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Originally posted at: Madison LeCroy’s Gold Metallic Turtleneck Dress

You are in the most powerful time of your life, and your makeup should reflect that. I am a pro-aging advocate, so using words like youthful, face lift and anti-aging makes me spit up, but they are the search words and terms we use to describe our preferred look.

Having said that, if you are searching for ways to achieve a youthful, lifted appearance without spending hours in front of the mirror, then this 5-minute facelift makeup guide for women over 60 is exactly what you need. These proven techniques will help you master the art of face lifting makeup that enhances your natural beauty while addressing the unique needs of makeup for mature skin. My model in today’s video is Tracy Jo, who loved seeing all these techniques in real time.

Why Face Lifting Makeup Works for Women Over 60

Makeup over 60 isn’t about covering up, it’s about strategic enhancement. As gravity takes its toll and skin loses elasticity, certain makeup techniques can create the illusion of lifted features, defined cheekbones, and a more youthful contour. The key is understanding how light, shadow, and color placement work together to create this instant facelift makeup effect.

The 6 Essential Steps for Your Quick Face Lift

1. Foundation: Creating the Perfect Canvas

Your foundation strategy should focus on evening skin tone while avoiding a heavy, cakey appearance that can settle into fine lines. If you own a foundation-powder, please give it a funeral and buy a cream product instead. If in doubt, watch the video comparisons!

Application Tips:

• Choose a light to medium-coverage, hydrating foundation like a CC Cream.
• Apply with a brush or damp sponge for seamless blending.
• Focus coverage on the center of your face and blend outward.

2. Concealer: Strategic Brightening

Concealer placement and color are crucial for creating lift. Having said that, it can easily be too heavy and age you. As an aside, avoid Instagram makeovers done by 20-year-olds. It does not apply to us and will make you look weird.

Lifting Technique:

• Apply concealer only where there is discoloration.
• Blend upward and outward toward the temples.
• Use a slightly lighter or matching shade to your foundation.
• Avoid using too many products like a color corrector and highlighter under eye if possible.

3. Blush: Too low? 

I see a lot of women apply blush too low and thus miss out on the wonderful, youthful pop of placing it higher on the cheekbone. On Tracy Jo, I used a cream blush called PrimeWand Nude that goes on smoothly and gives a lovely glow to the cheeks. I recommend trying a cream blush if you haven’t already, as creams are great on mature skin.

Here’s how to use it: 

• Bronzer and contour go just under the cheek bone.
• Blush should go on the high points of the cheekbone, and blend seamlessly with bronzer.
• Use a blush brush in a swirling motion or just tap it in with your fingers.

4. Brows: Instant Architecture

Well-shaped brows are the quickest way to achieve facial lift and definition. If brows are too heavy or the color too dark, it becomes scary. You know, the woman in the checkout line with Groucho Marx brows… we’ve all seen her.

Quick Brow Lifting Steps:

• Brush brows upward with a spoolie.
• Fill sparse areas with an appropriate color like Silver Queen.
• Use a matching brow gel to give the hair an extra lift.

5. Cream Eye Shadow + Eyeliner: Opening and Lifting the Eyes

This fast makeup routine over 60 doesn’t mean skipping eyeshadow, it means choosing the right colors and techniques like the cream shadows I used on Tracy Jo. They blend well and don’t show crepey lids. What’s not to love?

Lifting Eyeshadow Method:

• Use a lighter, shimmery shade on the mobile lid.
• Apply a slightly deeper shade in the crease like Timeless Taupe.  
• Avoid dark, heavy colors on the lid that can make eyes appear smaller.

Lifting Eyeliner Method:

• Use a soft pencil like Mulberry rather than liquid liner.
• Tightline the upper lash line for definition if you’d like.
• Apply a thin line close to the lashes and blend.
• Skip lower liner or use only on the outer third

6. Lips: Restoring Fullness and Definition

Lip color and liner choices significantly impact how youthful your entire face appears, and how full and noticeable your lips are. Conversely, go too far outside the lip line and you look a little insane.

Lip Lifting Strategies:

• Line lips with a pencil matching or slightly darker than your natural lip color.
• Choose berry or rose tones over dark or bright colors.
• Apply liner a little outside the natural lip line.
• Add a touch of gloss to the center for a fuller appearance.

Final Touches

On Tracy Jo, I added big waves to her glorious silver hair, and the difference is amazing! She felt so beautiful when we finished and planned on asking her husband to take her out to dinner. It’s incredible what a few simple changes to your makeup can do, and how much better it makes us look and feel.

Let’s Have a Conversation:

What makeup trick did you like the best? Which one have you seen others mistakenly do? Please comment below, I always love to hear from you.

I was 60 when I realized the words I used with my son weren’t mine. They were my mother’s. And before that, my grandmother’s. Three generations saying “stop crying” when feelings got big. Three generations of kids learning emotions weren’t safe.

