I want you to forget that made up, imaginary rule that eye make up over 50
should only consist of mascara. If you love makeup, you can still wear it
and you can still look gorgeous wearing it. Today I'm going to show you how to do a
beautiful smokey eye on a woman who is 60. And I'm going to give you some key tips that will help you master
this look all by yourself. Let's go. Tip number one is to take the time
to focus on skin and eye prep. This is extremely important when it comes
to mature makeup application. You want the skin to be quite hydrated
because as we get older, our skin tends to get drier. And it's that loss of plumpness
and hydration that ages us. Along with a great facial moisturizer, a really good eye cream that absorbs
well and creates a smooth canvas is very, very important. The eye cream that I really like to use
in this makeup prep stage on the lids is by City Beauty. It's called the lid lifting treatment. So it's specifically for eyelids
and it helps firm any kind of sagging skin there and also softens
the look of the wrinkles immediately. All I do is I tap it onto the eyelid
and I allow it to set for one minute before
using other products. Under the eyes I applied an eye mask
while I did her eye makeup. This helps de puff and smooth out
all of the lines around the eyes. You always, always, always
want to do a smoky eye before you do any base makeup, because you're definitely
going to get shadow fallout from it. No matter what shadow you use. This is super important. It's a mistake a lot of people make. And I think it's the reason
a lot of people really hate the smoky eyes
that they create on themselves. They really muddy up their foundation by
doing the base first. Do the eyes first when you're using dark shadows. Tip number two is to prep your lids. The crease of the eye has a tendency
to get quite oily throughout the day, and the oiliness will corrode the eye
makeup and it will also make it crease. Your eyelid skin is also very thin, so the veins shine through them
and make them look discolored. We always want to make sure
that we have an even canvas to paint on before we do any shadow work. We want to even it all out. So it is flawless and it is ready. I prepped her lids by using Mac's
paint pot and the color painterly, and then I set it with my favorite translucent powder by Elf
so it wouldn't move or crease. This powder layer will also allow the
shadows to blend seamlessly on top of it. You took a cream,
you set it with the powder. So now it's a nice smooth layer
When you start blending things on top of that nice satiny smooth layer,
it's going to blend out like a dream. Tip number three is to choose a soft color
palette that you feel suits you. People often think that a smoky eye
means darkness everywhere, and it doesn't as smoky eye
just refers to a look that starts darkness at the lash line and then diffuses
and gets lighter as you move up the lid. It does not have to be black. It doesn't even have to be dark brown. The first step in creating a smokey eye,
no matter what color of smoky eye you choose to create, is putting a
transitionary tone or shade in the crease. I started with my makeup by Mario Master Mattes Palette,
and I chose this cool toned, mid-level taupe color. With a fluffy crease brush, I apply that to the crease of the eye
and windshield wiper motions. After you apply this transition color
with your eyes down, it's always a good idea to look straight
into the mirror and shade and blend that color with the eyes open as well
so that you can gauge how far up you need to go to get the most flattering
shading in that specific area. When it comes to smoking out the lid area, you want to go a few shades
darker than the crease. Remember that the lash line
is going to be the darkest and it's slowly going to get lighter
as we reach the brow bone. On my model today, I really wanted to
Charlotte Tilbury’s Pillow Talk lipstick because it was very complimentary
to the shirt that she was changing into later. So I decided to add a warm, dusty rose
to her eyelid to compliment the lipstick. So you can see what I did here. I started with a lighter taupe on the crease
and then I went a few shades darker for the lid. So even though taupe is in the
brown family, dusty rose is in the pink nude family. It doesn't matter. It just matters the level of color
that you're at. So you want to go a little bit lighter
in the crease, a little bit darker on the lid,
and then the darkest on the lash line. We're going to get into that right now
on the lash line with a small blending brush, I shade it in a dark matte
brown color at the corners of the eyes. You'll notice that I tilted my brush ever
so slightly upwards to give her a little bit of an eye lift and then to add
a little extra depth in the lash line. I then took a dark brown eyeliner and I shaded
that in between the lashes by lifting the lid up. Lifting the skin up will help you tight line the area without getting the liner
looking too heavy and too thick. If you're doing this on yourself, just lift your brows up as high as possible
when you're applying your eyeliner. So the skin gets really taut
and then with a dense eyeshadow brush, you can go over that line to soften
and smoke it out if you want to soften it out even further, so you used your eyeliner it was a still
a little bit to dense and dark. You smoked it out.
You're still feeling like it's a lot. You can dip back into an eyeshadow,
a brown eyeshadow and go over that line and it's going to diffuse and soften it immediately. Tip number four is to trust the process. This is a point in a smoky eye where
everyone gets scared and washes it off. It looks like a hot mess before it looks great
because a smoky eye needs a lot of balance. You need to perfect under the eye so the darkness and the lids don't
bring out the darkness under the eyes. You need to make sure that the skin
everywhere else is flawless and you need to balance the blush
and the lips. If you don't if you don't balance
all of these things, like even including the brow,
it really looks like you're tired. And you can see that here. I have a monitor where when I'm filming,
I can see my model through the monitor and the model can see herself too. And I even noticed that my model was like
looking at herself kind of like, Oh, I don't know about this. Like, this is not I don't like this. And every stage of the smoky eye
at that point is like that because you just to the eyes,
the rest of the face isn't done. So it just looks so crazy. It looks so crazy until it looks great. So if you are trying this, if you're following
along with this tutorial and you're at the stage and you're like,
I can't do this, this is too hard. It looks bad. Don't worry, girl.
