Hey awesome ones Heather here and today
i'm so excited because I've got my very
first
Q & A for you. I picked a few
questions from the comments and I mean
I've got questions...everything from you
know those
bat wings underneath our arms, to hair
care
including what to do with gray hair. Skin
care and even what to do with melting
eyeliner. I can't wait to get started.
It all starts in just a few seconds.
So unfortunately because of the sake of
time I couldn't answer
all of your questions, but if you notice
if you do ask me a question in the
comments
i really really try hard to give you a
sincere
honest answer you know based on my
knowledge.
I'm kind of proud of myself. I have a lot
of knowledge on
fashion and skin care and makeup but
let's get to our first question. All
right, so the first one
is from Carolyn and this is definitely
one of those more difficult questions.
"What i'm noticing is that my hooded eye
is really becoming worse
you cannot see my eyelids at all and my
eyelashes are barely noticeable.
I have a strong allergy against the red...
I'm sorry...
yeah against the red dyes most eye
shadows and mascaras
especially the khol ones. What
suggestions do you have to make my eyes
appear awake and noticeable?
Thank you." Well that is a difficult
question.
And as far as hooded eyes are concerned
what I'm going to do
is I'm going to put a link at the end of
this video
for you to watch my hooded eyes videos
so you can get some tips there.
But also the eyelashes. Okay so what I
would suggest with your eyelashes
is to buy one of these you know these
gadgets these
fancy little eyelash curlers. What
that's going to do is bring your
eyelashes up a bit.
And also how about this for an idea.
This is from Great Lash. It's a clear
mascara
and it has no dyes in it because it's
absolutely clear.
And I think that will really help you
showing off your eyes a bit more.
And don't forget to do your eyebrows
because that's
framing your entire eye and eyes
and I think that will help so let's get
on to the next.
So the next question and the next one is
from
Cheryl. "How do you choose foundation
colors?
Back of wrist, hand or flip a coin?"
Well of course you just flip a
coin. lol
Anyway I don't know who came up with
this idea where you've got to put it on
your wrist or you put it on your hand.
I mean you're putting the foundation on
your face!
So what I suggest is if you're choosing
a new foundation
and you're going to the store or you
know the counter the beauty counter,
go there without any foundation on and
what you're going to want to do
is you're going to want to put the
makeup along the jawline here because
that's.......
what you don't want to see is you don't
want to see a an orangey face and then a
white neck.
I have my makeup on right now and you
can see it's a
pretty good match to my neckline and
that's exactly what you want to do.
now the other thing is to remember that
in the summertime
a lot of times our complexion is a
different color it's
darker or redder than usual so
make sure that you have two different
kinds of foundation.
One for the summer and one for the
winter. Now just before I go on to the
next question I really want to give you
a little bit more
of a close-up and maybe Bill can come a
little bit closer with this
just to show you the difference again
or the non-difference between the two,
because sometimes when I'm looking dead
on into the camera
I've got more...you know...the blush and
everything else on. So
all right let's get to another
question and
Georgia asked me a question about my
hair and I also had a lot of you asking
me about my hair.
All right so...."Thank you for your videos
Heather.
Your genuine self shines through." Thank you.
Thank you so much for that. I'm just
trying really hard to keep it real and
all those lovely comments that every one
of you
have been sending to me...well not
everyone, but anyway
I gotta tell you it just warms my
heart and it encourages me to keep on
doing these videos. So
anyway I digress. "Can you do a
detailed video on straightening your
hair
with the brush because i went and got
one".... she said,
..."from shampooed hair to finish technique
and
and products and in what order? Thank you."
Well right now it's...I can't really do
the whole video
on this or this video is going to be too
long, but I promise you i'm going to do a
video in the future for you
and I'm also buying a curling iron.
Now why am I buying a curling iron? I
actually have
naturally curly hair and I've showed you
the scrunch method,
you know with a curling cream, but
some of you have said you didn't really
like the scrunched look. You wanted more
natural waves which we're seeing. It's
really trending right now. So
I'm going to work with that curling iron
and I'm going to
show you some techniques with that. But
as far as the products are concerned
what I do like is the new new products
and I'll just kind of show them to you
here......
and you know what I'm also going to
do? I don't know if you can see them,
that's the conditioner that's the
shampoo,
but I'm also underneath the description
I'm going to have some links for you of
these
products and also for the silver hair
it's the silver product. Again these
are from
Davines. So there's where you get that.
