Helen Mirren has an absolutely charming new interview with Redbook in the August issue. You know what I appreciate about this piece, and about so many of Helen Mirren’s interviews in general? She’s still treated as a beautiful, sexy movie star (which she is) and she’s asked the same kinds of questions that people ask, say, Jessica Alba or Reese Witherspoon. She’s asked about makeup and hair and girl stuff, and I love her answers. She is very wise and very cool. Some highlights:
Playing Madame Mallory, a celebrated French chef: “Oh, God, she’s so not close to me. As a Brit, we’ve always looked at the French and [wondered], Why do they never look untidy? We’ve got a terrific inferiority complex when it comes to them.”
Her beauty routine: “I don’t have one, quite honestly. I don’t really know what a beauty routine is. But I love beauty products, and I’m always trying new ones. One thing I consistently use is Latisse [the prescription lash-growth serum]. It really works, and if your eyelashes look great, you can let a lot of other things be crap.”
She wears makeup every day: “I wear makeup every day. I love putting it on, and I get really into it: a little bit of this here, a little bit of that there… But then I stand back and look in the mirror and it’s awful! So I take it all off because I’ve gotten too anal about it. It’s absolutely true that as you get older, you have to wear less and less makeup. You can get away with naked eyes if you’ve got red lips. Or red lips and sunglasses.”
Skincare: “Lately I’ve been using a Kate Somerville face wash, but I’m also a great believer in drugstore products. You don’t have to spend a lot of money to get quality stuff nowadays. A brand like L’Oréal has amazing technology.”
She cuts her own hair: “Not always, but yes. I can’t handle going to the hairdresser every six weeks, so I only go about once a year. In between, I get out the scissors and do something, usually rather disastrously. Sometimes I’ll even chop my hair the morning of a big red-carpet event.”
Like Helen, I’m a big fan of products that I can buy at the drugstore (or more often than not in my case, the grocery store). I love mass-market brands because I’m cheap and I think that if you have brand loyalty to a brand like L’Oreal or Olay or even Pantene, it’s pretty much the same as the fancy, expensive stuff. I’ve also been known to cut my own (very long) hair, but I stopped doing that because it was making me feel TOO cheap (is there such a thing?). Now I fork over $10 bucks for an occasional trim and I’m fine with it.
Also – I’ve never heard that saying: “as you get older, you have to wear less and less makeup.” Is that a real rule or did Helen just make that up? Anyway… honk if you love hearing from Helen. I love her so much.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
I agree on the less makeup. I’m 43 and recently switched from putting liner on top and bottom to just top. The difference is stunning and the compliments are nice, too. I love makeup but I rarely use anything more than eyeliner, blush, mascara.
My favorite drug store brand is elf. I love playing around with makeup and at $1 each I can afford to!
I totally agree with you – I stopped lining the bottom and only line the top, and I look so much fresher! That being said, my eyes really pop when I line the upper lashes, so I always make sure to do that. Let’s face it, with a few more lines that come with age (particularly under the eyes), the makeup just settles into them and it looks like hell.
I am totally going to enjoy watching this thread for makeup and skincare tips today 🙂 And yes, HONK for Helen.
I only like some things from the drugstore – too much technology and chemicals to make is involved to make something smell good, feel good and last long. But I don’t buy any big brands at the department store either. I get organic and try to stick with the most natural products. Since I don’t use much even expensive organic stuff lasts a while and is totally worth the splurge.
I agree. Cosmetic companies are the worst offenders when it comes to known carcinogens in products. I’d rather spend a little more and know I’m using something simple and healthy.
My fiance got into making his own skincare products when he had a bad excema flare-up this past winter. He made me a whole line of natural, organic products! His skin looks great now and I’m totally in love with the deoderant he made me, as well as the eye cream. I swear the stuff he made works better than the other crap I’ve spent hundreds of dollars on.
@Lexi…I find that some of the best skin care items the all natural ones. I only use coconut oil on my body and vegetable glycerin on dry patches. VG will heal dry skin in a day or so. I also use a couple of drops of VG mixed w/a drop of vitamin e oil and my skin has never been clearer or softer.
@jaye: that’s my experience, too. VG, cold pressed coconut oil, vitamine E oil, and sometimes I melt shea/cocoa butter, and mix it with a lighter oil (joyoba etc.) for my hands. No chemicals, and that stuff lasts forever, and is therefore in the end much cheaper than any store-bought cream. All these things can be used for all areas, even for under the eyes. And yes, less makeup as we age, since it really highlights the wrinkles.
bottom liner is a bad idea at any age, imho.