I’d spent 40 years as a healthcare attorney understanding trauma, but I never saw how I was passing my mother’s pain to my son.

If you’re a mom or grandma, you might wonder: Did I do this too?

Probably yes. Research shows that a large portion of attachment patterns pass from parent to child – unless someone interrupts them. Not because we’re bad people, but because we couldn’t teach what we never learned.

What Gets Passed Down

Kids learn how relationships work before they can talk. They watch everything: How do parents fight? Does love come with “ifs”? Can you cry? Can you ask for what you need?

Your brain learned this from your parents. Now you might be showing your kids and grandkids the same things – without meaning to.

Common patterns from my book From Chains to Wings:

• From mothers: Always watching for danger. Saying “I’m fine” when you’re not. Giving until empty.
• From fathers: Leaving when feelings get big. Using silence as punishment. Working instead of being present.
• From grandparents: Making yourself small. Smiling when hurting. Never asking for help.

These aren’t flaws – they’re survival tools your family needed once. Your grandmother staying quiet kept her safe. Your mother avoiding fights saved her marriage when divorce brought shame.

The question: Do you want them to continue? Your answer could change three generations.

Why You Can Make This Change

At 60-plus, you have perspective your parents didn’t. You’ve watched these patterns play out for decades. You’ve felt how your mother’s worry lives in your shoulders. How your father’s silence shows up in your relationships.

You also have permission they never had. Permission to say, “My childhood wasn’t perfect.” Permission to admit, “I learned things I wish I hadn’t passed on.”

This isn’t about blame. They did their best. You did your best. But noticing these patterns honors what your family survived by ensuring the pain stops with you.

When My Son Saw the Pattern

Kyle’s thinking about having kids. His first words? “What if I tell my kid to stop crying, like you told me?”

I knew where those words came from – my mother, who got them from hers.

I told him: “You’ll feel those words rising. Your shoulders will tighten – just like mine did, just like Grandma’s did. But you’ll notice. And when you notice, you can choose differently.”

“How do you know?” he asked.

“Because last month when Maddy was upset, you started to say ‘you’re being too sensitive’—my exact words. But you caught yourself mid-sentence.”

“I heard Grandma’s voice through your voice through mine. Three generations in one sentence.”

“But you caught it. That’s how the pattern breaks.”

What Science Says

Your brain can rewire itself at any age. Scientists call this neuroplasticity. Every time you notice an old pattern and choose differently, you create new brain pathways. The pattern you learned at five can be rewritten at 65.

When you do this work, your kids and grandkids don’t have to. Your grandchild who learns emotions are safe won’t spend 40 years in therapy learning to feel.

Three Actions That Work

1. Name It Out Loud

When you catch yourself using your mother’s guilt trips or father’s silent treatment, say it:

“That’s what my mother used to say, and it wasn’t right.”

Just imagine one grandmother telling her daughter: “I criticized your housekeeping constantly. That was my mother’s anxiety through me. I’m sorry. Your home is warm and full of love – that’s what matters.”

Her daughter’s response through tears: “I spent my life thinking I was failing at something that didn’t matter.”

2. Repair Fast

When you use a pattern you don’t like, fix it quickly:

“Earlier when I said ‘you’re being too sensitive’ – that was my mother’s response through me. Your feelings matter. I’m sorry.”

Your grandkids need to witness repair. That “I’m sorry” is possible. That disconnection can lead to reconnection.

3. Choose One Different Thing

• If your family never said “I love you” → Start now, no conditions.
• If fights meant days of silence → Fix things within hours.
• If crying was forbidden → Say: “I see you’re sad. That makes sense.”

One grandmother started asking her grandkids: “I see you’re upset. Do you want a hug, or some space?” Her mother never acknowledged feelings – you smiled through everything or else. She’s breaking a three-generation pattern with two sentences. Someday soon, her grandson might ask his stressed mother the same question. That’s how new patterns travel forward.

Your Starting Point

Step 1: Notice one pattern from your parents that continues in your family.

Step 2: If possible, talk with your adult kids. “I used to dismiss your feelings. I learned that from my mother, but that doesn’t make it right. I’m sorry.”

Step 3: Choose differently once. When that old response rises – pause for three seconds. Try something new.

That’s how patterns break – through small interruptions that compound over time.

The Chain Loosens with You

The pattern that held three generations doesn’t have to hold the fourth. Not perfectly. Not overnight. But enough to give your kids and grandkids room to be themselves without carrying pain that was never theirs.

Which pattern stops with you? Deciding your answer might be the most important gift you give the next generation.

For detailed practices on interrupting specific patterns, From Chains to Wings: A Poetry Revolution for Healing offers step-by-step guidance.

Let’s Have a Conversation:

Which pattern are you committed to stopping? Share in the comments—your story might be exactly what another grandmother needs to hear.

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