14 EASY FRENCH BEAUTY TIPS | EMBRACE YOUR IMPERFECTIONS

when you look in the mirror do you point out all of your imperfections or do you embrace them well I'm going to talk about that today [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hello this is Sandra Hart at life over-sixty thank you so much for joining me today today I'm going to be talking about French women and I'm going to be talking about us and maybe I can give you about 14 French beauty tips that you can relate to because it's something that you do as well now the first thing I want to say is that most French women embrace their imperfections they show and emphasize the natural features of your face when you look in the mirror what do you see oh you know I don't like my nose or I don't like my cheeks and it's for me I always wanted those chiseled cheekbones but I just always had a round face I still do but now that I'm older I mother nature is kind of giving me a little bit of cheekbones so that's kind of nice but French women if you notice and when you go to French films and you see some great French actresses they don't look beautiful they have unusual features but by the time the movie is over these women are absolutely gorgeous and you love them because they embrace their inner beauty and they don't really worry about their facial imperfections and that's something I think all of us kind of have to work at and another thing is that they do have an effortless style they can throw things together just effortlessly and and it looks good and it really works they just somehow are able to put a shirt or sweater with pants or skirt or jeans and it just absolutely looks effortless and and sometimes it almost looks like a kind of messy but it works that really worked you know like my hair you know I wake up and I never know when it's going to be everyday and when you are getting dressed this is the third one I'm sorry I should start numbering these if by our age we do if we've kept enough stuff we do have vintage accessories so always try to see if you can when you're getting dressed or when you're going out find a vintage scarf like this one or a vintage pin just something or a bag that you've had for a long time and it's worn and and you just absolutely love it bring it along and pull that together into your outfit don't be afraid to look into the back of your closet or in your jewelry box and find those great accessories maybe a nice pair of earrings that you've always loved and you know I don't have them with me but button earrings are coming back thank heavens that I've kept a couple of nice button earrings so when I get back home I'm gonna get them out of my jewelry box and I'm going to experiment with my button earrings so go look in your jewelry box and see if you have some of those and of course as I talked about in my other video that I did the French girl look the minimum list look a beautiful red lip no matter how undressed everything is how plain everything is they always have a beautiful lip either a beautiful natural lip that makes their lips look soft and they've emphasized their eyes or they have really done a beautiful bold red lip and you know I really used to stay away from red lipstick but I'm experimenting more and more because I thought red at my age might be just a little too powerful and because I'm so light and it overwhelms me but you know I am starting to play around now with red lips and I'm really getting to like it so maybe you've always been into bold red lips but for me it's a new thing that I'm trying but but it's a lot of fun also just no fancy manicures just a a simple manicure I have a manicure today it's called a French manicure but I don't think it's French at all it's just a name that's given to it but I I always like to have maybe have soft nails not really too bold and I'm saying because it's just my style you know I have seen really pretty nail art and people that really love to do their nails and create that but that's that is a focal point then their nails will be the focal point but if you really want to think about maybe what things you do that are like what French women do then if you just have a polished nail I know that my mother and my grandmother used to just polish their nails with sort of a powder and then they would take a soft brush or a soft emery board but it didn't have emery on it I don't was just some kind of a soft cloth and they would just buff and buff and buff and buff their nails and it brought the little bit of the pink color underneath their nail bed and their nails would shine and I just looked beautiful so getting back to a more natural look I think is basically what we're talking about okay number six they don't usually fry their hair with hair dryers the best way to do your hair and this is what I always do because my hair is more fine now and it's I don't think it's dry but because it's curly it has a tend to look dry because it frizzes but I always when I wash and shampoo and condition my hair I always let my hair air dry naturally and once it's almost dry by air drying at a either let it be curly and let it curl up or if I want to wear it straight then I do the hair dryer on low speed and I curl it because they say when you let your when you use extreme heat on wet hair it actually kind of boils the hair so be sure that your hair is either damp or not really soaking wet when you start to air dry your hair because that really does protect your hair so that's what most French French women do they kind of let their hair either air dry and just you know go like this and and go out or if they are going to use the hair dryer they use it once it's almost completely dry so that is a good thing to do and if you wash your hair at night it could let it air dry and the next day you style your hair because then your hair will stay a lot healthier I know it doesn't sound practical but it actually is what I do so anyway one thing that I've talked about in a couple of other beauty creators on YouTube have talked about buy a silk pillowcase whatever you do please buy a silk pillowcase I mean I also wear a silk nightcap but if you have a silk pillowcase your hair glides across the pillow it doesn't get that static that you get on a cotton pillowcase or a polyester pillowcase but a silk pillowcase does it really just does keeps your hair really nice nice and also another thing that if you do have a silk pillowcase and you don't sleep on your back and you sleep on your side the silk pillowcase will be easier and prevent you get from getting a lot of wrinkles because your face kind of slides and it doesn't get stuck like this on the pillowcase so that's number seven number eight number eight keep your makeup bag like whether you're going out for the day or whether you're traveling carry only your essentials maybe a little powder if you wear powder mascara lipstick and you can use your lipstick and double purpose it and use blush if you want to put a little blush on your cheeks when you're out and about but but don't carry this heavy bag and hair carry this whole thing of your makeup essentials because you really absolutely don't need it okay now not use your perfume correctly and Coco Chanel used to say only wear perfume where you want to be kissed it's romantic so right here behind your ear at the nape of your neck if you want to have your be kissed you know in your hand here there or on a little bit on your shoulders but we're we're perfume very lightly but wear it on those places and also wear your body heat they say that your body heat does keep that aroma stronger and it keeps it for a longer