Case in point: Kate Middleton.
I dont know about that. I think it depends on the shape of your eyes too. I look odd without a little something under there but its not dark or anything. I never had any luck applying it on top lid, dont know why but it just turns into a mess and is not flattering at all. I tried just lining the upper lid a few times and it just looked odd, not sure what I was doing but it actually made my eyes look smaller and I actually have big eyes.
Kate’s problem is that she lines her lower lashline when she should be lineing her waterline. It still emphasizes the eyes without making the makeup look too harsh.
And just a tip ladies, if you want your eyes to look brighter and more awake, try using a nude color pencil on your waterline. It’s a look that works on ANY age!
@Marty
what is a waterline?
@Macey- it’s the line of skin resting against your eyeball. The upper line is called a tightline. If you have trouble with liner on your top lashes you can try putting liner on the tightline. It instantly makes you look like you have thicker eyelashes.
Generally I agree. I find a cream eyeliner applied and smudged with a thin shadow brush along the outer third of the upper eye (which takes practice – don’t give up!) gives a lovely, subtle, natural enhanced look. You have to smudge it into the upper lash line so you don’t get that harsh demarcation line.
No way! I rarely wear makeup, but when I do and choose to wear eyeliner, I use it on both the top and bottom. You should definitely not put eyeliner on the inside of the lid (the waterline) as it makes your eyes look smaller. You should put eyeliner only on the outer half of the lower lid – it really opens up the eyes.
I agree with Helen about wearing less makeup as you age. Any foundation will cake up into the fine lines and looks horrible.
There is no “only” way to do makeup. It’s all about personal prefrence.
@Macey- Here’s a pic to show you what I was talking about.
http://97.74.65.162/wp-content/uploads-c/2012/05/TBDinsidejob2.jpg
@ Marty
Thanks for info. I am going to experiment with this a bit.
yeah guys, I meant the “waterline” option is the worst, just didnt know the word!
@ Marty when u apply nude pencile on the waterline, dont your eyes get irritated? I might try.
@lana86- It really depends on how sensitive your eyes are. I’v been putting pencil on my waterline for ages and they still get a little irriated. Just make sure if you try it, you get a nice creamy eyeliner that will glide onto the waterline. It makes things a lot easier.
ALSO, I’ve found if you have sensitive eyes like I do, putting eye drops in your eyes before you do your makeup will help cut down irritation.
I disagree. Stylish folk and celebs frequently wear bottom liner and look great–but it’s properly smudged or blended. Nothing worse than Kate Middleton’s unsmudged liner, though. I don’t know how she leaves the house thinking that’s ok. God. I hate watermark liner, but that’s just me (YMMV). A little smudged “smoky” under the outer bottom lashes looks aces, though, on many of us.
yeah, lining the bottom ages you because it draws the eyes downward and emphasizes the dropping bottom lid, which drops more as you age. Lightly lining or tight lining the top eyes lashes is much better.
I have never seen a nude eyeliner. Any recommendations ladies? (Thank you in advance).
I still cannot tell is Helen Mirren’s hair all grey or is it blonde? My guess is if she cannot stand getting her hair cut it is more likely all grey.
@fairy godmother- Rimmel Scandal Eyes Waterproof Eyeliner in Nude or if you wanted something higher-end Tarte has a version too.
@Marty, I thought everyone knew about this “trick”. Whitening out your waterline was big ~5 years ago until people took it too far and there were these girls with very obviously visible white lines on the waterline as well as in the inner corner of the eye, which supposedly makes you look refreshed.
@Marty- Thank you!
@may234- I knew about using white eyeliner and black, but never really cared for it. After looking at the images someone kindly posted imo the nude just looks fresher, more subtle, and natural.
Now if only I can find the right combo of primer, foundation, and moisturizer so my make-up does not make that awful peeling when blending. I am not asking for too much am I? Damn my magic wand! It just does not help with this sort of thing. Lol!
Professional models have always used the white tightline. Here is a trick that may look nice on some readers. This is for green eyes. Line your eyes with a brown pencil, top and bottom. Top the liner with a taupe eye shadow to smudge it just at the line. Add a champagne shimmer shadow to the lid. Line the waterline with an iridescent (light reflecting green shade). Finish with black mascara. This is a very, very subtle look.
