Marilyn Young Makeup Blog

Here’s a great tip for lifting your eyes that I do on all my clients!…..Instead of following the natural shape of your upper eye….ALWAYS..gently wing the line upward on the outer corners only using a small wedge brush. I use black because this will make your natural eyecolor pop. (use dark brown if you want a super natural look)

“We are all of us stars, and we all deserve to twinkle.”
Marilyn Monroe

If you are like me, you may have noticed your lips have gotten thinner, smaller and the corners can tend to turn downward……here’s what you can do with just the proper choice of makeup to make your lips look as full and youthful as possible:
1. Use a lip pencil that just matches your lip tissue ( I recommend “Cameo” $17 from my line, this is the only color you need to match all lipsticks!)
2. Line your lips on the outside, …stop before you get to the corners, ignore the corners.
3.Fill with a light lipstick shade,. no darker than your natural lip color….NO DARK COLORS, ladies!
4. Always apply a super glassy, lip gloss on the bottom lip to finish.

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Do you know what is so fantastic about your eyelashes?….they never age! Don’t leave home without as much black, sexy fringe that you can create.
Here’s how to do it:

The trick is to use a little metal separating comb ,plastic ones do not work. ( you might want to give mine a try ,” The Lash Lifter” $14) Be brave!!… ,3 to 4 coats on top lashes, 2 on the lowers. Just gently fan out and keep lash TIPS combed and separated. No clumps, a natural younger looking eye that is lifted and wide eyed. Just, like those young babes!

This myth I correct all the time….”never use powder, it makes your skin looked more wrinkled”. UNTRUE!! After primer, concealer and foundation , you must set all this with powder.
This is why your makeup will last all day long, look finished and your blush and eyeshadow glide on smoothly.
A great finished “canvas”…your skin…is the start of it all!

Yesterday, I critiqued 3 new clients all with the same question….why do my eyes look so tired, they’ve aged so much?….my answer is easy and simple. NO PINK around the eye area! Never use pink or mauve shadow because it intensifys all the tiny blood vessels under the very fine skin surrounding the eyes. I always tell my clients, pink around an eye usually appears to be a sick, tired or old eye! Here’s what you do…. apply eye primer ($32) all over first to even out and brighten behind eye area and choose matte neutrals (soft shades of brown and greys) to make your eyes pop and look younger and alive.

Here’s 3 mistakes I see often when I am initially critiquing a new client over 40….

* too much bronzer applied allover face , instead of a powder to match her skintone. Use bronzer SPARINGLY, and only around peremiter of face. Or else you will have a flat, muddy look to your skin. Get your color applied to lips, cheeks and eyes so they stand out and are the stars!

*Way too dark lipstick, ususally blue, or purpled in tone and no shine (add gloss…it’s youthful!) As we age our lips get smaller, go with light shades. they reflect more light and look bigger!

*Forget the strong heavy liner BELOW the eyes…will really pull your eyes downward and emphasis any hollowness under eye area. Keep your liner very strong on upper ,outer corners lifting up the tails. (I always recomment my Black Velvet or Ebony Brown ($23) using slanted wedge brush ($15) to make it easy and simple to apply.

This is a simple tip that anyone can use to add brightness and lift back to over 40 eyes. Use a barely shimmery or matte shadow at least two shades lighter than your skin tone above the lash line, then load up on the black mascara. This will make your lashes pop and open your eyes bigger!