It looks bad for me too. It looks bad for me too, until it doesn't. So let's keep going. What you need to do when you get to
this stage is now take a Q-Tip with moisturizer
and wipe away any fallout. And trust me, there will be
lots of fallout at the corners of the eye. Lift up and sharpen
that smoky line out and upwards. The moisturizer on the Q-Tip
will act like a very precise eraser and it will prep the skin for concealer
at the exact same time. Now that the fallout is gone, it's time
to go in with a primer and foundation. In this video,
I wanted to focus on smoky eye education and not on the base application
because I don't want it to get too overwhelming and too scary and too long. If you really want to see how I did her foundation, her contour and everything
else, please comment down below. And I promise. I promise I will make a part two for you. Going through the base
application in detail. Tip number five is to do your best
to camouflage any darkness under the eyes, under eye circles. Plus a smoky eye is a recipe for disaster. It looks really, really bad. So we have to do our absolute best
to correct it. After your foundation is on,
you can go in with your concealer. The concealer that I use today that I love for mature
skin is a L'Oreal age perfect one. It is full coverage,
but it's still very creamy and I don't find
that it creases to too much. I strategically applied that
onto the hollow areas of the eyes to bring them forward,
and then I softly blended it out. Now, if we don't set concealer with a
powder, it will crease no matter what. But it's tricky
because if you have lines around the eyes and everyone who's an adult does,
everyone does. Okay, don't worry about it. Powder can sometimes
make you look creepy in that area. It's the number one struggle that I hear mature women
talking about when it comes to makeup. What I like to do is
I like to take a triangular powder puff. I bought this one from Amazon. I'll leave a link to it
below, and I take a very finely milled translucent powder like the one from ELF that I love. And I set the area
by pressing the powder into the concealer. In the hollow zone. I typically avoid too much, if any powder in the crow's feet area
because there's so much movement there. But in the inner tear duct
hollow zone is typically fine to do it depending on the person
and their skin issues, of course. But in here
we don't tend to have a lot of wrinkling. So if you have a lot of depth here,
setting it with a powder is not only going to keep it from
moving around and shifting too much, it's also actually going to brighten it up. It's going to work
as like a highlighting effect. Try it for yourself, see if it works for
you and your under eyes. I find it's a really good technique
for a lot of different women. After that, I dipped into a medium brown shadow
and I smoked out the bottom lash line. Tip number six is to balance out
the smoky eyes by defining the brows. When the eyes are dark, you need to
balance the face with a more defined brow. Charlene has a natural ashy
brown hair color, so I chose to use the Anastasia
Beverly Hills brow powder in ash brown to complement her hair and her skin seamlessly. It was like the perfect color for her. So I was super, super happy with that. They have a whole ton of different colors. They literally have every color from like dark dark brown to light
light blonde to auburn. So if you're looking for a great brow
powder that stays put, that works well. The Anastasia Beverly Hills
one is definitely two thumbs up for me. Finally, I layer the mascara on the top
and the bottom lashes, and then I filled in any hollow areas of the lash line
with some individual lash clusters. This really gives you
a beautiful full lash look without it looking fake or without it
looking like it's too much. You know what I'm saying? If you can master kind of popping
in those individuals where they're needed, you'll get a beautiful fanned out effect very quickly
and in a completely natural way. If you guys are interested in a video
teaching you how to do that on yourself, I would be happy.
I would be happy to make that for you. Just let me know in the comments below. Tip number seven is to step back now
and balance out the face. Since I added that warm rose to her eyes. I know that I need to add that color
into the face somewhere else to balance it all out. I chose to do that in the cheeks
and in the lips. Every product, along with its specific color, will
be in the description box below. Here is our finished look. I absolutely love how it turns out. I know in the middle of this video you guys
were probably like running for the hills, but I really hope that you like it too. I think it looks super polished. It looks stunning. As soon as we balanced out
the other elements of the face with the look that we created, it all came together
and she let me tell you, she left the studio feeling
pretty confident. And that is always,
always, always my goal. Now, before you go,
I want to ask you something and I want you to answer in the
comments below. Do you feel comfortable wearing these more
dramatic looks as you get older? Why or why not? And what about it makes you feel that way? So if you don't feel comfortable, why do you think
you don't feel comfortable? Is it because you don't know how to do it? Or is it something in society
that makes you feel like it's inappropriate or not, age appropriate
or any of those things? I would really, really love to know
in the comment section below. I love reading the comments, understanding the psychology of aging,
understanding us as women. We are a tribe here on YouTube. This is our community. You are my people. You're my girlfriends. And reading your comments
really allows me to understand you better. And then it really allows me to make content that better serves you,
and that is a lot more helpful for you. This video's over.
