Quoted by Simply Anti Aging: "How many times have you looked in the mirror first thing in the morning and thought – thank goodness for makeup.
Eyes are a dead giveaway in more ways than one. How much or how little sleep you had, how happy or sad, how much alcohol you drank last night or exercise you didn’t get time to take – it all shows up in our eyes.
The right eye makeup can perform wonders on an older face – blending away dark circles and bags, replacing thinning brows and lashes and enhancing eye color and sparkle.
The most important word there is “right” because of course – the wrong eye makeup does exactly the opposite.
The problem is that sometimes we forget to update the look. Makeup and specifically eye makeup often gets forgotten. It’s as if we stay frozen in whatever time warp we last felt fashionable and on trend.
Doesn’t matter whether your personal time warp is the sixties, the eighties or the nineties – your face has changed since your glory days.
Eye makeup needs to work on the face you have now not the one you had then. Everyone ages differently but we all face similar problems around the eyes.
Based on my own experience – here’s some suggestions for eye makeup that helps solve the problems of older skin:
Best eye shadow for older skin
The big problem here is crepey skin which doesn’t hold eye color as well as it used to. Generally powder around the eyes is an ageing look – dull and dry when you want soft and glowing.
Powder shadow also has other disadvantages I find. Little specks of it fall onto my face when I’m applying it and how often has the tablet of compressed powder cracked up and emptied itself all over the inside of my purse.
All is not plain sailing with cream shadow either. Even expensive ones fail to stick – collecting in the ever growing creases in eyelids and even migrating to crows feet.
In the quest for the best eye shadow for my older eyelids I ended up with a drawer full of discarded products that just didn’t work for me. Finally I got there – Bobbi Brown long wear cream shadow.
In my humble opinion this really is the best eye shadow ever – for me anyway. It comes as a thick cream in a little pot so you can use every last bit. You can apply it with a brush or finger tip – brush works better – and it comes in a fantastic range of subtle colors either matt or some with a slight pearlized sheen which is very pretty on older skin.
Subtle is what you want as skin ages – leave the bright colors and the glitter to the teens and twenties and go for soft enhancement – “yourself only better” as Bobbi Brown puts it.
My favorite color is Sand Dollar – a lovely indistinct gray-taupe with a soft sheen. I wear it all the time and it wonderfully flattering to most skins. African-American, Hispanic or Asian skin tone would need something stronger in color but it could be a great highlighter.
I also bought some matt colors in smudgy muddy tones that blend with it well – Suede and Slate and a lovely deeper gray pearlized color for evening – Galaxy.
They can all be blended together – Bobbi Brown does a blender brush just for the purpose – or you can just use a soft clean makeup brush of your own.
For me the best thing about all these Bobbi Brown eye makeup colors – apart from how good they look – is how long they last. You put them on in the morning and they stay uncreased and untouched until you take your makeup off last thing at night – and that works after a full day’s heavy garden work (yes – I wear eye makeup to dig the garden!)
There’s no point suggesting an alternative since no other eye makeup I have ever used comes close.
Choose a gel eye liner
You might be used to adding definition with eye liner and there’s no reason not to as you get older but you may need a lighter touch. Avoid very dark brown and black liquid liners which can look hard – you need something with a softer focus.
Choose a color at least a tone lighter than you’re used to. The aim is for it to almost blend with your eye shadow color rather than stand out as a harsh black ribbon in Cleopatra or Amy Winehouse style.
Hard black lines close up the eye which appears smaller as we age anyway – most of us need to open up the eye and give it definition.
A good soft eye pencil is one option or – my current choice – a gel eyeliner that you mix with a little water to give a very soft paste. Gel eye liners are great for older lids because they give you a soft, gentle line which you can get very close to your lashes.
Mac have a good one which I have tried but the best gel liner for me is the Long Wear Gel Eye Liner by Bobbi Brown in Sepia Ink. Again – “long wear” is exactly what you get without smudging.
Apply with a fine short haired eye liner brush so you can control where the line goes and get it as close to the root of your lashes as possible. Don’t extend the line outwards as any downward droop at the outer corner of your eye will be emphasised.
Makeup tips for thinning eyebrows
Strange how these disappear as you get older – it isn’t just the hair on your head that can get thinner."
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