How much makeup is way too much makeup?

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Old PtL Jimmy Bakker is back in the news. His wife, Tammy was noted for two things. One was crying crocodile tears on cue, and the other was using a tad too much makeup. Jujube posted a pic of a tee shirt . So, really how much makeup is way too much make up?
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Less is better. There's a woman who works at the Walmart here who looks like she took cosmetics lessons from Tammy Faye. She's probably in her 60's and I'd like to tell her to lighten up A LOT on the eye makeup. She looks clownish. Bless her heart, I guess she can't afford a mirror.
 
I think colour has a lot to do with looking heavily made up, you can wear the full works but in soft shades it looks more natural

Lee I find foundation with a ‘matt’ finish settles into wrinkles but there are some that look ok, I wear one every day as it’s a moisturiser as well
 
Lee said:
Heavy makeup can only be worn by the young and they really don't need it.
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Git a certain age, one must throw in the trowel

Lee said:
On mature women it settles into the wrinkles or as the cosmetic folks like to call them, fine lines, to make it sound better.
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Yeah, 'laugh lines'
Ain't nuthin' that funny

My opinion;

No woman needs makeup....ever

Let the natural beauty be
 
ha, ha, this made me laugh. . .I had a woman who is now an ex friend tell me I couldn't hang out with her friends because I wear lipstick. DUH. What makes you think I want to hang out with a bunch of women trying to tell other women how to look, or dress, or act? As long as I pay my own way, and am not hurting anyone else, I'll wear what I please. I could give a hang how much or little makeup others wear. Not my circus, not my monkeys.
 
I'm one of the ones who needs a lot, but it really doesn't look like too much cuz that would be desperate. I do see some senior ladies wearing way too much blush and it really does make them look clownish. I do like pastel colors but with a bold lip, delicate eyeshadow, and a touch of blush. Never too much.
 
I just want to know who decided that EYEBROWS are such a big deal now?? I used to give mine a pluck, swipe with an eyebrow pencil and call it a day. Now there is an entire business around eyebrow "technique."
 
This discussion reminds me of something that happened decades ago. My friend and I were vacationing together with our husbands in New Orleans, Louisiana. We girls decided to go down to the French Quarter to shop. She always wore a lot of makeup. I wear eye make up, foundation, and lipstick. It was summer and we were in tube tops and short shorts. We had been shopping and were walking down the street talking, minding our own business, when we were approached by a middle aged, foreign man {probably middle eastern}. In broken english he said,"Want you girls....party". At first we were shocked~he thought we were prostitutes! Then we cracked up laughing and kept walking, never saying anything to him. Maybe we did have on too much makeup, but we were in our 20's!
 
I wear make up when I leave the house usually. I don't think I wear too much. For some reason I don't care for lipstick and seldom wear it. I also don't care for the new style of big heavy eyebrows the young ladies are into now but I guess that's their business and not mine.
 
I have always worn make up ' think iam quite good at it now ' the women today tend to over do it --so it is giving the clown affect'
and plastered ' make up should be aloud to bring out hilites of the face ' and to wear what colour shadow goes with what colour eyes
you have ' lipstick is fine on many women - but now its going above the lip mark to give the impression of fuller lips '

which makes the mouth look huge and ugly , today lipstick is put on thick- again to give a full look ''
i wear eye shadow -mascara, powder ' never lippy ....
 
I wore make up my whole life. Couldn't wait as a teen for my mother to let me wear it. Never looked like Tammy Faye though. My ex-niece and her family of girls do and they are a religious ministry too. Must be something about that because their make up looks overdone.

Anyway now at 67, I usually wear lipstick when I leave my building. Sometimes when I go other places I will put on eyebrow make up (mine disappeared!) and mascara. I stopped wearing eye make up when I couldn't see to do it properly. Less is more in my case now. My glasses and bangs hide my eyebrows anyway.
 
I wear a small amount of make up most days. Emphasis on small. A light swipe of blush and a little under-eye concealer.

A couple of years ago I complained to a 30-ish friend (a tv & movie make up artist) that with age I now struggle with make up for fancy events - I look ok in person but my features were disappearing in photographs.

She invited me to her home, where she has tens of thousands of dollars worth of make up(!!). After some trial and error, and asking what I liked and didn't, she figured out the right foundation, blush, lipstick, eye liner, eye shadow, and mascara, plus taught me how to apply them according to my preferences, meaning a very light hand.

Even better? Immediately afterwards, she took me shopping to her two favorite professional make up stores. Using her 40% discount, I bought exactly what I needed. Takes me less than 10 minutes to apply the perfect amount of make up for a wedding or other fancy event, less than 5 for a nice evening out, and about one minute for every day.

If she's ever between shows and wants to pick up some spare cash, her services would be invaluable to the over 50 set.
 

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