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Mature Makeup Application Made Simple
Mature Makeup Application Made Simple
Mature Makeup Application Made Simple
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Mature Makeup Application Made Simple

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Let’s face it: the aging process can impact your self-esteem and compromise your ability to put your best face forward. As women age, they look for help in applying makeup to achieve a more natural and bright look. Mature Makeup Applications Made Simple is specially written for the women who want to transform their appearance and enhance their innate beauty.
By understanding how years of experience and wisdom is reflected in our face, Jennifer Stepanik teaches us how to embrace those memories, appreciate the life we’ve lived, and learn how to accentuate our finest facial features, while hiding the illusive passage of time. It’s the right application of makeup—not simply the uses of anti-aging skincare—that will help you look your youthful best.
This step-by-step, easy to understand guide is filled with numerous, complementary images and visuals. Stepanik gives you a fundamental course in all things makeup—from preparing your skin to the final application. It’s an all-inclusive book designed to help you achieve whatever look you are going for—fresh, original or iconic. There is even a short, yet fascinating, history of makeup.
In Mature Makeup Applications Made Simple, a few of the things you will learn about are:
•Toning, cleansing, moisturizing and exfoliation
•Makeup shelf life, ingredients, and types of bristles and brushes
•Makeup application sequencing, with before and after examples
•The application of foundation, types of foundations, concealer, and blush
•In-depth colour theory
•The tools and application of contouring
•Lipstick, preparing lips, and using skin tone palettes to pick the right colour
•Everything for the eyes: mascara, false eyelashes, eyelash extensions, eye shadow, eyeliner, and eyebrows
•And so much more . . .
If you’ve been hiding in the shadows, it’s time to make your debut and do it right with Stepanik’s flawless makeup methods. This is the one book that every mature woman needs to have in order to be the most attractive best self that they can be.
Stepanik’s gift lies in providing spot-on techniques, tips and tutorials, with supporting visuals that will enable anyone to transform their appearance, while emphasizing and enhancing the inner and outer beauty they already possess.
“Your makeup should never precede you, but walk with you.”
— Estee Lauder

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJun 25, 2017
ISBN9781370318636
Mature Makeup Application Made Simple
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Jennifer Stepanik

Jennifer Stepanik has been in what she calls the Glamour industry, for more than 20 years. Jennifer has trained as an aesthetician, hair and makeup artist, as well as personal image consultant and colour consultant. She ran her own beauty salon; worked in multiple aspects of hair makeup and styling- from photo shoots, corporate events, and getting talent ready for TV shows to special events and bridal work.Her appreciation for aesthetics was enhanced by her art practice. This practice has given her not only a deep understanding of the principles of art, but also an avenue for authentic self expression.This, combined with a heart based meditation practice has helped Jennifer to move her love of all things beauty and style related, out of her head and into her heart. Providing a more profound and transformative relationship with an industry that is often seen as superficial.Jennifers most recent book is titled When Glamour Meets Gratitude: Your Style Companion to a Healthy Self-ImageYou can find out more about her at www.beautywithinproject.com.au or her youtube channel @GlamourNationbyJen

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    Quite ok if you are a truly beginner...but for me ...no.
    I would have had more practical tips...step by step and suggestions on different products suitable for mature skin.
    Suggestions on special techniques just for mature skin.

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Mature Makeup Application Made Simple - Jennifer Stepanik

HISTORY OF MAKEUP

Augmenting our looks with a little powder and paint is nothing new, as women – and even men – have been using a wide range of products to enhance their features for centuries. Throughout the ages cosmetics have been variously associated with battle dress, religious rituals, tribal ceremonies, medicinal purposes, warding off evil and promoting good health, as well as to simply heighten beauty.

The beliefs and trends of the time dictate how society reacts, but while some critics say that modern women are under pressure to wear makeup, in fact it is only in recent years that we have had so much freedom and choice in the matter.

Ancient Egyptians used a variety of oils and creams to protect their skin against the harsh sun and drying winds, and they used many scents we are familiar with today to perfume their ointments such as chamomile, lavender and rosemary. By the fourth century BC, Egyptian women had created kohl from the sulphide of antimony or lead (later replaced by carbon or charcoal), which they used to define their eyes.

The driving forces behind Egyptian makeup were both medicinal and religious, rather than vanity, but a century later Grecian women succumbed to fashion by painting their faces with white lead, before applying a rouge of crushed mulberries and fake eyebrows made of oxen hair. Similarly, Chinese and Japanese citizens coloured their faces white with rice powder in a bid to conform to a trend.

Likewise, a pale complexion was sought after during Elizabethan England and so anything from organic egg whites to toxic lead paint was applied to the face to achieve Queen Elizabeth I’s Mask of Youth look. Later, in the Renaissance, France and Italy emerged as leaders of cosmetic manufacturers in Europe and zinc oxide finally replaced the deadly mixture of lead and copper for face powder in the nineteenth century.

British Parliament passed a law in 1770 condemning the use of lipstick, with women who were found guilty of seducing men into matrimony by a cosmetic means being tried for witchcraft. Queen Victoria then publicly declared the use of makeup as vulgar and improper, reserved only for actors and prostitutes.

In the twentieth century, with the rise of ballet, theatre, television and film, makeup has become increasingly popular again. Indeed, during the Second World War, it was considered a patriotic duty for a woman to put her face on to look nice for the returning soldiers and maintain their morale. While the feminist backlash in the 1960s and 1970s rejected makeup as a sexist tool of oppression, fashion over-ruled such political statements as goths, glam rockers and new romantics alike used extensive makeup to express themselves.

Many commentators today suggest that modern society is obsessed with appearances, but this potted history demonstrates that we have always augmented our looks with cosmetics. More importantly, wearing makeup is now both accepted, but not expected – for the first time, wearing makeup is much more of a personal choice and a way of expressing ourselves.

The contemporary trend of a natural, no-makeup look allows a woman to wear as much or as little makeup as she wants to suit her mood and the occasion. By subtly hiding any blemishes and highlighting positive features, you can allow your true beauty to shine through and give your self-confidence a boost.

Rather than feeling pressured into wearing makeup, most women nowadays invest a little time in their image and personal presentation by putting on their face, in the same way they would by styling their hair or choosing a suitable outfit. However, what looks good on us in our twenties, doesn’t necessarily work for us as we grow older and so this E-book will help you understand how to flatter your features, rather than show up your imperfections, as you mature.

Whether you want a full going out look, or the bare minimum for every day, by learning how to put on your best face for your age, you can give yourself a lift and feel confident to tackle whatever challenges life brings.

PREPARING YOUR SKIN

Your skin is the last line of defence to protect your body from outside forces, and so you can be forgiven for thinking it is tough enough to deal with the knocks of everyday life. But in fact, the complex number of functions performed by the skin, and the daily battering it receives from the elements, mean that it is very sensitive and any damage

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