time when you wear it like on your pulse points behind your ear or somewhere here it really stays on a lot longer at least that's what they say and another thing that French women do they may wear vintage they may go to discount stores than at the hip we have a good sense of style just pick out things thrift shops it doesn't matter because nobody is going to ask you how expensive your bag was how expensive your dress was but always be sure that you get a really really good haircut no matter what kind of hair you have if you have a great haircut and when you style it or if you don't style it and you just let it air dry it will fall into place beautifully it will frame your face and it will look make you look like a million dollars a good haircut is probably I will spend money on a good haircut before I will spend money on a designer outfit and that's really true I love to thrift shop I will go to discount stores and if I have a good eye I can pick out things that look nice but you can't fake a good haircut so if you're going to spend money on anything spend money on a great haircut and even makeup you can get at the drugstore they have really great makeup today that you can find in the drugstore so honestly there's no reason to have to spend big bucks unless you really have a line I mean I do have some Chanel stuff because the I'll buy one you know I don't buy like the whole thing but like one lipstick or or one blush but I don't you know buy the whole complete line of products because I know that it's not necessary but one thing I do do I do spend money on a good haircut and number 11 how can I say this stick to a very simple skincare routine you don't have to use a thousand products to have good skincare trust me because it becomes so confusing sometimes when you watch some of the content creators in the beauty community they use so many different products this product for one day that product for the other day and I guess it's okay if it makes you feel good and you makes you feel like you're really doing something to to a stick take care of your skin but in my opinion all you need to do is to be sure at night before you go to bed your face is clean its cleanse you have no makeup on that you'd use something to exfoliate your skin several times a week you put something on it that will put the moisture back into your skin masks rejuvenate your skin but you really don't have to do the deep peeling in my opinion and and a lot most French women agree with this you really don't have to do the deep deep peeling so do take care of your skin stay out of the Sun always wear sunblock and I heard a great tip the other day I was talking to my daughter and you know I have the Avon glow it's just a little bottle and I can put it down below but and it has a little stopper on it and you just put a little bit on your finger and you can tap it here to make it glow but I had someone tell me the other day that when they go out of the house and they really don't want to wear a foundation they always put on sunscreen but they mix a little bit of glow with their sunscreen so that when they're putting it on it gives them a healthy glow and a healthy look without having to wear foundation and I thought that was really awesome I may just do a video on that because I a lot of times go out of the house without wearing foundation and maybe you do too but I always protect my skin with sunscreen but sometimes sunscreen makes you look dull so I think by adding these little drops of glow that have just a tiny little bit of color in them or you could use BB cream one or the other but I think that was a really great idea so I am going to start doing that too to put bit of those illuminating drops and with my sunscreen not to make me look so my skin looks so flat when I go outside without foundation another thing that I do and I've always done as a facial massage I have two videos and I'll put it above selector to to those videos I do facial massages and I really think by doing facial massages you you know our faces and I've said this before our faces we have muscles underneath your skin and if you strengthen the muscles and keep those muscles tight they help keep the skin taut now aging you can't stop it and I'm gonna droop and I'm drooping a little bit but not as much probably as I would be because I am closer to 81 than I am to 80 that having those muscles as exercising those muscles on a daily basis helps me keep my skin more firm I cannot stop the wrinkles I can't I just absolutely can't and that breaks my heart but I can't stop the wrinkles I can make them softer I can do everything I can from getting more but aging skin will age and that's just the way it is I don't like it that's just the way it is but you can exercise and do facial exercises that will help keep those muscles like I can feel I can actually do this and I can work it and I can feel the muscles tightening so it will help support your skin so basic skin care routine mask your skin for moisture and also do facial exercises and I think that's just about it you don't have to drive yourself crazy because you will age but you can certainly slow down the process also your eyebrows I I die my eyebrows because they're so light but you don't have to overdo your eyebrows don't make them so dark that when somebody sees you all they are looking at are your eyebrows and it's like the emoji eyebrows are prized eyebrows so keep your eyebrows in relationship to the rest of your face don't emphasize them too too much if you have nice healthy eyebrows you can oil them you can put castor oil on them because that does help them grow and keeps them nice at night before you go to bed or and you can brush them and keep them groomed but don't overdo with method with eyebrow pencil your eyebrows because it will just put the emphasis on your brows and not the overall look on your face and number 13 is you know already I'm sure is to eat healthy because everything that you put in your body translates to what is on the outside so by eating right and exercising you're going to have a healthier glow you're going to feel better and when you feel better you look better and that's just the story that's just it and the very last one is number 14 is to work on your confidence a confident woman no matter her flaws no matter what she puts together no matter how messy her hair or how beautiful her hair sorry like a tree a confident woman is beautiful she translates to beauty if you have confidence in who you are if you have belief in your worth then you are beautiful not only the way you feel about yourself but you are will be beautiful and everyone else's eyes so those are the 14 I'm sure probably you are practicing most of these already because if you are watching on YouTube you care about yourself you care about your looks you care about your diet you care about all of these things but these are 14 things maybe that you do that you also have in common with French women so go out there today and be absolutely beautiful be worthy be yourself and do something kind for yourself today do something really great and of course whoever crosses your path express yourself with kindness whether it's a smile or a gesture and don't forget to share the love we really need it thank you for watching me I hope this wasn't too long and complicated but I love having you with me thank you so very much if you haven't subscribed I would love having you join me and the on this Pro Engine journey that we are all to eat together take care and I'll see you soon you

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Published: Tue Aug 13 2019