Lisa Rinna’s Black Leather Jacket in Del Mar

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It was a very quick glimpse, but we got a glimpse of Lisa Rinna’s black leather jacket. Thank goodness because it was a reminder of a fall staple we all N E E D. You can never go wrong with a black leather jacket. That is unless you don’t get one then you are very wrong. But no worries that won’t happen because we conveniently curated amazing Style Stealers below.

Sincerely Stylish,

Jess

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Well, fall may have its fingers firmly wrapped around us, but that doesn’t stop us from experimenting with makeup. Today we will focus on two topics that we get tons of questions about – concealers and contouring products.

In addition to the demo, we will also share a few great selections, such as the Maybelline Facestudio Master Contour Duo Stick.

When to Use Concealer

To be clear, if you have rosacea and age spots and could care less about them, there is no inference you have to cover them up. More often than not, we are the ones deciding whether something is an imperfection.

As Sixty and Me friend and makeup artist Ariane Poole says, “No-one sees your flaws except you.” If you wear concealer, it should only be about making yourself more comfortable. Makeup is not to hide anything, it’s to switch on a light inside of you to negate any fear you might have.

Makeup after 50 is about having fun and experimenting with new looks and certainly not about looking a certain way to please others!

The First Step in Makeup for Older Women

The first step really depends on the season. It’s important to make sure your skin is always well moisturized; however, it’s even more critical if you live in a harsh climate or it’s the middle of winter.

Moisturizer will be the first step in any routine for makeup after 50, and Ariane follows this with her Ultimate Face Tint.

If you are looking for heavier coverage, you can use a foundation instead, although Ariane recommends using clay-based foundations for oilier skin types, and avoiding creamy foundations. It’s always important to invest in a foundation that suits you best – as the name suggests, it forms the basis of how the rest of your makeup will sit on your skin!

The Tougher Spots

For some of us, a good face tint or foundation will be enough to do the trick. However, age spots and pigmentation can be a little tougher to cover up and will need some more effort.

Ariane recommends investing in a concealer palette that has many different colors in the same tone as they can be used to cover up spots or marks of different colors. Ariane uses the Dermacolor Camouflage Creme Mini-palette with a concealer brush, mixing the different colors to find the right shade to dab over these stubborn spots.

Go Easy on the Eyes!

Most of us are aware that the eye area is delicate, and more care needs to be taken when applying cosmetics or creams. Due to the thinner skin in this area, concealer tends to be too heavy, leading to creases in folds – something we avoid in makeup for older women!

To get around this, Ariane recommends using a lighter concealer product with brightening or highlighting factors such as a mineral illuminating pen. Using a color that is close to your skin tone, you can even apply it gently to your upper eyelids instead of eyeshadow, and it will have a brightening effect!

Shades of Concealer for Different Purposes

One important point that Ariane mentions is that the word “concealer” covers a broad area of makeup, from foundations to pimple coverings.

When using a concealer for under the eyes, you need a very lightweight product and, luckily, most concealers sold today are very different from the ones we used to purchase 40 years ago. Nearly all concealers today are rich, yet sheer.

For those with the common blue/grey undertones that give the impression of bags under the eyes, a peach colored concealer will work wonders. It might look strange when you first put it on, but you will be amazed at how well it covers the area.

When it comes to other areas, such as hiding red cheeks, the concealer should match your skin tone as much as possible. In the past, experts suggested using concealers that were one or two shades lighter, but that was when most women applied concealer under their foundation. Today’s improved products mean that the concealer should go on top of your foundation.

The only exception to the above rule is for those who have a very white tone around and underneath the eyes. This is common among women who have worn glasses most of their lives. Going one shade darker is Ariane’s suggestion. While this sounds counter-intuitive, she insists that you will love the way it works!

Which Concealer to Use for Hiding Puffy Eyes

Ariane says that you need to remember to apply your foundation before you add the concealer, so you don’t end up removing most of the concealer. For hiding puffy eyes, you can use a concealer that is one shade darker than your skin tone. Again, this sounds a bit wild, but it actually works.

Concealers generally come in a liquid form or very soft, creamy sticks. Both work fine, and regardless of which product form you choose, it needs to be very light, velvety, and easy to apply.

