Shh! Anti-agers no one but you need know about: Can I get a midlife makeover online?
- An anonymous reader asked for advice on improving their make-up skills
- Inge van Lotringen recommended a FaceTime or Zoom lesson with Britta D
- British beauty expert also suggested Caroline Barnes’s Speed Beauty videos
Q: I figured I could ‘digitally’ brush up on my make-up skills to help while away the time during lockdown. But I’m not 20! Do any online experts cater to a mature woman?
A: You’re in luck — some of the nation’s best editorial make-up artists realise that a gazillion women out there couldn’t care less about a ‘statement lip’ or ‘feline flick’ and want to learn about flattering, face-freshening make-up instead.
Britta D. (BrittaD.com), who has years of glossy magazine shoots under her belt, is passionate about teaching women how to beat changes in skin texture and face shape with simple make-up tricks, and emerge looking glorious.
An anonymous reader asked British beauty expert Inge van Lotringen, for advice on improving their make-up skills during lockdown (file image)
Just £50 (with packages available — contact her for a price list) buys you an hour-long one-on-one FaceTime or Zoom lesson using your own brushes and make-up.
She will take you, step by step, through a make-up transformation based on your most pressing questions. It’s a lovely experience and you will learn masses.
If you would rather watch and learn — but not from a child — then I unhesitatingly recommend Caroline Barnes’s Speed Beauty YouTube videos (just type ‘speed beauty’ into Google), and Mary Greenwell’s tutorials on her @marygreenwell Instagram account (both are free).
Drawing on decades of hands-on experience, these women have done the make-up of the great and the good — and their advice is hugely insightful.
Inge (pictured) suggested booking a a FaceTime lesson with Britta D or watching Caroline Barnes’s Speed Beauty videos on YouTube
Email your anti-ageing questions to Ingeborg van Lotringen at: [email protected].