How to Conceal Upper Lip Wrinkles …

… Less is more!

Never has that been so true when it comes to makeup and our faces as we age.

Here’s some tips on the right and the wrong ways to apply foundation and powders:

• Go light on the use of foundation. Most women use too much foundation in the attempt to cover up wrinkles and fine lines. This actually has the opposite effect of highlighting imperfections instead of covering them up.
• Use a tinted moisterizer instead and only on the parts of your face that you feel need it. Go a shade or two darker as well no matter how light your skin. Darker shades can also help to hide those wrinkles as lighter shades have the tendency to make them stand out.
• Powder Power: When you were younger, you probably had the problem of too much oil on your skin and thus used powder all over your face. Stop this habit Now! Powder absorbs moisture and oil as it is intended to do. Mature skin lacks moisture and doesn’t need it. Use it only on either your nose or chin areas. Professional makeup artists NEVER use powder on women over 50. Powder has the nasty habit of sitting on top of wrinkles and makes them stand out.

… Sagging Skin and What To Do About It

Plastic surgery? Facelifts? Botox?

Wait! Don’t run off and find a plastic surgeon just yet!

Makeup can do wonders here too.

Jowl lines are sometimes called funny lines as they extend from your nose are down to your jaw line. They appear most prominently when you laugh and that’s why they are referred to as “funny lines”. These tend to deepen as we age. You can minimize these by drawing attention away from them:

• Wear longer more prominent earrings as it will pull eyes away from your jaw lines
  but don’t wear chokers or large necklaces as they will draw attention to your jawline.
• Use the proper haircut – a trick to hide those sagging necklines. Haircuts that drop just below the chin will draw attention away from your chin. Longer cuts are better as they will draw the eyes even further down and distract from your neck.

Crow’s Feet…

… No Not Another Exotic Chinese Dish!

Crow’s feet are those wrinkles and fine lines that appear on the outside edges of our eyes.

They also appear often when you laugh as we crinkle our eyes when we do so.

When you were younger, your skin was elastic enough to bounce back from this act of crinkling.

Not so when you get older. Your skin loses its elasticity and these lines become permanent so:

• Don’t use heavy amounts of concealer or you’ll risk having “raccoon eyes”.
• Just apply a few dabs of concealer and lightly pat it on with a good high quality brush.
• Do not use powder around the eyes as it will settle into those lines.

Saggy Eyelids…

… Don’t use mascara on the bottom eyelashes. Instead:

• Curl your upper lashes and use the darkest color mascara you have on them to make your eyes pop.
• Use eyeliner only on the upper lid as well.
• Use liquid liner instead of a pencil as it stays better.
• Apply a natural looking curve line on the outer corners to give a faux lift to them. Make the lines light and not thick.
• Don’t line the inside of your eyes.
• Don’t use shimmer or light eyeshadow.
• Use darker shades to create a shadow effect to minimize the look of crow’s feet.

Thinning Hair …

… No. We’re not talking about a new hair re-growth product!

We can go to the moon but we can’t re-grow hair…yet!

Facial hair thins as well. For us women, particularly our eyebrows.

Thinning eyebrows need particular attention. Why? When thinning eyebrows, stray out of place uneven length hairs will stand out more than normal. Get them professionally done.
Don’t try to draw your own brows. They NEVER turn out looking good. If you must draw in to fill in, also have them professionally done.

Your lips will also thin as you grow older…

.. Yes, hair isn’t the only thing that thins!

Lips thin because we will lose fat in them as we age. That’s why women have fat injections to plump up their lips. But you don’t need to go to this extreme. Makeup can help here too:

• Pick the right lip color.
• Skip the bright colors.
• Use a color that is a shade or 2 darker than than your natural color.
• Create a lip line by using a lip liner – to compenaste for your lip line fading as you get
  older so .
• Then apply lipstick. Consider replacing your lipstick and using lip gloss instead.
• Gloss can create the illusion of plump lips.
• Don’t use lip plumpers. They do work but the effects are very temporary and when your lips deflate, it will cause your lip lines and lipstick to become displaced.

Beyond all the truthful facts about aging and wrinkles, there is still an effective way of reducing them.  There is no other way to reduce wrinkles and imperfections on the face than undergoing the painstaking trip to the doctor for cosmetic surgery.It is clear that all commercial products sold on the market aren’t necessarily destructive, but what they promise is nothing but a good feeling.  Wrinkles will never go away with the use of any synthetic creams put on the face.  Make-up can only camouflage lines momentarily, but as soon as the face is wiped clean, the angry wrinkles will always greet you happily in the mirror.Because everyone ages, like it or not, cosmetic surgeons are busy all over the world.  Face treatments to reduce wrinkles, could be too invasive.  The option will depend on the patient’s decision and skin qualification.  Yes, not all skin is suited to undergo cosmetic surgeries.  An example is a face-lift.     If the face has sagged in time and has achieved all the uncontrollable wrinkles possible, the remedy could be as painful as undergoing a face-lift.  With this method, the patient will be undergoing a complete surgery where the external facial skin is literally pulled until the lines are smoothed to a youthful firmness.  Under a local anesthetic, the patient lies unconscious while the doctor lines out the spots where the pulling will be done.The facial will be traced from the jawbone area to forehead and cheeks just to where there are contours and folds to hide the expected scarring after the procedure is done.  The facial skin is then traced entirely, where muscles are pulled and stretched at selected points on the face, commonly under the jaw.  If there is a need to do liposuction under the eyes to reduce the bulging skin underneath the eyes, this goes simultaneously with the face-lift.It will take many weeks of recovery and bandaged face before the effects of the surgery can be seen.  A patient usually undergoes extreme trauma after this due to pain and the hopeless thought of worrying that something might go wrong.  The painful process face-lifts have been a part of experience by most people who are engaged in careers where facial appearance is demanding.  This is usually common for TV and movie personalities.  People who are under constant pressure to appear beautiful at all times can’t help but have a face-lift during middle age.