Stop Putting Your Concealer on First

We can’t stress the importance of applying your concealer after your other layers. Because concealers are lighter than they used to be, we have a tendency to rub them off if we apply them before everything else.

When It Comes to Finding the Best Concealer for Older Skin, One Size Does Not Fit All

It’s good to remember that there are different concealers for different purposes. Some concealers are great for hiding blemishes, high coloring and pigmentation. On the other hand, if you want to use a concealer under your eyes, you may want to consider a mineral pen, which is much lighter weight.

Use Enough Concealer to Make a Difference

Ariane explains that many women are nervous to use a generous amount of concealer. She encourages us not to be shy when it comes to applying this makeup product. As she explains, you really want to use enough to make a noticeable difference..

When it comes to concealer, is there specific advice that you need? Have you recently discovered any new, fabulous makeup products? What do you think are the keys to finding great makeup for older women?

“You never gave me back my sunglasses,” my husband claimed, looking through his bag as we were leaving a Senior Games track and field meet.

“I must have,” I said, recalling the moment he handed the pricey sunglasses to me to keep while he ran his 400-meter race, but not remembering what came next. “I don’t have them, so where could they be?”

I wasn’t sure I actually had returned them to him, and he wasn’t sure that I hadn’t. We left the meet thinking one of us had lost them, but neither of us could be sure which one.

It wasn’t until well into our drive home, when I lifted off my visor, that we saw them pop off along with it. Everything came back to me. I’d placed the glasses on top of my head, their stems tucked behind my ears and held snugly in place by my tight visor, and promptly forgot all about them. I ran my own 800-meter race – twice around the track – with those sunglasses on my head.

“What?” His face expressed the absurd conclusion we’d both come to. “You had them on your head the whole time and didn’t even know it?”

“What?” I echoed. “You looked right at me and didn’t see your own sunglasses on my head while I was also wearing sunglasses over my eyes?”

Mostly, we laughed. Not able to calculate whose error deserved more ridicule, we decided to call it a draw. To be fair to him, the glasses were somewhat disguised by my hair, so I think I’m the bigger doofus. Both of us had evidence for blame.

But blame we did not. After 44 years of marriage, we rarely play what my friend, relationship coach Ruth Sharon, calls the “blame/shame” game. I was kind of proud of us.

Accepting the Little Mess-Ups

There are bound to be differences of opinion between two people. You can love each other and still find yourselves fighting over where to go on vacation. And sometimes we say or do something that hurts the other person’s feelings and requires an apology.

This is neither of those. This is denting the bumper of the car behind you when you’re trying to parallel-park in a tight spot. It’s neglecting to close the door in mosquito season, picking up the weaker brand of paper towels at the store, putting your partner’s jeans in the wash without noticing the phone still in the pocket.

We are human beings, and we make mistakes. The last person who should be reminding you of your regrettable lapse of focus is your life partner. It never fails to serve my marriage well when we manage to be supportive and understanding rather than resentful, angry or belittling.

“We’re not perfect, but we are resilient,” Ruth Sharon says. “It’s always a new day, and we can bounce back. Don’t put your partner in a box by saying or thinking, ‘There they go again.’”

Interrupting the Blame/Shame Game

Sharon says in a long relationship, the triggers are easy to target because we’re so familiar with each other’s points of vulnerability. When one of you hits that trigger, the other can become defensive, launching the two of you into combat.

“We don’t like being wrong or feeling that we’re not good enough, so we protect the defense mechanisms we’ve formed or instinctively go into fight/flight/freeze mode,” says Sharon, who helps couples through the Heartwise Relationship Academy she founded with her husband, Jim Sharon, co-author of her book Secrets of a Soulful Marriage: Creating and Sustaining a Loving, Sacred Relationship, and her latest, HeartWise: Deepening and Evolving Love Relationships.

“Some of those hot buttons don’t disappear over time. Many of us still have the three-year-old living inside of us.”

Sharon offers five steps to preventing a small thing from becoming a blowout argument:

Take Responsibility

Acknowledge your role in whatever went wrong. And if you’re triggering each other, recognize that as well. Own it all. Then you can work together to figure out what to do next.

