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  • just kidding hi guys welcome back to graceful beauty my name is sherry and

  • today I wanted to share with you something a little bit different I

  • wanted to share with you how I used to do my makeup compared to how I do my

  • makeup now as a mature woman I know there's a bunch of videos like this out

  • there already on YouTube but I thought I would just do something kind of fun

  • today and mix it up a little bit instead of

  • just putting on my makeup in the same way I always do I wanted to share some

  • tips and tricks and some things that I am really guilty of but maybe these are

  • some things that you guys might feel like you're guilty of also these are

  • things that make us look a little bit older than we want to be if you're not

  • subscribed to my channel but you would like to be don't forget to look down

  • below and tap on that subscribe button and if you do like this video I hope

  • you'll also give it a thumbs up some of these things that I'm going to share

  • with you today I probably will still continue to do them even though I know

  • they're probably wrong but because that's what I like and that's what makes

  • me look happy and that's really all that matters

  • honestly are they're really rules in makeup you know just put your makeup on

  • however you want except for the very first step that I'm going to share so

  • the very first step in your makeup application is also your very last step

  • in your skincare routine and it should be done every single day of the year

  • rain or shine even if you're indoors outdoors it doesn't matter but that's

  • applying a sunscreen this video is not gonna be about specific brands it's just

  • the product in general so you can use whatever sunscreen you want the problem

  • with sunscreen that I think a lot of us are doing that could be aging us I see a

  • lot of people go like this this little amount right here as literally all they

  • apply to their whole face and then you know they'll rub it on and put little

  • dots and then they'll say help Brian so Matt you come on out to get a little go

  • alright I already have a load of sunscreen on by the way so I'm not gonna

  • put a whole nother amount on if you want to know how much sunscreen I normally

  • use watch my very last video I'll link it down below and I really quick morning

  • skincare routine how much sunscreen I apply and then I also do

  • kind of like a natural everyday makeup local don't get tricked by seeing that

  • the sunscreen says SPF 50 or SPF 100 or you know I think that you should use at

  • least an SPF 30 but that little small amount that I just

  • used on this SPF 50 sunscreen I probably dropped it down to like an SPF 5 I mean

  • there's just I have no protection if that's all I use

  • is a little pea-sized on my whole face the second thing that I think many of us

  • might be doing incorrectly or just making us look a little bit older than

  • we are is number one using the wrong shade of foundation but not just using

  • the wrong shade using too heavy of a coverage especially like when I have

  • blemishes here when you have more mature skin and you're getting wrinkles and

  • fine lines and you have large pores or hyperpigmentation like what I have

  • piling on a cake face of foundation actually doesn't make you look younger

  • and it doesn't hide those imperfections or you know or make me feel better I'm

  • guilty of this because when I started getting this melasma about 10-15 years

  • ago I thought okay I have melasma and my face is breaking out I better add three

  • more layers of foundation to cover it up and honestly it just it looked terrible

  • but I never realized that some people would say why do you have so much makeup

  • on but I thought well at least they don't see my hyperpigmentation so this

  • will be the side of the face that I'm gonna put my makeup on incorrectly or

  • you know like I said I still do some of these things now but this will be the

  • side of the face that now I'm not saying this side is like perfect and a makeup

  • artist would approve I'm just saying for me that's what I personally feel makes

  • me not look older than I really am if I do my makeup the way I'm gonna do on

  • this side of my face summer time so I feel like I should use a darker

  • foundation so I'll use the shade tan on this side of my face and a lot of times

  • too I don't think it's so much the brand or the product that we need to be

  • looking for so if you have a foundation maybe you don't even need to go buy the

  • foundation that you see me using or that

  • you see another youtuber using maybe you

  • just need to use less of your foundation to make it look more natural and still

  • cover the flaws that you don't want others to see okay so I'm just adding a

  • little extra here like what I used to do because I really want to cover up then I

  • got to cover my neck too I want to cover these blemishes I mean you can see how

