If you had been wearing the same makeup since 1995 where would you start to update it?

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Seriously, I have the same make up style as I did when I was a student. I'm nearly 50.

Make up tech has changed since body glitter was a thing. What brands would you recommend for a menopausal woman who does not want to be frumpy anymore?

I think I want to go to a department store and have someone show me what would suit me - but that means pre-selecting the brand, doesn't it? How on earth do you know?

Is there a make up person who could say "oh you need this lipstick for day and this one for dates, but use this brand's eyeshadow and here's how to apply it and use this tinted moisturiser but not thier powder because it'll make your wrinkles look worse, have this one instead"?

I need makeup for beginners at 50. FFS.

Thank you.

I started reading and have realised that it's possible to make sure that my son, who is heading towards having the same skin as me, might have a better outcome if I have this info! Thanks, I'm so grateful, he's only 13 and only has a few open pores, but that's how mine started.

It's quite a lot of reading, am on it.

OHMYGOD

I went to have my legs waxed. It's been a while. I am fatter than I was the last time, which was pre-lockdown.

I'm bruised! My inner thigh is purple, actual weals of bruising!

I'm baldy enough to be able to go swimming without feeling self conscious (yes, I'd like to be the type of feminist that doesn't care about these things, but it does stop me from swimming so I'm a disgrace to the sisterhood), but my inner thighs are purple!

FFS.

Concealer for thighs? Is that a thing?

Try Space NK for cross brand recommendations.