Forgive Yourself

Pay attention to your own sensitive spots, and be aware of what you’re trying to protect. Then offer yourself compassion. Think: “I see what I do. It helps me to feel secure and to regain my confidence.”

Clean Out Your Storehouse

Many of us have been stockpiling our resentments for decades. You might feel it physically in irritation, even nausea.

“When we’re facing a problem and don’t know what to do, we store it for later,” Sharon explains. “Now, it’s later, so take inventory. Check: What am I holding against myself, you and us?”

This takes effort and concentration. You don’t have to do it all at once. Sharon says you can go through your storehouse little by little, one incident at a time. It will help you to identify your hot buttons and learn how they each developed.

Slow Down

When you notice you’re being defensive, just stop. Breathe. Splash water on your face or walk around for a while. Just remove yourself for a short time.

“You have to free the tentacles that have tangled you two together,” Sharon says. “Bring it back to yourself, and stop reacting by taking a pause. The back of your brain is alerting you to danger – look out! Shift your attention to your frontal lobe so you can repair the damage. Say, ‘Let’s connect, relax and maybe hold each other.’ The best part of this is that when you face and resolve the situation in the moment, it doesn’t go into the storehouse. That’s the remedy – learn how to handle things in the moment rather than just being reactive.”

Follow Up

Decide with your partner how you’ll handle something similar next time. According to Sharon, a negative experience can bring you closer together. You can learn to trust each other. “Make a safety list, and agree to take accountability,” she recommends. “Neither of us will say, ‘You always do this kind of thing.’ It’s very powerful when a couple achieves that.”

Keep Your Humor

I’ll be telling the sunglasses-on-my-head story for a long time. It’s easy to laugh at your own missteps when the other person has let you off the hook.

Relationships are complicated, and whether we’re dealing with long marriages, navigating the dating landscape or making sure our friendships stay intact, every now and then we probably should check in with our blame/shame reactions.

Do you often go on the blame/shame game? What’s the usual result? Have you tried resolving the issue with humor, apology, or something, more productive mechanism? When you compare the results, which relationship problem-solving method brings the most positive outcome?

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And it’s not just for those who do major hair changes. It’s also for those of us who heat style our hair even just a few times a week, causing damage to build up. Folks stock up during the big yearly events because Olaplex sales don’t happen every day. We have to admit, this is the best one we’ve found. And it only lasts today! Hurry!

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No doubt, Olaplex fans swipe through their TikTok FYP wondering why everyone is just discovering the hair-repairing treatment. But that’s how social media works and we’re all about not gate-keeping our faves here. That’s why we’re giving you the scoop on a major Olaplex sale that saves you serious money. Olaplex doesn’t do very many value sets or sales so this one is a pretty unique find.

If you’re not already using Olaplex, allow us to break down why you just might love it. You’ve probably noticed that folks on TikTok love a hair transformation, often going blonde or pink in one setting. That’s where Olaplex comes in. Simply, it’s a bond builder that works to repair broken bonds and restore elasticity. There’s a complete system you can use or you can choose which products work best for you and your lifestyle.

And it’s not just for those who do major hair changes. It’s also for those of us who heat style our hair even just a few times a week, causing damage to build up. Folks stock up during the big yearly events because Olaplex sales don’t happen every day. We have to admit, this is the best one we’ve found. And it only lasts today! Hurry!

Our mission at STYLECASTER is to bring style to the people, and we only feature products we think you’ll love as much as we do. QVC is a STYLECASTER sponsor, however, all products in this article were independently selected by our editors. Please note that if you purchase something by clicking on a link within this story, we may receive a small commission of the sale.

QVC.

Here’s what you get. The super-size No. 3 Hair Perfector is a value size of the pre-shampoo treatment that strengthens hair and reduces breakage. No. 0 Intense Bond Building Hair Treatment is a repairing treatment for all types of damaged hair. No. 4 Bond Maintenance Shampoo hydrates and protects hair from damage and No. 5 Bond Maintenance Conditioner smoothes and adds shine.

If you bought all of these separately, they would retail for $112. Today, it’s only $69.96! That’s a $42 value! Head over to QVC to grab the exclusive Olaplex Super-Size No. 3 & 3-pc Bond Building Hair Kit today.