| Last night I was at a show. The women looked so | | | | close to find its a crayon rendering.As we grow older |
| glamourous, and their make-up was so beautiful. | | | | and want to remain looking youthful. Less is more. It's |
| Later, backstage, they looked garish and old up | | | | time to invest in one of the lighter, light reflecting |
| close.This is a lesson that all women over thirty need | | | | foundations. Blend, blend, blend should be the watch |
| to learn. Hard lines, perfectly applied streaks and dark | | | | words for those of us that no longer have a perfect |
| eyeliner can look beautiful as you walk through the | | | | canvas.Am I saying we shouldn't update our look? No! |
| door at an event. But it is terrifying up close, it puts | | | | (Update by all means, go to the Trish McEvoy |
| off men and women alike. It becomes a Halloween | | | | counter and buy one of the new color wash |
| mask.I see a real life example of this every single | | | | eyeshadows. Yves Saint Laurent offers one of the |
| Friday. A woman walks by on her way to a business | | | | best highlighters ever made, bringing light to our |
| meeting, once a week I watch all of the men that | | | | faces and actually giving us a youthful look. )I am |
| attend my own meeting look up to admire this 50+ | | | | saying less is more. Leave the heavy handed |
| beauty as she walks through the door. She is | | | | make-up to twenty year olds and their forgiving |
| dressed immaculately and she's in wonderful shape. | | | | complexions. The advantage of age is discretion, our |
| But up close, in the words of my teenage daughter | | | | experience gives us the upper hand and remember if |
| "she's a mess."She's not Tammy Faye Baker, but she | | | | it would look good on the runway...it would look scary |
| channels her. Her foundation is two shades two dark | | | | up close.Today's Beauty Affirmation, "Today I |
| and she does a flawless job of blending at the | | | | acknowledge that aging beauty is not about covering |
| hairline, but the demarcation at th neck makes her | | | | up. It is about adding light to my best features and |
| carefully applied cosmetics looks mask like.She wears | | | | uncovering, not covering my beauty."Jillian Hurley, |
| false eyelashes, they are too long, but when she | | | | Editor |
| bends down to reach for her meetings agenda, the | | | | to see a complete bio please visit About Us on our |
| eyelashes become obvious. It's a bit like seeing what | | | | website. |
| you believe is a beautiful piece of art and getting | | | | |