6 Makeup Mistakes Women over 40 Make (and the 6 tips to fix them)

Clumpy mascara, heavy eyeliner, bleeding lipstick, yikes! These are just a few of the ways you could be aging yourself with makeup mistakes.

As we age our skin changes. For you to look and feel your best, your makeup techniques should also change. In this makeup video, Anna K. shows you the "Do's & Don'ts" of makeup so that you can avoid pitfalls, and feel good about how you look.

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What makeup mistake are you going to change now that you watched this?

[heidiaguilar]

Great video. I see some women in their 50s wearing this heavy black eye liner - upper and lower. It looks so dated and makes the eyes look so small.

[jrichards]

Nice! Thank you. I’m passing this on. So many of us that are over 40 now learned makeup skills in the late 80’s to early 90’s and it was a more dramatic look.

[suzanne]

So true with the heavy eyeliner (unless you're going for a smokey eye look). Love how you do the "don't" for comparison. Excellent visual.

[emmamason]

I'm 43 and I think brows are more important . To get right ..as sparce brows are ageing . I personally think a slightly darker brow . On the *right * way to do it . Would make her look younger still . She's a beautiful woman she looks stunning even before x

[VoxUrania]

Thank you! It is a little counterintuitive to use a lighter hand on an aging face. But subtler is better. I like to think that it’s our character and experience that we are enhancing, instead of trying to look young again. I’ve become very gentle with blush especially, not to overdo. 👍

[windwhisprz]

Love this video, it was really helpful to see the common mistakes and then the more flattering application. Realistically though, I am not going to use 3 or 4 different products just on my lips, it does look great.💙

[sambutler]

Oops, I have made several of these mistakes, but not anymore. Thank you.

[kimlinford]

This has been very helpful! Thank you for posting this!

[thriftytowers]

REALLY helpful vid! The first thing I think that I will do is try to get my mascara right. I wear very little cos am scared of looking like a panda!

[hawaiianlila]

I feel called out 😂. I'm guilty of ALL of these makeup sins. Thank you for the tutorial. Going to attempt a more natural, softer look.

[MelissaJMJ]

Curious to see how it would’ve look blended.

[annaargeanton]

Beautiful. You have GREAT eyes. Hooded eyelids run in my family and get worse with age. My eyes are disappearing! I thought with my shape you are supposed to”create” a
Crease. Any ideas?

[charachoppel]

This is top priority. I see how your lashes separate when combing them. Have tried this myself, but mine don't separate like that, seems they are too close together. Secondly, have very light lashes and people said to me I have too put mascara above my upper lashes too. Because they see my upper lashes are uncolored and this looks ugly. Is this true? Tried to do that but lashes then look unnaturely heavy.

[doxylover]

Just love this video & keep referring back to it ! ~ Please give us the" colors "of the products
as you are using them..would be so helpful & a place to start for those of us who are
purchasing colors outside of our Type zone !

[debbicardwell]

Great video. Please share what mascara you applied?

[joyce]

Type 4 colors to use? Also, how to lift saggy eyelids with makeup...ie: an optical allusion.

[pierskalla_beauty]

Watch out for tugging eyelids to the side...pull lid up to reduce wrinkles in eye area! Otherwise great tips!