go from here to and stop right
here just to kind of blend it but I
don't put the dark all the way under my
eye because if I do then it pulls my eye
down and of course that makes me just
kind of look older so what I do is I
take any light color I'll take my the
highlighter maybe that's
I'm going to use I'll mix that peachy
color with a little bit of the
highlighter what I like to do is kind of
just blend that with the highlighter
underneath my eye so it still adds a
smidge of color but it's a super light
shade because remember if something's
lighter it makes it look bigger or opens
it up if it's dark it makes it look
smaller and you know maybe you have huge
eyes and you do want to make them look
smaller but when you have hooded eyes
and if your eyes are aging a lot of
times you're not trying to make them
look smaller you're trying to make them
look bigger so all I did I just blended
this peachy color whoops with this
highlighter right here the way I used to
do my brows I used to do them really
thin and you can see that they're pretty
arched anyways but I think that when
your brows are a little bit fuller it's
a little more youthful but as far as
brows I will say I just suck with brows
period so I'm just going to do this one
the way I used to and then I'll do this
one the way I do now and again the way I
do it now it's probably not even the
right way but that's just you know the
best I can do for now
I would also do my brows really dark
before you know I would see all these
youtube videos where they would just
draw these really dark brows and then
put whiter you know light concealer
around it so you could just see big
brows but I just don't feel like that
looks very natural and again if that's
what you like to do go for it
now this one is in the shade dark brown
I actually like to use more of a taupe
on my eyebrows now even though I have
dark hair I feel like a taupe or a light
brown looks better so that it just
doesn't look like I have this big fake
eyebrow I'm just gonna use this by
Lancome it's their source sales gel this
is in the shade taupe and you don't have
to buy one by Lancome there's tons at
the drugstore but I've had this for
probably six months somebody I think up
Altaf said it was amazing so I got it
and I do like it but I've tried
drugstore ones that I think are just as
good and now I'm just gonna put on some
mascara I'm gonna do the mascara the
same way cuz I don't really know of any
ways that we're doing mascara that makes
us look older other than putting it on
super super thick I don't use fake
lashes because I just I've tried them
before and it's just too much of a
hassle for me so I just use a lash
growth serum and but what I like to do
is mix these two mascaras this is by
Stila this is their huge mascara and it
really does give a lot of fullness and
it's got a really nice dark black color
to it and then I'll just go in with my
favorite my Maybelline full and soft and
I just kind of blend through and this
helps to just make them look real full
and wispy and don't mind if you get
mascara on your lid I do it constantly I
mean you could put a little thing there
to prevent it but I don't just wait for
it to completely dry and then when it's
dry you can just take it off of like a
little dry q-tip it'll come right off
but if you touch it when it's wet you're
gonna mess up your eyeshadow
so formidable relaxants I could use
those same mascaras on the lower lash
line also but I used to put it on super
thick and full on the bottom the same
way with the top but then I sort of
feeling like maybe I'm looking a little
bit like Tammy Faye Bakker so what I
like to do is I'll just use one of the
mascara it's not putting multiple coats
I'll just do one very thin coat on the
bottom lash or the older we get it's
fine to use absolutely no mascara on the
bottom lash line so I'm just using this
one by Milani it's called highly rated
actually really like this mascara I like
it on my top lashes - I just forgot I
had it so I just do a super thin coat on
the bottom but on this eye I'm going to
do it the same way I used to have wear
it I'll go and do this I first will that
sides drying a little
and now let's do our lips lips are my
favorite favorite thing to do with
makeup and I'm just gonna be honest I
still do my lips the wrong way I know
you're not supposed to put a dark lip
liner on and a lighter lipstick but
that's what I like to do I used to I'm
not as bad as I used to but I used to
put a really dark like a dark burgundy
or a dark brown lip liner on and then I
would do like that I see pink almost
white lipstick and I just thought it
looked so good like I even would catch
myself like when I look in the mirror
going like because I thought my lips
looked so good
and since I couldn't find one of my icy
pink lipsticks that I used to use all
the time I'll use this one by Bobbi
Brown
it's called mod and I probably should
have exfoliated my lips first
fix this look line sum because I always
had to have I always had to have the
dark line showing and I'll just kind of
blend it I thought that looked so good I
normally don't wear this lipstick by
itself anyways I normally will put it
just as a pop in the center but for
demonstration purposes I want to show
like maybe how I should wear even though
I still don't do it completely correct
but this is also by Estee Lauder this
one's called spice it's a little bit
lighter and now I like to go just a
smidge above where the lip line is
so then what I would do is I usually
since I don't have such a harsh lip line
what I'll do is I'll just kind of blend
that liner and then I'll put this on and
then what I'll do oh the Sun is super
bright sorry let me close this and I'll
blend kind of blend it all together
another thing you can do is you can
actually put your lipstick on first and
then lightly line afterwards so it looks
a little bit more more natural that way
I also usually put on a little bit of a
lip gloss so when my makeups finish I
always like to put a little pop of a
more of a brighter pink blush on and
usually I use my favorite one by Milani
but I don't see it anywhere so I'm gonna
use this one that's almost identical
it's by Mac but of course it's not as
cheap as the one by Milani this is one
of their mineralized blushes this one's
in the shade bubbles please this one's
so pretty if you watch any of my videos
you know I just love a little pop of
pink blush so now what I do is I just
put a smidge right here just to kind of
lift it off and then I would still put a
pop of pink but I always would put it
right over where I had the other blush
okay so here you have the final look
this side I feel like you know just
looks hard
it looks aging and then I feel like on
this side I still have a full face of
makeup but I just feel like everything
looks a little more lifted it looks a
little more natural nothing as super
harsh and this is just the side that I
prefer but I don't know you guys tell me
some people prefer this side I mean I
don't think this looks horrible I just
think it looks harsh and like I just
have on too much cakey makeup so what
are you guys thoughts and of course like
I said I still know I do some things
incorrectly on this side of my face and
normally like I said I don't use this
light of a lipstick I like it to be a
little bit darker and I do still like to
wear a darker lip liner not this dark in
comparison to the lipstick but what are
some tips and tricks that you guys have
that you can leave down below that not
only would just help me like I hope
guys don't like slam me and tell me how
wrong everything is but hey if you want
to that's fine too
I totally welcome constructive criticism
but what are some thing some tips and
tricks that you guys have that won't
just help me but might help some other
women in general and again this isn't
necessarily because we want to look so
much younger than our age I'm fine with
aging
I just want to age gracefully I don't
want to obsess about oh my gosh I got a
new wrinkle here or there because I've
got wrinkles I'm gonna have wrinkles and
I'm okay with having wrinkles but I
don't want to accentuate my wrinkles and
large pores or my acne so I hope you
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time to watch my channel thanks so much
for watching and I hope you guys have a
great day
you