And also for the frizziness which
definitely at this time of year I'm
getting a lot of frizziness.
The Frizz Ease is one of the products I
absolutely love,
and then this is again from John Frieda
the Frizz Ease...
and this is the serum where I just kind
of you know
smooth everything down just a little bit.
So
stay tuned for that...that video
coming up. I will get a little bit
more detailed with both
straightening and curling...your...
straightening your hair yeah I almost
forgot
um this is what Georgia bought.
It's a straightening iron brush.
What? Basically all I do is I sort of
comb through
and it's got a heating element in here
and it helps to really
straighten out and smooth out my hair. So
that's what she's talking about. All
right so here's the
bat wing. Most of you know what bat wings
are right? You know it's that flabbiness
underneath
our arms. And here's one of the questions
about bat wings that I got from
Bam. "Thank you for showing
your real self.
It helps us relate. Confidence is
something I keep working on.
Would love to get rid of bat wings and
build up the girls...
the girls. If you have any ideas I will
listen and learn.
Alright so thank you very much for that
question.
I'm not a personal trainer. I'm a former
model so I really tried to keep
up with being in some kind of shape
but
you know I just i have a very simple
exercise routine. Basically I have a
stationary bike
but when I'm not on my bike i'm doing......
I've got my fitbit on
I'm trying to get in my 10 000 steps,
especially on a weekend.
I'm also dancing around the kitchen you
know when the...
when something's cooking for 30 minutes
I'm usually putting on some tunes and
doing some dancersize to the tunes.
Let's take a look at when I'm on the
stationary bike
for about two to three minutes what I do
is i work with five pound weights and
i'm going to show you in just a second
what I'm doing now with these weights.
I'm not only strengthening my arms but
I'm also
strengthening the girls. Let's take a
look.
Now this doesn't seem like a lot of
exercise you know the stationary bike
and dancersize and all that.
Well you're probably right and if you
really wanted to
you know have muscles and that sort of
thing there's lots of videos on youtube
to find that, to have the big
muscle arms and you know even for the
girls you could be doing
push-ups and all kinds of things. But the
other thing that I
really find that's so important for
these girls of ours
is wearing a good support bra. I wear
a support bra all day long, all day
every day except for when i'm sleeping.
So that's a little bit of a tip there.
And as far as my arms are concerned I
want to look
toned. I don't want to look muscular and
well I guess that's just me. So the next
question is from Joan.
Joan says..." why don't you use powders
to set your foundation?"
Well a lot of you know why I don't
do that and that's because
when you use powder well first of all if
you have a foundation on
and you're using a powder especially if
it's
you know one of those ones in a
compact and you just keep on putting it
on
the color of the powder might be
different than the color on your
foundation.
Also it's really emphasizing the
wrinkles.
Now as most of you know I love the
Revlon
anti-shine products. Again I'll link them
below. Look at how much I've used of the
balm
here. And that is called the Revlon
photoready prime
anti-shine. And again I've heard that
some of you can't get it in your
countries they've discontinued it.
I have on right now the translucent
powder.
As you can see it's not...it's not like a
makeup
color, it's not like a yellow or an
orange. So that's working quite well and
I've got that underneath my eyes right
now.
It's not sinking into my wrinkly
crevices
but another reason why my makeup isn't
wrinkly and sorry
going into my wrinkly crevices is
because I use a primer before I put on
the foundation
and this one is from Strivectin. It's the
Strivectin primer
and it kinda gets in there and and kind
of settles into the creases before you
put on your makeup. So that's a good
thing.
Talking about makeup, if you are a
person who wants no shine I don't want
any shine...
I would suggest that you use a matte
foundation
and I do love the Estee Lauder double
wear matte foundation
and if you've got to have your
foundation on like for 24 hours or
something like that
i've actually talked to women who sleep
who have slept in the makeup and it
still looks great the next day. But
that's another story. But these days
you know what we're not like what our
moms used to do
and that is you know excuse themself
from
maybe a dinner party and have to go put
on all the powder all
over their face. These days well you glow
girl because
we're trying to get that glow on our
face.
