Everyone wants to get youthful and attractive appearance. Do you know that just by following some simple skin care techniques you can look younger? Here are those techniques. Just follow these and see the results.

Avoid over makeup

Many women use more cosmetics when their skin starts showing signs of age. It is advisable to use fewer amounts of cosmetics because as you get older your skin starts losing its firmness. If you apply more makeup it tends to slide into and accentuate lines and furrows.

Avoid all-over foundation

Don’t apply all-over foundation. Instead dot an opaque concealer or stick foundation over brown spots and broken capillaries. After that use a sheer concealer to eliminate shadows under eyes and in and around skin folds. It is better to avoid glossy lipsticks because they can slide into vertical lip lines. It is better to stick to matte or pencil types instead.

Make your face look attractive

Use a soft cream-to-powder blush for cheeks. It won’t get caught in nearby crow’s-feet. Rim eyes with a brown powder liner, applied with a dampened brush, for softer definition. Harsh lines may exaggerate wrinkles and sagging.

Stay away from round or scoop necks, which repeat the curve of a drooping bust. Instead use V-necks to direct the eye upward. To hide a sagging neck, avoid the classic turtleneck because it pinches loose skin. Use a scrunch-neck or loose-fitting mock turtleneck. And look for jackets with small shoulder pads to square off slumping shoulders and balance out widening hips.

Tips for jewelry

As for jewelry, stay away from chokers, because they draw attention to crepey neck skin. Instead, try a pendant necklace with that flattering V-line. Don’t use dangly earrings that accentuate jowls. Delicate stud, button, and small-hoop earrings are all classic looks that enhance but don’t overpower your face.

Use retinoids

Skin care experts recommend adding a prescription retinoid to your skin-care regimen. It helps to smooth UV-induced wrinkles, clear up brown spots, and reduce other visible signs of aging. Retinoids are the most documented and scientifically proven de-agers.

These potent creams and gels are acid derivatives of vitamin A. Over time, retinoids can stimulate collagen production and increase the skin’s water content. This helps prevent sagging. It is also important to use sunscreens, which should be used every day, at any age, in any weather.

How to Conceal 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.