Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles 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