I really like this foundation from
Shiseido
and it's called synchro skin glow and
it's a lovely lovely foundation.
So there you go. You don't need all that
powder anymore.
And talking about glowing I mean if you
want that fresh face look
we want to be glowing with some
highlighter here and of course I've got
my blush and everything on
and where do you want to use the
anti-shine. Well you know
on your nose, maybe under your eyes. I
also get kind of 
oily underneath my nose and on my chin
and
those are about the only places to blot.
The rest of you
as i said...you glow girl. So let's get to
the next question
and this is from Lisa and
hi Lisa i know you're a regular on this.
"Your makeup
and hair always look so great Heather.
What is your current skin care routine?
You haven't done one of those videos in
a while. I was also wondering how tall
are you?
Love you guys and little Hurricane too.
So
don't we all love little Hurricane. He's
actually the star of the show but
uh all right so how tall am I. I'm...
that's an easy question to
answer. I'm five foot eight and a half
inches. I have not measured my height
probably in a couple of years so
as we know I'm 65 and I could be
shrinking a little bit but that's how
tall I
am right now. Also about the skin
care, now one of the things I'm noticing
new wrinkles like okay let's say every
four weeks you know. I'm not going to say
every day but
man I'm getting the wrinkles on my neck
and
a lot of the things that I'm using right
now that just they just
aren't working as well as I want them, so
I am starting to
test out some new products. I'm going to
have a video for you
coming up they're supposed to be
exceptional
and as you age I think that it's very
very important that you
start to maybe upgrade the moisturizer.
I've never used a day cream believe it
or not, I've never used a day cream
I think i'm going to start getting into
the night creams and the day cream.
So I'm not really answering your
question right now about the skin care
but I
am promising you it has been a while
since I've done the skin
care video and I'm going to do an
updated
version probably within the next month.
All right so next question.
This is fun you know i'm really enjoying
this and
keep those questions coming because I'm
going to do another one in the future
for sure. All right so Sharon asks "I have
a problem with eyeliner.
It always smears...smears...smears or
disappears completely.
I need something that won't get greasy
or just melt into my eyes.
Do you have anything that would help?"
Well I've got some good news for you Sharon.
And that is that these days we don't
need a lot of eyeliner.
Now i was guilty of this too. I had
thick eyeliner. I had eyeliner underneath
here
even on my waterline I had eyeliner and
I thought I looked great but actually it
was
aging me. So now I have a very I don't
know if you can see it or not but a very
very
thin eyeliner just at the base of my
upper
eyelashes. Nothing on my waterline,
nothing underneath
and I know it takes a little bit of
getting used to
but once you get used to it you're going
to take years off your look.
You're going to look a lot younger and a
lot more natural
as well. Now as far as the melting part
I would suggest that you try you know
whatever your favorite cosmetic is
look for an eyeliner that's waterproof
because that's got some staying power.
I would suggest that also what I
would suggest
is that if you're using a waterproof
eyeliner
make sure you get a proper makeup
remover maybe from the same cosmetic
company
and that way you're not just sort of
scrubbing your eyes all night trying to
get the eyeliner off.
So remember that you can always ask me a
question in the comments
and you know you all
mean the world to me and it just makes
me feel so happy to help you
maybe live your life a little bit more
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Hurricane comes on the scene I'm going
to talk about
upcoming videos and as I mentioned to
you I've got a new skincare one coming
up shortly
and I'm going to be getting that curling
iron and showing you
again how to keep the frizzies down
straighten my hair
and curl it with a nice wave and
hopefully i get to master that.
In a couple of days i'm going out to
the mall and i'm going to be social
distancing
staying safe but Ii want to get ready for
fall with you and I want to look in the
windows and
of the stores and do a video on all of
that.
I'm looking forward to sharing that
with you.
So as i mentioned to you before I'm not
a personal trainer.
i'm not a makeup artist. I'm a former
model
who loves makeup, I love skin care
and you know something about when I buy
makeup I buy lots of makeup and
I don't show it to you if it's not
Awesome Over 50 worthy.
So I also love fashion.
This is a community here us Awesome Over
50
awesome ones. I'm so glad you're
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