  • dark this foundation is and sure I could blend it all the way down but this is

  • just not the right shade for me so I feel like I've got most of my

  • hyperpigmentation hidden but I still can see these blemishes so I'm going to also

  • spot conceal over top of these blemishes and make sure that redness is completely

  • not showing

  • it's pretty cakey on this side of my face I am just gonna do a natural layer

  • I still have you know a lot of this hyperpigmentation and acne scar that's

  • healing here and these are spots that I do want to cover but I'm not going to

  • pile on the foundation so I have the shade medium and then I have the shade

  • medium tan but you don't have to go out and buy all different shades of

  • foundation if you want to just stick with medium or whatever shade you are in

  • that range and then just buy some color correcting these or shade adjusters

  • these are by Physicians Formula and you can adjust the shade of your foundation

  • so if this is too dark I add a little bit of the white if it's too light I can

  • add a little bit of the dark that's medium and then this is medium tan so

  • I'm probably just going to mix the two of these and get the perfect color first

  • I want to blend what we have here because this might be enough for almost

  • my whole face

  • now on this side I'm not going I'm just blending it on this side I'm not putting

  • the foundation all the way up underneath my eye because then when I put on my

  • concealer it's going to start getting a little bit cakey but on this side I did

  • put the foundation all the way up underneath my eye so now I have my

  • layers of foundation and then my layers of concealer so a lot of times it's not

  • your concealer that's making you have Creasy under eyes it's because you're

  • putting on maybe too much and again this is something that I have been guilty of

  • for years so this is the dark cakey side and this is the color that matches my

  • skin tone the best right now I'm not going to put a second layer of

  • foundation on I'm going to just spot conceal any areas that need a little bit

  • more coverage versus piling it all over my face now I want to put a little

  • concealer underneath my eyes this is one by L'Oreal I do really like this but I'm

  • really loving the candid concealer by Revlon but I'm trying to use this one up

  • so on this side I'm going to put the concealer on the way I used to and then

  • let's just blend that out

  • and then I just like to add a little bit extra underneath this line here just

  • kind of blend it in

  • and then on this side since I am getting older and I already have wrinkles and

  • fine lines underneath my eyes I have this hollowed out area which you know a

  • lot of people get filler to fix this but I'm just too chicken for that so I want

  • to put a little makeup there to help to disguise it a little bit so now I just

  • kind of put a few little drops but I don't bring it all the way up underneath

  • my eyes I put them right underneath where that hollowed out area or where

  • the eye bag is and then same thing I just kind of blend it out and it

  • eventually works its way up anyways because there's still some on my

  • blending sponge and then I might apply a little bit more especially in this dark

  • hollow here and then just a couple little drops underneath and then I'll

  • just use my finger and then just kind of lightly blend and now I'm just gonna set

  • my face with some powder and since I used to watch a lot of the younger gals

  • on YouTube I thought this was the right way for a 46 year old woman to set her

  • face with powder get a little more to make sure we really set it all under the

  • eyes really good because we don't want our concealer to crease on this side and

  • then I just kind of lightly press it on everywhere else just to set that

  • foundation I never really let this sit and bake like a lot of people did I just

  • would kind of brush it off right afterwards but still regardless I still

  • have a thick cakey layer of face powder on which is going to settle in my pores

