How you’re accidentally making yourself look older
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Are you doing your makeup the same way you always have? Your face changes as you age — so your makeup application needs to as well, learns Kaleigh Werner. I’ve been doing my makeup entirely wrong. Since I was 16, I’ve scribbled dark eyeliner in my waterline, used yellow concealer like foundation, and washed my face in Benefit Cosmetics Hoola Matte Bronzer as if the rest of my body was that orange.
![[Erica Taylor demonstrates how on the left side her eyebrow ends more upwards — raising the eye upwards. On the right, the arch comes down and brings the face down drooping]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/04/21/MixCollage-04-Jan-2025-04-20-PM-5158.jpg)
I knew how to do it quickly — and used to love how my makeup looked — so why mess with it? Then I spoke with beauty expert and make up artist Erica Taylor, and realized just how much my regimen needed updating. “Some people get stuck in this place,” Taylor told The Independent. “They do the same routine for years and never change it. But our faces change. So how can you do the same routine on a different face?”.
![[Blush is a huge trend at the moment — although it may be more blended and toned down day to day than it was at the Gladiator and Wicked premieres, seen here. But don’t just put it on the apples of your cheeks.]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/05/04/MixCollage-04-Jan-2025-11-52-PM-825.jpg)
Spoiler alert — you can’t. Having worked in the industry for over 25 years, Taylor’s expertise far surpasses that of anyone who just learned their skills from YouTube. The 48-year-old, with over 1.1 million followers on Instagram, went from practicing on her own face to training with industry leaders at Mac Cosmetics before being named as one of L’Oréal Paris’ League of Experts. More recently, she’s pulled from her own experience of adjusting and refreshing her makeup routine to help teach the “everyday woman” to do the same.
![[Putting your contour and bronzer above your cheekbones — rather than under — lifts the face]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/04/21/MixCollage-04-Jan-2025-04-27-PM-4151.jpg)
