Just a weird, late comment on aging and beauty:
If you do a little research, you find several hypotheses on what factors and features are perceived as beautiful. There really are very, very many, and many of them can be fudged.
Spoiler alert, the laugh lines around the mouth CAN be stuffed full of chemicals, but more often than not, the victims of this process wind up looking creepy, bloated, puffy. So I personally would consider anything like this a total waste of time and a bad idea. “Fixing” laugh lines ruins beauty rather than amplifies it.
However:
Having “good” skin is a signifier of beauty. Skin should appear to be clear of blemishes, even in tone (not splotchy in any way) and there should appear to be good blood flow through the cheeks and some color in the lips.
Creating the illusion of beautiful skin tone is worth doing! There are a few really convincing tinted moisturizers on the market, that can make a woman look like she’s wearing nothing but her natural, beautiful skin. Many people (myself included) do not wake up having clear, glowing, beautiful, even-toned skin — but cosmetics have come a long way, and if you’re willing to experiment, you can probably nail this one.
Creating a light natural blush on your cheeks is very beautifying and is a very youthful look. I believe that women look 100% better when they help their cheeks to go from “cadaver” to “just took a walk around the block”. Give nature a little helping hand, if you don’t already have a natural blush to your cheeks, or natural color to your lips.
There should generally be definition to the face. The eye of the beholder should be drawn to the overall appealing appearance of eyes, eyebrows, nose, lips. If anyone’s eyes linger on the smile lines, you are doing it wrong! Go define your features a tiny bit more. The eyes should be nicely defined (via the appearance of pretty, thick, healthy eyelashes) and the eyebrows should appear youth, natural, full and shapely. (Rather than ragged, splotchy, overly big, or overly small).
Well, OK, there is some tremendously off-the-cuff advice, but I will say this for myself:
Me personally, I have nothing but above-average bone structure, proportional features and straight teeth. And it turns out that this is MORE than enough to stand out in the beauty department! (Translation, I have SCARED people by going out without makeup on or my hair done.). I kind of learned these things early on, because my mother was the same way — good bone structure but not much else. So, when I realized that MY face also benefitted from the same approaches she used, it was like, “Yep, welcome to the club.”
It turns out that being healthy and fit, is ALSO very beautifying and very youthful.
Joy and kindness ALSO make the face look prettier and more youthful.
So not just cosmetics!
Probably not useful to the original poster (Ha! No nastygrams please!) but worth pointing out!
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