Where to Get Make-Up Tips

         Do you remember how much fun we used to have playing with make-up and hairstyles?  Gosh, when I was wee, I used to sneak my mom’s lipstick into the bathroom and create a grown up version of me, of course I looked like a clown.  But once high school hit remember devouring every issue of Seventeen magazine for make-up tips and new hairstyle ideas.  Oh, the hours we spent designing our looks, readying ourselves for the day David Cassidy would knock on our door.  We’d save all our babysitting money to buy:

• Heaven Scent in order to smell divine
• Maybeline’s Blooming  Colors so our eyes would rival Farah’s
• Cornsilk powder for that fresh corn fed look like Susan Dey
• and of course everything Yardley.

Did you know that for most of us, we are reliving those days – sort of.

•        The problem?  

Make-up and cremes are made for 20 somethings.  Until this generation, no attention had been spent on developing cosmetics or strategies for women like us.  It just seems like, now when we pick up fashion mags  looking for make-up tips, 12 year old models are staring back at us from the ads.   Figuring our how to modify those looks for a face who is not 12, or 20, or 30  or …older… falls flat more often than not.

           In my experience women fall into two categories; those who wear make-up and those who don’t. As we age those two categories are morphing into the grotesque or the invisible.   It is always a shock when I look at a photo of myself, it’s so different from how I see myself in the mirror.   My eyes play tricks on me and I think I look gorgeous, when in fact my fashionable smokey eyes make me look like a drunken raccoon, or my understated natural look can make me look like a character in Kabuki.

• The  Solution

       When I turned to the internet for help, after much searching I ran across the youtube channel Hot and Flashy. Described as  “Style, makeup, hair, & health for women in their hot-flash years!” the host, Angie, professionally produces chapter after chapter of really intelligent make-up and skin care guidance.   She produces information for the high end products and well as the drug store lines.  In fact, to my surprise, when she tested long wear lipsticks from high end to drugstore, she concluded the the best product came from a drugstore (Wet ‘n Wild Mega Last- I love mine).

           When it was time to admit that my eyes are hooded, her channel gave me the know how to look fabu. But wait– she does several different podcasts about hooded eyes for different looks.

  Easy Everyday Eyeshadow Tutorial for Hooded, Mature, Crepey Eyelids

       Don’t waste your time taking advise from people who think of us as a  potentially profitable niche or from other women who do this has a hobby.  Go for professional information by and from one of us.  From lipsticks to skin cream and foundation tips, Angie’s channel is the best out there.