This is exactly how I feel!
I thought it might be my imagination, but in my mid 40’s, suddenlyl I see photos when I have no lower liner on and my eyes look much fresher!
Haha, Baby Jane, good reference.
Madonna’s looking like Baby Jane lately.
Honk!
I too am cheap and buy my skin care products at the grocery store. I feel like the quality is equal to the more expensive stuff. I love how down to earth she is. She’s lovely.
HONK!
Yay!! Honk for Helen! honk honk!!
I love Helen! And while I’ve never heard that when you get older you have to wear less makeup as a rule, I certainly agree with it. Foundations, blushes, etc., all settle into fine lines and get into clown territory VERY quickly. It’s not a good look.
Exactly. I see that with women who wear so much heavy makeup and it settles everywhere and can give a harsher look. Not all foundations settle in. Really thick ones do or not having the right moisturizer underneath.
My mother had beautiful big blue eyes and never wore eye-makeup, always shaped her eyebrows and every morning put on a little concealer, a very light moisturizing foundation and a soft color berry lipstick and a touch of blush. She always looked so much younger than others her age.
A good primer — like Too Faced’s Primed and Poreless — makes your foundation go on like butter and stay on. You can use WAY less and it will not settle. Primer alone works well too — especially if you have large pores. Clean, clean skin is a must though.
I agree. As someone middle-aged, a ton of makeup doesn’t suit me anymore. I maybe wear shadow, blush,. lipstick and mascara. I think too much makeup can age you as well. Keep it simple.
Great skin care is the key. My first job ever was as an esthetician part time after school. It was drilled into me at 17 to always take your makeup off, always moisturize and always wear sunscreen. Makeup should enhance your skin, not hide stuff (unless you’ve got rosacea or some other condition). It has really paid off. I’m not sure I agree with her that any old bargain brand moisturizer will do (though some are great, but many of the cheaper brands are FULL of chemicals and nasty, nasty things). I swear by my Clarisonic and my sunscreen and my skin looks great. It’s worth it.
She is right. Makeup can really age a woman. When I’ve gone out with a full face of makeup/contouring etc, people, including my mom, tell me I look much older than I really am and I’m in my late 30’s. When I wear little to no make-up, people think my daughter and I are really sisters and I can pass for a 20-something. I found the differences astounding, Now a days I keep it simple. And still get carded lol
Honk double time she is still sexy as hell.
Honk. And she’s right about the makeup, especially anything with a sparkly effect. It just highlights the little lines and looks awful.
I’ve used expensive face products and drug store products, and in my experience, you usually get what you pay for. Especially makeup. If I use drug store eye makeup or lipstick, it winds up all over my face.
But you still look smokin’ hot in your beige shorty short booty Coop matchin’ shorts.
I’ve created a monster. Lol
Honk!! I love her. She seems like someone you could sit down and have tea with as she gives great advice about many issues, and at the same time someone to go out and have a few drinks with and be raunchy.
Honk!
Also, where are you getting trims for $10??? Sign me up! 🙁
Yea agree about $10 trims- where? Even haircuttery is more than that and they have a long hair surcharge now, which i understand for a blowdry but why for a cut? I have the same number of hairs as shorter haired people! Anyway, now i cut my own hair as well. So freeing! But if i wanted it cut short, i’d pay someone.
Yeah, that long hair surcharge is complete BS. I have long hair and I’d argue that it’s easier for the stylist than short hair because she doesn’t have to do a ton of shaping and layering. But it’s still way cheaper than the “real” salons in my neighborhood and I think the Hair Cuttery people are nice and down to earth so I’m fine with going there.
I was going to ask that too. In my area it doesn’t matter if its a cut or a trim, they dont adjust price and you’re looking at $30-$40 just for cut. add some color and a cpl highlights and its well over $120.00. I just cant do that any more.
See, this is my downfall. I spend a damn fortune at the hair salon. I’m not sorry (except when I realize that I spend — easily — about $6000 a year on my hair. But I’ve got really, really long red hair. The colour fades fast, I abhor roots and I refuse to have split ends. I’d rather spend on my hair than buy new clothes. My stylist is so gifted and I’m addicted.
I don’t think it matters how old you are, too much makeup will age anyone.
I wish the Duchess of Cambridge would take note of this.
