I’m liking makeup less and less now because what’s “fashionable” now is really heavy makeup with thick, artificial looking eyebrows.
To me, it doesn’t look attractive, it looks like drag makeup. It’s bad enough on a young person but I’m in my fifties and IMO, the older you get, the worse gobs of makeup look on you.
I wear just enough pink lipstick, hint of eyeliner and mascara, and foundation to look like I didn’t just crawl out of bed if I have to go out. Back in the day, I used to wear eyeshadow, blush and the whole nine.
When I’m at home it’s usually just powder and a little bit of cover stick on booboos with bronzing cream in the summer.
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I think that’s why the craze for “sculpting kits” in makeup, as well as “bronzers” have been such an incredible marketing force for a few years now. Many ladies of all ages are fighting to get the “sculpted look” with highligters and shading to give themselves the apprentice of having the bone structure of models/actresses.
[For men - “scuplting kits” are makeup kits containing one or more very light skin colored powders or cremes (hi-lighter) to draw a line ontop/across the cheek bones, for example, and then one or more coordinating darker skin tone colors to create the appearance of shade in under that line. This is a painting technique to make the cheekbones (and other regions of the face) noticeably angular. These kits are used to flatten the face into a collection of various planes and angles and avoid that rounded look women naturally tend to have. In fact, the “soft” natural look is increasingly viewed as muddled, undefined and almost unkempt among those who really follow fashion. Those kits are available in countless forms and marketed as if “no one should leave home without” at least one in their handbag.]
Since mere painting techniques are not enough to get the rugged or sharp features men often have, these kits often include some sparkle or shine in the hi-lighers or by themselves , for women to place on the high points of the face to force the appearance of prominent bone structure. But to the ultimate disappointment of users, somehow they can’t get the same look those famous “women” seem to naturally have. :/
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