First, I am a consumer, I am not a makeup artist. I don't have time to layer my face with products just to reach that unattainable photoshopped look. Second, I am old and do not have the patience to spend 2 to 3 hours on just applying makeup like a teen. Third, I am frustrated to the point I have stopped wearing most of my makeup.
The only thing I wore on my eyes and face was the Wise Owl Optic. Olivia Sr. used it regularly because she said it just eliminated so many steps.
This got me thinking. With all the technological advances today with mica and mixes, makeup can be made to create those pixelated layer of colors. I love mixing colors but I hate the simplicity of mix red with blue and you get purple. Too simple and boring. Besides, skin is a complex system of colors thanks to everything that keeps you alive.
Makeup for mature skin should enhance and change with the hills and valleys of our wisdom. It shouldn't be a flat, one-color product. Let me explain with what I made.
I mixed some powders and they look like the average bronzer color. Actually, I was aiming for an amped up peach from The Fab Four. It turns out to be that and a bronzer, depending on what it is used with. The top row shows the two colors (cool and warm) in the sunlight; bottom shows them in the shade. Nothing special yet they are made ONLY FOR MATURE SKIN. Why?
Wise Owl Optic proved to me makeup for mature women needed dimension. You can see a "Brand X" eyeshadow/bronzer. It is a mix of pigments but no glow or dimension. My philosophy, this type can be great for a younger crowd but as one gets older it does nothing to enhance mature beauty! Wise Owl Optic is just a glow base which changes with lighting ever so slightly. It is the no-color glow. But what if you do want color to enhance your skin or to work with your skin without having to worry about perfect lighting? After all, most of us only have sunlight, indoor lighting, and shade. I certainly don't walk around flashing my camera in my face all the time!
The pictures don't do it justice but the powders work with mature skin by capturing light without making the skin look like mud. The colors change slightly not because of heat or anything, just because of the mix and my love for complicated. Makeup for mature women shouldn't be thought as just an end result of a certain color, it should be created as layers of color. And it shouldn't matter what type of lighting one stands in.
The picture above shows the powders I have mixed. They change slightly due to the amount or type of light offered. Check out Brand X. Now, you know why certain colors look great in only one type of lighting which is usually one that is staged.
Check out Brand X in sunlight. I think for many mature women, this type of single-note color is very aging.
Color should give mature skin layers of light. Believe it or not, the sparkles you see above is what is hidden in the powders. I didn't erase or get rid of any of the powder. I just changed the angle at which the picture was taken in the sunlight.
The color changes from a soft peach to a terracotta depending on the lighting. Yet, it never looks dry or flat because the pigments aren't mixed to produce just one color. And mature skin is NEVER one color!
Now you know my philosophy!
