If you’re in your 50’s, what foundation do you use?

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I know there’s another foundation thread which I have read but suspect many posters are younger than my 50 something years! So if you are in your fifties, what foundation are you using, what sort of coverage, dewy or not and what other products do you use with it?

I am sick of my foundation sliding off so that come lunchtime, I’m bare cheeked or blotchy! Even with a primer. Maybe I need to use more than just foundation. Am using Bobbi Browne tinted moisturiser atm along with her powder foundation but not really happy with it. Prior to that, multiple repeat purchases of Guerlain Lingerie de Peau.

I’d love a flawless, polished look!

Thanks

The Ordinary for hyaluronic acid - have used in the past but I switch my acids around. It's £6 from memory.

I find TO hyaluronic acid pills really badly and is hopeless under any make up.

I'm 49 and the best foundation Iv found, and Iv tried a few is Rimmels wake me up. It's dewy and literally makes my skin look dewy and younger. My friend uses it too and she's 53.

@VanGoghsDog I used it in the evening so never under make up. It was a gift and I liked it but when it was finished went back to lactic acid. As a PP said, I suppose that we all have different skin and one size doesn't fit all.

Hyaluronic acid and lactic acid are entirely different things, so 'going back' to lactic acid doesn't make sense.

TO HA pills under moisturiser and oils etc as well as just on its own. I've found it virtually impossible to use at all.

I am 53 and wear Bobbi Brown mixed with either Bobbi Brown illuminating balm or Charlotte Tilbury’s wonderglow.

Laura Mercier tinted moisturiser, I want a totally natural look and to let my freckles show through, so it's just to even up skintone a bit really.

Oily skin, large pores, past history acne (truly, I’m a peach). I use Chanel Velvet lumiere. I vary between that and EL Double Wear Light but they’ve bastarding gone and changed the formula and I’m not best pleased.

In the summer I use Chanel vitalumiere Aqua. It’s fine but it does slide off my face a wee bit.

If you want glowy skin it has to start on the inside which means good fats and oils.

You need these- at least 1 daily- from the list and ideally all of them!

avocado
olive oil
oily fish
walnuts
almonds
full fat plain yoghurt

(as well as 5-7 fresh fruit & veg).

I recently came across Evolve Organic Beauty. Their facial treatment- the masks and oils- are lovely. All around £30.

You need to exfoliate with something gentle- fruit acids etc- at least once a week to get a glow.

Personally I'm not a fan of BB creams as i think they don't do anything quite right.
They aren't as good as a good moisturiser, the shades are very limited, and they aren't as good as a foundation.

I DO have the Bobbi Brown one and the only time I use it is in summer when I want to go outside for a long walk and can't be arsed to do the 3 step of moisture, SPF and foundation- it's spf 35. But the colour isn't great on me- it's Extra Light and has a quite pink/ grey tone.

It is also FAR more claggy and has move coverage than my Dior foundation.

I eat very healthily. Lots of oily físh, nuts and Avocado and I’ve cooked with extra virgin olive oil for yonks. But I still have Rosacea and exfoliation is probably one of the worse things I can do to my skin at this stage ( also being 54). I’m also not convinced that expensive skin care offers any advantage other then feeling nicer to use. The only necessities are a bland cleanser, moisturiser and a SPF.
I also really dislike the general advice offered on these sorts of threads!
But sorry I may be feeling just a tad aggro due to several glasses of wine consumed tonight. 🤔.

well, clearly, advice as such doesn't take into account medical conditions

That doesn't mean it's not helpful for some people.

Has your rosacea got worse with menopause? Have you been referred to a dermatologist for treatment? (I had a friend whose R got worse around 50 and she went to see a dermo and got good results.)

I'm 50 and don't like a heavily made up look.
I leave my moisturiser to sink in, then apply action layer of quite liquid Korean high spf and let it dry.

I have a light-medium foundation (Clarins Skin illusion) which matches my skin exactly. This means I don't get any sort of line where the foundation stops. I apply it to the centre of my face-nose, chin, eyelids and under eyes, and between my eyebrows, but not to the edge of my face. I just blend the edges weĺl. It gives a finished look, but you can't see that I'm wearing foundation in the same way as you could if it went to the edges.

I also, every few days, mix a couple of drops of Clarins facial self tan into my moisturiser, to give me a bit of a glow.

The only people who seem to like the very made up look are teens who cover themselves in concrete ( or EL Double Wear) and very old women in their 80s who like the Barbara Cartland look.

The whole idea of make up now is that - apart from evening 'glamour'- you look as if you are not wearing make up but just have good skin.

I don't wear it everyday but I prefer the powder ones as you can apply as little or as much as you want. I'm rubbish at applying but currently using Laura gellar bought off the tv (qvc) so easy and looks flawless. Daughter has taught me to use a fixing spray after powder which solves the disappearance by lunchtime problem (my skin has really changed in the last 2 years, thanks hormones!) not quite 50 but headed there too soon...

Ps for those without access to shops locally, tv/internet make up tutorials are really helpful, it was my teen girls that introduced me to them, but I've found some aimed at our age group and much older.

I use Clinque City Block as a primer and then a foundation Chubby Stick (Chubby in the Nude?). I just draw over my face and t zone and then blend with a brush. I use a light powder after (Clinique again).

It's gives me a very natural, light coverage and stays on all day. I can touch up with the chubby stick if I'm going out in the evening.

Chubby in the nude is named after me .

I'm a bb cream only fan (I use body shop all in one) because I just see too many older people wearing make up who in my view look worse with it on, usually because of a contrast between face and neck (texture more than colour). But I live in a notoriously dowdy city so most people are likely still wearing the makeup they wore as teenagers which is never going to work.