Makeup Mistakes that Can Age You

We all have been guilty of hanging on to the same makeup routine a little too long. Maybe I'm still holding on to the 2016 trends even and they do get old you guys and sometimes they even make us look old. And so makeup artist Daniela Bell is here with the easy updates that will have you looking fresh and glowy and anything but dated. And so that's what we want, right? Good morning to you. Elevate the look, make me look young and that we always what we always say right before someone takes a picture. So let's get started. Let's dive right in. Foundation, what are we doing wrong? How can it add unwanted years to our face? I think the one one of the biggest mistakes with foundation is that we pick something that's a little bit heavier for our complexion. A lot of the times if you are on the age 35 and over you want to find something that's a little bit less full coverage more for like a medium or light coverage. Interesting. And then you can pinpoint with like your concealer and then do a little more coverage that way. So like less foundation. You can even water down your foundation a little bit with moisturizer which I love doing that. Yeah. A little bit of moisturizer, a little bit of foundation and then just kind of make it a little bit thinner. The blending is honestly the biggest deal. It's the end all be all. I mean you can have a good product but if you're not blending it correctly then it's just gonna sit on your skin and it'd be really thick. What do you think is the best applicator? Fingers, sponge, brush? I always say brush. You can do a good brush first and then you do a sponge after to absorb excess product. Okay, got it. And that's a really good idea especially if you're mixing it in with the moisturizer. But what I'm hearing from you is starting to move into a space where it's starting to look a little bit more natural rather than like a full beat. Let's show our skin. Let's show our face without it looking like because sometimes and most of the times we come out and then the face looks great and then the neck doesn't have anything. So it's just like we need to make sure that we're blending and the only way to blend this better it's by adding less. There we go. It's just that simple. You're so right too because sometimes the necks and the faces do be two different colors y'all. Alright, let's talk concealer mistakes and fixes. Yes, so big thing for concealer a lot of the times when we apply concealer it tends to crease underneath the eye. The reason for that happening or your mascara transferring or your eyeliner melting all of that is happening because you're not using a setting powder. So make sure you always have a setting powder. You can take a powder puff like this, pat it into your powder and then just press it. So the the main thing here is to apply powder right underneath the eye so that it can absorb the moisture and the sweat and just like you know our heat also makes the product melt. So when you press a powder puff with powder underneath the eyes a little bit goes a long way. Yes. Then that will allow it for not to crease and then last you throughout the day and not look cakey. What do you think about that on the rest of the face? Do you think that's okay on the rest of the face? I will say do all of your creams first so like your foundation whatever your concealer and then do the powders after so your bronzer your blush and then at the very end this is a trick that I do for everyone and you guys should try this at home. At the very end you take your your translucent powder with a big fluffy brush and once you're fully done you just go all over your face and that will make it look like a filter. Yes, okay. And that will take away the dusting to really wrap everything up. I'm sorry I skipped right to the end you guys. Okay let's go back a few steps. We'll go back. Brows. They are they're not twins they are sisters though and we want them to look right. Yes. And not too boxy either I'm trying to get out of that space too. Symmetry is important of course because our brows are different just naturally I mean I don't know anyone that has symmetric brows. No. To be honest with you there's always something that we need to fix so when you already have beautiful brows like Katie has beautiful brows so we don't really need to add much to it you can just comb them up with a gel and then just call it a day that actually makes your brows look more put together if you just kind of brush them up with a gel or get microblading with me and then just get it done again don't worry about that. And then the microblading how long does that last? It can last you up to a year you'll need touch-ups throughout the year like once or twice but honestly it's a good option just for you to just wake up and have them done. Ready to go, ready to be free. Yes. Make everything simple. I like that idea indeed let's talk eyeliner because I have seen some pretty thick winged eyeliner out there even eyeliner under the eyes it can be too much it turns into that raccoon-y kind of mess when it starts to bleed. I have a rule of thumb if you're gonna do eyeliner on the top don't do it at the bottom you can you can do you can do a little bit of eyeshadow like I did on Katie right underneath the lash line and that could be just beautiful without it having to be such a thick heavy eyeliner and then on the top you can see now how we are going more towards like the baby like baby cat eye like just a baby tiny little wing. Y'all so crazy. Just soften up your eyes by adding a thinner eyeliner don't make it too thick. And then do a little depth underneath like you said just nice and soft. Any tips on the wing because I can't lie I've been trying to do a wing since middle school girl it's still ain't hitting. It's it's a little tough when you don't have your elbows like set on a table like honestly if you have your elbows set on a table you have balance here so it's easier for you to do and when your arm is flying and you're trying to do a wing nobody has that much stability in the arm like that so it's it's easier if you have your mirror and then just put your fingers down and then just go that way. I love it these are all really really great techniques indeed elbows down everybody where can people find you for all your tips all your tricks all the things we didn't get to blush you guys so you're gonna have to go to her for more. Yes come for a lesson that's just the best suggestion you can find me at DaniellaBellBeauty.com DaniellaBellLashes.com as well. 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