Helping women 50+ look beautiful, feel confident, and embrace the age they’ve earned - with honest beauty advice that actually works.
Welcome to Beautiful Makeup Search, where beauty isn't about looking younger, it's about looking and feeling your very best at every age. For more than 25 years, I've been sharing honest reviews, real-world beauty tips, skincare discoveries, makeup favorites, and inspiration to help women navigate the ever-changing world of beauty with confidence. Whether you're searching for the perfect foundation for mature skin, effective skincare that delivers results, or simply a trusted voice who understands the joys and challenges of aging, you're in the right place. Here, we celebrate beauty without filters, embrace the age we've earned, and focus on what truly works, not what's trending.
There is nothing beautiful about this, as the major snowstorm that hit the Northeastern United States on October 30, 2011 hit us hard.
I am writing this from a makeshift parking lot about 45 minutes from my home where I have some 3G service. We are actually here getting gas, and we have about an hour+ wait. We are told we will have no power for 10 - 14 days. On day five now; this is not pretty.
This picture looks normal for a Massachusetts snowstorm, perhaps. But this much snow on October 30th? That is when bad things happen.
Trees are down, snapped in half, all over my front and back yard and through a window and skylights in my home. Driving through neighborhoods, we feel lucky. We are alive and safe. We will repair our house.
Trying to stay warm at night and get in a hot shower every few days has become like a scavenger hunt to find heat and warmth. I have a jar of First Aid Beauty Ultra Repair Cream with me and an EOS Lip Balm Sphere. Beside that, I forget what makeup looks like. On Sunday, thinking it wouldn't be so bad with a tiny bit of hot water left to quickly bathe, after air drying my hair I held my curling iron over the fire and was able to curl my hair. It hasn't mattered much since though. Life priorities have changed to finding a hot meal, shower (as I said) and gas.
If I can get some power and internet soon, I hope to get back to the business of beauty. Until then, take care and stay warm.
Just because I am beyond trick or treating age doesn't mean I'm not up for some holiday fun. I don't really have anything planned, but as my teenaged kids are dressing up for different parties, I have come across some beauty products that are perfect for creating different looks for Halloween. I even have some fun How-To's to share, just in case you need a little inspiration.
First, MAKE UP FOR EVER has a powder called Fluo Night ($31), a translucent glow in the dark blacklight pigment that is sure to liven up any costume.
This universal powder can be combined with any cream, powder or gel based product to create a glow anywhere you want it. How cool to add it to your eyeliner or over your lipsticks to really come alive in the right light.
In case you are looking to create a sexy dracula look like the one below, be sure to check out the step-by-step MUFE has created for us.
FLIRT! has put together some fun Halloween looks that will give you some inspiration. Just a few products used the right way can transform your whole look. My favorite is the 1920's flapper, and it is a look that could be easily done as described:
EYES: Start by applying an eyeshadow base, such as DREAMY EYES™ Eyeshadow in Sugar Daddy, all over lid from lashline to browbone. To achieve the simple, pretty cat eye, use OPENING LINE™ Liquid Eyeliner in Ebony Edge. Beginning from the inner corner of the upper lid, apply a line that gets thicker and angled slightly upward as you approach the outer corner of your lid. Swoop the line slightly up past the outer corner of the eye. Then, beginning at the center of the eye, apply liquid eyeliner to the lower lid until it meets the eyeliner on the upper lid. Finish the look with ALL THAT LASH™ Volumizing Mascara in Kickin’ Black.
If you just want to add a bit of Halloween, simply change up your nails for the weekend. It can be done in about 10 minutes at home with these Incoco Halloween Nail Strips. I am loving the Black Magic spider-web design and the fun Mischief Night design for a quick change.
The strips are so easy to use over your nails. Simply find the strip that is closest to the size of your nail, remove the film, peel the polish off the strip, pull the guide off, place over your nail, smooth it out and then file away the excess. I literally did both hands in under ten minutes.
Get inspired with MAC and Snooki with their second annual Halloween Face-Off. It really gives me some great ideas and a few tricks learned from the artists themselves. There are two videos that are a must-see. Don't forget to vote for your fave too and be entered into their fab contest to go to Las Vegas.
Are you dressing up for Halloween or leaving it to the kids this year?
Is it an Anniversary? A birthday? A Blogaversary? I do not know, so I am sticking with BIRTHDAY as 10 years ago, Beautiful Makeup Search was born.
It was born from a simple idea. You see, I had just come from a department store beauty counter for what seemed like the hundredth time, when I was pressured into buying a product that was not right for my coloring or skin type. You know, those products that are new where sales associates were told they needed to push the sales in order to meet their goal? Yeah - a product that I did not need. It was an endless cycle. I came home and searched all over the internet to find a site that would honestly tell me about some of these products. I found a few sites that bashed beauty products and that was not what I wanted. I wanted to know about the best in beauty. The latest, the greatest; with real reviews. I found nothing. Nada. So I decided to start one on my own. Ten years later, here I am.
Check me out ten years ago!
We have grown quite a lot since then. Take a look below at how we have grown every year since then!
In celebrating this milestone, I have a lot in store for you!. Every day this month I am having a flash giveaway - each and every day. Make sure you come back each day to enter the giveaways. Some big, some small, but all full of some of the hottest beauty items on the market, and I know you will want a chance at winning some of these beauties.
Thank you all so much for your continued support throughout the previous ten years and here is to a continued ten more.
