How to Fix Messy Makeup: 6 Essential Makeup Tips for Older Women

Tools and materials:

• Large makeup brush
• Cotton swabs
• Liquid makeup remover

I'm using makeup from  Look Fabulous Forever, which is specially designed for older skin, but you can replicate the same techniques with your own preferred products.

1. Check your jawline

You want to make sure you haven’t left a line delineating where your face makeup ends. Make sure you spread your foundation slightly over your jawline using either your fingers or your foundation brush.

Then, take a large clean makeup brush and brush lightly from your jawline to your collarbone to ensure there is no makeup line remaining and there’s a smooth transition from your face to your neck.

2. Check your hairline

Sometimes makeup products can gather at your hairline and looks rather obvious. To make sure you don’t have that, use a cotton swab to blend in any makeup that’s near your hairline.

3. Clean up your top lip

Use a clean cotton swab on the area above your top lip to clean up any stray foundation. If you have mature skin, as older women do, that’s another spot where makeup might collect. With that area nice and clean, your lipstick will look even better.

4. Check your eye makeup

Have a look in a magnifying mirror to see if any eye makeup, particularly mascara, has strayed below your lower lashes. If it has, use a clean cotton swab to clean it up. 

Check your eyelids while you’re at it because some specks of makeup that don’t belong on your eyelids may have made their way there. If needed, you can put a bit of liquid eye makeup remover on the cotton swab. It will help you pull off the stray bits nice and cleanly.

5. Where’s your lipstick?

Give yourself a big smile in the mirror to make sure there’s no lipstick on your teeth!

Tip: Here’s how you can keep your lipstick from getting on your teeth in the first place. It’s not elegant but it is effective! Put your finger between your lips into your mouth and pull it out.

Do it in the middle and on both sides of your lips, and you’ll remove the lipstick that’s at risk of migrating to your teeth. I told you it wasn’t elegant – but it’s better than lipstick on your teeth!

How to fix makeup

So, there are just a few simple ways to check your makeup before you head out the door. Leave me a comment and let me know if these tips for precision makeup were useful to you.