The Correct Way To Apply Blush on Mature Skin Explained by Pro Makeup Artist

When it comes to mature skin, your placement, your application and the way that the skin prep is beforehand makes a huge difference. So, let me show you the correct way to apply cream and powder blush on mature skin. Now, in case you think that I don't know what I'm talking about, I'm 46 years old for a start, so I'm heading right into that mature skin territory. Secondly, I have been a pro makeup artist for nearly 25 years, so I've worked on every age group you can think of. Skin colour, face shape, you name it. I've got extensive experience in this and yeah, I'm about to share. So, if you like this video, please do hit the like button, subscribe and hit the bell button because it means you won't miss my next video and let's get on with this. So, I have my foundation and everything on. Now, the one thing I don't have is powder on the perimeter of my face because I only usually powder through the So, we're good to go with this. What I will say to you is for both of these techniques, I want you to make sure that you are at a point where you have your foundation on and then we're going to go in with blush, right? So, we're going to go in with cream on one side and then powder on the other side. Let's get this ready. I'm going to use one product but it has a cream and a powder in there. So, I'm using my Patrick Tarte Double Take Creme and Powder Blush in She's Blushing. We've got a cream version and then we've also got powder version. So, we're going to use the same colour but different finishes. So, on this side, I'm going to be doing cream and on this side, I'm going to be doing powder. So, over on this side, I do already have a little bit of blush on. So, I'm going to use something I've got here to just kind of almost go over it. It's like my... I forgot the name. It's my Beauty Blender. I'm fully forgetting names today. Beauty Blender Blotting Sponge. I'm just going to take this off. I'm just kind of pressing on top. There's not actually a lot of product. There's only a tiny bit there anyway. So, okay. So, we've got our foundation there. So, next what I want to do is add cream on this side. Now, the first thing I want you to remember is you want to make sure there isn't a thick layer. When you're dealing with mature skin, you're already dealing with dehydrated skin so you really want to make sure that everything is prepped correctly underneath. You've got good hydration underneath. You've got your usual kind of cream, your serums, whatever it is that you put on. You then want to make sure that you've got a good primer on and then your foundation. Now, we're at the point where we have the foundation on here, right? Now, I want to really focus on placement and blending and making sure I'm not using too much product and making sure that you use the right tool. So, for a cream, you have two options. You can use a brush or you can use a sponge. If you struggle with application, I'm going to tell you to use a sponge. The reason being is because a sponge is going to be so much easier for you. So, basically what you're using is the back of a sponge. So, like the big bit, you know how you've got like this like that, right? You can use any... I keep spare sponges. It doesn't matter what the sponge is for this particular thing. Use the end of the sponge and you're going to dab it into the cream blush and you're going to bounce it onto your skin. Or you can use a brush and you go into it and you dip on a tissue first and then you will basically buff in. I personally feel like if you are a beginner or you don't have much experience and you want something quick, right? I think a sponge is going to be the better option for you. So, that's what we're going to go with today. So, what I'm going to do is I have a tissue here. I'm going to keep here on the desk and I'm going to go into this. Now, the problem when you're using a sponge is that you don't know if you've applied too much product. So, always press it onto a tissue first. Then, when it comes to placement, I want you to focus on this area here which is the highest part of your cheekbone. So, we're just going to bounce it on. You don't want to go under the eye. You want to make sure you don't go under the eye, but you also don't want to go kind of below the ear. And because we're using the large part of the sponge, do you see how that just immediately goes on and it's just so easy? See what I mean? Immediately, you've got that really nice cream blush and that's perfect placement for mature skin. What we've done here is we've made sure we've stayed away from this center section. I know a lot of people love it there, but I'm telling you now, if you like the way that it makes you look, amazing, go for it. But if you are wondering why blush doesn't always sit right, it could be the placement of you. This area here is usually where we have more texture, so I would always stay away from that area because this area here is generally where you tend to have smoother skin, right? And this is where a cream blush is going to really kind of almost make it look more plump for you and give you that lifted look. It lifts the area up, which is amazing for mature skin because you want that youthful look. You may not, you may. So, okay, that's that side done. Perfect placement, not too low, doesn't drag the face down, doesn't make the face look kind of close together because that's what happens when you apply it on areas like this, right? Everything looks a bit too close together and it can kind of drag the face down. Whereas here, I feel like it's really bringing the area up. It's lifting the area. So next, what we want to do is go into powder. Now, I do want to use a brush for this and I want to use something which is, I would