Just kidding. Make–up is make–up. Age doesn’t come into it, well not into mine anyway. I am not talking about skincare here. that is a whole other ballgame, I mean that literally, your eyelids turn into the same skin on a wrinkled ball bag. No you definitely need something on the skin, but probably from your thirties. I left it too late and now my face is a saggy mess of lines that should come with tube stations marked along them. Even botox and fillers can’t save the damage
.I try to ignore the face as a whole and concentrate on its constituent parts. I only look at the bit I am slapping the face paint onto and then hope for the best. So onto my make–up.
I always favoured a lined eye and black mascara with a red lip. None of that ‘one or the other’ business for me. Someone told me a year or so ago that I should tone it down because of my age. To my shame I listened and I tried, I really did. For almost a year I wore only a light covering of brown mascara and the tiniest bit of cream blush with a neutral lippie. Then a couple of months ago I changed my hair. Not a lot. I just put a fringe back in and resisted more of the same shit advice that when you are old your hair should be short. FUCK OFF. Anyway, the fringe took ten years off. It made me take a good look at my face too. The minimal look is not for me.
I have now changed back to the face I know and love, albeit with those tram lines and I don’t hate it. People comment and not negatively. I am no longer invisible, I wear the black eyeliner, sometimes a gorgeous navy blue with a big flick, and I sport the bold lip.
Don’t let anyone tell you how you should look, especially not based on your age. I am embracing my younger me and dragging her from the depths in which she has been drowning for too long and I love her.
Say hello to the newest version of me
Eyeliner is ‘Made by Mitchell, all smudge no budge in black
Mascara is Heimish, Curling black – this mascara does not move, not an inch, all day and all night.
Lippie is KVD everlasting hyperlight in cobra lily
Haircut by Steph Freeth at Halo Beauty in Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote.