Not many TikTok magnificence traits are geared toward girls over the age of 40. That’s simply my private opinion, and I ought to add the caveat that I like TikTok magnificence traits, however they principally simply make me want I used to be younger sufficient to strive them—till now.

Make-up artist Mia Hawkswell, who has labored with Pamela Anderson and Rose Byrne, creates magnificence content material particularly geared toward girls over 40, including that the strategies we’ve grown up don’t all the time work when you hit a sure age. Her handiest trick? Hawkswell divides her face in two, utilizing one half to reveal what to do, and the opposite what to not do. As a blush obsessive, Hawkswell’s demonstration of how you need to change up your utility at a sure level actually caught my consideration–and I’m happy to report that it really works.

Hawkswell explains that the basic utility approach–the place you apply your blush on the apples of your cheeks–doesn’t work as nicely after a sure level, because the apple, as Hawkswell places it, “has fallen.” As an alternative of putting the product the place you usually would–which really begins to tug the face down–she suggests making use of it below the attention, on the highest of the cheekbones and near your contour should you use it. (She additionally recommends making use of contour increased than you used to.) Subsequent, merely use a brush to mix the blusher upwards in direction of your temples.

I can attest that this lifted approach works. Hawkswell’s easy but efficient make-up methods work towards gravity and assist to melt make-up whenever you want it. I’m a (40-something) fan.