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1- Naturalize Your Makeup

Heavy foundation, too bright lipstick and blue eye makeup does nothing for you. Eliminate thick foundation. It is a road map to wrinkles. Instead, use a tinted moisturizer, it's softer and will give you two important things, hydration and coverage.

If you do use foundation, skip the powder - it also settles in lines and wrinkles. A sheer light textured foundation is the best.

Use neutral colors for eyes- a smoky brown, soft grey and mocha are the best. Never use a cream eye shadow as it gets oily and separates the color. Powder shadow is the only way to go.

Use a natural color lipstick that is skin enhancing. Test a color on the back of your index finger if you can't try it on your mouth as that part of your body is the closest to your lips and will give you a true color match. Always finish your lips with a gloss.

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2- Simplify Your Hair

Loose the hot rollers, teasing and over spraying. It makes your hair look too "done " and very dated. Get a simple sleek cut that you can simply wash and wear. And remember, long hair looks great on Alice in Wonderland, mature women should avoid long hair styles at all cost. If you want to have long hair, wear it in a classic chignon NEVER a pony tail.

3- Find A Flattering Eyebrow Shape

The eyebrow is the most important feature on the face. Get your brows professionally waxed at least twice a year and then you can follow the line and just tweeze for maintenance. Make sure you get them done by a professional not just anybody who offers waxing services such as the person who does your nails at the nail salon. Hair thin eyebrows age the face and a heavy, overgrown brow can overpower your features. Thicken eyebrows with an eyebrow pencil if you don't have much natural hair growth. Apply the pencil in light, feathery upward strokes.

4- Give Your Face a Glow

Use a moisturizer that has lifting, firming and toning properties in it and use it daily under your foundation. Same goes for eye cream. Find one that address dark circles, puffiness and wrinkles and use it day and night. This is my favorite quotation from my favorite icon and woman. It really says it all.
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

- Audrey Hepburn



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    lenosan wrote on Jul 4, 2008

    Very good advice. I have long since given up my thick red lipstick. I use brown eye shadows, mineral foundation and pink or brown lipstick which is more youthful. I use brow powder with a brush and sometimes also enhance with a pencil. This creates a soft but finished look.-Sandy



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    Georgia Donovan, made her first fashion statement at age six, when she refused to wear a dress with ruffles. Since then, she has been a fashion czarina, whose innate sense of style and fashion has enabled her to step out with style wherever she goes.

    Georgia completed a long and rewarding career in corporate America and is now living her passion as a Fashion Stylist & Makeup Artist. Having been promoted to upper management in a fortune 100 company at a time when women were not breaking through the glass ceiling, she now shares her experiences and love of fashion & style to help other women reach their potential, especially the over forty woman.

    Sensing that women over forty were being overlooked and ignored, she contacted every woman she knew and asked them that simple question: “After forty, do you feel invisible?”

    The responses were overwhelming. Most woman agreed that the TV and print media and fashion world were overlooking the over forty client. Wanting to help change this, Georgia dedicated her work to serving the needs of over forty woman.

    Georgia is passionate about helping women achieve their own unique and stylish look, develop a personal fashion sense and realize there is beauty without boundaries.

    Formally trained in Classical Literature, she worked in the London Theater as a wardrobe mistress and makeup artist. There, Georgia learned from some of the great names in theatrical history and was privy to valuable tips and professional secrets gleaned from the many celebrated actors she worked with. Today, Georgia is able to incorporate this priceless insider information in her work.

    Once called the “Best dressed woman in the telephone company,” she has an innate sense of style and a lifelong love of clothes. Georgia brings her unique sense of fashion, combined with many years of business experience, to her work as The Clothes Doctor. In her own career, her fashion sense and high profile persona complimented her business skills, enabling her to achieve numerous successes. In the business world, first impressions are everything.

    Georgia has presented her entertaining and informative programs to such notable companies as Sotheby’s Auction House, PECO Energy, Grandview Hospital, American Dairy Association, as well as numerous colleges and business & community groups.

    She appeared as the Fashion Expert on Comcast Television’s Your Morning Show and is the resident business wardrobe and style expert, for the Small Business Advocate, a nationally syndicated radio show broadcast in over 30 cities in the US and live on the Internet.

    She is a makeup artist for Chanel and is part of the National Makeup Artist’s Pro Team for Lancome.

    Georgia is the author of the audio CD programs for women, Looking Fabulous After 40 and _About Faces- The essentials of makeup and skin care


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