  • and it's gonna eventually just kind of make my face look dry and wrinkled out

  • versus natural and dewy looking so now I do want to set the side to take down

  • some of the glow and usually I do that at the very end with some different

  • products I'm gonna tap off any of this excess and then I'm just gonna lightly

  • dust this on my face one thing I want to do before I ever lightly powder

  • underneath my eyes I always look in a zoom in mirror and I take my finger and

  • I might have just accidentally gotten some powder there but I like to take my

  • finger and kind of make sure that concealer that I just put on is

  • already Preston because if I don't then I'm just going to be setting the

  • wrinkled area already so I want to make sure it's not all wrinkled and then I

  • just kind of lightly powder everything

  • so next I'm just gonna go ahead and do my blush and highlight and then I'll do

  • my eyes afterwards so I'm going to use this pretty palette now again you can

  • use any blush any eyeshadow but this is one that I love and I think right now

  • it's on like half off sale at skin store I'll link it down below I paid full

  • price for it but this is by Sigma has a little mirror inside but then it also

  • has four eyeshadows a blush and a highlighter and I absolutely love this

  • palette as we're aging we want everything to look lifted not to look

  • down not to go down now blush is one thing that I know I always wear

  • incorrectly because I wear a lot of blush and the way I like to wear it I

  • don't know if it's right or not but I think it looks pretty the way I like to

  • wear but the way I used to wear it I would always put the blush too far down

  • on my cheek now I'm not gonna do a contour or anything like that today

  • because you know a lot of people don't even use a bronzer or contour and I

  • never used to until maybe a couple years ago but this is where I used to put my

  • blush I kind of put it right here or I see a lot of people doing it you know

  • like this or I see a lot of people kind of just putting it right here on the

  • apple of their cheek and then you know they like to brush it down and then

  • blend it that way so now I do try to do it on the apples of my cheek but I try

  • to keep everything lifted and blended so I'll just put a little here and then I

  • just blend you know very very lightly in little circles and I feel like because

  • you know look at little kids when they blush when they their cheeks are flushed

  • they don't get red down here their cheeks are flushed up here so they

  • always look like that they have those big chubby cheeks that you want to pinch

  • now I want to put on a little bit of this highlight it's such a pretty

  • highlight you guys I love it but if you get too heavy-handed

  • I think it's aging I think a highlighter this is just my opinion I think a

  • highlighter especially for daytime should just look natural like highlight

  • where the Sun you know would make your face glow not so much look at your face

  • and you see a thick white stripe if that's the style that you're going for

  • again totally do what makes you feel comfortable but in my opinion

  • and even any age I just don't find that very attractive so I used to do this

  • when I thought this was the end thing to do and just take the highlighter and put

  • a nice white streak of it here you know to really highlight that side of the

  • face I'm gonna use the same little brush but I've just kind of tapped off the

  • excess and and then usually what I'll do with my highlighter is I just very light

  • handed put a smidge of it on to just highlight the top of my soup bone this

  • way you don't see like a streak anywhere it's just like a beautiful glow one that

  • I love I've talked about this in many videos if you're just looking for that

  • natural glow but you do want it to look you know like the Sun is hitting your

  • cheeks and you have that beautiful highlight this one by essence is called

  • B my highlight I think you have three different colors but I think this one is

  • so pretty it's such a natural looking highlight and it's perfect for mature

  • women it's great for younger women also but my channel is about mature skin and

  • so that's what this is about all right next I'm gonna do my eye so

  • I'm just gonna prime my eyes real quick with my Milani eye primer now if you've

  • watched any of my videos you know I have hooded eyes this is not something that I

  • got from Aging I have had hooded eyes like this ever since I was born but I

  • never used to understand how to do my eye shadow so on this so this will be

  • the eye that I'll show you the proper way that I feel to do eyeshadow with

  • hooded eyes is and then this sign I'm going to show you how I used to do my

  • eye shadow because I didn't realize that there was a special way that if you have

  • this kind of droopy looking upper eyelid that kind of you mine aren't terrible

  • but their hood it and it makes your eyes kind of look down turn so if you have

  • this little extra skin that's kind of pulling down on your eyes

  • then maybe this side is how you might want to do your eye shadow I'm just

  • going to use this shade all over the lid here I might put a little bit of this on

  • the eyelid and under the brow bone and then we use this shade right here in the

  • outer V

  • and then I'm gonna use this really small brush this is great if you have really

  • small eyes or if you're trying to get into the crease this is by Vasanti I

  • think I got this in one of my like hypsi beauty boxes now I'm just gonna use this

  • dark shade called elderberry and that's what I'm gonna do to make my outer-v

  • oops I almost started trying to do it the

  • right way I'll do it the way I used to do it make this nice little V on the

  • side and then I'd also blend it into my crease darken that V up some okay then

  • I'll just take this fluffy brush and blend it cuz I did at least you know

  • blend everything I didn't try to look crazy I just used to put my eyeshadow on

  • wrong and I feel like I needed a little bit more of an outer V now I also didn't

