Best Makeup Tutorial for Mature Skin

Glam Girl Gabi
by Glam Girl Gabi
4 Materials
$10
25 Minutes
Easy

If you're struggling to do makeup on mature eyes, look no further than this best makeup tutorial for mature skin.


If you’re a beginner, this in-depth guide for soft, natural makeup will achieve a natural glam look for your mature skin.


Wait until you see the transformation!

Tools and materials:

  • Assorted makeup products
  • Moisturizer 
  • Hydrating serum
  • Assorted brushes and makeup sponges
Prepping the skin

1. Prep your skin

Start your mature skin care with an uplifting, plumping serum that gives your skin lots of hydration.

Prepping the skin

Apply this hydrating serum all over your face.

Prepping the skin

Don’t forget your neck.

Moisturizer

2. Apply moisturizer

Use a moisturizing sculpting cream, which is especially good for loose and sagging skin, fine lines, and wrinkles.

Moisturizer

Apply the moisturizer to your face and neck, by moving in an upward direction.

Smoothing eyelids

3. Lift and smooth your eyelids

Take care of any looseness around your eyelids with a lid lifting cream. 


Tap the cream all over your eyelids, right up to your brow bone.

Priming eyelids

4. Prime your eyelids

Use skin-toned cream eyeshadow as an eyelid primer. 


If you don’t have eyelid primer, and don’t want to buy it, you can use concealer instead.

Setting eyes

Set your primer, or concealer, with a translucent powder, so your eyeshadow doesn’t stick to the cream. 


The goal of this step is to even out the color of your eyelids, remove redness, and create a barrier between your eyelid skin and your eyeshadow.

Eyeshadow

5. Ready for eyeshadow

I reach for this brown matte palette a lot because of its perfect contour and highlight shades. It gives a natural eye makeup look.

Applying eyeshadow

Apply a mid-tone shade with a crease brush to the crease of your eyelids.

Applying eyeshadow

If you have a large space between your lash line and eyebrows, then you can apply this contour shade a little higher above your crease as well.


That will create the illusion of larger eyelids.

Applying eyeshadow

Now, apply a skin-toned eyeshadow to your lids, to open them up.

Applying eyeshadow

Blend it out with a large, fluffy crease brush. 

Adding eyeliner

6. Add eyeliner

There are two goals for your eyeliner. The first is to keep your liner narrow, if you have small eyelids. The second goal is to keep the liner diffused. 


Lift your eyelid up as you apply your eyeliner, and apply the eyeliner on your lash line, not your actual eyelid.

Adding eyeliner

Going from underneath keeps your line tight and precise.

Softening eyeliner

Go over your line with an angled brush to soften it.

Applying eyeshadow

You can soften the line even more by dipping your angled brush into a matching dark brown shadow and going over your eyelid line again.

Smoked-out line

That helps create a soft, smoked-out eye line.

Cleaning up fall-out

7.  Clean the shadow fall-out

Use a cotton pad dipped in moisturizer to clean up any shadow that fell below your eyes while you were working. 


The moisturizer acts as an eraser, cleaning all the shadow fall-out, while also prepping your skin for the concealer application.

Shaping brows

8. Shape your brows

Use an eyebrow pencil to frame out your eyebrow shape.

Shaping brows

Go over that shape with a brow shadow to intensify the color while at the same time diffusing the pigment a bit.

Shaping brows

Go over your eyebrow pencil with powder to improve the longevity of wear.

Applying makeup to skin

9. Skin tone and color-correcting

Use a large, fluffy brush to apply a light, breathable, tinted moisturizer all over your face.

Applying makeup to skin

Use color corrector to spot-correct and specific areas of skin discoloration.


Use a stippling technique to press the color-corrector into your skin.

Applying makeup to skin

Then blend it out.

Applying makeup to skin

10. Serum foundation for more coverage

On areas that need a bit more coverage, apply some serum foundation.

Applying makeup to skin

 Blend it out with a damp beauty blender.

Brightening under eye area

11. Brighten under your eyes

Strategically apply concealer under your eyes, on areas where there is discoloration. 


Tip: Less concealer is really more, because the more you use, the more cakiness and creasing you get.


Set your concealer lightly with translucent powder.

Lining lips

12. Now for your lips

If you have any wrinkles or lines around your lips, it’s extremely important to line them.


Lining your lips will not only make your lips look fuller, it will prevent your lipstick from bleeding out.

Adding gloss

Then, apply matching plumping gloss to your lips.

Applying blush

13. Apply blush 

Apply peachy-cream blush to your cheeks to add luminosity and hydration to your skin.

Adding bronzer

14. Finish your face with bronzer

Apply some matte bronzer over your cheeks, forehead and around your lips, to warm up your skin tone a tiny bit more.

Adding mascara

15. Add mascara

Best makeup tutorial for mature skin

Best makeup tutorial for mature skin 

Check out Jan’s before and after look, and how her makeup is bringing out her natural beauty! 


If you try out the makeup tutorial for mature skin, leave a comment to let me know what your favorite part was!


Next up, check out my Super Easy Winged Eyeliner Hack.

Suggested materials:
  • Assorted makeup products
  • Moisturizer
  • Hydrating serum
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  • Jan42809619 Jan42809619 on May 09, 2023

    I thought there was going to be a link for all the products. Can you help please?

  • Elaine Elaine on Jul 21, 2023

    Great tips? Which serum snd serum foundation did you use. Just beautiful!❤️

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