Tried and True Favorites for Older Women

Hi friends, it's Laura and I have some awesome favorites. June has been such a wonderful month. It's sort of been a month of rejuvenation for me and rest. I haven't had school. I am doing my online teaching but I've had more time to really play in my makeup and have some real fun. As a matter of fact, today I'm wearing purple eyeshadow and I was reading recently that purple is a great shade or lavender to wear as you get older because it makes the whites of your eyes look brighter, makes your eye color look brighter. So if you haven't worn any lavenders recently, the one I'm wearing now is from the Mally eye palette I picked up over at Marshalls for like $7.99 and I've been having so much fun playing in that. Another thing that will help with making you look more youthful is to use cream blush and I've talked about that many times but one that I tried for the first time this month that I love is so inexpensive. It's from the drugstore. It's Jordana and it's called Triple Play. I ended up buying two shades. I'm wearing the lighter of the two right now but one tip I would give you is to place it very high even with the edge of your eye right here. Put it from here to the hairline and the reason for that is as we age, of gravity is drooping and if we put it on the apples like they teach you when you're young, that is very close to these folds here that get deeper as we age and we don't want to draw attention to that. We want the face to look very lifted so if you put the blush even with your eye, the edge of your eye to the hairline, it really gives just a beautiful lifted look and that's what I did today. Now the way I apply this is with my elf small stipple brush and I just go into it with that and then again put it in this area and tap it in. I just love this stuff. It's amazing. Now the cool thing about this product is you can use it on your lips, on your eyes, on your cheeks. It's just an all-over product and I often do that. I will put the same product on my eyes, cheeks, and lips and it just gives a very healthy beautiful glow. Now one product I pulled out today that I've had a very long time but maybe you have it and you need to pull it out of your drawer is this L'Oreal True Match. This one is the liquid glow illuminator and it's the pink shade and I just put such a tiny amount right on top of that cheekbone and again I didn't start my highlighter down here. I did it even with the corner of my eye and I actually use this on the Cupid's bow here a little down the bridge of my nose and then right under the brow right there. This product is fantastic. This will probably last me at least another 50 years. You really use such a small amount but I think it's beautiful for mature skin just giving you an overall healthy look. This month I found one of my favorite concealers I've ever used. This is very new to me. I've only had it for a couple of weeks but it's from Makeup Revolution which they sell over at Ulta. It's called Conceal and Define. I was looking to try out more concealers. You know if you watch my channel regularly I love the L'Oreal Pro Glow but that one isn't really as good for covering up dark circles and many of you have asked me what do I do about dark circles. This is amazing. I bought some for my daughter Danielle. She loved it but yet it works on my mature eyes. I loved it so much I went back and also bought a darker shade to use for my spider veins that I have, the little broken capillaries around the edge of my nose because this stuff stays on. I would say it's much better than the Urban Decay Naked Concealer which I used for a long time and it is so inexpensive. So if you're looking for a concealer that will brighten the under eye area and not get into creases or lines and stay all day then this one from Makeup Revolution is one I would definitely recommend. I wanted to update all of you on a handbag I received from Teddy Blake last year. Last June they sent me this bag and I have been carrying it almost every day this whole year. I'm just one of those people that doesn't like to change their purse all the time. I like to have a bag I love and just use it every day and I pretty much have most of the year. The color of this is one of the things that attracted me the most when I saw it on their site because it was just a very unique blue. I like a bag I can pretty much carry with everything and even though this is a brighter blue it has looked beautiful with all of the clothes I wear to school and even when I've gotten more dressed up to go out at night it just really can roll from day to night and that's another thing I don't like to have to change my handbag if I'm going out for a nice dinner with my husband. So this bag looks as perfect as it did the day I received it. I cannot believe that I've carried this a year and it has no marks or anything on it. It's just been amazing. Now I'm a type of person that likes a very simple handbag and that was another thing that attracted me to this bag because it has two big pockets one in the front and back and then a zipper pocket in the middle. I also don't like a lot of hardware. It looks beautiful. They have many bags that have a