  • use this dark of eyeshadow but I feel like if I use more light natural looking

  • eye shadow you won't be able to see what I'm doing and then I would blend and I'd

  • make I'd always blend it down you know pull it down so already you can tell it

  • just kind of pulls the eye down the other thing I would do is I would take

  • this dark color on a brush and I'd also use it as eyeliner underneath and then

  • blend that put this here and you know you see so many of the really pretty

  • girls on YouTube the younger gals it's messed up you see a lot of the younger

  • gals on YouTube and they are able to bring it down this way and then they

  • blend it down and it just looks so pretty the way they blend it you know it

  • looks so nice and smoky so that's what I would try to do and then I would always

  • just take a little bit of the lighter shade and I put a little bit of that on

  • the eyelid

  • just blend that together and now I'm just gonna do this I how I would

  • normally do it with this pallet so I'm just gonna do the same thing put this

  • pretty peachy shade all over the eyelid and then just kind of bring it up just a

  • smidge above where my crease is so my crease is actually down here but what I

  • want to do is look straight into the mirror which this is a camera but I'll

  • look straight into the mirror and see where I would want the crease to be and

  • then I'm going to make my own crease even though I do love this palette

  • since I have hooded eyes I don't want to use that super dark shade and make a

  • crease with that so usually what I'll do instead of just getting out of separate

  • eyeshadow palette or something I will just use my bronzer so I'm just going to

  • use this one by Maybelline it's their City bronzer and this is I think the

  • shade 200 and I'm going to use this the bronzer to make my crease so I'm gonna

  • keep my eyes open and look straight in a mirror and instead of putting it down

  • here where the crease really is I'm gonna go above and kind of make my own

  • crease so right here that's why this brush is so perfect for hooded eyes and

  • small eyes like mine because you can see I can get right in there where I'm

  • trying to make that crease and then once I make the crease then I can kind of

  • blend it out so I'm not using a super dark shade to make the crease because I

  • feel like the older I get now I'm not saying you can't wear heavy dark

  • eyeshadow if that's what you like to do go for it I think it looks so pretty on

  • so many people but I am NOT that skilled to wear really dark eyeshadow

  • especially when I have hooded eyes because then I end up just looking like

  • I would have punched in the eye and then what I do since I have hooded eyes

  • instead of making my triangle go this way the outer V like everyone does I

  • like to do it in the shape of a martini glass so or like a backwards 7 so a

  • martini glass if I held a martini glass up to my eye the sides of it would go

  • this way and then the top of it would go this way now I don't necessarily do a

  • straight line I just kind of go with the shape of my eye but I always will find

  • the edge of my eyebrow I will do it at this angle so that this

  • way my eyeshadow and everything looks lifted and I try to always blend in

  • upwards strokes now I am going to use this darker shade the dark purple shade

  • I'm now going to kind of just follow along where I drew that martini glass

  • and just lightly draw this and use this as my eyeliner actually I will use a

  • different brush because it makes it easier so I like to use something like

  • that's thin and tightly packed like this and and then I'll use this as an

  • eyeliner and I'm still going in that same shape of the martini glass I'm just

  • kind of keeping it super close to the lashes honestly I'm just kind of filling

  • in between the lashes and then just blending it a little bit and then what I

  • do same thing I'll take this light shade and put some of this on the eyelid and

  • then I'll take this fluffy brush and just kind of blend all that together

  • now I'm gonna put the eyeliner on this eye I'm just gonna use a black eyeliner

  • which you know I use I still use this every now and then I'd do a real thin

  • line normally but I'm just gonna show you how I used to do my eyeliner because

  • that's how I saw everybody doing it so I would just line my upper eyelid and I

  • would do a nice you know pretty thick line because that's what I see a lot of

  • people do and then I would also do a wing to go with that cat eye there so

  • what I like to do on this eye if I want to darken this up instead of putting

  • this black eyeliner on the upper part of my eyelid near my eyelashes I like to do