I agree! With her, it’s all the smoking that has aged her as well. Nothing will do it faster.
Actually-the older I get the more I think ALL women look better with less makeup. I stick with a little eyeliner, mascara, maybe a quick blush and lipgloss. Less is more. I want to see people’s faces-not clown makeup.
For me, that’s actually a lot of makeup, but I pretty much wore zero except for on my lips well into my 30s. Now that I’m closer to 50 than to 40, I realize I have to wear mascara (eyeliner on top for evenings) when I go out if I want to appear like a civilized human who is not haggard beyond belief!
Me too. I never wore any makeup until my early 40s (where I am now) because I was blessed with big eyes, thick lashes, full mouth and great skin (though cursed with a fivehead). Now? Mascara, a smoky eye, and a good BB cream, and for nights out, lip colour. Since I started wearing makeup: compliments.
I’ve never gone full foundation or blush, though. That scares me and I’ll likely make a hash of it with my lack of skills.
HONK! Love her!
Dame Helen is so good-looking still, and such a positive and quirky individual. I like her a lot, political views and all.
My mom is 85, and all she uses is a hydrating foundation, loose powder and then lipstick, usually a berry shade. And she colors her hair, a light golden blond that she prefers to her natural white.
Honk! My mom does this too, Nanea, and she looks amazing for her age and swears by Pond’s creams — a new doctor was in shock at her wonderful skin. I found my two friends w the best skin in their 30s and early 40s are using the same stuff (Ponds) so I switched. Love it.
The” Less with Age” thing is a rule I heard first when I was doing adv for some top-end cosmetics brands and from some stylists/photogs on shoots. One ad company cosmetics rep told us that if we couldn’t afford the three-digit price tags on their creams, to use Oil of Olay or Ponds or L’Oreal for the same basic results really. I still use drugstore brands and have contrasted to expensive brands to double-check. Helen is right — the technology is totally there now at every price level.
How you hydrate and avoid sun and figure out your dairy tolerances makes a difference too, as much as diet — don’t eat crap. I avoid sun, use sunblock, never smoke. I drink my water — and can get by with less make-up and it does make you look better. Yes to the eyeliner-on-top-only trick.
When I lived in Bavaria, in the countryside, friends had gorgeous skin — also doing what my grandmother recommended! They also had fab natural cometic lines there in the Apotheke that I loved – the original BB creme was from a German co (Scrhammek) too and it’s great. They also had Ponds there! Perfection.
I agree. I’m pushing 60 and I look ridiculous with lots of makeup. Less is more. And I agree about the naked eyes, the red lips and the Latisse!
Wow… I’d consider L’Oreal to be high-end, but perhaps that’s because I’m a pauper…
Well L’oreal owns Lancome and Giorgio Armani, so they have similar skincare and makeup products.
Honk! A bit of concealer, a good mascara and a nice lipstick with a matching lip liner. I buy both really expensive as well as drugstore products. I spend the most on the mascara, usually Lancôme because I’ve found the preservatives in drugstore products degenerate more quickly than the department store brands. L’Oreal makes a wonderful concealer that rivals the concealer (I’m too lazy to go check the name) ordered from France that cost mucho bucco. If I splurge on the lip pencil, I can wear drugstore lipstick.
Honking like a wild goose! She is so gorgeous and funny-this lady hit thegenetic lottery, but she has totally maintained those gifts. Not to mention all the talent, charm and wit. Adore!
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She and Sharon Stone are aging beautifully. She is older than Sharon, but both seem to share the same philosophy about it. Sharon Stone did a part in the Linda Lovelace movie where she was not glamorous at all, no makeup really, and showed her lines. I didn’t recognize her and admired her for taking such a role where she went the opposite and looked like a middle-aged, frumpy housewife. It reminded me of Helen, who never takes roles for vanity’s sake, yet away from her roles is always younger and fresher looking than her age and beautiful in real life.
Hasn’t Sharon Stone had a ton of plastic surgery though? Good plastic surgery, granted, but I think she’s had some help. Not that there’s anything wrong with that — with a light hand, it can be fine. You don’t want to wind up looking like Janice Dickinson (who really was lovely when she was a girl and before she started jacking her face up).
Helen has also had plastic surgery on her face. Compare her now to when she played a detective on PBS Show – Prime Suspect? Definitely improved now.