say, yeah, this one here. We're going to use, are we? I'm going to use this, my Hourglass 15 brush. I love this brush for powder blush. The reason being is because the brushes are not so close together. It's a kind of very kind of like long and short bristles in there and they're kind of spread out so it's not dense. It gives you that airbrushed look to your blush. What you want to do is you've got your tissue here, again, like you did before. You've got it ready for blotting. You're going to go into the powder here. You're going to press onto the tissue. Do it a couple of times so you can actually see the product go onto the tissue because otherwise, if you don't see anything, you kind of wonder like, okay, what's going on here? So we're going to go along here, same place. We're going to press. You can flick if you want to, which I actually really like doing. But if you worry about that, then I would kind of stick to kind of just pressing. Now I just want to add here that I didn't have powder on the perimeter of my face. However, I used a foundation which self-sets really well. So if you are using a foundation and you don't like using powder, because I know a lot of mature skin people don't like using powder, make sure you're using something that self-sets pretty well. Or the other alternative is, which is kind of what I did with that blotting thing that I used, is once you've applied your foundation, if you don't want to apply powder but you do want to use a powder blush, blot your foundation with a tissue. Blot it so that all the excess fluidity comes off and then wait a while, do all the rest of your face, and then you go in with this. Right? You're going to find that much easier. And I obviously, that's kind of similar to what I did because I used that blotting sponge to blot my face. But there you go. Look at the difference here. Now the cream, I just want to add here, cream is always going to give you more shine and more glow. Therefore, it's going to enhance any kind of like kind of fine lines, depression lines. Like I have like slight kind of obviously sagging here a little bit from my eye with age. Right? And you can kind of see that there, I think. Right? You may not be able to, but it's definitely something I can see. Right? So if I move my face in certain light, I can see that kind of line there. It's just aging. So that's going to enhance certain things more. And this here, can you see that we've got that slight glow because we didn't actually have a lot of powder on or anything, but it's also not as obvious. Do you see what I mean? And I think that's a really good powder blush because it isn't like so mattifying that it flattens the face. By the way, please do subscribe to thebeautybreakfastclub.com. It's my online publication and it's all about beauty. And there's even like a bit of other stuff thrown in like wellness, style, hair, supplements, all that kind of stuff. 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Like this is super glowy, but it also does enhance any kind of flaws that I may have that I might be trying to This gives me a bit of glow because I didn't have powder underneath, but it is actually more satin and it gives a really nice finish and it doesn't enhance any of the flaws because I've got that same line here, but I can't see it here. Do you see what I mean? Let me know what your thoughts are with this because I think that this is something that is, it's like a very quick thing to learn, but it's also actually quite complicated because a lot of people kind of find it a little bit difficult. They're like, where do I put it? What do I use? Do I, you know, what's the correct placement? The placement is the same regardless whether you do cream or whether you do powder, but you just want to make sure that your skin prep underneath is right, everything that you've got underneath is right and then everything on top is okay too. Now I personally wouldn't add anything on top. My personal preference, I love cream blush, but it also does depend on how my skin is feeling and looking for the day and I'm sure you know as well as I do, like when you're heading into your 40s and when you're deep into your 40s and beyond, like you really do have those days especially dealing with perimenopause where you get like, your face isn't the same every single day. Like genuinely, like some days I look snatched, some days I look puffy as anything and it just, sometimes I just don't, I don't feel like I look like myself and all of it has to do obviously with like hormones and stuff and we can't control all of that. So I feel like for me it really does depend on how I feel and look that day. For the kind of day I'm having today and how I feel I look, I think this is better for me today. Sometimes this works for me, sometimes it doesn't. Today I don't feel like it does. So it's really a case of you with your mature skin and where, what stage you're at and where you are on that day-to-day basis, figuring out what works best for you. I personally think it's important to know both cream and blush so that you can kind of decide which one works for you and if you have, if you have that knowledge in how to apply cream and powder blush then I feel like you can take your pick, the same as what I do. So I really do hope this has helped you. If you have any questions let me know. Everything is listed in the description and I'm going to love you and leave you. And by the way I've picked out a video for you that's going to pop up on the screen. I think you're going to love it. So click on it and take and take a look and see what you think of it. But please do let me know your thoughts. Let me know if there's anything else that you want me to create for you and I will do it for you. 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