lot of hardware. It looks beautiful in other people but I'm a very petite small-boned person and I just feel with all the hardware it's too much for me. Also my shoulder will bother me if I have too heavy of a purse so I have to make sure my bag is light enough for me to carry and not have any shoulder or neck pain from it. Well this year Teddy Blake sent me another bag and they gave me a choice and I chose this one. I wanted to have a black purse which is what I normally carry and again this is a very simple bag which is what attracted me to it. It's just one open pocket and in the inside is red suede. Now with it comes this little attachment which is like a little wristlet and you can pop this off and just carry this. Now my plan is to keep my makeup inside of this so when I go to school I have everything I need but the inside of the bag is just the way I wanted it. One open area. Now this bag again what attracted me to it is the simplicity of it even though they have other bags that have more pockets and things to them. That wasn't something that I wanted and I just love the way the bag is stitched and the durability of it. I am not easy on my purse. I'm going to school or putting it next to cabinets and things and you would have thought by now it would have scratches or marks and it doesn't. Another thing that I love about this handbag is that they have right here Teddy Blake in gold. It just looks like a classic bag. I want something that I can take to school yet I could put on my pearls and a dress and take with me out to dinner and that's what I can do with this bag. And I want something that's durable that's going to last because what's going to happen this year is I'll end up carrying this every day just like I did the other purse and maybe I'll switch out occasionally but this will get used often. So I really love this for the beautiful materials that they use and the stitching. What I was so impressed with is even on the handle of the purse that I used last year the stitching here is just so perfect and just so nice and none of it has pulled or fallen apart since last year and even on the handle this has been on my arm like this all this time and the handles are just perfect still. I just love both of these bags. They're the pieces that I'll keep for the rest of my life. They are just quality, classic and just go with really everything that I own. So I'm really happy with this bag. I just wanted to give you this update because I talked about it last year and really haven't brought it up during the year that I've loved this bag so much. If you're interested in a Teddy Blake handbag I have a code below. I don't get any commission from it but it's just for you so that you can also enjoy one of these beautiful handbags. A few months ago my stylist introduced me to this product. It's called Wow Dreamcoat and it's made a huge difference with my hair. I have so much gray hair that is very wiry and it complicates fixing my hair. What happens if I don't wear this when I'm done styling my hair? If I go outside and it's a very humid day my hair just poofs up and it looks crazy. This helps keep it straight. It's an amazing product. Now you only use it once every three washings so when I get out of the shower she said don't put anything else in your hair no other mousse nothing but the Dreamcoat and I put a generous amount into my hair till I really feel it saturated and I brush through it and then blow dry my hair and it lasts for three washings. It is amazing. It has really helped so if you have wiry hair that's getting very fuzzy on you and frizzy I think you'll love this product. I've been gommaging my face for many years now and I think I found my favorite one I've ever used. I picked this up at Marshall's. It's called Peel So Good. It was $4.99. Now I've tried the one from Elf and of course you know if you've watched for a while that I love the Mizan peeling gel from them but I would have to say this has been the best. Now I want to give you a couple tips on this. What I like to do besides doing my face is my hands and we all get so much build up around our cuticles and all of that and of course it's terrible to cut your cuticles. We keep hearing that. So I do it on my hands and arms and oh it's great for your elbows. So I do all the way from the tips of my fingers to my elbows when I use the gommage and of course my neck and chest and it really helps. So if you happen to have a Marshall's and you're there make sure you pick some of this up. One last favorite is you. This month was my four-year anniversary on YouTube and I just want to thank you so much from the bottom of my heart for your love and support. Without you I don't have a channel. I'd just be talking to myself in this camera. So thanks so much for all your love and for watching. This does not make fine lines under your eyes. It is the one product I've ever tried that is just as if you put nothing under there. It really is amazing. So hopefully you can see on camera the difference between the two sides that this side looks brighter. What I love about this product is you are getting skincare ingredients. You can wear this to bed. They actually tell you to wear it to bed.