10 Makeup Tricks to Take Years Off Your Face

Age is not kind to your face. Gravity affects firm, supple skin, leaving it saggy, droopy, and dreary. Sun exposure stains patchworks of spots and etches fine wrinkles onto once smooth surfaces. Considering time's ravages, it's easy to see why many women over 40 try to cover every wrinkle, crevice, and imperfection with cosmetics.

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It would be impossible to replicate the time-reversing, face-smoothing effects of Botox or plastic surgery at home. Yet a few clever makeup tricks can shave, if not decades, then at least a few years off your face.

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2. Use makeup daily Although some 40+ women lay on the makeup too thickly, others take the opposite approach. They go completely bare. "They give up and they stop wearing makeup. That's the worst thing you can do, because you look better in makeup," Linter says. Even if you've had some "work" done at the hands of your plastic surgeon, you still need to wear at least a little bit of makeup. "Makeup has a softening, glowing ... more
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2. Use makeup daily Although some 40+ women lay on the makeup too thickly, others take the opposite approach. They go completely bare. "They give up and they stop wearing makeup. That's the worst thing you can do, because you look better in makeup," Linter says. Even if you've had some "work" done at the hands of your plastic surgeon, you still need to wear at least a little bit of makeup. "Makeup has a softening, glowing effect on the face," Linter says. If you don't want to commit to full makeup, at least put on a little mascara and curl your lashes before leaving the house.

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