Help with make up and hair

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I am not traditionally pretty and I have a somewhat masculine looking face. I worry that putting make up on makes me look like I'm in drag rather than attractive. I also need my hair sorting out. I just feel it is lacking any lustre.

I'm nearly 35. I have a bit more fat on my face than I'd like. I need help but honestly I don't know where to start. I'm a single mum (separated a year) and I feel like I have no sex appeal whatsoever.

How about some tinted moisturiser (Nars or Bare Minerals - there are others out there too of course.) This will even out your skin tone and it will be soft and dewy. Avoid anything matte or powdery. (Except for concealer - if you have spots or blemishes, the ONLY thing worth splurging on is Nars Soft Matte Concealer -in a pot.) Some kind of natural, dewy or slightly glowy blush like a Clinique Cheek Pop or Mac Glow Play Blush - Even Flower Beauty Blush Bomb (squeezed onto the back of your hand and then use a blush brush to apply to your cheeks. This one is cheap but fabulous.) No powders or eyeliners. Mascara’s compulsory. Curl your eyelashes first if you can stand it. Natural-coloured lip glosses are flattering and provide a bit of softness as well. Stick to colours that mimic the inside of your cheek for a flattering look. Rosey, browney nudes. Fenty, Pat McGrath, Huda all splurges but feel lovely. Also recommend the Laneige lip sleeping mask for a lip balm that stays on and has a long-term softening effect.
As for your hair, I would recommend speaking to a decent hair stylist and asking for advice about a style that makes you look and feel less severe. Maybe a softer colour and some home treatments.

Put lighter makeup on rather than heavy full coverage stuff.
Get eye brows threaded and tinted, will give a more natural look than block eyebrows if you aren't good at them, will just need a pencil to fill in.

Regarding hair, what's your hair like now?
Do you want a full hair make over?

*Also stay away from the youthful instagrammers, tik tokkers, YouTubers and “Affluencers”. That’s a massive mindfuck. Think about your ACTUAL lifestyle, not a fantasy one. Are you a WAG/Modelle/Movie Star/Olympic Figure Skater/Rock Pig/Princess/a Kardashian? Do you have unlimited funds? A dressing room with it’s own postcode?
No? Do you do your own shopping, deal with whiny kids rejecting whatever nutritious muck you’ve attempted to cook for them and resentfully try and sleep next to a snoring middle aged man who hasn’t quite cottoned onto the idea that he’s no longer nineteen and his laundry doesn’t miraculously crawl from the floor to the machine and dry and fold itself and fly back to his drawers all folded and ironed? So that he can go off to his ivory tower known as “work” then return home to be worshipped and fed a magically prepared food of his choice that nobody has “nagged” him about, but psychically knew what he felt like and lovingly shopped for and prepared for him while he was at “work” and had it waiting for him despite his indeterminate return time.
Oh, that’s me. You’re probably a Kardashian.

@Fraaahnces and breathe 😁

There's loads of videos on YouTube for this x