Makeup artist shares 'game changing' eyeliner tip for women over 50 to look younger

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When it comes to looking younger, makeup can be the first step in achieving a glowing and youthful complexion. Changing foundation or brows is often the easiest fix to wind back the years, but according to one makeup artist, eyeliner could make a “dramatic” difference to mature women.Beauty expert Nikol Johnson, who specialises in makeup tips for older women, revealed an eyeliner trick she swears by to help mature clients look more youthful, the Express reports.

In a video posted on her YouTube channel, she said: “I’m teaching you this little sneaky trick that I don’t think you know about, that is going to be a big game changer for women over 50.”The end result made it look like she was hardly wearing eye makeup at all, but freshened her eyes to make them sparkle - and it took just seconds to do.

During the tutorial, she first applied some eyeshadow using a nude powder pigment to cover her lid and brighten the area.Then, she took a matte plum-purple shade with a small “smudge” makeup brush and ran it across the top of her lash line at the base of her eyelid.She then drew it a little further than the outer corner of her eye to form a straight mini-wing on the edges.Nikol explained: “So basically what I want to do is keep this eyelid light and then give the drama with my shadow, pretending to be my liner.

But it’s not, we’ll go back over with our liner.”According to the beauty expert, this first step works with a range of colours in the chocolate brown and plum purple palette, but harsh shades like black should be avoided.The real anti-ageing magic comes with the second layer of eyeliner, for which Nikol used a kohl pencil in a deep purple shade.She noted that this is a very effective way to brighten and widen the eyes,