  • like a tight line and go up inside and I'm not like stabbing my eye but I like

  • to line in between my eyelashes basically where they're coming out of my

  • eye and then this way it helps to make your lashes look a little bit thicker

  • but I'm not taking away from any of that precious eyelid space because that's

  • what I need since with hooded eyes you usually don't have much eyelid space

  • showing so now this way since I'm tight lined I do have a waterproof eyeliner on

  • you could use black or brown but I try to keep it close to the same color that

  • my eyelashes will be with mascara and then this way it helps to deepen it up

  • give some definition but it's not shrinking my eye and I also still use

  • eyeliner underneath my eye but I just don't use it dark and I don't do it that

  • thick so what I like to do I'll still take some of that deep purple color just

  • a smidge of it and I will draw a super thin line kind of just to connect where

  • I did that light wing where I made the upper eyeliner and I just only bring it

  • maybe just see how thick this is it's almost like the length of my finger I

  • will only go from here to and stop right here just to kind of blend it but I

  • don't put the dark all the way under my eye because if I do then it pulls my eye

  • down and of course that makes me just kind of look older so what I do is I

  • take any light color I'll take my the highlighter maybe that's

  • I'm going to use I'll mix that peachy color with a little bit of the

  • highlighter what I like to do is kind of just blend that with the highlighter

  • underneath my eye so it still adds a smidge of color but it's a super light

  • shade because remember if something's lighter it makes it look bigger or opens

  • it up if it's dark it makes it look smaller and you know maybe you have huge

  • eyes and you do want to make them look smaller but when you have hooded eyes

  • and if your eyes are aging a lot of times you're not trying to make them

  • look smaller you're trying to make them look bigger so all I did I just blended

  • this peachy color whoops with this highlighter right here the way I used to

  • do my brows I used to do them really thin and you can see that they're pretty

  • arched anyways but I think that when your brows are a little bit fuller it's

  • a little more youthful but as far as brows I will say I just suck with brows

  • period so I'm just going to do this one the way I used to and then I'll do this

  • one the way I do now and again the way I do it now it's probably not even the

  • right way but that's just you know the best I can do for now

  • I would also do my brows really dark before you know I would see all these

  • youtube videos where they would just draw these really dark brows and then

  • put whiter you know light concealer around it so you could just see big

  • brows but I just don't feel like that looks very natural and again if that's

  • what you like to do go for it

  • now this one is in the shade dark brown I actually like to use more of a taupe

  • on my eyebrows now even though I have dark hair I feel like a taupe or a light

  • brown looks better so that it just doesn't look like I have this big fake

  • eyebrow I'm just gonna use this by Lancome it's their source sales gel this

  • is in the shade taupe and you don't have to buy one by Lancome there's tons at

  • the drugstore but I've had this for probably six months somebody I think up

  • Altaf said it was amazing so I got it and I do like it but I've tried

  • drugstore ones that I think are just as good and now I'm just gonna put on some

  • mascara I'm gonna do the mascara the same way cuz I don't really know of any

  • ways that we're doing mascara that makes us look older other than putting it on

  • super super thick I don't use fake lashes because I just I've tried them

  • before and it's just too much of a hassle for me so I just use a lash

  • growth serum and but what I like to do is mix these two mascaras this is by

  • Stila this is their huge mascara and it really does give a lot of fullness and

  • it's got a really nice dark black color to it and then I'll just go in with my

  • favorite my Maybelline full and soft and I just kind of blend through and this

  • helps to just make them look real full and wispy and don't mind if you get

  • mascara on your lid I do it constantly I mean you could put a little thing there

  • to prevent it but I don't just wait for it to completely dry and then when it's

