By Chava Rosenbaum
Chava
is a 26 year old mother of two girls living in Kensington, NY. She has been a practicing makeup artist for nearly seven years and recently began doing makeup for the exploding field of religious women's theater...in which she also loves to perform! Chava offers lessons to women, teaching them how to apply their own makeup like a professional. In addition to makeup, her passions are singing, comedy and keeping her kids out of her shoe rack. Chava is available to do makeup for simchas and productions in New York. You can contact her to book a consultation of job by e-mailing beautybychava@rocketmail.com
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"Many women at this age find their eyelids heavily wrinkled or droopy.
If this is the case, eyeshadow is not your friend!"
Makeup For All Ages
How to use the right makeup to look good at every age!
Greetings! I am so excited and honored to be blogging about beauty for LadyMama! I'll be sharing all sorts of makeup and beauty related information, but before we get into individual looks and tips I want to go over what makeup can and
can't do. I have had alot of clients who are past their twenties by a stretch and when I'm done and they look in the mirror, they are crushed. "You can see my wrinkles" they say. "Why does my skin look so rough?" "All those lines by my eyes, you can't do anything?"
Folks, you have to be realistic about your makeup. If you have wrinkles, a good primer can diminish the appearance but makeup won't make them go away. Same for lines under the eyes. If you're skin is rough, dry or scaly when you sit in my chair than the makeup will be applied to rough, dry, scaly skin. You have to exfoliate weekly and moisturize daily for some time prior if you don't want that to show. If you have acne, I can cover the redness...but not the bumps. In short, makeup can correct and enhance color, but not texture. lines, bumps, scales and wrinkles.
Now let's get down to business...
One of the biggest mistakes I see women make is not adjusting their makeup palette with age. And this can actually make you look
older! People think that with time they need more makeup to cover up their age but this in fact draws attention to it. Lets go through different ages in a woman's life and talk about what kind of makeup is appropriate and enhancing.
Teens: Teens need very little makeup. While its tempting when you first start out with makeup to go crazy with the colors, it really does look silly. Teens still have a freshness to their look that requires very little enhancing. I stick to one shade of eye shadow (as opposed to blending different colors and effects) applied lightly, with scarce eyeliner, mascara, blush and lip gloss.
Twenties: Now is the decade of makeup fun! Enjoy it while it lasts. You are mature enough to not look like you're playing dress up and your skin and face are youthful and firm enough to carry most looks and colors. Experiment now (within reason of course!), but remember the ironclad rule of
not looking raunchy. Eyes
or lips, not both. Either be playful with your eyes or your lip color. Whichever you choose to enhance, keep the other light and simple. Go for rich, buildable mascaras. Use powder compacts to control shine and play with highlights and contours on the face.
