Here's Exactly How To Get The Glowy Goddess Makeup Look After 40 Without Aging Yourself 15 Years
It only takes 5 things.
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by The Candidly Team
If you are a woman over-40 who loves (LOVES!) a soft, glowy, glass-skinned makeup look, but have noticed that all the shimmery products being showcased on the infant skin of 22-year-olds on TikTok end up making you look older, than this article is for you (us!)
Too much makeup, in general, ages us. Glittery finishes and heavy formulas tend to sink into lines and pores and exacerbate texture and, well … sag. So the trick to getting that fresh-faced, ethereal, aprés beach glow is always to pair down to the minimum products, each perfect on mature skin.
We won’t draw this out. We basically run a lab on products for mature skin here at The Candidly, and here are the only 5 things you need to achieve goddess-like glow in your 40s.
1. The Skin
WHAT: Beauty Pie Super Luminous Tinted Skin Glow Serum*
We can’t speak of the skin we’re trying to achieve without, once again, showing you Kate Hudson’s epitomical look by the brilliant makeup artist Tonya Brewer using Beauty Pie.
If cinematically smooth skin is what you’re after, choose a tinted serum over a thick, gloopy foundation. This one, used on Kate, is silky with real coverage, but it also just looks like your skin at its most lustrous and perfect. It’s full of anti-aging skincare ingredients like collagen amino acids and a hyaluronic acid, and thanks to something they call “Japanese light-reflecting skincare technology,” you beam like you just spent a week in the St. Tropez sun.
Price: $42
2. The Lip
WHAT: BeautyPie Wondergloss Collagen Lip Oil+ in Spicy Pink*
Lip oils are kind of the magical medium for mature lips. They glide on more smoothly and add loads of nourishment, so the lips look plumped and never dry. This is the exact gloss in the exact shade Kate is wearing above. It’s so gloriously juicy and sumptuous but never sticky! We smear it on over THIS liner* which is the closest and most natural thing to filler that we own in our home.
Price: $28 for the gloss, $24 for the liner
3. The Bronzer
WHAT: Makeup by Mario SoftSculpt Transforming Skin Enhancer®*
We keep declaring this the best bronzer for mature skin, though it isn’t even technically a bronzer but a “complexion balm” that does everything we always wish a bronzer would do, only better. The texture is so sheer, so blendably seamless and natural, we almost can’t explain it. You have to experience it. And the color isn’t too orange or too brown or ever splotchy or fake. We apply it daily, in seconds, using THIS,* and we’re never looking back.
Price: $120
4. The Blush
WHAT: Beauty Pie Supercheek Cream Blush*
Once again, this is the exact blush Kate Hudson is wearing above. But we were quite devoted to this little pot long before we gaped at how it looked on Kate. In general, powder blushes can make our skin look drier and cakier, which are all kind of coded words for older. That said, we must choose a cream formula that doesn’t sink into or shine a spotlight on creases and wrinks. This one melts into the skin and leaves the prettiest “lit-from-within” finish - glassy is the right word for it.
Price: $25
5. The Glow
WHAT: Victoria Beckham Reflect Highlighter Stick*
We first saw this blinding highlighter in action on Insta and, for once, we’re not sorry to say we were influenced:
I mean, a beam like that comes but once in a lifetime. It’s just in another universe from all the glittery, thick, sticky highlighters out there that exacerbate lines and texture. This is so pure and radiant, you can put it on bare skin and just look more youthy and happy and, of course, glowy. That’s why we’re all here, no?
Price: $47
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