  • dry you can just take it off of like a little dry q-tip it'll come right off

  • but if you touch it when it's wet you're gonna mess up your eyeshadow

  • so formidable relaxants I could use those same mascaras on the lower lash

  • line also but I used to put it on super thick and full on the bottom the same

  • way with the top but then I sort of feeling like maybe I'm looking a little

  • bit like Tammy Faye Bakker so what I like to do is I'll just use one of the

  • mascara it's not putting multiple coats I'll just do one very thin coat on the

  • bottom lash or the older we get it's fine to use absolutely no mascara on the

  • bottom lash line so I'm just using this one by Milani it's called highly rated

  • actually really like this mascara I like it on my top lashes - I just forgot I

  • had it so I just do a super thin coat on the bottom but on this eye I'm going to

  • do it the same way I used to have wear it I'll go and do this I first will that

  • sides drying a little

  • and now let's do our lips lips are my favorite favorite thing to do with

  • makeup and I'm just gonna be honest I still do my lips the wrong way I know

  • you're not supposed to put a dark lip liner on and a lighter lipstick but

  • that's what I like to do I used to I'm not as bad as I used to but I used to

  • put a really dark like a dark burgundy or a dark brown lip liner on and then I

  • would do like that I see pink almost white lipstick and I just thought it

  • looked so good like I even would catch myself like when I look in the mirror

  • going like because I thought my lips looked so good

  • and since I couldn't find one of my icy pink lipsticks that I used to use all

  • the time I'll use this one by Bobbi Brown

  • it's called mod and I probably should have exfoliated my lips first

  • fix this look line sum because I always had to have I always had to have the

  • dark line showing and I'll just kind of blend it I thought that looked so good I

  • normally don't wear this lipstick by itself anyways I normally will put it

  • just as a pop in the center but for demonstration purposes I want to show

  • like maybe how I should wear even though I still don't do it completely correct

  • but this is also by Estee Lauder this one's called spice it's a little bit

  • lighter and now I like to go just a smidge above where the lip line is

  • so then what I would do is I usually since I don't have such a harsh lip line

  • what I'll do is I'll just kind of blend that liner and then I'll put this on and

  • then what I'll do oh the Sun is super bright sorry let me close this and I'll

  • blend kind of blend it all together another thing you can do is you can

  • actually put your lipstick on first and then lightly line afterwards so it looks

  • a little bit more more natural that way I also usually put on a little bit of a

  • lip gloss so when my makeups finish I always like to put a little pop of a

  • more of a brighter pink blush on and usually I use my favorite one by Milani

  • but I don't see it anywhere so I'm gonna use this one that's almost identical

  • it's by Mac but of course it's not as cheap as the one by Milani this is one

  • of their mineralized blushes this one's in the shade bubbles please this one's

  • so pretty if you watch any of my videos you know I just love a little pop of

  • pink blush so now what I do is I just put a smidge right here just to kind of

  • lift it off and then I would still put a pop of pink but I always would put it

  • right over where I had the other blush okay so here you have the final look

  • this side I feel like you know just looks hard

  • it looks aging and then I feel like on this side I still have a full face of

  • makeup but I just feel like everything looks a little more lifted it looks a

  • little more natural nothing as super harsh and this is just the side that I

  • prefer but I don't know you guys tell me some people prefer this side I mean I

  • don't think this looks horrible I just think it looks harsh and like I just

  • have on too much cakey makeup so what are you guys thoughts and of course like

  • I said I still know I do some things incorrectly on this side of my face and

  • normally like I said I don't use this light of a lipstick I like it to be a

  • little bit darker and I do still like to wear a darker lip liner not this dark in

  • comparison to the lipstick but what are some tips and tricks that you guys have

  • that you can leave down below that not only would just help me like I hope

  • guys don't like slam me and tell me how wrong everything is but hey if you want

  • to that's fine too I totally welcome constructive criticism

  • but what are some thing some tips and tricks that you guys have that won't

  • just help me but might help some other women in general and again this isn't

  • necessarily because we want to look so much younger than our age I'm fine with

  • aging I just want to age gracefully I don't

  • want to obsess about oh my gosh I got a new wrinkle here or there because I've

  • got wrinkles I'm gonna have wrinkles and I'm okay with having wrinkles but I

  • don't want to accentuate my wrinkles and large pores or my acne so I hope you

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