wearing make-up

As I suffer with broken veins on my cheek bones and have done since my teens, I used to wear really thick foundation - photos of me in my teens made me look like I was a ghost !
I have found a water based gel from SBC that is Rose and Argan oil - I put it on everyday and it has calmed the redness amazingly. A few drops of rosehip oil added to my moisturiser has worked wonders too!
I now wear a much lighter mineral powder foundation and a touch of blusher and just mascara oh, and eyebrow pencil - very blonde eyebrows ( left a lot sparser than right after I had an accident that resulted in a scar from left eyebrow to hairline) and also very blonde eyelashes mean I need some colour there! Lip gloss and I'm done !

I am 64 now and the only time I have worn makeup was when hubby and I took part in a television game show a couple of years ago and then the makeup person had to put it on for me

When I first went to work in 1939 the girls persuaded me to pluck my eyebrows and pencil a thin line which was then the fashion. They never grew back so I still have to pencil them in which I do daily and apply some lipstick. When I go out I use a touch of foundation, powder, mascara and blusher as well.
People do not believe my age.

My face looks washed out with any make up at all as hair is silver/gunmetal and lashes/brows fading. I try to have one or two days with nothing other than moisturiser, usually when I’m home all day.

I quite like the performance of putting my face on getting ready to go out, but do keep it very light, just adding definition rather than a mask. I’ve found that the dearer make-up does last all day and cheaper brands wear off after a few hours and need reapplication.

Having lived in Hong Kong for 20 years, where image is everything (!), I rarely go out without my 'face' on - light foundation, eye shadow and liner, mascara, lippie and blusher. Doesn't take that long. If I'm home at the weekend and not going out then I don't bother!!

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it is very very liberating not to wear make-up anymore- pheeew. Mind you, I never wore much, even when I was young- as I never felt the need, apart from mascara and a bit of lippy.

Liberating from what, jura?

Always wear lipstick. Sometimes, tinted moisturiser and eyeshadow and mascara. But always use a moisturiser.

In my youth, I always wore eye makeup (60's) and did until the past few years. Now, any kid of eyeliner or shadow gets "eaten up" by my greasy wrinkly eyelids! So now it's only lipstick. If I didn't wear that I don't think anyone would see my face.

in summer I wear a tinted moisturiser, eyebrow colour ( when in between wax and tint), blue soft pencil around eye lashes, light brush of mascara. In winter, light foundation applied with a brush, and the same around the eyes. Takes me about 5 minutes in the morning, always blow dry my hair too, and always have painted toe nails. It is only badly applied make up you can see ( and criticise) Quizqueen, all those healthy, natural looking women are actually wearing carefully applied, appropriate products and feel a lot better for it!

GrannyGravy, I too have to have matching underwear, and try to match it to the colour of my clothes!

Little bit of mascara, and sometimes lippy. Gave up on using foundation about three years ago, could never really find one that was the right colour, also fed up with having to put it on. Just wish i had better eyelashes then i would be totally make up free.

I used to use eye make up when I was in my teens and twenties bu I never used foundation as I hate the feel of it on my skin. My DD took me shopping in Glasgow before my DS got married and insisted I got suitable make up. We went to one of the big department stores and I was made up professionally. I admit it looked quite good although still felt odd. Anyway on the big day I tried applying the same foundation myself and couldn't get it right at all. In the end I washed it off and went as I always do without any foundation and a tiny amount of eyeshadow. I daren't wear mascara as I knew I'd either rub it or cry!
I used to have my eyelashes tinted to avoid using mascara but gave that up after I was married.
Anyone need a tube of quite expensive foundation used only once?!

I wear mascara and SPF 30 Keihls untinted facial moisturiser, nothing else. Not for weddings, high days, holidays or at any other time.

People who don't wear make up, do you still use a sun screen on your face?

I can count on one hand the days I've worn makeup this school hol. Put some on yesterday (natural look, other people would think I'd got none on) and took a selfie, I was so impressed how much better and younger I looked.

Back to the work regime of daily makeup in a week when back to work.

A bit of face cream is necessary to protect from the sun, but that'll do me most days. A bit of blusher doesn't go amiss.

The first job of the day is putting the 'face' on.
I wouldn't be seen dead without it.

I wear lipstick. I am very pale and it gives me a bit of colour.

Just going out now
Moisturiser, Estee Lauder tinted moisturiser on top, lipstick and a faint touch of oil on my grey brows.
I am 82.

I always panic at the array of things now , any easy tips for a lady who loves make up but ends up looking like a clown

I do on a fairly regular basis use a grey eyeliner, mascara and foundation. The foundation I use as little as possible as dermatologist informed me foundation with SPF causes hair loss (I suffer from a very specific alopecia) and I cannot find any without SPF in UK. Not having eyebrows when tattoos fade I use eyebrow pencil. Without makeup and no eyebrows I look weird!

I no longer use make up every day, but when I do put it on I use mascara, eye shadow, a little rouge if I'm looking pale and powder.

I don't use foundation unless going to a big do - now I come to think of it, I didn't use any at the last big do we were at.

I hate make up - I think it’s ageing in the older and masking natural beauty in the young.
However, due to alopecia I now have to wear eye make -up, false lashes and tattood eyebrows just to feel normal.
I didn’t get the alopecia u TIL I was 50 so after 50 years without so much as a mascara I’ve had to learn to apply. I still try to keep it minimal but I resent doing it to achieve ‘normal’ - and no, I know I don’t have to but it’s prefersble to being stared at.