Beauty salons are an excellent resource for finding out how to change your look as you get older. Beauty fades, as the old adage goes, but it does not have to. There are several things you can do to your hair and makeup to make yourself appear a little younger and still as attractive as you were in your twenties. Here are some beauty tips for the middle-aged woman and beyond. 

Coloring Your Hair

Some women start seeing gray hairs in their mid to late twenties already. Others may not notice a gray hair until their thirties, but most every woman will see gray creeping up on her in her forties. By the time you are in your fifties, your hair will be half white/gray and half a dulled-down version of the vibrant color it once was in your youth. You can thank your shifting hormones for that, but you can also thank your colorist at a beauty salon when he/she is able to color and cover all the gray/white strands and restore your youthful color. If you like, you can even change your color to something more dramatic and look equally as young and pretty. 

Covering Liver Spots and Sun Damage

There will be areas of mismatched skin tone, blots of darker skin, and sun damage all over your face. These areas age a person's face faster than the few fine lines one acquires as one gets older. You may be forty, but that patch of sun damaged skin on your forehead may make people guess that you are in your fifties or older. Your beautician can show you a foundation in a shade that is closest to your corrected skin tone and which will blend evenly and cover these discolorations. When used as your beautician shows you, the foundation will make you look years younger. 

Lips and Cheeks Reveal Age, Too

Rosiness of one's cheeks and the pinkness of one's lips fades with age, too. A light, natural blush that is not too pink to suggest too young of an age and a lipstick that darkens your natural lips just enough to bring them into the light again is what you want. Anything particularly dark and heavy will make you appear too Goth, and anything really pink that does not really go with your skin tone will make you look too much like a porcelain doll. You want to be somewhat age-appropriate in makeup choices, but you also want to breathe new life into your lips and cheeks. 

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