3. Use anti-aging moisturizer (including eye cream) day and night. If you're bothered by sun and age spots, look for spot-fading formulas that brighten skin gradually.
4. For safe sun-kissed colour, try a moisturizer that contains a small amount of self-tanner.
5. In the shower, exfoliate your body with a scrub mitt or loofah. Smooth on body lotion while skin is still damp.
6 steps to pretty, youth-enhancing makeup
1. Groom those brows. Seek professional brow help if you don't trust yourself to tweeze a clean, flattering arch. Define with an angled brush and a touch of shadow that matches the highlights in your hair.
2. Apply an age-defying liquid foundation sparingly (to exfoliated, moisturized skin).
3. Use concealer. Once you minimize pesky shadows and discolourations, you'll need less makeup. "Use a liquid or creamy concealer under eyes," says Kilpatrick. Use a cream or stick concealer to cover redness around the base of the nose, the shadow just under the lower lip and any other areas of discolouration. Set with a bit of loose or pressed powder.
4. Wake up eyes with curled lashes and a coat or two of mascara.
5. Keep makeup simple. "Less really is more," says Kilpatrick. Opt for sheer washes of peach or plum tones on lids, and rose or coral shades on lips and cheeks. Line upper lash lines with dark-brown liner topped with matching shadow (for added staying power), and try a bit of pale, light-reflecting shimmer at the inner corners of the eyes.
6. Go for lip gloss, on its own or over lipstick. "A touch of gloss on the lips takes years off the face," says Kilpatrick.
There. Now, that didn't hurt a bit, did it?
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