I agree with Helen! I’m 51 and don’t wear nearly as much make-up as I used to. Pamela Anderson needs to take note. When she went through her “minimalist” phase a few months back, she cut her hair, wore more subdued clothes and less makeup and she looked younger. As someone else said, who wants to look like Baby Jane?
LOVE HER! I’m 41 and I wear much less makeup than I did even just a few years ago. Gone are the days of eyeliner. It really just makes you look weird (the older you get), I think. And gone are the days of actual colored eye shadows (at least for me). I prefer neutral colors that are a tad shimmery, but nothing heavy.
Yes, neutral shimmery eyeshadows can be extremely flattering if applied expertly (which leaves me out!). One of my neighbors, in her late 40s, does her eyes this way with a shimmery slightly pink shade and it’s mesmerizingly pretty and fresh.
At 50 I quit using eyeliner pencil, but switched to lining my eyes with powder. It’s less harsh looking for me.
This is really the trick. Get away from the unblended straight Kate Middleton liner and into the smudging, as we age.
Double honk! And I love that she’s staying away from face pulls and botox and all that crap, she’s utterly gorgeous and sexy as h*ll!
Agree with all this. I would add that for me, I will never give up my mascara. If I live to be 100 (I’m 48), I will still be wearing mascara if nothing else. They will have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands. Scratch that: I want to be buried with a tube to use in the afterlife. It’s been my go-to since I was 12.
I hate mascara. It always smears on me. I’ve started dyeing my eyelashes and eyebrows. It looks very natural. I don’t have to deal with rain or humidity smearing my makeup. And I wake up looking fantastic.
The trick is finding someone who is really GOOD at dyeing eyelashes. I wouldn’t trust just anyone with dye that close to my eyes.
I agree with her but she’s also had a facelift! I think there’s fillers in her face as well.
HONK! I’ve always adored Helen. I pay attention when she speaks about beauty because I’ve wanted to look like her “when I grow up” since I was about 12 and first saw her in Excalibur. I’ve never worn much makeup to begin with so it won’t be a stretch for me to go without. Some days I only curl my lashes and wear a little mascara. Other days I will go for the lipstick and sunglasses. I think what she’s saying is that as you get older you are less self conscious or as I like to say “You don’t give a S#t what other people think” It’s wonderful to wear a little bit of makeup and have a healthy glow. I am however unlike most of you here in that I go to my hairdresser every month for color and a cut. It’s been my thing forever and I’m not ready to give it up. But when I do I would love to go all silver and white like Helen.
This is so incredibly true (take note younger readers!). The instinct is to slather yourswlf in makeup as you get older to cover the wrinkles, skin discolorations and spots – but it make those things demonstratably worse! You end up with cakey/crepey face and add years to your face. I have been experimenting for a year on my 50 year old face and this is what works for me (and shaved 10 yrs off my face): a good cleaning with my Clairsonic at night followed by Roc retinol Correxion moisturizer. In the morning, Trish McEnvoy’s Beauty Booster serum. Bare Escentuals Bareskin foundation (you have to use their special brush), a bit of corally-pink cream blush, some very light cream blush just on the brow bone and corners of my eyes, some mascara (top lashes only) and a pigmented nude lipstick. Perfect.
Foundation can settle into our lines & “shimmer” is deadly on aging skin, especially in eye shadows. Lipsticks feather or bleed into any fine lines, too. Around 45-50 is when even well- cared-for eyelids can start getting crepe-y. No one is ever too old for mascara.
Mirren had (at least) a neck lift a few years ago but she looks great & uses age-appropriate makeup, as do Sharon Stone & Jane Fonda.
@taxi I’m turning 40 soon and this post makes me want to go stick my head in the oven! You are right of course, just a depressing thought! A little shimmer, used sparingly to highlight, is not a sin. Ah well I hope I look like Helen in 20 yrs. I still like to play with makeup but do wipe most of it off now, it is super ageing.
Honk! I love her and want her to be my spirit animal. I agree with her about the less makeup as you get older, except I’d amend that to less makeup, period. I absolutely detest the troweled on look.
So nice to see a post about Helen Mirren! She’s a lovely lady.
Honk! I love her, I want to age just like her. Helen Mirren and Charlotte Rampling are my favorite 50+ ladies.
“50 +”? They are both pushing SEVENTY. Why not say “60+”?
Or “40 +” then? 🙂
Charlotte looks great. Julie Christie still looks good, too.
Honk! I always loved Helen and yes I always heard that women should wear less makeup when they get older. I am in my early forties and I usually wear no makeup at all. Most of the time, at job interviews I got people asking me if I was cheating on my CV because I don’t even look as being in my thirties. If I put makeup on, I just show my age. Quite a bit of difference.
I don’t think I can wear less makeup as I get older, because what’s less than zero? I don’t get to wear lip balm when I need it now? No one ever HAS to wear any amount of makeup. Just do what you want.
This woman kicks butt on every possible level and is a great example of aging gracefully and joyfully.
Love her!
with or without make up she is simply beautiful
I’m 28 and already wearing less makeup than I wore at 22. Back in those fresh-out-of-college days, I wore a full-face to work every day – foundation, blush, eye makeup. Now I use great natural moisturizers, a derma-roller once a month, and an occasional mild peel. All I wear during the day is a combination sunscreen/tinted moisturizer, and my skin hasn’t looked so good since I was a teen.
Combine that with my new hair cut and someone just asked me what my grade I’m entering!
I fell in love with her in the mid-1990s watching Prime Suspect. She was my GURL. Then the rape-culture-y comments/rape apology interview happened and I’ve never regained that level of adoration. I love her *around* her anti-feminism or internalized misogyny or whatever she struggles with, but I can’t truly love her now. The heart breaks. Her views are probably symptoms of her own coping mechanism as a survivor–I get that–but I just can’t with the blind Helen love anymore once she publicly enabled those views. I’ll always be a fan of her performances, though. But I don’t see her “wise,” personally.
honk!
I am kind of opposite to her though. I splurge on expensive skin care products and cheap out on the makeup. My philosophy has always been to have great foundation skin and you don’t need a heap of stuff on it. I do buy decent mascara though, that’s the one thing I can’t cheap out on because I have such stubby little eyelashes. 🙁
Honk!
She’s right. It starts to go in all the wrong places and ends up highlighting the wrinkles instead of de-emphasizing them. Especially the sparkly stuff.
Honking for Dame Helen! She is gorgeous and she has a terrific figure. Here’s a link to a picture of her in a bikini taken in 2011
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2040108/Helen-Mirren-Bikini-photo-haunt-rest-life.html
Go Helen!
Completely adore her. I have found that post 50 (quite a bit post) I get massive joy from skincare, just to throw this in here….immediate results with gorgeous potions and unguents.
The eyeliner thing upthread: tightlining (upper lid) is the single most transformative trick I ever found, oh to have known it 30 yrs ago. And a jolly good nude pencil if you want one, in at least three shades of ‘nude’ is by Laura Mercier. Absolutely brilliant and long lasting, unscented too.
For what it’s worth, I’m of the opinion that she’s had no work done, and couldn’t be arsed about ageing enough to contemplate it.
As someone who just turned 50, I am inclined to write advice book about aging. There are so many misconceptions about “older women” and ridiculous advice being given. Times have changed! A 50 year old woman today is not like a 50 year old from my grandmother’s generation – and yet the advice we’re often given (and worse yet, abide by) seems to come from that time. How many of you have heard that when you reach 40, you should cut your hair? Or stop wearing a bikini? Or that your sex life takes a nose dive? I am 50. I grow my hair out. I wear bikinis. I am a competitive sailboat racer. And I have a scrumptious sex life. I may not “look” as good as I did when I was in my 20’s according to society’s definition of beauty. My body may be more achey than it was when I was younger. But spiritually and emotionally, I have never felt so alive. I think that happens because as you get older, that air of invincibility dissipates and you become acutely aware of your own mortality. So everything is better. It is liberating and worth savoring and celebrating. If you want to wear a lot of makeup and it makes you feel good – do it. For me, it makes me look older and so I wear less. That’s me. But you should do what you want to do – what makes you feel good and happy – and as far as society and younger people giving you side-eye and telling you what you should do – give them the finger. Because with God’s good grace, they’ll be your age one day and understand why they got the finger. 🙂
Helen does look great, but in fairness to us regular folk she has admitted that she’s had some work done. I do agree with the less is more when you are older though. I used to love using a dark color in my eyelid creases but am finding lately that it doesn’t work for me anymore. I’m using a lighter shade on my lids and it’s much better. Also stopped lining the under eye and replaced it will filling in my eyebrows. Lipstick is a must as they lose their color with age!
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